Chapter 522: Missiles were fired
It's like a master's move, both sides are playing fast.
After all, in the sky, battles are measured in seconds, and Captain Clive's fighters, at a distance of two hundred kilometers, have clearly searched for each other, and then prepared the immortal bird to lock on to the other side at a distance of one hundred kilometers.
The opponent's radar has not been detected because it is working in the sea mode, but when the radar is turned into lock, it is like a big flashlight shining on the opponent, and the opponent's radar warning receiver is triggered in an instant.
"Meow, meow." With the sound of the radar warning receiver, several people in the cabin suddenly became nervous.
Pugachev had a nervous look on his face: "Are the missiles ready?" ”
They are not afraid of death, by now, death is no longer terrible for them, what they are afraid of is that before they die, they did not complete the task of launching missiles, and now, hearing Pugachev's words, the fire controller in the rear compartment said: "It will take thirty seconds." ”
The gap in the electronic system was revealed, and although he had already begun to prepare for the launch of the missile as soon as the radar had detected the target, the launch of the missile still required a long waiting process.
His hand flicked the switches one by one, and while he was just answering, he continued to make preparations for the launch.
They are very clear about the sound of this radar warning receiver, which is the Tomcat fighter, and the other side is equipped with immortal bird missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, and this combination is specially designed to intercept them.
However, if the other party is going to launch the immortal bird, they still have a chance, because at a distance of a hundred kilometers, for the immortal bird, half a minute will definitely not pass.
Launch!
Behind Captain Clive, the radar officer pressed the button, and suddenly, the fire flared, and the two immortal birds under the belly of the plane broke away from the carrier aircraft and rushed into the sky with blazing flames.
During the launch, both of them habitually closed their eyes, and in the dark night, if they suddenly saw the flames on the tail of the missile, they might be blind instantly.
At the same time, on the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth here, everyone was waiting nervously, and even Lieutenant Colonel Brown rubbed his eyes and ran quickly from the captain's room.
A Soviet bomber has been spotted, and now, your own fighters are intercepting it!
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that their fighter had launched their missiles, and as long as the missiles hit each other, everything was over and their danger was gone.
At this time, on the deck, the fighters could also be seen emitting a blazing tail flame, and the two Tomcat fighters who were performing the replacement task turned on the afterburner from the beveled deck and quickly took off with the help of catapults.
Smoke filled the deck.
At the same time, more pilots have also stepped into the cockpit, ready to eject and take off at any time. If it were a bomber regiment, they would have taken off all of them, and I am afraid that there would have been an interception miss.
After all, in later generations, the US aircraft carrier formation adopted a three-layer protection system, with carrier-based aircraft on the outermost, anti-aircraft missiles on each warship on the middle, and close defense guns on each warship on the inside.
And now, their aircraft carrier is definitely in a state of luo, so to speak, as long as the other side dodges their own carrier-based aircraft, they will definitely hit their own side.
If there is a large formation of the other side, then the side can only quickly catapult and take off and go to battle, as for how much it can come back, it is really hard to say. Nathan also clenched his fists, the Soviets really won't give up, they bombed their bomber regiment, they are going to destroy their own aircraft carrier, they knew it earlier, they left quietly, they must not be so ostentatious, if they go around in the Pacific Ocean, and then secretly cross the strait at night, the Soviets will definitely not know.
Everyone waited, nervously watching the situation on the radar.
In the sky, you can't smell the smell of gunsmoke, but it is the most intense.
The two immortal bird missiles were already flying towards each other, but the other party continued to fly forward smoothly as if they didn't know.
Finally, Pugachev heard a voice that satisfied him: "Ready to launch." ”
"Launch!" Pugachev shouted, and with his shout, the fire controller pressed the launch button.
The fire flickered, and at an interval of one second, two huge AS-6 missiles broke away from the pylons.
When carried on the carrier aircraft, the wings and tail of the missile are folded, which can greatly save space, and now, with the release of the missile, these wings are smoothly unlocked and deployed.
At the same time, the missile was also swaying downward, and after falling for more than ten meters, a blazing flame came out of the tail, and the engine was successfully started! The missile dragged a tongue of fire in its tail and began to accelerate rapidly.
It has two modes, if it is a long distance, such as a range of more than 600 kilometers, it is the same as the orbit of the immortal bird, it is accelerated first and climbed to a high altitude, after all, the air at high altitude is thin and the resistance is small, which can make the missile fly farther.
In this process, the missile must maintain contact with the carrier aircraft due to the limitation of its own radar distance, because at such a long distance, the target will also maneuver on the sea surface.
The carrier aircraft needs to carry out ballistic correction through radio commands, and this process will run through the previous stage until the missile and the opponent's warship are 1,200 kilometers apart, the missile radar locks on the enemy ship, the missile flies horizontally, the engine uses cruise mode, and the flight trajectory is corrected according to the data of the radar on the missile and the radio command from the carrier aircraft.
In this way, until the end of the flight, the missile enters an inclined dive state at a distance of 60 kilometers from the target, and the missile completely uses the detection data of the radar on the missile at this time, and no longer receives radio commands from the carrier aircraft.
And now, when the missile is launched, it is only more than 200 kilometers away from the opponent's warship, and during this time, even if the target is sailing at full speed, it cannot avoid the detection of the missile radar, and it is better if the carrier aircraft can make corrections, and the carrier aircraft cannot correct them, so there is no need to worry.
When the missile was ignited, it did not climb upward, as long as ordinary level flight was enough.
When two small bright spots appeared, quickly leaving the target, everyone on the aircraft carrier exclaimed, damn it!
At this time, the carrier-based aircraft of the second wave had just ejected and taken off, and they were still far away from the target, and the two fighters in front of them were too close to the target, could they have time to intercept them?
In a typical interception process, the target can be intercepted at a distance of 200 kilometers, the firing is calculated at 150 kilometers, and the fire is fired at 100 kilometers.
Now that the distance between the two sides is less than eighty kilometers, do they have time?