Chapter 534: Air Combat
In this era, civil aircraft are called shuttles, although the power sources of various models are not the same, but the general principle is to use compressed air propulsion, so output power adjustment is a difficult problem to solve. Compared to conventional airplanes www.biquge.info it can only be smoothly adjusted in a small power range. For civilian aircraft, this is not a big problem, after all, it does not require drastic attitude adjustments in the air. Because the acceleration and deceleration rate is relatively constant, it is called a shuttle.
Not to mention fighters that need to fight in the air, even if they are ground attack planes or even missiles, they also need to maneuver and change orbits when they are intercepted by the enemy, otherwise, they can only crash headlong into the enemy's air defense network.
The biggest difference between the shuttle and the traditional jet aircraft is that the aerodynamic layout is completely different, that is, the temperature of the tail nozzle propulsion gas, in order to obtain greater thrust, the compressed gas made by the shuttle engine will be condensed first, so the infrared characteristics of the body are obvious, but the wake is very light. However, because traditional jet aircraft spray high-temperature gas, the condensation effect occurs behind the fuselage, and the wake is quite obvious. Uncle Potato had received special anti-aircraft training when he was in the army, so it was obvious at a glance that this was a traditional fighter from the flight wake.
Dad didn't know what to do, looked up at the white line in the sky, frowned and asked, "Where did this plane come from?" ”
This is exactly the question that Uncle Potato wants to ask, looking at the direction of flight, this plane should have flown from the direction of the Northwest Theater of Operations. But fuel is not cheap these days, and who will use military planes to fly everywhere?
Before he could explain his doubts to his father, he saw two other faint wakes suddenly appear in the eastern sky, rapidly approaching the first plane.
Uncle Potato was shocked and immediately realized that the air force in Bencheng had dispatched to intercept it. It is clear that the plane, which flew from the northwest, did not have an official identity.
In the case of similar aircraft performance, one against two is a very unfavorable start, not to mention that the direction of Bencheng is obviously supported by ground data, so Uncle Potato judged that this unidentified plane should be out of battle.
But unexpectedly, the plane not only did not turn, but accelerated to meet it, and then preemptively fired two medium-range bombs.
It was an air superiority fighter that took off from Bencheng, because it was judged that the aircraft on the opposite side belonged to a high-altitude and high-speed model, so it was trying to climb as soon as it took off, but it was attacked by the other party before it reached the predetermined altitude.
There has never been a robot plane in the sky over Bencheng, so although the early warning radar failed to identify the model of this aircraft, which cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, everyone is still not afraid of carelessness, so the instructions given by the two pilots before taking off are to only make an interception posture, not to attack in advance, and to judge the identity of the other party first. Unexpectedly, it let the other party take the lead.
Attacking two air superiority fighters with two medium-range bombs at the same time has an infinitely close probability of success, so the two Bincheng fighters unhurriedly turned separately and tried to use the distance advantage to get rid of the medium-range bombs.
But soon the ground command center informed the two fighters not to fly too far, and the other side seemed to be ready to force their way through the air defense circle.
Hearing this command, the two fighters who were in evasive maneuvers could only adjust their attitudes slightly, and then each fired two medium-range bombs at the enemy plane.
This fighter designed for air combat can fire combat projectiles 60 degrees off axis, so there is no need to point the nose at the opponent.
Soon the air was covered with white trails from the flight of medium-range bombs, and if a veteran fighter pilot were to observe them, they would have found that the wake of the missiles in Bincheng was thicker than that of unidentified enemy planes, and they dissipated more slowly, and it was obvious that the two sides were using different fuel formulations, and even the efficiency of the engines was not the same.
Comparatively speaking, the threat of medium-range missiles was smaller, but the fighters on both sides did not dare to be careless, and each made evasive maneuvers to shake off the oncoming missiles. The preemptive plane could not stay cold under the threat of four medium-range bombs, and had to dive and circle to interrupt the tracking of medium-range bombs.
So the three planes, which quickly got rid of their respective threats, met in the air at a distance of about six thousand meters.
This time, the Bincheng fighter who only needed to get rid of the threat of a medium-range bomb grabbed the lead, and the long plane locked onto the enemy plane again in the high-speed approach, ready to launch the remaining two medium-range bombs, and then entered the personal dogfight, but at this time, the ground command center sent another order, reminding him that this could be a robotic plane, and it could bear a larger load than a human fighter, so he should try to keep a distance from it.
The air forces of the two sides on the Northwest Front have been engaged in fighting for more than 100 years, and they have already summed up some valuable experience in opposing the enemy. Because the robot plane does not need a pilot, it can theoretically fly an infinite overload - of course, this is only theoretical, in fact it does not need to fly infinitely, as long as it exceeds the body load can be directly disintegrated in the air.
But this is still a very obvious advantage over human pilots, and even the best human pilots can't fly a large overload of 10g. Therefore, in close combat, human fighters have always had a poor record.
It was specifically mentioned in the combat manual issued by the capital region that the robot aircraft are very powerful in terms of reaction speed and hovering ability, but the ability to deal with complex situations is slightly weaker, so if you encounter a robot air force, the best way is to make the situation in the air change rapidly, and then take advantage of the chaos to win.
Since the ground command center had made a judgment, the long plane decided to carry out this suggestion, so it slightly adjusted the direction of the nose of the plane, intending to approach the enemy plane in the direction of the tangent line, because this adjustment interrupted the tracking process of the medium-range bomb, so the launch time was delayed by a few seconds.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the enemy plane suddenly made a small radius turn, shook off the wingman of Bincheng, and pounced on the plane.
The seeker of the medium-range missile of the long plane had been cooled down, so he had to wait for the two missiles to be launched off-axis from the launcher, which allowed the enemy plane that suddenly turned to quickly approach the side of the long plane, and the two medium-range missiles launched by the long plane had to go around in a big circle because of the launch angle, and actually ran behind the enemy plane. Then the enemy planes that rushed over fired two close-range combat bombs at intervals before the long plane.
At this time, both sides are already in the inescapable zone of the opponent's close-range bombs, so the long plane has no time to complete the lock again, and can only choose to maneuver to dodge. After a roller action, the first missile was deduced by decoy bombs, but in the face of the second incoming missile, the long plane, which had lost both altitude and speed, had no choice but to parachute to escape.
The enemy aircraft shook off two medium-range bombs that barely kept up with it with a clean and large overload action before the missile hit the long plane, and then quickly began to turn to climb, ready to continue the battle with the wingman.
After discovering that the long plane was shot down in one shot, the wingman pilot became visibly flustered, and fired the remaining two medium-range bombs outside the flight envelope, and then was easily escaped by the enemy plane.
The ground command center immediately noticed the mistake and ordered the wingman to climb upwards.
When the two planes were flying upwards at the same time in different directions, another white smoke rose into the sky and joined the battlefield, this time not a fighter jet, but a surface-to-air missile.
The anti-aircraft radar deployed near the apartment quickly joined the data link and formed 3D data with the radar in Bincheng, and the Red Arrow missile quickly locked onto the enemy plane and then crashed headlong.
The enemy aircraft began to release metal chaff after the approach of the surface-to-air missile, but the radar of the apartment was very powerful and easily burned through the source of interference, and the SAM, supported by the data link, was not affected in the slightest, flew straight over, and then started the proximity engine when the enemy aircraft again exerted a large overload and disengaged.
Seeing the enemy plane falling rapidly with black smoke, Ding Chen, who was organizing people to prepare for farming in the field, grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted: "The hunting team is ready to go out to search for the pilot." ”
He could see very clearly that both the pilot of the long plane and the enemy plane had fallen in the mountains near the apartment, and if he ran fast enough, he could have found them before the search team was dispatched in Ben City. The pilots in Ben Cheng can be used to give favors, and the enemy fuselage may find a lot of treasures. Ding Chen was very sure that it still retained a certain balance before it crashed, and it was impossible to fall into nothing. On top of that, he didn't know it was a robotic plane yet, and he was about to capture enemy pilots alive. (To be continued.) )