Chapter 500: K-80 misses the target

The pursuit operation of an interceptor plane is completely different from the combat feeling of a fighter plane.

Different from the appearance of ordinary fighters, sitting in the slightly cramped cockpit of the Su-128, there is a longitudinal beam in the middle of the front windshield of the cockpit in front of Long Yun, which just blocks the line of sight in front of him. Such an awkward design was originally intended to reduce drag aerodynamically, and it is the same as the famous SR-71, the "Blackbird" front windshield style that he shot down before, and it is understandable to use it on models that do not consider visual combat.

The anxious pilot fighter accelerated and pursued south according to the target direction sent by the ground guidance platform, at this time Long Yun was indeed very angry in his heart, he wanted to immediately catch up with the plane in front of him and shoot down the hateful Yankees.

This guy, what the hell did he want to do when he grabbed that Tu-128?

Piloting an interceptor with basically zero combat ability to swagger into the air and fly south, smearing oil on the soles of his feet and trying to run away, really think that the heavily guarded Soviet airspace is his own backyard?

But now that I think about it, because he is flying a two-seat interceptor, he can only do his duty as a pilot now, and he can only ask his comrades behind him for attacking. If you want to say that on the huge Tu-128, the really difficult thing is the "Tornado" fire control radar installed in the nose, this kind of tube "artifact" with amazing transmitting power but even more amazing weight has a single function, cumbersome operation, and is quite complicated to use.

Piloting the Tu-128 interceptor, which resembles a bomber, climbs smoothly, Long Yun carefully controls the throttle valve to increase the flight speed, although such a large and heavy fighter is equipped with two powerful AL-21F turbojet engines. However, the acceleration performance is still not very good. Thinking of the American pilot who was fifteen minutes earlier than he was. By this time, it had flown hundreds of kilometers away. The weapon operator in the back seat tried his best to find no trace of the target, the distance was too far.

Is it just for him to run away and then calmly escape across the border?

Damn, what a joke!

With the consciousness that he must catch up and kill the opponent, Long Yun controlled the fighter to climb to the cruising altitude, and then sprinted forward with continuous afterburner. Filling the internal fuel tanks of the fuselage before takeoff, the abundant reserves of fuel allowed him not to worry too much about fuel consumption, and the AL-21F with full afterburner gradually accelerated the huge Tu-128 to more than Mach 122. Finally, after flying a distance of hundreds of kilometers. The rear radar operator finally reported that a large target with a clear echo was found at a speed of Mach 0.8 at a distance of 110 kilometers ahead, and the preliminary judgment was that it was the hijacked Tu-128.

Oh, and the speed is only Mach 0.8?

That guy didn't run away with all his might, it must have been because he fled in a hurry and didn't fill up the fuel!

This judgment gave Long Yun the confidence to pursue and annihilate his opponent, and he continued to maintain a high speed to engage the enemy; At this time, the information from the ground guidance station was also transmitted, indicating that the interceptors of the Territorial Defense Force in the nearby base had also been dispatched.

Obviously, the news that a Tu-128 was hijacked by American agents was reported to the PVO ground command center at the combat-ready airfield in Orsk for the first time. The automated interception guidance network is guiding a large number of fighters to take to the skies to join the interception operation. Although as the war could not reach the rear. There were no decent aircraft types that could be used at the nearby combat readiness airfield for a while, but the Su-15T and Su-11 interceptors of the second-line territorial air defense regiment were very fast, and the fighters that took off urgently were spreading an invisible huge net in the sky of Central Asia.

Not only that, but the ground guidance information also shows that the fighters of the 290th Territorial Air Defense Regiment, which is the main force of the territorial air defense, have also urgently dispatched four fighters, and Long Yun, who had previously shot down the "Blackbird" in this unit, knows very well that the MiG-31 they are equipped with can sprint much faster than the Tu-128, and it seems that this time the Americans are unable to escape!

Piloting the fighter plane to continue the pursuit at full speed, Long Yun was able to see the target distance information from the small display on the front dashboard, and this number was constantly decreasing.

Judging from the information displayed by the radar, at an altitude of 7,000 meters directly in front of him, maintaining a cruising speed of Mach 0.8, the hijacked Tu-128 was simply leisurely, as if it didn't care that a large group of fighters were desperately chasing after him.

Hmph, this stinky fart!

Finding that the opponent was clearly fearless, although Long Yun was quite angry, he had to admit that the American pilot's psychological state was not ordinary, and his thinking was quite agile, and he was a terrible opponent who was extremely difficult to deal with.

At the very least, this guy's courage is very remarkable, there are so many fighters chasing after him, and it is estimated that the radar warning instrument in the cockpit is about to explode, and he is still unhurried to fly the fighter plane as steadily as a civil airliner. Remembering that at the airport just now, the MANPADS launched by the soldiers exploded prematurely without hitting the target, which is a bit too coincidental; Was he lucky, or was there something else?

Does this luck have anything to do with his superpowers......

Continuing to accelerate the pursuit to the south, Long Yun would soon know the answer to this question.

As the Tu-128 continued to sprint at full strength, the distance between the two large interceptors was rapidly approaching, and when the radar ranging showed that the distance between friend and foe was less than 30 kilometers, he ordered the weapon operator to lock on to the fighter in front of him, and then fired a K-80 semi-active radar-guided missile. With a jolt in the airframe, with the help of the initial speed provided by the carrier aircraft, the silver-white K-80 missile of considerable size broke away from the pylon, ignited and accelerated, and soon reached the maximum speed above Mach 3, dragging a long tail of smoke and disappearing from sight.

Just as the Longyun landline launched the missile, the Tu-128 wingman following behind also locked onto the target in front, and then launched a K-80 to attack.

In the sky, I saw two huge missiles flying away gradually, and the scene from the carrier plane was spectacular.

After the missile was launched, Long Yun and his comrades in the back seat stared at the radar display, and it could be seen from the radar that the missile echo quickly disappeared from the screen with the passage of time, showing that it had flown to a considerable distance; And the target echo is always quite obvious, and as a semi-active radar-guided missile, the K-80 cannot find the target at this time.

But......

Time passed by seconds, but the echo situation on the radar did not change much, which is obviously abnormal.

Damn, the target echo is still there, and the missile has missed the target again!

Long Yun cursed secretly in his heart, and now he was almost sure that there must be something wrong with this.

Could it be that the Yankee still has such an ability to interfere with the guidance system of air-to-air missiles? (To be continued......)