To Long Yun's surprise, after leaving the dining room and returning to the barracks and entering the cool building aisle, he met Major Kamenev on the way.

Seeing this new ace, he said hello when he approached, and then stopped and stopped to stop Long Yun.

"Lieutenant Colonel Rezenov, are you free now?"

"Now?" Long Yun thought about it for a while, and now his combat readiness duty was also canceled by Regiment Commander Samsonov, so he nodded, "If you are free, comrade major, is there anything wrong?" ”

After a few glances with inexplicable glances, the tall, dark-skinned major cleared his throat before he unhurriedly extended the invitation.

"I'm okay today, I want to talk to you about the morning's topic: about air combat tactics."

……

Coming to the pilot's lounge and sitting down on the sofa covered in twill, Long Yun saw Kamenev sitting next to him, with a stern and serious look, and thought to himself what the major was trying to say when he called him over?

While using his consciousness to snoop, he got up and took two water glasses from the table next to him, poured water and placed them on the table in front of the sofa.

It was in this process that the results of the return of consciousness snooping let Long Yun know that the major in front of him didn't seem to be very satisfied with his speech in the morning; In other words, there was still a rather obvious disagreement in his thoughts, feeling that Long Yun's battle in the morning was impractical and dangerous.

- Oh? That's kind of interesting.

Sensing this kind of thinking, Long Yun suddenly wondered what this Major Kamenev, who was also the number one ace of the 237 Fighter Aviation Regiment (of course, is now the second ace), would have any lofty opinions.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'm a straightforward person, so I'll get straight to the point." Picking up the glass of water and drinking half of the glass of water unceremoniously, Kamenev's voice was quite calm; After noon, half of the pilots of the 237th Regiment took to the air to carry out the cruise interception mission, and there was no one else in the lounge except the two of them.

"My personal opinion is quite against the offensive operation you proposed this morning."

Meeting Kamenev's eyes, Long Yun nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"That's not to say that I don't think this tactic is suitable for the current combat style of the regiment; As long as you have been trained, you can quickly master the technology. But my opinion is, Lieutenant Colonel Rezenov: Isn't your understanding of the modern mode of air combat a bit stuck to the combat of MiGs?

I may be a bit presumptuous to say this, but a front-line fighter like the MiG, the combat mission is still not the same as the Su-27; In other words, I think that the Su-27 has a design advantage over the MiG-29 in that it emphasizes over-the-horizon attacks and plunder operations, rather than focusing on maneuvering and fancy visual combat. Listening to your advice in the morning, it is equivalent to letting us use the Su-27 to fight the enemy in melee combat - in fact, we will do this kind of fighting, but we just don't think it is necessary and cost-effective. ”

"Comrade Major, you mean that there is no need for combat combat?"

Feeling that this statement was familiar, Long Yun interjected and asked.

"Yes, that's it." Kamenev thought that Long Yun was really asking questions because he was confused, and he found more confidence and talked about it, "Not to mention anything else, according to the theory of energy air combat, frequent mobile combat operations will only consume the height and speed of the fighter, that is, the energy of the fighter, and in the end it will inevitably fall into passivity; Nowadays, both sides of the enemy have a strong ability to monitor the airspace, and we have always used ground guidance to raid the opponent, through over-the-horizon combat, or a one-hit retreat raid to attack the opponent. Facts have proved that this method of combat is superior to combat combat, and has also achieved a lot of results. ”

Speaking of this, Kamenev naturally cites the six results he has achieved as an example; However, he immediately remembered that this number was nothing in front of Viktor Rezenov, so he explained it a little bluntly:

"Of course, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, your record in the skies of Central Europe is even more impressive, that's a fact. But IMHO, the losses of MiGs in the aviation regiments of the Central European front are also significant, right? With such a large number of battle losses, of course, there will be ace pilots like you, but it is impossible to deny the fact that combat combat is outdated, and over-the-horizon and plundering warfare are the mainstream at present. ”

Hearing Kamenev's words, Long Yun understood what the major meant.

At the same time, he also sighed in his heart, this is another person who has been bewitched by the "uselessness of mobility"!

The "theory of the uselessness of maneuvering", which has long been refuted in the real world, is incomplete, and even laymen military enthusiasts will not be obsessed with, and it seems that there are still quite a number of believers in this parallel world that has been traversed.

The so-called "useless maneuver" argument was first popularized in the 60s of the 20 th century as an air combat theory, which held that although the complex maneuver of fighter planes in air combat can interfere with the opponent, they will pay the price of the fighter's energy, and in the end it will inevitably lead to the loss of speed and altitude, and it will become a target plane that is unable to maneuver.

Under the guidance of such a theory, the second-generation fighter planes developed by the United States, the Soviet Union, and other major powers all took the pursuit of high-altitude and high-speed characteristics as their first goal, believing that as long as they flew high and fast, they could get close to the opponent and achieve a single blow.

For a time, the tactic of "repeated raids" in which high-speed plundering attacks approached the enemy, quickly regaining altitude and speed after a miss, and then repeating the raids, became popular, and it seemed that in modern air warfare, which mainly used missile weapons, there was no other tactic to use than fast running and sneak attacks.

However, in a series of local conflicts such as the Vietnam War and the Iran-Iraq War, the tactics of high-speed volleying and one-hit detachment were not good in actual combat, and the second-generation fighter planes, which are known for their high-altitude and high-speed characteristics, can only be described as lackluster in actual air combat, which makes many people doubt the so-called "energy air combat" and "useless maneuvering" arguments, and further think about the effective tactical strategy in the modern air combat mode.

It is precisely because the idea of attaching importance to combat combat has been picked up again, not only the United States has appeared with combat as the main design goal of the F-16 (ironically, the F-16 is the fighter mafia that believes in "energy mobility"), the Soviet Union has also designed the MiG-29 and Su-27 in a targeted manner, the high-altitude and high-speed performance of these third-generation fighters is not outstanding, and even slightly behind the second-generation fighters, but the maneuverability has been greatly enhanced, which is specially designed to cope with high-intensity combat air combat. An all-round fighter aircraft born from complex maneuvers.

With the outbreak of this war of unprecedented scale, fighters under the guidance of the two theories encountered in the skies of Europe, and the second-generation fighters advocating the "theory of the uselessness of maneuvering" were also defeated by the blows of the third-generation fighters.

It can be said that the theory of "useless mobility" and "plunder supremacy" that has resurfaced with the improvement of early warning aircraft and battlefield monitoring capabilities has lost its market, but I don't know why this Kamenev can't see the simple truth in this.

To put it bluntly, the argument that maneuvering is useless is nothing more than the belief that vigorous maneuvering will lose the energy of the fighter and eventually the guide will lose speed and will not be able to dodge the opponent's attack.

-- But Long Yun couldn't help asking: If in a combat air battle, after so many complicated maneuvers, he could not seize the opportunity and simply solve his opponent, what kind of tactics would such a pilot have to use to win? If a person who can't seize the opportunity in close combat is allowed to engage in plundering, high-speed assault and violent maneuvering, will he be able to hit the target instead?

Presumably, the best way for such a pilot not to be shot down by the enemy is to stay at the base and never take to the air.

Most of the people who advocate "plunder supremacy" quote the arguments of some ace pilots during World War II, believing that playing complex maneuver tactics in air combat is self-defeating; But none of them realized that this kind of argument was originally only suitable for propeller fighters in the era of aviation artillery, and only suitable for ace pilots to quickly slaughter rookies.

In the air combat of the missile age, what would happen if pilots of the same level encountered each other, one engaged in maneuvering and the other engaged in a plundering attack?

In the face of a predatory opponent, a pilot who is good at maneuvering and fighting does not need to perform complex maneuvers in a row at all, he only needs to keep the fighter in the state of landing within the flight envelope capable of performing high overload maneuvers (at least 6G); After a high-speed fighter launches a missile attack, it only takes a maximum of two or three large overload actions to be able to cleanly shake off any incoming missile.

Not only that, but if the pilot is skilled, he can also wait for opportunities to counterattack the opponent in the process: the predator's maneuvering turning radius is limited at high speeds, and it is difficult to cope with the defender's missile counterattack.

This is true for defenders, but what about opponents who carry out raids?

After plundering and attacking, the raider is unable to immediately enter mobile combat because of the high flight speed, and the raider can only repeat the previous tactics; But by the time he detached, regained his speed, and turned to kill again, the defenders had already recovered the plane's flight status, and then waited for the raiders to continue wasting ammunition!

Summing up this analysis of the battle, to put it bluntly, the so-called theory of the uselessness of maneuver is nothing more than saying that "if your technique is inferior to that of your opponent, you are seeking a dead end by carrying out mobile confrontation." This was originally a nonsense -- "If your marksmanship is inferior to that of your opponent, you are seeking your own death by engaging in a shootout." According to this argument, can soldiers shout "shooting is useless," drop their guns, and quit?

Thinking of these topics, Long Yun could only barely press his impulses at this time; He actually wanted to invite this Major Kamenev to come and one-on-one with him, let him fly the Su-27S to raid him, and see who would be beaten down in the end.

Hehe, the result of this kind of confrontation, Long Yun knew that there would be no suspense when he thought about it.

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