Chapter 736: Barrel Rolling Projectile
Just when the lieutenant colonel was in a hurry to operate, but at the same time he was a little in a hurry, the operator Cartel, who was in the back seat, still couldn't believe it, and he said hesitantly while manipulating the radar to lock the low-altitude "Flanker":
"Boss, are you sure that's ...... But how could he sneak in like this, not afraid of being surrounded by us—"
"Hell Harper, do you want me to pull the ejection handle and send you out to blow the wind and sober up!"
Thinking of the previous battle when he encountered the "Grim Reaper" and was pursued by all the staff but had no gain, Harris suddenly became very irritable, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that since he did not call all the fighters to dive with him just now and fight to the death with the outlaw butcher, then it also means one thing, that is, the "Postman" No. 6 of the 42nd Squadron will definitely be on the long list of KIA (Killed_In_Mission, killed in the mission), which is equivalent to being ruthlessly abandoned by his comrades.
What a hell, how could I have such an idea!
Harris's frustration was self-evident as he piloted the fighter planes to speed up and climb, shouting over the radio for the "Aardvarks" to flee for their lives, but his worries were unwarranted for the time being.
From the sneak attack of the "Attack Eagle" that chased down the F-111 just now, but was almost swooped down from a high altitude, Long Yun's combat strategy was very clear, that is, on the premise of ensuring his own safety, he should always give priority to attacking the heavy and clumsy attack planes, so as to reduce the air pressure on the ground troops as much as possible.
Seeing that the pursuers behind him were approaching, he quickly dodged behind a "Sidewinder" missile. The belt rod kept maintaining a large overload and continued to rotate sideways, and Long Yun decisively entered the "spiral climbing" action that he rarely used in air combat before, and went to enter a circled confrontation with the two menacing enemy planes; Seeing clearly that the opponent was two F-15 "Eagles", but still risked into the ascent and turning maneuvers that the Su-27S was not good at, it was obvious that he wanted to use actual combat to test the weight loss results of the White 20.
With the progress of the circle, the Su-27S, which climbed while turning, has not decreased in speed, at this time the Sukhoi fighter with about three tons of oil left in the tank has a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1.2 points, with the help of the good lift characteristics given by the central lifting body, the huge fighter that overload is pulled to 7G and maintains the corner speed climbs all the way, and the F-15 "Attack Eagle" twin aircraft can perform a high and powerful maneuver, and before it has time to turn around, it entered the five o'clock direction behind the tail of the enemy plane!
Maintain a sustained circling angular velocity of more than 25 degrees at ultra-low altitudes. This is simply not possible for the Su-27S, which is heavy and semi-fueled. But now it was completed by Long Yun's easy pull rod.
After the weight reduction, the white No. 20 fighter, although it has no farther eyes and ears, does have a strong engine power that surpasses the F-15E; In the face of the "Attack Eagle" equipped with two F110-PW-229 engines, although the installed thrust of the AL-31F is slightly inferior. The thrust-to-weight ratio of the whole machine has not been surpassed. The advantages of aerodynamic design suddenly exploded.
Kankan entered the same level as the enemy aircraft. Long Yun, who confirmed that the enemy plane was an F-15E, immediately estimated the distance between friend and foe, with an altitude of 1,000 meters, a tail chase distance of about 3,000 meters, and a target speed of Mach 0.6. The launch conditions of the R-73M have already been met!
It's too late, it's fast, and on the battlefield where opportunities are fleeting, every second can decide the outcome of the confrontation.
There was no time to wait for the homing head to lock on, Long Yun immediately pressed the missile launch button and fired a second R-73M after the lever entered the serpentine maneuver.
After the missile was launched, Long Yun's eyes looked at the vast sky on the horizon, only to see the stout missiles dragging white smoke flying over the sky one after the other, and a brilliant infrared jamming bomb exploded in the sky, and the F-15E wingman who drew a distorted track relied on a violent action similar to tail rush to shake off the throwing of the death gun, but the long plane, which reacted a little slower, was not so lucky, and was hit by the stabbing missile, dragging the billowing smoke and falling to the ground.
Two missiles knocked down one and forced the other enemy plane to the point that its energy plummeted, and in the face of the isolated "attack eagle" in the sky, Long Yun only needed to chase after him and continue to circle and confront the opponent for a few laps, and he could directly send the Americans back to the ground with a string of shells and not wake up; However, turning a blind eye to the target aircraft in front of him, at this time, the "butcher" only had the bomb fat sheep that had no ability to resist, and keenly found that several black fighters at low altitude were scattering and evacuating, as if they had abandoned the plug-in, Long Yun immediately pushed forward the throttle valve and pushed the rod to dive into the pursuit.
Pursuit, swift pursuit, occasionally glancing back at the gray-blue sky, Long Yun, who did not notice the follow-up attacker, stared at the front without distraction, and immediately leveled after diving, maintaining a flight altitude of hundreds of meters all the way to raid and cover the past.
As the fighter accelerated and sprinted, the enemy planes in his field of vision naturally became larger and larger, and at first he thought that the target of those wings was obviously the "Tempest" of the British - in other words, it could not be the F-14, and the bomb cat in this world did not seem to be officially in service, let alone so crazy, right? But as the outline of the enemy planes in his field of vision became clearer and clearer, he found that these black fighters were obviously larger than the "Tempest", Long Yun blinked in confusion, and then remembered what the prey of today's safari was.
F-111, nicknamed "Aardvark", did not expect to appear in the Caucasus as well!
I didn't have time to lament the difficult times of the Americans, and even the planes in the Arizona desert had to be dragged out to the battlefield, Long Yun counted the enemy planes in the sky like electricity, one, two, three......
However, after a few glances, seeing that these panicked "aardvarks" who threw bombs and pylons indiscriminately were trying to run away with all their strength, and they didn't have so many missiles to pair them one by one, the flat display in front of him had completely failed, Long Yun glanced down at the altimeter, confirmed that the height met the combat requirements, and then stepped into the large radius barrel with the sidestick rudder, ready to show the sharp butcher knife to these panicked guys.
Chasing the target at a low altitude, the distance between friend and foe is only a few kilometers, but at this time, Long Yun can only use such a cumbersome way to launch missiles, because the R-73M he carries today is not all hung on the outer pylons of the wings.
A Su-27S, with R-73M hanging on ten hardpoints, seems to have enough firepower, but in fact it is very cumbersome to use.
Contrary to most people's imagination, the fighter is not as simple as a rifle pressing bullets: as far as the actual situation of the Su-27 is concerned, except for the four hardpoints on the outermost side of the wing and the wingtip, the other hardpoints can generally only carry the R-27 series of over-the-horizon missiles. There is no other reason, if the combat missile is directly mounted on other hardpoints, the R-73M, which is directly ignited on the slide rail, will swallow the engine smoke once it is launched, and nine times out of ten it will cause a serious danger such as stopping in the air.
In addition, I have to say that the two centerline hardpoints of the Su-27S are in front and rear series, if someone thinks that "hit the front first, then hit the back" is OK, I'm sorry, the Su-27 front fuselage has a significant bow sagging, and the R-73M flying out has half the probability of hitting the nose radome directly......
Therefore, like the current situation, to control the aircraft into a defensive barrel roll, Long Yun relied on his own superior technology to directly "throw" the missile, that is, to use the inertia of the carrier barrel to "throw" the R-73M on the inner pylon and then ignite it. This kind of launch method is very dangerous in the face of fighters, and the timing is not rushed, but now it is facing a group of heavy target planes that have escaped without their lives, and it doesn't matter what the launch attitude is.
One by one, the white twenty, circling in the sky, kept throwing white throwing spears that symbolized destruction, and the missiles that broke away from the pylons ignited in the air to accelerate and deflect in pursuit.
In such a furious low-altitude and high-speed flight state, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary pilots to accurately grasp the direction in which the barrel is rolling to provide good interception conditions for the missile. Even in the current situation, even if it was Long Yun who flew the Sukhoi fighter, he could only use all his strength to do his best, and as a result, one of the missiles missed the target and turned into an uncontrolled rocket flying away from afar.
After firing four missiles in one go, there was no effort to observe whether the pursuit of each missile was smooth, Long Yun always paid attention to the possible threats behind him, and while driving the plane out of the barrel roll, he continued to chase and kill the gray "aardvark" in the sky with the remaining four R-73M and one hundred and fifty rounds of aircraft artillery shells on the landline.
With the outbreak of a fierce pursuit battle, with a completely different mentality in the desperate struggle, the pursuer and the pursued person are in full swing and flying at high speed; In the background of the sky dotted with missiles, brilliant lights erupted from time to time, the wind wrapped in debris and gunsmoke was raging, and the tracer traces of artillery shells pierced the sky one after another. In the sky, the screaming and roaring "2019" is like a touch of shock in the wind, and the extremely smooth track is staggered with the tail flame traces left by the enemy aircraft from time to time.
Fighting and chasing, the one-sided sky battlefield has almost instantly become a bloody slaughterhouse for the "aardvarks" to drink and fall; However, unlike the empty and unobstructed high altitude, the F-111s scurrying around are not without a chance to escape.
In the face of the F-111 fleet, which completely disintegrated and the soles of their feet were greased, after eliminating three "Aardvarks" that broke away from different directions in a row, it was difficult for Long Yun, who turned his head to look around, to see the trace of the enemy planes; In terms of his superior eyesight, this also means that the enemy planes have broken away from about ten kilometers away, so in the next battle, he can only choose to chase one of them. (To be continued......)