Chapter Seventy-Three: Countering the "Sparrow"
Full-band blocking interference, that won't work.
Can you specify the model to interfere with and use the jamming equipment to deal with it in a targeted manner?
Oh, and theoretically, of course. If your opponent only has one type of aircraft, this is the best option.
Just like in the parallel world, Long Yun can clearly feel NATO's electronic interference during the operation, which has caused considerable trouble to his actions; There is no way, the only advanced fighters in the USSR are the MiG-29, MiG-31 and Su-27, especially the MiG-29, which is exported to other countries in large quantities, and the information on the working mode and frequency parameters of the radar and fire control system has been almost leaked.
However, this method can only be used against opponents with uniform equipment. Do you want to deal with NATO's grocery store-like air force......
Forget it. Can't you always prepare a lot of different jamming equipment, and when you attack, you first see what model comes from the sky, and then decide which one to hang to fight? The so-called programmable and adaptive jamming equipment, Long Yun did not expect the Soviet Union to be able to produce electronic equipment at that time, and he didn't even think about it.
So, can we just memorize the parameters and provide them to the intelligence agencies?
Long Yun immediately had a bit of a headache, and he thought of the big trouble of doing this—how to explain the source of these numbers.
Originally, the purpose of crossing the operation was to gain experience, and he didn't want to be suspected by the KGB of being a NATO agent, or even a double agent, and the people in the intelligence department were not so easy to deal with.
Since it is impossible to interfere with the strange fire control system of enemy aircraft, can it interfere with missiles of relatively uniform models?
Infrared missiles are not considered in the first place, and against infrared guided missiles in the 1990s, jamming missiles can wait.
Although Long Yun had hardly used infrared incendiary bombs in his previous battles, it didn't mean that he wouldn't use them, but there was no need for that. Speaking of jamming bombs, there's a lot to learn about how to spread them.
But radar-guided missiles, that's another matter.
Against radar-guided missiles, the traditional jamming chaff throwing tactics can only fool the old continuous-wave radar, and the pulse Doppler radar commonly used by NATO fighters is very ineffective. To put it bluntly, Doppler radar detects the enemy based on the relative speed of the target and the carrier aircraft, while things like chaff can only float in the sky, and the speed is basically zero, and there is basically no way to deceive the scanning of advanced radar.
Unable to interfere with the radar of enemy aircraft, Long Yun simply started with the missiles themselves. In this era, it is easy to query missile information, who should start with?
Of course, the AIM-7 series, nicknamed "Sparrow".
In that parallel world in the 1990s, most of NATO's warplanes used medium-range missiles were of the "Sparrow" family.
As for more advanced missile weapons, the Americans successfully developed the AIM-120 active radar-guided missile back in 1992, which he has not even encountered in parallel worlds. Or is there one, but it is hidden by the Americans as the "final decisive weapon"?
- Isn't that a fetish only found by devils, Long Yun smiled mockingly.
The name "Sparrow" missile originated from the veteran-class weapon that the American company Sperry successfully tested for the first time in 1952, and it was not until 1963 that it received the official designation AIM-7, which is known to the world.
Over the course of several decades of development, the Sparrow has gradually developed into a huge family of missiles, including the abandoned Sparrow I, Sparrow II, and the successful series of such a large number of equipment as the Sparrow III.
The early "Sparrow" I missile warhead was sharpened, painted with bells and whistles, looked like a large toy firework, and its performance was also very poor, and it did not have any over-the-horizon attack capability; However, the later AIM-7E/F/M "Sparrow" III was quite popular, although the performance was not very outstanding, but the production was huge, and it was widely equipped with fighters in NATO countries.
Now, what Long Yun has to consider dealing with is the "Sparrow" III series numbered AIM-7F/M.
Other missiles, such as the Frenchman's R530, or the more advanced "Meteor", and possibly the AIM-120, he has not seen it yet, so he will not consider it for now.
According to the map, Long Yun quickly found out the many jamming plans for dealing with the "Sparrow" missile, which were simply dazzling and innumerable. No way, who made it more productive and widely equipped? In order to deal with the missiles of the Americans, weapons experts from the Soviet Union to China did not use their brains less. If so many methods are used, the fate of the "sparrow" is not much different from that of burning sticks.
However, considering the technological level of the Soviet Union through the era, Long Yun screened and found that there are really not many that do not require complex signal processing.
The Soviet Union's electronic technology development course was strange, some areas were very advanced, others were ridiculously backward. It seems that it is easiest to make improvements on the jamming aircraft commonly used on fighter planes.
To put it simply, it is to simulate the echo signal that can be recognized by the seeker of a "Sparrow" missile, but to manipulate the transmission phase so that the missile thinks that it has grasped the target, but there is a deviation of 30 degrees in the direction angle. Therefore, the missile turns sideways, sideways, and then sideways according to the instructions of the seeker, and even if it is really aimed at the source of interference, the guidance information of the seeker will always be "the target deviates by 30 degrees......
Principle aside, this trick is really poisonous.
Although the radar models of NATO fighters vary from country to country, in order to guide the "Sparrow" missile, the irradiation band used must fall within the range that the missile seeker can receive. This band was originally an absolute military secret, and as long as you know the number of bands, you can make some changes to the jammer to have good results.
Now, the parameters that spies from various countries racked their brains to obtain during the Cold War were placed on the screen in front of Long Yun.
Long Yun can completely imagine that as long as such a deceptive jamming aircraft can be transformed, the fighter plane will be equivalent to training into an "iron cloth shirt" and "golden bell jar" against the "Sparrow" missile; Although it is not possible to deal with infrared missiles for the time being, in the modern air battlefield where the radar is illuminated randomly and the missiles are flying wildly, it is simply as terrible as a cheat.
Such a good thing has not appeared in the real world for a long time; By the time the frequency decryption and jammer configuration matured, the AIM-7 series missiles had been withdrawn from active service, and now only some small countries in Africa and Latin America are still in use with outdated American-made fighters.
A useless jammer in reality, brought to the battlefield in the 1990s?
It's the same artifact.