Chapter 1,255: Drinking vodka and shouting 'Ula', fearless of heaven and earth
"UAVs can perform reconnaissance missions, but if you want to have comprehensive control over the surrounding sea areas, you need early warning aircraft to go up. Once the early warning aircraft go up, you need fighter jets to escort you."
Vitalia nodded. In fact, this was what she had just thought. As long as she sailed for another day and approached the African continental shelf, she could mobilize aircraft from along the way to escort her. Once encountering a situation, it would be convenient for fighter planes to take off to meet the enemy, so there would be no need for anything.
Scared.
As for today... I hope it was an accident!
The early warning aircraft that took off vertically quickly transitioned into level flight, then climbed. It took three minutes to reach the cruising altitude and turned on the airborne radar.
"To the northeast, at a distance of 400 meters, there are more than 20 targets approaching us!" As soon as the radar was turned on, the radar officer shouted loudly.
When Aegis battleships search high altitudes, they have a search distance of four to five hundred kilometers, but there is no way to search low altitudes. After all, the earth is a ball, not a flat surface.
Only when the early warning aircraft is condescending and overlooks the earth can it see the ultra-low-altitude flying targets in the distance. At this time, as the radar officer reports, the target data is also quickly passed over. On the island of the Guinea, looking at those on the screen
The highlight, everyone’s expressions changed.
What is this for? A super-low-altitude sneak attack? Are you planning to charge over and then fire a salvo to kill everyone on your side?
Impossible, impossible, not so blatant, they wouldn't dare to do this, all this is probably a trap!
"We must take off all the fighter planes. Except for the two that are still under maintenance and the two that have taken off, we can also dispatch sixteen more. With these fighter planes, we should be able to complete the interception mission." Américo also became nervous and anxious.
He said to Vitalia.
"Don't worry, let's take a look first and then talk."
"Look? The situation is so urgent now. If there are twenty aircraft, each aircraft can carry four anti-ship missiles, this is a saturation attack of eighty missiles. Although we have four Aegis battleships, in case of an attack
If there is an accident, as long as one of them is not intercepted..."
If you only have ordinary destroyers and frigates, you have to wait for the opponent to attack and intercept the opponent's anti-ship missiles. But with carrier-based aircraft, it is different. You can intercept the opponent's fighters and actively attack the opponent!
Therefore, if the navy wants to develop and grow, it must have aircraft carriers. Without air supremacy, there will be no sea supremacy.
Now, the Guinean navy is powerful. They have 60,000-ton warships, and they have twenty carrier-based fighter jets that can perform missions! How can you not go up in such a dangerous situation?
"Don't worry. If we all launch this time, we will consume a lot of aviation fuel. What if they just feint this time and come back next time, we will run out of aviation fuel?"
"Oh, damn!" At this moment, an officer looked at the screen and said angrily: "Why did Rabbit leave the early warning aircraft without orders and go to intercept it?"
For any country, the military must strictly enforce discipline and follow orders in their actions. However, the world of mercenaries has their own rules. Sometimes, they may disobey discipline, as long as their intentions are good.
For example, now, everyone knows that it is impossible for Valenchenko to surrender to the enemy. He is already an old pilot. This time he suddenly ran over, and he must have wanted to fight.
"Rabbit, return!"
"Rabbit didn't hear that! Rabbit is going to kill the enemy! Rabbit is going to make a contribution, Rabbit is going to rise!"
Listening to Valenchenko's special accent, Vitalia's face changed: "He drank? Who told him to drink? Damn it, tell him, I will deduct his salary for a year!"
The faces of everyone present changed. What a joke. For a drunken old man, eight horses can't pull him back!
At this time, in the sky, Valenchenko took off his oxygen mask, took another sip of wine, and felt that the world was beautiful. Huh, twenty targets are nothing. Look at yourself and kill them all!
We were fooled by the Yankees back then, and we didn’t dare to make a fatal move. If we had directly started fighting back then, then the whole of Europe would have been owned by the old fools, and how could it be like now!
I don’t know how many old men have this idea. Anyway, when drinking in Vannes, many people will lament the past and wonder what if they really took action.
Now, their Vana has become powerful. It is not only a mercenary organization, but also a place where they once had their ideals! Now, seeing that they have aircraft carriers, the mercenaries of Vana are even more arrogant. How can they
Will allow themselves to be bullied by their enemies.
If you don’t accept it, do it!
Valenchenko suddenly burped and smelled of alcohol. He felt that his whole body was full of strength and his eyes turned red.
In order to save fuel, he did not have the luxury of turning on the afterburner. He just used the most fuel-efficient way to fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters. The green diffraction HUD in front of him was constantly refreshing data.
He is not fighting alone. He has the support of early warning aircraft and other like-minded comrades behind him. What is so scary about him? A drunken old man can beat a polar bear to tears!
Three hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, one hundred kilometers... Valenchenko turned on the fire control system and prepared to lock on the target. Unfortunately, the stealth function could not carry many missiles. He remembered that the Su-27 had more than a dozen missiles mounted on its body.
The missile scene.
For a stealth aircraft, turning on its own radar will reveal its existence and lose the meaning of stealth. Therefore, the standard tactic of a stealth aircraft is to fight with the support of the early warning aircraft, receive the information from the early warning aircraft through the data link, and then input it into the fire control computer.
Provide data for missile launch.
In this way, the stealth aircraft becomes a missile carrier aircraft!
Of course, there are many prerequisites for this. For example, the missile needs to be an air-to-air missile guided by active radar. It only needs to inject target data before launch and then find the target by itself. If it is a missile with semi-active radar, it needs a rear airborne radar to complete the process.
With irradiation, there is no such convenience.
However, semi-active radar air-to-air missiles should have been thrown into the trash heap long ago. For the Eastern Air Force, they were almost eliminated after they were developed and have never been installed on a large scale. As for exports, it is even more
All active radar air-to-air missiles.
"The rabbit is on target!"
On the Guinea island behind, everyone was confused. Didn’t they just drink a few glasses of vodka and drift like this? It’s okay to not obey orders. After flying over, they didn’t even say a word and were about to take action immediately. You
Is this going to start a war?
"Rabbit, Valenchenko, I am your big boss Vitalia, and now I order you to stop attacking!" Vitalia became anxious, picked up the wireless phone, and shouted loudly.
"If you continue to be so reckless, you will never be able to fly again when you come back!"
"Rabbit... I don't plan to come back. They have twenty planes, and I only have one. I want to clear the bomb bay, and I want to go up and kill them with cannons. In the end, there are no more bombs, and I want to hit the next one."
,Ula,Ula!”
Obviously, Valenchenko has not yet woken up at this time.
Vitalia's expression changed. Do you want to start the autonomous return process?
"Early warning aircraft reported that the target has disappeared." At this moment, another call came from the radio.
Who would have thought that there were still twenty targets just now, but they suddenly disappeared again? What happened?
"Due east, a group of new targets appear!"
Due east is the Kangaroo Country, and there is actually a target coming from the Kangaroo Country!
One group left, and another came, and they all appeared and disappeared in the sea area of about 400 kilometers around the fleet. What does this mean?
Are they testing, are they tempting, wanting to get their own planes to use up their combat potential, wait until the fuel is gone, wait until the planes need maintenance, and then do something big?
Americo felt the sweat on his back. Vitalia was really powerful. If it hadn't been for her just now, he would have sent all the fighter planes to take off, and he would have been fooled by the enemy!
"Report, an encrypted file was transmitted from the satellite communication system, and only you have access rights."
Vitalia was shocked: From Qin?
She quickly sat down, opened her special laptop, connected it to the aircraft carrier's data system, then downloaded the file, used the encrypted USB flash drive and facial recognition to open the file.
There are only four words in it: Be careful underwater.
"Attention, switch to anti-submarine mode and take off as an anti-submarine aircraft!"
Seeing Vitalia's serious face, everyone was a little curious. Now that we are conducting air defense, why do we have to switch to anti-submarine?
Air defense and anti-submarine warfare are not just words. Different combat needs require different formations.
Air defense is generally a diamond formation, with destroyers and frigates on the outside and important high-value warships such as aircraft carriers protected in the middle. This way, once missiles or aircraft come over, the warships inside can be protected to the greatest extent.
What about anti-submarine?
Anti-submarine warfare requires spreading warships apart. The further apart they are, the less likely they are to interfere with the operations of other warships due to their own noise. Generally speaking, horizontal formations are used, with all warships lined up in a row and moving sideways.
It is not easy to switch formations. What if we are searching underwater and someone comes from the sky?
At this moment, Valenchenko's curse came over the radio: "This damn guy is so cunning!"
"Call Rabbit, what did you find?"
"Rabbit reported that there was a large amount of aluminum foil on the sea. They should have used drones to drag aluminum foil balls forward, pretending to be false targets and approaching us!"
During the Battle of the Falklands, the British used helicopters to tow aluminum foil balls to increase radio reflectivity, pretending to be warships, and guide the opponent's missiles to attack these aluminum foil balls, thus protecting the safety of the fleet.
This method is very simple, but it is easy for the opponent to be tricked. After all, what you see on the radar screen is not the target image, but the echo reflected by the target.
The stealth machine reduces the echo to protect itself, and the aluminum foil ball increases the reflected echo to impersonate some false targets.
In fact, this technology is too old. The advanced technology is to use electronic interference or even invade the opponent's data link to directly add false targets. However, it is not easy for potential enemies to do this. Eastern electronic technology is very advanced.
They simply don't have this ability, so they can only settle for the next best thing and just use drones to tow fake targets.
Since it was a false target, the opponent's real intention was not to strike from the air. After all, it would be too obvious to strike directly from the air, and it would be more concealed to strike underwater.
However, they use the warning information in the air to attract their own attention. When their own side is busy dealing with air threats, there will be a sharp blow from the water!
After they were done, they ran away and refused to admit it afterwards. Anyway, there was no evidence for being caught!
And their target must be their own aircraft carrier!
Thinking of this, countless people get scared.
"Transfer to anti-submarine immediately, quickly!"
The destroyer has a small body and quick response. It can quickly change its posture and quickly deploy to both sides. Although it is also a straight array, it can still protect the three amphibious assault ships in the center.
Seven warships launched an anti-submarine search.
The three amphibious assault ships have bow sonar, while the four guided missile destroyers have towed array sonar. When this sonar is released, it can detect targets at considerable distances and avoid interference from its own noise.
However, these are not as fast as anti-submarine aircraft.
In the past, only helicopters could be used for anti-submarine warfare. Even the Z-Twenty had a maximum take-off weight of only ten tons and could carry very little equipment. Now we use the Z-Twenty, which has a maximum take-off weight of thirty tons, whether it is a sonobuoy or a sonobuoy.
The number of anti-submarine torpedoes carried is doubled.
In order to avoid airflow turbulence caused by mounting under the wings, this anti-submarine aircraft did not mount any torpedoes under the wings. At the same time, there was no space under the belly, so it was designed with a built-in mount.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Its belly is divided into two bomb bays, front and rear. The front one is equipped with anti-submarine torpedoes, and the rear one is equipped with sonobuoys. It also has magnetoelastic capabilities.
It is equipped with the most advanced equipment!
Amidst the roar, Zhi Thirty soared from the deck and began to perform anti-submarine missions.
"Yes, it will be great when we can train to this level." Looking at the rapid changes in the formation, Vitalia said, now the people operating are almost all people sent by Qin Tao, not their own
people.
Although these people are from the shipyard, they are very skilled and work well together. At the same time, this is also due to the powerful integrated command system. The position of each warship can be quickly distributed using data links.
At this moment, a voice came from the radio: "Report, the rabbit has found the target, please fire!"
While the fleet was rapidly changing its formation, Valenchenko was not idle either. He continued to follow the fleet with a fighter plane and arrived 500 kilometers away from the fleet. Here, he finally caught up with the drones towing aluminum foil balls.
!
The Global Hawk drone has long wings and a huge fuselage. Such a drone can tow at least five aluminum foil balls at a certain distance, so four drones are enough.
After completing the decoy mission, they released the aluminum foil balls and returned in formation. After all, there was already a fleet from the east to continue the decoy.
However, they were overtaken by J-31A!
Although there was an AWACS commanding from the rear, the AWACS could not see the J-31A with its first-rate stealth capabilities, and Valenchenko did not use radar, but the EODAS distributed photoelectric system!
If the stealth aircraft turns on the radar, it will expose itself. If the radar is not turned on, it may not be able to detect enemy targets. Is there a way to get the best of both worlds?
Lao Maozi gave the answer: use infrared and optical means!
In fact, there is a photoelectric probe on the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, but Lao Maozi's IRST system is more famous. There is a hemisphere in front of the windshield of the nose cockpit. With this, the fighter jet can lock on forty kilometers without turning on the radar.
goals outside.
That's right, forty kilometers is already its limit, and it can't be detected any further away.
Over the years, technology has continued to advance, and Dongfang's optoelectronic technology has developed rapidly. The search distance of this system is hundreds of kilometers, and it is also an infrared imaging device. The detected target is no longer a point, but a pattern.
, so that the target can be distinguished more clearly.
Hearing his call, Vitalia said: "Rabbit, don't worry, identify the target type!"
"The target is the Global Hawk drone!"
Since it was a drone, there was nothing to hesitate about. In fact, even if it was a manned fighter plane, Vitalia had the urge to give the order to fire, let alone a drone.
"Stop it for me, be careful not to expose yourself!"
"Understood!" Valenchenko was excited when he finally received the order to fire.
Switch weapons to cannon!
In the past, there were many arguments that fighter jets did not need cannons. After all, we have entered the missile age, and cannons are useless! So the cannons were thrown away.
As a result, the pilot of the F-4 Phantom fighter scolded his mother all day long. The missiles were like rockets. They were fired in a salvo. Whether they could hit or not depended on luck. When the missiles were gone, the enemy planes were right in front of them, and they didn't even have the means to fight.
, as a result, an external cannon pod was later installed.
By the time of the third-generation aircraft, cannons were all mounted on fighter aircraft. However, by the stage of stealth aircraft, the need for cannons was once again debated.
If a stealth aircraft can hit and run, why do we need aerial cannons? Moreover, missile technology is already very advanced. If the aerial cannons fire a few bursts and then disappear, what’s the point?
However, facts speak louder than words. Every advanced fourth-generation aircraft is equipped with aerial cannons.
The Yankees' F-22 fighter has an ancestral M61A2 cannon installed on the right air inlet. The F-35A is equipped with a newly developed GAU22/A cannon. Lao Maozi's Su-57 has a cannon on the fuselage.
A similarly ancestral 30mm Gsh-30-1 aircraft gun is installed on the right side.
What about Dongfang’s J-20?
I have never seen it, but there are many theories that the engine was not powerful, the cannon was abandoned, and it was installed after the modification came out.
The J-20, which is specifically used to fight for air supremacy, may not really be needed, but the J-31A, which performs all-round missions, must have aerial cannons and attack the ground at critical times. As for now, it is just used for aerial play.