In the first round of contact, the Eighth Route Army was in a favorable position and it was high speed versus low speed. Especially when an Eighth Route Army fighter plane encountered it, it hit the Japanese fighter jet x2.
If it had been in the past, at least a dozen Japanese fighter planes would have been blown up under this situation, but after Lei Jinsong crossed paths with the enemy planes, he found that only three "Zero Fighters" had been destroyed.
Lei Jinsong frowned and immediately understood what the problem was: the Japanese had invented a tactic to avoid x2.
"Attention!" Lei Jinsong immediately sent out the signal: "The devil can avoid x2, the devil can avoid x2!"
Lei Jinsong said this for no reason. He had also shot an x2 just now, but just before x2 was about to hit the target, he found that the Japanese fighter plane suddenly accelerated and flew sideways. Before Lei Jinsong could turn to guide x2 to turn, x2 had already
It was detonated...
This gave Lei Jinsong the feeling of punching into space.
Looking at the x2s played by other fighters, most of them were in the same situation, so Lei Jinsong judged that this was the enemy's evasive tactic against x2.
Lei Jinsong guessed right, this was indeed a new tactic used by the Japanese to avoid x2, and this tactic was invented by Taro Sakamoto.
Two months ago, when Taro Sakamoto arrived in China on the first day, he was planning for today's battle, because he seemed to have only one mission, and that was to defeat his opponent in an air combat.
For Sakamoto, the most difficult thing about defeating opponents in the air is that the Imperial Air Force is completely weak in terms of equipment and performance, especially air-to-air missiles.
"The missiles we use for air combat seem to have no effect!" This was Sakamoto's conclusion after testing several Imperial air-to-air missiles.
He analyzed the air force commander Sugino Colonel: "Your Majesty Colonel, I have reason to believe that the Eighth Route Army's missiles are equipped with eagle sauce proximity fuses, so their missiles can explode when they are closest to the target, while our army's missiles
But you have to detonate it manually, you know how difficult it is!"
Colonel Sugino was also a pilot, and he was still a very good pilot, but now he was injured and could no longer take to the air to fight.
He knew what Sakamoto meant. In fact, this was what the air force pilots had been complaining about:
"We simply can't control the bomb to explode at the closest distance!"
"If this cannot be done, then this bomb is ineffective!"
"In actual combat, this kind of bomb has no effect at all. The only few results are probably due to luck!"
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This situation does exist because the time when the missile is closest to the target or enters its killing range is so short that the pilot has no time to react.
What's more, pilots have to fly a fighter plane while guarding against enemy fighters, and at the same time operate weapons and keep an eye on missiles... No one can do this.
"We know this!" Colonel Sugino said: "But, can we not use it? If we don't use it, then we will only be beaten passively!"
What Sugino is talking about is the range. The enemy's missiles can shoot down Imperial fighter planes within a few hundred meters. But if Imperial fighter planes don't carry such missiles, wouldn't they have no chance at a distance of several hundred meters?
But Sakamoto asked rhetorically: "If the probability of such a missile hitting the target is close to zero, then what's the point even if we have a chance to resist?"
Sugino just said it casually, he didn't expect that Sakamoto really planned to give up this kind of missile.
He looked at Sakamoto with wide eyes and said, "Sakamoto-kun, do you know what this means? This probably means that we don't even have a chance to get hold of enemy planes, because what you have to face is the enemy's."
Pull the 5' fighter plane, its speed is much faster than the 'Zero Fighter'!"
Sakamoto nodded.
What Colonel Sugino said is indeed true. If the enemy aircraft is faster than the "Zero Fighter" and has ultra-range weapons, but the "Zero Fighter" only has machine guns and guns, then the enemy aircraft is likely to use its speed to compete with the "Zero Fighter"
Always maintain a distance of several hundred meters, which can constitute a huge advantage in long range.
Sakamoto thought for a while, and then said: "Master Colonel, what if... we can avoid the enemy's missiles? As we know, the enemy only has two missiles. If in an air battle, neither of the two missiles can hit or only
If there are a small number of hits, then we can only use machine guns?"
"This is impossible!" Colonel Sugino laughed: "We have considered this evasive tactic before, which is to use large-angle maneuvers. However, these missiles can turn, and they will follow your fighter planes to maneuver and turn together.
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"I'm not talking about high-angle maneuvers!" Sakamoto replied: "It should be said that it's not just high-angle maneuvers, we can use proximity fuses!"
"Use a proximity fuse?" Colonel Sugino asked curiously: "How can we do it?"
Sakamoto demonstrated while holding two fighter plane models and analyzed: "If the proximity fuse is automatically detonated, that is to say, it will judge the distance to the target. If... at some point in the meantime, I mean, at
When the enemy missile was still far away from us, did it mistakenly judge that it was the closest to the target?"
Sugino laughed loudly after hearing this: "Sakamoto-kun, how can you fool these missiles into thinking they are human beings? What's more, this is Takao-chan's technology, they are not that easy to make mistakes, right?"
At this time, the Japanese had a mysterious admiration for Taka-chan's skills, and Sugino was no exception.
But it’s no wonder that most of the Japs’ skills come from Yingjiang. It’s normal for the Japs to have such a mentality.
Sakamoto analyzed seriously: "Your Excellency, Colonel, precisely because they are not humans, they are machines, so our deception on them is certain and will not change if they are discovered, right?"
Sugino continued to smile: "Then, tell me how to cheat!"
Sakamoto demonstrated with a model and said: "Master Colonel, if the two planes are not heading towards each other nose to nose, but at a certain angle, after the enemy launches the missile, there will inevitably be a certain gap with our plane.
angle. At this time, if I
The aircraft suddenly accelerates and then increases the turning radius... At that moment, our fighter plane will open up the distance between it and the enemy aircraft, or it can also be said to open up the distance between it and the missile. Then, the missile equipped with a proximity fuze is
Won’t it be detonated at this moment?”
Sugino, who was originally smiling, gradually became serious after listening to Sakamoto's analysis. He pondered for a while, then nodded slightly and said: "It sounds very reasonable, Sakamoto-kun, but... we can't be sure.
Does it work in actual combat?”
"But it's worth a try, right?" Sakamoto said, "because we have no choice!"