This formation method was thought up by a pilot named Hu Bin.
Yu Ping took this into consideration when the pilots discussed the combat plan.
"We cannot hope to wipe out all the enemies outside their range!" Yu Ping said worriedly: "If the enemy rushes into their range, how will we fight?"
This poses a difficult problem for pilots.
The performance of the "La 5" is not as good as that of the BF109 in all aspects. It also carries a radar pod and missiles during combat, which affects its maneuverability. How will it be able to dogfight with the BF109 at close range?
The pilots looked at each other, and it took a long time for someone to say: "Captain, you can't just find a way, right? Just... fight!"
Other pilots nodded in agreement:
"Let's fight, what else can we do?"
"A fight is a fight!"
"Maybe after shooting the missiles, it will be enough, and you can earn it by relying on luck to win a few battles!"
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The pilots say this not because they are discouraged, but in air combat, the performance of the fighter aircraft is often decisive. If the speed and maneuverability of the fighter aircraft cannot match the enemy, then no matter how brave and skilled they are, it is often in vain, just like fighter aircraft.
There is a generation gap with the enemy, and no matter how good the pilot is, he will still die.
Therefore, many pilots have given up thinking and facing the problem raised by Yu Ping, because it is useless to think about it. They think that there is no way to solve this problem.
Only Hu Bin thought seriously for a while, and then said: "Captain, I think it is impossible for us to win by using machine guns to fight the enemy, so we can only consider air-to-air missiles!"
Yu Ping couldn't help but his eyes lit up after hearing this, it coincided with his thoughts.
Because as mentioned before, the performance gap between the "La 5" and the BF109 is too big. At this time, the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" reduced its three machine guns to one in order to carry air-to-air missiles, while the BF109 had two guns and two
Gun, how to fight BF109 in close combat?
(Note: BF109 has many modifications. Its weapons and equipment were first three machine guns, and later changed to two machine guns and two machine guns. Later models were changed to one gun and two guns that can be added with a pod. Therefore, Wang Xuexin gave "La
The 5" additional hanging pod is actually not advanced in this era)
If you can't fight with a machine gun in close combat, or you have a narrow escape, then you might as well give up on machine gun tactics and go for air-to-air missiles.
Yu Ping raised his head and encouraged: "Go on, how do you use air-to-air missiles to fight in close combat?"
It is indeed troublesome to use air-to-air missiles in close combat, because it can hit something three kilometers away, but now it has to hit the BF109 several hundred meters away.
It can even be said that it is impossible to fight in close combat with air-to-air missiles.
Because the killing range of air-to-air missiles is more than two hundred meters... This thing is a continuous long-rod warhead. When it explodes, sections of chains fly everywhere. The fighter plane also has its own speed when flying. Once it hits one or two of these
chain, that is the fate of being cut by scissors.
With a killing radius of more than two hundred meters, can it hit a target three to five hundred meters away without any problems?
What's more, the BF109 is faster than the "Pull 5", which means that the BF109 is most likely behind the "Pull 5". Can air-to-air missiles hit the rear?
Hu Bin answered unhurriedly: "Captain, we can separate the fighter planes into groups, two kilometers apart from each other, so that we can artificially create a long range! If the enemy plane attacks any group of our army, it will rear-end us.
military fighter planes, then they are bound to be hit by air-to-air missiles from another group of our military fighter planes!"
This idea is good, and even Yu Ping has considered it, but there is a fatal problem.
Yu Ping said: "How to solve the problem of accidental injury?"
These words made Hu Bin stunned for a moment. Accidental injury was indeed the most important issue to consider in this tactic.
The enemy planes are chasing our fighter planes, and the distance between them is only a few hundred meters or even closer. At this time, another group of our fighter planes two kilometers behind are hitting the enemy planes with air-to-air missiles... If you are not careful, you will accidentally hit the passenger car and hit yourself.
fighter plane.
Wang Xuexin was also present at that time, and he came here to listen.
As the commander of the aviation regiment, Wang Xuexin needs to understand the specific tactics of the aviation regiment so that he can better direct their operations.
Wang Xuexin believes that this is indeed a very difficult problem. The reason is that the laser proximity fuze for air-to-air missiles has not yet come out, and the old-fashioned close-combat fuze imported from Yingjiang is currently used.
If a laser proximity fuze is used, it has a self-destruct program that can accurately and perfectly avoid this problem, but the old-fashioned proximity fuze...
But Wang Xuexin quickly thought of a way.
He interjected at this time: "Remember how we prevented our fighter planes from being damaged by the Japanese air defense system?"
Yu Ping understood as soon as he heard this: "Bring your own radio transmitter?"
Then he nodded again and said: "That's right, as long as we control the radio signal strength to about three hundred meters, then the air-to-air missile will explode when it approaches our army at a distance of three hundred meters, and we don't need to worry about accidental damage!"
Wang Xuexin said: "I think it can be closer, the distance can be two hundred meters!"
Yu Ping was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood the reason.
In Hu Bin's combat plan, air-to-air missiles are launched from the rear of the fighter plane, which means that when the air-to-air missile explodes, the fighter plane is far away from the explosion area.
If the self-destruction distance is set at 300 meters, it is very likely that the enemy aircraft immediately behind our fighter planes will not be able to explode.
Two hundred meters is just right. This distance will not damage our fighter planes but can damage enemy planes to the maximum extent.
Therefore, the hit rate of air-to-air missiles is actually higher in close combat.
Sometimes the pilots are not aiming at enemy aircraft but at friendly "La 5" fighters... because the movement range of friendly fighters is small, while the BF109 is very flexible and difficult to target due to its very flexible up and down maneuvers.
Anyway, air-to-air missiles will self-destruct when they get close to "La 5", so what does it matter if they aim at "La 5"?
Aiming at "Pull 5" is actually aiming at the BF109 behind it, because no matter how it changes, it will bite the tail of "Pull 5", and eventually it will break into or even directly hit the explosion area of the air-to-air missile.
Then we heard explosions one after another on the battlefield, and BF109s were damaged by air-to-air missiles one after another.
Some of them have holes cut out in their wings, which affects their flight. They fly crookedly in the air, making it difficult to maintain balance, let alone fight.
Some people dare not speed up after their skin has been injured, otherwise the "wound" may be enlarged.
What's more serious is that the propeller is cut off and some of the power is lost.
The worst thing was that it was hit directly and the entire fuselage was cut off and disintegrated in the air. Its scattered parts were everywhere in the air.
Major Moriya couldn't help being horrified when he saw this situation. He immediately ordered: "Leave the battlefield immediately, leave the battlefield immediately!"