When Wu Guozhi landed the plane at the airport and jumped out of the plane, he immediately jumped into the crowd of comrades who were cheering for him to celebrate with them.
Wang Xuexin stepped forward and asked: "How do you feel?"
"That's great!" Wu Guozhi replied excitedly: "This thing called
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"But what?" Wang Xuexin asked.
"The fly in the ointment is..." Wu Guozhi said: "I feel that my fighter plane is also threatened!"
Wang Xuexin said "Oh": "Keep talking!"
The pilots who were cheering around him immediately calmed down consciously, and Professor Su immediately took out a pen and notebook... This is actually the significance of the fighter plane test launch. They need to know what defects they have and improve them.
"That's right!" Wu Guozhi replied: "The range of the
As he spoke, Wu Guozhi looked at the wing of the plane that had just landed, stepped forward to find a gap and said, "This should be left by x1 shrapnel. I felt a slight vibration!"
Then Wang Xuexin understood that the explosion distance was too close. If the "Hawker 81" continued to bite the enemy plane's tail from behind and the x1 hit the enemy plane and exploded... the shrapnel ejected from the explosion would probably accidentally injure himself.
Professor Su explained awkwardly: "This is our fault. From the beginning to the end, we only considered whether we could change the trajectory and hit the enemy, but we did not think about ensuring our own safety!"
"No, no, Mr. Su!" Wu Guozhi hurriedly explained: "It's not your fault. I don't think this poses much of a threat to us, and this is the first test launch!"
Wang Xuexin nodded. The situation was indeed as Wu Guozhi said. Although this situation is dangerous for "Hawker 81", it is unlikely to be fatal.
The reason is that the "Hawk 81" is a fighter aircraft with armor protection, and most of the hits are outside the killing range, so the damage that can be caused to the "Hawk 81" is very limited.
However, the Japanese's "Zero War" used almost no weight for protection, and it was still a close-range bombing, so the damage was beyond what it could withstand.
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It is not a good thing if there is any risk of accidental injury with any equipment.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin said to Professor Su: "I think we should improve x1 from two aspects. One is the shortest detonation distance. It cannot be activated within at least 100 meters, otherwise the probability of accidentally injuring yourself will greatly increase."
100 meters, which does not take a second for the speed of the "Hawker 81". It is almost a head-on collision between shrapnel and the fighter plane in the air. This is definitely not feasible.
The speed of x1 shrapnel 100 meters away has almost attenuated, and even if it hits it at that time, it will not have much impact.
Wang Xuexin continued: "On the other hand, we should try to seek a longer range, preferably extending the range to about 600 meters!"
The reason why Wang Xuexin set it at 600 meters is because this distance is the limit of the range of air combat machine guns... In actual combat, no one usually shoots at this distance unless the target is a large, heavy, and poorly maneuverable bomber.
If the range of x1 can reach 600 meters, it will have a range advantage over the enemy.
"600 meters?" He Zhimin expressed doubts about this: "Although this distance is not difficult for X1, we only need to add some fuel and lengthen the wire. The question is, can this distance effectively hit the target?"
Wang Xuexin turned his attention to Wu Guozhi.
If it were a modern missile, this 600-meter distance would be nothing at all.
Not to mention 600 meters, air-to-air missiles can easily reach a range of tens of kilometers, and China's Pili 15 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile can reach 200 kilometers.
(Note: The Pili 15 that can be used for the J-20 is the world’s longest-range air-to-air missile, and may even pose a threat to enemy early warning aircraft, because the visual distance of the early warning aircraft to stealth fighters is only about 120 kilometers. In other words, when the enemy early warning aircraft is still
When the J-20 is not found, the J-20 may have fired missiles at it)
But the X1 is a wire-guided missile. It has no infrared search or radar guidance. At most, it is a proximity fuze.
The accuracy is completely dependent on the pilot's visual inspection and control. It is difficult to grasp the accuracy at a long distance.
Wu Guozhi understood what Wang Xuexin meant when he looked at him. He thought for a while and then said with certainty: "I believe it can still be achieved at about four or five hundred meters, so I think a range of six hundred meters is indeed necessary!"
This is of course, because only with a range of 600 meters can it be possible for the pilot to hit the target at around 400 to 500 meters.
"In addition!" Wu Guozhi then added: "I think we also need to strengthen training at close range, that is, at the moment when we predict that X1 will hit the target, we must pilot the fighter plane to avoid the explosion range instead of flying head-on.
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Wang Xuexin praised: "This is a good idea, Captain Wu. I will leave the training to you and strive to make all pilots master this kind of flying maneuver within ten days!"
"Yes!" Wu Guozhi straightened up confidently.
This confidence not only comes from the fact that the flying maneuver itself is not difficult...this flying maneuver is usually flown, and almost anyone who can fly an airplane can do it.
If there is any difficulty, it is to be able to grasp the time of the x1 explosion more accurately and then use a little advance to avoid it.
Wu Guozhi’s confidence comes more from x1.
As mentioned before, the Japanese "Zero War" has almost no armor protection but the "Hawker 81" does, so who is afraid of whom?!
Wu Guozhi was about to leave, but was stopped by Wang Xuexin.
"Captain Wu!" Wang Xuexin said thoughtfully: "Can we add a training plan, if the enemy's and our fighter planes meet head-on..."
Wu Guozhi's eyes lit up and he immediately nodded his head like a fool: "The battalion commander is right, if the range of the x1 can reach 600 meters, our fighter planes can easily kill the enemy when they meet head-on.
!This subject should be added!”
In fact, this is the biggest advantage of x1.
Because it is difficult for the "Hawker 81" to bite its tail and "zero fight", it is very common for enemy and friendly fighters to meet head-on.
At this time, the distance of 600 meters was at the limit of the enemy's machine gun range, so the "Hawker 81" was almost in an invincible position.
Unless x1 was launched head-on and failed to kill the Japanese after the explosion.
This situation originally existed, because no matter whether the x1 was equipped with a bump fuse or a delay fuse, there would be situations where the target would not be hit and the enemy would get through the fire net.
But if it is equipped with a proximity fuse, the chance of "Zero War" passing this level can be said to be very slim.