The two sides approached at high speed, but neither had any chance to attack again.
For fighter jets, head-on attack has always been a problem, even in the jet age.
The relative speeds of both sides are too fast, so it is difficult to open an effective attack window. Not only is it very likely that a forced attack will fail to hit the enemy, but it will also cause a significant reduction in one's own energy, which may even outweigh the gain.
What's more, it may lead to a collision between two aircraft. Therefore, when it is known that the two sides are about to enter a dogfight, they usually fire a missile to suppress each other. However, if the missile suppression is completed, the relative speed of the two sides is still very fast and the distance is still high. To draw closer - that is, under the premise that the missile suppression has no results, few people will use the attack method of direct enemies to fight each other with integrity.
Although we are keen on enemies in the game, the game can be resurrected after all - in real life, a fighter plane will not simply pop up the word "Hit" after being hit by a few cannons, and it will become disabled even if it does not die.
In addition to the threat of the opponent's machine cannon, there is also the threat of collision with the opponent. Even if your opponent is very skilled and kills the opponent, the wreckage of the opponent's fighter plane is likely to block your flight path due to inertia...
Therefore, when a jet faces a cannon, it will most likely become an extreme one-for-one operation.
For air combat, this is extremely unwise.
"No. 1, we are sure to meet the Phantom."
Wang Yu saw two Mirage 2000 fighter jets passing by at high speed about one nautical mile from his side.
The so-called intersection naturally means that the fighter planes of both sides are very close to each other.
A process in which the proximity rate changes from positive to negative and the distance changes from small to large
The intersection does not necessarily have to be like in the movie, where two fighter planes pass by belly-to-belly. It is not an air battle, but more like aerobatics.
For jet fighters, the two sides are one nautical mile apart, which is already a very extreme distance.
At this distance (unless it is forced to launch), it is easy for the missile to lock onto the enemy aircraft and not be able to launch it.
In fact, for the combat of second and a half-generation jets, it has completely changed from the previous air combat of propeller fighters. Due to the greatly enhanced performance of fighter jets and the rapid development of missiles, the concept of air combat has been blurred and basically Once it enters visual range, it is considered a close combat.
Compared with propeller fighter jets fighting, the enemy and we are so close to each other that they are hundreds of meters apart, chasing each other. This is something that is hard to imagine in a jet air battle.
Irene told Wang Yu that she judged that the enemy's speed at this time was only around Mach 0.7.
Her judgment is accurate. As a machine girl, she has this advantage. Wang Yu naturally believes it.
The enemy aircraft is not very fast, presumably due to the poor single-shot production capacity of the Mirage 2000.
In comparison, it is close to supersonic speed, and with just a little bit of fuel, it can break the sound barrier.
As the enemy plane roared past, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the enemy. Since there was still a certain horizontal distance between the two sides, he could see the enemy's movements without tilting the fuselage.
The two enemy planes rolled to one side at the moment of intersection.
We are about to enter the process of turning.
Not only Wang Yu, but Luo Yu, who was also approaching and observing the enemy's movements, could instantly determine the enemy's turning direction based on the change in angle.
They want to perform a horizontal rotation, and the direction of rotation is naturally the direction where Wang Yu is.
The enemy's two-plane squadron seemed to be eyeing Wang Yu. They saw that the three fighter planes of the Ghost Squadron were using fishing tactics to distance themselves, but they felt that they were capable and could use this fishing tactic instead.
The Mirage 2000 adopts a large delta wing design. The aerodynamic surface shape brought by the delta wing gives the fighter aircraft good instant maneuverability. However, due to the large wing area of the fighter aircraft, in addition to ordinary air friction resistance during flight
In addition to pressure differential drag, there is also greater induced drag compared to other wing layouts.
Therefore, the Mirage 2000 has excellent high-speed flight stability and incredible instant maneuverability due to its delta wing, but it also sacrifices the fighter's survivability during large-scale maneuvers.
In the simplest terms, the larger wing area of the delta wing layout can increase the lift coefficient of the fighter and provide the fighter with the ability to control the fighter at large angles of attack (even if the airflow separates to a certain extent, it can still produce stable lift). However, this advantage requires sacrificing the speed of the fighter. If there is no high-power engine to provide thrust to allow the fighter to recover quickly, then the speed of this fighter after maneuvering is not ideal.
Mirage 2000: Do you like this good control performance? It comes with the storage speed performance.
This means that the stable hovering performance of the Mirage 2000 is not optimistic, and even if it exerts excellent instantaneous hovering angular speed, it will quickly lose speed because of this.
Therefore, combined with the difference in fighter planes between the two sides and the enemy's movements, Wang Yu understood their combat ideas almost immediately.
When it comes to fishing, everyone is not Jiang Taigong, so the prerequisite for fishing is to have a bait.
The bait exists independently. If the fish is smart enough, it can eat the bait before pulling the hook.
So at this time they decided to be the smart fish.
Wang Yu understood that as long as the enemy aircraft quickly used the Phantom's high-speed maneuvering response and excellent nose directivity before Luo Yu and Murong Lan's Su-37s entered the battle, the two fighters could turn at high speed at the same time to eliminate his own, which was not as good as theirs.
Then dive away and get away, which can create an advantage for them and deal with Luo Yu and Murong Lan who are coming later in a two-on-two manner.
It’s a bold tactic, but it’s really effective. It’s a way to crack fishing tactics.
The premise is that the fishing party's skills are not excellent and their intentions cannot be seen immediately; and the fish must be smart enough and powerful enough to avoid being caught on the hook while eating the bait.
But for the Ghost Squadron, they are already experienced in many battles.
They have used phishing tactics and anti-phishing tactics many times, so they naturally know the best response to various tactics.
In short, seeing the enemy preparing to enter a horizontal circular maneuver, the Ghost Squadron decided on a tacit understanding of the combat method without even thinking about it.
Since the enemy wants to rely on strength to besiege me, then come here.
The more the enemy focuses on me, the easier it will be for them to ignore the threat posed by Luo Yu and the others in a short period of time.
"I'll play with them on the horizontal plane." Wang Yu said to Luo Yu Murong Lan, "You guys seize the opportunity."
"Understood."
When Wang Yu tilted the fuselage to the other side and prepared to enter the double ring, Luo Yu and Murong Lan accelerated to prepare to occupy the most advantageous missile launch position.
They cannot enter the dogfight, because from a combat perspective, what they have to do is to quickly shoot down the enemy. These two girls join the dogfight, and the three aircraft of the Ghost Squadron cooperate, which can certainly shoot down the enemy aircraft more stably and safely.
But it will also cause it to be unable to cope with the next wave of battles that will begin immediately - to put it simply, the Ghost Squadron must have aircraft that maintain a high-energy state, rather than all entering the dogfight to consume their own energy.
Although the speed of the enemy's two Mirage 2000s dropped sharply, they had quickly completed the turn.
So Wang Yu successfully entered the double-ring maneuver with them. Even though his turn was half a step late, fortunately, he endured the high overload and performed a wave of extreme sharp turns. In addition, the F-15 series fighters are basically in this speed range.
With the flight performance of turning his head instantly as soon as he pulled the lever, he successfully completed the hover of the Mirage 2000 and at the same time adjusted his own direction so that the enemy plane would not be able to turn around and chase him smoothly. The routes of both sides once again created a large angle.
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The enemy plane naturally had the advantage, but fortunately Wang Yu did not enter a single-ring maneuver with the enemy plane. The enemy plane's ability to instantly maneuver and seize the window was not so obvious in the double-ring where the two sides were far apart when maneuvering - the phantom fighter was turning around.
What they faced later was an F-15 that was a long way away from them, rather than an F-15 cross section that could directly intercept them at close range.
The enemy discovered the F-15 entering the double ring, and they couldn't help but nodded secretly.
This mercenary does have some strength.
But they did not panic, because at this time they still had the advantage.
He still has the speed to carry out further window-grabbing behaviors, but the F-15 must maintain a certain speed to be maneuverable. As long as he entangles the opponent and prevents the opponent's power advantage from being used, the F-15 will definitely
Being mercilessly devoured by his two Mirage 2000s.
What's more, their teammates are coming at full speed. When they fall into an unfavorable speed range, their teammates will naturally come to their rescue.
So the two enemy pilots immediately made countermeasures. They controlled the fighter planes respectively and let the missile's infrared seeker capture the Silent Eagle, which Wang Yu had just completed the turn and had not had time to adjust the direction of the nose.
Enemy planes are not very good at hiding their intentions, so as soon as his plane turned, Wang Yu knew what they were going to do.
Even though the nose of the plane was not pointed at the enemy plane at this time, he still quickly recovered from the overload steering and tried to increase his speed as much as possible before the missile struck. Only with speed can you have the advantage of evasion.
On the Phantom Fighter side, the moment the buzzer sounded, they launched the missiles without hesitation.
However, due to Wang Yu's decisive decision, the relative speeds of the two sides have increased rapidly due to the intersection of tracks, and the missile needs to fly off-axis with a higher overload to attack Wang Yu's advance in the direction of flight.
When the missile is guided while turning at high overload, the attack range within its effective power range will become very small.
In Wang Yu's view, this was a very restrained missile attack. Seeing the two missiles draw an arc and turn towards his forward position, he immediately pressed the side lever and pedaled the rudder without hesitation.
The sudden change of course, coupled with the heat decoy bomb, forced the roaring missiles to try to keep up with his maneuvers again.
However, in such a short distance, it is impossible for the missile to turn around more than 45 degrees, so the final result is that the two missiles flew past its original route at high speed.
In conjunction with the instant steering maneuver of pedaling the rudder, the Silent Eagle's nose pointed at the front of one of the Mirage 2000 fighters at a certain moment. Wang Yu didn't even wait for the cannon to lock on, and directly followed his naked eye estimation and pulled the button.
The gun trigger was moved.
The cannons roared, and about forty tracer rounds of "bright spots" swooped toward the enemy aircraft.
Although the enemy pilot was on high alert at this time, he had no idea that Wang Yu could cleverly use the moment when the missile was dodged to point the nose of the aircraft towards their window to fire the cannon. According to the relative speed and attitude of both sides, this attack window may be the largest.
Only a few tenths of a second - this has no practical value at all!
But Wang Yu seized this opportunity, and the cannon firing time filled the short window period to the fullest.
According to the rate of fire of the 20mm Vulcan cannon, it is enough to tilt a large amount of ammunition at the enemy aircraft in one second.
In addition, the distance between the two parties was quickly closing due to flying in opposite directions, so he had no time to react.
So with two crisp sounds of "dang-dang", one of the Mirage 2000s that Wang Yu predicted to attack had two large holes in its wings and fuselage, and a large amount of white liquid sprayed out from the hole.
It turned into mist at high speed and was left behind by the fighter jet. The engine of this phantom fighter also began to make an unpleasant noise, and gradually, streams of black smoke began to appear.
His fighter plane was not torn apart by the 20mm cannon. It may be because he was lucky and the cannon hit a structure that was not very critical. However, the power of the cannon shell and the small explosion caused still knocked one side of the plane apart.
The hydraulic pipeline of the wing and the engine structure near the fuselage were damaged, which also caused the fighter to leak oil.
"I'm damaged, I'm damaged!" the pilot shouted, "I can't fight, withdraw from the battlefield!"
He immediately controlled the damaged fighter plane to descend in altitude, and at the same time threw away the mounts on the fighter plane, preparing to return home quickly and find a friendly airport for an emergency landing.
"Are you crazy? Have you forgotten who they are?" Although the other Mirage 2000 was also shocked at how the friendly forces were destroyed in an instant, and did not know the specific situation, he was able to notice the friendly forces' upload.
Something strange is coming.
"They are mercenaries! They can get paid for shooting us down."
As he said this, the two sides completed their second head-to-head encounter, and this time the distance was much smaller than the last time. There was only a horizontal distance of about a few hundred meters between the two sides.
Wang Yu could even feel his fighter plane vibrating slightly due to the airflow generated by the passing opponent.
But in the blink of an eye, he understood the situation of the enemy fighter plane he hit.
The engine was damaged and the wing was damaged.
For a fighter aircraft like the Mirage 2000, if it suffers such an injury, it will definitely lose its combat capability.
So he knew that this intersection probably represented the end of this air battle.
After this intersection, the enemy plane's energy will not be enough to turn quickly. The opportunity Luo Yu and Murong Lan are waiting for is this moment. Shooting down the enemy plane while turning will solve all problems.
Taking a step back, even if they failed to damage the enemy's phantom, Luo Yu and the others still had enough chances to kill two of them.
So before turning, Wang Yu immediately said to Luo Yu: "Start attacking, one damaged and one intact."