In this mission, the pilot has a high degree of freedom of choice.
In general missions, the mission planner will designate the aircraft's mounts, and the pilot only needs to use these mounts to fight.
But for this mission, the pilot can make his own judgment based on the mission situation and choose the weapon he thinks is most suitable for this battle.
So Wang Yu looked at the distribution of enemy targets in the mission, considered his battle plan, and then formulated a mounting plan for his fighter planes when executing this score-boosting mission.
As a further fighter than the Strike Eagle, the Silent Eagle has more mounting options.
On the outside of the wing pylon, two air-to-air missiles must be carried for self-defense.
(Note: The Silent Eagle uses a bomb bay to hold AA bombs, and its actual ground attack weapons are very weak. For the sake of writing, the protagonist’s aircraft in the article is probably a weakened version of the F-15EX with the appearance of the Silent Eagle.)
However, since the Ghost Squadron's expected plan for the first wave of attacks was a rapid ground attack, in addition to these two combat bombs, bringing an additional air-to-air missile was disrespectful to Asia's ground forces.
Therefore, the remaining pylons were filled with anti-ground weapons.
Four SLAM missiles, two JSOW.
The SLAM missile is an air-to-ground cruise missile that is improved from the Harpoon anti-ship missile and can be controlled by humans in the loop.
The so-called people in the loop probably means that after the missile is launched, in addition to relying on its own capabilities to provide guidance, the pilot can also join the guidance system through various means to control the missile.
That is, the pilot manually joins this "loop" to provide real-time corrections to the missile.
That is, "people are in the loop".
In layman's terms, after the missile is launched, the optical sensor on the missile head will transmit the captured real-time image back to the fighter plane, which will be dynamically displayed on the fighter plane's screen. Then the pilot will adjust the missile on the fighter plane based on the image captured by the missile.
of the intended attack target, allowing it to hit where it needs to be hit.
If you still don’t understand, just imagine the TV bullets in the game.
The cruise missile in the Call of Duty series actually has a human-in-the-loop mode in its final guidance process.
Of course, SLAM is not just an air-to-ground missile.
If you operate it well, you can use it as an anti-air weapon like a laser calf or a laser bomb. After all, the missile will adjust its flight direction according to your pilot's adjustments after it starts working, so if you initially
If you throw it accurately, you can even adjust the missile to attack the air target you want (seriously).
All things can be compared to nothing, this is not just talk.
The use of ground-attack weapons to knock down air targets even excites pilots more than winning the title of ace.
SLAM missiles are expensive to build, but if they can hit key targets after launch, it will be worth it no matter how expensive it is. Anyway, Orillia has obviously spent a lot of money this time, and even these expensive armaments are directly open to the optional list.
superior.
For example, killing the enemy's frontline headquarters with one shot...
So with the thought of not using anything in vain, Wang Yu decisively used this weapon that could achieve precise strikes.
In addition to SLAM, another weapon called JSOW is actually the abbreviation of Joint Standoff Attack Weapon.
To put it simply, it is an unpowered attack weapon that uses its gliding ability to fly to the target area like a glider after being thrown out by a fighter jet at high speed, and uses GPS navigation and inertial navigation capabilities to provide guidance.
To put it bluntly, it is the so-called glide missile.
This thing will fly according to the pre-set waypoint, arrive at the coordinate point, and attack according to the preset method.
After detaching from the pylon of the fighter aircraft, the gliding bomb will spread its "wings" outward from the body of the missile, which are the wings. Then it will use this wing surface to adjust the flight direction of the gliding bomb, and finally fly to the target.
Attack overhead.
JSOW is not fast, not even as fast as a fighter plane. After all, it is just a gliding weapon.
But the most valuable thing is that this thing has a very long range (according to the flight height and speed when shooting, it can even have a range of more than 70 kilometers). After setting it in advance, it can even achieve complete launch and forget.
Before the enemy even sees you, the bomb will fall on your head.
So when you know the specific coordinates of the enemy, it's actually quite good to rely on this thing to take a preemptive strike.
The reason why it is called a standoff attack weapon is because it is released outside the attack range of the enemy's anti-aircraft missiles, allowing fighters to maintain a safe enough distance from annoying ground missiles.
Unlike JDAM, laser-guided bombs and the like have to fly near the target's head before being dropped.
The two gliding bombs currently carried by Wang Yu are JSOW-A models with dispensers. After flying over the target, the overall missile will disperse many small bombs, and then conduct continuous attacks on the ground. According to the set distribution height
And the spreading mode will form a long attack range to destroy soft targets in the largest range.
Although this is something like a terminally sensitive bomb, which is better than nothing when faced with structures such as fortifications and bunkers, it can definitely cause serious damage to exposed targets.
For example, after Wang Yu confirmed the mission report, he planned to throw the JSOW at the Asia target. This is an army that has just begun to assemble. It does not have armored vehicles and tanks, but it has a large number of infantry and various unarmored towed air defenses.
Target units such as artillery and artillery will inevitably achieve effective results when faced with such bombs distributed from high altitudes.
In short, these two anti-ground weapons rely on the precise setting of various data by the weapons control officer. Wang Yu probably wants to find something to do for his back seat...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Speaking of which, the SLAM missile allows Liu Lingxin to directly control and adjust the target at the end. In other words, this is one of the few weapons control officers who can directly control
Ground-attack weapons as a result of the attack...
At this time, both SLAM and JSOW have set the flight path points based on the enemy positions and defense areas in the mission briefing. In other words, Liu Lingxin has completed her mission beautifully. Next, Wang Yu only needs to act like
Like Space Monkey, open the safety, adjust to the ground attack mode, and then launch these missiles, which will fly along a fixed route to the target point and launch an attack.
Luo Yu and Murong Lan mounted anti-radiation missiles and some ground-attack missiles for close-range attacks. According to them, they needed to launch hidden radar positions to target the enemy, so anti-radiation missiles were indispensable.
By carrying anti-radiation missiles, they can deal with some targets more quickly.
Everything arranged by the Ghost Squadron is for action. They have prepared many different weapons and determined different attack routes. They must strictly follow the plan when executing it. Fortunately, they cooperate well and there will be no surprises.
After finishing the first batch, they returned to reload and prepare to continue the attack.
The mission started in the early morning of this day. At six o'clock in the morning, before the sky was completely bright, the prepared fighter planes took off from the base one after another. The formations of the formation were circling and circling, and it took about ten minutes to complete.
Start flying towards the target.
There is already an Orillia tanker waiting there that has taken off early.
They will provide fuel supplies to the formation.
During the pre-takeoff mission briefing, each pilot already knew where they should refuel, and the waypoints on their aircraft also informed them how they should fly. Good weather conditions in the target area would not matter.
Delay, more importantly, there is no strict requirement for this mission to arrive at the target airspace at the same time, so there will be no chaos similar to large-scale operations.
The Ghost Squadron followed the waypoint set on the fighter plane to the coordinate point near the edge of the northern mountains of Orillia, and then contacted the tanker that was circling and waiting here.
There are two tankers here, one with a hard tube and one with a hose, responsible for providing supplies to different types of fighters. In addition to the Ghost Squadron, there is also another formation of F-16 fighter jets from the Orillia Federation that will be accepted here.
Fuel.
When the Ghost Squadron arrived at the coordinate point and began to join the tanker formation, the Orillia F-16 Squadron that took off from another air force base also arrived and then lined up behind the second hard-tube tanker.
Waiting for refueling.
For the Ghost Squadron, aerial refueling, a difficult project in regular flight training, has become an operation that can be done with just one hand - Wang Yu controls the aircraft according to the position of the light bar under the belly of the tanker while driving the fighter.
The throttle was adjusted to adjust the position of the fighter. While waiting for the fuel tank to be filled, he freed up one hand to read the mission briefing on the kneeboard to determine the order and process of the attack. He was divided into two tasks, focusing on one sentence.
, there is no other, but you are familiar with it.
After refueling, he will go to the next waypoint, which is the starting point of the attack. Here, his height must be meters and his speed must reach a certain level.
The main purpose is to allow JSOW to reach a more suitable attack range.
The two JSOW missiles used as a stepping stone were set as a target where the Asiatic army is stationed.
According to satellite images, the enemy has stationed a certain number of infantry, anti-aircraft guns, artillery and a series of soft targets here. These are not the breakthrough arms when they launch an attack, but follow-up arms.
They are stationed motionless now, seemingly waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops. In other words, after they start attacking, the gliding bomb will explode directly above the target and cover a large area below.
As for the important enemy targets that the remaining SLAM cruise missiles need to target - that is, the envisaged command center and the like, these actually only have a semi-precise location and cannot be directly hit with missiles, so Wang
What Yu can do is release SLAM, wait for the video information to be transmitted back from the data link, and ask Liu Lingxin to search for her according to the target shape in the mission briefing, and finally complete the attack.
Therefore, Wang Yu needs to throw out the JSOW first, then hover and wait for the target to hit. Then he can switch to SLAM missiles and continue advancing towards the target airspace. If there are no problems, it will take about ten minutes to fire all the missiles.
Ten minutes is barely enough time for the enemy to react.
In this first round of attacks, you need to hit them quickly and then hit them hard.
After all, the enemy will be defenseless in the first round, and the subsequent attacks will not be as light as the first round of attacks.
The remaining pilots of the Ghost Squadron completed aerial refueling one after another.
The three fighter planes broke away from the tanker formation, then adjusted their direction and rushed towards the coordinate point where the attack began.
When flying to the starting point of the attack, the Ghost Squadron climbed upwards under the leadership of Wang Yu and reached an altitude of 10,000 meters.
At this altitude, when Wang Yu turned on the ground attack mode and selected the JSOW missile on the rack selection interface of his fighter plane, the fighter computer automatically calculated the attack range of the JSOW - a coordinate entered in the missile
A circle with a point as the center and a radius of about sixty kilometers.
This means that according to the calculations of the fighter system, at the current altitude and speed, after the glide bomb is released, it can fly this far and hit the target under the GPS/INS navigation rules.
Soon, the Ghost Squadron entered the attack range, and at this time they had not even entered the real mission area.
A diamond-shaped frame appears on the Hud, pointed at the ground in the distance, which means that the marked place is the final attack target point entered in the missile.
A mark indicating that the fighter jet is within range is also displayed next to the Hud. At this time, Wang Yu can actually launch the JSOW missile.
But in order to increase the hit rate, Wang Yu planned to fly forward some distance.
As they arrived about ten nautical miles away from Asia's actual control area, Wang Yu began to contact the early warning aircraft.
"Eye in the sky, this is Ghost 1. Our squadron has arrived at the starting coordinate point for the attack and can launch the attack." He said to the early warning aircraft, "In order to ensure the suddenness of the attack, we must launch the attack as soon as possible.
Are our friendly forces currently in position and do we have clearance to attack?"
"Roger, Ghost Squadron." The early warning aircraft immediately replied, "Friendly forces have entered the standby area. They will enter the combat zone immediately after starting the attack. You can start attacking. Repeat, you can start attacking."
"The attack permission has been received." Wang Yu took a deep breath: "I started the attack first. After throwing the missile, we hovered in place for the time being. After we were sure that the missile had entered the actual control area of Asia, we continued to enter."
The other two said they received it.
So, Wang Yu unlocked the weapon.
Liu Lingxin finally confirmed that the coordinates and weapon mode were correct.
Wang Yu pressed the weapon release button, and the JSOW with a tapered front part, a square middle part and a rear part hanging on the left wing pylon retracted and the tail fin detached from the pylon, and then two elastic wings were opened inside the missile body, allowing it to use the fighter's