Chapter046 Beyond Visual Range Air Combat Confrontation (Part 2)
By pushing full afterburner, the fighter jet quickly broke the sound barrier and entered the world of Mach 1.0.
On this F-15E fighter plane, Wang Yu could feel the unparalleled speed and passion.
Compared with the acceleration performance of the MiG-21, which is simply composed of violent propulsion and a lightweight cylindrical fuselage, the F-15E can accept the rapid increase in speed brought by the powerful thrust from the dual engines, and at the same time, it can also
It still maintains very good flight controllability during supersonic flight, and can still maintain a stable speed increase after passing the M1.0 limit.
In a short period of time, Wang Yu stabilized his speed at Mach 1.5.
It's just that this is a hard push with afterburner, and the price you have to pay is the high-speed consumption of fuel - but this is actually one of Wang Yu's purposes. Fuel is actually the bulk of the fighter's load, like the F-15E's fully loaded internal fuel.
Together with the fuel in the conformal fuel tank, the total weight is more than ten tons. This amount of fuel is enough to lower the maneuverability of the fighter jet.
Through afterburner, you can not only gain speed, but also consume part of the fuel to enhance the fighter's maneuverability.
Why not?
As for who will pay for the burned fuel...
Well, then you don’t blame Wang Yu. If you want to blame it, blame the ground. You have to fill up the fuel of the fighter before taking off.
In the blink of an eye, the fighter's fuel level was reduced to 60% of what it was when it took off...
But it is precisely because of this high-speed flight that the fighter aircraft can get close to the opponent's position in a short period of time.
The fire control radar had been turned on at this time, and the excellent radar performance of the AN/APG-70 began to scan. Since Wang Yu aligned the position more accurately, the opponent's fighter aircraft logo, a stubby stick, immediately appeared on the radar vertical attitude display.
Horizontal bar.
Liu Lingxin could help Wang Yu share the work at this time, and she did so. She framed the logo with a cursor on her screen, got the opponent's flying height and speed, and quickly informed it
To Wang Yu.
Since someone is helping, Wang Yu is naturally happy to do so.
Based on Liu Lingxin's thoughtful report, he immediately adjusted the radar pitch angle, reduced the scanning range, accelerated the radar's scanning speed in the corresponding area, and displayed the opponent's position in more real-time.
Because Wang Yu accelerated like crazy and even flew at supersonic speed for a short period of time to close the distance between the two sides, when the radar captured the opponent, the distance displayed by the radar ranging was not far away.
There are only about twenty nautical miles left between the two sides, and the closing rate is as high as about 450 knots.
He used the button on the joystick to activate the permissions of the vertical attitude display screen, and the radar automatically entered STT (single target tracking) mode and immediately locked onto the opponent's fighter jet.
Then the horizontal bar cursor on the vertical attitude display screen (which can be regarded as a radar scan) switched to the shape of an airplane, representing the opponent's flight attitude. At this time, the opponent was facing him sideways, with a small dotted circle in
A circle is formed in the middle of the screen, representing the effective attack range of fighter aircraft and missiles. As the distance between the two sides approaches, this circle is also expanding outward.
At the same time, Wang Yu's HUD also displayed a variety of information - the box represented the locked enemy aircraft, and there was a dot mark next to the box that represented the enemy's flight direction, the closing rate of both sides, and the missile's
Attack range display, etc.
The altitude at this time is seven thousand meters. Compared with low altitude, the effective range of the missile is much higher at this altitude.
So the moment Wang Yu established the lock, the two yellow lights at the canopy connection lit up, which meant that Wang Yu had established the lock and entered the effective attack range of the mid-range active radar missile. He could press the weapon release button to launch the missile.
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From turning on the radar, determining the enemy's position, adjusting the scanning angle and finally establishing a lock, all this happens in just a few seconds.
On the side of Instructor Xu, who acted as Wang Yu's opponent, he experienced the process of the radar warning receiver going from a brief alarm to a rapid alarm in a short period of time. In the blink of an eye, he was the first to be locked by Wang Yu and was within a short distance of the missile.
The attack is just a short distance away.
"This guy did a pretty good job."
He simply praised.
But Jiang is still old and hot. Although Instructor Xu seems to be at a disadvantage at the moment, he doesn't seem to be panicking.
His reaction was not slow at all, and he calmly prepared for a counterattack.
The moment he heard his radar warning receiver sounding, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and realized that Wang Yu had come around to his side.
Instructor Xu's combat experience is several belts higher than that of Wang Yu. After briefly thinking about the current situation, he understood what Wang Yu had done in the previous few minutes, so he immediately turned to face the enemy.
Wang Yu.
It's useless to evade at this time, it's too close, the only way is to take the initiative to fight the opponent.
Wang Yu can already see the cursor representing the opponent stably on the scanning screen. The STT single target tracking mode means that the radar beam will only hit the target, and other places will not be scanned at all.
This is the best and most stable lock-on mode for one-on-one combat.
Naturally, Wang Yu could not know that instructor Xu was sitting on the opponent's fighter plane.
However, he noticed his opponent's immediate response maneuver. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised by his opponent's reaction speed and response method. This person seemed to have a lot of experience - but this didn't matter.
"Sorry, I have the right of first move."
He muttered silently while pressing and holding the weapon release button.
"Fox 3!"
An active radar training bomb was ejected from the pylon, leaving a white trail and roaring into the distance.
Although Wang Yu did not have time to wait for the distance between the two sides to enter the missile's inescapable range due to his opponent's quick response, Wang Yu never expected to shoot down his opponent with one missile. This missile was mainly used to force the opponent to evade, thus
Further stabilize your own advantages.
But what I didn't expect was that the opponent did not evade the threat of an approaching missile. Instead, he continued to adjust his direction, quickly locked onto Wang Yu's fighter plane, and also launched a missile with his backhand, and then began to maneuver. p>
Along with a rapid warning, a moving light spot marked "M" suddenly appeared on Wang Yu's radar warning screen.
Enemy missiles are coming!
Wang Yu was sure that his opponent had launched a missile at him.
But it’s not a big problem.
One's own missiles are launched first, while the opponent's missiles are launched in a hurry.
Compared with the opponent, the error tolerance rate is much higher, and there are enough opportunities to avoid it.
Wang Yu once again threw a missile at the enemy he was still locked on, and then began to perform emergency evasive maneuvers.
He pressed the stick to the side, entered the dive at the same time, and performed a standard three-nine high maneuver (always placing the missile's incoming direction at the three/nine o'clock position of the fighter plane to deceive the missile's guidance radar), and at the same time, accompanied by
With this slight noise, the fighter plane dropped a piece of chaff behind it to interfere with the missile locking.
After the missile has locked on the enemy aircraft, there are two ways to avoid the missile with bare metal.
The first is to let the missile unlock, and the second is to consume the energy of the missile as much as possible before the missile enters the attack position.
To put it simply, the first one is a way to deceive the missile radar seeker. It is usually done by combining the three-nine maneuver with chaff, so that the missile "cannot find the target" to avoid the missile.
The second type is to make several turns before the missile strikes, so that the missile can continuously adjust its flight direction - for a newly launched missile, the fighter plane only performs a small maneuver, and the missile has to use a lot of force.
Maneuvering to realign it - thus quickly reducing the speed and guidance performance of the missile, and then easily using chaff to throw off the incoming missile.
But obviously, if the opponent's missile is already very close when the maneuver starts, then it is not very reliable to get the missile out of lock at this time - when the missile has already pulled in a long distance, the lock
It will be very strong and the energy is well preserved, so it is very difficult to unlock it easily.
After Wang Yu took the lead in firing, his opponent took the opportunity to lock onto Wang Yu and launch a counterattack, forcing Wang Yu to evade. However, he also lost the best opportunity to evade because of this move, and now had to use several maneuvers to consume the missile.
energy.
In short, both sides fired the first missile of this confrontation at the other side.
Immediately, different methods were adopted to avoid the opponent's attacks.
But in this battle, both sides are skilled, so firing mid-range bullets cannot determine the outcome at all.
In other words, it can only be regarded as the opening scene of this one-on-one battle.