Chapter047 Beyond Visual Range Air Combat Confrontation (Part 2)
When Wang Yu performed the three-nine maneuver, he used altitude to change speed and kept throwing chaff.
With the help of maneuvers, chaff and the high speed of fighter planes, the flashing "M" logo surrounded by a ring on the original radar warning display finally disappeared, and the non-stop beeping of the missile incoming siren sounded at a certain point.
It stopped for a moment.
Obviously, in the missile's field of view, first the fighter plane's three-nine maneuvers made the aircraft's shadow disappear into the background, and then the radar clutter formed by the slowly falling chaff spread out in the sky interfered with the tracking ability of the seeker head.
.
As a result, the missile could no longer maintain a lock on Wang Yu's fighter, and had to fly forward blindly until it ran out of energy.
A parachute opened behind the training missile, dragging the missile body down slowly, waiting to be recovered.
After hearing the alarm disappear, Wang Yu controlled the rotation of the fighter plane and performed a flip - the radar warning of the F-15E has a blind spot on the belly and the back of the aircraft. If the blind spot is directed towards the direction of the radar beam, then the warning system will not
If there is any display, Wang Yu must roll over the fuselage to confirm whether the previous missile has completely stopped locking on him.
"Dear, don't worry, the missile has been confirmed to be unlocked and will not continue to approach us."
But in fact, his action was just a habit. When Irene was assimilated with the fighter plane, she could be a radar warning device with no blind spots, so he immediately reminded Wang Yu at this time.
After making this determination, Wang Yu understood that the missile launched towards him was no longer a threat, and because his opponent needed to turn sharply to avoid his attack, he released the lock on him.
Wang Yu's finger then moved away from the button that released the interference measures.
"Is the opponent close to visual range?"
"Not yet, dear, but it should be almost there."
Wang Yu nodded lightly, and then asked his back seat: "Chi Feng, did you find anything?"
"I'm already doing my best to observe." Liu Lingxin can sit in this position, even if she is not a pilot, she still needs to have an excellent sense of space, so at this time she is looking at the location of the previous target aircraft intently.<
/p>
In fact, visual inspection is a very mysterious concept. It generally refers to directly seeing the opponent's fighter plane.
But in fact, through the contrails of the opponent's missiles when they are launched and the condensation clouds formed by fighter planes flying at high altitudes, the opponent's position can also be determined without directly seeing the opponent's fighter planes.
This is what Liu Lingxin is doing now.
But Wang Yu has no hope for this. Although Liu Lingxin's eyesight is good, it is not good enough to become a pilot. The weapons control officer's vision requirements are not that high, so expecting her to see the opponent with her eyes is better than counting on Ai
Lin's observation.
After entering a range of fifteen kilometers, not even a small model, let alone the opponent's fighter plane, could escape her observation.
Wang Yu quickly adjusted the direction of the fighter plane and returned to the opponent's previous position.
Now he still has some advantages, but because his opponent unexpectedly still fired a missile at him when he was attacked, he did not achieve the best result of this round of attack - in order to avoid this
A missile forced him to descend about a thousand meters.
But his opponent's condition was definitely not better than his, and he fired two missiles at him one after another.
One is used to force him away, and the other is used to hit him in a low-energy state after evasion. So if the opponent gets rid of these two missiles, then he should be in a low-energy state now and wants to make up for it during the battle.
If so, it’s not that easy.
However, due to the evasion just now, Wang Yu cannot continue to lock on the opponent, so now he does not know where the opponent is.
What he could determine was the approximate direction of his opponent - this was easy to calculate. The opponent was lower than his height and outside the visual range, so Wang Yu adjusted the radar scanning frequency again, actively slowed down, and started
Search the opponent's location.
Both he and Liu Lingxin were staring intently at the radar scan.
I hope that at some moment I can see the echo reflected back by the radar after it shines on the opponent's fighter plane.
However, the display of the radar system is like a pool of stagnant water, without any movement.
Where has the opponent gone?
Wang Yu couldn't help but frown.
He began to construct various possible speculations in his mind.
He was multitasking. While operating the fighter plane, he also put himself into the identity of his opponent in his mind, thinking about the different response methods he should choose in this situation if he were the opponent.
The opponent must dodge two missiles, otherwise the early warning aircraft would have announced the end of the confrontation long ago. And based on the law of launching two missiles, it is not that easy for the opponent to dodge.
But without exception, no matter how these speculations develop, the opponent's fighter planes will not be able to escape their current search at high altitude.
There are no valleys or ravines on the ground here, and the terrain is flat, so the idea of using the terrain to avoid radar is out of the question - you can't scan the opponent's fighter planes, simply because the opponent's fighters are not within your scanning range. p>
"This is not good..."
Wang Yu muttered to himself while adjusting the pitch of the fighter plane's radar.
He scanned from low altitude to high altitude, but the radar still found nothing.
As mentioned before, he directly regarded this confrontation as an actual combat, so his mental state at this time was completely based on actual combat. In an air combat, losing the opponent's vision is a very unoptimistic thing...
Could it be that...
When Wang Yu's mind was spinning rapidly, a situation that could change the current situation of the battle suddenly happened.
"Target appears!"
Erin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly exclaimed: "Low altitude, at an altitude of two thousand meters, head on, fifteen kilometers ahead, he has been in the downward blind spot of our radar detection range!"
What? How is that possible?!
Wang Yu felt as if he was electrocuted at this moment, and a cold chill ran along his spine and rushed to the top of his head.
No matter how hard he calculated, he never could have guessed that his opponent was actually in such a tricky position!
But his thinking did not stop at all. He immediately figured out what plan his opponent had adopted. During his missile attack, he did not evade sideways at all, but kept grasping the position that he could not scan.
When you are free, fly towards your direction.
Finally, when he turned the fighter plane to his direction again, he successfully arrived in the detection blind spot of his own radar.
As I explained before when fighting air pirates, the detection range of a fighter plane's fire control radar is a cone-shaped area with the nose of the plane as the apex. If the opponent is above or below the cone, it can avoid the fighter plane's detection.
Wang Yu used this method before to use the terrain to enter the blind spot of the air pirate LCA fighter, but now he was used by the opponent in this assessment to deal with it in the same way!
If Irene hadn't observed blind spots, the opponent could easily get behind him and "shoot down" him.
But at this time, I must respond immediately.
The matter was urgent, and Wang Yu had no time to remind Liu Lingxin who was sitting in the back seat.
Without hesitation, he pressed the stick sideways, causing the fighter plane to turn over suddenly, with the cockpit facing the ground.
"Eaa?!"
Liu Lingxin, who was caught off guard, let out a exclamation.
One second she was looking around, trying to find her opponent, but the next second Wang Yu suddenly rolled around.
"Sorry."
Although the situation was urgent, Wang Yu still said something.
It's uncomfortable to hang upside down at this time, but this way you can get a full view of the ground.
Wang Yu immediately looked in the direction that Eileen had been reporting in his heart.
Fifteen kilometers away, it has entered the pilot's visual range.
In this environment with sufficient visibility, observing a fighter jet at this distance is a required course for pilots.
Sure enough, after a brief glance, he accurately spotted the silhouette of a fighter plane shining brightly in the sun.
The fighter plane was using afterburner at low altitude, closing the distance with itself at high speed.
"That's an F-15 trainer." Eileen fulfilled her promise to observe the opponent's fighter plane. She said to Wang Yu in time, "My dear, you have trained on that fighter plane before. It was the one named Xu.
The instructor’s landline."
Wang Yu suddenly felt stunned.
Instructor Xu?
Didn’t you agree that your opponent for this assessment would be a trainee pilot who is also a newcomer?
Although he imagined that the situation would change, he did not expect that such a change would occur!
But this kind of astonishment only lasted for a moment, and then Wang Yu gritted his teeth.
What about the instructor? We are in battle now. Do we have to admit defeat just because we are facing an instructor?
He immediately began to switch the radar mode.
He needs to switch from the original BVR mode to the vertical scanning mode specially used for close combat.
After a short delay, a flashing box appeared on the fighter's HUD, and then it quickly moved in the direction of the F-15 trainer aircraft. The yellow light turned on, indicating that it had completed the lock.
Instructor Xu was finally locked by his radar again.
But at the moment when he had just established the lock, he saw Instructor Xu's fighter plane that had entered the field of vision suddenly raised its nose, and then two bursts of white smoke rose into the sky from the opponent's position and headed straight towards him.
.
The radar warning receiver sounded rapidly, and at the same time, Eileen's anxious alarm sounded in his heart.
"Enemy missiles! Two low-altitude missiles!"
…………
As I write this, I suddenly realize that I am a little more serious.