Whoever takes off first will take advantage of this advantage. First, he flies into the confrontation airspace and can find a place to hide.
Due to the limitations of the airborne radar, one hundred kilometers away, absolutely nothing can be seen. The current radar is still nearsighted, and in air combat, the distance of one hundred kilometers is almost passed by.
At the same time, the airspace is so large, if you can predict the opponent's tactics, you can hide in the opponent's side or in the airspace behind, and then attack from behind the opponent. At this time, it is really possible to shoot down. other side. This is also the most effective attack method for Sparrow air-to-air missiles.
That's what Nathan intended, and first of all, he needs to find a civil aircraft on the route.
In order to avoid exposing the target, it is best to use visual search first, fly along the civil aviation route, find an aircraft, and talk about it!
However, after flying for a few minutes, Nathan felt unreliable.
"I have a bad feeling." Nathan said: "When I came that day, there was a situation where a passenger plane flew the wrong route because of a compass failure. Will they change the route these days?"
This is entirely possible. When it is impossible to rule out flying the wrong route and flying into Soviet airspace, which airline would dare to take the risk? It can be said that as long as there is an accident on a passenger plane, the airline is ruined.
Sure enough, these air forces gave an arrangement. They must have known the situation that the airspace here was emptied, but they deliberately didn't tell them!
Of course, this is nothing. It is not possible to use a civil airliner, so there are other ways.
"Turn on the radar and search the surrounding airspace." Nathan said. Since you can't find a passenger plane, just face to face and compete head-to-head!
Steve in the back had already warmed up the radar. Now that he heard Nathan’s order, Steve turned on the radar immediately. A strong current passed to the parabolic antenna in front, radiating dense electromagnetic waves, flooding the front. Airspace.
The airborne radar of a fighter jet definitely does not work all the time, otherwise one flight will be scrapped. It is only equipment that works intermittently. How to use the radar reasonably is the key to air combat.
Let the air force’s peers who are above the top and see how you use radar!
But this time, just after turning on the radar, Steve was suddenly excited: "I found a large aircraft on the route of civil aviation, only 80 kilometers away from us!"
Actually found a passenger plane!
"Okay, then we will fly over and implement the first set of plans." Nathan said, stopping the hand that changed the course and continuing to fly forward!
"Young Eagle, pay attention, it is about to fly out of the confrontation airspace, repeat, about to fly out of the confrontation airspace." A voice from the ground came from the headset.
The radio is still receiving. Listening to the sound in the earphones, Nathan feels a little dazed. What he dislikes the most is this kind of confrontation. What rules and regulations have been created. In actual combat, there is nothing. Everything is based on shooting down the enemy. in principle.
However, in order to convince the Air Force to lose, he had to follow these rules, so he switched on the radio: "Ying Ying received."
Pushing the joystick, Nathan turned into a big circle in the air. Since he said he was going to fly out of the exercise airspace, he could just go in a circle here and wait for the plane to fly over.
When the first big circle is over, the flying target can be seen visually. Nathan pushes the joystick and walks towards the airliner. Next, it depends on his technique and gets into the opponent’s. Go down and fly with each other!
"Its answering machine did not respond." At this moment, Steve behind murmured: "Is the answering machine broken?"
Civil aviation aircraft also need transponders for air traffic control. In this era, due to the backwardness of electronic systems, transponders may fail at certain times.
When he heard this, Nathan didn't care too much, he was about to fly over anyway, and he could see it by himself without those unreliable radios.
Now, Nathan is flying north, and the opponent is flying south. The two sides flew head-to-head, and the distance of 30 kilometers was almost a minute or two.
In the field of vision, the bright spot gradually became larger. When the outline of the airliner was clearly seen, Nathan frowned. It was not right, it did not look like an airliner!
In this era, Boeing has almost monopolized the aircraft for intercontinental voyages. The Boeing 707 is the absolute main force. Other passenger aircrafts, such as McDonnell Douglas, are also solutions that have basically the same structure and lower the engine.
They all use turbofan jet engines with low fuel consumption, but the big guy flying in the distance, the four engines under the wings, are equipped with propellers, they are turboprop engines!
I can't remember any passenger aircraft with this structure, and only the American C-130 uses turboprop engines. In this era, the most used turboprop engines are the Soviets!
It must have been a Soviet plane, and even Nathan could guess that it was probably the most terrifying large plane of the Soviets.
Sure enough, almost at the same time he inferred, as the two sides approached, the structure of the other's plane could be clearly seen, and Nathan immediately pressed the intercom: "Elmendorf, Elmendorf, Young Eagle found a Tu-95 at the northern edge of Airspace No. 6!"
During the Cold War, the most terrifying thing was that both the United States and the Soviet Union had huge nuclear weapons arsenals. Once gunfire broke out, that would be the end of world destruction. How to provide nuclear counterattack capability in the event of a nuclear attack by the other party is the most important thing. important.
The United States is taking the road of ballistic missile and nuclear submarine, while the Soviets have many ways, including missile trains and the like, and long-range strategic bombers are one of them.
The Tu-95 that Nathan has discovered now is a long-range strategic bomber developed by the Soviet Tupolev Aircraft Design Bureau, NATO code-named "Bear."
Familiar pilots can be recognized by a glance at a distance.
The biggest feature of this aircraft is the swept wings, with 4 turboprop engines installed on the wings, each of which drives two large-diameter reversing four-blade propellers. As long as you see a large propeller airplane with swept wings, it must be this one.
In addition to this intuitive feature, this aircraft has a slender fuselage, a large wingspan and aspect ratio, and a large sweep angle for both the horizontal and vertical tails.
This is a huge monster with a take-off weight of nearly two hundred tons, and can carry twenty tons of ammunition, such as that terrible missile with a nuclear warhead! (End of this chapter)