Can the missile be seen with the naked eye? It's difficult. Generally, what the naked eye can see is the thick smoke trailing from the tail of the missile. In front of the thick smoke, it must be the missile, and the trajectory can be clearly seen.
The AIM-9L is a smokeless engine. In flight, the tail does not drag heavy smoke, so it is difficult to see it. Although there is still a burning flame at the tail, the missile flies toward the opposite side. The flame is rear.
In the sky, it is easiest to observe the trajectory of the dense smoke and dust after the missile has flown.
At the same time, the missile is superimposed on the speed of the fighter, and the fastest has reached Mach 2.7. With the Su-15 flying on the opposite side, the relative speed of the two sides exceeds Mach 3, which is one kilometer per second. It is too difficult to capture. Up.
However, Osipovic saw it. He actually caught the flying missile with his sharpest eyes. In addition to good eyesight, luck is also very important.
But the black shadow moved too fast.
Osipovich did not evade. In many cases, it is impossible to evade. The most dangerous and effective way to deal with this kind of missile is to fly against it, and then suddenly turn to avoid it at the last moment.
Su-15, with a pointed head, moved towards the flying rattlesnake, the distance between the two sides was rapidly shrinking.
In the seeker, Su-15 is getting closer and bigger, and firmly occupying its field of vision. In this case, the target should be 100% able to hit.
Osipovich’s gaze was almost entirely on the flying shadow. The fast-flying infrared missile would not trigger his radar warning receiver, but it was clearly shown on his retina, Ossi Povic felt his heartbeat speeding up unconsciously.
Whether it is head-on or tail-on pursuit, the timing of avoiding infrared bombs is very important.
Maneuvering too early, in the eyes of the missile, it is just going around in circles, consuming one's precious energy, and eventually will be hit by the missile. This is futile.
If the maneuver is too late, it has not had time to move, the other party has already exploded, even if a piece of debris comes by, it will bring heavy losses to one's own aircraft.
Therefore, timing is the most important.
Osipovich's hand began to tremble slightly, so that he didn't want to stare at the missile anymore, but there was no way, he had to watch it.
And his wingman was also watching him. At this critical moment, this moment of life and death, neither of them actually watched. What about that Tomcat fighter
Nathan didn't fly away.
The Sidewinder missile is an absolute launch, regardless of the weapon, launching a missile, successfully containing two Su-15s, Nathan can continue to fly over the opponent's interception line, and then escape.
But Nathan didn't. Just after launching that one, Nathan had already turned the nose, towards the second Su-15, and jumped on it!
The opponent's two-aircraft formation was not far away, and Nathan only slightly changed the course.
The Soviets are so stupid that they want to fly against their own missiles. Hasn't the other party heard of the inevitable zone of missiles? Still do not know the latest Sidewinder missile, the power range is already very long
The inevitable zone is a terrible legend. If it is locked by a missile within this range, there is almost no possibility of escape.
what on earth is it? It is completely a comparison of data.
The fighter plane can throw off missiles up to three times the G number by maneuvering. The maneuverability of fighter jets is limited to around 9G by the human body, which is still superimposed on the anti-G suit, while the AIM-9L has reached a maneuvering overload of 35G.
What does this show? It seems that as long as it is locked by a rattlesnake, there is no possibility of escape.
However, the data contained therein is watery. The so-called maneuvering overload of 35G is in the power range stage, while ordinary missiles and engines can only function for a period of time. After that, they enter the inertial flight stage. Unable to play the 35G overload.
For example, if it flies upwards, it will lose its speed, and its speed will lose its natural maneuverability.
However, once locked within the power range, it is almost impossible to escape by maneuver. This is the so-called no-escape zone.
Just now the two sides flew head-to-head, and Nathan deliberately launched at the same altitude to save the energy of the missile. When launching, he deliberately narrowed the distance and shot the rattlesnake within the dynamic range of the missile.
The opponent may escape, but the probability is too small, and Nathan was not idle during this period of time, he continued to fly towards the opponent, and at the same time, switched the weapon to the cannon.
Nathan did not use the second rattlesnake.
The missiles of this era also have the inherent characteristic of chasing the largest heat source, even if they lock the second Su-15, when the missile is launched, it will definitely chase the first missile and fly behind it. In this way, the second missile must be scrapped.
It is even more true for the Soviets. In order to better hit the target, infrared bombs and radar bombs are used together, but the infrared bombs must be fired first, otherwise the infrared bombs will chase the radar bomb's butt.
The two planes are relatively close. After the first one is killed, there must be no time to lock the second plane. As for the fight back? Nathan didn't have that skill.
He must swiftly kill the two oncoming planes, one of them will kill them all!
Only in this way can they stun the other Soviets, just like those fierce generals in ancient times, they just shot the opponent off the horse in one round before the shoot.
After Nathan adjusted to the position of the cannon, the missile was already close to Osipovich!
This is the time! Osipovich jerked his lever upwards, trying to make the Su-15 climb up vertically. This was the easiest way.
He turned on the afterburner, a fiery flame emerged from the tail, the earth in front of him was disappearing, and the sky was beckoning to him.
Come on, climb up with me!
In Osipovich's eyes, the flying missile had two results.
Either, because I suddenly pulled up and disappeared from the opponent’s field of vision, the opponent missed the target, or the opponent pulled up and climbed with him, because the missile consumes kinetic energy during the climb, and the speed becomes slower and slower, and eventually it cannot catch up and fall , After all, this is low altitude, the atmosphere is very dense, and the resistance is high.
However, he would never expect that at this moment, there was a noise outside.
"Boom!" The Sidewinder missile has exploded!
Yes, it has exploded.
Compared with the previous model of radio proximity fuze, the current AIM-9L has adopted a new infrared proximity fuze. This fuze consists of four infrared transmitters and corresponding detectors to detect missiles and enemy aircraft. The relative distance changes.
Now, the relative distance is gradually getting closer, but suddenly it starts to become farther away. At this moment, the missile is decisive and the distance is very suitable. You can't let the opponent run away, and it will detonate now!
The continuous rod warhead weighing 11 kilograms and 200 titanium rods spread out at the speed of Mach 2 superimposed on the surrounding airspace! (End of this chapter)