Semi-active guidance, the missile’s warhead only has a receiving device and cannot transmit radar waves, so the aircraft needs to carry out radar radiation throughout the entire process, while active radar, the seeker itself can receive radar waves and transmit radar waves, which means With the missile at least in the final stage of the attack, it can fly autonomously, without the aid of the carrier.
Therefore, fighting with active radar is quite a disadvantage.
The American Phoenix missile is such a weapon. At the end of the flight, it can enter the active mode. Otherwise, there will never be a dashing battle of attacking six targets at the same time.
Now, Ostrov has the intention to retreat, and if he rushed forward like this, it would be a death.
It was originally planned that the four fighters lined up in a formation and all fired medium-range rounds to knock down the target. However, the opponent suddenly used the magic weapon of multi-target attack. As a result, it disrupted the MiG-23. They were forced to disperse in formation.
Although the two fighters in the middle were still flying forward indefinitely, the leader had already felt timid. After continuing to fly for a few seconds, he issued an order on the radio: "Attention, 090, turn sideways and get rid of it."
As an old Maozi, Ostrov was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that death was worthless, and originally planned to rush to shoot each other, but thought that the other party was active bombing, he did not have the ability to kill the other party, but the other party could put himself to death.
Therefore, Ostrov finally decided to dodge, and the opponent adopts this multi-target locking method, which is definitely easier to get rid of.
After speaking, Ostrov pushed the joystick, kicked the rudder, and began to turn to the left.
And his wingman also turned to the left, as long as it turned to the vertical direction of the opponent's radar beam, it would be able to get rid of the lock.
Sure enough, the locked voice in his headset disappeared.
Has perfectly got rid of the lock!
At this point, he is already perpendicular to the direction of flight just now, which means that the distance from the opponent will be farther and farther. Now, if you want to continue to intercept the opponent, you need to continue the reverse side turn!
"090, keep up." Ostrov yelled in the radio. He continued to push the joystick and rudder. His fighter plane drew a beautiful S-shaped curve in the sky.
"The other party got rid of the lock." Here, Gus stared at his screen: "They performed a snake-like maneuver."
Generally speaking, as long as the opponent gets rid of the lock, these two missiles will be hit in vain, but of course Guth will not give up.
When the opponent continued to turn sideways, in a brief gap, Gus quickly operated the radar and locked the target again.
Lock it again!
Gus was quite excited. At this time, the first Sparrow missile had disappeared, but the second Sparrow missile accurately received the reflected echo.
On the 090 fighter plane, the pilot followed his lead plane and carried out maneuvers one by one.
The MiG 23 is equipped with a "siren" 3 radar warning system. This system is not an omnidirectional radar warning receiver. Under certain special circumstances, its detection will be blocked.
When the radar is in the scanning state, the beams are dispersed into the airspace, and the radar wave illuminating the aircraft has less energy. When locked, it will focus on continuous wave irradiation, which is also the basic condition for semi-active missile guidance.
In this way, as long as the warning antenna receives continuous strong radar waves. The alarm system will call the police. Prompt that the aircraft is locked.
Whether a comprehensive warning can be achieved depends on whether the distribution of this antenna can be covered in place. At the same time, it has a lot to do with the post-processing of the warning system. The electronic technology of the Soviet Union is still lagging behind. After the United States has entered the digital, low-cost and programmable new radar warning system, the Soviets still have electronic tubes.
Therefore, the pilot of the 090 fighter plane did not find a sparrow missile, and it has flown from the distant sky!
Since the engine has already burned and entered the unpowered inertial flight phase, it is difficult to find that a missile is flying towards you unless you get the news in advance.
The ground radar can see it, but the ground radar has already detected that the first sparrow bomb has flown over the twin aircraft formation of its own, so I didn’t pay attention to the second missile and thought it was also uncontrollable. Rockets.
In the fierce air battle, in this containment, everyone was very nervous, and the ground ignored the attention of the missile. As a result, a big mistake was made.
"Boom!" The 40-kilogram continuous rod warhead exploded in a suitable position, and countless broken rods filled the airspace. Then, the MiG-23 slammed into it.
In the sky, a ball of fire flashed, and Ostrov shouted on the radio: "Makov, Makov! He has no longer cared about calling the code number, so he directly called 090's name."
However, there was no echo from the radio, and the big fireball was slowly landing in the sky.
The third one!
This one has nothing to do with Nathan. It is entirely the credit of Lieutenant Gus. However, the two-seater fighter and the two crew members are the closest friends, regardless of each other, except that the wife cannot share it. Everything else is friendship, and the results are counted on the two people.
"Kill one!" Gus was very excited. He suppressed his excitement and shouted to Nathan: "Attention, 15 kilometers, there is a MiG-23 ahead, and two more. From the side."
Although the echoes of the two separate fighters have been lost on the radar, there is no doubt that the opponent will definitely kill from both sides, but because they have walked the arc, they must be better than the fighter that came directly. Late, this time difference is the opportunity for Nathan to kill the enemy!
The time of air combat is measured in seconds. Now, Nathan still has three Sidewinder missiles. He is fortunate that he hasn't held up this time. He hangs up two sparrows and four Sidewinders. Now, he finally uses it!
Attack head-on again and lock the target!
Your own rattlesnake can be locked head-on, which gives you the best chance to kill the opponent in head-on combat.
However, at this moment, Nathan frowned: "Damn, the other party is so cunning!"
The opponent performed an S maneuver again, and after this time, the sun was behind it!
Unless it is a seeker with a focal plane with infrared imaging capabilities, it can distinguish the sun from the fighter plane. Otherwise, all infrared missiles of this era will chase the sun as long as they see the sun.
The latest rattlesnakes are no exception.
How to do? (End of this chapter)