In later generations, the Stinger missile is definitely famous, and it can be seen in various military movies. It is almost as exciting as RPG, not only in the armed forces, but even in the hands of terrorists.
This is a kind of portable air defense missile. In the early 1970s, General Dynamics began to develop it. After many years of stumbling, it has been repaired and formally put into service and equipped with troops last year.
From the outside, it belongs to a shoulder-mounted weapon. The operator only needs to aim his eyes at the aiming device on it. It seems that it can be done by one person. In movies, you can often see such scenes, brave. When the enemy plane arrived, the shooter bravely manipulated the missile to shoot down the enemy plane.
In fact, the operation of the stinger can be very complicated, such as now.
Near this launcher, in an area of several square kilometers, there are a total of six launchers like him. They are all standing, aiming at their own targets.
In the middle of them, there is a light vehicle. In heavy fog, no one can see the vehicle hidden in the grass. The vehicle is equipped with a set of the most advanced GSQ-137 "target warning data display device."
Now, this set of devices is continuously warning the launch crew of an approaching aircraft, providing a speculative identification, the approximate distance and orientation of the target.
In this way, even in foggy weather, the closest launch group can accurately capture its own target.
At the same time, this device is receiving signals provided by the nearby eight pulse Doppler D-band MPQ-49 "front area warning radar", and it transmits the target coordinates to the target warning data display device through the radio data link. .
In this way, a big net was formed, just to the east of the base, there were a total of six such groups!
At this time, the operator in front is aiming at the target in the sky based on the target position provided by the target warning data display device. Although he cannot see the target himself, the missile seeker can see it.
With the operating hand pressing the pulse generator switch, the entire stinger system was successfully activated. As the pulse generator excites the BCU, it releases 6,000 PSI of argon gas coolant through the cooling circuit to the infrared detector.
To see the target clearly, you need a high-performance infrared seeker, and the infrared seeker needs to be cooled in order to see more clearly.
Now, the entire cooling process only took 3 milliseconds. Then, the vision of the seeker gradually became clear, and the fog was cleared away. It had already seen its target, the transport plane emitting infrared rays!
At the same time, the battery starts to activate, the gyroscope starts to rotate, and the detection electronic system and the control and conduction subsystem all enter the working state.
Then, a long beeping sound came from the earphones, which means that the target has been locked!
According to the requirements, continuous tracking is required to launch. However, this time is only 6 millimeters. Now, the missile has completed all the preparations, and the shooter has pressed the weapon launch trigger.
During the whole process, there is no need to identify friend or foe, as long as the one who flies over, hit it!
As he pressed the launch trigger, the booster engine of the Stinger missile ignited!
The bullet barrel on the shoulder made a peculiar vibration and buzzing sound, and the tail began to emit exhaust gas. In the front, under the action of this thrust, the missile began to smash the fragile disk cover in the front while rotating, and continued forward fly!
This process took 1.7 seconds. Following this, the missile left the launch tube like a dragon escaping water. When the tail came out of the launch tube, the booster engine just completed its mission and stopped burning.
This is the protection of the shooter.
As the missile flew out, the two active control surfaces at the front and the four folding tails at the back were unfolded, and then separated from the booster engine.
Relying on inertia, the Stinger missile continued to fly forward for more than ten meters. Then, the tail sprayed fiery flames again, and the dual-thrust Mk27 solid propellant rocket engine ignited!
In just 2 seconds, the missile exceeded the speed of sound, reaching the maximum speed of Mach 2.2, and continued to fly toward the sky. At this time, it was less than one kilometer away from its target.
The small and light Stinger missile rushed towards the An-12 transport plane. In the field of view of its seeker, the target became larger and larger. Then, its near-explosive circuit finally began to detonate.
"Boom!" The 1 kg warhead exploded violently. When it was in the final stage, it did not fly to the target with the strongest infrared engine, but had a slight deflection angle and flew toward the weakest abdomen. .
Numerous fragments tore apart the skin of the An-12 transport plane, and then the transport plane ignited a huge fireball.
"002, 002, what's the matter? Please answer if you receive it, please answer if you receive it!" At this time, as the An-12 transport plane exploded into a fireball in the sky, the dispatch on the ground did not see the bright spots on the screen. Now, he is quite nervous, what's the matter
There was heavy fog. Only one kilometer away from the airport runway, this An-12 transport plane happened to be hit by the fuel tank and became a fireball in the sky. With the equipment and soldiers on it, it became debris and fell one after another.
The last explosion in the radio made everyone frightened. What happened
The fog was originally beneficial to them. Because of the fog, they used a transport plane to pretend to be a passenger plane and landed forcibly. Now, the fog has brought them difficulties. Although one kilometer, they did not see exactly what happened. What happened.
"Boom!" In less than a minute, the second explosion came again, and this time, a Stinger missile only hit the wing of the transport plane.
There was smoke on the wings, and the pilot shouted in the radio: "There is a situation on the ground, there are portable missiles!"
The power of the missiles is not great. If they are medium-range missiles, they must be knocked out immediately. At the same time, if they are medium-range missiles, the other party must use radar to lock themselves.
In this case, it can only be ground-based portable missiles!
This news shocked the subsequent fleet immediately.
How to do
In the thick fog, they suddenly found themselves in a terrible predicament.
They can't turn around. They have already flown over from the eastern airspace at a very low altitude according to the plan. Although the distance between them is very large, in the thick fog, once they turn, a terrible air collision will definitely occur!
They can't land either, because there are hidden enemies carrying portable missiles on the ground, so in this case, they can only continue to fly westward and fly to the inland of Hokkaido! (End of this chapter)