Using missiles to hit missiles has not been tried in this era.
In later generations, you can use anti-aircraft missiles to hit anti-ship missiles fired by the other party. That's because the targets of anti-ship missiles are relatively large, just like a small plane. At the same time, they can also use anti-aircraft missiles to hit ballistic missiles. It is not an average high, only a few countries can do it.
As for the use of air-to-air missiles to hit air-to-air missiles, there was no such attempt in later generations.
A major problem is that the radar reflection echo of air-to-air missiles is too small and it is not easy to be locked. Moreover, the mobility of air-to-air missiles is too high. When the fuel is not exhausted, it is often overloaded above 30G. Freed from the seeker of the missile.
But now, there is still hope for the interception of air-to-air missiles.
Because this is the R-33. This is a huge missile, the radar echo is still there, and the AWG-9 radar is quite powerful. Now, under the control of Lieutenant Gus, the second and last one is not dead. Bird, towards the direction of the target, pounced fiercely!
At the same time, on the Super MiG-25, Colonel Fedotov was fiddling with his radar.
Compared with flat-panel slot radar, phased array radar also has its advantages, that is, it can attack multiple targets!
Is the American's one dozen six, so awesome? On the current Super MiG-25, you can also beat four! It can’t hit six, because it can’t mount six missiles, otherwise, it’s absolutely fine.
It has a dozen more than Tomcat, and its technical route is different.
The final stage of the Phoenix missile is actively guided, so as long as the carrier aircraft guides the Phoenix missile to the corresponding position, it can be freed, and the Phoenix missile will attack the target autonomously.
The R-33 is semi-active and needs to provide radar guidance throughout.
If it is an ordinary radar, at this time, the antenna can only be aimed at the target, and continuously release continuous wave radar signals to provide signals to the missiles, but for phased array radars, it can be dispersed!
The phased array radar relies on the ferrite in the front to change the phase of the radar wave, so as to radiate to different directions. Therefore, as long as the large radar antenna in front of the nose is divided into several pieces, each piece of antenna, Radar waves are radiated in one direction, and multiple targets can be attacked.
Like now.
The radar echo of the target early warning aircraft is too obvious. If the four escort fighters next to it are not taken into consideration, even a quarter-area radar antenna is enough.
At present, Fedotov operates a complex radar, using half of the beams to aim at the front, providing guidance information for the four R-33s launched, and at the same time spreading the other half of the antennas to the airspace on his left. Perform a scan.
This is simply better than the tracking and scanning of the AWG-9. When the AWG-9 guides the Phoenix, it cannot search the surrounding airspace in time, while the Super MiG-25 can!
This is the advantage of phased array radar. If it is an active phased array radar, the advantage is even more obvious. It has many transmitting and receiving components, and the broken part can be used again, which means that its reliability is quite high.
In later generations, the MiG-31 can be used as a small early warning aircraft. This is definitely not a lie.
Just now, they were locked by a Tomcat fighter. If the Tomcat fighter locks them behind them, their radar will definitely not be able to detect them.
However, the back is impossible, because the back is Hokkaido, which is the direction they are coming from. When they flew over, they did not see Tomcat fighters fighting there. The planes there were all plaster flag island country F. -4 fighters.
The Tomcat fighter took off from the sea, so the most likely location should be in the airspace in front of them, while the radar warning receiver gave the bearing to their left.
Now, the half of the radar antenna on the left radiated dense electromagnetic waves, and soon the electromagnetic waves were reflected back.
"On the left, one hundred and fifty kilometers, a Tomcat fighter, wait, it also fired a missile!" Colonel Fedotov shouted.
The missile had already flown halfway by this time, and its target could be found on its own radar screen soon.
"It's going to attack our missiles!" Fedotov shouted: "Are the Americans crazy?"
If the missile launched by the other party attacks one's own side, it can also force one's own side to evade maneuvering, and when one's own maneuvering dodges, then the missile launched by one's own side will naturally become an uncontrolled rocket.
However, the Americans did not do this. This is the shrewdness of the Americans because their missiles have insufficient range.
It is only one hundred and fifty kilometers away, and the other side needs to continue to fly forward so that their missiles can reach it.
In this case, when their missiles did not fly, their missiles had already hit the target ahead.
Therefore, the other side aimed its gaze at the missile launched by its own.
The question is, the other party actually wants to use missiles to intercept missiles. Is this possible
Fedotov discovered the purpose of the plane, but he could do nothing.
Once the missile is launched, it is no longer possible to change the target. The target is determined before launch. Unless the missile and the carrier have a two-way data link to exchange information, it is possible to change the target during flight.
At the same time, the missile’s trajectory cannot be changed. The missile is flying on the nearest route. When the target’s course changes, its flight direction will also change. Now, Fedotov can only curse and hope for the other Unable to hit.
At this time, the phoenix continued to fly forward.
The most nervous, of course, was the personnel on the early warning aircraft, who watched the bright spots on the screen.
The four bright spots are the four long-range missiles launched by the other side, and on the side, a missile launched by the own Tomcat, which is currently being intercepted.
Can it be intercepted? Phoenix, has never been used like this before!
"About to enter active mode." Gus said to Nathan.
The final stage of the Phoenix is guided by active radar. When it enters this final stage, the Phoenix missile doesn't care about it. Whether it can hit or not depends on good fortune.
"Prepare to launch a sparrow." Nathan yelled at Gus, and then turned on the afterburner of his fighter again, adjusted the direction, and rushed towards the MiG-25!
If the MiG-25 enters supersonic mode, especially after the speed exceeds Mach 2, it means that you don't play anymore, no aircraft can catch it, and the only Phoenix missile that can intercept it has been used up.
However, now Andre's plane has slowed down. (End of this chapter)