Even the most advanced slow-burning missile engine cannot keep burning. It takes tens of seconds. After that, it is inertial flight, which is also called unpowered flight.
After inertial flight, the speed will be lower and lower, after all, there is air resistance. After that, as the speed decreases, the lift force on the missile body decreases, and the height of the missile will gradually decrease, and finally fall to the ground.
In order to prevent precious missiles from falling on the ground and gaining secrets by the enemy, under normal circumstances, missiles generally choose to self-detonate when their speed is reduced and there is no longer a possibility to continue their attack.
Regardless of whether it is guided by radar or infrared, the warhead is the seeker, and the warhead next to the seeker is the warhead. Therefore, the explosion of the warhead will completely blow up the warhead and will not cause leaks.
Now, the missing missile was just because it chose to explode at the end of its range. When it exploded, it turned into fragments, and naturally it could not be detected by radar.
If it is a high-resolution radar, you can see the debris after the explosion, but for the Super MiG-25, its phased array radar is temporarily unable to do it.
The target disappeared.
In the next second, Andre had already thought of something, and couldn't help gritted his teeth with hatred: "Damn Yankee!"
The Yankees are very cunning, and they used a Sparrow missile to pretend to be a Phoenix missile, deliberately letting one's own side be recruited. This is simply too despicable!
If you just turned around and left, regardless of the fake Phoenix behind you, it has now climbed to an altitude of 25,000 meters. At this altitude, there is no fear of missiles other than Phoenix.
But now, I was attracted to me, I wasted precious time, and I actually got caught!
Now, the distance between the two sides is less than 30 kilometers.
Since the other party just used the Sparrow missile to fake the Phoenix, it means that there is no Phoenix missile on the other side's aircraft.
I don’t have much fuel, so I don’t have to fight too much with each other, I should go!
Thinking of this, Andrei was about to pull up the nose and fly away, and at this moment, Colonel Fedotov behind said: "We launched three missiles in the direction!"
It's definitely not Phoenix, these three must be Sparrow missiles!
This distance is already at the distance of a head-on attack. Andrei knows that he is now within the attack range of these three missiles, so he has only one simple solution!
Fly upwards!
Andre pulled the joystick, and the Super MiG-25 climbed upwards at a high angle of attack. At the same time, it did not lose speed.
In the same way as the MiG-25, this super heavy fighter has surpassed many bombers. When taking off, they are quite bulky.
Take the current Super MiG-25, or MiG 31, with a take-off weight of 46 tons. Although the two tail engines are also super abnormal, they only provide 30 tons of thrust.
In this case, its mobility cannot be improved, and the thrust-to-weight ratio does not exceed 1, so don't talk about high mobility.
But now, it has launched four R-33 missiles and burned half of its fuel. Its weight has been reduced to 30 tons, and its afterburner thrust can reach a metamorphic figure of 30 tons. In this case, if Andre straightened the plane, he could climb straight up straight.
But Andre didn't do that. Although it was cool to do so, the fuel would also be consumed at an alarming rate. He can't consume unlimitedly now. Otherwise, without fuel, would he make an emergency landing to Hokkaido
Of course not.
He must fly the plane back.
The Super MiG-25 climbed upward at an elevation angle of about 60 degrees. The Tomcat fighter's radar tightly captured its trajectory. Lieutenant Gus in the rear compartment couldn't help but say: "The opponent is too cunning!"
The word cunning should be commendatory, praising the other's wit.
Now, oneself has launched three Sparrow missiles. No matter how the opponent gets rid of it, it is impossible to get rid of all three missiles. There will always be missiles hitting the target. Even if it only damages the opponent, it is a victory.
However, the other party was not fooled, did not continue to fly towards one's own missile, nor did it turn around and return, but went straight up!
As the opponent climbs, in order for one's own missile to hit the target, it must also follow the climb.
Generally speaking, when launching a missile, the carrier will climb and accelerate as much as possible to give the missile more energy. After the missile has flown out, level flight or downward flight is the best, but flying upward is not good, because The speed will be lower and lower, throwing stones towards the sky, the speed of the stones will definitely be lower and lower!
Moreover, any missile has its own design height. After the height is exceeded, the air will become thinner, the aerodynamic efficiency of the missile's rudder surface will become lower, the steering will be understeer, and it will not be able to hit the target.
In addition to this, there is also the issue of the angle of the aircraft's airborne radar.
The flat-panel slot radar in front of our nose is quite advanced, but it is still an ordinary radar, and it needs to rotate the antenna to radiate the radar waves to where it is needed.
Therefore, the radar antenna is connected to the nose through a universal joint bracket. Although this bracket is called a universal, it also has an included angle. The maximum angle cannot exceed 30 degrees. (Huadong Zhixiong guessed it by himself based on the picture, and then turned, the radar antenna collided with the back. If you have specific information, please let me know in the book review section, thank you.)
When the opponent was climbing, it did not change its direction, and it was still coming towards one's own side. In this way, one's own radar antenna would have to constantly raise the elevation angle until the head, and the radar beam would not be illuminated.
The Sparrow missile is a semi-active radar guided missile. Once the carrier cannot perform radar irradiation, the missile cannot be guided.
Air combat is of the type of quick combat. The pilots react very quickly. Now, this peak duel also reflects the level of the two. They are both masters of the masters. They are quick to fight. Every reaction is Quite wise.
Lieutenant Gus looked at his radar screen. The missiles launched by his side were flying towards the other side. At the same time, he had to climb higher, forming a curve on the screen. As he climbed higher, the speed began to decrease.
The target is flying continuously. Although the trajectories are intersecting, the time cannot be synchronized. At the same time, the intersection of the trajectories has fallen to the outside of the screen, extending the line.
"This attack, we are afraid that we will fail." Lieutenant Gus murmured. (End of this chapter)