The darkest night is when you can't see your fingers. Now, even though it has not reached this level, it is impossible to see the distance tens of meters away.
In the sky, I flew back and forth three times, but I didn't find the reconnaissance plane close at hand!
In the cockpit, the pilot, Lieutenant Kosiczsky, was quite depressed. He asked from behind, "Seymour, have you seen that plane?"
Seymour in the rear cabin stared at the radar screen in front of him. Just now, when the target reached the center of the screen, he was also looking out, but it was pitch black outside and there was nothing.
"If we didn't search for the headlights, I'm afraid we would not be able to find them. It's so cunning!" Lieutenant Kosiczsky said. He couldn't find it in the front, and it couldn't be found in the tail. Could it be that the opponent's engine is a piston engine
It's really weird.
In fact, although the Tu-95 uses a special engine, it still needs to jet backwards. Although they are in a slow state now, they can still be seen if they are close enough.
The key problem is that every time we meet, Tu-95 will be lowered. In this way, every time we meet, the Tomcat fighter will fly over, and it will happen to be blocked by the fuzzy tail flame below. As a result, I can't see anything.
If you can't find it, you can't intercept it with a cannon, unless you make up your mind to really fire, and you can knock the opponent down with a sparrow from a distance, but now, they have found nothing.
The E-2 early warning aircraft at the rear was also very strange. Every time I saw the two targets almost overlapped, they just couldn't find the other side!
Will the other party be invisible
"A large number of planes were found flying at supersonic speeds on the sea at Mach 1.5!" At this moment, the early warning aircraft suddenly discovered a large number of bright spots. Seeing these bright spots, they suddenly became nervous.
Penetration at ultra-low altitudes at sea, the typical attack mode of Figure -22M!
Before the Tu-22M appeared, there was another model called the Tu-22 bomber, which was the first supersonic bomber equipped by the Soviet Union.
Prior to this, all bombers equipped by the Soviet Union were subsonic, and subsonic bombers were not capable of penetration.
The Tu-22 bomber was originally designed to replace the Tu-16 at the time, break through the air defense network and intercept in the air with supersonic flight performance, throw nuclear weapons at strategic targets in Europe, and be equipped with two RD-7 turbines above the tail. The jet engine, which provides the power to reach a flying speed of Mach 1.5, can be loaded with various types of ammunition of 9 tons or a Kh-22 cruise missile. The design task is to assault the enemy's deep strategic targets in regiment-level flying formations. Make up for the lack of assault of the Tu-16 bomber.
The design was very good, but when the design was completed, it was found that the performance of this bomber was seriously insufficient. After the ammunition was mounted, it was impossible to fly at supersonic speed. Even if it flew to 1.5 Mach, the maneuverability would be good. Quite bad, it simply cannot meet the requirements for breaking through the NATO air defense system.
Therefore, after the Tu-22 design was finalized, there was only a small amount of equipment. Soviet aviation was very dissatisfied with it, so they wanted a new one.
However, the Tupolev Design Bureau did not care. After all, they are the authority of the large aircraft, and it was fine if they planned to modify it. However, the Sukhoi Design Bureau produced a terrible T4.
Seeing that the station was almost dismantled, the Tupolev design bureau was in a hurry and quickly pushed back and developed a new variable-swept wing bomber. To achieve the predetermined goal, it must be a variable-swept wing and The design of the built-in bomb bay is completely different from Figure-22 in appearance, but it still gets the number of Figure-22M, so that it looks like a modification of Figure-22, so that it can fool the West.
It was not until 1975 that such powerful bombers began to equip troops one after another, and the naval aviation received hundreds of Tu-22Ms.
This bomber is huge. Its empty weight is 58 tons. After being fully loaded with fuel and ammunition, the total weight has soared to more than 100 tons. In order to promote it, the Soviet Union also developed a sky-defying engine.
The thrust of a single engine is as high as 247.9 kN, which is equivalent to the thrust of two third uncles!
At the same time, its attack method is not high-altitude and high-speed, but low-altitude and high-speed.
The lower the aircraft is, the less likely it is to be detected by radar, and the less likely it is to be intercepted. Even if it is detected by an early warning aircraft in the sky, radar on the ground cannot be detected early, and air defense missiles on the ground cannot fire early and wait until the ground. When the anti-aircraft missile opened fire, it would have dropped things and flew away.
Now, there are three aviation regiments in full on the Tu-22M bomber flying here!
This is already all the possessions of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Far East Military Region.
The long and slender body, the huge rectangular air intake, and the single vertical tail at the tail are extremely tall. Because of the supersonic flight, the variable swept wing has been put to the end.
In terms of load capacity, this bomber is comparable to the B-52, but in terms of penetration capability, the B-52 was thrown out several blocks!
Because of the combat power of this bomber against the sky, it also earned a terrible nickname called Backfire.
(It is said that my country had considered purchasing Backfire, but by mistake, it missed this powerful bomber.)
Now, the two tail engines are emitting orange-red flames. According to the news of their long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft, they have reached the target sea area, and then dived down from a high altitude, directly entering the low-altitude high-speed penetration stage. .
In the first bomber, Major Vladimir, the commander of the aviation regiment, said to the navigator behind him: "Please indicate the location of the reconnaissance plane. We are about to make a final penetration."
Don't look at the picture -22M bomber looks tall and mighty, but the internal space is quite cramped, the operation of this bomber requires four people.
The small cabin accommodates four pilots, two in the front and two in the front and two pilots in the front cockpit, and the bombardier and electronic equipment-navigator in the rear cockpit.
The instrument panel in the front of the cockpit is sky blue, and various instruments on it are displaying data. Only a small porthole is opened in the rear cockpit to avoid strong light from interfering with the display.
At this time, three huge anti-ship missiles have been prepared, and they are waiting for guidance information!
Tu-95, has just been hide and seek in the dark for a long time, now, finally there is no need to hide and seek anymore, it must bravely stand up and provide guidance information to the Tu-22M fleet!
After receiving the news, in the Tu-95 reconnaissance plane, Lockes said excitedly: "Turn on the radar and scan the nearby sea!"
Just now, I have never dared to turn on the radar. Now, we must find the American aircraft carrier formation in the sea! (End of this chapter)