At this time, Nathan, who was flying at an altitude of 15,000 meters, shouted on the radio: "111 Squadron, pay attention, turn on the radar and lock the target!"
Following his orders, one response came, and Gus in Nathan's rear compartment quickly turned on his fire control system, and then a large flash of light appeared on the screen.
The distance is 80, the speed is 800, the altitude is 300, lock!
Lieutenant Gus quickly adjusted the buttons one by one, and soon, on the radar screen, he successfully locked the target.
At this time, all the Tomcat fighters of their 111 squadron and 51 squadron were flying near the airspace where the other party launched missiles. They were only less than a hundred kilometers away from the retreating Tu-22M bombers. The formation is very open.
At this distance, they can lock the target at any time, but the other party cannot find them.
how can that be
This is actually very easy.
The other side flew in without escorting fighter jets, only bombers. Yes, Tu-22M. When it was designed, it was designed to fly at low altitude and high speed to penetrate the defense. They didn’t even think about escorting fighter jets at all. They are not the slow subsonic bombers, they are supersonic bombers!
The Tu-22M bomber has a range of thousands of kilometers. Even if those fighters want to escort, they can't keep up. There is no matching long-range fighter.
At the same time, different bombers have different airborne equipment. The avionics of the Tu-22M is completely used for sea attacks, including the terrain matching radar required for its supersonic flight, allowing it to fly on land without any scruples.
However, its radar does not have an effective air-to-air mode, and in order to conceal the enemy, it does not turn on the radar and flies at an ultra-low altitude on the sea. In this case, it has no awareness of the surrounding airspace at all. ability.
The only sensor capable of being guided is the Tu-95 reconnaissance plane that is responsible for guiding. This kind of plane directs the target, and its radar is under the belly.
what does that mean? As long as it flies higher than it, its radar can't see anything!
After all, its main task is to search the sea.
Generally speaking, in this dark night, there will be no large-scale naval aviation dispatch. The two Tomcats to harass the Tu-95 bomber are already quite good.
Why
Because the take-off and landing of an aircraft carrier is quite dangerous, and the take-off and landing of an aircraft carrier at night is a dangerous hazard. Even the most skilled pilots can't guarantee that they can make a one-time landing at night.
Even in later generations, various technologies are more advanced. The number of pilots on American aircraft carriers who can take off at night can reach 100%, and the number of pilots who can land at night will not exceed 60%. That is hell difficulty.
On an aircraft carrier with a catapult, take-off is not a problem. Just like the daytime, you just need to see the gestures of the deck crew and wait for the ecstasy, but landing depends entirely on your own technology.
Therefore, US aircraft carrier attacks are generally launched in the early morning, so that when the carrier-based aircraft returns, it will already be dawn.
But now, the Americans didn't care if they could successfully recover the fighters, so they ejected all the Tomcat fighters into the air!
The 20 Tomcat fighters arbitrarily turned on the radar and locked the Tu-22M fleet that was retreating.
"Oh, God, what sound?" When he heard the meowing sound from the earphones, Vladimir Milton heard the exclamation sound behind him.
There is only one such sound, that is the Tomcat fighter! And when they heard the sound of death made by this Tomcat fighter, the pilots of the Tu-22M bomber were immediately frightened.
Judging from the direction indicated by the radar warning receiver, it was behind one's own side, and the Tomcat fighters of the brigade were rushing towards them fiercely, trying to tear them apart.
Yes, they launched a huge rain of missiles, trying to destroy the opponent's fleet, and now, how can the opponent not destroy their bombers
Although the Tu-22M has quite a perverted ability, it can bomb at ultra-low altitude and supersonic speed, but it is a bomber after all, and the Phoenix missile carried by the Tomcat fighter is specifically designed to attack these bombers!
As long as they are locked, it means death, there is no doubt.
As a bomber pilot, the danger is quite high. Those fighters fly very smartly. At the same time, there are many maneuvering ways to evade. However, how does the 50-ton bomber move
Death was approaching, and Vladimir felt sweat swishing out of his forehead.
"No, I don't want to die." At this moment, the weapon operator at the back couldn't bear the huge pressure. He shouted while pulling the tab on his seat.
"No!" Next to him, the navigator exclaimed.
Most of the bombers are not driven by a single person, and a single person can be called an attack aircraft at most.
Figure-22M is a four-person driving system. The first two are the pilot and the co-pilot. The weapon operator and the navigator are arranged in the left and right positions at the rear of the cockpit. The driver enters and exits through the cockpit cover that flips up from both sides, and the cover above each driver's head can be moved.
At the same time, like fighter pilots, they have to have the power to eject and escape, and their ejection is similar to that of fighters.
The ejection of a bomber is not easy. Similar to Figure-16, each person’s position is different, and the ejection sequence is also complicated, the procedure is complicated, and the post-ejection often has no survival time.
In order to make the bomber pilots feel at ease, the aircraft designers also tried their best. The most distinctive of them is the F-111 fighter-bomber, which uses the method of ejecting the entire pressurized cockpit, which has the least impact on the pilots. Yes, it is equivalent to wrapping a rescue capsule outside.
At the same time, when landing in the sea, this cockpit can also be used as a small boat, waiting for the arrival of rescuers.
But at the same time, the overall ejection of this thing is quite complicated.
To put it simply, those operating rods are connected to the body. When ejecting, how to separate those hydraulic lines? There are also all kinds of circuits, all kinds of plugs, which is simply a designer's nightmare.
Soviet designers, of course, have no time to think about these things. They always use the simplest and most effective way to solve them.
What is the overall ejection? Just use the fighter's seat directly! At the same time, separate the angles and eject towards both sides.
In order, the one who ejects first will be burned and then the one ejected? Then just eject together!
(Picture-22M’s cockpit ejection. After searching for a long time, I didn’t find any specific information. Therefore, Huadong Zhixiong just wrote it. In the past few days, the Air Force Wings are gone. I can’t check it. Leave a message in the book review area, thank you.) (End of this chapter)