For the Soviets, the most difficult thing should be the daylight today.
Although they were constantly transporting troops last night, the throughput capacity of Rausu Port was extremely limited. After dawn, there was no doubt that the United States would launch a counterattack against the Soviet landing troops.
On the ground, the island nation’s land self-defense force was dispatched. After all, the United States does not have ground troops in Hokkaido. This also avoids direct collisions between the US and Soviet forces, but in the sky, it is different.
The United States will definitely dispatch a large number of fighters to hinder their follow-up forces.
In addition to troops, supplies are more important. Those huge tanks are all monsters that eat oil. As long as they keep moving forward, their fuel will be consumed at an alarming rate. Therefore, as long as they cut off their fuel supply, The landing forces will become lightly armed forces, and will eventually run out of ammunition and food.
Use attack aircraft to attack their transport ships at sea!
What is a civilian ship? Now they are transporting the aggressors. At this time, if there are any scruples, then the top Americans should really eat shit.
The A-7 attack planes ejected one by one, and at the same time, Nathan and his radar officer walked towards the fighter plane.
"You don't need to mount six phoenixes." Nathan looked at his fighter plane. At this time, it was a complete air combat interception and mounting. Six huge phoenixes were mounted majesticly below, and he couldn't help but speak.
For the Tomcat fighters, the only threat is the enemy's MiG-25 fighters, and when the MiG-25 starts to penetrate at high altitude and at high speed, Phoenix is the only option.
Therefore, his fighter plane was mounted with six phoenixes.
Nathan was not satisfied.
Are six phoenixes useful
Although Phoenix's interception distance is far enough, if the opponent is high-altitude and high-speed, when the two sides are close to sight, they will have at most two opportunities to fire.
If you shoot two volleys, four are enough. As for the so-called singles six, Nathan will never be stupid enough to use it in actual combat. It is just an ideal shooting situation, and it will be quite miserable in practice.
Therefore, six are really useless. With six flying off, you have to throw two of them into the sea when they land. Even if the environment facing today is the most sinister, it is not necessary.
"Remove two," Nathan said.
Anyway, the take-off of the A-7 fleet is still too early. After the ejection of this wave, the speed of the aircraft carrier will be reduced, and the speed must be increased again to eject the Tomcat fighters of its own, and have enough time to dismantle the missiles.
Six missiles, weighing three tons, are very uncomfortable to fly.
"Ok."
The ground crew immediately said quickly that he was ready to pick up the missile. It was easier to pick up the missile than to hang the missile.
However, if you take it off, the rack is empty.
Nathan looked at the ground crew picking up the missile, and seemed to think of something: "Twin-mounted rack, give me four Mozus to hang up."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, the brown vest was suddenly surprised: "Mockingbird?"
Their mission this time is to dominate the air, seize air dominance, and protect their own attack aircraft forces. Therefore, their planes are all mounted for air combat.
Besides, Tomcat fighters are born for air combat, where can they hang Mozu missiles!
This is an air-to-ground anti-radiation missile whose purpose is to strike the enemy's ground radar.
For fighters, the first threat is the enemy’s fighters, and the second threat is ground-based air defense missiles. For the Soviet Army, which has always insisted on all-around, the development of ground-based air defense missiles is rapid, with various types of air defense missiles. During the Third Middle East War, Israeli fighter planes were smashed in front of Syrian air defense missiles, and the Eagle of David was completely ashamed.
However, the anti-aircraft missile has a big drawback, that is, it needs its own radar. After all, the missile can only hit the target by following the radar wave. If there is no radar, it will become a blind man.
According to this line of thinking, it is enough to attack the enemy's radar. This is the origin of the air-to-ground anti-radiation missile.
The AGM-45 Mozu is the first air-to-surface anti-radiation missile put into actual combat by the U.S. Army and is widely used by the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
The development of the "Mockingbird" began in 1958 at the Naval Weapons Center under the code name A**-N-10. The missile was used against the Soviet Union's new S-75 surface-to-air missile system. The method of combat was to track the SA-2 missile's "Fan Ge" guided radar.
At that time, for simplicity, the AAM-N-6/AIM-7C "Sparrow" III was used based on the shape of the AAM-N-6/AIM-7C "Sparrow" III. The projectile body was the same, but with a larger warhead, a smaller rocket engine and a smaller tail. In June 1963, A**-N-10 was renamed AGM-45A.
After entering the military service, it was immediately used on the battlefield in Vietnam, including the A-4, A-6, A-7, F-4 and F-105G aircraft, which can carry Mozu missiles.
In continuous actual combat, the shortcomings of the Mozu missile are constantly exposed. For example, due to technical limitations, the frequency range that its seeker searches is very narrow, and it can almost only correspond to one type of radar. Therefore, once the enemy deploys a radar, If the station uses radars of different frequencies, it is necessary to develop a new type of "Mockingbird" with different seekers.
In this way, there are more and more variants of the Mozu, and the mission planners have to struggle to learn more about what enemy radars they will encounter.
Secondly, the seeker cannot rotate universally, and the field of view is fixed and subject to considerable restrictions. Therefore, the Mozu needs to be perfectly aligned with the enemy radar before it is detected.
The third problem is that AGM-45 lacks target memory. After the local air missile system turns off the radar, the missiles that have been launched will immediately lose their targets.
In response to these shortcomings, the Mozu missile is also improving. When the B-type was developed, the performance has been greatly improved. These shortcomings have been initially overcome. Of course, if the performance is greatly improved, it must be the AGN that replaces it. -88 Hamm anti-radiation missile, but that was already in the nineties.
When he was driving the F-4, Nathan used the Mozu, and now, Nathan also knows how to use it.
However, the ground crew frowned: "Major Nathan, can a Mockingbird hang on a Tomcat? I haven't heard of it before!"
The Tomcat is a fighter designed specifically for air combat. Its powerful AWG-9 radar is used to guide the phoenix. Is its fire control system compatible with the Mozu
"It didn't work before, but I can do it with this one," Nathan said.
Fortunately, this one is a modified Tomcat! Although the fire control system has not been fully upgraded, the Mozu requires only a few carrier aircraft, and people work independently. (End of this chapter)