Fighters need to decelerate at certain times. For example, the most common is to land. Huaxia fighters prefer to use decelerating parachute, while in the West, they prefer to use decelerating brakes.
It's very simple. The speed brake is actually a board erected on the fuselage to increase the air resistance and the speed can be reduced. The F-15 and Su-27 in the third generation of aircraft are equipped with a speed brake on the back of the aircraft.
For the Tomcat fighter, the air brake is installed at the rear of the fuselage, near the vertical tail.
When Nathan pushed the throttle to the idle state, the fighter immediately entered the deceleration state due to the loss of power, and when the air brake was opened, the speed suddenly decreased.
At this time, the pilot nicknamed Owl on the Tomcat fighter behind was about to lock the opponent with missiles. As long as the long sound of the Sidewinder missile lock was heard in the headset, it would be regarded as the end of a drill, and then both sides Come on, come on for the second time.
At this moment, he found that the flame at the tail of the fighter in front of him suddenly became smaller, and the other party turned the engine to the slow car? Think this can avoid the seeker lock of the rattlesnake
impossible.
At this moment, he suddenly felt the fighter in front swish, and it became bigger suddenly. In an instant, he understood what, this Nathan, what is going to do
He quickly pulled the joystick and began to climb upwards.
The target suddenly became bigger just now because the opponent suddenly slowed down! He actually released the air brakes, and seeing the two planes collided with each other, at this time, the owl could only pull up quickly!
The rapidly growing tomcat fighter disappeared from his field of vision, and at the same time, the owl felt bad in his heart.
The opponent ran behind him!
Before the emergence of the seeker of the infrared focal plane, the tail chase attack has always been the most effective attack method of infrared bombs. Whoever can bite the other's tail will have the opportunity to fire.
If you look at it from a distance, you can see that the Tomcat fighter in front suddenly slows down, and the one in the back swishes and flies out in front of it, completing the offensive and defensive transition in an instant.
Of course, Owl is not a vegetarian. When he judged that Nathan had appeared behind him, Owl immediately fought back.
With two TF30 engines, light blue flames emerged, and afterburner opened, this Tomcat fighter quickly climbed up!
In later generations, the Cobra was famous for its mobility. This kind of stalling was considered a way to get a chance to fire. In fact, no one would do it.
Except for those complicated constraints, almost only the performing aircraft can make it, and more importantly, this kind of maneuver will lose speed.
Speed means energy, and the sky over the Vietnam battlefield illustrates the importance of energy in air combat, and this way of landing one's speed abruptly is a suicide.
Nathan’s fighter was slowing down, and the Owl’s fighter in front immediately increased its speed. As the afterburner opened up, the surging thrust pushed the huge Tomcat fighter upward to climb.
Come on, you are here!
Owl knows that his energy now exceeds Nathan. As long as Nathan catches up with him, Nathan will be fooled. Even if Nathan is also using the afterburner, he will not be able to catch up with the Owl. When Nathan’s fighter has insufficient energy. When the time comes, it can only fall down. When that happens, the owl can easily dive down and enter the tail-chasing state again.
This kind of scissor climbing maneuver is compared to who has enough power.
"He didn't catch up." During the huge overload, the radar officer in the back seat looked back vigorously, only to see the Tomcat fighter that got rid of his own attack, still flying horizontally, and did not catch up at all.
Is he just satisfied with getting rid of himself? This Nathan has always been said to be the most cunning pilot, but he was also a cautious guy. Since he is so cautious, he must be bolder.
The second attack begins!
Owl pushed the joystick, and the fighter dived down again and jumped on Nathan's fighter!
At this moment, Nathan unexpectedly made a mistake. He made a rolling motion, trying to get rid of, but just exposed his own sex. The owl skillfully caught up, aiming, tracking, and locking!
It only takes three seconds!
Unknowingly, the owl instinctively pushed the joystick and followed the opponent's turn. The radar officer in the back seat reminded him loudly: "Don't hover like it!"
The Nathan just now is not avoiding war at all, but designing traps!
The speed of Nathan's fighters still did not rise, nor did he intend to lift them up. When the fighters behind caught up with him, the two fighters immediately circled in the horizontal plane!
This is a relatively horizontal hovering, and the simplest truth is that the lower the speed, the smaller the hovering radius.
Owl was tricked. Although he was chasing Nathan's plane, he was chasing farther and farther, because he couldn't turn the opponent at all!
"He actually used the engine's thrust difference to steer! Isn't he afraid of stalling and crashing?" At this moment, Owl opened his eyes wide and shouted in surprise in the overload.
If you want to turn the smallest circle, you have to think of other ways besides low speed. Because the two engines of the Tomcat fighter are far apart, when the thrust of the two engines is different, you can turn without moving the rudder surface.
Now, Nathan has used all means to turn, including adjusting the thrust of the outer engine to the maximum, and keeping the inner engine slow. Unbelievably, the Tomcat fighter with its wings deployed, and it swung a minimum radius in the sky. , Went around behind the owl.
The Owl was hovering, and his speed slowed down again, he couldn't get rid of it anymore!
If the thrust-to-weight ratio of the whole machine exceeds 1, it can climb effortlessly, but now, two airplanes with the same energy are more stable than the stable ones, and the fighters behind will always have an advantage!
Nathan looked at the bomb of the Tomcat fighter close at hand. At this moment, there was no need to lock the Sidewinder missile at all, and the machine gun could blast it down by himself!
"Give up, Owl." Nathan yelled over the radio.
Although he is a flying veteran, it is not surprising that he was cleaned up by a rookie. After all, Nathan is not an ordinary rookie, but a recognized flying genius.
As long as you admit defeat now, the two sides will pull apart, and then play a game again.
"No!" As soon as the voice fell, Nathan let out a scream. (End of this chapter)