If it is not for cheating, this mode has little effect. At this time, the radar antenna only moves at a small range of angles and scans the predetermined airspace. This can increase the data refresh rate and greatly reduce the amount of data processed by the onboard computer.
At this time, Gus's heart was beating rapidly, with a pulse rate of 110 beats per minute, his eyes were fixed on the screen in front of him, and then six targets appeared in the center of the screen.
Lock the target and prepare to attack!
Gus operated quickly. At this time, the computer was faster than him to perform fire control calculations.
Although the 8086 computer chip from Intel is quite primitive and backward, in this era, it is at the level of the sky. At this time, it is working hard at this time, and it took two seconds to finally complete the calculation.
Seeing the red circles on the screen lit up, Gus shouted loudly: "The fire control system is ready and ready to launch!"
At this time, the distance to the target drone had been reduced to 130 kilometers.
"Fire!" This was Nathan's most exciting moment.
As Nathan pressed the operation button, a half-ton Phoenix missile ignited on the flat belly of the Tomcat fighter.
The shape of the Phoenix looks a bit stout, cylindrical, with a sharp cone in the front and four large shrapnels in the back. At this time, at its tail, a fiery flame emerged, white smoke rose, and the entire fighter jet was instantly enveloped , Dragging a thick white smoke, the huge Phoenix missile, facing the sea breeze, broke the momentum, just like a sharp sword out of its sheath.
The first one was mounted on the front of the belly. Five seconds after the first one flew out, the second missile also ignited and flew out. Then, on the pylon of the wing box, the third one on the left. The fourth one on the right flew out one after another, and finally, the two behind the belly of the plane.
In thirty seconds, all six huge Phoenix missiles were launched! The body of the Tomcat fighter suddenly became light. Its wings swept back, and its nose was staring forward steadily. The electromagnetic waves in the radome were still working at peak power.
The six missiles in the air, dragging the billowing white smoke, made six trajectories in the air, looking very spectacular.
On the radar screen, there are only six bright spots.
On the moss early warning aircraft, several Soviet officers also watched nervously at the screen.
The E-2C is a carrier-based early warning aircraft. Because it has to enter the aircraft carrier’s hangar and eject to take off, it is destined to not be too large. A large amount of equipment accumulates in a small space, leaving only room for three people.
In contrast, the moss early warning aircraft is much larger. As an early warning aircraft on land, it directly uses the Tu-114 passenger aircraft as a platform with sufficient internal space. However, the backward electronic technology of the Soviet Union makes it The detection performance is at the same level as E-2C.
Now, the radar officer on the early warning aircraft, looking at the target on the screen, suddenly screamed: "God, they actually launched a missile at a distance of more than 100 kilometers!"
At this moment, he was shocked. This was absolutely beyond his imagination and beyond everyone's imagination. Does this missile have the same terrible range as claimed by the Americans
What is the range of a missile? It is difficult to say clearly. For example, the rocket engine will burn out in tens of seconds for the powered range of a missile. After that, it will fly by inertia without power, and the speed will become slower and slower. , How much deceleration is it considered that the missile has completed the flight process
This is still secondary, the most important is the difference between head-on and tail-chasing.
If you attack head-on and the opponent's speed is fast, you can launch at a greater distance, even exceeding the flight distance of the missile itself, because the target will also fly over. The faster the target speed, the farther the range will be.
However, the tail chase is different. When the tail chases, the two sides fly in the same direction. When the speed is not enough, the chasing farther and farther. If there is 50 kilometers head-on, the tail chase may not even reach 10 kilometers.
But Phoenix, this missile is the existence of this era against the sky, many documents have recorded that its range is as high as 203 kilometers.
And this maximum range is of course performance-oriented.
In order to match the performance of the Phoenix missile, the setting of the target parameters is naturally ideal. The target aircraft and the F-14, that is, the Phoenix is approaching head-on, so that on the one hand, the "phoenix" can easily follow the optimization high throw. Flying ballistically, flying out of their best results, on the other hand, the drone itself is also "pounce on death" and fly over the 200 kilometers distance with the "phoenix".
The key, of course, is the drone.
If the target drone is replaced by a black bird, it will not be necessary to say 200 kilometers, and a range of 300 kilometers can be achieved, but there is no practical significance. As long as the target is slightly maneuvered, the missile will not be able to reach it.
And now, the Tomcat fighter launches Phoenix missiles from a hundred kilometers away. Of course, there is something to show off. Be careful, I can kill you from a hundred kilometers away!
Moreover, there are still six missiles flying together, which is even more shocking.
Even if it is cheating, the United States has this capital. Among the equipment of the Soviet aviation force, there are almost no equipment with a maximum range of more than 40 kilometers!
At this time, the Soviets were shocked. The American Tomcat fighter jets, accompanied by the movie "High Aspirations", became popular all over the world, and the Soviet Union couldn't wait to know the detailed parameters of this aircraft, especially the missiles on it. Now, this American shooting is too valuable for intelligence analysis.
The Phoenix missile flies at a high speed. In order to fly more than one hundred kilometers, it is different from ordinary missiles.
After the ordinary missile flew out, it flew directly towards the target, but the Phoenix missile climbed into the high altitude first.
If you want a missile to fly farther, you have to make it less resistant. In addition to the shape of the missile, which greatly reduces the drag, it also uses an optimized high-throw trajectory to fly. First jump to the high altitude and use the high altitude. The characteristics of thin air to make the missile flight more smoothly.
The six missiles are flying steadily in the sky. At this time, they are all in the initial inertial flight stage. The most important thing is the AWG-9 radar at the back. It needs to accurately capture the target, calculate various data, and give The missile provides a variety of information.
This is not difficult, because all the flying drones are equipped with signal amplifiers. When it receives the AWG-9 radar signal, it will amplify it and then go back to make its target more obvious. Otherwise, a How can a small target aircraft have a stronger signal than a bomber, so that the AWG-9 can be spotted more than a hundred kilometers away? (End of this chapter)