After shooting out all the six Phoenixes, only four missiles, two sparrows and two rattlesnakes were left on Nathan’s fighter plane. At the same time, a portion of the fuel was consumed. In this way, the body was quite light and accelerated even more. It's swift and violent.
It would be too boring if we return to the flight now. It is better to tease the Soviets' AWACS.
The Soviets will be farther away from the aircraft carrier in the future!
The wings of the Tomcat fighter swept back, like a spear, and quickly reached a speed of Mach 2.3, like a swift eagle, leaping toward the target!
What are Americans going to do? At this time, the personnel inside the early warning aircraft had already panicked.
"Quick, return home immediately, return home immediately!"
The command of the early warning aircraft has a division of labor. During the take-off and landing phase, the captain is responsible for the maximum authority. After the normal cruise, it is decided by the commander behind.
Now, after spotting an American plane leaping over, the commander immediately issued the order to return!
This investigation is too dangerous. Is this American crazy
You should know that you are still three hundred kilometers away from the opponent's aircraft carrier formation. This is already the default safe distance, an absolute public airspace.
However, it is obviously unreasonable at this time. What if the guy on the opposite side does not follow his routine and shoots missiles when he comes up
"Gus, PDSTT mode, lock it." Nathan said.
At this time, Gus in the rear compartment was still immersed in the action of just locking the target aircraft. This time it achieved good results. Six of them hit four, and the fourth and fifth missed the target unfortunately.
But fortunately, Nathan's arrangement was quite clever. Just as his fourth missile flew past, he turned on electromagnetic interference. In this way, he successfully concealed two misses.
In the eyes of the Soviets, they must have hit all six of them. The two drones that were not hit were detonated by remote control. The explosion scene was quite spectacular.
Now, Nathan is still not satisfied, and has to let the Soviets know that his fighter planes are quite abnormal.
"Understand." Gus said: "PDSTT mode."
After he adjusted the radar, he suddenly realized that he was originally a professional radar officer, but he did not expect that Nathan was more proficient than himself, and he could choose the right radar state according to the specific situation! Is he better than his own
When the adjustment is over, the specific information of the target appears on the radar screen. At this time, the distance to the target is 200 kilometers.
Lock it!
How far the radar can see is also related to the radar mode. Among the AWG-9 radars, the most powerful is the PDS mode, pulse Doppler search.
This is the most common pulse method of Doppler radar, which is only used for searching, because it can only obtain target position information, but no other parameters.
In other words, it can only be used to see if there is a target in the 65-degree airspace ahead, nothing more; even if the target is found, it cannot launch an attack.
But correspondingly, this mode has the farthest detection range.
How far is it? If the target is a large target like Tu-95, Tu-160, the detection distance is 315 kilometers, isn't it good? It's an early warning machine!
In layman's terms, the PDS mode is mainly used to "illuminate the road", and it is also a mode often used by Tomcats during battle cruises.
If you want to track, you have to switch the mode. If you want to launch an attack, you need more data about the target. This is the PDSTT mode: Pulse Doppler single target tracking.
The previous two modes, as already mentioned, are used to "light the road" instead of attacking; for AWG-9, among the modes that can launch an attack, the farthest one is PDSTT.
As the name suggests, it also works in pulse Doppler mode, but the AWG-9 will change the scanning mode at this time.
When the radar operator selects one of the intercepted targets, it enters continuous tracking. At this time, all radar waves are firing at the target.
If it used to be a flashlight, illuminating the road ahead, but now, it is to add a condenser in front of the flashlight, and all the light is concentrated on a target.
To put it bluntly, it means to stare at the target and prepare to fire!
As the radar fully shifted to track the target, all the parameters of the target were immediately intercepted and supplied to the fire control system to launch missiles.
In other words, it is now possible to enter the combat distance.
This distance is definitely shorter than the scanning distance just now. Generally speaking, the target for fighter jets is about 160 kilometers, while the target for bomber-sized targets is definitely about 200 kilometers.
It can be said that the AWG-9 radar and the Phoenix missile are definitely a good pair of friends, and the two sides cooperate closely, and the performance is against the sky. Long-distance sniper killing, no one can match.
With the switch to single target tracking mode, the single-pulse radar waves all fly towards the target's moss early warning aircraft.
As a special early warning aircraft, the electronic equipment is complete, and it has an omnidirectional radar warning receiver. At this time, as the monopulse radar wave is illuminated, it immediately triggers the radar warning receiver.
"Meow, meow." The sound of the radar warning receiver differs depending on the radar that is irradiated. At this time, this sound is just like a tomcat that makes people shudder.
"Damn, the Americans dare to lock on us and run!" The case of just six missiles hitting six targets was right in front of him, making the commander extremely scared. He didn't even think about it. In fact, the Phoenix can only mount six. Yeah, even though the opponent locked his own side two hundred kilometers away, he was not capable of launching an attack.
They were already extremely frightened. The early warning aircraft was modified based on passenger aircraft. Once attacked, they had no choice but to make an emergency landing. Even if they finally made an emergency landing on the sea, it would be more fortunate.
As for whether or not the Third World War will be triggered, it will be a matter for the future. As the fuse, they will not feel any honor.
Run quickly!
The four NK-12MV turboprop engines have fully opened their throttles, bursting out 14795 shaft horsepower, driving a 5.6-meter diameter coaxial counter-rotating propeller, continuously pushing air backwards and accelerating forward.
In addition to driving the propeller, this engine also jets backwards to increase additional thrust. As the speed continues to increase, the efficiency of the propeller begins to decrease. In the end, almost all become feathered, all on the tail. The jet comes to fly.
Its speed has also reached 850 kilometers per hour, which is almost impossible for a propeller aircraft, but the Tu-126 can do it, and it is unambiguous when it escapes.
"Where is our MiG-25?" At this time, the voice in the radar warning receiver was still thinking, and the commander yelled desperately.
At this time, it can only be rescued by MiG-25.
"The MiG-25 is preparing to refuel in the air."
"Call them, we can't stand it!" (End of this chapter)