Chapter 452: Angry Pursuit
Yes, although it is speculated that the attention of the opponent is on the "Harpoon", but who knows the actual situation?
As a veteran of simulator confrontation with many battles, Stanley is well aware that in the confrontation between stealth fighters and radar-guided missiles, placeholder and electronic countermeasures are more important than simple large overload maneuvers. Although there are many over-the-horizon missiles launched by both sides, they are nothing more than throwing guns to intimidate each other, and the next step is to see whose evasion strategy is more effective, and the person who occupies a good engagement position can gain the first strike advantage in the dogfight.
With almost the same idea, the two players who met on a narrow road drove the fighter plane to rush head-on, and as the broad J-30 "Shenglong" and the "Silent Cat" with the main wing swept back quickly approached each other, Long Yun, who had the advantage in height, did not rush into the fierce hand-to-hand combat, but seized the opportunity when the two planes were far away for the first time, and used helmet sights to indicate the target direction for the PL-10 in the side magazine.
A moment of waiting, but it was so long in the electric and flint air battle; When the prompt for the completion of laser ranging and the completion of fire control calculation sounded, he immediately pressed the launch button.
With the movement of Long Yun's fingers, the left magazine of the "Shenglong" in the high-speed raid suddenly popped open, and the milky white PL-10 flew away from the slide with almost no delayed ignition, relying on the thrust vector to begin to deflect and fly sharply, and he launched the first blow with an off-axis angle of nearly 70 degrees!
The attack of "Ascending Dragon" came extremely fast, and when the two fighters finally approached each other and began to fight, the spectators and all the competitive fans who watched the live broadcast became emotional.
I had been watching the game nervously, and everyone had seen it clear that the "May" long plane and the "Polaris" wingman were still carrying anti-ship missiles at an ultra-low altitude to "feel the dark" at this time. Facing opposite directions and far away from each other, there is no possibility of an encounter between them.
It depends on the catch and fight of heavy carrier-based aircraft. I still have to look at the table of the two in front of me!
Facing the oncoming "May" wingman. Not to be outdone after being attacked by his opponent, Stanley's "Silent Cat" decided that the combat bullet fired at a large off-axis angle was not a big threat, so he quickly launched an AIM-9X in response, and then kept its original course and staggered with the opponent's high-speed skimming. His current plan is to rely on Mach 1.6's high-speed hard throw PL-10 tail chase, and then exchange speed for climbing distance, and then enter the same level as the opponent and then engage in hand-to-hand combat!
With such an idea, the off-axis angle at which Stanley launches the missile is also quite large. For the AIM-9X, which has strong maneuverability, it is still too reluctant to face the two Mach targets that are approaching at a high speed of 30 degrees, and the "Shenglong", which has not slowed down at all, makes a large overload of supersonic jump, and it is far away from the AIM-9X's climbing homing attack.
In the face of a target with an altitude difference of about 2,000 meters and a high-speed sweep, the AIM-9X combat missile with its thruster burning violently is still drawing a twisted and winding climb track in vain; However, it is no longer able to pose a threat to the "Ascending Dragon", which has a clear superiority in height.
In the sky where the fighters were fighting head-on, the two combat missiles with very different technologies but extremely threatening drew a thin and narrow white trail, and the infrared jamming bombs launched by the fighters and the white fog caused by the violent maneuvers made the scene a little chaotic; The effect of jamming missiles is very limited for advanced combat missiles with infrared imaging homing heads, and Stanley's F-34 is at a disadvantage because of its slightly lower altitude, although he has made a sharp turn to lead the missile to a favorable position facing the sun, but he still cannot escape the tail pursuit of the PL-10.
Seeing that a simple acceleration escape would be dangerous, Stanley had no choice but to immediately reverse the sidestick and enter a large overload serpentine maneuver with a sudden drop in speed. By the time it finally relied on continuous sharp turns to throw off the missile, the altitude of the "Silent Cat" had hardly changed. The loss of speed is very noticeable.
Having just gotten rid of the missile's pursuit, Stanley heard the RWR's X-band warning again, and the enemy plane was behind him at six o'clock!
Peeking in the rearview mirror, Stanley vaguely noticed that something was wrong.
However, even so, there was no nervous and guide mistake in the control in his hands, he knew very well the advantages and disadvantages of the F-34 and J-30 models, if he repeatedly changed the maneuvering plane and implemented complex horizontal maneuvers in the state of the swept wings, then the Chinese behind should not be able to catch him.
- And that guy, he should only have one combat missile left now, and will fire rashly in pursuit, risking the risk of running out of combat missiles against himself?
Although it is not yet known where the other fighter plane of the "May" is, since he has already completed the anti-ship attack mission, as long as he slowly consumes time and makes the interceptors chasing behind him have no time to take care of anything else, then his partner will still have the opportunity to approach the aircraft carrier from an ultra-low altitude and then jump up to launch a sneak attack.
With this in mind, the F-34, which controls the wing to sweep back at 70 degrees, enters the dive increase, and Stanley's plan is to use the good acceleration of the "Silent Cat" to maintain a distance from the opponent, and he believes that in the speed race at medium altitude, the wide J-30 is unlikely to win against the F-34 with a variable sweep wing - this judgment has to be said to be quite correct, as long as the opponent is dragged into impatience, he may have the opportunity to launch a counterattack later.
But......
Piloting the F-34 to dive into the speed of the evasion missile and recover from the speed loss of the evasive missile, Stanley almost subconsciously turned on the electronic jamming and maintained the acceleration posture, and it was about thirty seconds before he realized that something was wrong.
The RWR warning indicates that the irradiation signal of the X-band radar representing the enemy aircraft still exists, but where did that guy go?
Turning his head to look back, he could only see the deep blue sky, and suddenly remembered that there should be a small fire control radar with a slightly inferior detection range in the tail of the J-30, and Stanley seemed to be waking up from a big dream!
If he hadn't been sitting in the simulator, he would have wanted to punch the control panel on his side, but now he was deceived by his opponent again! Without a trace of hesitation, he immediately pressed the slope into the steering flight, accompanied by the dim display of black vision, the "silent cat" drew a 180-degree arc in the sky to make a U-turn, Stanley reused the radar to search and locate the trace of the opponent, the difficult Mist-Dragon, he-
He turned out!
Did you run away with oil on the soles of your feet?
Reading out the target's position and velocity vector information from the radar, Stanley immediately became angry, and the "May" wingman, who had climbed to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, was already dozens of kilometers away from him at this time, and his AN/APG-80 radar was about to be unable to detect it!
What does this mean, is it a cowardly run away in the face of the "silent cat", this guy-
No, it's not.
Immediately thinking of his opponent's intentions, Stanley immediately pushed forward the throttle valve and opened it at full strength, and the automatic control system adjusted the swept wing to the most appropriate angle and began to speed up the pursuit. The cunning Chinese, he is not running away now, it is clear that after forcing himself to launch the Harpoon missile in a hurry, he has no intention of delaying any longer; Now the enemy aircraft is apparently speeding to other airspace, searching for and trying to attack another F-34 "Silent Cat"!
Realizing Long Yun's plan, Stanley was obviously very unaccustomed to this style of play, and he drove the landline to chase desperately while screaming in the simulator in annoyance.
Even if it's a game, even if it's the first victory, how can this guy retreat without a fight?
There's no way to think too much about it at the moment, Stanley seems to be angry and drives the heavy "silent cat" to accelerate the climb, and he is also calculating the maximum level flight speed of the two fighters at high altitude, Mach 2.2 vs. Mach 2.2, bullshit, that is, no one can catch anyone?
What the hell is this, I was obviously expecting a fierce fight to the death, but now it seems like I am participating in a fighter rally!
Yes, as Stanley thought, Long Yun, who is now piloting the J-30, is indeed such an idea; With the full opening of the afterburner, the two WS-15B engines burst out with surging powerful thrust, and the "Shenglong", which has no external weapons and is cumbersome, is racing towards the northern airspace at the maximum speed of Mach 2.2, at this time, the rear-view radar cannot see the opponent because of the limitation of detection capabilities and the close speed of the two fighters, which does not meet the detection conditions of Doppler radar, but it doesn't matter.
Although the F-34 with a swept wing should be a little faster than the J-30 when sprinting at high altitude, but if the speed difference continues, when the "silent cat" behind catches up, he will already find another F-34 to end the battle!
Taking the initiative to break away from a fighting posture, is this an escape from cowardice?
- Ha, what a joke!
Having experienced countless real air battles and fighting to the death in the baptism of missiles and gunpowder, Long Yun's understanding of air combat can be said to be far more profound than that of the vast majority of people in this world, and he will not make low-level mistakes that are reckless and vindictive.
Even if it's just a game, even if no one actually spills blood, he'll still give it his all as if it's a real fight.
As an ace, the purpose of taking off is to win, and it is to do whatever it takes to win!
Even if it is only in a virtual arena, compared with the inexplicable rhetoric of the so-called "cowardly escape", if you allow the enemy's aircraft to attack the aircraft carrier and do nothing, this will be considered by Long Yun as absolute dereliction of duty.
With such a belief, driving the J-30 "Shenglong" to approach the northern airspace at full speed, and the radar switched to the Doppler downward view mode to search nervously, Long Yun is now only worried about whether the opponent is carrying AIM-54C long-range missiles; If the opponent is armed with this weapon, he will still have the ability to launch a threatening attack on himself during the high-speed rush pursuit.
Although Long Yun, who controls the "Ascending Dragon", is not afraid of the "Immortal Bird" with fast feet and long legs, but is quite clumsy, maneuvering in order to avoid attacks will inevitably delay the search and interception.
But will the Americans' "Silent Cat", which already has four AGM-84s on board, also carry heavy "Immortal Birds"? (To be continued......)