The two J-15 fighters had been ready for a long time. After the first wave of planes were released, they parked at the take-off position, and the pilots were sitting in the cockpit, ready to take off at any time.

Wang Wei looked sideways, and his wingman pilot Zhao Yu also happened to look over, so the two made familiar gestures.

At this moment, an order came from the earphone: "Kongjing-600 found the target, 1502, 1503, take off immediately!"

"Yes, 1502 received!" Wang Wei replied as he started to start the engine. He looked at the gestures of the yellow vest below and performed various checks before takeoff. Thirty seconds later, the yellow vest squatted down and pointed his right hand forward.

Wang Wei released the brakes.

The J-15 fighter jet rushed to the jump deck at the bow of the ship like an arrow off the string, and then jumped out.

The moment his plane left the deck, Zhao Yu next to him also released his brakes. Within a minute of each other, the two fighters took off, turned on afterburners and climbed upwards.

"1502 calls 1503 and turns to the 0-3-1 direction according to the target data provided by the early warning aircraft."

"1503 received."

After climbing to an altitude of about 300 meters, the two fighters began to turn and continued to sprint towards the target. Because this time it was an emergency takeoff to intercept, the two fighters had the luxury of continuing to use afterburners to rush towards the target.

The climbing belt climbed wildly in the direction, and finally reached an altitude of 10,000 meters.

"1502 calls 1503. The distance to the target is about two hundred kilometers. Activate the radar now!"

In front of the nose of the aircraft, the large flat-panel 1493 radar was activated. After a few seconds of warm-up, powerful radar waves were fired forward.

"One hundred and fifty kilometers away, three targets found!"

The Changjian 10 is not a stealth cruise missile, but it is still impossible for ordinary airborne radar to detect it at a distance of 150 kilometers. This is of course thanks to the intelligence support of the early warning aircraft and the rapid development of domestic airborne radar technology.

develop.

The Su-27 series fighters are all heavy-duty aircraft. This kind of fighter has a large nose, and of course it also has a huge-caliber airborne radar antenna. Except for the Su-27 and the Tomcat, no other fighter in the world can have this.

A radar antenna with a diameter of more than 900 millimeters. Although the MiG-31 calls itself a fighter, it should be called an interceptor and cannot be counted among them.

Relying on advanced airborne radar, both fighters have searched for the target.

"1502 calls 1503. The target data has been assigned. We each lock a target." Wang Wei continued to call on the radio.

"1503 received." Zhao Yu touched the weapon operation interface in front of him with his hand, and locked the target in the distance according to the data transmitted through the data link.

While the two were operating, the fighter plane was also flying forward rapidly, and the distance between them and the missile was getting closer and closer.

One hundred kilometers, eighty kilometers...

"emission!"

Wang Wei shouted as he pressed the launch button hard with his hand. There were flames under the wings, white smoke rose, and the PL-11 missile flew out.

Wingman Zhao Yu also launched a missile. The two lines of white smoke continued to lengthen, forming two white dragons in the sky. The two J-15 fighters continued to fly smoothly, with their noses pointed steadily at the target.

"The missile was launched seventy-five kilometers away. Where did they get such confidence?" The experienced radar officers on the distant early warning aircraft were very surprised when they saw this scene.

The range of an air-to-air missile is a psychedelic statement. For a missile with a maximum range of 70 kilometers, the pilot will only dare to use it at a distance of 30 or 40 kilometers at most. Otherwise, once the target makes any maneuvers to consume the kinetic energy of the missile, the missile will

It's just out of reach.

When heading head-on, you can launch farther. If you are chasing after you, you have to launch at a closer distance, such as one or twenty kilometers. After all, this distance is a relative distance, and the actual flight of the missile is the distance to the ground.

In later generations, in order to allow air-to-air missiles to fly farther, a new generation of air-to-air missiles began to use ramjet engines. This thing not only has a long range, but also has power throughout the entire process and has first-class performance. However, if you look at the United States, it seems that this kind of missile is not suitable for

not interested.

A missile does not just have to have a long range, it also needs a high enough hit rate, and the most important thing is identification of friend or foe! To put it simply, if the identification friend or foe of the aircraft on the opposite side automatically responds, it can definitely be a friendly aircraft of our own, but if

If there is no response, it may be an enemy plane, or the transponder may be broken. If you open fire rashly, you may accidentally injure your own people. This kind of accidental injury has happened to the navy and air force of the superpower more than once, so they are very cautious.

As a result, sometimes it is necessary to enter the visual range for visual identification, making beyond visual range missiles useless.

In short, the current route taken by the Americans is to improve other performance of the missile, especially the new generation AIM-120 upgraded to an active radar guidance missile, but the range is not much improved compared to the previous Sparrow, it is still dozens of kilometers.

The Orientals actually launched missiles at a distance of seventy-five kilometers. Even if it was a head-on attack, in order to leave a certain margin, their missiles must have a range of one hundred kilometers before they dare to do this, right?

On the observing warship, Qin Tao also expressed emotion: "Although the PL-12 has not come out, our PL-11 is still very powerful."

The PL-11 has a long history. After acquiring the Viper air-to-air missile technology from Italy in the 1980s, China began to integrate the seeker into the Hongqi-61 to create a medium-range air-to-air missile, and then planned to mount it on the J-82

On a fighter plane.

This process has been going on for a long time, and the types of domestic fighter aircraft are also increasing. J-10, J-11, J-15, J-16, a lot of fighters are waiting for air-to-air missiles, so the progress of PL-11 is gradually accelerating.

At the same time, existing technologies are also being used to make improvements, such as rocket engines. After replacing them with new propellants, the range has indeed been greatly improved.

The actively guided PL-12 is still under testing and does not have a large amount of equipment, but the PL-11 has become the main air-to-air missile. Except for the first batch of imported Su-27s, which are using imported R-27s, other fighters

They are all using this missile.

"The maximum range of this kind of missile is 80 kilometers. Now they are flying at a distance of 75 kilometers. This is quite bold. However, those people should be shocked when they see it."

No matter how much we improve, we cannot escape physical limitations. It would be good if rocket-propelled missiles can travel 80 kilometers. Now they are used at the extreme distance.

Of course, they are confident: the launch height is 10,000 meters, and the missile dives down from a high position, and the gravitational potential energy can be converted into kinetic energy, allowing the missile to fly farther. The two sides are flying head-on, even if the missile loses its power in the end.

, as long as it is aimed at the target, the cruise missile will not know that it is being attacked and change its route anyway.

Of course, the key is that the radar is easy to use and can pinpoint the target at such a long distance. If the radar is not powerful, then everything is in vain.

This time I am showing off my sword, just to show some people that we are not afraid of the Tomahawk missiles coming!

The PL-11 missile continued to fly forward, relying on the advantage brought by the dive, it even accelerated to Mach 4 at one point!

It's a pity that this kind of semi-active radar-guided missile needs to continuously receive the echo reflected by the target. If it were similar to the Phoenix missile, it could fly a hundred kilometers away with a high-altitude ballistic trajectory.

It is getting closer and closer to the target. In the J-5 carrier-based aircraft behind, the two pilots are still operating the aircraft steadily. They need to guide the missile until it finally hits the target. During this process, no large overload maneuvers are allowed.

, this is also the biggest problem with semi-active missiles. During this period, they will become living targets.

However, there will be active radar-guided PL-12 missiles in the future anyway, so we will make do with them for the time being. Semi-active missiles also have advantages, such as high accuracy!

The Changjian-10 missile further descends to less than twenty meters from the sea. The surging waves on the sea will form clutter and interfere with the missile's receiving circuit. However, with modern technology, it is easy to filter out the clutter from the waves.

As the missile gradually approached the target, the onlookers began to feel nervous.

"Ten kilometers away!"

"Five kilometers!"

"one kilometer!"

"Five hundred meters!"

"Three hundred meters!"

"One hundred meters!"

"Are they going to use a precise collision method? This is impossible!" A radar officer muttered. At this moment, the light spot on the radar screen disappeared.

"Interception successful!"

At a distance of thirty meters, the warhead of the PL-11 exploded, and countless broken rod warheads formed a dense metal storm and poured towards the target.

The two Changjian-10 missiles immediately exploded in the air, burst into flames, rolled and fell into the sea.

Interception successful!

"Awesome!" Qin Tao was also very excited: "In the future, the main threat we face will also be cruise missiles. Under the command of early warning aircraft, long-distance interception by fighter jets is the most appropriate method, preferably outside our territory.

Just destroy these missiles!"

"Is there another one?"

"Two interceptions are enough to illustrate our capabilities. I guess the navy plans to shoot down the last missile with machine guns, right?" Qin Tao said.

"Cannon? Yes, the cannon can really intercept it, but if they do this, they won't give our air force face."

"There is no need to talk about saving face on the battlefield. In the future, the navy and air force will conduct confrontation exercises, and the pilots of the navy will be more energetic."

"That's right, I've heard them say it a long time ago. The smooth flying of the Air Force is not flying at all. Carrier-based aircraft pilots are the real pilots."

The guys started joking.

In the air, the interception continues.

"1502 calls 1503, the last missile, shoot it down with cannon, let's go down now!"

After Wang Wei finished speaking, he pushed his operating lever, and the huge J-5 dived down flexibly, like a swift.

The characteristics of cruise missiles are that they are concealed, fly at ultra-low altitudes, and are difficult to detect. However, once discovered, cruise missiles are nothing to be afraid of. They fly slowly and cannot maneuver to evade. Therefore, even in World War II

The anti-aircraft guns at that time could also shoot it down easily.

At this time, Navy carrier-based aircraft pilots were practicing various tactics to intercept cruise missiles, first using tall air-to-air missiles, and then using more conventional cannons.

For pilots, cannons are an ancient and reliable weapon. There was a time when aircraft designers thought that cannons were useless. Missiles had completely replaced cannons. As a result, during the Vietnam War, F4 Phantom fighter pilots

After firing off all the unreliable Sparrow missiles, they found that they no longer had any means to deal with the MiGs that were so close. Therefore, the cannons were reinstalled on the aircraft in the form of pods, and they were never used again.

Have left.

Of course, third-generation aircraft like the J-15 also have organic cannons.

Two huge fighter planes roared down, and the three-wing layout looked so beautiful and handsome.

"Visually found the target, 1503, you are responsible for covering! If my attack fails, you take over my attack." Wang Wei continued to give orders.
To be continued...