Chapter 330 Tomcat vs. Sea Harrier
Forty anti-ship missiles were flying at low altitudes, and in the Soviet Union's saturation attack tactics, this was specifically used to break through the United States' Aegis system.
Now, these missiles are used to attack the Indian aircraft carrier formations, which is simply effortless.
The biggest mistake of the Indians was that they thought that Pakistan did not have enough air force to attack them, and drove their aircraft carriers to the patrol range of land-based fighters. At the same time, they had no other choice. Their Sea Harrier fighter was not in a good range. If they were not close to Pakistan's coastline, they would not be able to provide effective ground support at all.
And now, they are paying the price for this wrong plan again.
The wind and waves on the sea are very small, and missiles fly on the sea, as if they are dancing on the waves.
The supply ship on the outermost side of the formation was first attacked. Unfortunately, when two C-802 missiles flew over, it ignited its fuel, and the entire supply ship burned a raging fire.
"Boom!" With the violent explosion, the Indian Navy then realized that Pakistan's attack began again!
The radio was disturbed, and Ravi Rikje was in the bridge, watching the formation of warships being hit again, but could not issue any orders to other warships.
On the deck, a series of Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft hurriedly aimed at the runway and flew into the sky.
Where is the Pakistan Air Force? Be sure to take revenge!
The Indian Navy Air Force, full of anger in his chest, took off urgently. At this time, the ski jump and takeoff showed its advantages. It did not require a lot of steam or wait for the catapult to reset. They only needed to aim at the runway to start taking off after the extra force. Their dispatch efficiency was so high that the first fighter had even just left the leap deck, and the second had already taken off!
The two aircraft carriers completed the dispatch of the carrier amid the explosions of the surrounding ships, and more than 20 sea harriers left the deck.
At this time, the air battle has begun.
When the c-802 hit the supply ship, two sparrow missiles also flew behind the Sea Harrier.
"Boom!" The sparrow's warhead exploded, and countless pieces flew to the middle of the sea Harrier's fuselage.
The pilot worked hard, hoping to stabilize the fuselage. However, the wings suddenly turned and flipped over.
In order to control the stability of vertical take-off and landing, the Sea Harrier has in addition to the downward engine nozzle, and there are multiple methane nozzles on the aircraft to jointly control and adjust the attitude of the aircraft. As a result, methane nozzles are now spraying methane everywhere, and the fuselage has completely lost control.
"Bang." The top cover was shot through by the cover gun. The ejection seat was ignited, pushing the pilot away from the fighter plane.
Below is the rippling sea, falling into the sea, more than a hundred kilometers away from the coast, and he will die for a lifetime.
Another sea harrier was directly hit and caught fire, and the pilot did not have time to parachute.
The other two sea harriers found that the adjacent plane was shot down and turned immediately. At the same time, the pilot began to prepare to lock the fighter plane coming from the opposite side.
The Sea Harrier became famous in the Battle of Horse Island and shot down 21 Argentina fighters. However, the biggest credit was the Aim-9l Rattlesnake missile carried by the Sea Harrier.
It is impossible for India's fighter jets to obtain Rattlesnake missiles. Their air-to-air weapon is the magic air-to-air missiles.
This missile, similar to the US Rattlesnake missile, entered the French Air Force in 1976 and was the first air-to-air missile in France.
Similar to the Rattlesnake's bullet body, however, there are two sets of bullet wings near the front of the bullet body: one is a four-piece fixed triangular wing stabilizer surface, and there are another four movable control surfaces behind these four pieces, which are responsible for the movement of the missile on the rolling and pitching axes. The Rattlesnake missile only has four bullet wings. The advantage of this control system is that it has better control at high angles of attack.
This missile has an overload capacity of more than 35g and has flexible maneuverability. However, due to the technology at that time, the seeker of this missile uses a unit passive infrared seeker. Like other first-generation missiles, it only has the ability to chase the tail. In terms of overall performance, it is only more advanced than the US Aim-9a/b missiles.
Now, Indian Air Force pilots operate the Sea Harrier fighter jets, preparing to fight with Pakistan Air Force fighter jets, seize the tail of the opponent, and then launch missiles.
Unfortunately, they had no chance. When the two flying Tomcat fighters were flying opposite them, they fired their own Rattlesnake missiles.
At this time, the Pakistan Air Force used the Aim-9m missile, which has omnidirectional attack capability and strong interference resistance. Except for the off-axis angle that cannot be compared with the r-73, it has exceeded the r-73 in other aspects.
Moreover, it does not need to be cooled by the carrier, and it has enough cooling system. When the Sparrow Missile is launched, the Rattlesnake missile begins to enter the preparations before launch. The two sea harriers turn over and have been successfully locked by the Rattlesnake missile.
emission!
A flash of flames under the wings, and a rattlesnake missile flew out from under Sarad's wings and flew towards the sea harrier opposite.
The Indian pilot opened his eyes wide and watched the missile fly over. In panic, he pulled his ejection handle before the missile hit his fighter plane.
"Boom!" The missile exploded in front of the Sea Harrier. Countless broken rods drilled into the huge engine air inlets on both sides, drilled into the unique Pegasus mk104 thrust-steerable turbofan engine inside. The rapidly rotating air intake blades were instantly broken, and the engine lost all its thrust and fell from the air.
Four cruise ships were beaten down by two Tomcat fighters. Here, the Indian aircraft carrier formation was hit by C-802 missiles one by one.
After hitting one of the small warships below 1,000 tons, they almost immediately sank. The slightly larger ones were hit by two to three, and the sailors were trying hard to rescue them.
Fortunately, the aircraft carrier was safe and did not hit a single missile.
This is the shame of the Indian Navy's aviation forces! In anger, they slid and took off almost all the sea harriers that could be dispatched, and more than twenty sea harriers rushed towards the tomcat fighter planes flying on the sea.
They should have protected the aircraft carrier formation, but now the aircraft carrier formation has suffered a heavy blow!
This ending is unacceptable to them.
Facing the takeoff Sea Harriers, Rick's eyes were full of disdain: "Be careful, use the Rattlesnake missile and kill them!"
Rick doesn't even intend to waste the medium-range Sparrow missile, as it's enough to have a rattlesnake!
Looking at the sea harrier flying towards him, Rick operated the fighter plane, and a flash of flames flashed under the wings, and a rattlesnake missile flew towards the opposite side.
The sea harrier, when he saw the missile flying towards him, was quick to make a fool of himself and immediately operated the fighter. The engine nozzle turned, stopped and hovered in the air. His eyes were staring at the missile tightly. When the missile was about to hit it, he released the accelerator handle, and the sea harrier, which had lost power, fell rapidly.
Unfortunately, this is in vain. Even if he loses all his power and falls like a big rock, it is only an overload of 1g. The Rattlesnake missile flying opposite has an overload capacity of more than 30g. Moreover, the omnidirectional attacking Rattlesnake missile has a wide field of vision, and the Sea Harrier's maneuver does not escape the vision of the Rattlesnake missile.
"Boom!" The moment the missile caught up, the near-explosion fuse triggered, and the warhead of the Rattlesnake missile easily shot down the light fighter.
Indian pilots died with their eyes open. This is the tactic taught by British colleagues and the advanced tactics that appeared in the Cambridge War!
The British told them that in the face of advanced supersonic fighters, the Harrier fighter that can take off and land vertically has its own unique technology, which is vector thrust!
The Harrier fighter is the world's first practical vertical/short-range take-off and landing aircraft. It provides the dynamic lift and vector thrust required for vertical take-off, landing, transitional flight and conventional flight through the four jet ports of the Pegasus turbofan engine that can rotate 0° to 98.5°. At the same time, in order to control the aircraft's attitude, there are also jet reaction nozzles at the wing tip, tail and nose.
What aircraft can hover vertically? Only the Sea Harrier! This is a unique technology that can get rid of missiles and get rid of the enemy's pursuit!
The Indians were fooled, which was a unique statement by the British to sell fighter jets.
Rick killed the sea harrier, continued to fly forward, and caught up with another sea harrier.
The pilot of the Sea Harrier turned his head hard and looked back at the Tomcat fighter plane, continuing his tactics just now.
For ordinary fighter jets, being chased by tails is the most dangerous, but the sea hoist is not afraid, because the sea hoist can fly vertically!
He pushed the accelerator to the maximum, and the fighter began to accelerate. At the same time, the Tomcat fighter behind was also chasing him.
Just as the opponent was about to catch up, he operated the fighter plane, the nozzle was down and turned to hover, but released the accelerator, and the thrust was insufficient. The sea harrier began to fall like a big stone.
Since the sea harrier can sink vertically, the enemy planes behind flew over without any time to react, and turned into being in the back. They were bitten by themselves, so they couldn't escape!
He had prepared the magic missile in advance. As long as the opponent flew over his air, he would start locking and launching the missile!
Unfortunately, Rick had seen through his action. Looking at the fighter plane that suddenly hovered and then landed vertically, Rick knew what he was going to do.
Jumping clown! Rick pushed the operating rod, and the huge tomcat rubbed against the opponent's body and flew over quickly. Just as he was directly above the opponent, Rick suddenly pulled the operating rod backward and opened the afterburner.
Chapter completed!