Red Soviet Union

In the declassified information of later generations, the combination of the MiG-31 interceptor and the powerful R-33 missile was only in service in the early 1980s. However, in fact, the Soviet defense, which has always had a soft spot for interceptors The Air Force equipment department, the development of this interceptor weapon has already begun. One novel?????????

Exactly on May 24, 1968, Mikoyan Design decided to open a modern version of the MiG-25 fighter: e-155e-155mП, which was given the designation of the MiG-31 when it was finalized. At that time, the test flight of the MiG-25 was not completely over, and the pre-research of the next generation was kicked off.

Due to the backwardness of the Soviet Union in electronic technology, if you want to rely on conventional methods, the MiG-31 will not have bright eyes and must find another way! Therefore, the phased array radar on the ground was put into the sky to meet the needs of the interceptor, with a long detection distance, many targets that can be intercepted, and multi-target attack capability.

It seems to be very advanced, but there is still a gap between this and the ag-9. For example, the power consumption and weight are several times that of the ag-9, and only the body of the MiG-31 can carry it.

At the same time, in order to cooperate with the new radar, the MiG-31 also needs a missile with a maximum range of more than 12o kilometers. The competition was between the k-33 of the "pennant" seat designer A. Liapin and the k-5o of the seat designer M. Bisnowart. The final "pennant" design was adopted. After improvement, this missile has excellent aerodynamic performance. At the same time, in order to reduce the aerodynamic resistance and temperature mounted under the fuselage, the design of the missile semi-recessed into the fuselage is adopted, and four missiles are arranged in pairs along the fuselage. The missile, due to the semi-recessed buried arrangement, also adopts a missile ejection mechanism.

This kind of missile has been developed since the late 1960s. After entering the 1970s, the test flight of the missile has already begun, first on the MiG-25. With the development of the MiG-31, it also began to be mounted on the MiG-31. In March 1976, the first test target aircraft MiG-17 was launched. It was successfully beaten!

The R-33 missile has begun to mature, and although it still needs follow-up exhibitions, it has now reached a state of actual combat!

The MiG-31 hangs four R-33s, which should have been necessary, but now. The sudden situation gave the MiG-31 a chance.

The last pride of Americans, that is, the Phoenix missile on the Tomcat fighter, has the ability to kill the MiG-25 at a long distance! And now, the Soviet Union has also caught up in this regard, and the Soviet Union has similar missiles!

Turn on the afterburner, and the MiG-31 interceptor starts to increase! Relying on strong motivation, the MiG-31 quickly passed the cruising speed of Mach 0.85, and at the same time began to climb higher.

Fedotov in the rear cabin. At this time, it is also quickly operating its own fire control system, locking four targets at the same time, and launching an attack. It is theoretically possible, but in practice, this is the first time!

Different from the ag-9, the flat slot radar antenna, if you want to lock the target, you have to aim it, and you want to lock on different targets at the same time. Then you have to constantly refresh the data. The ag-9 radar relies on fast scanning to refresh the target data to guide its own missiles. In the final stage, this multi-target engagement capability was achieved by relying on the active seeker, without the need for the carrier radar to provide beams.

The sBe-16 radar is realized by changing the phase of the radar beam, controlling the front radar antenna to divide the beam radiation into four directions. You can aim at four targets and attack at the same time! And the radar can be continuously illuminated, and semi-active radar-guided missiles can also be used.

With the backward electronic technology of the Soviet Union, there are many steps of manual operation. This is the moment to test the personnel in the rear cabin!

"It's ready." In addition to being a test pilot, Fedotov in the rear cabin is also a skilled electronic engineer. Now, he has quickly completed the task of assigning targets and locking. On the green radar screen, there are four circles. Cover the target!

At this time, the MiG-31 has climbed to an altitude of 25,000 kilometers, 90 kilometers away from the target, and the carrier aircraft has been added to Mach 2.

"Shoot!" Fedotov shouted, pressing the button hard.

Under the belly of the aircraft, the huge R-33 missile was easily ejected from the aircraft by the ejection mechanism. A second later, a strong tongue of flame suddenly erupted from the tail of the missile, and the ignition was successful!

One, another, four huge R-33 missiles, all ignited successfully! The first-stage rocket engine ignited, pushed the missile to Mach 3.5, and sprinted towards the target!

Although it is similar to the aIm-54, the real shooting process is different. For example, in order to achieve a high range, the aIm-54 missile will quickly climb to an altitude of 24,000 kilometers after take-off, and even climb to 3 when it is modified. The altitude of 10,000 meters reduces resistance and achieves a high range, and the R33 missile does not need to climb upwards, because the carrier aircraft has given the missile this height when it was initially fired!

The first few seconds of flight were automatically completed by the program, and then the missile entered the midway radio command guidance stage.

"Damn, the target shot a missile at us!" At this moment, the four Tomcat fighter jets that came to sneak attack on the opposite side, the pilot was shocked when he heard the report of the radar operator in the rear cabin.

At this time, UU reading www.uukanshu. The distance between the two sides of the com is 90 kilometers, and in my impression, the effective range of the Soviet medium-range air-to-air missiles in actual combat is not more than 30 kilometers.

Judging from the performance of the target, it must be the MiG-25. Only this fighter can climb to an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, and it has also been added to more than Mach 2. However, there is no information that the MiG-25 is so far. Long range missiles! Their radars may not be able to intercept targets at such distances!

Just now, under the command of the early warning aircraft, they raided from this direction, hoping to kill the Soviet MiG-25 and eliminate the threat of this fighter.

Are the Soviets bluffing? Put a few missiles as fireworks? Just to let you escape? Or did the Soviets show a new, or maybe a class MiG-25?

No one answered their questions, and in aerial combat, a few seconds of hesitation could make or break their lives. Now, wars are going on everywhere, and if they can't break through the Soviet air defense circle, they can't stop the Soviet surface formations from transporting supplies to Kushiro Island, and they can't solve the already exploded Hokkaido conflict!

"Shoot the immortal bird!" After hesitating for a while, the leader of the formation issued a combat mission. (To be continued.)