Chapter 265 Incredible Maneuver

Because the wing is variable, there is nothing under the wing without any racks. At the wing box, an R-23T missile flew out, dragging a tongue of fire.

Almost at the same time, the sound of the Siren-3 radar warning receiver came from the headset, and the other party also locked onto him!

Captain Kutulev was not panicking at all. Even if the enemy launched a missile, what would happen? Without the radar of the carrier aircraft, the Sparrow missile was like a headless fly!

"064, be careful to avoid." Captain Kuturiv shouted on the radio after launching the missile. What was launched was an infrared-guided missile, which did not require the carrier's radar to provide continuous illumination. This kind of missile that can be fired and then forgotten is popular with many pilots. In air combat, the carrier's position remains unchanged, and the radar is used to continuously illuminate the target to guide the missile. In complex air combat, it is simply a suicidal act.

"Received." The voice of the wingman came through the headset, and the two fighters turned in unison, forming a 90-degree angle with the opponent's radar beam. At this moment, the radars of the two F-4 fighters were unlocked.

Based on the pulse Doppler effect, they have automatically filtered out the two targets as clutter. This simple confrontation method is often used in medium-range air combat and is most effective.

"Single pulse, search." Koizumi did not give up. He believed in the outstanding advantages of his aircraft. After the last war, the United States completely opened up to the island countries. The advanced weapons currently in service in the United States can be used by the island countries. They are now carrying the latest AIM-7F missiles. Unfortunately, the radar was unlocked just now, turning the two missiles into uncontrolled rockets.

"452, 452, the target launched missiles at us!" The wingman shouted loudly after switching back to single-pulse mode and spotting two fast-flying light spots.

The target launched a missile! Damn it!

In fact, when hearing the sound of the radar warning receiver, one should be prepared for the other side to launch missiles first. However, the range of Soviet missiles has always been limited, so Koizumi was negligent.

After launching the missile, the opponent immediately maneuvered to get rid of it. It must be the type of infrared seeker! This type of seeker, originally designed for close-range combat, is used on medium-range missiles, and it has many flaws! As long as you know the type of the opponent's missile, it will be easy to get rid of it!

"Release flares!" Staring at the missile that was getting closer and closer, a trail of white smoke appeared in his field of vision. Koizumi pulled the operating lever and let the fighter plane begin to climb upwards. In this way, the belly of the fuselage was just facing the incoming missile, blocking the heat flow behind it with the largest area. Then, the flares popped out from the rear of the fuselage, forming beautiful fireworks in the air.

Sure enough, the incoming missile ruthlessly caught up with the flare and blossomed into a beautiful flower in the air.

Air combat confrontations are all measured in seconds. Just after the two F-4 fighters avoided the attack of the R-23 missiles, two MiG-23 fighters followed!

The two sides flew towards each other head-on at a very high speed, and they almost passed each other when they saw each other. The thrilling fight finally began.

After flying over, Koizumi immediately pulled the joystick and the fighter began to climb upwards. Limited by the size of the second-generation aircraft, the F-4's horizontal hovering ability was not outstanding. In order to obtain the most suitable rear-hemisphere attack opportunity, it would be better to use the performance advantage of the twin engines to climb and roll over to get the opportunity to chase and attack the opponent.

Compared with the F-4, the MiG-23 has a strong ability to hover horizontally, but this is achieved under the condition of minimum sweep angle. The manually controlled wings of the MiG-23 need about 10 seconds to complete the angle conversion. In complex air combat, Soviet pilots rarely change the swept wing angle quickly. They usually limit the angle to the middle position to fight. However, the opponent just rushed over at high speed, and Koizumi has observed that the opponent's sweep angle is in the maximum rapid sprint state.

Therefore, you must be able to get behind the opponent first!

The sky in his field of vision was spinning rapidly, the top of his head turned into the earth, his body was tightly tied by the safety belt, and Koizumi felt the dizziness caused by the overload and successfully completed this rapid flip.

Where are the Soviet planes? There is nothing in sight, why is there nothing?

The weapons operator at the back was also looking around the airspace, searching for the two Soviet planes.

Americans, go to hell! Captain Kutulev looked at the American chrysanthemum in front of him. The tail flame sprayed out, giving his fighter missile the best direction indication! When his eyes looked there, the helmet sight had already locked on that position.

Under the belly of the aircraft, the seeker head of an R-60 missile rotated synchronously and then locked onto the F-4's chrysanthemum.

Fire! Kutulev pressed the missile launch button without hesitation.

An R-60 missile ignited and took off from the belly of the plane, heading towards the Americans in front.

"453, 453, attention, the Soviets are at the six o'clock position!" At this moment, Koizumi finally saw one of the Soviet fighter planes actually biting the tail of his wingman!

What happened to the Soviets? They just circled behind me! Could it be that the turning radius of their fighter planes has been reduced to less than 500 meters? How is this possible?

Of course it is possible! Just now, when the two sides flew head-on, Kutulev pushed the rudder and the fighter began to turn horizontally quickly. Outside the fuselage, the wings began to turn forward in unison through the signal received by the flight control computer, giving the fighter a more outstanding turning performance! In this way, the fighter turned quickly with incredible agility!

If you were to control the aircraft manually, you wouldn't have time to do this! Just changing the angle of the wing would require flipping multiple switches!

This is a real fighter! After Kutulev launched the missile, he saw that the other side was making a rapid dive, and it seemed that it had discovered his attack!

Countless flares were released from the middle of the opponent's fuselage. Unfortunately, the energy of the flares was still not enough to match the heat flow from the tail nozzle. The R-60 missile caught up with the opponent's chrysanthemum. "Boom!" With a loud bang, thick smoke came out from the tail of the fuselage.

Injured!

"063, pay attention to the three o'clock direction!" Just as he was about to rush forward and fire another shot, the voice of his wingman came through the headset. Kuturiv looked up and saw the bright spot swooping down in the sunlight.