Chapter 268 Advantages of Helmet-Mounted Sights

It is totally impossible to use the same method to deal with phased array radar as the one to deal with Doppler radar! The single pulse signal of Doppler radar scans back and forth, while the phased array radar has its own receiving unit, and the signal processing system behind it is completely different from that of Doppler radar!

Compared with the single-pilot MiG-25, the MiG-31 has a dedicated radar operator, which greatly relieves the pilot's operating pressure. During long-range interceptions, the pilot only needs to maintain a good flight attitude.

In the small and dark rear cabin, the radar operator was nervously operating the panel to attack four targets at the same time! Controlling four missiles at the same time required taking into account the route of each missile!

Oops! With the last ten seconds left in the attack, a missile malfunctioned and fell.

There are three more! Terminal semi-active guidance!

"Boom!" A fireball appeared in the distant sky. Although the MiG-25s in the back could not see it, they took this opportunity to kill the MiG-23 fleet within visual range and saw it clearly.

A fighter plane of the Plaster Flag was hit and turned into a fireball in the sky! The power of R-33 is so fierce!

They also saw the American fighter planes performing various maneuvers and trying their best to get rid of the missiles. Now is their chance!

Ikeda Yuji was panting. Just now, after finding that he couldn't get rid of the lock by turning sideways, he immediately made the right choice and flew towards the opponent's missile! Sixty kilometers, this kind of missile with an abnormal range must be huge! And a huge missile has another flaw that cannot be compensated, that is, the small overload capacity!

Therefore, the most correct way is to fly head-on into the enemy aircraft, and when you are about to reach it, suddenly turn around. The missile cannot keep up with the aircraft’s maneuvering and will miss it!

It sounds simple, but it takes a lot of courage to actually fly towards a missile! If you maneuver too early, the missile will catch up, and if you maneuver too late, you will be hit!

Almost as soon as he saw the missile from his field of vision, Ikeda Yuji pulled back the joystick, turned on the afterburner, and quickly climbed upwards while turning sideways. After three seconds of holding on, he finally leveled himself off. The missile had disappeared!

Breathing the air in the oxygen mask, Ikeda Yuji's eyes were burning with anger. This round of attack had caused the loss of three fighter planes! The usual training was still insufficient! There was also the reason of not being proficient in operation. Modifying a new model often takes more than half a year, and they have only been on the plane for three months at most. Two of the ones who were just shot down were rookies who had just graduated from the aviation school!

Damn the Soviets, go to hell! Listening to the command of the E-2 early warning aircraft in the headset, six targets in the air have already rushed over, and Ikeda Yuji pushed the nose of the aircraft and headed towards the Soviets.

Relying on excellent radar and advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, they had planned to hit the Soviets head-on in medium-range air combat, but now, the enemy came over intact, and they lost three of their own! This made Ikeda Yuji put all his efforts into killing the opponent at close range. Although the Sparrow missiles were still mounted on the racks, the maneuverability of the F-15 was not comparable to that of the Soviet aircraft! If they were to show off in the sky, they would really have no way to stop them. Now that they rushed up to fight, they were their appetizers!

With this thought in mind, Yuji Ikeda encountered a target aircraft, and his heart suddenly relaxed. MiG-23, a second-generation aircraft!

F-15! Almost at the same time, the Soviet pilots on the other side also saw the target clearly. The leader of the 47th Regiment, Kovacevich, could not help but feel excited. I will use you as a scapegoat to show you how powerful the Soviet fighter planes are! What about the third-generation aircraft? In front of the MiG-23MLA, everything is a kill!

Compared to the Japanese pilots' lack of adaptability and inexperience in modifying the new fighters, the pilots of the 47th Regiment adapted to the new aircraft very quickly. After all, they used to fly the MiG-23, and the performance of the aircraft was the same as before, but it was more flexible and less complicated to operate, so they were familiar with it.

Soviet weapons have always been about inheritance. For example, some people criticized the unreasonable design and location of Soviet fighter instruments, which did not meet ergonomics. However, it can be found that the cockpits of various fighters have almost the same arrangement of instruments, which makes it very easy for pilots to change equipment. This is not the case with Western ones. For example, the later F-16 is a single model, but different batches have different cockpit layouts, so pilots have to adapt to it again.

The islanders' fighter planes were flying from the west, while the intercepting fighter planes were flying from the north. When the two sides encountered each other, they were turning and just avoided the glaring sunlight.

Lock on the enemy and fire AIM-9 head-on! Ikeda Yuji flipped the switch and switched the weapon system's medium-range Sparrow missile to the short-range Sidewinder missile. The AIM-9L on his side has omnidirectional attack capabilities!

The radar on the nose of the aircraft is scanning rapidly, providing more fire control solutions to the onboard fire control computer. Once the launch requirements are met, it will launch its own missiles.

Quick, quick, quick! Ikeda Yuji's fingers trembled slightly. He really wanted to press the button immediately to launch the missile. However, it took time for the seeker to cool down, point the seeker to the target according to the radar guidance, and lock on. Now, he had to wait. Otherwise, if he launched it, it would just be an uncontrolled rocket.

At this moment, white smoke came out from the root of the wing of a MiG-23 on the opposite side, and a missile flew towards him.

How is this possible! Now that both sides have the same flight conditions, how could the other party lock onto me in advance? Impossible, impossible!

The MiG-23 was able to seize the opportunity to launch the first move, this is the advantage of the helmet sight!

In this operation, because of the MiG-31 raid, the MiG-23 no longer needs to carry medium-range missiles. They are equipped with R-60 air-to-air missiles! The seeker of this improved missile is linked to the helmet sight.

On the way over, the missile was already powered on, the seeker was cooled, and it was ready to launch at any time. However, the F-15 on the opposite side was preparing to launch the Sparrow missile. In terms of missile preparation, they were behind. Moreover, their missiles needed to be solved by fire control before they could aim at the target, which also took time. Even if it was only one second, they were behind! Because, while Ikeda Yuji was waiting for the fire control to be solved, Kovacevic on the opposite side was just staring at him with his eyes. The helmet sight had already identified the target, and the seeker of the linked R-60 missile firmly locked the target. Then, it was launched!