Chapter 571 Target, E-3 AWACS

As Iraq's trump card, after losing a MiG-25 yesterday, Reyer was assigned another one. Today, he will lead his own formation to make a revenge attack!

They were no longer like blind people. Just behind them, in the Persian Gulf, near the Khuzestan Province, a large early warning aircraft was also flying, telling them the targets to attack.

A-50 early warning aircraft! As an important air command electronic aircraft on the front line, the Soviet Union has always focused on the development of early warning aircraft. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union had the Tu-126 early warning aircraft. This early warning aircraft uses the delay technology of fixed delay wood and has limited downward vision capability on land. It still cannot effectively detect targets in complex ground clutter. Therefore, as the first generation of early warning aircraft, this aircraft has many defects.

At the same time, after the Soviet Union's Il-76 transport aircraft was developed, the Ilyushin Design Bureau used the Il-76 as a platform to develop the second-generation early warning aircraft. Historically, this early warning aircraft was developed in 1978, and after several years of flight tests, it was finalized and equipped to the troops.

Now, the development of this type of early warning aircraft is lagging behind compared to the past, and this lag is due to the change of the aircraft's radar.

Originally, the Shmel radar for the A-50 AWACS should have been a brand new radar system. Unfortunately, due to the defects of the Soviet Union in the electronic system, the A-50 AWACS that entered service was actually equipped with a radar that was improved from the Liana radar system, which is the radar system of the Tu-126 AWACS. How to improve it? For Soviet engineers, increasing the power is the most popular way to use it. Therefore, the performance of this radar is not advanced, and it is still a transitional product to compete with the US E-3 AWACS. Moreover, the onboard electronic equipment is also backward, and the ability to process signals is limited, resulting in this aircraft only having the ability to guide ten to twenty fighters in air combat.

It was not until later generations that Russia continued to improve this early warning aircraft and adopted active phased array radar, which truly caught up in this field.

However, history has changed now. With Andre's travel, the island country was forcibly seized. Using the island country's advanced electronic technology, the An-50 early warning aircraft has also been greatly improved. For example, the plate on the top has become a flat slot radar antenna like the E-3, which greatly increases the efficiency of radiating electromagnetic waves! At the same time, the internal airborne electronic equipment directly uses a more mature and faster electronic computer system. The application of large-scale integrated circuits has greatly improved its ability to process information.

Now, at a distance of 500 kilometers, it can detect American early warning aircraft in the opposite airspace, and at the same time, guide several of its own fighter planes to drop javelins.

The MiG-31 cannot be exported to Iraq, so if the MiG-25 wants to attack the early warning aircraft, it can only rely on external assistance. This is also very normal. Air combat has never been a confrontation between single aircraft, but a confrontation between systems!

Breathing the oxygen in the oxygen mask, Reyer operated his fighter plane, climbing higher and higher. At the same time, the turbojet engine at the tail was fully powered, pushing the steel fighter plane to continue climbing.

If you want to throw the missile to the farthest place, you need your carrier aircraft to have a greater speed and altitude!

From the cockpit, the edge of the earth can be seen. It is a very beautiful sight. However, Reyer is not in the mood to appreciate such a sight. He is a little impatient in his heart.

Because of the high-speed flight, the temperature in the cabin began to gradually rise, and beads of sweat appeared on the forehead.

"Attention, the target's escort fighters, four F-15s are flying in, at an altitude of 12,000 kilometers, and pose no threat. The distance to the target is 350 kilometers." The sound of the early warning aircraft continued to be heard in the headset.

"Sky Falcon received." The moment Reyer heard the enemy plane coming, all the messy thoughts in his mind suddenly disappeared. He concentrated on looking at the panel in front of him. After several hours of temporary training, he had mastered the operation of the newly mounted missiles.

The altitude reached 28,000 kilometers, and the speed reached Mach 2.6, which is the maximum speed with the heavy missiles mounted outside!

"Distance: 300." The voice of the early warning aircraft behind came through the headset: "Prepare to launch."

"No, we need to fly closer." Rayer said, "Please continue to guide us."

Closer! Because the carrier aircraft's radar cannot see more than 300 kilometers, the R-33M missile was launched in a mad dog manner. Although the target is a large aircraft, it should not make drastic maneuvers to evade, but the farther the distance, the more time is left for the opponent, and the greater the chance of missing the target!

So, we have to get closer!

And now, the tail engine has been burning at full power for more than two minutes. If it continues like this, the engine may be scrapped!

After hearing Reyer's words, the wingman following behind hesitated a little, but later, he heard Reyer's firm words: "For Iraq, for President Saddam, we are invincible! Even if our fighter plane crashes, we must complete this strike mission!"

As the lead pilot, Reyer knew more about the tactical arrangements. Their goal of destroying the early warning aircraft was the most important part of today's counterattack plan! Even if all of their own men died, they had to complete the mission.

Moreover, we must avenge the dead Iraqi people and the dead President Saddam!

"Two hundred and fifty kilometers away, the target aircraft is beginning to descend!"

"Received, lower the parameters, and launch the missile!" Reyer said, quickly adjusting the missile's binding data, and then the carrier's fuselage trembled.

On the left and right sides, two R-33M missiles left the launch pad, trailing tongues of fire!

Because the missile does not have a data link function, otherwise, the target can be changed again during the flight. But now, as long as it is launched, it will fly freely in the sky.

Behind him, the other fighters also launched missiles one after another! Four fighters and eight R-33M missiles can cover a large area of ​​airspace!

Reyer watched the missile climb higher and higher and turned off the afterburner.

Although the target aircraft's altitude is descending, in order to achieve the maximum range, after launch, it needs to climb to a higher altitude and conduct cruise flight.

The ramjet engine was working steadily, emitting a blazing flame from the tail, pushing the missile to fly steadily at an altitude of 40,000 meters, and the target airspace was also approaching rapidly!