1novels #350 - The first generation of Thunderbolt air-to-air missiles
#350 - The first generation of Thunderbolt air-to-air missiles
Headquarters.
"I heard that Li Yunlong told his subordinates that they should beg for air force protection even if it meant kneeling?" The commander of the headquarters looked at the brigade commander and joked. "Why don't you make him kneel then? That kid is really reckless and unruly; he can never be disciplined enough!"
"Haha, don't mention it; that kid really could do something like that. Although men have honor, that rascal Li Yunlong would resort to any means to achieve victory for his troops!" The brigade commander laughed and continued the headquarters commander's words. "How many times have you disciplined him, Commander? Has his temper changed? Not at all! That's just how he is!"
"However, it will indeed be difficult for the 24th Division to escape if Li Yunlong has them surrounded!" the brigade commander said. "Now, Ding Wei's two divisions have gone up to block the 1st Cavalry Division, and Rogue Eagle's Eighth Army. Now we're counting on the 7th Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division on the eastern front. I don't know if Kong Jie can hold on."
"I'm actually a bit worried because reinforcements won't arrive behind Kong Jie for at least two days. Ammunition replenishment has entered the peninsula and will be delivered in at most one day, assuming there are no disruptions."
"Yes, the eastern front is crucial. Radar operations must be vigilant. Also, contact home and ensure that information from deciphering Rogue Eagle's aerial deployment transmissions is sent directly to the headquarters immediately. We should establish a dedicated aerial telegraph channel with the decryption team. We must eliminate Rogue Eagle's air support for the 7th Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division on the eastern front!" the headquarters commander said.
"Actual combat has proven that J-5 jet fighters are far more effective at dealing with Rogue Eagle's bombers than Mustang fighters. Those two J-5 jet fighter squadrons will be reserved specifically to deal with Rogue Eagle's bombers! Request another hundred Mustang fighters from home, and at least one more squadron of J-5 fighters for our headquarters, to be deployed to the Liaodong area immediately to prepare for battle!"
The good news about the J-5 fighter had already reached the headquarters, naturally causing jubilation.
This kind of aerial contest with generational differences was the first time everyone had encountered it, and no one had expected such a strong effect.
This made the headquarters quite excited!
Although they knew that such favorable conditions, encountering Rogue Eagle's bomber formations alone, might not occur again.
However, with their speed advantage, the Mustang fighters and J-5 fighter squadrons could also be mixed in battle, using their speed to shake off the entanglement of enemy Mustang fighters or P-47 Thunderbolt fighters on the battlefield, and then directly swoop in on the bomber squadrons!
Like swordsmen, they would directly eliminate the enemy's bombers with weak air combat capabilities and then drift away.
"Group leader, it has improved a lot. The effect has increased by at least 60%. The new single board has much stronger computing power than before. We used a new filtering algorithm to remove many interfering clutter effects. Now, the target acquisition effect for automobile exhaust tests has increased by more than 2 times the distance. We can apply for testing on actual missiles now.", Yao Shugen, one of the main researchers, reported excitedly.
"We don't need to change our control logic. As long as the target acquisition effect is improved, there will be an immediate effect."
"Then apply for the test! There's a war going on at the front. I heard there are fierce air battles every day. Our air force and Rogue Eagle's air force have suffered heavy casualties, but our air force has a weak foundation. At the current rate of consumption, we won't be able to hold out for long, and the air force will be depleted," Bai Shanhai said.
"We'll apply right away!" Yao Shugen did not hesitate and immediately began preparing the application to replace the original module for actual combat testing.
Now it's a state of war, and there won't be so many repeated tests and verifications. As long as the actual combat test is effective, then a portion of this missile can be test-produced for more testing. Once the effect is verified to be better than the aircraft cannon, then it will be mass-produced and equipped immediately!
Everything in the rear is now prioritized to switch to a mode of supporting the front lines.
Fighting against a superpower like Rogue Eagle is, of course, the top priority for the Dragon Country, and everything else must give way to it.
Fire Control Radar Group.
The comrades have been working at an intensity of more than 20 hours continuously for at least a month, completely breaking Ren Zhong's iron rule of rest for researchers.
Of course, the first-generation air force fire control radar, the Fire Eye I, which integrates the modern single-board computer and non-metallic materials of the main world, already has the fire control guidance capability for aerial distances of 20 kilometers.
In the actual aerial test of the Mustang fighter, tracking targets the size of the Mustang fighter can be stable at a distance of 20 kilometers.
Of course, installing this fire control radar on the Mustang fighter, although it has some effect, is limited because the nose propeller propulsion mode prevents the Mustang fighter from being modified with air-to-air missiles, so the effect is not great.
If large-scale modifications are to be carried out, the propeller on the nose needs to be moved to the wing to add a propeller to become a twin-engine type, which is already the workload of designing a new fighter.
Therefore, the second wave of testing of the fire control radar will be placed on the J-5. Of course, this Fire Eye I radar was originally designed to be paired with the air-to-air missiles that the J-5 is about to be equipped with.
To complete the installation of the radar, Ren Zhong provided them with the assembly method of the J-5A all-weather fighter model from the main world.
Soon they completed the modification of a J-5A new fighter, and it happened to encounter the application for air-to-air missiles, so the new test was simply combined to start debugging!
First, various functions were simulated and debugged on the ground to ensure that there were no problems with the ground test. Only then did the J-5A fly into the sky under the test flight of the most experienced pilot and began its first test flight!
"Tower, Falcon One has detected the target, altitude 4500, speed 460, distance 21 kilometers!" In the sky, test pilot Wu Chen quickly found the target on the fire control radar, and the system also started beeping!
"Very good, Falcon One, now approach the target and lock onto the target within a 3-kilometer range and fire the air-to-air missile!"
At the tower test flight command, the commander calmly ordered.
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"Falcon One understands, approaching the target and launching an attack within 3 kilometers!" Wu Chen responded and began to accelerate towards the target drone at high speed, and soon approached the 3-kilometer range!
When the fire control radar completely locked onto the target drone, Wu Chen pressed the fire button, and the Thunderbolt One immediately detached from the fighter and ignited, and began to accelerate towards the target!
As the first air-to-air missile, the Thunderbolt One has a maximum range of only 6 to 8 kilometers, and a practical range within 5 kilometers. This time, in order to ensure the success of the first launch, the project team chose 3 kilometers for testing.
After the missile left the fighter, under the guidance of the radar, it quickly caught up with the target drone. When the infrared detector entered a range of about 500 meters, it detected the heat source of the target drone, and began to correct the direction of the missile, and rushed towards the heat source of the target drone. With a bang, the target drone instantly cracked and emitted thick smoke!
Ground observers below the test airspace recorded the entire operation process, and the first test was a complete success!
Almost at the same time, in the test of the surface-to-air missile, the new ground fire control radar system, Lei Shen, also easily hit the target drone by guiding the Hongqi 2 surface-to-air missile.
It proves that the new fire control radar and missile have entered a new stage.
In the next verification test, the destruction probability of air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles against target drones was as high as 70%. Although there was a low-speed factor that the target drone's speed was only more than 400 kilometers, judging from the test effect, the infrared homing was very strong after the missile approached the target within a range of 500 meters, and it could almost bite the heat source of the target drone to attack and destroy the target drone.
The cases of failure were that the radar still lost the target in the early stage of fire control guidance.
It shows that there is still a lot of room for improvement in radar performance.
But it is only one step away from being practical.
Under the current circumstances, it is already worth finalizing and sending to the front line.
Even if each launch has only a 30% hit rate, the combat effectiveness of the J-5 fighter carrying 4 Thunderbolt Ones has been improved by more than just a little bit.
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