Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1558 Change
If a "La 5" can carry 6 air-to-air missiles, does it still need to carry three machine guns?

First of all, the combat method of "La 5" should be to shoot the enemy first outside the enemy's range in pursuit of preemptive strikes. Of course, air-to-air missiles are used instead of machine guns.

Secondly, the enemy BF109 will definitely take advantage of its fast speed to carry out tail-biting attacks on the "La 5" during the war. At this time, the "La 5" will not be useful even if it has a machine gun.

Again, the three air-to-air missiles have already reached the upper limit of the weight of the single-sided wing of the "Pull 5". Adding a machine gun to the wing is likely to be the last straw that crushes the camel's camel, not to mention the machine gun when shooting There is also strong recoil that can cause violent vibrations on the wings, which can do a lot of damage to the wings.

Considering these aspects, there is nothing to hesitate, and the wing machine guns are decisively cancelled.

In addition, Wang Xuexin also stipulated that pilots give priority to using the missiles on the wingtip pylons during combat.

The reason is simple. The wingtip pylon is the farthest from the fuselage. Although its weight is also 100 kg, it has the greatest leverage effect. Launching it first will relieve a lot of pressure on the wing.

The research and development problem in this aspect is not too big, because the anti-aircraft missiles of the Eighth Route Army are produced by themselves from the beginning to the end, and the production technology is relatively mature. Now it is only changed to smaller and shorter, and other designs have not been changed. That is the size. problem.

While the research and development of air-to-air missiles is in full swing, the training of pilots is also carried out simultaneously.

Wang Xuexin left this matter to Yu Ping.

When Wang Xuexin told Yu Ping about this, he still couldn't believe it.

"Three kilometers?" Yu Ping said in surprise: "It's only a small distance from the enemy's plane. If you can't even see it in the clouds, can you shoot accurately?"

As soon as Wang Xuexin heard Yu Ping's words, he knew that his combat thinking hadn't changed yet.

"Captain Yu!" Wang Xuexin said: "If you use air-to-air missiles to fight, you are not staring at the enemy's fighter plane!"

Yu Ping was confused by Wang Xuexin's words: "Commander, we are fighting the enemy's fighter plane, how can we not stare at the enemy fighter plane? If we don't stare at the enemy fighter plane, how can we fight?"

Wang Xuexin asked back: "According to what you mean, the radar soldiers also stared at the enemy's fighter plane? The air defense system also saw the enemy fighter plane to shoot it down? And the artillery detection radar, did the artillery see the enemy plane?" shells to calculate the position of the enemy's artillery positions?"

Hearing Wang Xuexin's words, Yu Ping understood a little bit.

"Head, what do you mean..." Yu Ping said suspiciously, "At that time, are we going to keep an eye on the radar?"

Wang Xuexin nodded: "Of course you have to keep an eye on the radar. From the radar, you can see from the radar which direction the enemy is coming from, how far away it is, and what area it is in, and then use air-to-air missiles to hit them! Just wait until you see the enemy fighter planes clearly." , it will be too late then!"

What Wang Xuexin said is really true. The advantage of "Pull 5" against BF109 is to launch an attack outside its range. Once it enters the range of the machine gun, "Pull 5" has no advantage.

Looking at Yu Ping, who was deep in thought, Wang Xuexin felt that this was not acceptable... Even Yu Ping, an experienced aviation captain, had this reaction when he heard this, so the other team members were not even worse?
Later, Wang Xuexin found out that his worries were justified. He gathered the pilots together for a meeting. As soon as he mentioned this air-to-air mode, there was an uproar in the conference room, and the pilots expressed doubts about it:
"Can this work? I think machine guns are still reliable!"

"But we only have one machine gun!"

"Will you be completely passive and beaten by then?"

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No wonder pilots have such doubts.

On the one hand, there is no such air combat mode in the world now. Pilots have never heard of this style of play, and it is normal to have doubts about it.

On the other hand, the pilots have become accustomed to the previous air combat mode...either using machine guns or cannons, and now they suddenly changed to air-to-air missiles that they don't know how to operate.

More importantly, now it is clear that "La 5" has performed very well in air combat. Although it has a shortcoming of range, but apart from this shortcoming, it has always been a "zero battle" against the devils. The "Yan" fighter is also slightly better...

In this case, why change?
After the change, will it turn victory into defeat instead?

Therefore, the vast majority of pilots are unwilling to change, or it can be said that they are afraid of change.

Some people also raised objections to Wang Xuexin:

"Leader, let us fight with machine guns! If we lose, we will apologize to you!"

"Yes, Captain! We played well, why did we suddenly switch to missiles?"

"Let's use the missiles for the infantry, let's work together in the air and ground!"

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But Wang Xuexin did not give them any room for negotiation, because he knew that this was the future trend, and the Eighth Route Army had to change at this time.

After Wang Xuexin waited for the pilots to calm down, he said: "Comrades, the reason we made the change is because we have received accurate information that the Devils are already producing BF109. Do you know this fighter?"

The pilots talked about it after a while of "coaxing". As pilots, they certainly know this world-famous fighter.

Wang Xuexin asked: "Are you confident in winning this fighter?"

Several pilots replied: "Yes!"

But the answer seemed weak.

Because everyone knows that if there is a gap in equipment in air combat, it cannot be made up with quantity, spirit, or confidence. At that time, you will only fall into a passive position in the air.

What's more, as long as the air combat between Mao Xiong and Hans is compared, a better conclusion can be drawn:

Hans used BF109 to defeat Maoxiong's "Pull 5". Maoxiong's pilot quality is better than that of the Eighth Route Army, so why did the Eighth Route Army pilots fly "Pull 5" to defeat BF109?

Wang Xuexin continued: "We really need to have confidence. I also believe that we can defeat the devil's BF109, but we don't use machine guns, but this air-to-air missile! But if we don't make changes... I believe you can come up with a objective conclusions!"

After listening to Wang Xuexin's words, the pilots stopped talking.

Because obviously, not changing would almost mean death, and there would still be a sliver of life if it changed, because air-to-air missiles do have a range advantage.

So, why not give it a try?

To be precise, it is the only way to try this way!

Therefore, Wang Xuexin psychologically persuaded the pilot to change tactics.

This is not an exception. The use of each new equipment on the battlefield is often not welcomed by frontline soldiers, because they are more willing to trust their previous "partners" and are unwilling to give their lives to unknown things.

(End of this chapter)