Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1565 Formation Combat
This formation was thought up by a pilot named Hu Bin.

Yu Pingyu took this into consideration when the pilots discussed the combat plan.

"We can't hope to wipe out all the enemies out of range!" Yu Ping said worriedly: "If the enemy rushes into their range, then how should we fight?"

This presents a difficult problem for the pilot.

The performance of "La 5" is not as good as that of BF109 in all aspects. During combat, the radar pod is also brought and the maneuverability of missiles is affected. How can it dogfight with BF109 at close range?

The pilots looked at each other, and it took a long time before someone said: "Captain, you can just find a way, right? Just... fight!"

The other pilots nodded in agreement:
"Let's fight, what else can we do?"

"It's a fight to be able to fight!"

"Maybe it's enough to fight the missiles, and you can earn money by shooting down a few more by luck!"

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Pilots say this not because they are discouraged, but because air combat is often determined by the performance of fighters. If the speed and maneuverability of fighters are not as good as the enemy, then no matter how brave and skilled they are, it is often useless, just like fighters. There is a generation gap with the enemy, no matter how powerful the pilot is, he will die.

Therefore, many pilots gave up thinking about the problem raised by Yu Ping, because it is useless to think about it, and they think that there is no way to solve this problem.

Only Hu Bin thought about it seriously for a while, and then said: "Captain, I think it is impossible for us to fight the enemy with machine guns, so we can only think about it from air-to-air missiles!"

Yu Ping's eyes lit up when he heard this, which coincided with his thoughts.

Because as I said before, the performance gap between "La 5" and BF109 is too large. At this time, the "La 5" of the Eighth Route Army reduced three machine guns to one in order to carry air-to-air missiles, while BF109 has two guns and two guns. Gun, how to fight with BF109 in close combat?
(Note: BF109 has many modifications. Its weaponry was first three machine guns, and later changed to two machine guns and two machine guns. The later model was changed to one gun and two guns, which can be attached to the pod. Therefore, Wang Xuexin gave "La The 5” hanging pod is actually not advanced in this era)
If it is impossible to fight with a machine gun in close combat, or if you are close to death, it is better to give up the machine gun tactics and go in the direction of the empty missile.

Yu Ping raised his head and said encouragingly: "Continue talking, how do you use air-to-air missiles for close combat?"

Air-to-air missiles are really troublesome in close combat, because they can hit things three kilometers away, but now they have to hit BF109 hundreds of meters away.

It can even be said that it is impossible to fight close combat with air-to-air missiles.

Because the air-to-air missile has a killing range of more than 200 meters... This thing is a continuous long-rod warhead. Once it is exploded, it is almost a chain of chains flying around. The fighter also has its own speed when flying. Once it hits one or two of these chains , that is the fate of being cut by scissors.

With a killing radius of more than 200 meters, can you hit three targets at a distance of 500 meters without any problems?
What's more, BF109 is faster than "Pull 5", which means that BF109 is most likely behind "Pull 5". Can air-to-air missiles hit the rear?

Hu Bin replied unhurriedly: "Captain, we can divide the fighter planes into groups, and the distance between each other is two kilometers, so that we can artificially create a long-range distance! If an enemy plane attacks any group of our army, it will chase us from behind. Army fighter planes, then they are bound to be hit by air-to-air missiles from another group of fighter planes of our army!"

This idea is good, even Yu Ping has considered it, but there is a fatal problem.

Yu Ping said, "How to solve the problem of accidental injury?"

Hu Bin was taken aback by these words, accidental injury is indeed the most important issue to consider in this tactic.

The enemy plane chased our fighter planes, and the distance between each other was only a few hundred meters or even closer. At this time, another group of fighter planes of our army two kilometers behind was hitting the enemy plane with air-to-air missiles... If you are not careful, you will hit yourself by mistake warplane.

Wang Xuexin was also there at the time, and he came here to listen.

As the head of the aviation regiment, Wang Xuexin must understand the specific tactics of the aviation regiment so that he can better command them to fight.

Wang Xuexin believes that this is indeed a very difficult problem, because the laser proximity fuze of the air-to-air missile has not yet been released, and the old-fashioned melee fuze imported from Yingjiang is still used for the time being.

If you use a laser proximity fuze, it has a self-detonation program that can accurately and perfectly avoid this problem, but the old-fashioned proximity fuze...

But Wang Xuexin quickly thought of a way.

He interjected at this moment: "Do you still remember how we prevented our fighter planes from being injured by the devil's air defense system?"

Yu Ping understood as soon as he heard this: "Do you have a radio transmitter?"

Then he nodded again and said, "That's right, as long as we control the radio signal strength at about 300 meters, then the air-to-air missile will explode when it is 300 meters away from our army, and we don't need to worry about accidental injury!"

Wang Xuexin said: "I think it can be closer, the distance can be 200 meters!"

Yu Ping was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately understood the reason.

In Hu Bin's combat plan, the air-to-air missiles are launched from the rear of the fighter plane, that is, when the air-to-air missile explodes, the fighter plane is far away from the explosion area.

If the self-explosion distance is set at 300 meters, it is very likely that the enemy plane immediately behind our fighter plane will not be able to blow up.

200 meters is just right. This distance can neither damage our fighter planes nor damage enemy planes to the maximum extent.

Therefore, the hit rate of air-to-air missiles is actually higher in close combat.

Sometimes the pilots are not aiming at the enemy plane but the friendly "La 5" fighter... because the movement range of the friendly fighter is relatively small, but the BF109 is very flexible to maneuver up and down and it is difficult to aim.

Anyway, the air-to-air missile will explode when it is close to "pull 5", so what does it matter if it is aimed at "pull 5"?
Aiming at "La 5" is actually aiming at the BF109 behind it, because no matter how it changes, it will always bite the tail of "La 5", and eventually it will break into or even directly hit the explosion area of ​​the air-to-air missile.

So I only listened to the successive explosions on the battlefield, and BF109s were injured by air-to-air missiles one by one.

Some of them have holes cut out in the wings that affect their flight, and it is difficult to even maintain balance when flying crookedly in the air, let alone combat.

Some are injured and dare not speed up the skin, otherwise the "wound" may be enlarged.

What is more serious is that the propeller is cut off and loses part of the power.

The worst thing is that the whole fuselage was cut off and disintegrated in the air after being hit directly, and its scattered parts were scattered everywhere in the air.

Seeing this situation, Major Moriya couldn't help being horrified, and immediately ordered: "Leave the battlefield immediately, leave the battlefield immediately!"

(End of this chapter)