The strongest pilot ever

Chapter 385 Towed Active Radar Decoy

385 towed active radar decoy

In Fade Chen's cockpit, the alarm sounded continuously.

On the radar warning device, several places flashed frightening warning signs at the same time.

At the same time, the voice of the early warning aircraft also came over, reporting the crisis Fade Chen was facing at the moment.

At this time, it would be a lie to say that Fade Chen was not nervous at all, his heart was in his throat.

But he was nervous but not flustered, and he felt the danger without being out of control.

He turned his head and glanced at the tracks of several missiles that were chasing after him. Soon, he withdrew his gaze, pressed the lever, and dived.

The height advantage he had been occupying before was all transformed into speed at this moment.

Whoosh!
The fighter jet is like a streamer, flashing across the sky like electricity.

Chen Fei dived almost vertically.

Such a dive can allow him to gain enough speed, and the near-vertical dive will quickly disintegrate the energy of the missile. In addition, the vertical dive will also make it more difficult for the missile's seeker to search for the target, because the vertical direction Above, the interference of ground clutter is very large.

But vertical diving also has a disadvantage, that is, its overload is too large, and many pilots will soon be unable to bear it, and eventually cause the plane to crash and die.

But fortunately, Chen Fei's ability to carry loads is very high, and he can bear it.

Although Fade Chen started to dive at a height of about 8000 meters, the height above the ground was actually only 3000 meters, because the mountains below are very high, with an altitude of 5000 meters. At just over 2000 meters, it is impossible for him to dive to a place 40 meters above the ground before pulling up, that would be too dangerous.

But he can't pull up the fighter plane at a place that is too high, because his purpose is to use the ground to throw off the missile, so his plan is to wait until the fighter plane is 500 meters away from the ground and pull it up. At that time, the distance between the fighter plane and the ground may be only about 100 meters. This distance is almost impossible for missiles to avoid, and they will definitely hit the ground.

When Fade Chen dived to a height of 450 meters above the ground, he pulled up the control lever. The huge overload made the fighter plane make a tooth-piercing sound, as if it was about to fall apart, but fortunately, the J-[-] was still very To be honest, there were no accidents in the fighter jet.

This nearly [-]-degree turning—rushing down vertically and then pulling up horizontally—this huge maneuver prevented the two missiles chasing Fade Chen from completing the maneuver, and finally fell to the ground and exploded.

But there is another one, he was the last one to be launched, so it is far away from Fade Chen, so when he was still a long way from the ground, the pilot who launched him urgently sent a radio to tell his flight path A change was made, so he forcibly twisted his posture in the air, and then continued to shoot towards Fade Chen.

Fade Chen glanced at the electronic tactical threat display. On it, the radar radiation signal of the missile was getting stronger and stronger. Therefore, there is no doubt that this is an active radar-guided missile. This should be a medium-range and long-range air-to-air missile. Missiles, such missiles generally have two chances to ignite, but now this missile is still in the first stage, which is the stage of relying on inertial flight. In other words, its engine has not yet ignited twice.

This is the big threat!
Fade Chen narrowed his eyes slightly.

He glanced at the terrain outside for a while, and fled quickly in the fighter jet, and then glanced at the electronic tactical threat display, carefully observing the missile.

Soon, that missile fired again!

Because on the electronic tactical threat display, the radar radiation signal of this missile increased at a faster rate, increasing at an accelerated rate. Before, although the radiation signal of this missile was getting stronger and stronger, the increase was getting faster and faster. Small, it meant that he was getting slower and slower, but now, the opposite happened, the signal increased more and more.

Fade Chen made preparations before, and immediately used the electronic jamming equipment of the fighter jet to electronically jam the guidance radar of that missile!
At the same time, he clicked or pressed his hands dazzledly, and a fierce tiger operation. After a moment, a group of chaff was released, a group of decoy bombs was thrown out, and then another group of chaff and a group of bait bombs were thrown out. Group of bait bombs.

For this kind of mid-range and long-range advanced air-to-air missile that can be ignited twice, try not to take the chance of throwing him off with maneuvering actions. If you want to avoid him, the only possibility is to detonate him as soon as possible with a decoy bomb, or use a decoy bomb to detonate him as soon as possible. Electronic interference!
But after Fade Chen operated the Tiger, the missile was not detonated, and it was not successfully interfered by the electronic warfare system either!
He was only slightly confused for a moment, but he soon came to his senses, and immediately continued to pursue Fade Chen, and the distance was getting closer and faster.

Obviously, this is not an ordinary medium and long-range air-to-air missile, it should be the most advanced type of the enemy.

At this time, the warning sound in the cockpit sounded again, and it became more and more sharp.

In addition, the suffocating horror in Fade Chen's heart also permeated his whole body.

The last big killer must be used!

Otherwise, you can only eject and skydive!
However, skydiving at such a high place is equivalent to skydiving on my country's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Even if you don't fall to your death, you may be frozen to death. Skydiving here is not allowed unless it is absolutely necessary.

Chen Fei decided to use a towed active radar decoy (TRAD).

The basic principle of the towed bait is to use the traction device on the aircraft to drag the bait, so that the bait can not only be separated from the aircraft, but also have the same movement characteristics as the aircraft, and will not be quickly detected by the active radar seeker of modern missiles like chaff recognized.

The release of this decoy by the carrier aircraft is equivalent to forming a virtual two-aircraft formation. Through maneuvering, the "virtual wingman" of the towed decoy is brought closer to the incoming missile, and the characteristic of the seeker to grasp the large and release the small is used to grasp the signal characteristics. The bait to achieve "lose the car to keep handsome".

The towing device is actually very similar to an old friend in the field of aviation weapon test training - the aviation tow target, and it is not complicated;

If you just replace the target with a corner reflector that increases the signal strength of the bait itself, it is not difficult technically, but it is difficult for the corner reflector to "play the real image" at multiple angles, and it is easy to be detected by modern radars. When the seeker recognizes it, especially in the face of incoming missiles, a "wingman" who will not interfere is obviously not deceptive enough, and it will not play much role other than dragging the mobility of the carrier aircraft.

So now it is generally said that towed bait refers to the TRAD with its own jammer.The principle is to pass the interference signal to be transmitted through the tow line between the carrier aircraft and the bait (the power supply required for the interference signal is also transmitted by the carrier aircraft), and the transmitter on the bait is thus simulated to be similar to the carrier aircraft. And stronger radar signal characteristics with interference conditions, so that TRAD and the carrier aircraft that are also releasing interference form a pair of "virtual wingmen".

It has also been found in various live ammunition target tests at home and abroad that although the relative consistency of the motion posture between the target and the decoy makes it difficult to identify even a seeker using the pulse Doppler principle at a long distance; The distance between the missile and the target/decoy is close, the angle between the line between the missile and the target and the line between the missile and the decoy is getting larger and larger, some speed resolution ability is higher, and the detection range is larger (guarantee that the missile/decoy is within the " The probability of the seeker identifying the bait increases significantly.

In live-fire confrontation, some surface-to-air missile systems that still retain the command guidance technology use another method: when the performance of the radar system is not as good as that of the advanced model, the missile is controlled by command to track the decoy interference source mode , Combining the pre-method of changing the target parameters to attack the target machine mounted with TRAD.

The logic is that since it is impossible for the missile seeker to recognize the target and the decoy, and the decoy cannot be "dragged" in front of the aircraft anyway, then according to the length of the towing rope of the existing TRAD and the heading of the target/decoy relative to the position, when using Adding an "advance amount" to the front-end method can theoretically increase the probability of damage.

What Fade Chen is using now is such a relatively advanced towed active radar decoy.

As soon as he operated the tiger, the missile was finally detonated with a bang. The huge impact made Fade Chen's fighter tremble and almost slipped. The aircraft attitude has been corrected.

Although he got rid of the pursuers behind him, it did not mean that he was safe, because soon, the early warning aircraft sent a warning: "Eagle, at the direction of three o'clock in front of you, at [-] kilometers, behind the Longermei Mountains , a two-aircraft formation is taking off, it is speculated that they will ambush you there, be careful."

Although Fade Chen's airborne radar was always on, he couldn't see the two-aircraft formation at all because of the obstruction of the mountains.

But fortunately, he still has the support of early warning aircraft.

Moreover, the closer to the base, the stronger the early warning capability of their early warning aircraft, and the safer he will be.

But if he wants to return to the base safely, he can't hope for it for the time being, unless he can win the previous battle.

Fade Chen glanced at the fuel gauge.

Oh shit!

There is only half of the burning left, and there is no way to fly to the Sanjiang base.

After thinking for a while, he radioed: "Tiangong No. [-], I don't have much fuel left, you have to find a way for me, either find me an alternate landing at the nearest airport, or send me a refueling plane !"

The answer from the AWACS reassured Fade Chen, and the AWACS said: "Eagle, you don't have to worry about the fuel problem, the tanker is already on the way, and it is expected to meet you near the next navigation point, over!"

Next navigation point?

Fade Chen recalled the return route map.

Fortunately, the next navigation point is not too far away. The little fuel left in his fighter jet is enough for him to fly there.

Fade Chen quickly thought about the next flight plan.

It seems that we can only deviate from the return route for the time being. There is an ambush at three o'clock ahead. He'd better dodge it. He only has one air-to-air missile now, so he can't compete with the opponent's machine gun. He thinks, But are people so stupid?
He left on the bar to disengage.

While departing from the original route, he radioed: "Tiangong No. [-], carefully observe the movement of the two aircraft formations, and report at any time! It's over!"

"Received! If there is any situation, we will notify you immediately!" the early warning aircraft said.

The main reason why the other party should be notified at any time is because Fade Chen has a feeling that the enemy will not let him go back so easily, and it is impossible to just send a two-aircraft formation to ambush him, because once he safely passes the previous section Well, it's impossible for the enemy to shoot him down again, because after this section is the forward position of the U.S. coalition forces, the ground is full of ground guidance troops of the U.S. coalition forces, although the equipment of those troops is somewhat outdated, But with so many ground missiles shooting at the target together, not many pilots can escape.

So Fade Chen had a vague feeling that the previous section should be the last battlefield. The enemy must have laid an ambush here. Even if the enemy didn't react in time, there shouldn't be only a two-aircraft formation.

Sure enough, after flying for a while, Fade Chen heard the sound of the early warning aircraft: "Eagle, there is a change in the formation of the two aircraft at three o'clock, and they are flying towards you!"

Ok?
Fade Chen frowned.

They seem to know that they are flying this way!
He hurriedly asked the AWACS: "Tiangong-[-], do they have an AWACS nearby?"

"no!"

No?

Fade Chen's pupils shrank.

The enemy's most advanced early warning aircraft has already been killed by him, so there is no possibility that our army's early warning aircraft cannot detect him. Therefore, it cannot be the credit of the early warning aircraft that the two-aircraft formation knew his movements. Doubtless, they have other accomplices who use advanced photoelectric detection systems to detect him. Therefore, there is nothing on his electronic tactical threat display, but the enemy knows his whereabouts clearly.

Photoelectric detection system?
Fade Chen smiled lightly.

After thinking for a while, he said to the early warning aircraft: "Tiangong-[-], their photoelectric detection system is very advanced!"

"We have already recorded it. After the task is completed, it will be handed over to the intelligence department immediately, so that they can collect information in this regard as soon as possible!"

Fade Chen smiled and didn't say anything else. He turned his head and looked down. There was a layer of thick clouds floating about 800 meters above the mountain. As long as he hid inside, the enemy's photoelectric detection system would definitely be destroyed It's useless.

His J-[-] fighter jet is originally full-spectrum stealth, and it also has a strong stealth ability for infrared detection, but there is no doubt that the photoelectric detection system equipped by the enemy must be more advanced, but no matter how advanced it is, it is difficult to penetrate With such thick clouds, it's like even the most advanced spy satellites are afraid of encountering cloudy skies.

He lowered the pole and quickly got into the clouds.

Soon, the voice of the early warning aircraft sounded on the radio: "Eagle, another two-aircraft formation is found, at your eleven o'clock position, fifty kilometers away."

Fade Chen lowered his head and glanced at the multi-function display. On it, the data link of the early warning aircraft displayed all the data detected by them one by one.

At this time, the two formations had drilled out of the rolling mountains, and they were no longer hiding, but they did not turn on the radar, but approached quietly.

The sea of ​​clouds where Fade Chen is hiding is huge, but no matter how big he is, he has a limit, and there will always be a time when the flight is over, so the two formations of fighter planes quietly flew towards the end of the sea of ​​clouds, intending to ambush there.

Based on the data sent by the AWACS, Fade guessed their intentions clearly.

After thinking about it, he suddenly had an idea. Instead of continuing to fly forward, he wanted to control the fighter jet to make a turn and quickly flew to the right.

Before flying to the right, he fired the last medium- and long-range air-to-air missile on the fighter plane towards a target.

Flying to the right for a while, he lowered his altitude again and sank directly into a mountain depression. Then, he turned on afterburner and quickly increased his speed.

Didn't the two enemy formations want to ambush him in front?
Then he will come to a counter-ambush!

He rushed to another place at a faster speed than when he was flying just now.His fighter jet was flying fast. The terrain in the valley was complicated. Many places were narrow valleys. The narrowest part was only more than 30 meters wide. Fade Chen rolled and flew over at a [-]-degree side, then recovered and continued to fly fast. .

During his flight, he had to keep an eye on the air-to-air missile and correct it from time to time. Although he didn't turn on the on-board radar, the early warning aircraft transmitted the relevant information of the enemy aircraft formation one by one. Air-to-air missiles can be guided by those data.

This process is very complicated, but the time is actually very short, only tens of seconds.

Soon, the autonomous radar of the last PL-15E missile started to work, and then the missile's ramjet engine completed the secondary ignition.

The missile found its target and hit it.

The two formations of fighter planes that were ambushing ahead were taken aback by the sudden arrival of the missile, and they hurriedly avoided it.

But one fighter plane failed to evade, was hit by a missile, and was blown up.

The other three fighters immediately fled in panic.

Two of them flew towards the airspace where Fade Chen was ambushing.

Fade Chen has been waiting for a long time!

But he only has machine guns.

He adjusted the combat mode to the cannon mode, and turned on the cannon switch to activate the cannon.

Soon, the funnel-shaped aiming ring on his HUD had intercepted the target, and after a few seconds, the permission to fire on the HUD began to flash slowly.

Open fire!
Fade Chen immediately pressed the button.

A wave of bullets shot out in an instant.

A fighter jet was hit on the wing, and the pilot immediately ejected and parachuted in a panic, and the other ran very fast, opened the afterburner and ran away!

Fade Chen didn't chase either.

His purpose is not to kill them all, he can't kill them, and he has no ammunition at this time, so when the enemy plane is in a panic, he directly pushes the throttle valve to the afterburner position and locks it, and also desperately moves towards the enemy plane. Fly over to the next navigation point.

Soon, the voice of the early warning aircraft sounded: "Eagle, go to the next navigation point as soon as possible. The tanker has arrived. In addition, we have dispatched a six-aircraft formation to fly from the direction of Anliu Mountain to support you!"

Finally there are reinforcements.

Fade Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He glanced at the multi-function display. At this time, the enemy was still chasing him, but the distance was more than [-] kilometers. If they ran at this speed, they would not be able to catch up!
(End of this chapter)