Chapter 69: Side Roll!

  P-23T missile uses a three-wing aerodynamic layout. The main wing adopts a large rear-swept trapezoidal wing, with 4 duck-style rudders in front of the main wing and 4 auxiliary control tail fins behind the main wing. Some are like a girl wearing a skirt, due to the suitable position and size of the control surface, resulting in good maneuverability of the missile, but limited by the Soviet solid rocket technology, the range of the missile is not far.

  Missile, is actually equivalent to a guided rocket, ignition, solid fuel engine, in tens of seconds, all the fuel is burned out, and then, relying on inertia, it flies without power.

  Moreover, the P-23T uses wireless command correction plus inertial mid-course correction and passive infrared terminal guidance. The front of the infrared seeker head is a glass cone, which has greater air resistance than the radar-type sharp nose cone, so under the same solid rocket motor, the range of the radar type is much higher.

  So, for various reasons, the range of P-23T is only 15 kilometers, which is the maximum range. As long as the opponent makes a slight movement, it will not be able to hit. Therefore, launching P-23 at 12 kilometers is a relatively correct choice.

  In this era, no medium-range missile can be fired and forgotten, even the later advanced AIM-120 can only allow the launch aircraft to let go at around 20 kilometers from the end, during the first half of the flight, the launch aircraft still needs to provide data.

  P-23T is even more so, the missile launched, Arslan simply did not dare to make large maneuvers, had to constantly use radar to illuminate the target, provide various data of the target, through wireless commands, provide necessary data for the missile, and correct in time.

  These few dozen seconds were his most dangerous moment. Once the missile flew close to the opponent and the infrared seeker head was activated, he could retreat at full speed.

  When the missile enters the autonomous guidance phase, it basically means that it has entered the missile's no-escape zone. No matter how strong the fighter jet's maneuverability is, it absolutely cannot match the missile's agility. The aircraft can fly out of a 9G overload, which is already the limit, while the missile can easily fly out of a 20G overload. Of course, using infrared decoy flares or chaff devices can interfere with less advanced missiles.

  Looking at the thick smoke ejected by the two missiles, Arslan silently prayed in his heart, God willing, he must get a hit!

  Panda on high alert in the air is closely searching for suspicious signals around.

  The panda is a heavy twin-seat air-to-air combat aircraft, with two crew members: the pilot in front and the weapons systems officer behind. The tandem cockpit allows for workload sharing between the two crew members, such as operating various complex electronic countermeasures devices while launching two missiles at two different targets simultaneously, all of which are advantages over single-seat fighters.

  At the tail end of the four-plane formation was aircraft number 472 flown by Ahmadi.

  The weapons system officer in the rear cockpit, Ranawade, suddenly found that the radar warning lights began to flash, and a very familiar voice came from the headphones during training.

  "There's a MiG behind us, painting us with radar." Lanawad immediately called out to the pilots in the front cockpit.

  Suddenly, the sound turned into a short and sharp whistle.

  "They've got a lock on us, they're launching missiles." Lanawad said urgently.

  At this time, the voice of the squadron commander came from the headphones: "There are MiGs behind, immediately roll away."

  MiG-25 uses the RP-25 high-altitude radar, with a 750mm diameter antenna, operating frequency of 15MHz, single-pulse mode with continuous wave illumination function, peak power of 100kW, scanning range of ±45° in azimuth and ±30° in elevation, using a dual-reflector Cassegrain antenna, but has multi-Doppler detection capability, can detect targets against clutter background, for an RCS of 16m2 target, the search/track distance is 85km and 54km respectively, semi-active guidance P-23/24 missile maximum range is 30km.

  This radar is actually very outdated, compared to the F-14's radar, it's simply a toy. Especially those exported to Iraq, are even more watered down. So, after being locked onto by the MiG, as long as you turn to a position where your speed and direction are perpendicular to the radar beam of the fighter jet, you will be filtered out by the radar as clutter.

  According to previous training, the four pilots in the formation pressed the quadruple electric switches on the throttle levers together, stepped on the rudder pedals, and the fighter jets performed a 90-degree roll while separating.

  The F-14's flight control surfaces include spoilers, a full-moving tailplane and rudders, with the spoilers mainly contributing to roll control, the full-moving tailplane providing pitch control during coordinated turns, differential operation of the tailplane also provides roll control, and the rudder providing yaw control at low angles of attack, while at high angles of attack it also contributes to roll control. As a result, the F-14 has an extremely fast roll rate, reaching up to 50 degrees per second.

  As long as it turns to a position perpendicular to the radar wave and flight direction, the locked intercepting radar will lose its target, causing the guided missile to be ineffective.

  Although locked by the MiG, Ahmadi did not panic. He rolled with the entire formation and then heard the sound of the weapons operator breaking the lock.

  I knew you'd roll over! Arslan knows that the panda's classic move has left so many pilots speechless, and he also knows that he only has one chance.

  Roll with them! And roll in the same direction as them!

  MiG-23 does not have the agility of a panda, so its rolling speed is much slower. However, here it's actually an advantage.

  If you and the other side have the same rolling speed, it means that after completing this action, you and the Iranian plane will be flying in parallel, the radar can't see the plane that is parallel to yourself, so it still can't lock onto the target.

  Due to the slow roll rate, Mig-23's nose is also turning, but Panda remains within its own 150-degree sector, ensuring that radar continues to illuminate the target. As it moves with the opponent, the opponent's tactical maneuver of trying to run perpendicular to itself becomes futile.

  As long as it's not vertical, radar can continue to lock onto the target!

  Arsalan is not a roughneck, these days he has been studying the tactical movements of Iranian aircraft, thinking about how to crack down on the opponent's moves, and then practicing in person!

  He persisted, the light spot on the radar screen was still there!

  Just now when I was doing a barrel roll, I withstood an overload of 5 Gs. For pilots who have undergone rigorous training, this kind of overload is well within the tolerable range.

  Ranavad kept staring at the dashboard and found that the radar warning light was still on, and the sound locked in his ears was still there!

  "We haven't shaken them off, they must be using some new type of radar!" Ranawade shouted.

  Ahami bit his lip, earlier when he was rolling over, he had already looked up and saw those two missiles. How ruthless, actually using missiles to attack himself!

  The other plane's target must be itself, because the other three pandas have already flown in different directions.

  Bad, can't shake off the opponent's attack!

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