Dominate South Asia

Four MiG-23MLs suddenly appeared in the distant mountains. The leading aircraft, Captain Belosevich, skillfully operated the panel in front of him and locked the Pakistani fighter plane on the opposite side with the Sapphire-23ML radar in front.

The three Su-22s of the Afghan Air Force in front were used as the first wave of bombing force, and the four MiG-23s following closely behind were to escort them.

However, after taking off, the MiG-23 fighter formation behind deliberately distanced itself from the front, so that when the two J-6s began to attack the Su-22s, the MiG-23 fleet suddenly appeared from the mountains and entered a favorable attack position at the same time.

MiG-23, the best of the second generation fighters of the Soviet Union, was specially developed for air combat. Its variable swept wings can adapt to air combat in various situations. A high-power turbojet engine allows the maximum speed to reach 2.35 Mach. At the same time, it is also conducive to low-altitude and high-speed penetration. However, its bulky body makes its maneuverability very poor. Rather than being a fighter, it is more suitable to be an attack aircraft.

Now, after discovering the J-6, the four fighters immediately began to attack. The Sapphire-23ML radar of the lead aircraft, code-named High-altitude Skylark in the West, continuously hit the opposite fighter through the magnetron and single-pulse radar beam. At the same time, the onboard computer kept calculating and setting the launch data for the R-23 missile under the wing.

Because they all used bulky electron tubes, the electronic equipment of the MiG-23 was very backward and slow to calculate.

At the same time, the two J-6s began to turn into a dive state.

Finally, after flipping a few more switches, the R-23 missile obtained enough launch data, and then a flash of fire flashed under the wing, and a missile flew out in the green smoke.

R-23, codenamed AA-7 Apex in the West, is a medium-range air-to-air missile of the Soviet Union. Due to the backwardness of the power system, the so-called medium-range missile has a range of only more than 30 kilometers. In order to effectively hit the target, the carrier aircraft will generally launch the missile within 15 kilometers.

There are four triangular wings in the middle and four smaller control surfaces at the tail. The shape of this missile is somewhat similar to that of the Phoenix, but much smaller.

The head is pointed. This is a medium-range missile with radio command guidance and semi-active radar terminal guidance. Now, in the first half of the flight, it relies entirely on the radar of the carrier aircraft to intercept the target, and then transmit the command to the missile via radio.

The R-23P missile is flying steadily. For it, hitting the target is just a matter of tens of seconds.

At the same time, a fighter on the right side of the lead aircraft also launched an R-23P missile and flew towards another J-6 aircraft.

In order to effectively guide the missile, the MiG-23 fighter could not make a large overload maneuver, and it kept flying steadily. However, Belosevich felt something was wrong.

The two J-6s were still diving. Judging from their posture, they had already entered the mountains before their missiles flew over.

As the target continued to descend, the radar antenna of the Sapphire-23ML was also constantly turning downward, continuously irradiating the single-pulse radar beam.

Soon it would enter the semi-active radar guidance process. The warhead of the R-23P missile was also equipped with a radar antenna, but this radar only had a receiving function. The radar transmission beam of the carrier aircraft was reflected back and received by the radar antenna of the R-23P missile, and then it could continue to guide, and no radio command was needed. This was the final stage of guidance. The locked target was almost unable to escape the attack of the missile.

But now, the opponent is diving, and when the radar of the carrier aircraft keeps turning downward, the echo suddenly becomes extremely chaotic.

The radar beam has hit the ground, and the undulating mountains keep reflecting the echo back. Therefore, the airborne radar immediately found that it could not count so many echoes and did not know which echo was the target.

Theoretically, the Sapphire-23ML radar has the ability to look down and shoot down, and it has a pulse Doppler system. Pulse Doppler means that the radial speed of the target and the interference object relative to the radar is different, and the echo signal also has different Doppler frequencies. In this way, the Doppler frequency spectrum of the target is selected by the frequency domain filtering method, and the spectrum of the interference clutter is filtered out, so that the radar can separate and detect the target signal from the strong clutter. Such a capability requires a high-performance computer to achieve, and the computer of the MiG-23 fighter cannot calculate it effectively.

The two targets disappeared from the radar screen. The two R-23P missiles that had just been fired could not distinguish the targets from the clutter, so they both lost their targets and exploded in the air after flying for more than ten seconds.

If the R-23T missiles that had just been fired were infrared seekers, they might have hit the targets. Now, because of the wrong missile selection, the MiG-23 fleet missed the fighter.

The land was getting closer and closer, and even the small trees in the valley could be seen clearly. Hussein persisted, overcoming his fear and continuing to descend for two seconds before suddenly pulling the control stick back.

He pulled back with both hands. Due to the huge speed, the rudder was subjected to great resistance, and the overload during the descent made it difficult for him to exert his strength.

Pull it up, pull it up! Hussein shouted in his heart, holding the operating rod tightly in his arms, breathing heavily, watching the ground finally disappear before his eyes, and it was the blue sky again!

In the smoke formed by two explosions in the distance, the two flying missiles exploded.

The damn Soviets actually dared to sneak attack on themselves! After Hussein pulled up the fighter, he quickly turned on the afterburner. Pull the lever, push the rudder, and rush towards the opponent!

Later, Bashar also used all his strength to pull up his plane, and followed Hussein to do the same action.

At this time, the four MiG-23ML fighters were also approaching rapidly, and the distance between the two sides was gradually getting closer and closer.

Now that we have reached close combat distance, the R-60 missile carried by the MiG-23ML for close combat only has the capability of tail pursuit attack. It was not until the late 1970s that the Soviet Union launched the R-60M improved version, equipped with photoelectric fuses and improvements Only the homing head has a quasi-omnidirectional attack capability. This kind of missile has not yet been mounted on the MiG-23ML.

At the same time, the AIM-9P missile carried by the J-6 also does not have omnidirectional attack capabilities. It was not until the F-19L that it had this capability.

Therefore, in this head-on battle, the only weapons that both sides can use are machine guns. At this time, both sides are extremely fast and are constantly maneuvering. The movable ring of the sight cannot be set at all. Can't live.

Suddenly, Hussein pulled back the control stick, and the MiG-23 raised its nose and rushed toward the sky.

Seeing the silver-white belly of the aircraft exposed to his sight, Belosvich pressed the red button on the operating lever without hesitation. However, when the bullet was fired, he was surprised to find that the aircraft The J-6 had already disappeared from his sight.

The J-6 is too flexible.

Without hesitation, Belosevich also pulled the control lever back. Under the huge overload, he struggled to push buttons one after another to adjust the sweep angle of the wings to the maximum.

To adjust the swept wing once, he needs to make seven movements. Under heavy g-force, it is as if there are several people on top of him. It is too difficult to make such movements. Only the most well-trained Soviet pilots could do it.

When the wings swept back, the entire fuselage suddenly relaxed and continued to climb upward. Looking at the J-6 reappearing in the field of vision, Belosvich turned on the afterburner and began to set his own sight movable ring.

At this moment, the opponent suddenly disappeared from Belosvich's sight again. Looking at the rolling J-6 through the hateful metal frame of the MiG-23's front windshield, Belosvich understood that he had encountered the most dangerous thing. A formidable opponent.

The combination of climbing, rolling and scissors is the rising-rolling scissors, commonly known as "rising scissors". This kind of dogfight focuses on the mobility of both sides' fighter planes.

Although the engine thrust of the MiG-23 is very large, the MiG-23 is more bulky. Although it is the latest Tumansky R-35F-300 engine, the current thrust-to-weight ratio is only 0.93. The J-6 fighter has a thrust-to-weight ratio of only 0.93. The ratio reached an astonishing 0.988!

During the climb, the fight was on the engine, and Belosvich knew he had fallen into a trap.

You can no longer chase. When the fighter plane cannot continue to climb due to insufficient engine thrust and has to dive, that will be your own doom! Belosvich pushed the operating lever forward, trying to escape and dive downward.

Just when Belosvich's MiG-23 was about to dive down, the J-6 fighter overhead also dived down flexibly.

This is the opportunity I have been waiting for! In the mid-range firefight, the J-6 was completely at a disadvantage, but at close range, the J-6 fought with the MiG-23 and did not lose at all!

To turn a corner, the MiG-23 needs a turning radius of 2,200 meters, while the J-6 needs a turning radius of less than 1,000 meters.

When the J-6 had already dived down, the MiG-23 had just leveled the aircraft. The nose of the J-6 was facing the fuselage of the MiG-23. That huge target was the best target!

There was no time to put the movable ring on, so Hussein quickly switched to the fixed ring and then pressed the button.

"Boom, boom, boom." The J-6 fuselage shook as the three 30mm cannons fired simultaneously.

Several holes suddenly appeared on the MiG-23's wing. Hussein pushed the operating lever to the right, and the cannon swept across the side of the wing. Then, half of the wing broke off.

"Bang." At this moment, the canopy on top of the MiG-23 suddenly shattered, and then, amid the blazing flames, the ejection seat broke through the canopy and flew out of the cockpit.

Belosvich had quick eyesight and quick hands. After half of the wing was broken, he knew that he would never be able to fly the fighter plane back. There were mountains below. A second later, the plane would be destroyed and everyone would be killed. So, he did not hesitate to fly the fighter plane back. Without hesitation, he pulled the ejection handle under the seat.