Originally, when the Blackbird was designed, it emphasized radar stealth. The black coating on the fuselage is the stealth coating. However, in reality, the aircraft could not hide its whereabouts at all. The huge sonic boom cloud, It has become a good reflection carrier for long-range radar, and the body is hot and easily detected by infrared devices.

However, the black bird is still unimpeded, and its unique trick is height and speed!

The altitude continued to increase. Olmsted calculated in his heart that he would be able to fly over the target in less than twenty minutes, and the altitude would rise to about 28,000. The first to detect was the Pacific Ocean of the Soviet Union. Those belongings of the fleet!

Topol, prepare the reconnaissance equipment. Olmsted said to his companions in the back seat.

The Blackbird is a two-seat reconnaissance plane, with the pilot in the front and the reconnaissance system officer in the back.

Understood. The personnel in the back seat began to turn on various reconnaissance equipment. As a powerful reconnaissance aircraft, it carried advanced electronic and electronic reconnaissance cameras, infrared and electronic detectors, AN/APQ-73 synthetic aperture side-looking radar, etc. Optical reconnaissance equipment, moreover, these equipment are mounted on rails, which can be moved backwards when shooting, offsetting the errors caused by the flight of the aircraft.

Daytime is best when it comes to optical photography. Therefore, after the night flight a few days ago, it was found that the proud Soviet MiG-25 fighter could not pose a threat to itself at all, and the Americans became more courageous, and finally began the daytime reconnaissance!

Will I be the next Gary Powers? (The pilot of the U-2 was shot down in 1960 while scouting the Soviet Union.) Of course not! At that time, there was only height, but now, it is both height and speed! With the backward electronic technology of the Soviets, it is simply impossible to create a missile that can intercept three times the speed of sound reconnaissance aircraft!

Just after the black bird flew over the Korean peninsula, a large-scale early warning radar deployed on the Hort Mountains in the Far East had detected the uninvited guest from a high altitude, and sent an early warning signal to the intercepting force through an automated air defense network. .

Sokolovka base.

Report, the superior informed that a suspicious target was found, with an altitude of 26,000 and a speed of Mach 3. It has crossed the Korean Peninsula and is flying north. The superior instructed us to be ready to intercept it at any time!

Hearing this alarm, Kuoridub suddenly took a deep breath. The target of Mach 3 is the American black bird again! They are so arrogant! This time it came in broad daylight!

For the Soviet Air Defense Forces, the Blackbird was their natural enemy, especially the interceptor units equipped with MiG-25!

Once, the American U-2 reconnaissance plane flew recklessly on the territory of the Soviet Union and slapped the face of the Soviet air defense until later, with a loud sound of Sam-2 missiles, the Americans stopped investigative action. A few years later, the Americans came back, this time with a speed of Mach 3 and an altitude of over 25,000 kilometers.

Only the Soviet MiG-25 fighter can fly to this height! These days, the Sokolovka base has been disfigured. As an important air defense interceptor unit in the Far East Military Region, it is too embarrassing for the 513th Regiment, which is mainly equipped with the most advanced fighters such as the MiG-25. They have launched interception operations many times, but without exception , these interception operations have failed!

The Americans even more triumphantly announced that there is no restricted area for the SR-71!

Sokolovka, Sokolovka, 032 requests takeoff and interception! At this moment, a familiar voice came from the radio.

When he came back, Andrei took a transport plane from Moscow to the Far East, so he soon arrived in Sokolovka, and held a meeting in the flying regiment to discuss how to deal with the American reconnaissance plane, but, The pilots who intercepted several times were not very clear, and Andre knew that,

Only by looking at it for yourself can you be sure of your own judgment. So, he took on the duty of combat readiness, and just when he put on his flying gear and was on standby in the duty room, the American reconnaissance plane came!

Running quickly to his fighter plane and sitting back in the cockpit, Andre felt the fighting intent was burning.

And his own 032 fighter, as if he knew that he was about to launch into the air again, was following Andre excitedly, like a war horse galloping on the battlefield.

Below the cockpit, the stainless steel skin has been painted with bright five-pointed stars, two solid red five-pointed stars, and one red hollow five-pointed star, which means that there have been two downed and one wounded results. During the Cold War, this was difficult to achieve.

However, Andre was not completely confident in this interception, because the opponent was a black bird!

The typical combat method of the Soviet air defense is to lift off under the guidance of the ground and use air-to-air missiles to intercept at a long distance. For the pilots, they are just an operator in the entire interception operation and completely obey the orders of the ground.

It is the task of the ground personnel to set the most suitable interception route for the MiG-25 and guide the fighter to the position where the missile can be launched.

Therefore, after receiving the order, another five minutes passed until the black bird flew over the Sea of ​​Japan, and the order to take off and intercept came.

As strong as the previous style, Andre turned on the afterburner, and the two R-15 turbojet engines burst out with the maximum afterburner thrust, pushing this steel monster, rolling on the runway, taking off, under the wings, four The missile is so dazzling.

In order to cooperate with the powerful interception capability of the MiG-25, Soviet engineers also equipped the MiG-25 with missiles specially used for interception operations, that is, the R-40 weighing half a ton!

The projectile is slender and adopts a duck-type aerodynamic layout. The trailing edge of the trapezoidal wing with a large sweep angle is equipped with 4 control surfaces to control the flight of the missile. Generally speaking, this kind of overload is not large and its performance is limited. Missiles, mainly used to intercept American bombers. This is also the main combat mission of the Air Defense Air Force. Although Andre's MiG-25PD can be equipped with R-60 missiles, the current interception, R-60 is useless at all, the weight is too light, and the power of the warhead is also very limited.

Maintain the current climb speed, two degrees to the right. The voice of the ground guide came through the headset.

032 received. Andre continued to climb as instructed by the ground, and at the same time, turned on part of the dense switch on the right.

The missile is pre-powered, the infrared seeker is cooled and ready to launch! The airborne radar of the vacuum tube also began to be energized and heated. After half a minute, the vacuum tube was preheated, and the powerful radar could be started.

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