Chapter 1112 Turning in Unison

The Soviet Mars probe successfully landed on Mars, which is of epoch-making significance because the time taken for this landing was only one tenth of the normal time!

However, this news did not cause much waves in the world. At this time, the eyes of the whole world were on the Middle East and the Mediterranean. At this time, an unprecedented war was breaking out!

Due to the provocation of the US Navy's aircraft carrier formation, the Soviet Navy launched a counterattack against the US Navy without hesitation. Two Slava-class cruisers fired 32 anti-ship missiles, forming four large formations and flying towards the US Navy!

Faced with this batch of missiles, the U.S. Navy responded urgently. The first interception force was the pride of the U.S. Navy, the combination of the Panda fighter and the Phoenix!

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Although the Navy has gradually felt unable to maintain and upkeep the Tomcat fighter and has been forced to use the F-18 to replace the Tomcat fighter, the Tomcat is, after all, the only fighter in the U.S. Navy with multi-target interception capabilities, so the Navy has not stopped improving the Tomcat fighter.

For example, now, half of the Tomcat fighters on the USS Eisenhower have developed into the F-14D model. Compared with the original model, the biggest feature of this fighter is the use of APG71 radar instead of AWG-9 radar.

When it comes to the AWG-9 radar, it is absolutely famous. During the entire Cold War, the combination of this radar and the Phoenix was simply invincible.

However, this radar also has its flaws. For example, most people know that Soviet radars are large and heavy. In fact, the AWG-9 radar is also heavy. With a diameter of nearly 1 meter and a weight of more than half a ton, this large airborne fire control radar can detect targets such as strategic bombers at a maximum range of more than 300 kilometers in PDS mode. At that time, it was really amazing.

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However, there are also major defects in other aspects. For example, the average time between failures is less than one hour. This type of radar requires constant maintenance and consumes a lot of electricity.

Therefore, Hughes produced the AN/APG-71 radar, which is an improved model of the AWG-9, but it utilizes the technology of the APG-70 radar in the US Air Force F-15 Eagle multi-stage improvement plan. This radar antenna itself is a low sidelobe radiation antenna, and it can filter out interference waves entering from the sidelobes. In addition, it can use a single pulse for accurate angle tracking, so it has strong anti-interference capabilities.

At the same time, the radar has improved the frequency modulation mode of its Doppler ranging signal, which allows it to have better resolution for ground noise. Changing the low pulse repetition frequency of the AWG-9 to a medium PRF has better performance in locking on head-on air targets and can measure more accurate distances.

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An exaggerated statement is that this kind of radar can measure the number of engine compression blades of the head-on target, and then know the engine model and aircraft model. It can be said that it is absolutely abnormal.

At the same time, the maximum transmission power of this radar is 5 kilowatts, which is only half of AWG-9, but the maximum search distance has increased.

It can be said that the biggest feature of this radar is that it is a digitally improved model of the AWG-9 radar. It uses the new high-speed digital signal processor of APG-70 and digital scanning control, and its processing power is six times higher than that of AWG-9.

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If it is the previous AWG-9 radar, it will have certain difficulties in intercepting supersonic targets, but the current APG-71 radar can easily intercept incoming supersonic anti-ship missiles, and can even try to intercept some short-range ballistic missiles!

Now is the time for the APG-71 radar to show its capabilities!

Of course, whether the interception can be successful in the end is also closely related to the operating ability of the radar operator in the back seat. The radar officer quickly tracks the target and switches to the locked state. Then, flames flicker under the wing, and two Phoenix missiles fly over!

If it is a head-on attack, each of them has a speed of Mach 2, so the relative speed is Mach 4! This requires the data processing system to be able to keep up!

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And now, the new APG-71 radar is enough to accomplish this task!

Although the Phoenix missile is an active missile, this is only the final stage! Now, relying on the radar illumination of the carrier aircraft, the Phoenix missile is flying steadily along the interception trajectory after being launched.

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The target missile seemed not to sense the impending disaster. It continued to fly steadily, as if waiting for the Phoenix missiles to kiss it passionately.

The ramjet engine continuously inhales air, ignites the fuel, and turns it into high-pressure exhaust gas that is ejected. The speed of the P-500 missile is further increased, reaching Mach 2!

The distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, fifty kilometers, forty kilometers, thirty kilometers... The Phoenix missile that was launched first was even less than five kilometers away from the target!

Interception is about to succeed!

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But at this moment, suddenly, all the P-500 missiles on the sea surface made a maneuver in unison!

First to the right, then to the left, they made a beautiful S-shaped maneuver on the sea!

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Damn it!

With a target of Mach 2, performing a serpentine maneuver is enough to temporarily disengage many radars!

When performing an S-maneuver, they will fly in the radial direction of the radar and will be filtered out as clutter! This is due to the characteristics of Doppler radar. If it is not filtered out, the clutter flying all over the sky will overwhelm their processors!

And now, the opponent was only briefly unlocked, and later appeared in the radar's field of vision again.

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However, this has already caused irreversible consequences!

Relative speed of Mach 4! Even if the target is lost for only one second, the relative distance will change by more than a thousand meters! And re-intercepting the target and recalculating the interception trajectory will waste the Phoenix's reaction time!

After all, many Phoenixes have entered the final stage of active interception, and the Phoenix's onboard computer is definitely not as powerful as the Tomcat's onboard computer!

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As a result, the Phoenix missile had already passed by the target while still flying along its original trajectory. The airspace in front of it was clear and there was nothing!

Of course, not all Phoenixes were eliminated. Some of the two Phoenix missiles aimed at one target still successfully hit the target!

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"boom!"

With a violent explosion, the Phoenix successfully shot down the leading P-500 missile at an altitude of 6,000 meters!