bookbashuk #362 - Kill F4U!
#362 - Kill F4U!
Wei Yongguo and his wingman stared at a Corsair fighter of the Rogue Eagles, directly locking onto it with their radar.
The constantly shortening distance displayed on the fire control radar caused Wei Yongguo's adrenaline to surge to its peak!
7 kilometers!
5 kilometers!
The radar emitted a series of beeping sounds, and Wei Yongguo roared, "Fire!"
He and his wingman pilots unhesitatingly pressed the missile launch buttons!
Adopting a two-plane concentrated fire tactic for their first air-to-air missile combat, Wei Yongguo and his wingman fired the first shot!
Beneath the wings of the J-5A, a PL-1 air-to-air missile ignited and detached from its pylon.
After dropping several dozen meters due to inertia, it rapidly accelerated as its rocket propellant burned quickly, instantly surpassing the J-5A fighter and rushing towards its target like a thunderbolt!
The clouds were thick with fog, and soon the PL-1 disappeared into the clouds.
Wei Yongguo and his wingman slowed down, their four eyes fixed on the small screen of the fire control radar.
The PL-1 used infrared guidance and its performance actually exceeded the level of the PL-2 air-to-air missile in the main world's historical timeline.
It had an effective range of over 8 kilometers and a maximum speed of over 3500 kilometers per hour, almost reaching Mach 3!
The overall weight was similar to the original version, remaining at around 80 kilograms.
The high-speed PL-1 air-to-air missile found its target in about 6 seconds, and two missiles simultaneously struck the F4U fighter head-on!
F-4U Corsair fighter.
On the other side, the Rogue Eagles F-4U fighter pilot who was attacked only noticed the anomaly when the missiles were a few hundred meters away.
However, before he could figure out what it was, two PL-1 missiles struck the nose and fuselage, creating two loud explosions.
The intense explosions didn't even give the Rogue Eagles pilot time to parachute out, blasting the entire front half of the fighter to pieces!
On Wei Yongguo and his wingman's radar, a large target indication immediately appeared.
"Hit! Squadron Commander, we hit it!" the wingman pilot exclaimed in surprise.
This was because the scattered debris reflected radar waves, creating information similar to a large bomber target.
"Never mind it, 20 degrees to the right, next one!" Wei Yongguo said, although he was excited, he immediately restrained himself.
"After locking onto the next one, you go first!"
After the first target was destroyed, Wei Yongguo's confidence greatly increased, and he wanted to try whether a single plane could take down the opponent.
After all, they didn't carry many PL-1 air-to-air missiles, only 4 under each wing!
In the air, two J-5As made a beautiful right turn, and soon the radar locked onto the second Rogue Eagles F-4U fighter!
Since the distance was already very close, Wei Yongguo's wingman pilot immediately fired after locking on!
A PL-1 missile under the other wing of the wingman's J-5A ignited and detached.
"Squadron Commander, I fired!" the wingman said excitedly.
The feeling of being able to shoot down enemy planes while chatting and laughing was just too good.
Wei Yongguo kept the radar locked in the same direction, staring intently at the locked-on Rogue Eagles fighter.
If the wingman missed, he would step in to deliver the second shot!
A few seconds passed in a flash, and the radar screen flashed, showing a large target detected!
KO!
Wei Yongguo clenched his fist.
Facing the Rogue Eagles F-4U fighter, which was unaware and did not perform any evasive maneuvers, the infrared homing function of the current PL-1 air-to-air missile was simply an impeccable killing weapon.
The huge engine heat source of the F-4U's nose was as dazzling as a guiding light, attracting the PL-1 like a moth to a flame!
"Attention everyone!" Wei Yongguo verified his idea and switched from the wingman team channel to the public channel.
"Each team fires a single shot after locking onto the target, and the other one pays attention to delivering the finishing blow.
Pull away from the enemy planes, look for a head-on attack opportunity, one shot is enough, don't waste our precious missiles!"
Sure enough, the pilots of the 1st Air Regiment were not people who followed the rules.
In the first wave, they honestly followed the tactical arrangements, but seeing how effective it was, and that no one had escaped the first wave of attacks, some clever people immediately started trying single-shot mode!
They quickly discovered that single shots were just as easy as shooting birds, and the enemy planes were foolishly and unknowingly blasted.
Now that the squadron commander had arranged it, even those who were slow to realize it had woken up.
After approaching the enemy formation, they didn't choose to rush up and engage in a dogfight!
Instead, they chose to fly sideways in a large turn, re-establishing distance from the Rogue Eagles fighters.
The F4U fighter pilots of the Rogue Eagles who were still in the clouds at this moment were a little panicked.
Because they kept calling other teammates, and found that many of their teammates were not responding!
This strange situation, as if they had directly disappeared into the clouds, had never happened before, and no one knew what was happening now.
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Having never seen missile attacks, most of them didn't know that the destruction of a fighter plane was instantaneous, leaving the pilot almost no reaction time.
Especially with head-on kills, the Rogue Eagles pilots didn't even have time to react to the abnormality before they were taken out.
This caused them to not even have time to report this abnormal situation, and the dense clouds concealed the one-sided hunt of the 1st Air Regiment.
Relying on the powerful airborne radar of this era, the 1st Air Regiment destroyed the panicked Rogue Eagles F4U fighters one after another!
Relying on the bright radar eyes in the clouds, the J-5A achieved a complete victory over the F4U carrier-based aircraft squadron!
For the F4U carrier-based aircraft squadron, today was the most tragic and darkest day in history, because an entire squadron never returned after taking off!
Amidst the frantic calls from the aircraft carrier command center, not a single pilot answered their calls!
Because everything happened too quickly, for the J-5A, destroying a fighter plane now only took a few seconds!
Compared to the long and arduous dogfights with machine guns, which often involved chasing for more than ten minutes or half an hour, the emergence of air-to-air missiles redefined air combat!
Lock on with the radar, fire, and then the next one!
Such a simple process directly zeroed out the technical experience that pilots had accumulated in the era of propeller fighters!
The huge technological advancement maximized the weakening of the role of individual combat experience!
However, after completing the complete victory over the F4U carrier-based aircraft squadron, the 1st Air Regiment also began to return, preparing to replenish ammunition and fuel.
Although the combat time was not long, the J-5A had too short legs.
Having just rushed and then gone full throttle, the hundreds of kilometers of range could only be replenished after each battle.
This was a weakness that the turbojet engine could not overcome at this stage.
However, the second generation of turbojet engines would soon be iterated, because Ren Zhong had already brought back the first generation of high-temperature alloy technology.
After a breakthrough in materials, the potential of the turbojet engine would also be further exploited.
At that time, with the increase in onboard internal fuel, the range of the new generation J-5B would increase significantly.
If the use of auxiliary fuel tanks was added, the combat range of the fighter after takeoff would exceed 1200 kilometers, which would not be too big of a problem.
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