The cockpit of the f14 fighter has already sounded, and various data prompts are endless, the alarm sounds at flight altitude, the alarm sounds scanned by the radar, the prompt sounds of hostile targets, the sounds of the api-7 sparrow missile trying to lock the target... Several sounds are mixed together. If you have not received professional training, just listening to the sounds can make people crazy.

"Hole two, awg-9 radar switches to mobile air combat mode. I am responsible for the machine cannon and fighting Rattlesnake missiles, and you are responsible for the launch and guided irradiation of the Sparrow missiles." Ning Lei's tone was extremely stable.

The aim-7 Sparrow Air-to-air missile is semi-active radar-guided. During the attack, the airborne radar of the F14 fighter must be used to illuminate hostile targets. At this time, the benefits of the F14 fighter using a two-person tandem cockpit are completely revealed.

Countless examples have proved that when a semi-automatic device operated by someone is far more efficient and effective than a fully automatic device operated by someone, otherwise intelligent machinery will fly all over the sky.

Taking the simplest household automatic vacuum cleaner as an example, even in the second decade of the new century when the IC industry was extremely developed, the intelligent vacuum cleaner disk that ran around the ground and climbed stairs and was unmanaged was not as clean as humans who held the vacuum cleaner handle for 10 minutes after all.

awg-9 radar can automatically intercept close-range targets in maneuver air combat mode. When performing large overload maneuvering, the radar can also ensure that the intercepted targets are not lost in a certain fan pointing to the nose.

After the maneuver mode is started, the central processor of the f14 fighter will analyze the speed, distance, angle and height of the awg-9 radar, and finally give a simple enemy-to-me situation diagram and threat diagram on the flat display in front of the driver for reference and decision-making by the fighter driver. It can be said that this set of things is the most critical purpose of the flat display of the f14 fighter.

The perception of air momentum has always been a decisive factor in air combat. Otherwise, only the instrument pointer display is turned into a digital display of a flat display, and the flat display will not be hailed as a revolutionary change in air combat and will become one of the prominent labels of third-generation aircraft.

In the design of the F14 fighter, the front seat pilot is not only flying the aircraft. The Aim-9 Diamondsnake infrared missile used for close-range combat is also under the responsibility of the front seat. It can be said that in the fight, Ning Lei is only responsible for the tactical part, flying the plane well, staring at the target sea flat that poses the greatest threat, and the strategic part - the air situation perception of the entire battlefield. The radar officer in the back seat is responsible for it.

"The cave is 165, the enemy plane is pointing at 330, the speed is 1.1 Mach, the height is 4800, and the distance is 37 kilometers. This guy is closest to us." Qiao Pengfei combined the news feedback from the awg-9 radar in front of him to provide Ning Lei with a situational judgment in the airspace.

"Received, let's have a small somersault first." Ning Lei pushed the driving rod and leaned towards the MiG 23 that was closest to him.

"Tongyao turns right. I'll point you, turn right 40 degrees."

"Dongyao, that guy has changed the level and is doing dodging maneuvers. It's pretty. He is getting farther away from the formation. I'm trying to lock him, continue to turn right, and we continue to turn right."

The distance of more than 30 kilometers is completely outside the sight range. The f14 tandem cabin layout allows Ning Lei to rely on the radar officer in the rear seat to obtain the latest situation of the enemy aircraft, and focus on the control of the fighter.

"Stay, hole, keep it steady. I lock him, I lock him, go to death." With the short dripping in the cockpit, the dripping sound finally connected into a long sound, and Qiao Pengfei pressed the launch button of the aim-7 sparrow missile.

The f14 fighter trembled gently. A round white line shot out from the belly of the aircraft. After the aima-7 sparrow missile flew out for nearly a hundred meters, it pierced into the low altitude, leaving behind a winding white trail. At the speed of Mach 4 of the Sparrow missile, the distance between the two aircraft only takes 15 seconds to 20 kilometers.

The radar sirens in the cockpit of the f14 fighter suddenly became sharp, prompting that the driver's plane had been locked by the enemy's fire-controlled radar.

"Two holes, the right 70-degree direction avoids maneuvering, I'm increasing the interference frequency."

"Received, turn around and maneuver on the right." Ning Lei opened the afterburner valve on the driving rod to the maximum position. The two TF-30-p-414 engines made a loud whistle. The F14 fighter first paused and then rushed forward like a sharp arrow away from the string.

Ning Lei was told when he was trained in the United States that after he found out that he was locked by the enemy during an over-visual air combat, he must first turn on the extra force to maximize his speed, and then start to avoid maneuvers.

The US Navy and Air Force proposed this method of avoiding air-to-air missiles when firing head-on air missiles is completely a replica of the energy maneuver theory. The maneuvering action is performed late, and it seems that the risk of being hit is very high. However, after the speed increases, the speed gradually decreases and the maneuverability gradually increases in the subsequent maneuvering action. Instead, it is easier to ensure that the maneuverability exceeds the missile's radar perspective in the first few seconds of the missile hit, thereby playing an evasive role.

Seven or eight seconds later, the F14 fighter with the afterburning began to circle at a large angle. While rotating, the burning infrared interference foil strips were like blooming fireworks, and they were thrown from the plane's route in clusters.

In the eyes of the reef guards on the ground, the three air-to-air missiles launched by the three MiG23 fighters, and the three white trails pulled out, were like three poisonous snakes raising their heads, winding from low altitude to high f14 fighter jets.

A dull explosion sounded like Lu Yonghua, who was holding the handle of the anti-aircraft machine gun tightly and looking up at the sky, was heard in Lu Yonghua's ears.

Lu Yonghua looked at it according to the sound. The most western MiG23 fighter jet had already bloomed in the air. The entire plane split into seven or eight large parts, emitting black smoke and passing flames rolling down from the sky.

Without applause or cheer, the reef guards on the ground just glanced at the rain of fire pouring down from the sky, and immediately focused their attention on the gathering of the three poisonous white lines.

Suddenly, a white line seemed to be a drunk man who had drunk too much, and the straight trail suddenly became messy. The white line first drew a few strange Z-shaped characters in the sky, then drew a graceful 8-shaped characters, and finally turned suddenly and headed straight to the sea level.

As if it was infected by the air-to-air missile that rushed to sea level, the track of another white line became chaotic. After several strange z-shaped swings, the entire missile seemed to have turned into a large second kick. The missile's course changed from a certain inclination to straight up and down, and flew towards the depths of the blue sky without looking back.

There is another one. Although Lu Yonghua couldn't understand why the two air-to-air missiles suddenly became so weird, it must be the most wonderful thing for his planes that were maneuvering at a high altitude. Bend, bend, Lu Yonghua shouted silently in his heart as he looked at the last straight white line.

Unfortunately, the last remaining missile seemed to be unheard of. He still pulled the tail smoke straight and crashed into the f14 fighter jet that was avoiding it in the air.

For a moment, Lu Yonghua thought he had fallen into hell.

When he saw the white line with its teeth and claws in the sky overlapping with the f14 fighter jet that was avoiding, Lu Yonghua felt like he fell into a glacier, and his entire blood seemed to have been solidified. The world in front of him seemed to be broken into pictures one by one. It was frozen, solidified, and slowly and firmly flipped.

Will the next second be repeated the picture I just saw, freezing, solidifying, and then a ball of orange-red light suddenly exploded, and countless burning steel fell from the sky, Lu Yonghua felt that he was already suffocated.

Time flowed forward firmly and slowly, and a little white track emerged from above the tail of the f14 fighter. Then it quickly moved away, getting farther and farther away.

"Long live the motherland!!" The cheers suddenly exploded above the high-footed house. The soldiers watching the battle on the ground stomped their feet hard and waved their submachine guns. The steel pillars connected to the coral reefs in the high-footed house trembled slightly. On the sea, an invisible ripples slowly spread out from the roots of the pillars.

"Dongya, beautifully done." Qiao Pengfei's voice revealed a hint of joy and ease.

After successfully interfering with the R23 (Note 1) air-to-air missiles launched by the F14 fighter, the remaining one was finally thrown away by Ning Lei using the maneuverability of the F14 fighter.

"Two caves. Sit firmly, we're going to start a big move." Ning Lei's voice was still calm.

Just now, a MiG 23 fighter was blown out of the air by the Sparrow missile launched by Qiao Pengfei. After the remaining three MiG 23s launched the R23 air-to-air missiles, they all started dodging maneuvers. When Ning Lei avoided the air-to-air missiles launched by the three MiG 23 fighters, the planes of both sides had already passed by.

Following the next step of classic air combat, both sides began to turn around and circle, trying to bite each other's tails, and enter a close-range combat state within sight.

Ning Lei pulled the joystick in front of him into his arms, and at the same time, he retracted the throttle of the small engine. The nose of the f14 fighter raised high and the flight resistance suddenly increased. As the speed decreased rapidly, the f14 fighter's swept wing quickly changed from a triangular wing to a straight wing.

When the elevation angle of the nose exceeded 70 degrees, Ning Lei pushed the flight operation rod back to its original position. The fighter's nose that was originally flying forward was raised high and flat-slapped down. When the attack angle returned to more than 30 degrees, Ning Lei pushed the two tall tail wings of the f14 fighter, and the fighter began to roll to the right and turn quickly.

If Liang Yuan was also watching the battle at Yongshu Reef, he would definitely find that the maneuver that Ning Lei did was very similar to the maneuvering of the famous cobra in the world.

Although the MiG 23 also adopts the layout of variable swept wings, due to the Soviet electronics industry foundation, the MiG 23's variable swept wings are only available at three angles: 72, 45, and 16.

Generally speaking, it is no problem to use straight wings when taking off and landing, but during air combat, the wings are fixed at an angle of about 45 degrees, which results in the MiG23's performance being very moderate, without flight control at a large angle of attack, super large turning radius and poor low-altitude maneuverability.

Of course, pilots can also manually set the sweep angle of the wing during flight depending on the situation, but this will involve super complex operations. Pilots who can complete such complex operations in air combat are only a handful of pilots in the Soviet Union, and the MiG23 can only perform intimidating performance in such a pilot.

Thanks to the continuously variable swept wings, the f14 fighter has outstanding medium and low altitude maneuverability. Back then, the f14 fighter beat the f15, which was basically the case after the f14 pilot tempted the f15 into this airspace.

When Ning Lei controlled the F14 fighter to turn the course, the MiG23 was still slowly drawing circles to try to bite the tail of the F14.

Looking at the MiG-23 fighter jet spraying orange flames five kilometers away, just turned 1/3 of the way, Ning Lei turned on the afterburner of the TF-30-p-414 engine. After the F14 fighter jet accelerated forward for more than 10 seconds, listening to the long sound of the dripping of locking the enemy planes in the cockpit, Ning Lei pressed the launch button continuously, and two Aim-9 rattlesnake missiles were sprinting beautiful tracks and rushed towards the tail of the MiG-23 fighter jet that was riding with the afterburner flames not far away.

Lu Yonghua's face was flushed with excitement. He looked at his fighter jet not only avoided three air-to-air missiles, but also changed his course in just over 20 seconds with an extremely elegant move. He watched two straight white lines leave under the belly of his fighter jet and fly towards the tail of the MiG23 not far ahead. Even the air combat idiots saw that victory was right in front of him.

It must hit, it must hit, Lu Yonghua's murmur finally worked. In less than 10 seconds, two dazzling lights rose from the tails of the two MiG 23s one after another, and two less dull explosions followed one after another.

The charge amount of the aim-9 Rattlesnake missile was obviously not enough to disintegrate the MiG-23 fighter jet in the air. The two planes blazed thick black smoke and pierced towards the sea level.

Fire flashed near the fallen MiG 23 cockpit, and two vague sounds came, and two white umbrella flowers bloomed quietly under the dark blue sky.

"Two holes, there is one left in front of us, so we shouldn't bring the bounce home." Ning Lei's voice showed a rare hint of joy and excitement.

"The two of the caves received and are locking the target." Qiao Pengfei's voice was also full of ease.

Accompanied by the long sound of dripping, another white line left the belly of the f14 fighter.

Lu Yonghua looked at the only MiG 23 remaining, and was speeding up like crazy and running in a straight line. As the afterburner throttle was opened to the extreme, more than half a meter of orange flames appeared at the tail nozzle of MiG 23. As the distance between the white line and the plane became closer, the wings of MiG 23 were originally swept back suddenly stretched and became straight in just a few seconds.

At the moment when the white line and MiG23 were about to meet, the MiG aircraft made an incredible move, as if it suddenly lost power and plunged into the sea level. The Aim-7 missile did not hit MiG's body, but exploded in the air nearby.

After a dazzling flame, a trace of black smoke emerged from the tail of the diving MiG. When the smoked MiG dived to a height of less than 100 meters on the sea level, it was leveled by the pilot again.

Ning Lei turned his head and looked at the MiG flying slanted toward the southwest with black smoke. He shook his head with some regret. The remaining amount of oil in the f14 was too dangerous. There was still more than 1,000 kilometers of return journey waiting for two people.

"Dongyao, what a pity." Qiao Pengfei said with some regret.

"He must have the fate to fly back to Vietnam, otherwise it will be our record." Ning Lei's voice was full of smiles.

"The amount of oil is insufficient, so I can't go down to meet my comrades guarding the reef. I can only say hello like this." Ning Lei said with great regret.

Holding the flight operation lever in front of him, Ning Lei pressed the cannon button. After a series of buzzing sounds, the f14 fighter's swept wing angle gradually increased, and in a blink of an eye it jumped into the clouds in the north.
Chapter completed!