The strongest pilot ever

Chapter 145 Herbst Maneuver
145 Herbst Motor
The formation of four fighter planes returns.

Chen Fei and Li Donghai landed one after the other.

Climbing down from the fighter plane, Fade Chen walked towards Li Donghai who was already waiting at the side.

Pity!
Fade Chen shrugged and made a face to Li Donghai.

Tonight, he originally hoped that Li Donghai could kill that alien fighter plane, so he informed Li Donghai first, but unfortunately, the last fruit was picked by two other guys.

But Li Donghai just smiled, and there was no disappointed expression on his face. This guy has a broad mind that Fade Chen has never seen before. There are really few things that can affect his emotions. If it is Qin Qingyu who goes up today , For today's regret, he can mutter for several days.

The two had just walked a few steps when someone shouted from behind: "Fade Chen, Li Donghai!"

The two stopped and turned around.

It is the pilot of Yao Sanyao and Yao Sanliang.

These two pilots had just transferred from other stations, and they were not very familiar with Chen Fei and Li Donghai.

The pilots between the bases often transfer, usually once a month, staying at this station for a while, and going to another station for a while. Because Chen Fei and the others are new to the army, their superiors have not arranged for them to transfer, but they want to come. , They may be asked to switch next month.

Chen Fei and Li Donghai saluted those two guys. The two guys had higher military ranks. The two guys returned the salute. Then, one of them smiled and said, "Chen Fei, Li Donghai, thank you for today's matter!"

"You're welcome, we are all brothers, we should." Li Donghai and Fade Chen said with a smile.

After a few more pleasantries, everyone separated.

After finishing the relevant procedures, Fade Chen returned to the dormitory.

He killed another alien fighter today. In addition to getting some regular attributes, he also got the master-level Herbst maneuver. He needs to study it carefully.

The Herbst maneuver has a more popular name, the hairpin maneuver. The reason why it is called the hairpin maneuver is because the entire flight path of the aircraft doing this maneuver is like a big hairpin.

The plane enters horizontally, pulls up obliquely, flies upwards obliquely, jumps to the top, that is, at an almost vertical angle, turns around, turns back and down, the flight path from up to down is very similar to a girl's hairpin, so It's called a hairpin maneuver.

The Herbster maneuver is a type of wall push maneuver.

What is wall kicking?

To put it simply, it is like a swimmer touching the wall with his hands, turning around, and kicking his legs in a coherent manner during the competition, so that he can quickly change his direction at a large angle, and this process should be as short, fast and efficient as possible.

It is generally customary to refer to maneuvers with a flight trajectory greater than 90 degrees and turn back, which are collectively referred to as wall push maneuvers.

So the Herbs maneuver is just one of the wall-pushing maneuvers, and it cannot be said that the Herbs maneuver is the wall-pushing maneuver.

There are other movements in the wall push maneuver, such as the boomerang maneuver made by the MiG-29, which is similar to a cross dart thrown out in a juggling show, and it spins all the way back to the performer's hand, which is also a wall push maneuver.

The biggest tactical effect of the Herbst maneuver is that it can be used to get rid of incoming missiles.

The fighter plane was in front, and the missile was chasing behind. The pilot decisively let the fighter plane pull up. When the fighter plane reached the apex, it turned around and returned from the original road.

When the fighter plane reaches the apex, if the pilot releases the jammer, the missile is likely to fly towards high altitude, and the fighter plane quickly turns from passive to offensive.

The focus of Herbst's maneuver is to require the aircraft to stay at the knuckle for as short a time as possible, rather than singing and dancing there like "leaves are floating".

There are many fighters that can do the Herbst maneuver, but different fighters have very different understandings and applications of this tactical maneuver.

For example, F-22, Su-35, and J-[-]B can all perform Herbster maneuvers, but their methods and processes are quite different.

After the Su-35 was pulled up, the pilot decelerated quickly. When the fighter plane reached the apex, the fighter plane stalled. Then, the pilot relied on the vector thrust to complete the U-turn at the apex.

F22 has also performed a Herbst maneuver. His flight trajectory is like this. The fighter plane flies forward and enters at a high angle of attack. Simply put, the nose of the fighter plane is raised, and then the fighter plane turns 180 degrees clockwise while raising its head and pressing its tail. , the fighter plane returned to the level flight state.

Regarding F22's Herbst maneuver, Fade Chen, Li Donghai and others often discuss it in private. Everyone thinks that the layout of F-22 is actually more focused on viewing, and it is not practical: first, this set of maneuvers seems procrastinated. Losing the feature of rapidly changing the flight trajectory endowed by the wall-pushing maneuver, the tactical purpose of the Herbst maneuver is to get rid of the pursuit of the missile and immediately counterattack, so the change of direction must be fast and accurate, and must not be procrastinated; the second , the nozzle of the F-22 is a binary deflection up and down. It should have taken advantage of the large upward deflection to let the aircraft do a backflip on the spot; but they used the thrust difference that is not an advantage to rotate the fuselage. The F-22's twin engines are The ones that are relatively close, unlike the Su-35, have a longer distance between the two engines. Under the condition of the same thrust difference, the moment arm is shorter, and the rotation rate is relatively slow; third, since it is rotation, it should turn at a larger angle. Or accelerate the dive after turning, but the F-22 does the opposite, raising the nose and pressing the tail, allowing the plane to float down in a horizontal attitude.

So relatively speaking, Chen Fei still thinks that the J-[-]B's Herbst maneuver is the best at the air show.

When the J-10B climbed rapidly and entered a stall state, under the joint action of vector thrust and canards, the aircraft rolled while doing a backflip, and at the same time pressed the nose and lifted the tail, and the nose quickly pointed downward.

The entire hairpin maneuver of the J-10B is like a swordsman, stopping suddenly, turning around, and drawing the sword, all in one go, without any fancy movements.

The J-10B has omnidirectional vector thrust and canards. It is very simple to do the decomposition action of the Su-35. First, the nozzle is deflected to complete the backflip, and then the differential between the canards and the rear flaps is responsible for the roll.

In the past, Fade Chen's understanding of Herbster's maneuver was basically at this level, but this time, after he obtained the master-level experience of Herbster's maneuver, his understanding and understanding of this tactical maneuver was much higher. a lot of.

Many fighters can perform Herbster maneuvers, but different fighters have different methods. The difference in these methods is, on the one hand, the difference in the flying skills of the pilots, but more importantly, the difference in the performance of the fighters. Fade Chen learned through flying and understanding The hairpin maneuvers of various fighters can give a deep understanding of the performance of various fighters.

This is the greatest significance of the master Herbst maneuver.

After the emergence of medium-range weapons, although there have been many changes in the form of air combat, close-range air combat is still inevitable.

Due to changes in the future air combat environment, especially the electronic warfare soft-kill environment, the role of over-the-horizon air combat will be suppressed. The developed large radar is more likely to expose itself before the enemy is detected, and the powerful killing of electronic warfare makes the large radar suppressed to a very small detection distance, making the over-the-horizon invalid.

In addition, the enhancement of the stealth capabilities of all parties will also make the overwhelming advantage of stealth fighters gradually disappear. In the end, stealth fighters of the same level will appear against stealth fighters. BVR air combat can only become close-range air combat or line-of-sight air combat in the end. air battle!

Therefore, the future air combat will still be the coexistence of long-range air combat and close-range air combat. For the next generation of fighter jets, beyond-visual-range air combat capabilities and short-range super-maneuverability are equally important.

So how to defeat the opponent in close-range air combat has always been a question that Fade Chen has been thinking hard about.

Fade Chen has been meditating for two hours.

Fade Chen gained a lot from these two hours of contemplation, which even made him surpass the months or even half a year of advanced training of many pilots.

dong dong dong.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"The door is open, please come in!" Fade Chen stood up quickly.

Soon, with a creak, the door opened, and a strange face walked in: "Comrade Chen Fei, hello, the political commissar asked you Shenlong Squadron to go to his office!"

political commissar?

Fade Chen was taken aback.

After regaining his senses, he quickly said, "Okay!"

(End of this chapter)