Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 350: The First Generation of Thunderbolt Air-to-Air Missiles

Zhisi.

"I heard that Li Yunlong told his men that he would ask for protection from the Air Force even if he had to kneel down for them?" The Zhisi chief looked at the brigade commander and jokingly said, "Why don't you ask him to kneel down? This guy is really outspoken and lawless, and we can never stop him!"

"Haha, don't tell me, this kid is really capable of such a thing. Although it is said that a man's knees are made of gold, but Li Yunlong is a reckless little bastard. In order to win the victory of the army, he will really do anything!" The brigade commander smiled and continued the words of the commander of the Zhisi. "How many times have you dealt with him? Do you think his temper has changed? It hasn't changed at all! This is how he will be in his life!"

"However, the 24th Division is surrounded by Li Yunlong, so it is difficult for them to escape!" said the brigade commander. "Now Ding Wei's two divisions have gone up to block the st Cavalry Division and the Eighth Army of the Rogue Eagle. Now we have to rely on the th Infantry Division and the st Marine Division on the eastern front. I don't know if Kong Jie can hold on."

"I'm actually a little worried. After all, it will take at least two days for reinforcements to arrive behind Kong Jie. Ammunition replenishment has entered the peninsula and can be delivered in a day at most if there is no interference."

"Well, the Eastern Front is crucial. We must be alert in terms of radar. Also, we need to contact our families and send the information on the deciphering of the Rogue Eagle's aerial mobilization radio waves directly to the Zhisi as soon as possible. It would be best if we could establish a special air telegraph channel between us and the deciphering team. We must destroy the Rogue Eagle's air support for the 7th Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division on the Eastern Front!" said the head of the Zhisi.

"It has been proven in actual combat that the J-5 jet fighters are much more efficient than the Mustang fighters in dealing with the Rogue Eagle bombers. The two J-5 jet fighter squadrons will be reserved to deal with the Rogue Eagle bombers! Ask my family to add another 5 Mustang fighters and at least one more squadron of J- fighters to my Zhisi, and have them fly to Liaodong from now on to prepare for war!"

The good news about the J-5 fighter jet's success had already reached the Zhisi headquarters, and naturally there was jubilation.

This kind of aerial competition with a generational gap was the first time that everyone encountered it, and no one expected it to have such a strong effect.

This made Zhisi very excited!

Although I know that there will never be such good conditions again in the future to encounter the Rogue Eagle bomber team alone.

However, with the advantage of speed, the Mustang fighters and J-5 fighter squadrons can be mixed into the battle at that time, and then use speed to get rid of the entanglement of the opponent's Mustang fighters or P-47 Thunderbolt fighters on the battlefield, and then go straight to the bomber squadron!

Like a swordsman, he could directly kill the opponent's bomber with weak air combat capability, and then fly away.

The Air Force has been summarizing and refining these tactical arrangements. Although there is not much time to conduct drills, the battlefield is the best training ground. With the outstanding performance of the first battle, the J-5 fighter squadron has now gained a great psychological advantage.

The only thing that prevented them from achieving greater results was that the J-5 had somewhat short legs. Especially when flying at high speeds close to the speed of sound, the aircraft's internal fuel range was only about 600 kilometers. Only at an economic cruising speed could it have a range of 1000 kilometers.

Compared to the Mustang fighter, this is far inferior.

"How is it? How much has the recognition rate improved after replacing the new infrared recognition board?" Bai Shanhai from the air-to-air missile infrared recognition research team asked anxiously.

"Team leader, there have been a lot of improvements, at least 60% more effective. The new board has much stronger computing power than before. We use a new filtering algorithm to remove a lot of interference and clutter. The homing effect for automobile exhaust tests has now increased by more than 2 times. We can apply to conduct tests on actual missiles." Yao Shugen, one of the main researchers, reported excitedly.

"Our control logic doesn't need to be changed. As long as the search effect is improved, there will be immediate results."

"Then apply for a test! There is a war going on at the front line. I heard that there are fierce air battles every day. Both our air force and the Rogue Eagle's air force have suffered heavy casualties. However, our air force is weak. According to the current consumption rate, we can't hold on for long before the air force will be wiped out." Bai Shanhai said.

"Let's apply now!" Yao Shugen did not hesitate and immediately began the application work to replace the original module in preparation for actual combat testing.

Now we are in a wartime state, and there are not so many repeated tests and verifications. As long as the actual combat test is effective, then this missile can be trial-produced for more tests. Once the effect is verified to be better than the aircraft gun, it will be mass-produced and put into service immediately!

All work in the rear is now prioritized to support the front line.

For the Dragon Country, fighting against a superpower like the Rogue Eagle is of course the top priority of the whole country, and all other matters must give way to it.

Fire control radar team. Comrades have been working for more than 20 hours for at least a month, completely breaking the iron rule of rest for researchers.

Of course, the first generation of air force fire control radar, which integrates the main world's modern single-board computers and non-metallic materials, the Fire Eye Generation, already has the ability to control and guide fire at an air distance of 20 kilometers.

In actual aerial tests of the Mustang fighter, it has been possible to chase a Mustang-sized target at a stable distance of 20 kilometers.

Of course, installing this fire control radar on the Mustang fighter has some effect, but due to the nose propeller propulsion mode, the Mustang fighter cannot be modified with air-to-air missiles, so its effect is not great.

If a large-scale modification is to be carried out, the propeller on the nose needs to be moved to the wing and another propeller needs to be added to change it to a twin-engine type. This is already the workload of designing a new fighter aircraft.

Therefore, the second wave of tests of the fire control radar was carried out on the J-5. Of course, this first-generation FireEye radar was originally designed to match the air-to-air missiles that the J-5 will be equipped with.

In order to complete the installation of the radar, Ren Zhong provided them with the assembly method of the J-5A night combat model from the main world.

Soon they completed the modification of a new J-5A fighter jet, and just in time they came across an application for air-to-air missiles, so they simply combined them and started debugging for the new test!
First, various functions were simulated, debugged and connected on the ground to ensure that there were no problems with the ground test. Only then did the J-5A fly into the sky under the test of the most experienced pilot and began its first test flight!
"Tower, Eagle One has found the target, altitude 4500, speed 460, distance 21 kilometers!" In the sky, test pilot Wu Chen quickly found the target on the fire control radar, and the system began to beep!

"Very good, Eagle One, now get closer to the target, lock on the target within 3 kilometers and fire air-to-air missiles!"

At the test flight command center in the tower, the commander gave the order calmly.

"Eagle One understands, launch an attack within 3 kilometers of the target!" Wu Chen responded, and began to accelerate and fly towards the target aircraft at high speed, and soon approached the 3-kilometer range!

When the fire control radar completely locked onto the target aircraft, Wu Chen pressed the fire button, and PL-1 immediately detached from the fighter, ignited, and began to accelerate towards the target!
As the first air-to-air missile, the maximum range of PL-6 is only 8 to 5 kilometers, and the practical range is within 3 kilometers. In order to ensure the success of the first launch, the project team chose a -kilometer test range.

After the missile left the fighter plane, it quickly caught up with the target plane under the guidance of the radar. When it was about 500 meters away, the infrared detector detected the heat source of the target plane and began to correct the direction of the missile. It rushed towards the heat source of the target plane. With a loud bang, the target plane instantly cracked and emitted thick smoke!
Ground observers below the test airspace recorded the entire combat process, and the first test was a complete success!

Almost at the same time, during the test of the surface-to-air missile, the new ground-based fire control Raytheon system also guided the Hongqi-2 generation air defense missile to easily hit the target aircraft.

It proved that the new fire control radar and missiles have entered a new stage.

In the subsequent verification test, the probability of destroying the target aircraft with air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles was as high as over 70%. Although the target aircraft had a low speed of only 400 kilometers, judging from the test results, after the missile approached the target within 500 meters, the infrared homing was very strong and it could almost bite the heat source of the target aircraft to attack and destroy it.

Those failed cases occurred when the radar lost track of the target during the early stages of fire control guidance.

This shows that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the performance of the radar.

But it is only one step away from being practical.

Under the current circumstances, this is already worth finalizing and sending to the front line.

Even if the hit rate of each shot is only 30%, the combat effectiveness of a J-4 fighter carrying four PL-5 missiles will be greatly improved.

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