Great Power Fighting Falcon

In the past few years, it has not been easy for the troops to get an opportunity to attack anti-ship missiles. One YJ-83 medium-sized anti-ship missile costs several million yuan. Two missiles are enough to cover the expenses of an army infantry regiment for more than half a year. How do you do this live-fire shooting?

This time we not only have to fight, but we have to fight hard. The air force will fight, the surface force will fight, the underwater force will fight, and even the naval coastal defense force will fight. The main purpose of the exercise is to check the anti-ship combat capability of Den-2012. The implementation phase is expected to burn about 500 million yuan in three days.

For example, now, Li Zhan clearly saw that Dai Wenming and Han Hongjun of the Flying Shark Squadron, which is part of the air squadron, each mounted a YJ-83 anti-ship missile on the heavy pylon under the belly of the aircraft. , they are responsible for sea attacks, and the remaining three fighters are responsible for air cover, using air-to-air missiles to hit flying targets.

The YJ-83 anti-ship missile is our military's first medium-sized general-purpose anti-ship missile. It has developed into a family that can be used on various weapon platforms. It has three main models: air-launched, ship-launched, and submarine-launched. It is the main force of the People's Navy. anti-ship missile

But to be honest, even veterans like Dai Wenming of Hainan Airlines have never seen the YJ-83, let alone shot a few to enjoy it. The army has too many historical debts and has been able to barely maintain basic combat training for many years. In this situation, it will take about three to five years to complete complete changes.

The fact that so many expensive live ammunition were used in this Den-2012 live-fire exercise shows that the situation is changing. There will be more live-fire shooting training in the future to severely beat the troops in the direction of actual combat.

With all the lenses ready, Li Zhan and Dai Wenming maintained level flight and filmed the scene of the J-15 launching YJ-83 anti-ship missiles from the side. It is also meaningful to let Han Hongjun, who drives the J-11B, be responsible for launching the second YJ-83 anti-ship missile. To test the use of YJ-83 anti-ship missiles by this model, both the Air Force and the Navy can obtain the data, because the future J-11B -11B will be the main fighter of the two major services.

Li Zhan could hear the command post giving Dai Wenming the order to allow the attack.

Dai Wenming turned on the airborne radar to search for large surface ship targets dozens of kilometers away. The domestic passive phased array radar on the nose of the J-15 easily captured the target 60 kilometers away, confirming it with the target parameters indicated by the early warning aircraft. After the error was correct, he began to execute the attack program.

This was the first time that Li Zhan watched a fighter plane launch missiles at such a close distance from the perspective of a bystander. In terms of the number of missile fires, apart from the test pilot, it is estimated that no pilot in the active military has more missiles than him. He has fired a lot of air-to-ground missiles. Although air-to-ground missiles can be used as anti-ship missiles, the fact is that Li Zhan has never launched an anti-ship missile. This made him itchy, wondering what it would be like to fire anti-ship missiles.

"Security No. 1 starts attacking!" Dai Wenming reported and pressed the launch button.

The six-meter-long YJ-83 anti-ship missile detached from its pylon, and the carrier aircraft's nose was slightly raised under the action of inertia. Dai Wenming quickly controlled the aircraft's attitude. The 0.7-ton YJ-83 anti-ship missile inertially moved down and forward for a certain distance. About fifty meters in front of and below the fighter plane, the booster rocket ignited. The missile accelerated wildly and dived forward and downward at a very short speed. It reached 1,000 kilometers per hour within a short period of time. The booster rocket separated, the turbojet engine took over, and the missile began to fly levelly across the sea at a height of only twenty meters above the water.

When it is thirty kilometers away from the target, the first stage where the turbojet engine is located separates from the missile body, and the second stage rocket engine ignites, rapidly accelerating the missile to Mach 1.7, while continuing to dive and descend to a position of five meters above the water.

After entering the attack phase, the active radar guidance seeker locks the target. At this time, the carrier aircraft can leave and return, and the missile can complete the remaining work independently.

Although the YJ-83 air-launched anti-ship missile has a maximum range of 200 kilometers, in actual use it is based on the principle of launching it from as close a distance as possible. This is the significance of fighter plane penetration. The closer the target is to the target, the higher the success rate of the strike.

Li Zhan couldn't see the missile hitting the target ship. He immediately moved to Han Hongjun's side and recorded Han Hongjun's launch of the second YJ-83 anti-ship missile.

Two Rolls-Royces went out.

There was no time to go over to see the impact of the strike. Other fighter planes were about to hit the target. Li Zhan quickly pulled up the fighter plane and followed Cheng Da, Yang Fan, and Gu Mingmu to the air-to-air shooting airspace. The guaranteed ships on the sea released unmanned targets, and three of them will be released one after another. They adopt a method without target prompts and rely on the pilots to search for and shoot on their own, which is quite difficult.

The radar reflection area of ​​an unmanned target drone is much smaller than that of a fighter aircraft. Whether it is visual search or radar search, it is a big challenge for pilots.

Li Zhan had used unmanned target drones when he was working in Beiku, but they were very backward unmanned target drones. The navy used more advanced unmanned target drones, and the navy had money. Therefore, he was more worried about whether Cheng Da and the other three could successfully find and lock the target. He was not worried about the combat performance of the PL-9 air-to-air missile. Although this missile was a transitional model, its tactical performance was very reliable.

Chengda first entered the combat state. Although the accuracy and reliability of the J-15's passive phased array radar are not as good as the active phased array radar used by the J-10C, because the nose size is large enough, the radar The size can be made larger and the search distance longer.

However, Cheng Da did not seem to focus on airborne radar search. Li Zhan could tell by looking at the flight movements he chose. He still placed his hope on visual search. This is the method that old birds like to use.

Li Zhan drove No. 81198 Lao Feibao and followed Chengda closely, keeping the distance at a suitable level, which would neither affect Chengda's maneuvering nor intrude into Chengda's front hemisphere position - if he intruded Chengda's front hemisphere position, PL-9 is very likely to chase his butt.

The PL-9 air-to-air missile is an infrared-guided combat missile with a maximum range of 15 kilometers. It is the main weapon used in close air combat. Although this missile is considered a new generation of short-range air-to-air missiles, the military generally believes that this missile is a transitional model before the new generation of PL-10 short-range combat missiles under development enters service, which is equivalent to the J-10B in the J-10 family. The position serves as a link between the past and the following.

This missile is very powerful, and Li Zhan has a deep understanding of it.

Cheng Da is worthy of being the famous main commander of the Red Eagle Division, and he is quite experienced in flying. He used a skillful set of flying maneuvers to search the designated airspace, ensuring that he would not be ambushed and also obtain a fairly good search field of vision.

Finally, he visually captured an unmanned target drone painted in yellow with a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour.

"Target found! Prepare to attack!" Cheng Da quickly reported, while accelerating to cut into the side of the unmanned target drone, and the airborne radar also quickly entered the locking mode.

Li Zhan quickly approached Chengda's rear and filmed him firing the PL-9 close-range combat missile from a high position. Niu Jun even took out his wide-angle lens camera and never stopped taking pictures. She witnessed a real aerial combat scene today. The seemingly simple process was actually on the edge of a cliff every step of the way. Especially since she and Li Zhan's old flying leopard often had to change positions everywhere. If one did not pay attention or the fighters cooperated, Without a tacit understanding, accidental injuries may occur. Such stimulation made her realize what real combat was like.

"Lock the target! Command post, request an attack!" Cheng Da asked for instructions from the early warning aircraft.

The commander in charge of the air unit on the AWACS immediately gave the order: "Attack as planned!"

Chengda launched a PL-9 close combat missile.

The missile accelerated to a speed of Mach 2 in a very short period of time, and in the blink of an eye it hit an unmanned target drone painted in yellow that was seven or eight kilometers away - an unmanned target drone equivalent to a B-class car. After a volley explosion, the wreckage even shattered into small pieces that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

"Target destroyed!" Cheng Da made a quick evasive maneuver and quickly returned to the formation.

Immediately afterwards, the support ship on the surface released the second drone...

The Flying Shark detachment completed the attack mission within the designated time, especially the front penetration anti-ship attack performed very well. The exercise headquarters required that the attack be completed within three minutes. In fact, it only took Dai Wenming and Han Hongjun just over two minutes to launch two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles. The results were better than expected.

Dai Wenming led the Flying Shark Squadron to patrol the air defense alert and no-navigation zone, while Li Zhan was ordered to rush to the sea area where the target ship was located to replace the Su-30MKK that was already responsible for damage assessment there, and the latter was already stranded there. After more than two hours, it was time to return to replenish fuel.

The exercise was implemented step by step according to the plan, and Li Zhan was still doing relevant support work. And this time he is not only responsible for judging the damage effect, but also responsible for guiding the anti-ship missiles launched by the surface team - the integrated tactical pod he brought will come into play.

When Li Zhan arrived at the designated sea area, he was surprised to find that the target ship was not a target ship, but a bulk carrier with an estimated displacement of 30,000 to 40,000 tons! It’s a real ship!

Generally, target shooting uses an iron pontoon with a few iron pipes, stretched with cloth or other things, and uses the radar reflection area to simulate target ships of various tonnages. In many cases, the ammunition only needs to fall into the prescribed killing range waters to be judged as a target. hit. It's almost like artillery target practice. This kind of target ship can generally be used repeatedly. When needed, it will be towed to the designated sea area by the support ship, and then towed back when it is done.

But this time the Navy actually brought in a scrapped bulk carrier of 30,000 to 40,000 tons to serve as a target ship! The significance of verifying the damage effect of anti-ship missiles is very obvious!

When Li Zhan arrived in the sea area where the target ship was located, twenty minutes had passed since the anti-ship attack by the Flying Shark Squadron. Although the bulk cargo ship that had been hit by two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles was broken into two parts, it still fought tenaciously. Float on the water.

"The watertight compartment must have been modified. Bulk cargo ships are not so resistant to construction." Li Zhan couldn't help but say.

Niu Jun got it right. Looking at the slowly sinking bulk cargo ship that had been broken into two parts and was at least 200 meters long, she marveled, "It turns out that the big ship looked like this when it was hit by a missile and sank. Senior brother, you are Said they encrypted the watertight cabin?”

"It must be like this. Maximize the redundancy so that you can hit more times. You see, the hull is disconnected in the middle, but there is not much water ingress. Not only are the watertight compartments encrypted, but each cabin is also sealed . It is estimated that it will not sink immediately if it is hit by a few more missiles." Li Zhan said.

Niu Jun said with a smile, "That's good. It gives full play to the role of the target ship. However, your navy is really wealthy for using such a big ship as a target ship."

Li Zhan circled around the target ship. He was very low and could see clearly. He subconsciously raised his chin and said, "Look at the name on the bow of the ship, Chicken Coop. If I remember correctly, it should be a certain shipping company." This old cargo ship has been in service for more than 20 years and should be the first generation of standardized bulk carriers produced by the Third Shipyard in the early 1990s."

"No, you even know this?" Niu Jun was so surprised that she did not forget to take pictures of the target ship. The photos she took will also be used as a basis for judging the damage effect.

Li Zhan said with a smile, "You should do one thing only. Now that I am engaged in maritime navigation, in the future I will also fight ships in addition to airplanes. I have to remember the radar reflection characteristics of various ships. I was just wondering why the radar reflection characteristics are not the same." It looks so much like a target ship that it turns out to be a real ship.”

"You just turned on the radar." Niu Jun said with a smile.

Li Zhan said, "Yes, we will serve as a relay station for the surface team in a while, so we must know the target well."

Next, two modern-class guided missile destroyers will launch a 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy-duty supersonic anti-ship missile from a hundred kilometers away to conduct a beyond visual range attack on the "Chicken Cage". The successors of these two missiles Guidance depends on the comprehensive tactical pod carried by JH-7 No. 91198.

One of the purposes of the emergence of the integrated tactical pod is to solve the problem of incompatibility between Russian-made equipment and domestic equipment avionics systems.

Although the 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile uses inertial mid-range guidance and terminal active seeking guidance, in order to ensure the hit rate, it is very necessary to guide the missile throughout the entire process.

And this shooting was also to verify the integrated tactical pod and its usage tactics. The Second Fleet conducted a public firing of the 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy-duty supersonic anti-ship missile in 2007. There was no relay guidance. It relied entirely on the ship's fire control system to send commands to the missile and the missile's seeker. The hit rate is one hundred percent!

From today's perspective, this missile is a monster. Its range is not far, but it has a length of more than nine meters and a weight of nearly four tons. It is a veritable behemoth, but its longest range can only reach 120 kilometers. After all, it is It was a product in the 1970s, but its terminal attack speed can reach Mach 2.7!

Just by looking at its extremely ferocious appearance, you can tell that it is not easy to mess with. The missile has four air inlets and the warhead charge is twice that of the Harpoon anti-ship missile, which is a full 150 kilograms!

The YJ-83 anti-ship missile is only over six meters long, weighs no more than one ton, and has a warhead charge of only 70 to 80 kilograms, which is about the same as a harpoon.

Among the current combat aircraft of our army, only the J-11, JH-7, H-6, and J-15 can carry the air-launched version of this missile, and except for the H-6, other fighters can only carry one, which is too big. It’s too heavy, and the small body of the J-10 simply can’t carry it!

One can imagine what kind of monster the 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile is.

Moreover, it attacked at an ultra-low sea-skimming altitude of 7 meters from the water, and was considered an almost undefendable supersonic anti-ship missile at the time.

Most of our country's anti-ship missile attack methods come from this. It must be admitted that the Soviet missile technology is very powerful.

Russia has improved this missile in the past few years, increasing its range to more than 200 kilometers, keeping up with the requirements of the times.

Li Zhan thought to himself that if the wreckage of the "Chicken Cage" was hit by another 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile, it would sink quickly no matter what. A six- to seven-thousand-ton destroyer would have to say goodbye even if it took a hit, let alone a bulk cargo ship built to civilian standards.

However, what he needs to consider is how to guide two 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy supersonic anti-ship missiles to hit the "Chicken Cage" at the same time. The two missiles are launched at the same time, and theoretically they should hit the target at the same time. In actual combat, hitting the target at the same time is obviously more tactically valuable.

Li Zhan flew to the airspace between the Sovremenny-class destroyer and the bulk carrier "Chicken Cage", twenty kilometers away from the "Chicken Cage", where he wanted to attack the 3M-80 "White Ridge" heavy supersonic anti-ship that was entering the terminal attack stage. The missile sent a correction command and then quickly rushed to the vicinity of the "Chicken Cage" bulk carrier to film the hit scene.

"Comrade Mavericks, cheer up, we will play the leading role next."

"OK!"