Red Soviet Union

Only the fool goes down! Andre watched the height of the light spot on the radar screen rising, and he knew that he had successfully led the other party into the sky.

The practical ceiling of the Tomcat is only 18,000 meters. Even if it rises to 20,000 meters now, it can perform various flight actions, but its performance is greatly limited. What American pilots should do now is to turn around instead of going back. Come up and fight yourself.

Since it's here, it's best, two R-40 missiles, ready!

Andre pushed the nose forward. His fighter plane had returned to level flight at an altitude of 20,000 meters. It could not be too high. If it was too high, the opponent would not come up.

Breathing the fresh air from the helmet, Andre's mind was very clear, he turned off the afterburner, saved precious fuel, faced the opponent's position, and continued to fly.

The climb rate of the Tomcat fighter is not high. This is the case with fighters in this era. When the silver fighter appeared in the field of vision, the distance between the two sides was only three kilometers.

The opponent finally entered the launch envelope of his own Sparrow missile, but it was useless! Through the goggles, watching the opposite direction fly quickly, William knew that he had to move faster!

The TF30 engine at the rear has been running continuously for a minute of afterburner! Fuel was being consumed at an alarming rate, and William's time was running out.

Fighting bombs in this era cannot effectively lock the front hemisphere to attack, so if you want to kill the opponent now, you have to turn around first after flying head-to-head!

Moreover, the other party is an excellent pilot, and he only has one chance! Tomcat will not lose!

The speed was quite fast. After almost passing by, William pushed the operating lever, and the fighter's wing automatically adjusted the sweep angle to the minimum. At this time, the turning radius was the smallest. William was fully confident that he could turn around first. Lock each other's chrysanthemum!

At this time, the weapon operator in the rear cabin is twisting his head hard to the back. In close combat, he is responsible for observing the airspace, which is equivalent to an extra pair of eyes for the pilot.

It's a pity that the tall ejection seat blocked his rearward vision. He didn't see the MiG-25 that flashed by, and instead of turning horizontally like them, he pulled up into the sky!

Compared with the horizontal maneuverability, the MiG-25 may not be able to compare with the Tomcat, and Andre did not want to outperform the opponent in horizontal maneuverability. The advantage of the MiG-25 is the high-altitude performance! He pulled the lever back, and the afterburner fully opened, the huge MiG-25 fighter, nose up, pulled up quickly.

Soon, Andre's head was down, and the fighter plane had turned 180 degrees. From here, it could be seen that several hundred meters below, the Tomcat was swaying from side to side to find itself.

Yankee, I don't know that the father is above, right? Andre continued to push the nose, and the fighter swooped down from a high altitude in a graceful arc.

If you look at it from a distance, you can find that the Tomcat fighter draws a circle in the horizontal direction, while the MiG-25 draws a circle in the vertical direction. If you look at the size of the circle, it is the Tomcat fighter that gets it. It has an advantage, its radius is less than half that of the MiG-25, but, from the effect point of view, after a circle, the Americans found that the MiG-25 was gone, and Andrei firmly captured the traces of the opponent.

God, he came down from above! At this moment, suddenly, the weapon operator in the rear cabin noticed that a huge thing was coming down rapidly above his head, and he looked up and saw the steel fighter plane and the wings. The red five-star on!

William looked up and saw it, and saw that the other party fell rapidly and turned behind him!

Damn it! William knew that at this moment, his advantage had been lost, and there was only one way to regain his advantage!

Attract the opponent to the low sky!

Although the chrysanthemum has been directed at each other,

William had no choice, he pushed the lever forward, and with a huge roar, the fighter plane began to dive down.

Altitude is converted into speed. This kind of dive will make the speed of the fighter quickly exceed the design value, but only in this way can the opponent follow him to the low altitude!

Obviously, the other party has bit his tail. If the other party wants to attack him, he must continue to track and then launch infrared missiles.

Therefore, William did not simply dive, he kept pushing the control stick left and right, and pedaling the rudder. During the dive, the course of the fighter plane was constantly changing.

The altimeter is constantly turning, and the altitude is falling rapidly. At the same time, the speed of the Mach table is constantly increasing, and soon, it will exceed Mach 2.5!

The huge overload made the bodies of the two pilots press tightly on the seats, and their hands became heavy and weak. Moreover, the launch of infrared bombs was without warning, which further deepened the psychological burden of the two.

Infrared decoy bombs are constantly being thrown from the tail, hoping to interfere with the missiles the opponent may launch.

Damn it, what happened to the Americans? Andre, who followed behind, couldn't help but wonder.

The actions of the Americans at this time are very crazy. It can be said that the test flight is a dangerous subject, and the Americans are doing this now, just to pull themselves to a low altitude?

Constantly swaying left and right, out of the range of the missile seeker, and at the same time there were a lot of decoy bombs, Andre never got the chance to launch the missile, but Andre knew that the Americans would not do this at all. If you need to launch a missile yourself, the other party will have to crash due to a mechanical accident, because the American Tomcat fighter uses a TF-30 engine!

TF30 is a high-pressure ratio axial-flow twin-rotor turbofan engine developed by the Pratt-Whitney Company in the United States. In 1958, the company began to develop civilian JTF10A with a private business plan. At the end of 1961, the F-111 fighter selected JTF10A's military afterburner TF30-P-1. The non-afterburner TF30-P-6 of the TF30-P-1 was selected by the US Navy in 1964 for the carrier-based attack aircraft A-7.

And now the engine TF30-P-412A used by F-14A is developed from TF30-P-12, TF30-P-12 is the afterburner model of JTF10A turbofan engine. This engine has a small thrust, with a maximum military thrust of 5,600 kg and an afterburner thrust of 9,480 kg, making the Tomcat thrust-to-weight ratio only 0.7, which limits its mobility.

If that's the case, that's fine. The Tomcat's excellent aerodynamic performance can make up for these shortcomings. However, another defect of the TF30 engine is the most fatal. In addition, in order to improve the compression efficiency, Pratt \u0026 Whitney designed the compressor stall tolerance to be too small, which makes the engine extremely sensitive to changes in airflow, and is prone to surge or stop!

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