At present, there are anti tank missiles used by armed helicopters in China, but this is different from the demand of fixed wing aircraft.
Armed helicopters are low-speed aircraft and can hover even when fighting tanks. Therefore, when helicopters fight tanks, missiles almost use visual aiming and semi-active guidance. In semi-active, wired guidance is the main way. Laser semi-active guidance missiles will not appear until more than ten years later.
The anti tank missiles of this era have a pay off device at the tail, which constantly releases the control line. With the extension of the missile, a battle comes down, and even the battlefield is full of this thin copper wire.
The helicopter is OK, but the fixed wing aircraft can't, because its speed is high. The pay off device breaks before it releases the line. In this case, it is necessary to develop a new anti tank missile.
Of course, it is not only anti tank, but also can fight other ground equipment. It is an air to ground missile.
To say this missile, we must mention the famous Mavericks.
In 1964, the Eagle Air Force first proposed to develop the "maverick" air to ground missile. In 1965, the development work began. In early 1970, the fully guided flight test was carried out. In early 1971, the Air Force identified the flight test, and then began to produce and equip the air force aircraft, code named agm-65a.
The missile is cylindrical, with a length of 2.49 meters, a monomer home of 0.35 meters and a wingspan of 0.72 meters. The cross shaped wing and rudder are arranged on the same plane, and the deflection angle of the rudder is ± 35 °. The power unit is a dual thrust solid rocket motor, with a maximum range of 48 kilometers and a maximum firing speed of about 1.2 mach.
It can be found that the appearance of this missile is different from that used by helicopters, and the guidance principle is even different.
The original maverick missile used the principle of TV guidance. A TV seeker was installed in the front of the missile, which included a TV camera and an electronic system.
Now, with the introduction of Qin Guan, the introduction materials of this missile appeared on a switching screen, and everyone listened carefully.
"The warhead of this missile weighs 58.7 kg and the charge is 37.6 kg. It is detonated by the trigger fuse. The important launch weight of the whole missile is 210 kg. Our qiang-5 fighters can carry at least six, and can accurately attack six tanks at one time."
"Although the warhead is not powerful, it uses the way of attacking the top. It attacks from the top of the tank, which is the most vulnerable part of all tanks."
"But why haven't we heard of it?"
With Qin Guan's participation, the exercise has been very different from the preset. Now the question is commander Qin. Even he hasn't heard that his own side has this missile.
"Because it is still planned, if the army needs it, we will build it within a year," Qin Guan said.
A missile is still under planning. Why take it out? Everyone was stunned.
Qin Guan also secretly complained. The country's military industry is full of holes. He can't take care of everything.
In terms of missiles, I worry about thunderbolt-8, which introduces technology from David, and thunderbolt-11, which introduces sky flash technology from NiuGuo. In terms of surface to air missiles, I worry about localization of standard missiles. Where can I care about this air-to-ground missile.
After all, before the Xiong Guo military exercise, we had not felt such a real crisis. Well, now we feel it, where can we take it out immediately.
However, don't worry. Our electronic technology is developing rapidly. As long as we take the data of this maverick missile from the weapon data cemetery and improve it ourselves, we can produce it in about a year.
This exercise is to show how to deal with the large-scale military invasion of bear country. Compared with the previous pessimistic view, it is not easy to hide in the mountains. What is a year?
Sure enough, the head nodded: "yes, this is a key project. We must catch it."
Qin Guan smiled: "there are mainly two precision weapons in our plan. This air to ground missile is initially a TV seeker and will develop a laser seeker later."
In fact, its ultimate improvement is infrared imaging guidance. Unfortunately, this technology is in the 21st century, and it can't be done at the current level.
One is an air to surface missile, which is mainly equipped for professional ground attack aircraft such as Qiang five. The other is for Flying Leopard fighter bombers.
"The other is to improve our existing aerial missiles and add guidance elements to become precision guided weapons, which are thrown by Flying Leopard fighter bombers."
The Flying Leopard has a large bomb load and mainly carries bombs. With the improvement of this kind of bomb, it will become a precision guided bomb.
"Is it that easy to add guidance elements?" someone asked immediately.
"It's not very difficult," said Qin Guan "With our current technology, we can do it in about a year. We can add laser seeker to the bomb and control the missile to reach the target accurately. However, the price of this technology upgrade is slightly expensive. After our satellite navigation system is developed, we can use the satellite navigation module, and the cost can be greatly reduced."
Let the Flying Leopard take the calf, but it's a little overqualified. It's the right way for the Flying Leopard to take the bomb, especially the one ton big bomb, which can be carried by the Flying Leopard. It's the right way not only to fight the tank, the other party's rear supply position, their headquarters and so on.
Now, the role of the air force is very small, because the air force has almost no accurate ground attack weapons. Qiang five carries a bomb dive attack, which is dangerous and has little success. As for the bombardment six, I'm afraid it was shot down before it reached the battlefield.
While talking, the aircraft in the sky have flown to the battlefield.
Flying Leopard fighter bombers are still flying at high altitude. Their target is not those tanks, but the rear of the enemy tank forces!
The qiang-5 attack aircraft swooped down, swooped down towards the blue army and launched an attack.
"Pay attention to air raid, pay attention to air raid!" Liu Minggang, the commander of the tank company, shouted loudly in the radio. He opened the tank hatch and pushed the anti-aircraft machine gun on the tank turret.
In this era, the role of anti-aircraft machine guns has been greatly reduced. The mobile air defense firepower of Xiong's tank troops is the main force of their air defense, but Qin Guan did not exchange it.
Therefore, they can only do so and watch those qiang-5 attack aircraft fly over their heads to simulate attacks.
I don't know how the command decided? When these planes are finished, will our side be wiped out? Do you still play? The tanks of the opposite defensive forces have not been seen yet!