Chapter 562： R-33M missile

For the range, the Soviet Union has a tireless pursuit of a longer range, faster speed, and greater power! And these manifestations are the Soviet high-altitude killer MiG-the MiG-31 improved on the basis of the MiG-25, which realized many ideals of the Soviet Union's Homeland Defense Air Force, and in the battle, the MiG-31 is even more Aerial killers, they are the kings of the sky!

However, the missiles for the MiG-31 still cannot satisfy the Soviet protectors. The latest r-33 missile can achieve a range of 200 kilometers when using a specially designed projectile trajectory. However, This is still not enough for American AWACS! There must be missiles that reach 300 kilometers, or even 400 kilometers!

In later generations, the research and development of this missile continued, but when the missile matured, the mighty empire was gone, and the MiG-31's powerful combat power could only be left alone for life, and never had an actual combat. The matching ultra-long-range r-37 missile was also born at an untimely time, and the hero ended.

But now it is different. As Andre, who was born in the Homeland Defense Air Force, he is very concerned about the construction of the aviation force. In particular, he has used the MiG-31 to kill the early warning aircraft of the United States. He constantly proposes this tactic. new requirements.

Therefore, just after the r-33 missile was finalized and put into service, the modification of the r-33 missile, the r-33m, also entered into rapid research and development. Although the performance has surpassed the later r-37, there is still no new number, just An m was added at the back to represent the modification, which is completely to fool the Americans.

Compared with the prototype, an important improvement of this missile is to turn the rocket engine into a ramjet!

Compared with the solid rocket engine, the biggest advantage of the ramjet is that it does not need to carry the oxidant, and the oxygen in the air can be used, so that the entire weight can be used for fuel, which naturally increases the range. Moreover, the ramjet has a simple structure and does not Equipment such as compressors and turbine blades can be simplified to just one combustion chamber.

Therefore, after the ramjet is adopted, the range of the missile will be greatly increased. Without changing the length and weight of the missile, by switching to the ramjet, when the r-33m missile adopts high-altitude ballistics, the range exceeds 300 kilometers!

300 kilometers is a critical value. Although the US e-3 early warning aircraft claims to have a scanning range with a radius of 600 kilometers, in complex aerial situations, such as now, there are hundreds of aircraft to command, they will never be at the same time. Taking into account all the targets in the airspace with a radius of 600 kilometers, for non-critical directions, a distance of 300 kilometers is not bad! In this case, the Americans would never find their own fighter jets carrying missiles coming, only the missiles that came!

Another advantage of the ramjet is speed! Mach 3 in the middle and even Mach 5 at the end, making the Americans unable to defend at all!

The Soviet Union has the technology to develop ramjets for missiles, such as the Sam-6 missile, which uses a rocket-ramjet integrated engine, because it is launched from the ground, and the ramjet can only work if it exceeds Mach 2, so use it first. The rocket motor is accelerated, and in the air, this solid rocket is not used, and the carrier aircraft can provide enough speed to meet the working needs of the ramjet.

"A 300-kilometer missile? This will be able to hunt and kill the American early warning aircraft!" Air Force Commander Abed's face instantly eased, and he was a little excited. He could already think of the overwhelming advantage of using this missile.

"However, how does our radar guide? Our MiG-25, although it has been replaced with a new radar, has a maximum distance of only 200 kilometers!" After a while, Abid frowned again.

guide! Why are there no ultra-long-range models of air-to-air missiles? Because there is no carrier radar to guide! You must know that although the Soviet Union has now mastered the technology of flat slot radar, it can greatly improve the radiation efficiency of the radar antenna, and the MiG-25 has a large nose and the largest radar antenna area. Even so, in the long-distance mode, That is to say, if all the radar beams are gathered together, the distance is only 200 kilometers. If you use the method of tracking and scanning, it will only be 100 kilometers.

With a missile with a distance of 300 kilometers, but without radar guidance, the missile cannot hit the target! In fact, when this missile was developed, it was assigned to the MiG-31 interceptor. The MiG-31 used a perverted phased array radar. When the beams were brought together, it could barely reach 300 kilometers. the distance.

And now, Iraq has only MiG-25! No matter how perverted this fighter is, it cannot guide missiles with a distance of 300 kilometers.

"Don't worry, this batch of missiles uses active radar seekers, as long as our carrier planes aim at the target position and shoot in mad dog mode." Andre said.

Mad Dog Mode! This is a unique mode of active air-to-air missiles. It only specifies a specific airspace for the missile, not a specific target. After the missile flies into the range where its own radar can work, turn on the radar and search for the target that appears in its field of vision. , and then lock the attack, and in this process is indistinguishable from enemy and foe, so this mode is called mad dog mode!

This is also what an actively guided missile can have! Andre was very proud in his heart. At the beginning, under his strong suggestion, the Soviet Union dispatched troops and occupied the island country. Although it was at the risk of causing a world war, it now seems that the dividend of the war is Enough, the biggest benefit is that the level of electronic technology in the Soviet Union has been greatly improved! In later generations, even in Russia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the flat-panel slot radar antenna could not be produced due to the problem of machining accuracy. Now, relying on the advanced industrial technology of the island countries, the Soviet Union has thoroughly understood these equipment, and this kind of active guidance The core of the head is the flat slot radar antenna at the front of the missile! Thinking of the poop-shaped helical antenna after dismantling the imported Russian missiles in later generations, I don't know how many times it has improved! (Don't complain, it's just a metaphor.)

Part of the inspiration for this seeker comes from dismantling American Phoenix missiles, and at the same time, it also has a way of attacking radiation sources, which is most suitable for attacking American electronic warfare aircraft!

"However, for the best effect, we also need the command of the early warning aircraft, so I mobilized an early warning aircraft from the Turkestan military region, and it will fly over the eastern Persian Gulf to provide command for our sneak attack formation." Ender Lie said. (To be continued.)

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