In air battles, they fight quickly and quickly. Both sides are like two martial arts masters. If one is slower by a second, it will end up dead.

In close combat, there is no fighter that makes it cheaper with twin-engine and double-vertical tails, plus variable swept wings.[]

Although the Phantom F1 is advanced in avionics, it is just a fighter with a conventional aerodynamic layout, with a single single vertical tail, and uses a single Snekema company's "Ata" 9k-50 turbojet engine. The maximum military thrust of the engine is only 5020kg, the afterburner thrust is 7200kg, and the thrust-weight ratio is 4.7. Even if it is no load, the thrust-weight ratio of the entire machine is less than 1, so it seriously limits the maneuverability of the Phantom F1.

Fighting close-range with the Tomcat is purely a search for abuse, but if these two Tomcats are released, they will definitely support other fighters performing bombing missions. Therefore, Hamad resolutely chose to fight head-on. Even if he is shot down, he will have to fight one of the Tomcats face to face!

However, Amy, the wingman behind, probably wasn't in such a good mood. He knew that only a few people could escape when fighting with the Tomcats in close combat.

While climbing, Ziaz relied on the pilot's good vision to see Iraqi fighters flying from afar.

Unlike the MiG aircraft I encountered in the past, this type of fighter has air intake on both sides, and is not like the MiG-23, which is definitely a French fighter.

The electronic equipment of the French fighter jets is much higher than that of the Soviet ones. No wonder in the first round of air battle, the opponent successfully killed two of its own fighters. However, compared to close combat, Tomcats are not afraid of any fighter jets!

Ziaz turned on the afterburner, and the fighter was climbing rapidly. At the same time, he activated a Rattlesnake missile under the wings and began to be ready for launch.

In close combat, short-range combat bullets are used, and this type of combat bullets are guided by infrared, and the strongest infrared rays are the engine at the tail of the machine.

Therefore, close combat means fighting that seizes the opponent's tail and launches missile attacks at the same time.

Although short-range missiles can be launched directly facing each other, the effect will be greatly reduced. The guidance distance of the seeker is less than two kilometers, and it is very easy to off-target.

Now, both sides are approaching quickly, that is to say, both sides are facing the nose of the aircraft and want to carry out a tail chase attack. Then they have to wait until the first time to get closer and then separate, and then turn back. Whoever quickly turns back can get a favorable launch position.

However, Ziaz discovered again that his analysis was wrong.

Because the enemy planes flying towards each other launched two air-to-air missiles at their fighter planes and Mahmoud at high altitudes!

Before departure, Phantom F1 carried four medium-range Matra 530 air-to-air missiles, two of which were radar-guided and two infrared-guided.

In later generations, any medium-range air-to-air missile would not use infrared-guided type. However, in the era when air-to-air missiles were still in its early stages, there was indeed such missile. The Soviet-made MiG-25 had the R-40t infrared-guided medium-range air-to-air missile, and the radar-type R-40r, which was just different from the seeker.

And the same is true for Matra 530.

In the case of beyond the visual range, infrared guidance cannot lock the target when face-to-face. It can only be launched by the carrier aircraft and flew in an inertia. After approaching, it is very inefficient. However, because the radar guidance type at this time also has great defects, this kind of thing exists.

In close range, it does not have the air-to-air missiles that use special close range fighting, so it becomes useless. After the advancement of electronic technology, this missile disappeared in history.

However, in specific combat, this air-to-air missile has its unique advantages, such as now.

As the distance approaches, the radar's fan search area will become smaller, and the opponent's fighter will detach from the radar scanning area in front from time to time. Therefore, radar-guided air-to-air missiles can basically no longer be used.

Infrared-guided air-to-air missiles have a place to work.

While getting closer, Hamad and Amy fired two infrared-guided Matra 530 missiles under the wings, pointing directly to the two Tomcats at high and low altitudes. Although this infrared-guided medium-range missile is difficult to lock in the target during the head-on attack, they may be shot down in the first round of battle, and it is useless to keep these medium-range missiles. Now launching them can also disrupt the opponent's maneuvering movements. If you can lucky enough to shoot one, you will make a lot of money.

In the Iranian Air Force's equipment sequence, there is no such air-to-air missile, and the Aim-7 Sparrow medium-range missile is all radar-guided.

Therefore, when Ziaz found the missile launched by the other party, he thought that the other party was launching close-range combat missiles.

At this distance, the Iraqi Air Force pilots are indeed crazy people who are afraid of death!

Ziaz turned off the afterburner, so that the infrared characteristics of the aircraft would be less obvious, especially in front of the nose, where the opponent's missile could lock the target and hit him, that was the hell.

Instead of dodging, he rushed bravely towards the direction where the missile flew.

When being hit by an infrared air-to-air missile fired directly opposite the opponent during a head-on attack, it only means that your luck is extremely bad.

Ziaz was observing the other party. He had already estimated that the other party might have to escape by taking advantage of the gap in launching these two missiles.

These two missiles were just smoke, and destroying the other party's phantom aircraft was what he was most interested in.

Mahmoud, who was at high altitude, had the same thought. He was not afraid of the two thick smoke coming out from afar. It was not a threat to him at all.

When the fighter bullets were fired in the face, the hit rate was almost zero, because without the heat source of the tail to guide the two missiles, they were simply uncontrolled rockets.

In fact, he guessed well that this infrared-guided medium-range bomb is mainly used to chase and attack long-range enemy aircraft. It is more reliable to attack head-on or radar-type.

However, there are still miracles. During the flight, three missiles did not capture the target, but one locked the f-14 in the high altitude.

The passive infrared seeker is equipped with a working wavelength of 3.5 to 5μm indium antimonide refrigeration with a cooler of 2kg liquid nitrogen to feel the high temperature of the enemy aircraft and lock the opponent. This indium antimonide seeker is installed on the gyroscope with a frame angle of ±45°, so that the opponent's traces can be found at a large angle.

Since the F-14 is at a high altitude and the missile is in hollow, it not only "sees" the fighter jet in front of its head, but also feels the heat waves coming from the tail, roasting its fragile seeker.

In the internal circuit, the electronic signal is being quickly transmitted. Finally, it is confirmed that the above frame is its target!

Mahmoud didn't notice, but the radar operator in his rear cabin saw the missile flying in quickly.

The advantage of the two-seat is that the radar operator in the rear seat is used to operate complex radar-guided Immortal missiles, and in close combat, there are another pair of eyes that search the airspace.

"It flew towards us, hurry up and dodge!" said the radar operator in the rear cabin.

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