At 4:25, two long aircraft of the four j-25s that broke out in front of them activated the fire-controlled radar. Within five seconds, the radar locked the target. Then, the two j-25s turned off the radar and input the acquired data into the pl-12e medium-range air-to-air missiles, and continued to fly towards the target at a speed of 1,500 kilometers per hour, that is, the "Felcon" early warning aircraft, preparing to provide precise guidance for the missile.

During daily training, the j-25 pilot practiced this tactic hundreds of times and became familiar with it.

Only the j-25 and the latest batch of j-20 are able to adopt this tactic. The reason is that only these two types of fighter jets have new fire control radars installed.

During the Second Korean War and the East China Sea War, fighter jets used fire-controlled radar to expose their whereabouts, which became one of the main reasons for combat damage. Even the very advanced F-22a at that time, using fire-controlled radar in air combat, was easily discovered by the opponent's electronic reconnaissance aircraft or passive detection devices on the fighter jets. After the East China Sea War, the Chinese Air Force and the Navy spent a lot of effort to solve this problem.

The most direct solution is to develop a low-detection fire control radar for fighter jets.

Because the J-25 is the main carrier-based air combat aircraft of the Navy, and the main role of the J-22 in the Air Force is a multi-purpose medium-sized fighter, the Air Force did not put too high demands on the J-22 during the development process, and the Navy clearly required the J-25 to be equipped with a low-detection fire control radar.

This requirement is also in line with Cheng Fei's appetite.

The reason is very simple. The main fighter jet that China promotes in the international market is the j-20, but this heavy fighter jet is too expensive. If equipped with the most advanced fire control radar, the price is even higher. Countries willing to buy fighter jets from China can basically not afford it. For example, the Pakistan Air Force has asked about the price of the j-20 many times and also put forward the purchase intention, but they all gave up because they were too expensive.

As for countries that have the money to buy J-20, such as oil-rich countries in the Middle East, most of them will choose F-22a.

To this end, in order to open up the situation in the international market, Chengfei needs to come up with a fighter that most countries can afford but not very poor in performance.

Medium-sized fighter jets like j-22 have become ideal.

However, in countries that need to purchase the fourth-generation medium-sized fighter jets, most of them have no money to purchase air combat aircraft separately, requiring multi-purpose fighter jets to have strong air combat capabilities. This is also the main reason why Lockheed Martin first launched the air-control model and the air-control enhanced model when promoting the F-35a.

Affected by this, when developing j-22, Cheng Fei raised his own funds and developed j-22b, which is the air-control enhancement type.

After the Navy joined the development of j-22, it also required to enhance its air control capabilities, so j-25 was directly based on j-22b, rather than the Air Force's standard type.

For Cheng Fei, it is equivalent to using the Navy's money to develop a j-22b for the export market.

Of course, there are also obvious differences between j-22b and j-25, such as the lack of a ship and catapult system, the structure of the fuselage and landing gear has not been enhanced, the electronic equipment has been simplified, etc. However, it is undeniable that the j-22/j-25 series fighter jets can enter the international market and become the biggest competitor of the f-35 series, and j-22b makes great contributions. Later, when promoting the j-22b, Cheng Fei also specifically promoted his blood relationship with the j-25, and soon afterwards, he launched the j-25b, which is an export-type fighter jet with the name of naval carrier-based fighter jets.

On the j-25, the most commendable one is the low-detection phased array fire control radar developed by Nanjing Institute of Electronics.

When this radar is working, it will first detect the surrounding electromagnetic environment, especially the intensity of various electromagnetic radiation in the radar working band, and then work on the frequency with strong radiation. If the target information is obtained in advance, such as information provided by the early warning machine, when searching, the radar will work at the lowest power according to the distance from the target, and emit electromagnetic waves on several frequency bands in agile manner.

The biggest advantage of doing this is to reduce the probability of being discovered by the enemy.

Of course, this also has an extremely obvious disadvantage, that is, the target data obtained by the radar is not accurate enough and can only be used as a relay guidance command for the missile. If it is necessary to attack a highly maneuverable target, the fighter must start the fire-controlled radar again before the missile enters the autonomous attack stage and illuminate the target with maximum power, so that the missile can obtain precise guidance information, or the fighter can provide precise guidance information.

Early warning aircraft are high-mobility targets, so fighter aircraft must follow up.

There is no doubt that this radar is of great value.

Globally, only the F-22c and F-35ablock 12 batches launched by Lockheed Martin are equipped with fire control radars with similar performance, and the sales prices are ridiculously high. Even rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE that have made a fortune on oil cannot afford them.

Because the price of j-22b is lower than that of f-35a, when sold to the outside world, the low detectable fire control radar is just a choice of equipment, that is, it will only be equipped after the customer requests it. It was not until five years later that j-25b was released and became the standard equipment.

Fortunately, all J-22s of the Chinese Navy are equipped with low detectable fire control radars.

The main reason is that the purchase volume of J-22 is not large. There are only sixty aircraft in the three carrier-based aviation corps, and only one hundred aircraft are included in the backup. In addition, J-22 is the main air-control fighter of the naval carrier-based aviation. It requires air-control capabilities to exceed j-15b, so there is no need to make trouble on radar.

In just five seconds, the passive detection system on "Felcon" did not respond at all.

Because the search range is concentrated near "Felcon", neighboring Indian fighters and Japanese fighters did not intercept the radar signals sent by the J-22.

When the j-22 launched the missile, it was only 120 kilometers away from "Felcon".

This distance is a bit far for pl-12d, but not very far for pl-12e.

Although the pl-12d showed its power in the East China Sea War and achieved 38% of the total results in air combat, which was only four percentage points lower than the fighting missile, the Chinese Air Force and Navy were still not satisfied with its performance, mainly because its maximum range was still low and its anti-interference ability in complex environments was limited.

pl-12e is the improved type of pl-12d. It mainly means that it will not be mass-produced until the end of 2028, and it will be even longer for the equipment of the troops to be equipped.

Relying on the engine that is larger than the rush, the maximum power range of the pl-12e reaches 160 kilometers.

When facing attack, the maximum theoretical range exceeds 200 kilometers.

According to Western standards, the pl-12e is no longer a medium-range air-to-air missile, but a long-range air-to-air missile.

The attack on the bulky early warning aircraft and launches missiles at 120 kilometers. It can be said that the pilot of the j-25 is very conservative. Even if it launches missiles at 160 kilometers, the early warning aircraft cannot escape.

When attacking targets without stealth capabilities such as early warning aircraft, the active guidance distance of pl-12e reaches forty kilometers.

If the passive guidance mode is first adopted, the active guidance distance can be increased to 60 kilometers, and only when it approaches twenty kilometers, it will be changed to the active guidance mode.

Given the situation at that time, there is actually no need to follow up with j-25.

The Indian early warning aircraft did not turn, and did not even concentrate the radar beam in the direction where the j-25 was located, indicating that no danger of approximation was found, and there would be no maneuvering evasion and would fly along the previous course. Therefore, the pl-12e could fully fly autonomously to the vicinity of the early warning aircraft, and then lock the early warning aircraft in a passive manner. Before entering the autonomous attack stage, the fighter aircraft does not need to provide precise guidance information.

The four j-25s continued to follow up just to be on the safe side.

When the missile approaches the early warning aircraft, the missile warning aircraft on the early warning aircraft can detect infrared radiation emitted by the missile. If there is an escort fighter nearby, it will intercept. According to the information provided by the second department, the R-77 equipped with the Su-30mki has the ability to intercept air-to-air missiles. Although this capability has not been confirmed in actual combat, no one knows how high the R-77 hits the same type of missile, but there is always this possibility. If the first four pl-12e fired are intercepted, the fighter can still open fire again at a very close distance.

To seize air supremacy, you must first destroy the enemy's early warning aircraft.

Regardless of the performance of "Felcon", whether it has the ability to lock in j-25 is the biggest threat and the most valuable target.

In fact, there are enough reasons to believe that "Felcon"'s performance is not very good at this time.

Although the Indian Air Force claimed that "Felcon" is pure Israeli technology, and China's kj-2000 only uses Israeli technology, the detection capability of "Felcon" is superior to that of the kj-2000, and can detect stealth fighters two hundred kilometers away, but when the J-25 launches missiles, it is only 120 kilometers away from "Felcon". In other words, the detection distance of "Felcon" on stealth fighters is less than 120 kilometers.

This performance is definitely not advanced.

As early as more than ten years ago, KJ-2000 proved in actual combat that it could discover f-22a 150 kilometers away, while j-25's stealth ability was not as good as f-22a. According to the tests conducted by the Chinese Air Force, the detection distance of kj-2000 to j-22 is about 250 kilometers, while kj-2000b can reach more than 300 kilometers.

At 4:27, the distance was shortened to 80 kilometers, and "Felcon" discovered the coming j-25.

At this time, the j-25 had bypassed Port Blair, with a speed of up to 1,800 kilometers per hour.

In order to avoid the air defense radar on the archipelago, the four J-25s must detour.

The result was that the Indian officers on the "Felcon" believed that it was not a fighter jet of the Chinese Navy, but a Japanese fighter jet that had been launched before.

In order to find out the identity, Indian officers issued an enemy-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-eight-to-

Obviously, "Felcon" will not receive a reply.

At the same time, the Indian officers on "Felcon" asked the ground air defense center about the situation of the F-35b aircraft fleet, that is, whether the Japanese Navy had arranged fighter jets to the north of Port Blair.

Two minutes later, the Indian officer received a reply, and the Japanese fighter planes were all east of Port Blair.

At this time, j-25 was only forty kilometers away from "Felcon".

Because "Felcon" did not turn, the four pl-12e successfully entered the autonomous attack stage and locked the early warning aircraft in passive search mode. Therefore, the j-25 did not start the fire control radar again, but turned around according to the plan and met the group left on the east side of Port Blair.

This move made the Indian officer hesitate for the second time.

The reason is very simple. He thought the four fighters were f-35bs, but they flew in the wrong direction. After turning, they would head to the air defense patrol area east of Port Blair.
Chapter completed!