HPDBC Chapter 40 is about drones, but also missiles.
Chapter 40 is about drones, but also missiles.
[Beep—Enemy aircraft evaded your PL-15 missile!]
[Beep—Enemy aircraft evaded your PL-15 missile!]
[Beep—Enemy plane...]
Several tens of seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and the ACMI exercise system finally confirmed the attack results. Three consecutive red notifications popped up on the DHU of the J-20 fighter jet.
Wei Weibin's pupils contracted sharply. Before he could make a decision, Zou Zijian's shout came through the communication channel.
"Brother Bin, we were predicted! All our missiles missed! What do we do?!"
Wei Weibin quickly glanced at the parameters on the radar interface and found that the two unmanned combat aircraft had dodged the missile and then changed direction again, from heading diagonally upwards from the southeast to heading diagonally upwards from the northwest.
This is exactly as Zhang Hai described; they're flying right above their heads!
Secondly, given the maneuverability of drones, once they fly overhead and utilize the planet's gravity to their advantage, they can definitely unleash 300% of their maneuverability.
By attacking from a low position, the planet's gravity became a bottleneck, and the performance of the air-to-air missiles was reduced by more than half, which was equivalent to a reversal of the battlefield situation.
"quick!"
Thinking this through, Wei Weibin stopped considering how to continue the attack, moved the control stick to lower the nose of the aircraft, and quickly looked out of the cockpit at the position of the sun. Finally, through the curved horizon, he fixed his gaze on a large area of newly formed clouds in the east, about 80 kilometers away, near the edge of the exercise area.
"Due east!"
"See that huge cloud? Descend, descend, we're going in there!"
The words fell.
Without hesitation, Wei Weibin quickly pushed the control lever, stepped on the rudder pedal, then pushed the throttle lever to its maximum and activated the boost mode.
Rumble!
The thirty-ton aerial behemoth beneath them roared deafeningly.
Wei Weibin felt his body suddenly lurch toward the nose of the plane, only to be pulled back by the seatbelt a moment later. Then the sky spun, and the outline of the earth and the cloud cover to the east appeared before his eyes.
boom!
The next instant, it was as if his body had been struck by a mountain peak.
A terrifying pressure erupted from behind the seat, pushing him forward and downward!
"Charge! Zijian, keep up, don't stop!"
Wei Weibin, enduring the excruciating pain caused by the high G-force acceleration, gritted his teeth and issued instructions to his wingman, his eyes fixed on the radar tracking interface...
The J-20 fighter jet uses an active phased array radar, making it one of the world's most powerful fighter jets in terms of battlefield awareness, with a radar detection scanning range of 360° without blind spots.
This allows his radar to continuously track and lock onto unmanned combat aircraft even as he is descending.
At this point, Wei Weibin had already determined that the other side's two unmanned combat aircraft were using optical lenses for tracking.
If he then rushes east into that cloud of mist to conceal his tracks and prevent the drones from tracking and predicting their attack, the battlefield advantage will be returned to them.
Meanwhile, it's almost evening now, and as we fly east, the sun will be setting even faster.
As the sun sets, the drone's optical lenses fade into the background, and from then on, the battlefield is entirely theirs to command...
The observation deck at the air force base.
Zhang Hai and the other pilots listened to Wei Weibin's painful cries of enduring intense G-forces on the channel, and then looked at the radar and weather images transmitted from the ACMI exercise system. They immediately understood Wei Weibin's thinking and plan.
only--
It's too late.
Zhang Hai watched as the unmanned combat aircraft, which had already reached an altitude of 35,000 meters and began to slow down, seemed to think of something, sighed, and closed his eyes.
Although the exercise rules stipulated that all personnel entering to observe were not allowed to reveal any information, his actions at this moment exposed his thoughts.
Laboratory No. 78.
As Lin Dong watched the footage transmitted back by the drone, he saw two J-20 fighter jets turning in the air before speeding off into the distant clouds one after the other. A hint of admiration and confidence appeared in his eyes.
"An excellent and decisive pilot!"
"Unfortunately, in the pursuit of a one-hit kill, too many missiles were launched. Now we only have two PL-15s and four PL-10s left. The odds of winning from here on out are 70/30, with us at 70% and them at 30%."
"How so?"
Hearing this, Lin Weiliang leaned over to take a look and asked curiously, "How come we only have a 70% chance of winning?"
Although he believed Lin Dong's words.
But no matter how he looked at it, he didn't see that unmanned combat aircraft had a 70% chance of winning.
After all, the distance between the unmanned combat aircraft and the J-20 fighter jet is still nearly 100 kilometers.
At this distance, the laser's power is negligible and cannot penetrate defenses, let alone be used for close-quarters combat and killing.
"It's very simple. Dad, you've seen the movie 'Kung Fu Hustle,' right? But have you ever heard of a palm technique that descends from the sky?"
Lin Dong pointed to the two unmanned combat aircraft that were already at an altitude of 35,000 meters on the screen and said calmly, "Unmanned combat aircraft do not carry people. Compared with manned combat aircraft, their limits are higher and their maneuverability is also more free."
Based on my design calculations, the structure of these two unmanned combat aircraft can currently withstand an overload of more than 45G.
Although this overload limit is much lower than the maximum overload of 100G during the acceleration of an air-to-air missile launch.
However, the advantage is that unmanned combat aircraft can be controlled and tracked in all areas, and can also launch lasers, instead of having to accelerate in the initial stage like air-to-air missiles and then glide. This makes the window of opportunity and angle for attack much narrower.
Therefore, in a sense, they are not only unmanned combat aircraft, but also two special missiles capable of tracking across the entire domain.
However, due to their windward surface and aerodynamic design, coupled with the fact that the air is denser and drag is greater at low altitudes, their acceleration performance is difficult to reach its limit, and they cannot achieve the threatening effect of a missile's instantaneous acceleration.
But now, at an altitude of 30,000 meters, the thin air resistance is extremely weak. With the engine operating at full power, coupled with the planet's gravitational acceleration, the situation is completely different.
Di-
As soon as Lin Dong finished speaking, the unmanned combat aircraft, whose speed had slowed down to a certain extent at high altitude, folded its control surfaces and completed a 180° turn in the sky.
The entire fuselage attitude changed from nose up and tail down to nose down and tail up, and the fire control radar was activated, locking onto the flight paths of the two J-20 fighter jets.
Rumbling--
A brilliant blue flame surged from the engine nozzle, and the entire unmanned fighter jet seemed to blur for a moment before transforming into two sharp arrows that shot straight down.
Speed 0.6M, speed 13M, speed 1.9M, speed 2.5M...
Almost every second, the speed of the unmanned combat aircraft would increase significantly, and in just a short while, the entire nose of the aircraft would glow with a dazzling red light as it crossed the thermal barrier.
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