Chapter 1133: Spear and shield

"To be honest, there is no good way." Tan Zhenhua shrugged to Mahmoud and said: "Under the current air combat mode and environment, this is almost unsolvable. If a solution must be found, then There is only learning of the "queuing to shoot" tactics like the musket-gun era in the Middle Ages. Everyone puts out the position, shoots a few rounds, and fights you to death."
Mahmoud imagined a scene where the two fighters lined up and fired mid-range bullets. He could not help but frowned and said: "In the tactics of queuing to shoot, the one with stronger fighting will and discipline often wins. On the contrary, the requirements for mastering combat skills are not high, Eric, is that kind of air combat too lack of technical content?"
"On the contrary, the technical content of this combat mode is very high." Tan Zhenhua said solemnly: "It's just that this technical content is very different than it is now. It requires fighters to discover and attack enemy planes as soon as possible. , In order to disrupt the enemy’s rhythm, if possible, solve the battle outside the line of sight, even if it can’t be solved, at least disrupt the opponent’s rhythm and tactical arrangement, and grasp the advantages of battle within the line of sight as much as possible In our hands."
"In other words, you think that the technical content of future air combat will gradually shift from the requirements for pilots' combat skills to the requirements for fighter aircraft." Mahmoud said after thinking for a moment: "According to your point of view, the more radar Advanced fighters with better missile performance will have more obvious advantages in future air combat?"
"These are not all, but at least they are also very important influencing factors, and even decisive." Tan Zhenhua said: "The Americans have done in-depth research on this and believe that BVR tactics are the interception tactics of medium-range missiles. It will play an increasingly important role in future air combat, and today you saw the tactics used by our "Flying Leopard" in the exercise, which is one of the research results."
"According to your statement, then we might as well buy a few of your China "H6" to convert into a flying arsenal." Although we have seen the results today, Mahmoud has obviously not yet fully accepted Tan Zhenhua's views. The words are obviously with a bit of spirit: "The big guy is big and has enough engine power. It can not only install a larger size and power radar, but also can carry more medium-range bombs."
Tan Zhenhua laughed: "Lao Ma, what you said makes no sense. Think about it. With a physique the size of "Hang Liu", its radar reflection area is equivalent to that of several fighters. The enemy saw it from a long distance. And the maneuverability of this product is so poor. Even if it sees the enemy launching a missile attack, what effective evasive action can it make? Just like the wonderful 9G overload maneuver made by Hamid Gadri today, we The
Liu Ye
family probably broke up before half of the time, saving the enemy from wasting missile attacks. There is an old Chinese saying that
overseas is too late
. We cannot go from one extreme to the other."
Mahmoud also knows that what he said just now is a bit unreasonable. It is indeed that today's failure made him feel a little embarrassed. The result of this air combat exercise not only announced the five-year bet between him and Tan Zhenhua. His failure ended in a clean and complete defeat for the Pakistani Air Force. Although no one blames him for it, he still feels a little embarrassed when he was promoted to brigadier general because of his outstanding work.
However, he adjusted his emotions quickly. After all, he was facing Tan Zhenhua, the young man who had refreshed his cognition with one miracle since he met him.
"Can you be more specific?" He put on a sincere attitude of asking for advice.
"For both sides in air combat, the fighters they drive are actually a pair of contradictory communities." Tan Zhenhua said: "Both sides have the same goal-first enemy discovery, first enemy attack." It can be seen from today's battle example. , The party who has the first opportunity has a great advantage. "
Mahmoud couldn't help but nodded and said: "I agree with this point, but the means of over-the-horizon detection are limited. If the ground radar factor is not taken into consideration, the battle between the two sides is nothing more than the performance of the radar on the fighter plane. "
"There are also early warning aircraft." Tan Zhenhua added: "No matter how good the performance of the radar on a fighter jet, its ability is limited by the influence of power and antenna size. However, the early warning aircraft can be equipped with equipment with a performance several times that of the fighter radar, and at high altitudes. Cruising early warning aircraft can also avoid the influence of the curvature of the earth on radar waves, so American talents will spare no effort to develop this equipment."
Mahmoud nodded again, and sighed again: "I understand this point. While negotiating the purchase of F16, we also submitted an application to the United States to purchase its E-2C "Eagle Eye" early warning aircraft, but did not Approved by the U.S. Congress-their reason is that Soviet Russia has no early warning aircraft that can be deployed in Afkhan, so we don't need it at all."
"What's the reason..." Chen Yijian just cut in his mouth when he saw Tan Zhenhua desperately blinking at him, and suddenly his heart moved, knowing that this kid must have been stabbing again-even though he hadn't been for a while. I want to understand the significance of Tan Zhenhua's sudden mention of this stubble.
This is an early warning machine. It is a good thing that China has not had and has been eager to see through it for many years. It is now that China's internal planning discussions have not been put on the agenda, let alone a good thing for project establishment. Now foreshadowing, what is the use?
Could it be...
Chen Yijian suddenly didn't dare to think about it anymore. He was afraid that this was only his own wishful thinking, and he knew that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment in the future once it fell through.
But once this idea came up, Chen Yijian realized that he couldn't get rid of it.
"However, we can temporarily ignore the equipment that cannot be achieved in the short term." When Chen Yijian had skipped countless thoughts in his mind, Tan Zhenhua was already continuing: "Let’s talk about the fighter itself first, because both sides have discovered the enemy. Demand, then has a result-the radar on the fighter aircraft will be the focus of investment by both parties, that is to say, as the "spear" side, in the future, the radar performance on the fighter aircraft will become more and more advanced, and the detection range will also It will get farther and farther, and its accuracy and anti-interference ability will become stronger and stronger. With the current relatively advanced PD radar system, it will soon develop to a bottleneck. Breakthroughs in the new system are likely to occur within the next ten years. And enter the actual equipment in the next twenty years. At the same time, as the other side of the "spear", the medium-range and long-range air-to-air missiles will also get greater development, and their attack distance will become longer and longer, and the mobile overload will increase. The larger the radar, the more advanced the radar on it. The active radar seeker will gradually replace the current mainstream semi-active radar seeker to gain the ability to "don't care after launch" and improve the survivability of the fighter. At the same time, the distance between the inevitable zone of missiles will also increase. This trend will continue to develop for a long time and become the focus of rivalry between the two sides."
After a pause, he added: "But Ma, you are right just now. Under the premise that the maneuverability is guaranteed, a larger fuselage obviously has an advantage. At least it can guarantee more installation. Radars with high power and antenna size can also carry more weapons. The weight of medium-range bombs is not light. Therefore, in the future, dual-engine heavy fighters have natural advantages over single-engine fighters unless we can use one engine. Reach the performance of the opponent's two engines."
Mahmoud was fascinated, and couldn't help asking: "So what about the shield? What is the shield?"