Chapter 1126: Perfectly expose all defects

F-16 has no mid-range interception capability. This is its biggest flaw. So its later improved version has added a continuous wave illuminator, which can launch Sparrow missiles. In the later stage, it can even launch active radars such as AIM-120. With the guided air-to-air missile, the combat effectiveness immediately rose to a higher level.
It's just that the Hans kingdom now has this ability, so it can't meet the needs of the Hans kingdom.
Hampton felt regretful for his mistake just now. He wanted to defeat the opponent in close combat. Seeing that the opponent had approached his line of sight, he would take the initiative to fight him. Who knows, the current J-14 The fighter turned around and turned on the afterburner!
What is he going to do? Is he actually going to escape?
Hampton was very strange, seeing that the other party was about to flee, of course he couldn't let it go.
In terms of power, the F100 engine at his tail is definitely the most defying power of this era. With the surging flames from the afterburner, the fighters began to accelerate, and the slightly flat nose pierced the sky. Entered supersonic speed.
Everyone watching on the ground found it strange. Which one did the Han people do?
Qin Guan secretly admired Chen Rui's cleverness in his heart. By doing this, he was able to clearly show the shortcomings of the F-16.
The two fighters are all moving in the same direction. The F-14 is in front and the F-16 is behind. It is considered that the F-14 is escaping. At this time, the AWACS should judge that the F-16 has won.
"Why don't they lock it?" Even Boileau was strange.
"It's useless if locked. The F-16 doesn't have medium-range missiles. Now they have a distance of at least 30 kilometers. The Sidewinder missile can't attack that far, so the F-16 has nothing to do."
That's right, the current F-16 has nothing to do. When facing the enemy to flee, when they chase, once the distance is too far, the F-16 can't reach it.
They have no suitable weapons!
It was Bill who was speaking. He was unwilling to lose in the Phantom 2000. But now, when he saw Chen Rui starting to escape, he admired him instead.
Chen Rui perfectly grasped the weakness of F-16!
Not only is the distance too far out of reach, but the more important good show will be staged immediately.
Hampton in the cockpit was extremely angry. This is an aerial battle, this is a confrontation. What run you run!
The Mach meter in front of him has exceeded 1.6, and the opponent is still accelerating, so he can only accelerate. However, at this time, the huge leather drag inlet under his belly has begun to counteract.
The intake port design of fighter aircraft is a very in-depth knowledge. Generally speaking, at low speed, the intake port needs to have a larger opening before it can be used by the fighter’s engine. At high speed, the opening should be smaller. Because the relative speed with the air is high at this time, there is already a lot of air coming in by the collision.
Therefore, many fighters have adjustable air intake devices. For example, the air intake cone commonly used in the previous MiG-21 is also used on the Mirage 2000. It is just split in half and installed on both sides. In this way, through The front and back expansion of the intake cone changes the size of the intake port.
As for the F-14 and F-15 rectangular air inlets, the adjustment method of the partition is adopted. In short, there are all. However, this kind of adjustable inlet has a complete set of adjustment mechanisms. Brings an increase in weight.
It is necessary for heavy air dominance fighters, but for F-16, it is not necessary because it is positioned as a high-performance fighter in the subsonic range.
For this reason, the F-16 is a fixed Pitot tube, which greatly reduces the weight. Below Mach 1.6, the efficiency is very high.
However, once it exceeds this speed, it will start to react, and the acceleration of the fighter will be slow.
This is entirely related to its positioning.
Now, Hampton was still chasing behind, but the distance between the two fighters began to expand, chasing farther and farther.
The F-16's top speed can reach Mach 2, but the later acceleration is very slow and weak due to the obstruction of the air intake, and it needs to be accelerated a little bit.
The previous F-14 is different. It relies on the DSI bulge air inlet and has good performance in various situations. It tells that the sprint ability is also very strong, and it quickly accelerates to Mach 2, so it is a great ride. Chen left the opponent behind.
The plane chasing behind, on the contrary, the farther and farther it chased, the expressions of the Ying Guoren present slowly grew gloomy.
Their disadvantages have been exposed.
Qin Guan felt amused secretly in his heart. In fact, the real explorer of this kind of bulging air inlet is the Eagle countryman in front of him.
Lockheed Martin's engineers began to study alternatives to traditional supersonic air intakes in the early 1990s. They tried to eliminate the complicated mechanisms related to the control of the surface layer: the surface layer isolation board, the air release system, and the bypass system. By eliminating these mechanisms, weight can be reduced.
The final research result is DSI, or bulge air inlet. DSI removed the side-layer isolation plate, and the air intake was integrated into the front fuselage design. A three-dimensional surface (bulge) is designed in front of the air inlet. The function of this bulge is to act as a compression surface, increasing the pressure distribution to "push" the boundary layer air away from the inlet. The forward-swept design of the lip of the air intake fairing allows most of the boundary layer airflow to overflow to the rear fuselage.
It can be said that DSI is actually an improvement on the intake port part of the conventional intake port. The well-designed three-dimensional compression surface and the air inlet can not only complete the function of the traditional boundary layer partition, but also provide air pre-compression, thereby improving the efficiency of the air inlet at high speed and reducing resistance.
In other words, it is an important means to prevent F-16 fighter jets from accelerating weakly at high speeds.
With the cancellation of the air intake adjustment system, the weight is naturally reduced. For the future combat aircraft, the more important point is that the RCS of the aircraft may be greatly reduced after removing the boundary layer partition and the compression swash plate, which is obviously conducive to improving the stealth capability.
At that time, they were very successful in their exploration, and it was the experiment carried out on the F-16, but what is puzzling is that the Eagle Country did not modify their F-16 into this kind of air inlet, which is another why?
The reason is actually very simple. When the F16 did this DSI test, it was in 1996. Eagle country’s own F16s were all delivered and discontinued. Almost all the products that continue to be produced are foreign. The full modification of the DSI is purely a brain flood. This experimental project It's just a verification for JSF.
Now, I don't know if this stimulation will let them make a bulging air inlet. In short, the current F-16's disadvantages have been fully demonstrated.
In the air defense interception of the Hans, the distance was far, they could not intercept, there was no medium-range projectile, could not reach, once the opponent speeded up and flee, the F-16 could not catch up!