Chapter 4593 Cobra Maneuver

"We've fallen into a trap!" Zhan Qixiong screamed.

We've fallen into a trap! Originally, he thought that the other party had no choice but to send out the A-6E bomber, and wanted to use air-to-air missiles to fight back. After all, in a sense, modern fighter jets have transitioned to long-range missile bombardment at visual range. Wars often end beyond the field of vision. The A-6E bomber, with air-to-air missiles, is also qualified for air combat in a sense.

Therefore, Zhan Qixiong determined that the other party wanted to fight to the death. But he didn't expect that the other party was just bluffing, firing all the air-to-air missiles in one breath, scaring away his Su-, and then began to perform the essential work of the A-6E bomber - ground bombing.

"Not good, return home!" The remaining Su- exclaimed.

But at this moment, they have been driven away by the opponent's air-to-air missiles, and it is too late to return home for rescue. In particular, the opponent has 6 -1 escorts, and it is impossible to intercept them in a short time.

What to do?

"Don't worry about us. If the other side wants to save Zhao by attacking Wei, then we will burn our boats!" Zhan Qixiong made a prompt decision and immediately stopped Su-'s reinforcement. It was too late to send reinforcements at this moment, so he would not send reinforcements. "Go attack their aircraft carriers and sink them!"

"But"

"Don't worry about us. Believe in our anti-aircraft artillery. Russian things have always had the greatest firepower!" Zhan Qixiong comforted them, "I firmly believe that before the other side breaks through our defense, you will be able to break their defense first."

Fighting for life! Zhan Qixiong is going to fight for life. Let's see who laughs last. Is it the A-6E that blows up the 'Wind God' first, or the Su-33 that blows up the other side's two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers first?

"What! You want to compete with us in firepower! Okay, all aircraft carrier guns aim at the Su-33. I want these Su-33s to taste the power of our guns!" Christian shouted.

Buzz~~~~~~~The alarm sounded.

The aircraft carriers of both sides have stopped firing at each other at this moment, and have focused their attention on the opponent's fighter planes that are about to launch an air strike. Compared with the mutual firing of aircraft carrier guns, the bombing of aircraft is undoubtedly more intense and more difficult to defend. From the current situation, the 'G23' has the advantage.

The A-6E is a standard bomber, while the Su-33 is a full-featured fighter. Moreover, compared with the F-1, the most obvious disadvantage of the Su-33 is the backwardness of the electronic monitoring system and radar system, which makes its bombing of ground targets not accurate enough. Therefore, this bombing.

The 'Wind God' suffered a loss.

Zhan Qixiong naturally knew that he suffered a loss. However, he had no choice. The current situation left him with no choice. Since he suffered a loss in innate weapons and equipment, he relied on everyone to unite as one to make up for it.

"All naval guns aim at the A-6E in the air! Prepare the anti-aircraft missiles!" Zhan Qixiong ordered loudly, "Listen to my command, get ready. Fire!"

"Swoosh~~~~" Several anti-aircraft missiles fired, and the whistling sound of missiles breaking through the air, rushed straight to the A-6E that was whistling in the distance.

"Emergency evasion!"--The A-6E commander shouted, and faced the missiles breaking through the air, he made a "U" shape to evade the missiles. Of course, this alone cannot completely evade the missiles. In particular. The bomber itself is not maneuverable enough, and it is impossible to evade close-range air-to-air missiles. Therefore, the A-6E also needs to use jamming bombs to interfere with the missiles of the "Wind God".

A large number of jamming bombs were thrown down!

Rumble! More than a dozen flames flashed in the sky, half of which were hit by jamming bombs, but the other half were missiles that successfully hit A. This kind of bomber, facing the fully alert aircraft carrier air defense capabilities. It is impossible to avoid damage. But they also have the awareness of death. After all, this is a war. As long as there is war, people will die.

They are mercenaries, and although they will refuse meaningless sacrifices, it does not mean that they are afraid of death. If they die, it is inevitable. They will also have the courage to fight the enemy to the last moment.

The first wave of attacks was destroyed. There are only 2 and 6 escorting F-18s left, and at this moment they are close to the attack range.

On the other side. The Su-33 also ushered in the first wave of anti-aircraft artillery fire from the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the ‘g23’.

"Cobra maneuver!" - The aircraft enters from a horizontal state, the nose is raised, reaching an angle of attack, and then maintains this attitude and altitude to continue horizontal movements. At this time, the aircraft rapidly descends, and the pilot quickly manipulates the thrust vector control system, and the fly-by-wire control of the canard and horizontal tail, so that the aircraft lowers its head and dives until it exits.

However, the "Cobra maneuver" is a very controversial maneuver. It first appeared at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Exhibition in June 1989. The flight show of the Soviet Su-27 fighter jet as soon as it made its debut astonished the audience: when Viktor Bugachev took off and climbed at a large angle, suddenly, the nose of the Su-27 lifted up and kept rising, and finally the tail was in front and the nose was in the back, hovering over Paris. After a few seconds, the nose dropped again and returned to the level flight state. Because the process was like a cobra with its head raised high when angry, it was vividly called the "cobra maneuver". Later, in order to commemorate Bugachev, the talented performer, this flying action was also called the "Bugachov maneuver".

Of course, a derivative version of the Cobra maneuver was subsequently developed - the Level 2 Cobra maneuver. Unlike the ordinary Cobra maneuver, the Level 2 Cobra maneuver uses the tail as the center of the circle, lifts the nose backward, and rotates a complete circle in the air to enter level flight again. It is more difficult than the Cobra maneuver. The requirements for pilots are also higher.

However, although the Cobra maneuver is very difficult, it is extremely advantageous in the air. In air combat, especially in close-range air combat, whoever can bite the tail tightly (that is, follow the fighter in front closely) basically marks the victory, because biting the tail means occupying the shooting position. Once the fighter is bitten, it is difficult to get rid of it. Generally, it will use sound maneuvers, large-angle maneuvers and other forms to try to get rid of the enemy aircraft. For aircraft such as su-27, once the tail is bitten, the Cobra maneuver can be used to quickly re-establish the offensive and defensive relationship. Because the Cobra maneuver will greatly reduce the speed of the fighter, and the enemy aircraft cannot quickly rush to the front of our aircraft, our aircraft can attack.

Of course, this set of difficult air combat actions, in addition to high requirements for pilots, also has extremely high requirements for fighters. So far, in addition to the Su-27, Su-27, Su-35, Su-37 and MiG-29 of the MiG Design Bureau in the Soviet fighter series, only the F22 of the United States can perform this difficult maneuver. Of course, the Su-33 is naturally no problem. Because the Su-33 is an enhanced version of the Su-27, it can naturally perform the "Cobra Maneuver" in the air more skillfully.

"Cobra Maneuver!" Christian saw this scene in the distance, his eyes widened.

Americans are naturally familiar with the "Cobra Maneuver". Although it is the Russian nation of fighting, the air forces of various countries in the world are studying this set of actions. After all, although air combat has entered visual range combat, visual range combat, encountering excellent performance fighters, plus experienced pilots, it is easy to dodge the opponent's anti-aircraft missiles.

If it is one-on-one, the two start from visual range combat. If the performance of the aircraft is comparable and the pilots are comparable, then the final result is that the two enter a close-range aerial dogfight. This is a conclusion drawn by the air forces of various countries after many exercises. Of course, countries are now also developing air-to-air missiles with long-range aircraft, so that once the missile locks on the opponent's aircraft, the opponent's aircraft will have no way to escape.

"! How is it possible! Isn't this action only used by that fighting nation! And it's a level 1 Cobra maneuver!" Christian screamed in astonishment.

The Cobra maneuver was invented by the Russians, although other countries have also learned it. But the final conclusion is that this is a fighting action belonging to the fighting nation. For other nations, only the top talents and the best physical fitness can learn and use it. But who could have expected that the 'Wind God' side would all use this 'Cobra maneuver', and it's a level 1 Cobra maneuver.

! This is too abnormal! Too exaggerated! Are the Chinese a more fighting nation than the Russians? Christian couldn't believe it.

"Swoosh~~~"

With the sound of breaking through the air, 16 Su-33s avoided the first wave of attacks.

"Asshole, come again!" Christian gave the attack order again.

Another round of missile attacks. This time, there were more missiles, 48 ​​missiles in the air, and each Su-33 was threatened by three missiles.

"Hey! See how you can dodge this time! One missile is easy to dodge, but three missiles!" Christian grinned.

If it was a one-on-one air battle, the two sides would directly enter a close-range air battle. But this is different. This is a group battle. If you dodge, others may not be able to dodge. And there are only 16 Su-33s left in the "Wind God". One less in a fight. He didn't believe that they could dodge every time.

"Continuous Cobra maneuver!" - This time, Christian was stunned again.

These beasts! How could they do this! Christian roared. This is too despicable, how can they be so shameless! This is unreasonable!