Chapter 101 New opponent
When we returned to the base, everyone respected Andrei from the bottom of their hearts. The atmosphere of the base became more positive again. Everyone knew that this was Andrei's credit, especially when he had brought down the nephew of the base commander. I wonder how many people applauded.`
"Are the Americans opposite us honest during this period?" Andrei asked Ivanov beside him.
The existence of the 513th Regiment is to deter the Americans on the other side! Especially in the second half of last year, Andre's existence put a lot of pressure on the Americans. The steel fighter jet like the MiG-25 is simply a sharp sword pressing on the heads of the Americans! When Andre left the last time, he shot down a black bird.
"The Americans have been very honest in the past two months, and even electronic reconnaissance planes dare not cross the mid-line of the Japanese Sea." Ivanov said: "However, the US Navy has recently made an action, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, which replaced the Midway aircraft carrier, and entered the Yokosuka Naval Base."
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier! Andre's brow frowned suddenly.
At this time, the Americans had just been freed from the Vietnam War and used a lot of military power in the Vietnam War, including the symbol of US power, aircraft carriers. At most, four aircraft carriers even wandered in the external waters of Vietnam at the same time, which involved the great energy of the United States. Therefore, in the Far East, the US troops of the island countries were not equipped with aircraft carriers in the port for a long time.`
In fact, from the island country to the Far East of the Soviet Union, it was only about 1,000 kilometers, and it was under the combat radius of 6-based fighter jets. Whether to deploy aircraft carriers in the island country was not an urgent choice for the US military stationed in Japan. Their aircraft carriers were often put out fires in various parts of Asia and did not concentrate on staying in the island country Yokosuka to prepare for fighting the Soviets.
It’s not how powerful the aircraft carrier is. In fact, the Americans deployed aircraft carriers to island countries, which is quite dangerous. After all, the entire island country is within the combat radius of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces in the Far East, especially long-range sound bombers such as Tu-22m, which carry anti-ship missiles, and are specifically used to attack aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier is not important, what is important is the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier!
Now, the Soviet MiG-25 is under too much pressure on the Americans, so the Americans have to take out their magic weapons. In this era, the F-15 is just the initial low-production fighter jet, and it is only delivered to the local air force of the United States. The F-16 has not yet been designed. Therefore, if you want to fight against the Soviet MiG-25, the Americans only have the Navy's F-14 fighter jets to deploy!
The f-14 Tomcat fighter is a two-seat multi-purpose heavy carrier-based fighter developed by Grumman Company in accordance with the requirements of fleet air defense and escort from the 70s to 80s. It is used to replace the Navy's F-4 fighter. It mainly performs fleet defense, interception, strike and reconnaissance tasks.
The development of this fighter began in the early 1960s. The aircraft began to be developed at the end of 1967, and the prototype flew on December 21, 1970 and was delivered for use in May 1972. In history, by 1979, the Navy Air Force obtained nearly 400 fighter jets. At the same time, the naval carrier-based pilots were also skillful in operating this fighter jet and could reach the level of actual combat.
Compared with the original main F-4 fighter, the F-14 mainly adopts a typical third-generation aircraft layout such as double vertical tails, and uses the most popular variable sweep wings to achieve the most outstanding aerodynamic performance in all airspaces in high, medium and low. Unlike the MiG-23, this fighter uses an electronic computer-controlled wing box operating mechanism, with a sweep angle of completely automatic and has a very advanced performance.
In addition to its own maneuverability, the electronic system of Tomcat fighter is also quite powerful. For example, it uses ag-9 radar with flat-panel gap antennas. It can easily use the pulse Doppler function to easily display ground-flying fighter jets in low-altitude clutter, and then cooperate with the heavy Immortal Missile, it is simply an air killer!
In later history, the Iraqi-Iraq War lasted for eight years. With the advantage of Tomcat fighter jets, the Iranians kept suppressing the Iraqi air force. Later, the Iraqis even fled immediately as soon as the beams of the AG-9 radar were exposed.
The deployment of this kind of fighter jet will be the biggest enemy of the 513th Regiment! Andrei knew that from now on, his side will no longer have a complete technological advantage.
According to time, the one who came should be the Kitty Eagle. Andre couldn't help but think in his mind that last year, Kitty Eagle left Vietnamese waters and returned to his home port for transformation. Now, nearly a year has passed, and it should have been completed and then returned to East Asia. Midway Island has limited performance and cannot operate the Tomcat fighter jet, so it has not responded to the threat of the MiG-25. This is probably the reason why the Americans deployed Kitty Eagle. After all, it was not until 1998 that Kitty Eagle began to be stationed in the island country Yokosuka.
"We need more information," Andre said. "I hope the intelligence agencies can cooperate to get enough performance information for American Tomcat fighter jets."
Tomcat fighter jets! There were also many misfortunes in history. They were accompanied by US aircraft carriers running around but had no decent results. The Cold War had just ended and was sent to the cold palace again. They were replaced by combat attack aircraft with far lower performance than they were.
In his previous life, as a pilot, Andrei knew some of the planes between China and abroad. He knew how difficult it is to deal with Tomcat fighters, and at the same time, he also knew a serious flaw of Tomcat fighters of this era.
TF-3o motivation! This is the early power of the Tomcat fighter. It was originally a civilian motivation, but it was moved to the fighter. As a result, the Tomcat fighter was greatly restricted. This cannot be blamed on Grumman. After all, when the Tomcat fighter was developed, there was no mature large thrust turbofan motivation at all. The Americans even planned to replace this motivation with SBE's modified TF41. Fortunately, the F1oo motivation was mature and it was replaced with the Tomcat, eliminating the heart problems. However, it was almost the 1990s at that time.
It is very important to confront the Americans in the future and know the other party’s flaws. However, Andre cannot say it directly now. He cannot explain why he is so familiar with American fighter jets. Therefore, now he can only hope that the intelligence department can obtain enough information.
Little Eagle, old opponent, Andre couldn't help but remember that before crossing the road, the Chinese army often faced the threat of Little Eagle.xh:2182o413
Chapter completed!