Chapter 33 Belenko's Defection
A few minutes later, Andre, who had changed into his flight suit, sat in his No. 031 fighter plane.
Andre's actions last time were really shocking. With the publicity of various Soviet media, Andre has become a household name hero, and he naturally has to treat heroes with special treatment. Although Andre went to the hospital to recuperate, he left for more than ten days. Andre's fighter plane was still carefully maintained and kept in full oil.
After leaving the hangar, skating onto the runway, and opening the afterburner, Andre was feeling the huge takeoff acceleration, taking off from the runway and accelerating!
Billenko, has your fighter plane really been damaged? Or defected?
If Belenko defected successfully, the threat to the Soviet Union would be huge. The MiG-25 would be dismantled in front of the West, and all the secrets would be leaked and the deterrent power would not be there.
Especially the simple radar composed of electronic tubes, the West will know that the Soviet Union was lagging behind in electronic technology and will not be afraid.
This kind of thing must not happen!
On August 6, 1976, it was a whole month earlier than Belenko's defection in history. Moreover, Belenko was not fighting alone. The reason why he made up his mind so quickly was because of Anne! Inspired by Anne, in order to make the Western world accept him, Belenko finally bravely decided to defect!
Yesterday, he quietly arrived at Vladivostok and told Anne that he was going to fly the MiG-25 plane and defect to the island country! At that time, Anne kissed Belenko enthusiastically for five minutes, giving Belenko great encouragement. Anne would also return to East Germany at the same time, waiting for the opportunity to go to the West with her father.
Moreover, Anne also promised Berenko that she would tell the United States through special channels that Berenko would fly a fighter plane today and fly to the free world! If the message was conveyed without error, there would be two F-4 fighters waiting for Berenko over Hokkaido. As long as Berenko flew across the midline of the Sea of Japan, the other party would fly up to escort and protect himself!
Today, when he was sitting in the cockpit, Berenko was excited. He had enough of it here! He was treated as a lunatic in his original unit. He came here and witnessed the same situation. His wife and children also ran away. What's the point of staying here? I remembered that he would spend the rest of his life with Anne, Berenko was extremely excited. As a man, having a beautiful wife is also a pursuit of life.
As he clamored to change the engine in stock for himself, Bellenke finally got this opportunity. Without a wingman, he took off himself and flew alone to check the performance of the engine.
The only pity is that since it took off in the name of testing the engine's performance, the ground crew did not refuel much fuel before taking off, and only added six tons of fuel. Therefore, Berenko could not turn on the afterburner and reached Hokkaido with the fastest sprint speed, and could only do it like now.
When taking off, he drove for a minute to get more force, then closed his home, climbed to an altitude of 8,000 meters, and entered the sea. Birenke installed the crash and operated the fighter to dive down until it was less than 1,000 meters before gradually leveling it, and then shutting down all the radios.
After aiming at the course, Belenko was flying at an extremely low altitude of 300 meters above the sea.
Even if you find that your fighter plane crashes, Sokolovka will definitely not be able to find yourself if you send other fighter planes to search! Even if the complex echoes caused by the waves on the sea surface will cover your signals in these echoes! As for visual discovery, if you want to visually discover an ultra-low altitude aircraft on the vast ocean, if you are really discovered without a radar indicating the approximate position of the target, Berianko can only sigh that his luck is really bad in the Mariana Trench.
In later generations, in order to promote the powerful power of the MiG-25 radar, a widely discussed statement is that the Tornado-A radar is equipped with a height locking device. The radar cannot be turned on without flying to a certain height, in order to prevent radio radiation from hurting ground personnel. There is also a saying that rabbits are burned to death. In fact, these are all wrong.
The MiG-25 has a highly locking device, but this is not to prevent radio radiation from damaging the ground human body, but because the processing system composed of the integral circuit of the cyclone-A vacuum tube cannot effectively process the many signals of ground radar echoes. When the power is turned on at a certain height, the radar processing system will soon be submerged in the vast ocean of data. Single-pulse radar cannot effectively filter out ground echoes, which is also an inherent stubborn problem of vacuum tube radar.
As the actual driver of the MiG-25, Belianke certainly knows that the advantage of the MiG-25 lies in the high altitude, and the searchers on his side cannot effectively search for himself! As long as you survive half an hour, you can live the life you want!
Birenko didn't know that just five minutes after he completed the "wreck" performance, a MiG-25PD took off from the base and came to search for him! And this plane was equipped with a sapphire-25 pulse Doppler radar!
After Andre took off, he had drawn a line in his mind, from the "wrecked" sea area of Berenko to the Yayomo-cho base in Nikai-gun, Hokkaido, and a straight line. If you guess correctly, Berenko must be on this route!
Before taking off, it was full of oil, so Andre continued to increase the force without hesitation, and flew over the Belengko crashed sea area at a speed of Mach 2.6. Then, facing the direction, he turned on his sapphire-25 radar.
At the front end of the nose, the antenna of the airborne radar with a diameter of nearly one meter deviates downward by 42° under the movement of the universal joint and performs pitch scanning. The radar with a peak power of 600 kilowatts continuously radiates radar waves downward, passes through the sea surface and returns to the radar antenna. The processing system constantly eliminates the clutter on the sea surface, and a rotating bright line appears on the cockpit screen.
Fifty seconds later, Andre found a faint echo on the screen, with a distance of one hundred and a height of three hundred!
Go down and take a look! Andre turned off the engine's afterburner and pushed the operating lever forward. The huge steel fighter dived from the sky, and the echoes became clearer and clearer on the radar screen.
With his fingers, Andre turned on the TP-26-SH1 front-view infrared search/tracking system. Now it is a tail chase. This system can easily detect the tail flame of the fighter, providing himself with more accurate positioning!
During the dive, the speed continued to increase. Seeing that the speed of the Mach watch almost pointed to Mach 3, Andre's heart flew down like a rocket.
Chapter completed!