Faced with everyone's anticipated gaze, Long Yun considered his words.

"Yeah, that's it."

After briefly sorting out his ideas, he began his own story.

"As for combat, my idea is actually quite simple. First of all, the current record for mid-range interception behind enemy lines is not ideal. Let's talk about yesterday's incident. The formation fired twelve r-27 pieces, but only achieved one result. This is the same as the results of the pre-war exercise in the regiment: a lot of missiles were used up, but the effect was very poor.

Of course, this is related to the guidance method of R-27: when intercepting head-on, not only will the Yankees maneuver avoid it, but we also have to maneuver to avoid being hit by the "sparrow". In this way, unless it is a raid war, it is inevitable that the radar will be unlocked. I guess that the only result should be obtained by infrared-guided R-27t."

"Victor is right. Fortunately, our focus is on close combat; for R-27, each aircraft can only carry two, and the poor effect of fighting fighters is expected."

The leader present interrupted.

Long Yun nodded in agreement. In fact, he has always had this consideration: semi-active radar-guided missiles such as R-27, Aim-7 and R530 require carrier radars to provide irradiation to targets. Their maneuverability is not that strong, and it is quite exciting to use to attack bulky bombers. If you want to attack fighters, it is really difficult.

"Before entering close combat, our idea is to try our best to use the range advantage of medium-range missiles to prepare for combat. So my suggestion is: when there is ground guidance and the air situation is clear, you can consider using formations to fight.

The specific situation is as follows: divide the fighter into two groups, one in front and one behind: the height is low, carrying the r-27t in front, the height is high, and carrying the r-27r in back. When receiving the enemy, the front team attracts the attention of the enemy and lures them to launch medium-range missiles; the back team uses this time to speed up, create better launch conditions, and then performs r-27r volleys. Then the front team continues to maneuver against the enemy's medium-range missiles, and the back team keeps illuminated under the cover of the front team until visual contact. At this time, the flight speed of the front team after maneuver has been reduced, and can directly enter the fighting, while the back team uses the speed advantage to repeatedly raid support."

When everyone heard this theory, they were very excited for a while, and there was constant discussion in the conference room. It was not that this tactic was so novel. They had considered all strategies during training, but now it was proposed by Rezenov, who had achieved great success, which made people begin to consider the practical feasibility of this strategy.

Because of this tactic, it can be said that the strategy of seizing height and speed advantage over the visual range is contrary to the strategy of fighting for the first launch; the back team responsible for "sniper" is of course easy to deal with, but the front team responsible for attracting firepower is in a very dangerous situation. The size of the aim-7f is obviously a circle smaller than the r-27, but the warhead is also 39 kilograms, and if it is hit at close range, there is basically no hope of survival.

Seeing everyone's doubts, Long Yun further explained.

"This tactic does deviate from the general laws of medium-range confrontation. Our previous operations were all trying to occupy altitude and speed advantage, and the range of r-27r was slightly longer, so we tried to launch in supersonic states to achieve first contact with the enemy. To put it bluntly, if we can defeat the enemy plane, there is no need to worry about the enemy's medium-range missile: if we lose the illumination of the aircraft, the missile will naturally not hit us.

But what if you can't get the advantage of altitude and speed? Or, who dares to bet boldly that the missile will hit, so you can concentrate on illumination without making violent maneuvers to avoid the attack of enemy missiles?

Of course, using front and rear formation tactics, the front team's aircraft are under great pressure and need to fight against a considerable number of enemy aircraft and a large number of missiles. So let's talk about how to use the advantageous flight range of MiG-29 to effectively avoid the attack of Aim-7f......... "

After dinner, many pilots returned to the conference room.

At the afternoon discussion meeting, the tactics proposed by Victor can be said to be very exciting and effective, and have aroused the interest of many people. The leader of the aviation regiment specially instructed Long Yun to seize the time to talk to his comrades about tactical use and maneuvering actions. In the fierce war, he would never think that he had to master too much.

"In fact, for Americans' f-16 and f-15, their usage and tactical characteristics are very similar. To sum up, it is the energy maneuverable air combat theory that we all know."

Those present nodded, and they basically had a certain understanding of the theory of energy maneuvering air combat.

The so-called "energy maneuver", a fighter air combat analysis theory founded by US Air Force Major John Beard in the 1960s, although itself is just a description of the fighter's flight status using physical theory, it has influenced a considerable number of Western pilots. With the support of a mysterious organization such as the "Fighter Mafia", the US Air Force's F-15 and F-16 and the Navy's F-14 are quite different in design. They pay more attention to the thrust-to-weight ratio and maneuverability of fighter aircraft, and are also a terrible opponent in air combat.

However, it is quite ironic that the success of the fighter jets sought after by the "fighter mafia" was not achieved in several major and large conflicts, but was achieved by making full use of airborne electronic equipment and missile weapon systems. The third-generation American fighter jets that boast mobility and fighter thrust-to-weight ratio are often loaded with missiles, secondary fuel tanks and electronic confrontation pods, and under the command of the pre-finisher, they take off to shoot enemy aircraft far away from sight; at this time they neither have nor need to have superb maneuverability, and their combat mode is not much different from the huge and clumsy missile interceptors like the Soviet Tu-128.

In this case, there are reasons and results, but there is no logical connection between cause and effect, Western fighter pilots are full of confidence in their tactics and fighter jets.

However, they have to face reality in the end.

Unlike the 1960s, modern air combat is increasingly developing towards the direction of missile confrontation outside the visual range. This has led to the emergence of two phenomena: the over-visual range of air combat and the extended range of short-range missiles. In short, it is no longer the era of machine gun battles that are circling and chasing and striving for placeholding. The typical model of combat has evolved to first conduct mid-range confrontation, and then use missiles to kill opponents at close range.

Energy maneuver theory is quite practical for the era of machine guns, or in the era where missile ranges are similar to machine guns; but in modern air combat, "having energy advantages" can no longer be equated with "achieve victory".

Long Yun probably understood that the era he traveled back had already experienced the 1960s and 1970s when energy maneuver theory was popular, and was evolving from stall maneuver theory to instantaneous maneuver theory. Fighters with good agility and capable of stall maneuvering already existed. However, when the performance of weapons is not much different, the decision of the winner is not the weapon but the human being; whether the fighter's flight ability can be used to win confrontation is still an unknown new issue for many pilots.

Seeing his comrades discussing enthusiastically, Long Yun felt a little relieved.

Although he knew clearly that not everyone had the talent to fight in the air; as for judging the situation on the battlefield and adopting the best response strategy, it is far from easy for ordinary pilots to do it. Improvement of technology requires continuous accumulation of experience, but the cruel thing is that this road often leads to not ace, but death.

But even so, it is already quite good to be able to give these ambitious young people more chances of winning on the battlefield.

Sitting in the venue with such thoughts, Long Yun did not realize at all that although he still regarded the world in front of him as his dream, he had already keenly noticed the truth in his subconscious.
Chapter completed!