Babylonian Empire

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Hearing the anxious words of his old partner in the back cabin, Major Ed Yielding knew that he might be in real trouble this time. Almost at the same time, his left hand was subconsciously maximizing the throttle and pulling the control lever back. , slowly press the rudder with the right foot, and fly at high altitude. The SR-71 can complete the steering action without tilting the body. For the clumsy blackbird, the high maneuvering action is fatal. Therefore, pull the lever Pushing the rudder, he proceeded very softly, as if he were a lover who was going to bed for the first time, but in his heart, he was so anxious that he wanted to strip the other party naked immediately, no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't move too fast.

The engine has been fully turned on, and the blackbird started roaring again. The thrust of the two engines is more than forty locomotives. The black bird has a blue light on its body. It accelerates, climbs up, and turns right at the same time. , They are likely to fly over Iran and reach the Caspian Sea area, but now they can't take care of so much.

Seeing the gauges on the dashboard, the Mach meter and the altimeter, are slowly increasing, the two best pilots of the U.S. Air Force who are wearing space suits like SR-71 have never felt that time passes so slowly.

At the same time, Kazai and his wingman finally saw the flashing signal light on the front panel. At the same time, the radar display screen also began to flash, indicating that the missile was ready and ready to launch at any time!

"Two bullets at the same time, fire!" Kazai pressed the fire button very calmly.

At this time, the MiG-25 is also doing its best to fly. The Mach table has exceeded Mach 3, and the altitude has reached 7000 meters. This is to provide the R-40 missile with a higher initial launch as much as possible. energy.The distance between the two sides has been close to thirty kilometers.

Under the wing, flames flickered, and two R-40 missiles were launched from under the wing of the MiG-25.

The solid motor of the R-40 missile is burning rapidly. The maximum speed of the R-40 missile is Mach 4.5. Adding the speed of Mach 25 provided by the MiG-3, the R-40 missile already has an initial speed of Mach 7. The shooting range will increase.

There are two missiles, one of which is an infrared seeker and the other is a radar seeker. During the process of launching missiles, two simultaneous launches are usually used to deal with important targets. Moreover, the two guides Headers are different.

In later generations, missiles beyond visual range are semi-active or active radar-guided air-to-air missiles, because the technology of radar guidance is very mature, but now, the technology of radar-guided missiles is not very high, and they are often lost due to interference and other reasons The target, therefore, in order to increase the hit rate, two simultaneous missiles will be used. If the simultaneous missiles are of the same type of seeker, then, after being disturbed, the two missiles may fail at the same time, so they will shoot together When using missiles, choose two types of seeker missiles to use together to achieve the purpose of improving the hit rate.

Moreover, to deal with this important target this time, two MiG-25s fired two missiles at the same time, four R-40 missiles, and flew towards the target.

The R-40R of the radar seeker, during the flight, continuously receives the signals emitted by the MiG-25 radar behind, and flies towards the target, while the R-40T of the infrared seeker, the seeker Already aimed at the target!

Although flying by inertia in the previous stage, the effective distance of the R-40T's seeker is only a dozen kilometers, but now, due to the high speed of the opponent, the surface of the body is rubbed against the air, and the temperature rises very high, so , the infrared seeker of the R-40 has already locked the target in advance!

After launching the missile, Kazai habitually pulled the control lever. Although the R-40 missile uses a small-smoke engine, if the engine swallows smoke at high altitude, it will still bring great damage to the engine. big impact.

Pulling up the nose slightly, the huge air intake, breathed in fresh air, was not affected, and the radar did not lose the target.

Suddenly, the voice of the wingman came from Kazai's headset: "Report, the left engine of No. 137 is malfunctioning."

"Abandon the mission and return," Kazai said.

One engine failed, and only the other engine was left. It was impossible to maintain the flight at this altitude. Kazai had already ignored his comrades, but it was very possible that he had swallowed smoke from the engine.

Now, only Kazai's MiG-25 and four R-40 missiles are left in the sky. Among them, the radar-guided missiles, because the MiG-25 lowered its altitude, could not continue to provide radar signals and lost target.

The remaining three missiles can still kill you!

Kazai maintained the current speed and altitude. At this time, the two turbojet engines behind him had been burning for more than ten minutes, far exceeding the limit of 8 minutes.

"The opponent launched a missile." Major Joseph Vida said: "Accelerate, we need speed and altitude!"

Major Ed Yielding in the front cabin knew that this time he had encountered the most complicated situation. For this investigation, he needed to lower his altitude and speed a little, otherwise, his current speed would be even faster!

He looked down and saw that the Mach watch was struggling to break through the 3 mark, and the altitude had risen to 6000 meters and was still rising.

"Come on, brother!" Major Ed Yielding said silently in his heart. At this time, he had tried his best, and his only hope was to be able to fly faster and higher than the opponent's missile!

In Baghdad, the personnel of the Ministry of National Defense are also closely watching the data transmitted by the C3I system. Will this interception by our side be successful?

The proud sons of heaven who are fighting in the sky are also concerned about this issue. Now, all doubts are pinned on those three missiles.

At the critical moment, the blackbird exerted its greatest power. It kept accelerating, accelerating, and it had exceeded everyone's expectations.

Major Ed Yielding felt that the cabin was starting to heat up. Although there was a full set of refrigeration equipment, the friction between the nose, especially the front cockpit glass, and the air still generated a lot of heat. Major Ed Yielding glanced at the mirror above his head. The flight suit similar to the spacesuit shines like a god, and he is the favored son of heaven, the crystallization of the most technological Lockheed Corporation in the United States!Definitely won't be shot down!He glanced down, and the Mach number has exceeded 3.5, which has exceeded the speed of most missiles.

Moreover, at this time, their headings have already opened an angle of more than 120 degrees with each other.

At this time, the whole body of the black bird was glowing with blue light, as if a bullet pierced through the 8000-meter high altitude, and the height exceeded the height when the MiG-25 fired the missile. Its speed at this time was already faster than the bullet!

The first to fall were two infrared-guided R-40T missiles. Although they rushed to a speed of Mach 7 when launching, the solid rocket motor burned out quickly, and the rest of the process was endless. In powered flight, the speed will become slower and slower.

Moreover, the missile with the infrared seeker has a spherical glass structure in front. This structure has relatively large air resistance.

In addition, they needed to look up and fly upwards. As a result, when they were less than one kilometer away from SR-71, they finally could no longer support their bodies, and the altitude began to drop. Then, because they lost their target, The missile selected the self-destruct procedure.

At an altitude of 7000 meters, two balls of fire ignited, and the 55 kg high-explosive seeker vented their anger in the sky. When they were closest to the target, they were exhausted!

"Their missiles didn't catch up to us." Major Joseph Vida in the rear cabin saw two fireballs not far away from the glass on the left side, and knew that it was the opponent's missile that exploded. Above, the flames seen are even more spectacular. This is a strange sight caused by the blackbird's speed and persistence of vision.

Although they got rid of the missiles, they did not complete the task. They just passed the edge of the Bakhtaran area without scanning the entire area.

However, in today's situation, it is definitely impossible to go around again. At least I have to go to the Mediterranean Sea. After rendezvous with the air tanker, fill up the fuel, and then decide whether to make another thrilling flight.

"Our plane is amazing." Major Ed Yielding in the front cabin said. At this time, the speedometer in front of him has exceeded Mach 3.6. This speed may only be reached during the test flight.

In the rapid hurricane just now, in order to avoid the missiles, no one would take care of this expensive plane in their hands. Getting rid of the missiles is the first priority. Now, the missiles have been got rid of, and they are safe!

Major Joseph Vida glanced down, there was still a signal on the defense system panel, don't the Iraqis still give up?

"We still have threats." Major Joseph Vida had just finished speaking when he heard an explosion from the rear left of the Blackbird.

Chapter 6 and Seven: Aerial Scalpel

Of the four missiles, only the last R-40R semi-active radar-guided air-to-air missile remained. Under the guidance of Kazai's airborne radar, this missile was firmly aimed at the target and launched the final sprint.

The radar-guided missile has a pointed warhead in front, and the air resistance is much smaller. Therefore, the R-40R missile finally approached the plane with blue light with difficulty. When the speed of the two sides was already the same, It has come to a place two meters away from the left rear of the Blackbird. At this time, the distance between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger, because the Blackbird is still accelerating, but the R-40R is slowing down.

At this time, with the help of the proximity fuze, the R-40R missile chose to explode with dignity, and the connecting rod warhead hit the engine on the Blackbird's left wing.

Blackbird was injured.

"Left engine failed."

"Close the triethylborane pipeline immediately, activate the fire extinguishing system, rescue the left engine, hold on, we will fly out of Iran soon." Major Joseph Vida in the rear cabin said.

The fuel used by SR-71 is the special JP-7 fuel with a high ignition point. This kind of fuel cannot be ignited by ordinary engines. Therefore, even if the fuel leaks, there is no need to worry about the possibility of fire and explosion.However, the engine also needs fuel combustion, so after the SR-71 engine starts, it needs to inject a combustion aid into the combustion chamber to mix with the fuel before it can be ignited.And this kind of combustion aid is triethylborane, which is an explosive liquid that spontaneously ignites when it encounters air. In order to avoid the explosion of the left engine, Major Joseph Vida immediately reminded.

According to the emergency plan during the training, Major Ed Yielding had already closed the fuel and accelerant channels of the left engine. As long as there was no louder explosion sound in the next second, the left engine would not be in danger.

Fortunately, they are very lucky.

After being hit by a missile, the Blackbird still held on tenaciously. With the help of the fire extinguishing system, the left missile did not explode, but the power on the left was completely lost.

After losing a powerful engine, the Blackbird was pulled back like a runaway horse, and its speed dropped immediately. Moreover, because the two engines were far apart, the plane began to yaw inevitably. At high speeds, if the yaw is too fast, it will cause the aircraft to disintegrate.

Major Ed Yielding pushed the control lever to the right, and at the same time, reduced the thrust of the right engine, hoping to offset the yaw moment and prevent his fighter from disintegrating in the air.

In this way, the speed of the blackbird is even slower, and the Mach meter in front is turning rapidly, Mach 3, Mach 2.5, Mach 2, Mach 1.5, Mach 1... At Mach 0.9, he can be regarded as stabilizing the plane , At this time, the height also dropped below [-] meters.

"Continue to fly, we will soon fly over Iran, and enter Turkish airspace, we will be safe." Major Joseph Vida in the rear cabin said.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will never give up!

The blackbirds are persevering, they are continuing to fly north, although they have never been so embarrassed before, they are still working hard!

In northern Iran, it is not within Iraq's control area. Even if they lose their altitude and speed advantages, they will not be attacked by Iraqi ground air defense missiles.