Recently, the news channel CCTV-13 reported a piece of news related to the Air Force J-10C unit. In this news, the pilot who flew the J-10C fighter said that he was driving the J-10C fighter in air combat and used the aircraft to "kill" the J-16 heavy fighter. This is increasingly emphasized. Today, air combat is obviously relatively rare.
This is also an elite pilot
This pilot is called You Pengfei. Another report about this pilot is the report of Chinese Air Force "Golden Helmet" and "Skyhawk Cup". In addition, when CCTV-13 news channel reported, it specifically noted the air confrontation. It was two J-10C fighters and 2 J-16 heavy fighters playing dual-plane confrontation, so the air confrontation should be 2020. A simulated confrontation in the "Sky Eagle Cup"
"Skyhawk Cup" is closer to actual combat overall
"Skyhawk Cup" is different from "Golden Helmet", "Golden Helmet" emphasizes the freedom of single plane simulated air combat , which relies heavily on pilots' personal skills. On the other hand, the "Sky Eagle Cup" has a richer form of confrontation, ranging from 2 to 2 to 4 to 4. It is organized by the Chinese Air Force and is a simulated confrontation closer to actual combat.
was not able to get close to the report at the beginning. According to You Pengfei, a week ago, he led the J-10C dual-aircraft formation against the dual-aircraft formation of the J-16 heavy fighter. Defeated. After the defeat, the experience was summed up, and the defeat was turned into victory in the second confrontation. For the second time,
held up to the line-of-sight air battle
, and the second air simulation confrontation was quite intense. The J-10C dual-aircraft formation and the J-16 heavy fighter dual-aircraft formation, from mid-range air combat to close-range simulated air combat, and finally the J-10C fighters with stronger air mobility capabilities use aerial guns in close air combat. Completed the "kill" of the J-16 heavy fighter.
also lost the Su-35S
in the last close combat. From You Pengfei’s description, you can extract several pieces of information:
1, the J-16 heavy fighter, relying on its own avionics equipment, does have a certain amount of medium-sized aircraft. The suppression capability of the
2 and the J-10C, in mid-range air combat, such as over-the-horizon air combat scenes, still have a greater probability of survival (the hit rate of mid-range missiles is not so high);
3, aircraft guns It is still useful in certain special combat environments in modern air combat.
F-8F's over-the-horizon attack on F-11BH was unsuccessful.
Next, let’s analyze point by point. First, the first point is the suppression advantage of heavy aircraft over medium-sized aircraft. The Chinese naval aviation unit had a similar case before, in which two J-8F fighters "came around" a J-11BH heavy fighter. At that time, the two J-8Fs relied on the information provided by the early warning aircraft to launch the medium-range air-to-air missile , but the J-11BH relied on its own avionics and air superiority performance to escape the attack of the medium-range missile.
F-16's air combat capability is not bad.
In the first simulated air combat, the F-10C should also be killed by the F-16 heavy fighter in the medium range mode. However, in the second simulated air combat, the J-10C fighter apparently figured out a way to deal with the "kite flying" of the J-16. Against the medium-range missile attack of the J-16, the combat distance was forcibly shortened to the level of close air combat. .
F-10C hard top to within line of sight
This involves the second point, that is, medium-sized aircraft such as F-10C, in mid-range air combat such as over-the-horizon air combat, still have a certain survivability. This is also a counterattack to the "heavy machine supremacy" theory. It proves that as a homeland air defense aircraft, the J-10C fighter is still promising.
did not say whether all the missiles on board were exhausted at that time. The last point of
is actually the most interesting, because You Pengfei did not point out that when he "shot down" the J-16 heavy fighter with the aircraft cannon on the J-10C, whether there were still on board Air-to-air missiles are not used. If there are no air-to-air missiles, prove the use of air gunsFighting is "forced". But if there were still air-to-air missiles on board at the time, it proved that you Pengfei felt that air guns were more useful than air-to-air missiles.
is probably because the missile is not very useful.
Under what circumstances would the pilots find the aircraft guns more useful than air-to-air missiles? Considering that the flight overload of most combat bombs is much higher than that of fighters, after eliminating the problem of the missile itself, there is one possibility left. Under the electromagnetic suppression of the F-16 heavy fighter, the combat effect of air-to-air missiles is very unsatisfactory. . In this case, the direct-pointing cannon has an advantage. The mysterious patch at the root of the left canard of
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, reminds me of the previous test flight photos of the J-20 fighter suspected to be equipped with a cannon. From the photo, the J-20 is suspected to be installed at the root of the left canard The aircraft cannon. At that time, many people discussed that the stealth fighter like the J-20 only needs missile air combat.
F-22 may be close to the line of sight
, but if the J-20 is incorporated into the simulated air combat between the J-10C fighter and the J-16 heavy fighter, in wartime conditions, the J-20 is a potential opponent , Whether it is the F-22 "Raptor" or the F-35 "Thunderbolt II", it is possible to fight the J-20 from mid-range to close-range, like the J-10C fighter this time, and in close combat combat, Relying on the avionics system reduces the combat effectiveness of most air-to-air missiles.
J-11D still has broad prospects.
From the perspective of the defeat of the J-16 heavy fighter, the Chinese Air Force really needs a heavy air superior fighter that can play close combat with medium-sized fighters such as J-10C, and it is still flying. The J-11D fighter in China still has a fairly broad market.
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