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Of course, Yannick also knows that the development of tactics and technology must complement each other. When guided weapons are not yet mature, "old-fashioned" weapons such as machine guns and machine guns must be used.

Otherwise, it will be like the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, which used air-to-air missiles with poor hit rates and no cannons. As a result, the Vietnamese used cannons to kill them everywhere.

Shortly after World War II, based on the concept of the German X-4 air-to-air missile, both the United States and the Soviet Union developed their own air-to-air missiles and made great improvements in their guidance methods. Such as infrared guidance and radar guidance methods.

During the Cold War, the most famous infrared guided missiles were the US military's AIM9B "Sidewinder" and the Soviet Union's K13 "Atoll" air-to-air missile. Both missiles used uncooled lead sulfide infrared detectors and ultra-small It has a vacuum tube signal amplifier, so it can follow enemy fighter jets for tracking attacks. However, this is slightly clumsy compared to later generations of advanced air-to-air missiles, and the maximum attack range is only about 3 kilometers. Even the performance of the "Sparrow 1" air-to-air missile, which was semi-actively guided by the US military's radar at the same time, was no more than this.

In the 1960s, air-to-air missiles were developing the fastest, and all the world's military powers had new and updated air-to-air missiles. For example, the French Matra R530 and the Soviet Union's R9D Sidewinder air-to-air missile are both improved second-generation air-to-air missiles of the first-generation infrared guidance.

The second generation uses transistor circuit signals and proximity fuze processing technologies, which have unprecedented improvements in both stability and strike distance. At this time, radar-guided air-to-air missiles have also developed into the second generation. For example, the US military's Sparrow 3A air-to-air missile has added continuous wave semi-active radar guidance technology compared to the first-generation Sparrow 1.

During this period, air combat weapon designers from all over the world unanimously believed that missiles in future air combat would definitely replace aircraft cannon weapons, and at the same time, the fighter air combat mode would also be simplified. U.S. fighter jet designers at that time paid special attention to this point. For example, the F105 Thunder God and F4 Phantom fighter jets later developed by the U.S. military were not equipped with close-combat cannon weapons in the early stages.

It was precisely because the U.S. Air Force was overly superstitious about air-to-air missiles that it made a lot of fools of itself in the Vietnam War. Many U.S. military pilots who participated in the Vietnam War experienced this situation: after a fighter jet launched an infrared-guided dogfighting missile in an air battle, the air-to-air missile ignored the enemy aircraft and "sprinted away" toward the sun.

This is because fighter jets at that time did not have the technology to lock on specific infrared sources. In layman's terms, the air-to-air missile at this time will only pursue obvious infrared sources, such as the sun on a clear day. The obvious infrared source it emits will attract the air-to-air missile to fly straight away. This seems funny, but for US pilots in air combat, it is impossible to laugh at all.

Some people may say, isn't there also a "Sparrow" radar-guided missile? At that time, US military pilots would swear when they heard this name. The steps for launching Sparrow air-to-air missiles were too complicated, often missing fighter planes, and the hit rate was extremely low. According to statistics, the U.S. Air Force launched a total of 589 missiles during the Vietnam War, and the hit rate was only a pitiful 10%, which means that nearly 530 missiles failed. According to U.S. records: During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military was shot down more than 2,600 fighter jets. .

From this we can see how much losses and humiliation the U.S. Air Force suffered in the Vietnam War, because the MiG series fighter jets that Vietnam participated in during the same period were all equipped with aerial cannons, and the U.S. fighter jets that often fought them fled in confusion.

At that time, American fighter jets were only equipped with short-range combat missiles. Infrared guidance launches often hit the sun, and the radar guidance hit rate was very low (there was no multi-target locking attack, only one versus one aircraft, and it was semi-active radar guidance, which required The fighter pilot subsequently controls the guidance. At this time, the fighter jet is extremely vulnerable to attack.) The opponent's fighter jet is relatively stationary. It's okay to say that if you do some tricks in the air, the missile will often miss the target.

Therefore, when facing an air battle, U.S. fighter jets often launch multiple missiles in a short period of time and will soon run out of ammunition and food. At this time, facing a fighter jet equipped with an aerial gun, it has no power to fight back and can only call for support or Escape the battlefield as quickly as possible.

The result was obvious. The United States suddenly lost a large number of experienced pilots in Vietnam, and the remaining pilots cried and asked for cannon pods to be installed on the aircraft.

However, the situation did not improve particularly after getting on the cannon pod, because at that time the American opponents had already developed a set of raiding tactics, and the Phantom's performance was very weak in the face of such raiding tactics. But as the saying goes, when God closes a door, he must open another window for you. Americans suddenly discovered that the Phantom is very useful for near-air support, and it is very fun to blow up ground targets (commonly known as ground cleaning).

Correspondingly, the U.S. Navy found that the A4 Skyhawk performed better in low-altitude air combat.

Then a very strange thing happened. The A4 Skyhawk, which was obviously an attack aircraft, was chasing the Vietnamese MiG with its cannon, while the F4 Phantom, which was a fighter jet, was frantically clearing the ground.

It was precisely because of the poor performance of U.S. air-to-air missiles in the Vietnam air battle that the U.S. military focused on learning lessons and summarizing experience after the war, and immediately began the development of third-generation air-to-air missiles. At this point, around the 1990s, the U.S. military developed the "Sidewinder" third-generation air-to-air missile. At the same time, third-generation or third-and-a-half-generation missiles such as Russia's R73 and Israel's Snake 3 were released one after another. These new air-to-air missiles mainly use digital processing technology to enhance the missile's attack capabilities and anti-interference capabilities.

At this time, air-to-air missiles are considered worthy of a big job.

It is only 39 years now, and there is still more than half a century before the 1990s. Even if Yannick's knowledge can greatly promote the speed of Germany's scientific and technological development, if this fifty years is reduced by half, it will have to wait until the mid-to-late 1960s to come up with it. Decent air-to-air missile.

However, Yannick was not sure which one to choose between the MiG-15 and the F-86 Saber as the future main model of the German Air Force.

At least in his opinion, the MiG-15 and F-86 are both good aircraft, at least one of the brightest stars in the generation of aircraft.

The MiG-15 seems to have better vertical maneuverability, and it can be seen that the German Eastern Front Air Force left a deep impression on Maozi; the F86 has better horizontal maneuverability, and its range is slightly longer, and it can be seen that the US emperor's explosive attributes are a fighter. To be able to keep up with the bomber escort.

Therefore, Yannick prefers the F-86 Sabre. After all, Germany will need a long-range escort fighter to escort its strategic bombing in the future. Moreover, in actual combat performance, the F-86's performance is no worse than the MiG-15, which is very surprising. Tempting.

However, the actual combat experience of German fighter pilots is closer to the performance of the MiG-15 fighter. Most German pilots prefer the assault style of diving at high altitudes and at high speeds, and then running after the fight. Therefore, after using the MiG-15, the actual performance of the German Air Force The combat performance might be better.

After much thought, Yannick simply sorted out the drawings of the two jets and gave them to Messerschmitt, letting the pilots make their own choices.