Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 11 Night Attack
The plane was bumping forward in the air current. Lin Huaisheng glanced at an airspeed meter on the flight instrument from behind. The speed was only a pitiful 270 kilometers per hour; that is to say, it would take at least one hour to reach the destination Gilgit Airport.Bored, Lin Huaisheng suddenly remembered the air force colonel he met at the end of the runway at the base a few days ago.He saw the 1st Squadron written on the armband of the pilot of the liaison plane in the front row. Lin Huaisheng couldn't remember which squadron Colonel Sammy belonged to for a while, but he only remembered that there was a black spider painted on his armband. Maybe he could inquire after all. The size of the Pakistan Air Force is very small.So Lin Huaisheng asked the pilot in the front cockpit, and the pilot laughed happily after hearing the name Mohammed Sami, and the four-seater Sethna plane started to shake; he said, old Sami It's a legend, in Pakistan, even the army knows the name Mohammad Samid, and he bets Captain Salim does.Lin Huaisheng was shocked by this answer, so he turned to the expressionless Captain Salim.

"He's right, Colonel Sammy is well known," said the captain.

"Is he an ace pilot?"

"Of course, but the colonel is famous for something else."

"Tell me and listen." Lin Huaisheng asked more and more curiously.

"In 1988, Sami shot down a Soviet MiG fighter jet on the border of Afghanistan. The pilot was detained by us after parachuting. At that time, no one could have guessed that the pilot was the current President of the Russian Federation."

"Is this true?" Lin Huaisheng couldn't believe his ears. He only knew that the current Russian president could fly a fighter jet, but he didn't expect that he was captured alive.

An hour later, the plane finally arrived at Gilgit Airport staggeringly. Lin Huaisheng paid special attention to the end of the airport. The Xiaolong fighter jet was no longer there.

Colonel Sami had already flown back to the Kalmar base, and had already caught up with a new mission.

In view of the unscrupulous infiltration of Indian ground forces, the Air Force Staff has formulated a new round of attack plans, targeting a newly discovered Indian military stronghold in the Kargil Mountains. Heliport, and has begun stockpiling supplies around it, setting out to occupy it for the long haul.According to the plan of the staff, the Pakistan Air Force will use a series of transitions to confuse the Indian Air Force at midnight and lure them into the air, so that the short-legged Indian front-line fighter jets will run out of fuel; The attack, the first round of ground attack will be completed by the F9A of the 16th Squadron. The Thunderbolt aircraft of the 26th Squadron, where Colonel Sammy belongs, has no night attack pods and precision-guided weapons, as a cover and a backup attack squad, so that his aircraft It must carry 4 air-to-air missiles and 2 bombs, so the range is tight.However, the colonel didn't care about this. He felt that the mission at night was safer, because the Su-30 fighter jets he was most worried about had never approached the combat zone at night.

In the early hours of the morning, the feinting planes began to return one after another. The colonel's No. 101 fighter plane and another wingman slid off the runway quietly and headed into the dark night sky.Under the cover of night, the two-plane formation flew eastward quietly.

"Griffin, tell me your location." Colonel Sami sat in the cabin and continuously called the first attack team from other airports on the communication channel, waiting for them to meet up, but did not hear the exact echo. There was a lot of noise coming out of it, many unrelated pilots could be heard talking, these were the communications of the cover team, most of them contacted the ground for landing.

"Griffin, the black spider is in the confluence area, where are you?"

There is still no response, so the colonel is a little anxious, because the first wave of attack missions must be completed by the 9 F2As of the 16th (Griffin) Squadron, because only their day and night targeting pods can guide the laser-guided Paving stone bomb.And his thunder fighter can only carry out another ordinary bomb attack in low-altitude flight after dawn.

"Griffin hasn't shown up yet," said the wingman.

"Black Spider, this is the Griffin team, we are behind you."

"Close up, Griffin, we have to be there before dawn."

"Is that you, the squadron leader?" The voice on the radio was somewhat familiar, as if it was the voice of the old subordinate Uhak (Colonel Sammy once stayed in the 9th squadron when he was young).

"You are late."

"Aerial refueling is delayed," Major Uhak said.

"Do you still need to refuel?"

"Are you prepared?"

An unknown voice on the radio said: "Attention the Black Panther formation, there is a ground search radar activated nearby, please mark the location."

The unknown voice continued: "Cobra 2, check below and behind, pay attention to the Sam 7 missiles in the mountains."

The calls were obviously not to Sami and Uhak, but to the AWACS alerting other aircraft in the vicinity.After a series of dizzying maneuvers, four planes approached the cross-border stronghold of the Indian army at low altitude. The Indian army has already used this helicopter take-off and landing point to transport a large amount of equipment and materials to the Pakistani side, and not long ago sent a special force Sent 4 kilometers deep into the border and blew up the wreckage of a Jaguar.

"For all units in the theater, Adampur has two MiG-2s in the air, and they may be close to the border." The early warning aircraft continued. It sounds like this threat is still far away, but Colonel Sami dare not take it lightly. He is well aware of the current Indian Air Force More aggressive than ever, especially those Su-29 fighters with unparalleled performance.

"Altitude down to 1200m. Use radio altimeter," Sammy said.

"Understood." The wingman responded.

"We expect to attack at dawn. Then, you attack," Ukhar said.

"I remember telling you I hated flying east after dawn, and if the enemy planes took off they'd take the direction of the rising sun," Sammy said.

"Don't worry, when you drop the bomb, I will protect you from above." Ukha said that his plane did not carry bombs and was responsible for the defense of the entire formation.

(End of this chapter)