Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 127 One-to-One Tracking
"This is the Yangtze River, please keep the altitude when you use the three crutches."

"clear."

Zheng Hui steered the fighter plane steadily, making gentle turns along the small slope of the sea of ​​clouds on the top of the towering snow mountain. The radar station was on the snow line on the other side of the mountain, and he couldn't see it now.But he thought, it's better for the superior not to put all the treasure on himself, and he should also remind the people at the radar station in advance, so that they are ready to shut down or turn the antenna or something at any time.

"Dong Yaoliang, did you find anything?"

"The clouds are too thick, and I can't see anything. Maybe we can lower the altitude a little bit," wingman Liu Zecheng reported.

"Yangtze River, can you lower the altitude? There are too many cumulus clouds here, which affect the sight." Zheng Hui asked.

"Turn three turns, don't lower the altitude for the time being, the mountains here are just below the clouds, don't take the risk of lowering the altitude. Prepare to turn on the radar power for radar down-scanning."

"clear."

Zheng Hui lowered his head to make some preparations, and adjusted the weapon console directly below the HUD.First, turn the knob to the "block fire" position (this is the mode he envisioned for combat).Then adjust the weapon selection button to the bottom "4A" position, which is the power-on ready position of the PL11 missile.

When he looked up again, the turn was complete, he leveled the plane, turned on the radar, and adjusted the pitch down; if the target was there, it would never be above or ahead, that's for sure.However, when scanning down, you must control the attitude of the aircraft very well and try to keep it as level as possible.

The scan results disappointed him, nothing was found, maybe the enemy plane was hidden in the ground clutter, or it was just not in the scan area, behind another mountain, maybe they didn't come at all.If only I could drill through the sea of ​​clouds and search with my own eyes.

"Yangtze River, the radar did not find it, please lower the altitude." He made the same request again.

"I agree with you to lower the altitude on a single plane, but stay at 6000 meters and continue searching."

"clear."

"Move two, the formation is disbanded. You continue to maintain high speed and accept the command of the command post, over."

"Move and understand."

Zheng Hui pushed down the lever, and he was not in a hurry to switch the radar to ground surveying and mapping. In fact, most of the mountains in the south of the mountain are no more than 4500 meters above sea level.

"Move three turns, pay attention to the actual control line, 15 kilometers to your left, don't go deep if you don't have to."

"That is to say, if necessary, a breakthrough can be made."

"Of course. Except that there may be hidden Indian Sam-7 missile sites there. If you fly too low, it will pose a threat."

"clear."

When the last ray of cloud and mist disappeared from Zheng Hui's eyes, he could see the rolling mountains below Yarlung Zangbo.The further south you go, the lower the mountain, and the Daxue Mountain behind you is obviously in a prominent position in this area. He thought, choosing that place to build a radar station is really fucking amazing. No wonder the Indian Air Force hates this radar station. to the bone.If I were the chief of staff of the Indian Air Force, I would make many plans and destroy them quickly.

"Yangtze River, I made three turns, but I didn't find the target. I also didn't see any suspicious trails. I request to continue to lower the altitude."

"Pay attention to safety, you can continue to lower the altitude."

The silver plane gleamed in the sun, and she continued to fly slowly downward, hoping to find something.Gradually, this J-8II left the wingman far away from the enemy.

At the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini exhausted his energy to walk carefully through the mountains. He and his wingmen did a good job of concealment. He was confident that he had completely hidden under the nose of the Chinese radar. It may be too late to take off from the airport 500 kilometers away.The low-altitude flight had not come without a cost, though, and now he was out of communication with headquarters and Tespur.However, there is also an air force base at the forefront of India on the east side, which can be contacted with a slight elevation.In fact, as a backup plan, Jabwa Air Force Base still has several Su-102MKIs of the 30nd Squadron on the runway at any time to take off for cover.

"Very well, I think our raid has served its purpose, Rajesh, turn on the master weapon switch."

"Understood, squadron leader."

In the flight close to the mountains, it is quite exciting to lower your head for a few seconds to complete a few operations.The plane was designed for low-altitude penetration, but it doesn't have automatic terrain avoidance. If the plane is about to hit a hill, the system will give an audio warning once or twice, but by then it's usually too late.

Rajesh lowered his head and turned on the main switch of the weapon, then chose to energize the missile under the belly of the fuselage and release the weapon safety at the same time, and adjusted the fuel selection switch to "body fuel release".After finishing all this in one go, he raised his head. The artificial horizon on the HUD was turning to one side, and the plane was rapidly rolling towards the nearby cliff. He quickly pulled the lever to avoid the tendency of getting too close to the mountain.

"Take it easy, brother. Hehe." The leader's laughter came from the radio.It appears that the squadron leader has been looking back at the aircraft.

"Understood, squadron leader."

"Time to attack. See the ridge ahead, let's surprise them a bit."

With Dabrini and his wingman, the lever jumped out of the col, the throttle was pushed to afterburner, and now it was time to climb quickly.Their position is almost vertically above the McMahon line.

Screams echoed in the cabin, and the Selena system, which had always been slow to notice, also discovered a powerful pulsed radiation source on the snow mountain. Now the lieutenant colonel and his target met each other, separated by about 30 kilometers.

The seeker of KH31 starts to measure the target immediately, and it only needs to wait a few seconds to complete the interception.The powerful pulse signal of the radar suddenly disappeared, and the anti-radiation missile only completed a preliminary position determination.

"The counterattack is so fast?" The lieutenant colonel decisively pressed the launch button, the plane was shocked, and then violently raised its head.He tried his best to stabilize the plane, watching the orange tail flame of the missile flying towards the snow-capped mountains ahead, he knew that this attack might not be effective, if the radar was not turned on, the missile could only fly there according to the inertial guidance and hit the radar Little chance of standing.

"They seem to be ready, Rajesh is watching you."

"Understanding the squadron leader, I don't believe they can hide."

Major Rajesh started to adjust the magnification of the TV monitor on the right, maybe after a while he could see the target in the picture captured by the optical equipment.

Dabrini stayed on the side to cover for the wingman, and his radar warning system started beeping again. It was obviously not the ground phased array radar just now. The position display showed that it was a fire control radar from above.

"How is this possible?" A hint of doubt flashed in the lieutenant colonel's mind.

"Leave him alone and keep aiming. I'll deal with it."

The lieutenant colonel did not want to give up the attack of the formation, because there seemed to be only one enemy plane and the distance was relatively long.Now his plane is very light, and it is just suitable for laps with the enemy plane, and the lieutenant colonel has an aggressive personality. If he drops all the payload and escapes without taking a look at the enemy plane, it is obviously not his style.

Liu Zecheng stayed in the air and reported the discovery to the lead plane in the wrong direction.He can't see the other party through the clouds now, but the fire control radar has scanned two targets that suddenly appeared. Since the radar cannot perform the operation of scanning and tracking at the same time, he can only choose one of them for one-on-one tracking. The only option for launching semi-active PL11 missiles.

As expected, the two light spots on the HUD began to separate (still outside the line of sight). Liu Zecheng selected the one that swooped towards him as the target according to common sense, and turned on the seeker power of the two missiles at the same time.After a while, the target designation circle has caught the opponent, and he presses the "Intercept:" button. Now he must ensure that in the next time, the enemy plane cannot escape the radar search range (the radar exposure range, on the HUD is a large circle).

"Three crutches, I have already intercepted one, like a Jaguar or a MiG-27. The other one has not changed course and is still approaching (the target)."

Liu Zecheng reported the known situation to the lead plane. He found that the command post was right to keep him at an altitude of 6000 meters. Now he found the enemy before the regiment leader, and he would definitely open fire first.It seems that after many years, the Air Force's first victory is about to be obtained (he didn't know that his colleague Song Ning had shot down a Mirage fighter a month ago).

After everything was ready, he fired two PL2 missiles at very short intervals in burst mode.When the missile flew away, the huge smoke completely obscured the line of sight. Fortunately, the radar worked stably and continued to aim steadily at the opponent.He felt that his opponent was making a mistake and he shouldn't be doing pointless climbs in such a bad position.

Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini squinted his eyes. He managed to see two light spots on the sea of ​​clouds flying towards him from the dazzling sunlight.He knew it was some kind of mid-range round, which meant they weren't as difficult to deal with as combat rounds.But the premise of avoiding them is to keep a careful distance, so as not to be burned by the Doppler radar of the opposing fighter when launching the chaff in a last-ditch effort.

The lieutenant colonel changed his strategy decisively, pressing the joystick downwards and retracting the swept wings at the same time. This made the aircraft accelerate and avoid the dazzling sun. His technique was proficient, and the whole movement was coherent and compact.

The J-5800II was making difficult aiming at 8 meters in the air, and the enemy plane almost succeeded in its violent movements. It almost escaped from the circle of maximum aiming error, but Liu Zecheng finally stabilized the plane and followed the target closely.But this opponent is very slippery, it is difficult to make it close to the center of the ring (the closer to the center, the higher the hit rate of semi-active radar guided missiles)
No matter how fierce the fighting behind him was, Major Rajesh tried to keep his mind calm and focused on aiming.During this period of time, he has already seen the huge green target on the snow mountain and the nearby supporting power station from the cathode ray tube monitor. Unfortunately, the squadron leader's first strike failed. The pit of smoke, perhaps this blow destroyed some surrounding facilities, but it was certainly not a fatal blow, because the huge rectangular radar antenna was still erected there, pointing in the direction of India.

Now the MiG-27 fighter plane with no distractions is less than 20 kilometers away from the target, and the angle is slightly larger. He slowly aligns the mark of the aiming center with the middle part of the radar and the power station, and then switches the channel to the missile field of view.Soon, he found an immobile target again within the missile's 4X field of view. He could even see some people running around beside the radar antenna, as if they were rushing to repair something. Obviously they didn't know there was a second strike.Regardless of the fact that the gloves were completely soaked, the major did not hesitate to pull the firing trigger at the critical moment.

A missile whizzed away under the belly of the aircraft. The major carefully controlled the violently shaking field of vision. After a while, the shaking of the missile's field of vision stabilized, and the { } mark was firmly aligned with the middle position of the two targets. Deciding whether to strike the radar antenna or the power supply, he can make a choice at the final stage.He can actually make the missiles explode in the middle of them as well.In this way, the Chinese want to drag the heavy radar and heavier power station up the mountain again, maybe half a year later.The major was completely absorbed in aiming and conceiving, watching the targets in his field of vision grow bigger and bigger.

(End of this chapter)