Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 13 MiG 21
Colonel Sami quickly climbed to 2000 meters. The enemy planes did not appear in the direction of the dazzling sun. It seemed that they did not have the courage to fight close. Soon the colonel was bitten by the fire control radar at 12 o'clock. There are only a few Pakistani planes left here. The plane does not have medium-range bombs, which is really a big trouble.The colonel turned on the fire control radar and saw on the screen that 15 kilometers away, a group of aircraft was flying away at an angle of 90 degrees. He judged that this was not a real evacuation. They just wanted to keep their distance and take advantage of the long-range attack. Soon They'll re-orient the nose here.

"Griffin No. [-], Poisonous Spider No. [-], immediately lower your altitude and leave the battlefield without delay."

"Colonel?"

"This is an order, I will delay them."

"Understood, just got the news that the 5th Squadron is coming." Abbas said.

The Saab early warning aircraft cannot be connected with the early F16 or Xiaolong here, and can only provide limited early warning, which makes the enemy in the distance take the second advantage. In order to avoid unnecessary entanglement, the colonel decided to let other The plane leaves, anyway, the enemy is not ready for close combat, so it is better to let them leave and let him deal with it by himself.

Pakistan has a professional and heroic air force, but its equipment sources are also quite complicated. Compatibility issues such as mismatched interfaces or the inability of magic missiles to leave the launcher are always entangled in this army.

As soon as the rest of the planes flew away, the colonel's radar alarm screamed, and the enemy plane turned 90 degrees, and the radar began to track him again, which indicated that the second round of R27 attacks was coming.

The voice of the early warning aircraft on the radio: "Black Spider No. 2, the enemy plane launched missiles, 11 missiles, 19 kilometers in the direction of [-] o'clock."

The colonel lowered the nose of the aircraft and used a dive to avoid radar tracking. He knew very well that the radar downsight capability of the MiG-29 was quite limited. Under the cover of the terrain, they would soon lose their ranging and tracking capabilities, while the R27 missiles needed to rely on radar illumination. semi-active missiles.

Early warning aircraft: "The enemy aircraft group has dispersed, and some are leaving."

Colonel Sami speculated that the short-legged MiG-21 Bison fighter might be running out of fuel, which aroused his interest.

"Fortress, the azimuth and speed of the departing enemy aircraft fleet?"

"20 degrees to the right, speed about Mach 0.5, 4 aircraft formation."

The radar alarm did not sound again. It seemed that the MiG 29 was confused. The colonel did not want to get entangled with the MiG 20 fleet 29 kilometers away; Chase him, this is his primary target.

"Black spider leader, the missile has been lost, I saw you flying towards the border."

"Bastion, are they ahead of me? Those MiG-21s?"

"Black Spider, at your 6 o'clock, 25 kilometers away, the formation of 4 enemy planes has just intercepted part of the communication. They are in contact with the command post of the Sarxi base, and they may be returning there."

"What else is there?"

"The formation of 29 MiG-4s has turned around to the north, 40 kilometers away from you, and may turn around and fly back to Adampur."

The colonel knew that the threat of the MiG-29 had been basically eliminated, so he rose a little from the mountains, turned on the radar to search directly ahead, and soon found four targets that were very close. He used the radar aperture method to capture the After capturing the last target, the opponent has not dodged. It can be seen that the radar warning devices of these aircraft are quite backward.

"The leader of the Black Spider, and the leader of the Hassan Squadron, are 4 kilometers away in the direction of 50 o'clock."

"Bastion, you let the Falcon deal with the MiG-29 in the north, leave it to me here." The colonel almost wanted to take over the entire command, he knew very well that Ahmed Hassan was an expert at picking soft persimmons, of course this I taught him myself a long time ago.

"Poisonous spider, I'm Falcon, we can't intercept so many MiG-29s." Hassan's angry voice appeared on the channel.

"Fire your missiles and drive them away. Leave it to me here."

As Sammy said, he switched on the PL5 missile warhead on the wingtips and waited for the permission to launch. For this old-fashioned infrared-guided missile, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at 6 o'clock.

The pair of Falcon Squadrons immediately launched a medium-range missile confrontation with the MiG-29 fleet of the Indian Trident Squadron at a distance of 50 kilometers. Who.

At the far other end of the battlefield, everything is still very quiet, a lone JF17 aircraft at a low altitude, staring at 4 MiG 21s who don't know it.For these MiG 21s, today's battle is over; as usual, due to technical disadvantages, they once again acted as bystanders in the beyond visual range air combat, and now they are returning to the Sarxi base in the morning sun, all None of the battlefield surveillance units told them that the threat behind them was approaching, and Colonel Sammy's ultra-low altitude flight successfully avoided these eyeliners on the ground.

The prompt to allow the launch flashed on the HUD, and the distance was less than 9 kilometers. On the HUD, all the targets were still just a blip.The distance continued to approach, but the enemy never noticed it. After chasing to a distance of 3 kilometers, the colonel pressed the launch button, and a PL5E flew to the last MiG-21; he immediately opened the combustion chamber at home and quickly climbed up; the colonel didn't want to He slipped away after a sneak attack, and he wanted to retain some altitude to launch a second attack.

The missile had almost no maneuvering, and it exploded next to the engine of the MiG at the end. The rudder of the MiG 21 of the Indian Air Force was blown up, and it fell down while rotating horizontally. After 13 years, the colonel’s battle trace Another update.The colonel lowered the nose and rushed towards the rest of the enemy aircraft. The fire control radar was tracking all three opponents at the same time, but he didn't want to open fire when the missile seeker under the wing hadn't acquired the target. The MiG 21's The maneuverability is quite good, and he can easily get rid of the old-fashioned infrared missiles in the distance. He has to wait until the beep sound from the missile seeker. According to his experience, the insurance distance is about 800 meters to 1.5 kilometers.

The MiG 21 fleet in front really started to panic. The lead plane took a wingman and began to circle north. They probably didn't know how many opponents there were, and they were trying to look back. The narrow rear view of the MiG 21 forced them to do so. this action.The colonel ignored them and fixed his eyes on the lone plane, which was desperately snaking and releasing chaff, two mishandlings that suggested that the pilot's mind was going blank Among them, most novices will behave like this when they are attacked for the first time. Obviously, this aircraft is worthy of priority attack.

Constantly changing the direction of the turn made the MiG-21 quickly lose speed, and the colonel caught up with him without any difficulty.The sound of beeps in the earphones finally sounded, and the seeker of the PL5 missile finally caught the infrared signal. The colonel pressed the burst button, and the two missiles on the wingtips flew away from the pylons one after another.He lowered his head and glanced at the fuel level. There was still one third of the fuel left. In any case, he would not be able to return to the base today. Maybe he could find a front-line airport to stay at the frontline airport like the day before yesterday, but the good side is that the current load of this plane is Small and flexibility at its best.

The flustered MiG-21 once again began to release interference, and chaff and tracer bombs filled the air, but these interferences alone were not enough. A strong maneuver was necessary to take the opportunity to stay away from the pursuing missile. The pilot The previous wrong action caused it to no longer have enough speed to dodge; two missiles exploded near the aircraft, blowing off its vertical tail, and the aircraft began to plummet in smoke.

"Black spider leader, pay attention to your 8 o'clock direction." The early warning aircraft reminded.

The colonel stepped on the cornering pedal, and at the same time pushed the throttle back to the top again, and started a new round of circling pursuit. In theory, he could not win another 2-on-1 chasing air battle, because he was completely in the clear, but he It is very clear that the F5 of the 16th Squadron will come to rescue him. These ugly F16 Burke 52s have an advantage, that is, their endurance is amazing. The MiG 29 formation in the north may have gone back to refuel.

"Colonel, hold on for a few more minutes, we'll be there soon." Colonel Hassan said.

"I can hold on for a minute or two." The colonel tried to turn, turning his head back, trying to see what was behind him now (he doesn't pay much attention to other directions when attacking.).

The radar warning device has been flashing intermittently. A friendly X-band radar with an unknown distance to the southwest is constantly searching this airspace. It is probably the fire control radar of the Falcon Squadron. Judging from the current scanning status, their radar The beam has not been able to track the enemy, otherwise it would not be seen by its own RWS intermittently.Maybe they ran out of medium-range shells, and if so, they couldn't count on them at all, the colonel thought.

"Black Spider, the single enemy plane is slightly higher than your position at 7 o'clock behind you; it detects that the radar of the Sam 6 position in the east is turned on, and immediately conducts electronic suppression." Someone in the early warning plane spoke, and the tone was as calm as a normal exercise.

The colonel didn't do it right away, he felt it was unnecessary, after ascending the altitude, all kinds of radio pulses were constantly scanning his plane, he didn't have time to care about these crap things; now there were more important things to pay attention to, he could only See a MiG 21 clinging to the back and another plane out of nowhere?This is the biggest threat, because this MiG may be hiding in all directions, and this is the biggest trouble, just like a shark hiding under the turbid sea.

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