Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 14 Escape from Low Altitude
"Tell me the location of the other enemy plane."

"I didn't see another one." The early warning aircraft said, the Erieye system sometimes has a temporary blind spot in the reconnaissance due to the adjustment of its own course. When you need her, she is probably turning slowly.Of course, another possibility she couldn't see was that the enemy hid behind the mountain.

"Colonel checks under the plane." It was Hassand's voice.Sammy immediately made a roll. He saw a missile flying towards him silently. The missile was still far away. The colonel immediately pushed down and almost flew towards the missile. He knew these MiGs very well. 21 often carries R60 missiles, but doing so will make its seeker unable to see the target clearly; the airspeed indicator slowly starts to rotate forward, but the speed of the aircraft is only 600 kilometers per hour. This is a troublesome problem. The only way to increase the dive angle , with the help of gravity, a G is added when the final avoidance turn is made.At the last moment, the colonel decisively released several groups of tracer shells and chaff, while turning to one side to avoid, the missile missed him and flew into the air in a daze.He turned his head to look for the enemy in the dark, and saw a MiG-21 flying towards him below. The colonel's last PL5 missile did not have a strong head-on attack capability. The missile seeker faced this A MiG-21 has never been able to catch any heat source within a distance of more than one kilometer.

Now the colonel is in a dangerous situation of being flanked. Even if he dodges this round, he will immediately fall into the second round of circling; moreover, it is still a situation of being flanked.The low-altitude turning competition is one of the few flying strengths of the MiG 21. At that time, the Thunderbolt will not have enough speed or altitude.

"Falcon 1, I need you to show up quickly." When the colonel passed the MiG 21 directly in front of him, the opponent fired a series of machine guns, but this heroic MiG was difficult to control under the condition of insufficient thrust. The nose of the aircraft was stable, and the flying shells did not hurt the colonel at all.The MiG passed over the colonel's cockpit cover, and the colonel turned his head and saw that the MiG 21 did not turn on the afterburner, but took the risk of doing a low-altitude somersault. For an aircraft like the MiG 21, which does not have good low-speed performance, this is a risk Actions close to the roulette wheel are likely to cause the engine to stall or stall.

Now, two MiG-21s appeared at his 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions at the same time. Although one of them was at a slower speed, this also severely restricted the colonel's evasive actions. He would be caught by one of them if he turned sharply in any direction A plane's nose takes aim.

"It's a big deal to eject, I hope these Indian pilots won't shoot the parachute." The colonel thought during the last circle, he could already clearly see the dirt road on the ground, only 200 meters away from the hillside, why the hell Hassan didn't show up yet.

A MiG-21 in hot pursuit suddenly exploded in the air and broke in two, probably hit by an AIM120C.Colonel Sami saw another missile fly towards another MiG-21, but missed.The last MiG-21 did not dare to continue fighting, quickly dived and accelerated, and fled to the east. The colonel had no fuel to continue chasing, and he turned to the north to leave the battle.The sky was already bright, and in this round of air battles, the Pakistan Air Force once again had a considerable advantage. The 3-1 result was enough to make the Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force sick for a while.

"Praise be to Allah!" the Colonel said with sincere gratitude.

"Black Spider leader, it seems that your record has already reached 5 planes, it is worthy of congratulations."

"Where is the nearest airport?" Sammy asked, ignoring Hassan's hypocritical greeting, thinking that he owed Hassan a big favor from now on.

"I'm afraid it's the Benazir Bhutto International Airport. However, there's a refueling plane to the south... Oh, by the way, I'm afraid your little plane won't be able to refuel in the air."

Colonel Sami pressed the return button on the multi-function display and set the navigation direction to the southwest Benazir Bhutto International Airport, which was the closest airport to him.

"Leader Falcon, thank you for not wasting time before firing."

"Colonel, No. 5 Squadron never wastes time. I'll save you the next time you run into an Indian plane you can't get rid of."

"Come on Hassan, I still know you and your squadron."

"Thank you for your compliment, you are the pride of the Air Force."

A lone MiG-21 fighter jet is facing the dazzling sun, flying to Sarsi Air Force Base. Before dawn, a total of 4 planes took off from there, and now only the lead plane, Captain Mitis, is left alone. return flight.The captain recalled the scene of the three brothers being shot down over and over again in his mind. He knew that there was only one enemy plane there, but he beat his team to pieces.This is an unbearable fact, based on a series of backward technology, old combat aircraft, non-functioning radar warning equipment, and that damn 181 Squadron AWACS that never showed up on time, all It all cost him three teammates in a matter of minutes.

Mitis heard other pilots yelling after being hit on the radio, but did not see any of his comrades parachuting. There may be problems with these ancient ejection seats, but there will never be an answer.

"Captain Dagger, please report the battle situation, no other aircraft can be seen on the ground radar."

"Dagger Squad lost three aircraft in the air battle," Captain Mitis replied.The ground command station did not ask any other questions.

"Why didn't the trident formation take cover?" the captain asked.

"It's not clear, the Trident team just landed, and they shot down an F16 fighter jet."

The captain finally couldn't help sobbing. For a year, all members of the squadron have been seriously discussing a rumor that the 45th Dagger Squadron will be equipped with advanced Rafale fighter jets. Some pilots have already gone to Bangalore to experience this advanced fighter jet. In the French aircraft simulator, everyone expected that with the improvement of equipment, the squadron could become a first-class air combat force in South Asia, but today, what he witnessed with his own eyes was that his teammates were shot down like leaves.

"Captain Dagger, please pay attention to the approach path point, you must lower your altitude." The call from the control tower brought the captain back to his senses.

"Captain Mitis, I'm also very sorry," came the ground, and a strange and old voice took over the command.

"We need better aircraft to fight them."

"There will be, everything will be there, I promise." In the ground command post, the chief of staff of the Indian Air Force, General Biafrata, who has been marching on-site command, said.

At the same time, 200 kilometers away, JF17, which had run out of fuel, was preparing to land. He was in a hurry to communicate with the navigation station, because the navigation station would not allow him to land at this time.

"Attention fighters from the east, you cannot land on runway 1, there is a large airliner approaching. You are too close."

"I saw that Boeing 747, I will go in as soon as it lands, but I can't make another circle, I'm out of fuel."

"Fighters, please pay attention, you are too close, it is too dangerous, this is the special plane of the United Nations special envoy."

"Oh, what? I'm sorry, I'm having some issues with my VHF station, I can't hear very well, so it's decided."

The UN special envoy's special plane entered the last navigation point of Bhutto International Airport on time. The co-pilot called the tower several times, and the air controller told him that the main runway could be used at any time.However, the co-pilot found a former gray fighter jet flying on his side all the time, which made him a little puzzled.He looked back at the gray fighter plane, and the pilot in the cockpit waved to him, and then swung the wing. It can be seen that there is actually a missile under the wing of this fighter jet.

While the Boeing airliner was concentrating on lowering its landing gear, the fighter plane suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the pilot temporarily forgot about the plane.However, when the passenger plane had just landed smoothly and turned to the apron, the pilot saw the small plane again. They stopped at the end of the runway. This scene shocked the two airliner pilots. It was not the first time for them to come to a country that was at war, but they had never seen the air control of a country like this.

(End of this chapter)