Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 159 A Strong Bridge
The high-speed armor-piercing projectile accurately hit the periscope commander's sight on the hatch cover of a T90. This happened to be a relatively weak position in the armor, and there was no reactive armor protection. It hit the artillery-launched missile that was in the process of loading and would detonate.The huge explosion lifted the top cover of the turret, and then the raised artillery suddenly fell down, and then the tank began to burn. The second T40 2 meters away was hit by the armor-piercing projectiles and grenades of the other three Type 90 tank destroyers at the same time. On the infantry fighting vehicle on the side.

The infantry fighting vehicles lacking thermal imaging cameras in the bridgehead are in a mess. Although the infantry fighting vehicles have powerful anti-tank missiles, these missiles are not very effective at night, and the tanks themselves are completely low-blocking. A powerful artillery attack.

Majid woke up like a dream at this time. He knew that it was not Allah who directly intervened to punish the enemy, but that support had finally arrived.

"Listen, let the armored battalion attack again, and the enemy at the bridgehead must be compressed." He shouted, "Where is the self-propelled mortar connected? Why hasn't it fired yet?" No one answered his question. Under the powerful electronic interference, no one around him could figure out where the damned company was now. They only knew that these vehicles were dispatched to attack the bridge half an hour ago, but their current location is unknown.

A communications soldier came from a distance on a motorcycle.

"The command of the headquarters, immediately send someone to guide the air force to blow up the bridge." The correspondent said and stuffed an order into the hands of an officer, who glanced at it.Colonel: "The plane is a few minutes away, from the north. Need laser guidance."

In the sky, the roar of turbofan engines sounded, and two planes flew over the bridge from the west in the distance.This is not a bomb-throwing plane, but two J-2 fighter jets flying from Quetta Airport in the north. Their mission is to expel the Indian Air Force fighter jets and protect the F2C fighter jets of the 10th Squadron to make the final attack on the bridge.

According to the command of the brigade commander, a team of the Pakistan Army climbed up to a pile of ruins on the west bank with hands and feet, and braved the artillery fire from the opposite bank to irradiate the bridge with a laser irradiator.Due to their ignorance of the engineering structure of the bridge, they made a very wrong judgment and aimed the laser at the north pier instead of the bridge deck.This bridge has very strong and low concrete piers, and the most vulnerable part is her bridge deck. Even the 120mm grenade attack on the hillside has carved out many large holes on the bridge deck. pit.

The F16C that came from afar flew very low to guard against the attack of the enemy's low-altitude missile positions.The low-altitude breakthrough is the stunt of Second Lieutenant Hassan. Now the Indian Air Force has completely controlled the entire south, and the Pakistani Air Force can only approach the target by means of ultra-low altitude. The 5th Squadron of this operation sent No. 2 Ace to carry out this unmissable mission. .But when he approached Sukkur, he was still detected by enemy search radar in the distance, and then two nearby LCA fighter jets turned to him, and kept trying to find and lock his aircraft with radar, several scans were used by the second lieutenant Maneuver to get away, but with the enemy approaching, it's only a matter of time before you're finally spotted.Major Hassan knew that the planes of the 37th Squadron that took off from Quetta to cover the mission should be nearby, but due to the incompatibility of the data link, he could not see their positions for the time being, so he could only try to find these comrades in the radio.

According to the agreement, he could only communicate in English because he was told by his superiors that the pilots on the cover plane of the 37th Lion Heart from Quetta might not understand Urdu.

"This is Saker, call for backup, I need the last cover, the enemy is following."

He repeated it, got no response, the major didn't know how far away the 9 LCAs approached from 2 o'clock, and when they would open fire, now he can only bet on his luck, the superiors judged that every hour of delay the enemy would be transported A whole regiment of troops, calculated in this way, after midnight, the enemy's bridgehead will be so strong that it cannot be shaken.

"Here is Saker, calling Lionheart."

"'Saker', I'm 'Lionheart'. I'm approaching." Someone on the radio responded.It seems that the enemy's strong noise interference has a limited effect on blocking communication between aircraft.

"My 9:[-] o'clock enemy aircraft approached and was scanning."

"Understood, I've seen them, 100 kilometers away."

Tens of kilometers away from Hassan's F16, Song Ning has turned on the radar and saw the enemy LCA fighter jets approaching far away. He is now tentatively belonging to the 37th training squadron, so he also has a code name of Lionheart. This is also to prevent the call from being intercepted. Recording can cause trouble.At this time, the enemy is still far away, and it is not the time to fire, but Song Ning knows that shooting down the enemy plane is not the primary task. The most urgent task is to ensure that Pakistan's only remaining F16C can successfully drop the Paveway laser-guided bomb to destroy the bridge.

For a single-seat fighter, it is difficult to drop such a bomb at low altitude. When Hassan lowers his head and pays attention to the multi-function display, it is difficult to cope with the enemy's radar tracking, so he needs Song Ning and Zhao Lin's two The J-10 fighters provide some cover.

From a distance, he saw a dazzling white spot appearing on the monitor, undoubtedly, it was the direction pointed by the army.He moved the bomb indicator pointer to the light spot, and after a while, the permission to drop the bomb still did not appear, and he had to raise his head to level the artificial horizon; obviously the low-altitude bomb had to be closer.But during this process, the radar scan of the enemy plane shifted from 9 o'clock to 7 o'clock. This is a deadly position, and the enemy is making final preparations to fire.Judging by the strength of the radar beam, the distance may not be too far.

The enemy plane obviously wanted to chase Hassan's fighters away desperately, and the turn to get into the shooting position was decisive and simple.Song Ning kept adjusting his position at high altitude, so that the J-10B's radar could intercept the enemy as far away as possible.It should be said that the LCA is not a small aircraft that is easy to intercept head-on at medium and long distances. Whether it can be intercepted in time depends entirely on experience.

Song Ning carefully controlled the attitude of the plane. He judged that the enemy plane in front was most likely to launch a missile, so he scanned it in a one-on-one mode, and finally entered the tracking state. Without hesitation, he fired 2 consecutive missiles. Medium-range rounds.Then he kept tracking the Indian fighter plane and guided the missile to fly to the target, not to hit it. He didn't expect this kind of reluctant attack to hit the enemy plane at the edge of the envelope, but he was afraid that in such a complicated situation The F16 of the Falcon was shot down by mistake. Since the IFF system of the J-10 and F16C is still not fully integrated, the missile may choose a target within the radar field of view after it is turned on. a decision-making model.

The enemy plane finally began to turn. They were uncertain about the intentions of the two aggressive fighter jets 70 kilometers away, and quickly escaped the attack envelope of the SD-10 missiles. The price of these two missiles may be worthwhile. Now Hassan's F2C can not Attack the bridge deck in a disturbed manner.

Tanks of the Indian Army were pushing the wreckage off the bridge deck in a drill they performed many times over the course of a month.In the direction of the morning star, a dazzling flash lit up, which was the afterburner flame of the F16C when it was turning.The bomb has been dropped and is gliding in the air. The Indian soldiers standing on the bridge are still unaware.

A pier in the middle of the bridge suddenly exploded.The explosion threw several soldiers on the bridge into the river, but did not damage vehicles on the bridge.At the beginning of the design of this bridge, the piers were strengthened with foresight. In fact, these piers were designed according to the standard of preventing 500 kg bombs, and the damage of a single pier on one side would not paralyze the entire bridge. .Of course, the original designer did not think that it would be taken away by the Indians with ingenuity, but thought that the bridge would probably be destroyed by the Indians. This design can make the bridge that was hit easy to repair.

Hassan looked back and saw that the bridges in the flames hadn't collapsed.

"Damn, so fucking strong," he cursed.The planes flashed across the bridge, and the anti-aircraft guns on the east bank immediately began to fire. He immediately fired chaff and tracer rounds, and began to dodge.

"Lionheart, my attack failed, and you guys will make up for it."

"clear."

Song Ning knew that there was a strict domestic order not to attack the Indian army except for self-defense, and the new order never came. However, when taking off, wingman Zhao Lin still mounted a laser-guided bomb as a substitute. Everyone knows that it is now At a time when the country of Pakistan was in crisis, they couldn't even make up two F2Cs.

"Regimental Commander, you just guide the target, and I will finish the attack." Zhao Lin urged, he had no concept of military law at a young age, as long as he felt that he was doing the right thing, he was not afraid of taking responsibility.Especially since he has been here for so long, and has been deeply involved in such a large-scale war, but his record is always zero, and he has a record of injuries.

"Okay, enter the attack zone from the front, and I will fire the laser."

Song Ning and Zhao Lin turned to prepare to attack. The air missile radar of the Indian Army on the other side had been trying to lock the two planes, but the two fighters with changing attitudes had been firing chaff, making it difficult for the radar to lock them.

Song Ning lowered his head and adjusted the magnification of the monitor to 3 times. He didn't know the weakness of the bridge, but from this angle he could only attack the bridge deck.He turned on the indicator pod and fired a laser at the bridge deck.

Zhao Lin entered from an airspace higher than him, and dropped the bomb decisively, without any muddle in the air, never giving the surface-to-air missiles the slightest chance.After the bomb is dropped, double-tap to turn immediately. Two bombs precisely hit the deck of the bridge, blasting a section of it into a 2-meter-wide gap, and the bridge was split in two.If the Indians lay steel plates, they may still be able to risk passing trucks, but it is impossible to pass tanks on such a bridge deck.

(End of this chapter)