Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 202 Coastline

"I understand."

The major general waved him out.

Mesur Air Base south of Karachi.Secret preparations are in full swing.This is the most important air force base in southern Pakistan, but not many bombs have been hit so far since the war started.In the overall strategy facing India, the emphasis on these coastal areas is far less than that in the central and northern regions.In the past two months, except for a few MiG-2s of the Indian Navy, few third-generation aircraft have visited here.This approach is of course very reasonable. Pakistan has only deployed a few squadrons equipped with J-29 and Mirage III in this coastal area, and the personnel are not neat (all good pilots have been transferred away). There is really no need to look up .

Sami sat in the navigation platform with his legs crossed, watching several captains command the J-7 to take off and land in an orderly manner.Sitting behind the commander on the ground and watching is one of his hobbies, and he sometimes participates in it until the air battle.His own J-10B has been well hidden in the camouflage hangar, so as not to be discovered by the enemy's drones approaching from the sea and leaking.But neither he nor his plane is the protagonist today.The real main attackers are two Chinese-made two-seater J-2 aircraft that can barely fly to Cochin. Unlike the old Su-11SK before, these two two-seater aircraft are new aircraft obtained secretly. China provides this type of aircraft The original intention is to help the shrinking Pakistani air force to use its long-range advantage to conduct air superiority operations, rather than anti-ship.At present, where the two planes have turned, the colonel himself does not know.Since Pakistan is now caught in the reconnaissance of India on both sides of the Hebei River, it has become difficult to covert transitions.

"The pair of enemy MiG-29s are approaching from the southeast, with an altitude of 100 and a speed of 130. Intercept immediately." The ground commander said calmly.Then came the confused voice of the pilot answering.These J-7s in the air have no data link and can only be guided in this way.Sammy sat quietly, but he knew that if he could intercept it, he would be haunted.He glanced at the navigation display, and the Indian Navy's MiG-29 twin planes have spotted the planes of the second squadron, apparently also guided by Gujarat's radar. This old-fashioned air combat mode reminded the colonel of his youth in Afghanistan. fighting.

The two MiG-2s quickly shrank back. Obviously, they didn't even want to touch the J-29, which was a generation behind.Since the last time the colonel and Song Ning cooperated to shoot down a naval MiG-7, the Indian Navy has become less active.Their daily dispatches now are harassment, and occasionally they will fly to the sky above Mesur to drop insignificant bombs when they see an opportunity.The large water-filled pits in the farmland away from the runway represent the level of their horizontal bombing.

"You guys are really a good place to spend your days here," said the colonel, and his words were slightly malicious, because he found that there was another war intersecting with other battlefields.But the people here are also quite buy his account.

"Our main defense is not their air strikes, but the landing. In fact, our responsibility is also very heavy." An officer replied.

"It's hard to imagine that when we were fighting fiercely in the north, your place was like a training ground."

"Hehe, that's true Colonel, the Indian pilots are afraid of falling into the sea and drowning. So they are actually not active."

While talking, two Phantom Vs on the runway below rose from the ground, circled the airport, and flew into the clouds. The destination of the two planes was Quetta.These transfers are meaningless on the surface, but the real intention is to paralyze India's radar in Gujarat.Due to the large size of the Phantom V, the J-2BS, which is also large in size, can be landed here later.Sammy thought: This must be Islam's evil idea, but it may be useful against Gujarat or Maharashtra's old-fashioned legal radars in the front, but the latest Russian-made 11D radars deployed around Mumbai are not. So easy to deceive.

"If their radar operators are experienced, they can see the trick."

"Well, there's nothing we can do other than that. Luckily they've got the AWACS and decent ground radars up north," the commander said.He found that Sammy guessed the intention at a glance. Obviously, this trick can only deceive novices.

After a while, two bright spots approaching at low altitude appeared on the screen.They lowered their altitude and flew along the Makran Coastal Mountains to avoid the radar search of the other side, and they were already very close when they appeared.

"Captain Lionheart, you can land anytime."

"Understood. By the way, is the Colonel sitting behind you?" The vague call reached Sammy's ears, and he could recognize Hamid's voice.

"Yes, he arrived in the morning."

According to the radar information, the two planes were only 10 kilometers away. Sammy stood up and looked west.He has good eyesight and can see 2 black spots approaching on the horizon.Gradually the twin vertical tails of the plane can be seen.Apparently they're finally here.

Two light gray J-2BSs landed steadily on the runway, dragged a parachute and passed Sami's eyes, and then the second one.

After the plane came to a complete stop, the ground tractor immediately went over and dragged the plane into the hangar.Sami has fought against this kind of aircraft in China. He knows that this is a two-seat multi-purpose fighter whose performance is close to that of the Su-30MKI. It may not be weaker than the Su-30MKI in air combat, but it is indeed a little bit reluctant to use it to attack an aircraft carrier 1800 kilometers away at low altitude. If it is only calculated from the range, there can hardly be any mistakes in the middle. In fact, the Chinese Air Force does have aircraft dedicated to long-range anti-ship operations, which is not the case.But this is also the only option to exhaust all the possessions of Pakistan's existing arsenal (F16block52 can launch US-made Harpoon missiles, but Pakistan has not obtained such missiles from the United States.)
On the surface, this attack is not complicated. As long as you get close to the coastline and then launch a certain number of missiles towards the aircraft carrier while avoiding your eyes, you can always expect some of them to hit the target.Intelligence updated at least an hour ago indicated that the carrier was still there.However, in view of the limited number of platforms and only 6 missiles that can be launched, such an attack is essentially impossible to achieve great results.

Sami really wanted to go and talk to Major Hamid for a while. It was not his habit to talk to other pilots before a battle, but after Hassan was shot down, he felt somewhat sad.And he vaguely felt that this might be the last time we met.But in the end he forced himself to dismiss this unlucky thought, and decided not to disturb the major's final rest.He sat down and carefully considered his own operations. If he could divert the attention of the Indian naval and air force radar stations along the coast, it would obviously be the best support for Hamid.If you are more greedy, perhaps you can also collect the air-to-air radar characteristics of the Mumbai air defense circle and the Indian fleet docked there through the electronic threat analysis system of the J-10B, which is obviously more perfect.

When twilight fell on Karachi, the planes at the Mesur base began to take off one after another, with the purpose of disrupting the audiovisual of the Indian side, so as to cover the operation code-named "Cobra" formulated by Major General Islam.The Indians sitting behind the radar in Gujarat will definitely spot these unusual movements, but they should not perceive the real target from these unusual takeoffs.They will roughly misjudge the target as Mumbai or even Goa, but the distant Cochin will definitely be ignored. This is the major general's plan.

Sammy's J-10B was parked on the side of the runway with full air superiority mounts waiting to take off. For this mission, he would form up with Abad's Thunder fighter jets, followed by a group of J-2 fighter jets from the 7nd Squadron, pretending to be the fighters of the second wave. 2 attack aircraft.The main target is the enemy's MiG-29 or Sea Harrier.At that time, taking advantage of the chaotic air situation in the coastal area, the two J-2BS led by Hamid will make a large circle to the southwest at low altitude to avoid India's radar. However, the Americans should not be able to immediately analyze the target of the attack and inform India.Such a route makes the actual radius of the two aircraft greatly exceed 11 kilometers. Fortunately, this aircraft made in China is slightly different from the Su-1800MKI, and it can mount auxiliary fuel tanks.

Sami anxiously stopped on the take-off line. The navigation station has not issued a take-off command, but he can hear the conversation of the pilot ahead through the radio.From the chaotic dialogue, it can be known that the Indians really just took off some MiG 21s to confront the fleet of the second squadron tens of kilometers away. Obviously, neither side has any will to fight, and they just want to run out of fuel and go home.The Indian Air Force does not have a powerful squadron deployed in the south, nor does it have such powerful fighters as Mirage 2000 or Su-30MKI. In fact, the main force is still the MiG 21 and a few glorious fighters. Since the war, the Indian Navy Air Force has been pursuing the line of preserving strength. , Hid the only usable aircraft carrier, the Villant, in the Vimbanad Lagoon of Cochin Port under the pretext of maintenance. They probably didn't expect that the enemy was targeting their well-hidden treasure.

"The leader of the black spider, their MiG-29 is dispatched. Take off immediately to intercept."

"Understood." The colonel turned his head and gestured to Abad behind him, signaling him to follow him and take off.

The target information on the multi-function display has not appeared for a long time, it seems that the early warning aircraft has not arrived yet.But there was no time to wait, and the engine speed slowly climbed up.Outside ground crews have removed the obstructing pipes and trailers.The colonel then took the lead and waited on the sea for Abad to join.It was a strange formation, the 2 planes were not even the same model.But this is the only fighter in this airspace that can fight against the MiG-29.

The colonel turned on the radar to scan in the general direction, and soon got new information updates.The J-7 aircraft in front was returning and probably ran out of fuel.

"Come on, let's go to the Indian coastline."

"clear."

The two planes went straight to the coast of Gujarat, and patiently searched for the MiG-29 near the coast according to the guidance on the ground.At a distance of 60 kilometers, the radar of the J-10B caught the opponent first.Immediately the adversary sensed this and began to change attitude in an attempt to escape, which is typical for inexperienced pilots without medium-range ammunition being tracked by radar.Sammy didn't dare to be careless. He asked Abad to turn on the radar to search other airspaces, because the other MiG was missing and the ground radar could not see it.Sammy had seen a MiG-29 tactic before. They would use one plane to purposely pull up to confuse the line of sight, while the other would use ground cover to approach at low altitude.However, this trick may not work on the sea surface. The Doppler radar of the Raiden fighter jet is very capable of resisting clutter interference on the sea surface.Unless it's really posted low, but the MiG-29 doesn't seem to have that capability.

(End of this chapter)