Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 240 The Fierce Gust

In the distant sky, there are two huge arc-shaped wakes slowly extending, and the moving speed seems to be much slower than that of a helicopter.But gradually stopped in front of Mi 35.Abad couldn't understand what was going on, but he guessed that the helicopter shouldn't have been driven away by himself.

The first missile accurately hit the side of the fleeing armed helicopter, blowing it in two, and the second missile followed, hitting the falling tail boom.With nowhere to escape, the two pilots fell to the hill with the burning wreckage.

On the radar screen, the three marks disappeared at the same time. Liu Zhaolin knew that there were nine out of ten signs, but he could not confirm the result for the time being. Now he could only confirm that the radar could no longer see the target and the missile. He was going to fly to the spot to personally take a look.

The radar alarm began to beep, and an unknown type of radar scanned his fighter plane at 9 o'clock. From the perspective of pulse emission, it was not a phased array radar on the ground, but it was a fighter jet.

"This is a crutch, and it seems to be in trouble. Maybe it's a Rafale fighter jet." Liu Zhaolin said.

"Don't force it, the number of them cannot be determined now. Besides, you don't have a wingman." Song Ning's uneasy voice came from the radio.

"You mean let me go?"

"Listen to my advice. You're right. Your target is too big, and the electronic system has a generation gap. It's hard to get the cheapness of firing first."

"Why don't you let me try it," Liu Zhaolin said eagerly.Of course, Song Ning would not have selfish motives in commanding on the ground, but if he told Liu Zhaolin to withdraw at the first sight, he still aroused the fighting spirit of his old comrades-in-arms.

"Then be careful, our ground radar can't see him for the time being, bring him closer, maybe our radar on Gilgit Hill can see him."

"clear,"

"Also, withdrawing through the Gilgit Mountains when necessary, they rarely went far west of the Mountains."

"Thanks for reminding!"

Liu Zhaolin was approved to attack, and he was not in a hurry to fly towards the enemy plane, but pulled up quickly, as if he hadn't noticed the radar for the enemy. He hoped that this move would attract the enemy, so that Song Ning said The ear radar can see the enemy's situation clearly.

The enemy's illumination at 9 o'clock did not change significantly, nor did it form a tracking, so Liu Zhaolin could not get rid of it.It seemed that the suspected gust of the enemy plane was still far away, and it hadn't even seen itself.He drew an arc and flew head-on towards the enemy plane.The alarm finally detected the rapid increase in the radiation energy of the local radar.Liu Zhaolin tried to maneuver along the tangent of the radar beam, which could destroy the radar tracking, but failed twice.

Seeing that the sky was still bright, he simply pressed the nose of the aircraft and got into the ravine.Passive phased array radar is not strong in identifying targets close to the ground, and he finally got rid of radar tracking.However, this heavy air superiority fighter has no terrain avoidance capability, and can only use radar for simple terrain tracking. Relying on excellent technology, Liu Zhaolin hid the huge aircraft in a ravine in a daze.

"Listen, we have a radar that detected it. It can be confirmed that it is a stand-alone aircraft. It is 10 kilometers away from you at 70 o'clock. The speed is unknown. It can be confirmed that it is still advancing." Song Ning said on the ground.

"I see, let's try to see if I can sneak attack."

"I agree to attack, but I remind you that the Pakistani air defense forces in this area are highly nervous and will open fire on any target."

"Don't worry, I have a measure."

"Be careful. When you come back, I will introduce an old man to you, and you will definitely hit it off."

Tens of seconds later, Liu Zhaolin was no longer visible on Song Ning's radar, and the gust of wind was gone in a flash.Obviously, both planes chose to fly at low altitudes, and they were implementing their own sneak attack plans with their own ideas.Night gradually fell to the west side of the Gilgit Mountains, which brought considerable risks to the low-altitude flight of J-11 fighter jets that did not have terrain avoidance capabilities.Liu Zhaolin had no choice but to raise the height a little.Watch out for the front hemisphere.

WRS once again found the radar of the enemy plane, and it has reached Liu Zhaolin's position at 4 o'clock. Obviously, the Indian pilot played a more daring trick. He not only used the terrain avoidance ability to take a shortcut, but also accelerated his speed, which made him occupy the area when the rendezvous slightly favorable position.

In the blink of an eye, the phased array radar completed the tracking, and Liu Zhaolin immediately tried to get rid of the radar with a 7G overloaded rapid circle, but he succeeded; obviously the nose of the enemy plane was not completely pointing at him, which made him feel proud of the radar. The edge of the sweep corner escaped and the Indian pilot had to make a stronger turn to follow.But the bad side is that the enemy plane must be very close, Liu Zhaolin maintained a sharp turn, while desperately looking back.A few kilometers away, 2 points of light are beating, and the enemy is using afterburner to pursue.

Liu Zhaolin regretted that he hastily entered close combat. His fighter plane was still equipped with 2-for-2 missiles, and his maneuverability was not optimal.

The 2 light spots suddenly turned into 3, and the most dazzling one quickly approached Liu Zhaolin. Obviously, the enemy launched a missile without using radar, perhaps using a helmet to aim at the launch.

Liu Zhaolin calmly released 5 groups of tracer bullets, and climbed up under the cover of tracer bullets; he knew the rules of competition with light aircraft: don't compete with circling on the horizontal plane.

The magic missile broke into a cloud of tracer bombs, and had no chance of finding the real target. It followed the falling fragments of the tracer bombs and hit the mountain headlong.

The J-11 fighter jet was quickly pulled up amid the roar of the two high-thrust engines, and it might be possible to use a simple somersault to get rid of the enemy's pursuit and turn to counterattack.Of course, Liu Zhaolin knew that things would not be so simple. The high angle of attack of the canard layout fighters did not suffer a disadvantage in climbing. He had experienced this when he competed with the J-2 in China.

The trailing gust is really not an ordinary type, it clings to the huge J-11 and does not relax; Liu Zhaolin suddenly realized that this is not a "light aircraft" with weak power like the Mirage 2000, its thrust-to-weight ratio actually has a considerable The advantages.

The tight somersaults of the enemy plane were more powerful. Seeing that the time had come, Liu Zhaolin quickly performed a barrel roll to slow down the speed.In an attempt to make the enemy lose control and rush to the front.The J-11 is moving rapidly on the glass canopy of Gufeng.It also quickly passed the Rafale's radar detection area, and within a very short period of time, the Rafale completed tracking; but Liu Zhaolin didn't care. Not having enough muzzle velocity and angle issues to get out of control.

Sure enough, the enemy did not open fire, and he could only watch as Liu Zhaolin moved across the HUD and slowly approached 3 o'clock. The two sides turned again and were in the middle of a dark chase.Each was at the 3/9 o'clock of the other side (a position that could not be intercepted by the radar), the fierce offensive of the Rafale was disintegrated by Liu Zhaolin, and the advantages accumulated before were almost lost.

"Beware of the helmet sights." Song Ning's voice came from the earphone.He couldn't see clearly the struggle between the two sides at low altitude, but from Liu Zhaolin's rapid breathing, he knew that he should remind Lao Liu not to get dizzy.

The Indian pilot was not willing to give up his advantage, and he was also afraid that the strong circling advantage of the gust would make it easier for the plane to hit the mountain at night, so he continued to launch the flag helmet (even at night, he could still measure it through the flames of the opponent's tail nozzle) azimuth).

This time Liu Zhaolin did not use tracer bullets, but chose to dodge deftly, which caused a magic missile that barely turned towards him at a large off-axis angle to lose control and fall to the ground.

But Liu Zhaolin didn't dare to do anything wrong, he already knew that it would be difficult for him to take advantage in melee combat, as long as this dexterous opponent occupies a slight favorable position, he would be enough.

The two fighters were biting tightly at low altitude, and no one dared to relax. The series of scissors chases gradually exhausted the speed of both sides, which exposed the heavy J-11's fatigue, and the Rafale slowly began to occupy a more favorable position. .This time, the Indian pilot did not rashly use helmet aiming or easily detectable radar tracking. He chose the infrared search system with a larger field of view and more concealment at close range, and secretly intercepted the J-11 fighter jet.

Although Liu Zhaolin has been looking back to observe his opponent, the low-altitude flight will inevitably distract him. He must always look down at the multi-function display and the dark mountain outlines on both sides to avoid hitting the mountain.

When Rafale launched the last two magic missiles, he was dodging the nearby mountain peaks, and when he turned around, the magic missiles were already close at hand.

Liu Zhaolin dived to the ground in the dark, and a large number of tracer bombs exploded throughout the valley.Watching a missile chase to the side; he pulled up sharply, making a high angle of attack maneuver. The vector pointer on the HUD was thrown far low and out of sight, and the G-force number on the side instantly rose from 3 to 9 in an instant.He knows that the so-called no-escape zone is not absolute, but the only thing that can really fool the missiles is the big overload action and some kind of luck.

The first missile missed its target and flew straight ahead.The second bomb that followed seemed to be deceived, but the proximity fuze detonated the warhead about 10 meters away from the tail of the aircraft.

The shrapnel from the explosion hit the right vertical tail, and the aircraft entered a spiral state with thick smoke.

The ear-piercing alarm bell in the cockpit reminded the pilot to abandon the plane and jump out. Liu Zhaolin held the ejection handle but did not pull it down; he was quite patient and wanted to wait and see if the plane could automatically recover from the out-of-control state.The numbers on the altimeter dropped rapidly, and the plane made a continuous horizontal rotation along the central axis, and his internal organs were churning.

The beating speed of the altimeter suddenly slowed down, the airspeed indicator began to rotate forward, and two fire warning lights on the right hand side went out.The plane recovered its attitude by itself.The engine tachometer on the right has been reset to zero, the oil line has been cut off, the engine has been stopped, and the aircraft has miraculously automatically trimmed.Whether it can be driven back is still unknown.

The Indian pilot did not dare to go deep into the Gilgit Mountains. He waited far below the scene of the enemy plane crashing. After waiting for 30 seconds, even the hot air balloon should have landed. He knew that the blow did not work, so he turned back.

(End of this chapter)