Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 252
The action of using three crutches to shoot first really disrupted the enemy's steps, the enemy plane began to turn, and easily got rid of the radar tracking of the J-8II by circling in an extremely compact level. Although it was completely out of sight, Zheng Hui's head-up display The target indication box on the camera disappeared in an instant, and he knew that the enemy must have taken measures to get rid of the tracking.But he still uses the radar aperture to aim at the target. Even if the radar loses its measurement capability, theoretically it can still be expected that the two semi-active PL2 missiles will find the target by themselves through radar reflection.

A strange thing happened. After the enemy's violent evasive action, the two Su-2s still failed to get rid of the radar.

"Yangtze River, the radar of another enemy plane has been detected." On the radio, the pilots of the Su-27SK could be heard calling and panting. This was the first time they had experienced air combat, and they never expected to encounter such a complicated situation. situation.

"That's a wingman, get rid of it." Zheng Hui shouted.He usually doesn't talk to pilots from other regiments on the radio, but an exception must be made today.

The head of the regiment, Zheng Hui, was the only person on the battlefield (including the command post) who had experienced real battles. He immediately understood the general situation of the entire battlefield.Apparently, there was more than one enemy plane attacking the formation, and there was also a wingman in their formation that hadn't turned on, and followed the lead plane far behind to peek at the whole situation secretly.It can quickly replace the lead plane and complete the tracking within 5 seconds. Behind such an incredible alternate tracking method, it should be carried out through the interactive capability of the data link. Before, he should be using the information of the lead plane to track the target. And its phased array radar began to update the target immediately after it was turned on, taking over the lead plane.None of the three Chinese aircraft in the field has such a capability, and such a technology gap could prove fatal in a long-distance engagement.

Move Sanguai decisively to discard the original search area, and search for the area where the second enemy plane may be hidden.In the long process of waiting for the PD radar scan, the enemy plane finally opened fire.

The two tracked Su-2SKs first sensed the active radar-guided missiles launched by the enemy through RWS and turned on.The missile quickly entered the autonomous tracking phase.

After a few seconds, Zheng Hui's radar finally found the low-altitude enemy plane, and it turned to Zheng Hui without hesitation.The 2 PL11 missiles still in flight still have the ability to turn to the second target midway, but the first Rafale started to use electronic jamming at a position closer to the missile in time. This action is still in accordance with the radio command The flying missile had an impact. The PL missile failed to update the target position in time and flew straight out of the control range.

"Damn it." Zheng Hui cursed secretly. Obviously, the target that the 2nd radar could not recognize was prepared. Judging from his effective interference with the R27 and PL11 dedicated data link, they knew very well how to deal with these semi-active missiles. .Rumors that India has begun to equip the Rafale have been circulating at the base, but Zheng Hui has never believed that the West will deliver the equipment ahead of schedule, nor can he guess that France will send half of the squadron to India from the active equipment.

"Yangtze River, I'm sure it's a gust of wind."

"Gusty wind? Cold front?" The command post became confused, and the division commander hadn't been able to change his mind. He didn't know how he brought up the weather at this juncture.

"It's not Leng Feng," Zheng Hui shouted helplessly. "I don't have time to explain. I have to get close to the enemy plane." Without waiting for further instructions from the command post, he turned on the afterburner and rushed towards the dangerous battlefield.For the time being, he will face a one-on-one battlefield, although neither side can see the opponent yet.

25 kilometers away, Colonel Dabrini is staring at the wide-angle diffraction head-up display. The 4 numbers jumping above the display are the time when the 4 medium-range missile radars he launched are turned on. They are chasing 2 targets, SU27SK It is a large target, and it is not easy to escape, and the colonel does not have high requirements, as long as he can hit one, it is enough.

The Su-30 of the 222nd Squadron did not turn around and return to the battlefield, which did not surprise the colonel. For a long time, the "2nd Tiger Shark" Squadron and the "30nd Arrow" Squadron have been in a competitive relationship. The ambush deployed by the superior this time They had the intention of showing the gust of wind, so the Su-[-]MKI of the second squadron became bait, which made them somewhat dissatisfied.

In the center of the head-up display, a target frame was jumping, and the slash arrow on the target frame indicated that the J-8II was approaching rather than withdrawing from the battle, which surprised the colonel.He didn't expect the Chinese J-8II to come back, it's unbelievable.His gaze temporarily fell on the huge monitor under the HUD. Captain Mitis' "pretend" lead plane was making a large circle, and he was hesitant in his movements. He should be having trouble which Su-27 to focus on.

"Shark 2, leave it to me here. You deal with the flanker."

"clear."

The colonel backed the accelerator to afterburner. The thrust of the MiG-27 he drove in the past was not bad, but it could not reach the angle of attack of the Rafale at an idle speed.Now his gust is about 8 meters lower than the height of the J-500II, but before appearing within the line of sight of both sides, he is sure to occupy a certain height advantage.

The gust's pull-up action fell into Zheng Hui's vertical radar scan, and it was completely exposed from the previous hidden head and tail, but Zheng Hui now has no choice of over-the-horizon weapons to shoot, and the opponent seems to know this .It will take some time for the two sides to approach. Zheng Hui has been paying attention to the situation of the Su-27. He knows that the situation of a fighter plane is not good, and soon the communication of the Su-27SK is cut off.Zheng Hui looked in the direction of the plane, and saw a thin black line stretching close to the snow-capped mountains; it was a fighter plane dragging black smoke 5 kilometers away and flying north.The plane seemed to be able to maintain level flight, indicating that the medium-range missiles fired by the gust did not cause fatal damage to him, but the missile damaged the radio station and it is impossible to know the specific situation.

"Three crutches, I can't reach you." The command post said.The huge shadow of Duoxiongla Snow Mountain obscured the vision of the headquarters.Fortunately, the relay station on the mountain can also guarantee extremely high frequency communication.

"Yangtze River, I have to cross the control line," Zheng Hui said.He now has an urgent sense of responsibility. There are not many Chinese pilots with combat experience, so he must not stay out of it.In addition, it was part of his responsibility to be able to collect enough information on the enemy's new aircraft.

The snow-capped mountains separated the battlefield into two parts. At this time, a Su-27SK that remained on the west side of the battlefield finally got rid of the trailing of the two Mika missiles, but immediately fell into the aim/ In the midst of getting rid of it, there is no time for him to care.

The other side of the snow-capped mountain seemed much calmer. Two fighter planes without medium-range bombs were approaching head-on. Neither pilot realized that they had fought against each other not long ago.

The speed of the enemy plane's pull-up was beyond Zheng Hui's expectations, and soon began to affect Zheng Hui's radar tracking. He had to follow the enemy's movements with his head up. After the first round of fighting, he secretly withdrew from the battlefield at low altitude, but the aggressive movements of the enemy forced him to keep up.

In the cloudless clear sky, both sides saw their opponents at the same time.They each began to prepare for the first round of short-range missile shooting. This would obviously be a head-on shooting with a low hit rate, but the significance was that it could force the opponent into an unfavorable position.

The target information of the J-8II was being updated all the time. Dabrini chose a magic missile and began to cool down the seeker. He estimated that the opponent should be doing the same thing.He is looking forward to the next round of fighting with the enemy. He has fought against the J-8II at low altitude, and he knows that this second-generation aircraft is not strong in climbing or circling horizontally.

Eight kilometers away, the J-8 was struggling to climb just below 8 o'clock, which seemed to be in slow motion.The colonel didn't want to give the opponent a chance to strike first. He launched the missile at a distance of 11 kilometers, which was the limit of the missile's envelope, and the seeker hadn't intercepted the infrared signature of the target at all.What the Colonel wanted, however, was to force his opponent to turn and flee, so that he could ease into the smaller azimuth to the rear, perhaps occupying a position around 7 o'clock.

The J-8II didn't make any big moves. The colonel guessed that the pilot probably didn't see the missile with a faint tail flame.Could there be an easy gain?The colonel could watch the missile slowly approach the unaware enemy plane from the vertical monitor.

Of course Zheng Hui saw the missile, but he didn't want to dispose of it in a panic.The field of view of most infrared guided missiles does not exceed 3 degrees, and it can only work within a distance of about 2 kilometers. Now it just flies over according to the route provided by the pilot. If you dodge desperately, you will be fooled.Of course, there will be no electronic warning equipment to remind him whether the enemy missile has seen him. This risk must be taken.

The magic missile was getting closer and closer, and it gradually formed an angle of only a few degrees with the J-8II, but it still did not see the infrared signature of the fighter jet flying head-on.Seeing that the missile was close at hand, Zheng Hui made a 1G evasion action at Mach 2 speed, and did not fire tracer bullets (he was afraid that the tracer bullets would attract enemy missiles.), the missile and the aircraft staggered hundreds of meters away. However, the Rafale remained within his radar tracking area.Now it was his turn to fight back.

Dabrini couldn't believe that the guy in front of him actually dispelled his first blow in a slow way like Taijiquan. At least one missile should be fired aimlessly; during the approach of the two aircraft, he has a lot of opportunities to attack again, but he only has one missile left (due to the He took off from the deep airport in West Bengal, so he used a more conservative 2+4 mounting method when taking off), and now he is starting to become timid.

(End of this chapter)