Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 253 The Colonel's Ambition

Do you choose dogfighting to occupy a vantage point behind the enemy plane and fire?From the perspective of fighter performance, it doesn't seem too difficult.However, the colonel's first blow was unexpectedly dodged lightly by his opponent, which was something he had never experienced before. Under normal circumstances, all pilots would respond with a violent maneuver.Let his confidence suffer a little setback.

While hesitating, the J-8II suddenly gave up the climb and began to turn at a high angle of attack, quickly crossing the direction of 10 o'clock below the gust of wind, as if it was going to challenge the Dassault aircraft, which has always been famous for its instant circling.

Dabrini sneered, he removed his finger from the firing button, turned slightly on the slope, and the angle of attack indicator quickly pointed to 25 degrees.But the enemy plane still took advantage of the supersonic speed to quickly occupy 9 o'clock, which surprised him a lot.His helmet aiming switch kept his eyes on the target, but he didn't fire rashly (only one missile remained).

The J-8II immediately raised its head to slow down, and at the same time began to make an amazingly large overload turn. No foreigner knows exactly the turning speed of this second-generation aircraft. It is generally believed that it is not as good as the MiG-2, but this J-21II seems to have some Instead, it was flying with a lot of G and was trying to point the nose at the gust, and Dabrini was momentarily jaw-dropping.

Zheng Hui was almost pinned on the chair and could not move. He had to work hard to maintain the momentum of the turn. The relatively old flight control of this aircraft would not restrict him from making some actions beyond the manual. The momentary overload numbers on the HUD point to 9.5G, and then start to fall back, which is unprecedented.This desperate movement perfectly combined deceleration and turning. As for whether the plane will disintegrate, it is not in Zheng Hui's current consideration.

The edge of the radar's scan gradually approached the gust of wind, which had not yet picked up speed, and was still a few degrees away.He continued to slow down to maintain corner velocity.The enemy plane is trying to get rid of this trend. The powerful engine makes the gust farther away from the J-8II, but it is temporarily unable to counter the opponent by circling horizontally.

"Damn it, didn't you say that this plane turns like a Boeing?" the colonel scolded.

It was not the first time he fought against the J-8II, but he was ambushed the first time, and he was driving a MiG-27, so he didn't think the fighting ability of the J-8II was better than that of the MiG-27, but today, he found that the rear This crazy plane doesn't give a damn when it comes to hovering.He began to increase the dive angle to increase additional overload, hoping to increase the opponent's azimuth angle, which would directly affect the accuracy of firing.

Zheng Hui couldn't continue to point the nose of the plane at the enemy, and watched the enemy plane run farther and farther in a strong circle with its excellent power.Now he has no other way to shoot at a target beyond 10 o'clock, except to use the helmet to aim.Zheng Hui has never trusted helmet aiming. In the army's shooting exercises, the hit rate of missiles launched in this way is very low. Sometimes the missiles will not fly to the target at a large off-axis angle. Will miss the target by losing too much energy.But seeing that the gust of wind is about to turn around, I can only fight.

The PL9C missile is the only part of this old-fashioned aircraft that can catch up with the times. Now Zheng Hui must rely on it to win the round.

With his eyes fixed on the enemy plane, he pressed the aiming button on the throttle with his left hand.Immediately after the prompt sound appears, shoot out all the remaining 2 missiles.Then lower the nose and quickly leave the battle.

Dabrini's Rafale is on the verge of off-axis angles that the PL9C can attack.Although theoretically this kind of missile can even attack the target at 3/9 o'clock, such a large angle is not very meaningful for the fighting bomb with a narrow field of view and lack of mid-range commands.

The colonel has been looking back to observe the enemy planes, and saw the J-8II launch a missile at 4 o'clock behind him, which shows that the circling of the old Chinese pilot is at the end of his strength.He speeded up and circled expecting the missile to miss the target. As expected, the next missile fired drew a rigid arc and flew out of the battlefield, but the first missile still bit it.

The colonel knows that a missile that avoids a 30G turn cannot compete with it and hover, and its turn will always be stronger than yours.Temporarily unable to take his hands off the joystick, he yelled in broken French: "Disruptor bombs, 15 groups, continuous fire."

A long string of tracer bombs blasted a cloud of white mist in the air, blocking the colonel's own view.He jerked the joystick back and turned to the other side.The aircraft has an excellent all-round threat detection system, but with the trailing IR-guided grappling rounds, you still have to keep turning your head to see if the jamming is working.

The missile rushed out of the smoke. The advanced fluorine-refrigerated dual-band optical component is not easy to be fooled by tracer bombs, because it can detect some differences in the infrared spectrum between ordinary jamming bombs and engine heat sources, and its identification software can analyze the slow The part that falls and knocks it out of the target sequence.

The rapid reversal did not fool the PL9C's seeker. Seeing it chasing after it, the colonel found that this missile was more difficult to deal with than the L-shaped sidewinder commonly used by the Pakistan Air Force.

There are also 2 "advanced infrared decoy bombs" on the Rafale, but given the colonel's Punjabi accent, he was not sure to trigger it with voice, so he freed his right hand to trigger one of them on the touch display.

An "advanced decoy" flew out of the fighter jet from the ejection bay under the vertical tail and began to ignite and fly.And the colonel continued to change course in order to confuse the missile's identification capabilities.

Sure enough, the PL9C missile could not continue to distinguish the jamming bomb that did not fall and whose infrared characteristics were similar to the nozzle of the aircraft. It did not have more advanced infrared staring capabilities, and finally chose to fly to the "advanced false target".

The missile exploded 200 meters to the right of Colonel Dabrini. He took a cold look, and immediately turned the nose to prepare for a counterattack. He was frightened by this persistent missile just now, so that he lost the trace of the J-8II. He knew very well that the enemy plane was unarmed.If you don't do it now, when will you wait?
The Rafale fighter integrates various sensors into one body and has a high degree of automation, so the pilot does not need to bother switching radar or optical search methods like operating the Su-30MKI.It can use phased array radar to search the airspace ahead, while using photoelectric sensors to search for moving targets attached to the ground.

"Shark No. 2, how did you raise it there?" the colonel asked.

"Their AWACS is back. The Flanker has some advantage."

Captain Mitis has sensed that the opponent has an early warning aircraft in the air, and it seems that the sneak attack mission is over.For Dabrini, it is obviously not enough for this well-planned sneak attack to only hit a Chinese SU27SK.

The colonel had been staring at the young man in the 24th Squadron before. Dabrini's record is still behind him. If the war is over within 2 weeks, there may be no chance to cross in this life.

"Shark 2, you withdraw from the battle first."

"clear."

Temporarily relying on the protection of the snow-capped mountains, the colonel is still out of sight of the Chinese Communist Party's early warning aircraft, and he must hurry up to find the second-generation aircraft.

"Why did it disappear all of a sudden?"

The advanced optical detection on the Rafale was powerless, and the radar did not detect any moving targets below.The electronic threat system began to beep, it detected a radar pulse from a distant early warning aircraft, and it seemed that it had no choice but to retreat.In front of these air police early warning aircraft, there are always several J-10 fighter jets that are not powered on.

"Damn it, we'll settle our bill later." The colonel cursed, then turned the plane and flew south.

Zheng Hui knew through the radio that the Rafale had returned, and he also pulled up the plane and flew northeast.He is well versed in the terrain of this place, so it is no problem to avoid looking down and searching.Having said that, since the loss of Linzhi's radar, every patrol will lose the sight of the command post many times, and the early warning aircraft is not always in the air, as long as the enemy is not stupid, such loopholes are not difficult to take advantage of.

"Three crutches, I see you again, there seems to be something wrong with your speed?"

"I don't know, the plane became very twisted. Maybe it turned too hard just now." Zheng Hui said, turning his head to look at the left wing. He couldn't explain why, but he always felt something was wrong.Now as long as he speeds up, the plane tends to bank to one side, and he has to constantly correct the course.It seems that the flight controller is having difficulty keeping the flight stable by itself.But none of the row of fault indicator lights on the instrument is on.

"Yangtze River, I assure you, it was indeed a gust of wind, I saw it with my own eyes."

"The early warning aircraft has been confirmed. I don't know how they got it ahead of time? It doesn't meet the production schedule at all."

"Old Li, there is a saying that money can turn ghosts. And I can be sure that it is a navy type, it should be a second-hand aircraft transferred by the French navy."

"It seems that the Eastern Front will add a J-10 regiment..."

"In addition, I can also tell you that PL9C is not bad in actual combat. I saw the condensation trail of the missile in the air, and it was just a little bit worse. He is quite embarrassing enough to dodge."

"How's the performance of PL11?" the teacher asked with concern.

"Bad as always. Not just ours, but their R27 as well."

"Watch out for the crosswind, prepare to lower the landing gear..."

While talking, the plane suddenly trembled violently. Zheng Hui quickly stabilized the plane, and there was a creaking sound from behind.He quickly lowered his head to check the instrument, the speed of the engine on the left was dropping rapidly, and it was determined that the fuel pump was damaged.The airport was close at hand, and he handled the danger skillfully.and prepared to land, but the left flap did not respond.The plateau airport is not too long, he must take a risk.

"Call the Yangtze River and prepare for an emergency landing."

"Old Zheng, don't panic, you can do it."

The silver-white plane swayed and landed on the runway, and then began to taxi rapidly. After the red parachute opened, the plane began to slow down.The command tower watched the plane come to a slow stop at the end of the runway on the edge of the cliff.

"Yangtze River, I think there is something wrong with the airframe," Zheng Hui said out of breath. A group of crows on the edge of the cliff were also frightened by his plane, and they were taking off to avoid it.

Obviously, all the damage is on the left side, including the engine, the oil circuit, and the wing, and the 9.5G circle is also turning to the left.Maybe, he thought, the plane was going to be scrapped.

"What if the plane is scrapped." The teacher suddenly asked.

"Change for a new one, you can change anything."

(End of this chapter)