Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 257 A Flaw

A green mark appeared on the lead plane's head-up display, indicating that the missile had found its way.

"Pay attention to leveling, ready to launch."

"Tigershark, I have to wait a few seconds," the wingman replied hesitantly, distracted by the presence of an Iranian radar at 10 o'clock.

"Colonel Dabrini will be envious of our attack, hehe." The leader replied casually, patiently enduring the last few seconds.

"It's an old S300 radar, damn it, it's biting me, I can jam it's main lobe in no time."

"Hold on, leave it alone, we're not crossing the border, it won't fire."

"But there is a possibility that they will inform the Pakistan Air Force."

The lead plane did not want to waste time suppressing interference.It seems unnecessary.But he found that the launch time of the missile on the wingman seemed to be too long.

At 3000 meters in the air, Sami discovered that the illumination of two radars in Iran had suddenly been removed from his formation, and he seemed to be concerned about something else.

It turned its nose slightly to the west, and the phased array radar found a target on the edge of the scan.Song Ning also saw this goal with the help of the data link at about the same time.

"Look, they're playing tricks." The colonel said, the radar didn't recognize the target, so it was only a small target, but he had stepped on eighty-nine points to be able to sneak all the way here.

The rapid radar tracking obviously caused the enemy plane 70 kilometers away to panic.The enemy formation's evasive maneuvers were self-defeating, causing Sammy's radar to quickly see the second.

"It's two, most likely Rafales, Major, ready for a big fight."

"Understood." Song Ning also switched the search method from photoelectric to radar, trying to intercept the target.But when his radar was activated, the target was not found, and then the two targets on Sammy's radar also disappeared.

"Did they lower the altitude? Maybe some kind of active defense?"

"It's like some kind of active electromagnetic cancellation method that we don't have the technical details of. It seems to be able to deceive the radar at a long distance, but at least we have the advantage." Song Ning guessed.

"Major, I suggest you continue to use the photoelectric search and stagger the search range. See how long their new toy can hide."

After a round of frantic dodging, the Rafale fighter was forced to miss the radar down-looking surveying and mapping operation. On the head-up display, the green signal with complete shooting status turned into an orange signal that could be launched.The pilot must pay attention as soon as possible, but because he is deep behind the enemy and does not know the distance of the enemy plane, this panic is forcing the lead plane to make a decision to retreat.

The lead plane with the call sign Tiger Shark hastily set the flight path for the pilot of the first Scarp missile according to the inertial navigation mode, and then launched it.The missile will fly to the target in the way of inertial navigation, if it can find the Dasht River with its self-generated sensors on the way, it is still possible to accurately hit the target according to the terrain matching mode; as a weapon that does not require GPS navigation , The preparations before the launch of this missile are indeed too complicated.

When the lead plane dropped the heavy missile and turned, the wingman sent bad news. His missile, which had never been ready for launch, had a second problem and could not leave the launch pad.

"Tigershark, my plane has malfunctioned and is locked on the launch pad."

"Restart the missile power supply and try again." While the lead plane was speaking, the radar warning device began to beat from time to time.A phased array radar in the northeast has been adjusting the repetition rate and searching repeatedly. Judging from the conversion method and his judgment on the altitude, the Pakistani pilot is really very expert.The lead plane knew that Rafale was not really stealthy, and as the distance approached, electronic spoofing would be spotted by the opponent sooner or later.

"Restart failed, missile malfunctioned."

"Blue Shark, there is no other way but to return with missiles."

Song Ning has been paying attention to all directions where the enemy plane may appear. He has switched back to the photoelectric search mode, and it seems meaningless to use the same method to search the same area.

IRST suddenly reacted, and a series of targets displayed by light spots appeared on the HUD. The IRST system could not recognize the target, but Song Ning judged from experience that it was not an aircraft, but a much smaller target.

"Colonel, your radar is not responding? I see a target, not too far away."

"Not yet. Could it be a medium-range missile?"

"It's not like, the height is very low, and the speed is not fast."

A dazzling light appeared in the valley, and a small aircraft was flying close to the mountains.At the same time, Sami's radar also caught the target. This target seemed to have a certain invisible shape, so the radar failed to detect it at a long distance.

"Look, they're really promising. It's a stealth weapon." The old man said, as if he didn't care much about the missile.

"Ask for the disbandment of the formation, and I will shoot it down." Song Ning said, he was very worried that the missile would fly to the Shamsi base, where there were 12 JH-[-] fighter jets. So there must be nothing to lose.

"I don't think you need to worry too much. It probably went blind and flew towards the border."

Song Ning couldn't believe what the colonel said, because the old man had lied to him before. He stared at the dazzling light spot for a few seconds to make sure that it was really flying to the northwest.Maybe it was caused by Americans jamming the GPS signal, he thought.

"It can't be taken lightly. There must be a second one. They can't just launch one."

"We'll know when we find them."

As the two Rafales turned, they gradually exposed the larger part of the radar reflection area.Sami saw their escape route at a distance of about 2 kilometers. Unusually, the enemy did not run fast. As far as he knew, the cruising speed of the Rafale fighter with 40 auxiliary fuel tanks would not be only 2 kilometers.

"Major, they seem to have a problem? Hehe, we must catch up."

Song Ning was a little distracted by what Sami said. He was still worried about the cruise missile, but if the colonel was allowed to rush after the two powerful Rafales alone, it would be dangerous. After a moment of weighing, he decided not to care about the missile. Straight to catch up.

The enemy planes in front tried every means to get rid of the radar tracking. They did successfully rely on the terrain to get rid of the J-10's radar a few times, but Sammy is the kind of old guy who can predict the enemy's movements by intuition. He can do it every time. Quickly switch modes to rediscover the enemy.As the distance between the two formations approached, it became more and more difficult for the enemy plane to get rid of; every large maneuver to get rid of became a counterproductive action, because the trailing J-10 formation supported these meaningless movements. Getting closer.

"They're a little abnormal, and they haven't accelerated their retreat," Song Ning said.

"You just saw it?"

"Maybe we can turn on the afterburner and catch up?"

"Hehe, no hurry." The old man replied.The enemy is still separated by the 1100-kilometer-wide Arabian Sea, so he is not in a hurry.

A Rafale suddenly began to turn, presumably to counterattack, or at least to see the enemy's distance.But the other still doesn't have much of a course change.Sami responded to the enemy's movements calmly. The enemy's distance had already entered the range of the medium-range bomb, but he was not in a hurry to launch the missile.

"Colonel, are they fighting back?"

"But it's not in sync. That shows they have a problem."

"What do you want to say?"

"I want to say, later you will entangle the one that turned around for me, and I will turn on the afterburner and chase the one in front."

"This……"

Song Ning was a little puzzled. In all air combat tactics, there was no such randomness, especially the one in front was not a particularly important tactical target, it was just another plane.

Rafale launched two missiles 25 kilometers away, and Sami's radar responded immediately.Before it fired its missiles, Sammy hadn't noticed any sign of a lock on the enemy's radar, apparently only to thwart the approach.

"The formation is disbanded, do as I say. Do you understand?" After speaking, he slammed the throttle stick to wipe down the rudder, and dodged to the left.

"Understood." Song Ning could only dodge to the right. The two J-2s immediately parted ways, but Song Ning had a premonition that Sami asked him to keep an eye on the latter one. He must have seen something?Whatever the hell is he doing?The ultimate goal should be to want to eat alone.

Song Ning turned sharply all the way, watching on the HDD, Sami kept lowering his altitude and accelerating at the same time, he cut within the turning radius of the previous gust of wind, completely ignoring the approaching Mika missile.Song Ning didn't dare to neglect. He concentrated his eyes on the front, watching the two clusters of flames flying in a straight line, obviously without any radio command to correct the missile, and he didn't notice that the active radar of the missile was turned on.Sure enough, after he turned around, he found that the gust that had launched the missile turned faster than him, and turned around and fled back.

"Keep an eye on it, don't let it come close." The old man on the radio warned.Judging from the information sent back by the data link, there seems to be something wrong with the plane that the old man is chasing after, and the speed has not been effectively increased. At this moment, Sami has approached 15 kilometers away.

"Understood. Why don't we see who will take down the Rafale in front of us first?"

"Hehe, Major, your Gust won't let you get too close." The old man said confidently.

Sure enough, the gust of wind in front of Song Ning accelerated rapidly and pulled up. Looking at the county and urban areas, the distance between the two sides measured by the radar gradually stopped changing.

"Damn it," Song Ning cursed, it occupied an excellent azimuth behind the enemy plane, but the distance was still not optimal.However, no matter how reluctant he was, he still had to launch missiles, and he couldn't let the Rafale turn back and mess up the colonel's plan.

Two medium-range missiles flew off the pylon. After the radar was turned on, the Indian pilot noticed the attack direction. He could not complete the original turn to move closer to his teammates, so he had to turn around and try to get rid of the missiles.

5 kilometers away, Sami also launched two medium-range missiles, and the enemy plane in front responded immediately. It started to launch chaff and jamming. The gust of jamming seemed to be very useful. The frame was lost and there was no response at the end, so the aircraft radar could not continue to correct the missile.However, the two missiles still followed the target closely with the tracking capability of the active radar.But the enemy plane immediately began to pull up at a large angle, just like a classic textbook action. Although the angle of attack was not large enough, it still got rid of the tracking of the missile radar.However, this action also paid a sufficient price, and Sami has already taken advantage of the situation to force him into the line of sight.

(End of this chapter)