Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 282 Electromagnetic Deception
A fighter jet of the Indian Flying Snake Squad was ordered to take off from the Zongshen Airport to suppress several radars that were still stubbornly resisting in the Suleiman Mountains.

A few hours ago, these launch positions hidden deep in the mountains suddenly regained the initiative. Now they can only rely on the limited-range anti-radiation weapons on the fighter jets to fight back. They must rely on the cooperation of flying snakes to interfere outside the area.This is a very difficult task for flying snakes. The simple interference effect is not ideal. These ground phased array radars are amazingly powerful. If you get too close, hiding in the launch position in the mountains, the long-range missiles launched can completely threaten As far as I am concerned, so far all the fighters of the flying snake team have not been shot down. This record is even higher than that of the AWACS, so the pilot reminds himself to be very careful.

The air battle at night is still going on, and it is generally good. Both sides are shooting from a long distance. The Indian Air Force dare not go too deep. One reason is that China's ground missiles have become a very tricky opponent. Guarding the necessary route for the Indian air battle to launch an attack, it threatened every Indian aircraft approaching the mountainous area by means of a surprise attack.For these scattered and unpredictable radars, suppressive electronic jamming is obviously not feasible, and the only thing that can be done is deceptive jamming.

This Indian electronic warfare aircraft cannot be compared with the US-made Growler jammer in all aspects. In fact, it is only a long-planned plan by the Israeli military industry. It is a temporary solution for most third-world markets that have no experience in electronic warfare. The premise is that there is only one heavy aircraft with the bomb load of Su 30 to mount enough jamming pods. Of course, this is far from the professionally designed electronic warfare aircraft, but in this war, its performance is quite eye-catching. Appraised as the most valuable unit by the Indian military.

The rear cockpit of this Su-30 has almost no major changes, which makes the weapon controller in the rear seat of the Flying Snake only able to search for enemy radiation sources or launch anti-radiation weapons. Spare no effort to collect the characteristics of various types of radar signals produced by various countries in the world, including the phased array radar of the Hongqi 9 missile, this system can effectively suppress it.However, the electromagnetic compatibility of this system is not complete. Once it starts to work, the communication of the aircraft itself will also be disturbed. Of course, this is only a small problem.

The Viper's backseat pilot captured a radar that had just been turned on and was scanning. , it seems that the flying snake was discovered at the same time.The Flying Snake's jamming equipment analyzed the beam for a short period of time, determined the approximate orientation, and then began to jam the main lobe of the radar. It was inevitable to be a little proud of the flight. He thought, at this moment, the enemy's radar screen should be full of blurred.

The formation of lions 40 kilometers in front of the flying snake also became active. Obviously, the cover action has made them get rid of the beam tracking together.According to the plan, the lion will take the opportunity to rush into the mountainous areas and perform hard kills on these radars to prevent future troubles.But the pilot on the Flying Snake knows that things are not that simple. He has learned many times in these days of competition. The radar operated by these Chinese will not give up so quickly. They are more difficult than Pakistani operators. Much more entangled.

Sure enough, the pulse width and frequency of the phased array radar began to change rapidly, and the energy aimed at the flying snake began to decrease. Obviously, they judged the direction of the main threat and used the position difference between the lion and the flying snake to adjust The main lobe energy turns to capture the lion.The Cowardly Lion immediately began to turn around, and it seemed that the opponent's radar had locked them again.The frequency band of this tracking radar is very wide, and the countermeasures are extremely fast, so it is really not easy to deal with.The lion's evasive maneuvers are too large, which makes covering difficult.A new round of electromagnetic interference can only enter from the side lobes.So far, the pilot has not worried about his own safety. The position of this jammer is still above the Indus River. Generally speaking, with the performance of the Su-30, it does not go too deep into the surface-to-air missile envelope and will not be threatened. .As for the enemy's air force, he was even less worried. It was already very difficult for those planes to approach covertly, and it was even more difficult to find him.

Colonel Sami had already penetrated into the Makran Coastal Mountains at this time. He used the terrain in this area to avoid the enemy's eyeliner, while paying attention to the target's movements. The flying snake kept appearing and disappearing on the vertical display. The early warning aircraft on the Afghan border He couldn't track it very well, but he still has a backup plan, which is to use the early warning aircraft to coordinate a concealed ground radar, and turn it on at the last minute to indicate the flying snake. Considering that India has only one jammer in the air, it cannot It should be feasible to jam several radars at the same time.

The triumphant flying snake records the tracking radar signal with radio frequency, and then returns to the radar antenna after a delay and power amplification.The deception finally started to work. This action destroyed the radar's measurement capability again. The radar suddenly shut down. It should be that the ground personnel calculated that they had fallen into a disadvantage in this round of confrontation.As usual, this radar would immediately maneuver to avoid being hit, and another would take over.After waiting for ten seconds, another search radar in the north of the mountain range was suddenly turned on. These days, the Chinese are relying on such precise coordination ability to hold on tenaciously here.

The pilot sneered, the enemy was about to start playing hide-and-seek again, no wonder the lion was most afraid of approaching here.The headquarters estimates that there are about 80 missiles and about 10 radars hidden in the entire mountainous area. Now it seems that this number is really not overestimated. As for how they were secretly deployed, no one knows.The pilot turned the nose of the aircraft and waited for a while to use the multi-beam antenna in the pod to cover the new target area. The memory was recording and analyzing the newly emerging electromagnetic signals. Suddenly, an unexpected message came from the early warning aircraft. It was found that a suspicious target suddenly appeared on the southern coast, and then disappeared. Judging from the signal characteristics, it may be a fast fighter jet with a height of about 500 meters.However, the AWACS corrected the previous order, the target might have been a false alarm, and the flying snake continued to stay in the air.Tonight is a critical moment to seize air supremacy. It is necessary to ensure that the enemy missile units hidden deep in the Suleiman Mountains are removed one by one, so it is not hesitating to take some risks.

The colonel flew a low-altitude plane over Karachi. The city was pitch black, and power had not been restored since he fell. However, with the positioning capability given by the Beidou system, he did not need to use ground lights for navigation, which the Indian Air Force does not have. Advantage.

Within a few minutes, he should see the plane. The flight path is set according to the position of the plane a few minutes ago. The jammer outside the area must maintain a stable antenna pointing, generally not too much The action is right, but the data link has not continued to update the data, which makes the colonel worried. He cannot stay in the target area for too long, but the enemy's position is always changing.

The Indus River valley north of Karachi was flat, and soon the low-flying fighter had nowhere to hide.On the Electronic Tactical Threat Display, a persistent radiant signal to the north appeared, defined as a secondary threat.

Sami is very familiar with such signals. This is undoubtedly the Indian early warning aircraft commanded by the theater. It seems that he has been completely exposed, and the data link has not yet sent the latest enemy location.He simply turned on the radar and searched the sky according to his guess, but to no avail.How easy is it to find an enemy plane without ground radar guidance?
At the same time, the Flying Snake has been effectively suppressing the mountain radar, but the early warning aircraft suddenly reminded him that a J-10 fighter jet appeared nearby, which still frightened the pilot. He did not analyze the situation carefully, but made a loss. A calm reaction—abandoning the ground radar and fleeing to the north, which allowed the suppressed radar to regain electromagnetic power in one fell swoop.On Sammy's plane, the data link finally began to update the data.

On the vertical display, several lions were approaching, while the flying snake fled in a straight line, with a distance of only 40 kilometers.Obviously, it has a few heavy pods that cannot be discarded, and it is impossible to run too fast. Sammy turns on the afterburner and catches up. The northern city under the control of the Pakistani army, so the voyage is enough.

Flying Snake panicked and fled to the border. Sami turned on the radar and tightly entangled the enemy plane. This made Flying Snake fall into even greater panic. It didn't know that there was no medium-range bomb on the J-10. Its countermeasures were to continuously fire chaff and turn to avoid radar tracking. This wrong approach made the colonel quickly catch up with the enemy plane.The colonel could already see the flames sprayed by the enemy plane, but he still turned on the radar to confuse the enemy's judgment, and the Indian pilot kept making snake-like maneuvers to sabotage his own acceleration.The Indian pilots did not know that this plane, which is known for its electronic spoofing, completely fell into the enemy's "electronic spoofing".

The Su-30MKI that was chasing after him hastily fired several R77 missiles. The colonel was unmoved. He did not make any unnecessary maneuvers that might slow down the speed. He had accurately judged the situation, and he only needed to accelerate to Mach 1.5. Above, the trailing medium-range bombs will not have any chance; such a calm judgment is based on the strict tracking of the target by the ground radar built in the Suleiman Mountains, and the continuous monitoring of the J-10 fighter jets through the general data link Updates are made based on out of view situations.

The flying snake's clumsy countermeasures had no effect on Sami who was already within the line of sight. The Indian pilots never noticed the colonel's conspiracy. Source interference is ineffective for the fighting missiles that Sami is about to launch.The chaff released by the flustered flying snake almost paved an interference corridor. This counterproductive measure made the Indian early warning aircraft in the distance completely unable to see the position of the J-10.Sami secretly turned off the fire control radar, which made the Indian pilot in front think he was out of danger. The aircraft's grasp of the enemy's situation in the rear mainly relied on the early warning aircraft and the radar warning device. Now these two devices can no longer see that A J-10 fighter jet.

The weapon operator in the rear seat let out a long sigh of relief, and slowly turned his head around. He saw a dazzling light flying towards him.He quickly reminded the pilot to dodge, but at supersonic speed, maneuvering with a large overload became completely impossible, and at this time parachuting was almost indistinguishable from death.The pilot watched in horror as the missile approached him before exploding.The plane tumbled in the air and disintegrated into pieces.

(End of this chapter)