Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 29 Chaos Battlefield

"Tiger 1, maybe the radiation source is still hundreds of kilometers away, but our use of the electronic warfare pod will attract their attention."

"No, Lieutenant, it's not the AWACS that I'm worried about, it's the fighter jets."

"clear."

A few seconds later, in the cockpit of the No. 02 J-10 aircraft, Song Ning found that the target data display on the multi-function display suddenly became intermittent, intermittent, and now he could only clearly see one of the aircraft flying. The signals from the other two planes were lost in the clutter.

"01, they are interfering."

"I see, turn off the phone immediately and climb up. These fools are also confused, and I can't let them figure it out."

"Understood, how is your IRST?" Song Ning asked. When he turned on the phone, Sammy had been using the passive system to search for the opponent's heat source, but the distance was too far to gain anything.

"Haven't found it yet, we can turn it on again when we get closer."

Fifty kilometers away, Lieutenant Matanga found that the trailing radiation source had disappeared, which indirectly confirmed his belief that there was something tracking behind, and their distance may not be too far, because they responded to electronic interference.

"I don't think it's like the Erieye system. The early warning aircraft will not shut down for small electromagnetic interference."

"But boss, at least the signal disappeared."

Lieutenant Matanga did not answer, in fact, the disappearance of the signal was exactly what he was worried about.

"Tiger 1, we are still 70 kilometers away from their heavy water plant, and there is no sign of surface-to-air missile positions."

"Maybe the intelligence department got it right this time. Let me repeat the attack sequence, first the external heavy water plant building, then the power plant facilities, and finally the external power transmission and transformation equipment. Gentlemen, we cannot directly bomb their nuclear facilities, but we have to stall their heavy water reactor program for many years."

"clear."

Lieutenant Matanga did not dare to take it lightly. He led the team to continuously lower the altitude and rushed towards the target. The last three Mirage 3-2000H descended to an ultra-low altitude of 5 meters at a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour. This is the lowest altitude they can theoretically reach. up.The radar of the air defense position in the direction of the important town of Sagda has never been turned on, which reassures the captain a little. The colonel expected that the Mirage 60H team mainly carried bombs, and each fighter only carried 2000 combat missiles.

On the captain's HUD, only 2-digit altitude data has been beating rapidly. Such a long flight is enough to test the pilot's nerves, especially the terrain in this area is not very flat, and they have to rely on the guidance of the terrain tracking radar. Fly close to the bare hills.After entering the desert, the terrain matching system has long been unable to find the north. Now the captain can only rely on GPS and his own eyes to find the chimney of the power plant.

"Sargoda has been bypassed, captain, and no surface-to-air missile positions have been found."

"Very well, keep on course."

"Captain, the trailing radar has appeared again, above us."

Matanga looked down at the direction of the radar, still behind him, and not from the ground. As he expected, it was a fighter not too far away.At this juncture, he had to make a choice, either give up the attack, turn around and confirm the distance of the enemy, or bite the bullet and bomb; he wanted the ground commander to make up his mind, but the VHF communication with the ground had been cut off 2 minutes ago Now, flying is a job that relies heavily on ground instructions, and the captain has never felt so isolated.

"Tiger Squad, don't worry about these things, just focus, within 3 minutes, we can finish the bombing."

The RWS began to make a beeping sound, which was an ominous sound. Generally speaking, the trailing enemy planes were continuously scanning. If their downward vision ability is good, they will soon complete the tracking.

"Release the bomb safety, ready to drop the bomb at any time." The captain ordered. He was aware of the danger and was determined to drop the bomb and the auxiliary fuel tank in advance to counterattack if necessary. However, he had to wait for further changes in the radar warning equipment before making a final decision.

Didi's warning sound turned into a piercing scream in an instant, and all three planes were locked by the same radar.

35 kilometers southeast of the Phantom, Song Ning restrained himself from turning on the radar to intercept the target. Through the data link, he could clearly see that the three light spots were within the range of Sami's No. 3 aircraft, but he kept telling Myself, I am just a bystander and cannot participate in the attack.Of course, he didn't know that even if Sami's No. 01 J-01B fired, there would be enough troubles behind.And judging from the radar screen, there is actually not much difference between No. 10 and No. 01 who is firing.

The target was not within the 30 kilometers Sami had hoped for, but now he had to fire ahead of time because he knew Husab's factory was not far away.On the vertical display, the three intercepted enemy planes began to rise in altitude, then turned and came towards this side, which indicated that they had given up the bombing and dropped the bombs ahead of time.

"What are you waiting for?" Song Ning said on the radio. He seemed to be more anxious than the colonel. He was afraid that if he got too close, he would get involved in the battle.

"emission."

Sammy pressed the launch button, and the two missiles flew towards the last target one after another.To be on the safe side, he did not greedily guide the missile to attack two targets at the same time.

"02 It's your turn to fire."

"I won't fire." Song Ning said, he was in a hurry to leave the battlefield now, but it was not the time to leave, he was still covering the colonel, waiting for him to guide the SD10 missile to a close enough distance from the target.

The No. 03 Phantom, which fell behind, began to release powerful electronic interference. Under his electromagnetic cover, the other two Phantoms disappeared from the colonel's radar screen, but the J-2B's high-power phased array radar was always firmly biting The two missiles fired by the colonel were also aimed at him because of the Phantom as the source of interference.

"No. 02, I need you to monitor the other two planes for me." The colonel put forward a new request, and Song Ning had no choice but to turn on the radar power. He had already fallen into the battlefield and couldn't extricate himself.

20 kilometers away.Matanga called his companion loudly on the radio, and he had already seen two steam trails flying towards the aircraft No. 03 that fell behind.

"Prahaja, move quickly!"

Prahaja's plane didn't have enough speed to maneuver, and he veered feebly to one side trying to get out of the missile's track. The two missiles wobbled slightly, then immediately corrected back to their course.

"Quick skydive, skydive."

Matanga shouted anxiously.Before he finished speaking, a huge explosion flashed across the air like a flash of lightning, and the plane disintegrated immediately, falling into the wilderness outside the town of Husab.

"Colonel, you have already hit the enemy plane, we have to get out quickly."

"What nonsense, leaving now will only give them their ass." Colonel Sammy tore off his mask. He was completely out of Song Ning's control. Enemy two.

"Crazy, you can't do this."

"If we kill them all, your problem will be solved. Isn't it?"

"Fool, you can't hover with the Phantom at low altitude." Song Ning had to turn to keep up. Ten years ago, Song Ning had flown an earlier model of this aircraft in France, and he knew that the colonel would suffer for being so reckless.

(End of this chapter)