Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 308
"The formation rushed over the mountain pass with me."

Captain Zarick said.He has approached the area about 100 to 110 kilometers behind the enemy plane, which is closer than most of the Chinese formations in the air, and the first part of the sneak attack has been successfully completed.

There is no geo-blocking ahead to continue exploiting.Now is the time for the final blow. Judging from the general law of medium-range missiles, the number of missiles and fire control radars will directly affect the battle situation. The current situation is three to one, that is to say, no matter which Chinese imitation Su It would be futile to defend Hoey's fighters, and that plane seemed to be positioned further west than the AWACS, presumably defending against NATO fighters.

"Listen, use the radar at the same time, no matter who finds the target first, implement it according to the predetermined plan, don't mess it up." Zarick reminded.He has studied the plan thoroughly, and most of the possible problems have been anticipated. For example, the wingman in charge of attacking the enemy's escort plane found an early warning plane, but his own radar saw the escort plane; During the battle, it is completely possible to communicate with each other through the data link, and change the attack sequence and respective targets at any time.But this is not what Zarrick wants. He hopes that there will be no chaos. Of course, there are some selfishness hidden in it.

The captain took a deep breath, then pushed the throttle to climb, and at the same time pulled up the plane, and quickly increased the speed to 750 kilometers per hour.He guessed that the enemy should have seen his formation, and the radar warning device roughly indicated the location of the secondary threat to the southwest, and the altitude was still above him.That was obviously the early warning aircraft.He corrected his bearings a little, and waited for the radar to spot the target.A few seconds later, the radar scanned the target. It was 105 kilometers away, farther than expected. He quickly operated the radar for one-on-one tracking, concentrating almost all of his energy on this target to prevent any possible damage. electronic interference.

On the HUD, the speed figure has jumped to 850 kilometers per hour, and the altitude is 5100 meters. The radar of the No. 2 wingman (Baya) also captured the target, but judging from the huge multi-function display, the "Tari" encircling from the north still failed to catch the Chinese fighter plane, which left a trace of hidden danger for the attack.Maybe the fighter jet was blocked by an early warning aircraft, maybe the Americans reported the wrong location.

Before Captain Zarik caught the air police 20020 seconds, the early warning aircraft had already seen three Indian fighter planes that came suddenly.As the captain expected, the long and peaceful night command prevented the pilot on board from formulating a countermeasure plan in time.

The guide who saw the enemy plane was almost stunned for a few seconds before he started to shout: "Enemy plane batch 1, number 2, bearing 085, distance 97, altitude 5300. Enemy plane batch 2, number 1, bearing 030, height 5000"

"Continue to observe." A lieutenant replied calmly. He is the highest commander on the plane. Even if his mind is temporarily blank, he must pretend to be calm.The lieutenant took a few seconds to examine the situation in the entire southern airspace on the screen in front of him. The Indian Navy's harassment of the Makran Mountains has restrained the main air force at hand. Those J-10 fighter jets are all west of Karachi and MiG 29 Hide and seek, now he can mobilize very limited troops, and the fastest he can mobilize is only a heavy fighter jet monitoring NATO.

The lieutenant immediately reminded the pilot of the fighter plane with the call sign 200 to speed up and turn sharply to the southeast to intercept, hoping to disrupt the enemy's pursuit and prevent them from approaching the range. He knew very well that the R77 missile could completely attack a low-speed target like the Air Police 11. Fire at the edge of range.For a plane with a turboprop engine, fleeing is not the solution.The only thing we can count on right now is the J-[-]B fighter jet.

"Two moves, quickly intercept the enemy plane."

"One move and two understand."

The J-11B fighter immediately turned to face the enemy plane and flew head-on. The information position of the enemy plane had been completely displayed on the monitor, and he roughly figured out the situation with a glance. His fire control radar was still in the process of warming up, but the data Chains can make up for missing intelligence.The pilot quickly analyzed the situation in front of him, and now there is no tricky solution, the only way is to fight hard.

Of course, it is impossible to completely intercept three enemy planes, but the pilot still guessed the enemy's intention to divide into two teams by intuition, so he decided to take advantage of the height and launch medium-range bombs before the enemy, forcing the enemy to turn. And give up acceleration.

His aircraft gradually accelerated to about Mach 0.9.The mechanical scanning radar finally captured the two southernmost enemy planes, and the other one was at 10 o'clock, outside the HUD and radar scanning range, but it can be seen through the multi-function display, its movement is obviously a bit slow, Temporarily unable to outflank himself.

During the scanning process of the pilot, the warning sounds that he was intercepted by the opponent's radar continued to be heard. From the perspective of the azimuth, it was the plane from the north. Obviously, the enemy came prepared. Before they suddenly rushed out of the Suleiman Mountains, there were already Division of labor.So the two enemy planes on the front do not track themselves.

The two Pakistani Thunder fighter jets carrying out ground strikes in the Gilgit mountain area are turning around. These fighter jets, which are still 2 kilometers away, do not have medium-range bombs, so it is difficult to play any role.The search radar on the Hongqi 150 missile position on the ground also saw the enemy plane, but at this time a large number of Indian planes were flying from the front, which prevented the fire control radar on the mountain from turning around.When these radars are deployed in mountainous areas, they usually only consider the field of view in the direction of the enemy and the passage for rapid maneuvering, and rarely take other directions into consideration.

Everything went according to plan, and Captain Zarek held the plane steady, watching the distance numbers measured by the radar continue to shrink.The target is still just a virtual thin line with dots of light on the HUD. He is sure that he will not be able to see the real target until the attack is over. In other words, that is an extremely ideal target, it is big, slow, and has no ability to counterattack.

"'Tari', why haven't you entered the shooting position yet? You must fire quickly, so as not to let the enemy plane interfere with our established route." He reminded.

"Understood." The wingman in the distance replied.The Chinese plane was heading towards the captain desperately, as if it was going to get into head-on range first, which really caught Zharick a little by surprise.It is hard to imagine that a pilot could quickly find the most correct response plan after crashing into this carefully planned plan for a long time.But now it looks like he's doing just that.

"'Tari', shoot immediately and tell him to roll out of my path." Commanded the captain.

The wingman with the call sign "Tari" immediately fired two R2 missiles first. He expected the enemy plane to make some adjustments to give way to the lead plane.

Things were completely unexpected. The Chinese fighter planes were still blocked in Zarrick's pursuit route, rushing head-on, and still accelerating. He completely ignored the two R50s fired from 2 kilometers away.

"'Baya', you are here to deal with this enemy plane." The captain adjusted the plan succinctly, since the enemy plane didn't care about the exposed side at all, so he had to let another wingman carry out a head-on attack.His formation brought 12 R77 missiles, which can be fully handled.

"Baya" quickly abandoned the radar tracking of the early warning aircraft and turned to track the Chinese heavy aircraft at 11 o'clock.The Su-30 and J-11 were staring at each other, getting closer.

The Chinese fighter jets fired at the Su-30MKI at almost the same time, but unlike the Su-30, which adopted a typical attack method, the J-11 fired four medium-range bombs in a row for 6 seconds. The shooting action of the Chinese fighter was completely mastered by Baya's radar and transmitted to all 4 fighters in the formation. After a few seconds, the intention of the Chinese fighter was already obvious. He was using the interlaced scanning method of high/low repetition rate of the radar, Lead a track-and-scan multi-target shot.For a mechanical radar that can only use high/low repetition rate and interlaced scanning to barely track two targets, as long as the two Su-3MKi in front make a few movements, it can easily get rid of the radar tracking, but the The Chinese pilot was determined that Zarrick did not want to do anything to slow down the speed, and his purpose was exactly this.

At this moment, the fleeing early warning plane is turning southwest, and may make an emergency landing at Quetta Airport, or may run across the border to Afghanistan.Captain Zarick knew that he had to make an immediate contingency decision.

"Tari, come and chase the AWACS. Watch out for suspicious radar on the ground."

"Understood." The wingman who landed in the north replied.

The heroic performance of the Chinese fighter jets forced Zarick to change his plan for the third time within 20 seconds, but the superiority in military strength allowed him to deal with it calmly.

Judging from the monitor, the enemy's missiles had already approached, and Zarik wanted to bite the bullet and compare his resolve with the enemy. He knew that at this juncture, whoever turned to evade first would lose the advantage he had accumulated before.But the wingman on one side couldn't stand it anymore, and kept asking for evasion. The wingman pilot knew that when the enemy fired missiles, they had a slight advantage in altitude and initial velocity, so the two medium-range bombs flying from the front would probably arrive first. .In the end, without the permission of the lead plane, he turned around and evaded sharply, and the whole plan was also disrupted. Zarik, who had been chasing the early warning plane, was forced to dodge to the other side.

In the confrontation between the narrow roads, the J-11 fighters bravely suppressed the enemy, and at the last moment made a dive and circle action close to 9G. This neat action threw off all the four R4 missiles approaching almost at the same time. Among them, the missiles launched from the tower Two of them were due to exhaustion of kinetic energy, and the other two were due to the premature dodging of the carrier aircraft, which caused the missile to lose its command correction. In this case, the active radar of the missile with limited power was passively interfered by the J-77 Easily fooled.

The Chinese fighter plane disappeared in the mountains below. This evasion caused it to lose its speed and altitude advantages, and it was unable to counterattack for a while, while the pursuit of the Indian formation continued.

(End of this chapter)