Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 311 Old Rival

"The enemy plane escaped?" the lieutenant on the AWACS said to himself.

"Lieutenant, we don't seem to need to make an emergency landing," the pilot said. "We can still control the plane. Only one engine stops, and we can fly to Quetta." The pilot quickly reminded that he had already planned to make an emergency landing overnight and barely managed to fly to Quetta. The risk between Da and Da is high and low, and at this moment his clothes are soaked.

"What about our damage?"

"No loss of oil pressure, and handling is fine. I don't see a problem."

"Raise it a little bit."

"clear."

"There seems to be something wrong with the maintenance of their weapons." The lieutenant muttered to himself while leaning on the bulkhead.In the huge airflow, his hat flew away from the crack above the cabin at some point, but he didn't take it seriously.The enemy fired 4 missiles, none of which hit directly, which saved everyone here, but this plane must not be able to continue to participate in the battle.

The J-11 fighter tightly bit the Su-30MKI that was trying to get rid of it.However, the Indian pilot showed a very high quality, and did not make a flustered snake-like movement, but pulled up vertically, using the simplest way to destroy the radar tracking. He was quite familiar with the weakness of the mechanical scanning radar.

The J-11's radar briefly lost its range-finding capability. On the HUD, the flashing enemy aircraft logo sometimes disappeared. The pilot quickly switched back to the scanning mode, followed the climb, and increased the throttle.He knows that the enemy is not too far away. If he gets closer, he may be able to see the flames of its afterburner. At that time, he will switch to the infrared sensor, and he can continue to use the radar to guide the missile attack, but right now, he must rely on the radar to catch it. To the opponent (lost the assistance of AWACS).This is the hardest part of fighting at night.

This Indian pilot is by no means an ordinary person. He noticed from the radar warning device that the other party's radar had changed from one-to-one tracking to a cycle of scanning. He immediately guessed that his plan had succeeded. In any case, the Su-30MKI is a multi-purpose fighter. Even if the Indian Air Force lacks advanced navigation pods, its passive phased array radar itself still has quite good terrain avoidance capabilities, and the trailing aircraft A fighter, at best, is an air superiority fighter, and should not have the ability to fight at low altitudes in mountainous areas at night.

The pilot uses the vectoring nozzle to perform a tight loop and turns to a downward dive.During this period, the pilot briefly exchanged information with the squadron leader who succeeded in the attack, and obtained permission to evacuate on his own. At the same time, he adjusted the radar to the terrain tracking mode, hoping to sneak away from the Suleiman Mountains just like when he came. Walk.

As predicted by others, the J-11 fighter jet has never been able to catch this loach-like slippery target with radar, and it has never been able to see the flame at the tail nozzle of the fighter jet.If it can be seen, Chinese pilots can use more direct vertical scanning to catch it, or use IRST to sneak attack, but the cunning enemy has never used afterburner, but has maximized the advantages of the vector nozzle, making some continuous small radius Finally, he slowed down and hid in the mountains, causing great trouble for the attacker.

The J-11 was finally thrown away without the guidance of an early warning aircraft.The pilot could only use the radio to call the ground command, hoping that the nearby ground anti-aircraft fire could intercept the enemy plane by chance.

The Su-30MKI had already penetrated into the mountains, and the pilot turned a corner close to the mountains. On the radar warning device, the radar pulse of the trailing plane no longer appeared.From the map, this is a high-density area of ​​detected enemy low-altitude weapons, and there may be some anti-aircraft weapons that can be used at night.The pilot decided to wait for a while, and when the threat in the air was eliminated, he would rise a little higher, avoid this place, and return to the correct route.

There are only a handful of squadrons in the Indian Air Force that can fly in mountainous areas at night.This is also something that makes the pilots of the Triple Sonic Squadron quite proud, because in this squadron, everyone can carry out this dangerous flight at night.The intelligence department of the Indian Air Force has not yet observed that any aircraft of the Chinese Air Force in Banan dared to fly against the mountain at night. The intelligence department judged that the Chinese Air Force did not have such ability and courage.

In the deep mountains, a mobile 4-tube self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is searching the air.This chariot with a tracked chassis is a new commander, and the focus is on urgently transferring here from China. Zhou Yaohua attaches great importance to these self-propelled anti-aircraft firepower. He deploys it here mainly to guard against Indian army helicopters. And cruise missiles use the terrain to launch surprise attacks.However, the remaining helicopters and cruise missiles in India are very scarce, so Spanga has not made up his mind to use these forces, and this tank does not have a good chance against the enemy fighters flying high and high, so we can only wait patiently .

On the roof of the chariot, the constantly rotating target indicator radar was vigilantly searching the nearby airspace, and a clear target appeared on the screen. This target was moving quickly, and it seemed that it would soon pass from the north. One minute ago, the chariot had just received instructions from its superiors that there would be a batch of Indian fighter jets fleeing at low altitudes flying over the northern mountain pass. It seemed that the information was true.

The shooter presses the automatic tracking button, and the turret turns quickly. The four 4mm guns also began to adjust their elevation angles, and the infrared-guided missiles on both sides of the guns also entered the seeker cooling stage.

Although the search radar of this self-propelled anti-aircraft gun can accurately indicate the target, at night, the final shooting still needs the shooter to aim through the infrared thermal image. This equipment has a limited detection range and is still very difficult to shoot.

The whole system is always in the state of automatic tracking. The only thing the shooter has to do is to identify the target on the display, and then use a joystick to make fine adjustments to align the crosshairs with the target as much as possible.During the night, he had only a short time to track and then make a decision, whether to fire 2 missiles or fire the artillery.

The Indian fighter plane detected the nearby S-band radar. The pilot hesitated. He didn't know the possible threat of the enemy, because from the repeated scans, it was probably just a 2-coordinate search radar, which could not guide the shooting. Should we wait for the irradiation radar to appear? make a decision.His hesitation caused the fighter plane to fly into the observation range of the thermal imager.

The rear seat weapon controller of the Indian Su-30MKI saw a dazzling flash like lightning on the ground 2 kilometers away. It was obviously a portable anti-aircraft missile. He loudly reminded the pilot to pull up and fired a large number of tracer rounds.

The tracer bomb made the thermal imager temporarily lose its target, but the three-coordinate search radar still guided the artillery to point at the target. The fighter quickly got out of the white spot and reappeared in the center of the display. At this moment, it had already turned sharply and got rid of Infrared-guided missiles flew head-on to the muzzles of four 4mm guns.

The four artillery pieces fired at the same time, and the dazzling barrage scattered towards the target.

The Indian pilot only saw a dense net flying towards him. The only thing he could do was pull up the fighter plane. The dense shells exploded near the plane one after another, and finally knocked off one wing. It then lost control and crashed into a hill before either pilot had time to escape.

Captain Zarik has been calling his teammates in the air to no avail. He knew that there would be bad luck, so he could only flee to the northeast with a single plane. During this period, the Raiden fighter plane tried to intercept him, but all failed due to the lack of guidance from the early warning aircraft.

At Quetta Airport, a Y-200 plane that was about to land suddenly pulled up and turned to circle the airport. The fuel in the transport plane transporting the ammunition was running out, but at this moment the command strictly ordered it to save the war-damaged air Police [-] vacated the runway.

The rickety Air Police 200 flew from the north, and the harsh noise of the engine could be heard from a long distance. At this moment, two engines on the plane were stopped, one was damaged, and the other was intentional. Closed to maintain vertical stability during landing.The plane did not slow down enough, so it hit the runway hard, ran crookedly for a while, and finally rushed out of the runway and got stuck in the trenches beside the runway; these trenches were dug by Lin Huaisheng not long ago to prevent the enemy from offensive.Now, this ditch made the plane finally stop with a movement almost like a dog eating shit.

Several Pakistani fire trucks rushed over to the smoking plane and sprayed foam and water for a while.Then someone kicked open the hatch from inside.

Zhou Yaohua stood on the top floor of the police station in Quetta City, watching all this happen with binoculars.

"It stopped pretty well, and we need to send someone to clear the runway." He shook his head and said.

"It looks like there are no casualties. Another of our air police has taken off from Peshawar and will take over the air command in about 20 minutes." A staff officer said.

"Let the country send another early warning aircraft. We need air superiority." The major general said lightly, then turned his head and looked to the east. At this moment, the mountains in the east were flickering with frightening flames from time to time. After each flash, There will be bursts of gunfire.

"Where is Chief of Staff Lin? The frontal enemy is almost under my nose."

"Chief of Staff Lin has broken through 35 kilometers. Before dawn, he can detour behind most of the Indian assault units, and the enemy seems to have not noticed it. So far, he has not encountered decent resistance."

"His military adventure plan...has worked," Zhou Yaohua sneered. "I can only say that Spanga is really a big waste, and he was able to let such a large force of Lin Huaisheng penetrate into the hinterland."

"Maybe it can even threaten the periphery of Jebri. The Indians have hoarded a lot of supplies there. Once it starts, the enemy will definitely retreat."

"It should be like that, but Chief of Staff Lin has no rear and can't conquer the important town. He can only harass him at most."

Zhou Yaohua said that he reckoned that Lin Huaisheng should be able to fulfill the time promised to him.He suddenly felt that it would be better if Lin Huaisheng could go further.Several long supply lines of the Indians went to the Nar River for reintegration. A large amount of materials were stored on the west bank of the river. Flying Leopard fighter jets were dispatched several times, but the laser-guided bombs could not destroy the materials that were too scattered.If Lin Huaisheng could take one step closer and destroy all the pontoon bridges on the river, the enemy's attack would be unsustainable...

Zhou Yaohua suddenly had a hunch that Lin Huaisheng should have seen this step, and his real purpose was not just to drag the enemy down.But without the armored soldiers in the rear, how many miracles can they create?He can't expect that, just like the Indian tanks rushing into Quetta, their combat effectiveness will soon be compromised.

"How is Jebri's defense in the past few hours?" Zhou Yaohua asked.

"According to information from the Pakistan Intelligence Agency, there is only one infantry battalion in the [-]th Infantry Division. However, a tank unit transferred from Khuzdar will arrive nearby tomorrow. This needs to be verified by aerial reconnaissance."

"What unit?"

"The 43rd Independent Regiment of the Indian Army was in the sequence of the 21st Army a while ago, and it seems to have appeared on the southern flank recently."

"The 43rd regiment?" Zhou Yaohua pondered for a while, "Is that the regiment equipped with the Arjun tank?"

(End of this chapter)