Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 45 Huge Advantage

"The enemy planes are still accelerating. I'm sure it's the F16." Captain Roll pushed the throttle valve to afterburner. He was a little worried about the fuel level, but the enemy was within range. The captain hesitated for a few seconds, but still Increase your speed above the speed of sound, and now is the time to hunt down your enemies.The captain knew very well that the MiG-29 he was driving had a fatal flaw, that is, the rear view was not good, and the enemy planes that were easy to be attacked approached from the rear, so he kept an eye out and asked the No. 3 wingman to drag him 4 kilometers behind. After the local surveillance side, he thought that such an arrangement was foolproof.

At this time, Sami's team, guided by the early warning aircraft, was outflanking this small group of Indian fighter jets from the rear, and the Indian planes were completely kept in the dark.Sammy knew that Trident's MiG-29B was not a very good aircraft. The original modernization of these aircraft has not been completed, and the new Zhuk radar replacement has not yet arrived due to the war. The old pulse Doppler Radar makes it basically impossible for this type of aircraft to hit targets outside the visual range by looking down and shooting down.However, Sami also knew that this aircraft's ability to fight at close range should not be underestimated.In particular, the Thunder fighter uses a similar engine to the MiG-29.The difference is that the MiG 29B uses two engines, while the Raiden only uses one. Sammy has no experience in fighting the MiG 2. He estimates that the MiG 29 may be slightly better at climbing, but in Gaoya In the hovering at the speed of sound, the thunder and lightning can't take much advantage.

"Let me tell you, their trick is to use helmets to aim and fire R73 missiles, so you have to keep an eye on them all the time, if they do this, don't be dazed, maneuver immediately, no matter where you fly, the hit rate of these missiles is close to zero ’” Sammy said on the radio, and he had told his pilots more than once before.He has always been well aware that helmet targeting is a crude "lock-on" for the limited field of view of infrared missiles, and that the missile seeker actually sees nothing other than the pilot's rough measurement of the azimuth of the opposing aircraft , and then the missile flies to the target according to the preset route, but if the target it flies to maintains the original route, this method is still sure to hit the targets at the 4 o'clock and 10 o'clock positions.

"Bite their asses tightly, don't let them turn around, we have an absolute advantage 4 vs 2 (Sami's way of thinking, a MiG-29 that falls behind can be shot down with a sneak attack, so it doesn't count In the air combat section.)."

"Captain, will the Griffin team come back and help us?"

"Uhak doesn't dare to come back. He knows I'm not easy to mess with." Sami said, he deliberately let this sentence be heard by Major Uhak through the radio, he didn't want Uhak to turn back and make the battlefield more chaotic, of course On the other hand, he didn't want Uhak to take away the results of the 26th Squadron.

"Black spider leader, if you have any action, don't dawdle. Thank God, it is a miracle that we have persisted until now, and their fire control radar has been scanning us." Uhak begged on the radio, he has not It really surprised him to think that Sammy was still worried about shit like that.

The Black Spider team completed the turn. Now, the last MiG-29 is in front and cannot be seen visually, but Sami lowers his head and can see from the multi-function display that the opponent is accelerating at a speed of about 10 kilometers away. Mach 0.9.All this is due to the Ericsson system 270 kilometers away and a data link similar to LINK-16 developed by Pakistan itself, which allows Colonel Sami to not use the fighter's own radar search, which will undoubtedly alarm the enemy. Now he could approach the bandit from behind with his favorite sneak attack method.From the perspective of information asymmetry, Captain Rolle is already in a doomed situation. Counting modern air battles, there are few fighters that can come back from such an unfavorable situation. On a par with the early warning aircraft.Captain Rolle broke into this frightening trap with almost blind eyes.

Four Raiden fighters lined up at an altitude of 4 meters at a distance of 4000 meters, visually searching for the enemy, and soon Sami saw the trail of the MiG-500 at the same altitude.Then Lieutenant Abbas on one side saw the reflection of the MiG-29 cabin in the distance in the sun, about 29 to 8 kilometers away.The colonel gave an order, and the thunder team immediately accelerated the pursuit. Due to the relatively rich fuel, the Samidi fleet accelerated to Mach 9. In a short time, they chased within a few kilometers behind the MiG 1.5. To be on the safe side, the colonel gathered the team In order to prevent the enemy pilot from accidentally looking back at his squad.

Sammy decided not to use the fire control radar. In such an ideal position, it seemed unnecessary to use the radar. He turned on the power of the missile seeker and directly used the seeker of the PL5 E to lock the target by itself.

He stabilized the plane first, watched the artificial horizon on the HUD stop swinging, and then put the enemy plane in the center of the HUD. After a while, the enemy plane basically coincided with the speed vector mark.This is not an aiming mark, but when the plane is flying stably and straight, the mark representing the direction of speed stays roughly above and below the axis of the plane, which is consistent with the direction of the nose. Since there is no fixed pointing forward mark in the center of the HUD of this kind of aircraft, If the velocity vector stays in the center of the HUD, then the colonel can basically determine the field of view of the infrared missile by about plus or minus 2 degrees.Ten seconds later, Didi's seeker lock sounded, indicating that the missile had intercepted the target.Sammy visually measured the distance, it was about 2 to 3 kilometers, roughly consistent with the 3 kilometers measured by the early warning aircraft. It seems that the size of the MiG 29 is too large. The colonel once used the PL5 to directly try to aim at the single-engine MiG 21, and locked the distance. It's only about 1 kilometer or so.

The colonel pressed the launch button without hesitation. According to his preset 2-round salvo method, the 2 missiles flew off the pylons one after another, and flew towards the unaware enemy plane at a high initial speed.

The first missile hit the vertical fin on one side and the second exploded near the wing on the other side.The MiG-29 immediately fell into a circle and then disintegrated.

Everything was as expected, the colonel immediately lowered his head to look at the huge multi-function display, the information sent by the data link of the early warning aircraft showed that the MiGs in front really gave up their attack, and they began to turn left and flee south.Although the opponent couldn't see him at all, the colonel found that the Indian lead plane in this formation was quite inaccurate in judging the situation on the battlefield, and he obviously knew the dangerous direction very well.Sammy couldn't help but secretly regret that two planes should have been arranged to fly south for a certain distance just now, and now they just blocked them.

"We catch up. They can't keep flying south. They will definitely turn back to Indian airspace before the fuel runs out."

"Squadron leader, we are running out of fuel." Abbas reminded.

"Where's Griffin?" the colonel asked, looking down. The two F2s were still fleeing, but they had only raised their altitude slightly.

"Captain Griffin, you are the closest to the enemy plane, return to the battlefield immediately." Sami shouted on the radio.

"No way, Colonel, we're running out of gas." Uhak said. By now, he had fully guessed Sammy's plot to use him to fish, and he really couldn't get up the energy to follow Sammy's instructions and follow Sammy's instructions.

"Command, I need the Griffin team to return to the battlefield." Sammy directly called Major General Islam on the ground, and all the pilots heard his words.

"I'm the command post. Attention Griffin team. You must return to the battlefield. Don't worry about the fuel. There is a tanker in the southwest of you."

Major General Islam, who was in charge of the headquarters, quickly responded to the colonel's request. For the major general, it was obviously the most important thing to shoot down a few Indian planes as soon as possible. He did not want the two MiG-2s to speed up and escape.At the same time, he also knows that although the F29 has less fuel than the Thunderbolt, the Thunderbolt does not have the ability to refuel in the air, while the F16A has this capability.

(End of this chapter)