Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 47 Escape
"Black spider lead plane, the enemy's wingman has been shot down." The early warning plane said.

"very good."

Sammy said reluctantly, the plane was accelerating, and he struggled with every word.

"In another situation, the enemy's two Su-2s are 30 kilometers away, flying towards here, and have accelerated to 85 kilometers. I suggest you withdraw from the battlefield." The early warning aircraft continued.

"clear."

Sammy knew that according to the speed of the enemy plane, he would enter the range of the enemy's long-range missiles in half a minute, but he still had time to make another attack. Judging from the current situation, the MiG-29 he was clinging to tightly Slowly moving away from himself, the Indian pilot was absolutely right to fire 2 R27s, now his aircraft has a slight advantage in thrust-to-weight ratio, and this advantage is likely to allow him to slide away.

On Thunder's HUD, two twisted thin lines are constantly changing. The colonel is trying to stabilize the plane, trying to fit the MiG-29 in front of it. This funnel-shaped aiming mark is different from conventional aiming. Based on the radar measurement, no matter how the attitude of the enemy plane changes, as long as the two wings of the enemy plane are roughly inserted into the two sides of the funnel, the shooting will be sure, but this is a tormenting job, because the enemy plane usually uses Very violent maneuvers to get out of aim.

As expected, the enemy plane reversed its previous simple acceleration and began to swing from side to side, desperately destroying the aiming. When Sammy pressed the artillery button, the MiG fighter plane began to circle to one side, and a string of shells flew towards the distant horizon. Can hit.The colonel circled closely behind him, but the aiming marks were still unable to keep up with the movement of the enemy plane. This reminded him of the plane with the three-cornered canard that he was flying when he shot down the Mirage 2000 a few days ago.The instant hovering and acceleration capabilities of that aircraft are much better than those of JF3.

Sammy fired for the second time, and the enemy plane repeated the same trick again, turning suddenly to the other side. Relying on this kind of snake-like movement to destroy the aim is always very effective. The colonel knew that the pilot of the plane in front was not a Running away in a tense manner, he must be constantly looking back to observe, constantly trying to figure out his intentions.

"Black spider leader, let me remind you that your fuel is low."

Sami ignored the reminder from the AWACS, he turned off the warning sound of insufficient fuel, the warning sound had been going on for a while, but the colonel knew the fuel level well, and the Bebuto International Airport was nearby, so he was not in a hurry . One day ago, Major General Islam warned all pilots that landing at a civilian airport at will may give the Indian Air Force an excuse to attack civilian targets, but Sammy did not take the major general's words to heart at all. In his opinion, India If you want to mess around, you can always find a reason.

The enemy plane slowly got out of the range of the machine gun, and both sides had no altitude to accelerate. Sammy fired the last missile at the right time, and the enemy plane ran away again with an ugly and sharp turn. This kind of old-fashioned missile is easy to lose when it encounters a real master, which is really worrying.

Seeing the enemy plane fled back to the Indian side, Sami had no choice but to watch him escape.When the colonel turned the corner, two Su-30s coming from a distance were rescued 40 kilometers away, but they turned around instead of firing missiles.The 31st Lion Squadron has always been known for its caution. The Indian Air Force has crashed hundreds of fighter planes in ten years, and this squadron has always had no losses. Their conservative style is integrated into tactics. Without the support of early warning aircraft, they dare not go too far.

Captain Roll was panting desperately while sitting in the cabin, he knew his life had been saved.A few days ago, when he and Lieutenant Goya of Bareilly met for the first time in the corridor of the Hindustan state-run TV station, they talked about the air battles they had just experienced in different airspaces. Their rambling conversations seemed to have an intersection.Rolle said that after he shot down the F16 with a long-range missile, a lunatic in the opposing formation who was flying a Thunder fighter even chased and killed four MiG-21s that had returned to Sarcy with a single plane, and shot down two of them.His words obviously aroused Goya's interest. At that time, Goya guessed intuitively that this was probably the same Thunderbolt that almost shot him down. He still remembered that the number of the Thunderbolt was 2.

One minute ago, when Rolle's plane was making a pressure turn, he kept looking back at the opponent. The opponent was very close and was trying to aim with the machine gun. The captain saw clearly the serial number of the pursuer, which happened to be 1.Maybe this is just a number within a squadron, but he knows that there are only two squadrons equipped with this type of aircraft in Pakistan.

"Trident leader, you can follow the aircraft of Squadron 31 and land at Halwara nearby. If your fuel is low, there are no refueling aircraft nearby." The ground base called, pulling Roll back from his thoughts.

"No, I can fly back to Adampur. I must report this battle to the wing captain immediately. They have never used such tactics before."

"Captain, they didn't invent this tactic. It should be revenge for the loss they suffered at the Siachen Glacier this morning. The Eagles killed two of their F2Cs."

"Whenever we're surrounded, I wonder where the hell are our AWACS. We're told they have very few planes, but they're always coming from all directions."

"There are some problems with the ground radar. In the morning, a group of infiltrators blew up the long-range warning radar on Dawa Heights. Just now they used anti-radiation bombs to blow up another army search radar."

Everything is like a farce. In Rohr's opinion, the Ministry of Defense should not think too simple before it decides to fight.Singh promised that taking action against Pakistan is as easy as the United States cleaning up Iraq. Within a few weeks, Pakistan can be subdued by the air force alone, but all kinds of unfavorable situations are like a third-rate script. appeared.However, the advantages of several Erieye early warning aircraft in Pakistan's air force area have not been restrained so far, and the air force's ground radar system will be destroyed by terrorist militants. Even in peacetime, this should be a heavily defended place.The Trident Squadron still has a few MiG-29Bs parked idly by the runway due to lack of spare parts. Perhaps the Ministry of National Defense believes that this level of combat readiness is enough to win the war on two fronts at the same time. Spare parts, if a more powerful country in the northeast participates in this war, Rolle can't imagine how things will evolve.

(End of this chapter)