Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 517 The Trident Deploys

The three J-3s were still hovering near the target, as if they were completely uninhabited.Through the reconnaissance pod, the pilot in the back seat can see that the smoke and dust below are gradually sinking, and it can be seen that the ground seems to be sunken. The specific strike effect cannot be determined. It may require further reconnaissance through synthetic aperture satellites, or listening to the enemy's communications. Know.

"Sparrow No. 3, continue to monitor the ground, and No. 2 will follow me to climb up, guarding the southeast."

Zheng Hui issued a new order. Even if the electronic jammers suppress most of the opponent's ground firepower, the Indian Air Force may still be dispatched. When his formation drops bombs, he can always find that there are constantly moving early warning aircraft in the south. .At this moment, the J-10 fighter formation escorted by the first stage has returned to refuel, while the second formation is still on the way, and the J-16 must strengthen its own security.

The electronic jammers of the Indian Flying Snake Force have also been dispatched, trying to interfere with China's radar and cover the deployment of its own air force. However, the Chinese early warning aircraft in the air has been on standby, making it impossible to succeed for a while.

The five MiG-5s of the Trident Squadron cannot rely on India's system advantages. They can only rely on low-altitude flight to approach the target on their own. For the MiG-29s with unsatisfactory ranges, such fuel-consuming flights greatly limit their combat time. , but it is better than being seen by the opponent from a long distance.

Major Rolle, who is currently ranked 4th among India's elite pilots (too few drones shot down made him a disadvantage in the ranking), is taking the lead in flying at the forefront of the formation. The fog in the mountains blocks the pilot's sight. He must Relying on the radar's terrain matching function to travel through the mountains, this naturally limits his ability to use radar to search for air targets, but the radar as far away as Chandigarh and the less reliable EMB145 can still provide limited air situation information.

His squadron did not lose to the Eagles in terms of record, and the losses were much smaller than the Eagles.In fact, in the recent offensive and defensive battles of Fort ***, they were often ordered to serve as the escort formation of the Su-30mki. The enemy planes always tried to close the distance and beat up the Su-30. Satire.

The cumbersome two-seater Su-30mki does have some flaws in close combat, and these problems are being mastered by more and more opponents. Even young Pakistani pilots who have only driven Thunder fighters for less than a hundred hours often dare to approach In order to tease Su 30's tiger beard, when the number of battles is superior, he is even more arrogant. It is said that there is a record of shooting down a lion. The opponent's TV station is carrying out political propaganda at length.

The Air Force has always regarded the Su-30MKI as an invincible universal fighter, but now it seems that it may be more versatile than invincible. Practice has proved that it is more suitable for long-range interceptor fighters or fighter-bombers; of course, the dexterous MiG 29upg is Another matter.This kind of aircraft is very similar to the Su-30 in the visual distance. The Trident Squadron often sends one plane close to the enemy, and the rest lie in ambush nearby. This will easily provoke inexperienced Pakistani pilots to approach, but when the young Pakistani pilots approach, Only then will it be found that it is much more difficult to deal with than the Su 30.

"Captain Trident, three Chinese fighter-bombers have been left alone. They stayed in the northwest of Srinagar at a bearing of 3 meters and an altitude of 345 meters. good clearance.

"Okay, give them to me."

The major knew that jumping out of the mountain meant exposure, and the enemy would inevitably use medium-range ammunition to counter it, but he had to distract the enemy.

"Trident No. 2 and No. 4, disband the formation, climb up to 12000 meters, quickly seize the dominant position, and suppress them."

If you can occupy a higher position, you can launch medium-range bombs before the enemy (it is speculated that the opponent uses the same R27 or R77 as India), but Rolle does not think it is meaningful to shoot at long distances. He leads the rest of the team. The plane then hid behind Shan and approached at low altitude.India's air command ability is far inferior to that of its opponents. It is estimated that after EMB2 turns, it will lose its vision, so he must do a good job of dispatching and commanding on the spot.

The gaps wouldn't be long for the enemy to reveal, and their cover for fighter-bombers wasn't perfect, but it was always there.

The data link sent by EMB145 is still providing target information. At present, it is difficult for the opponent’s scanning jamming to interfere with the data link communication at a long distance. However, they usually send fighter jets to attack, forcing the early warning aircraft to turn, thereby destroying their ability to monitor the battlefield.

Sure enough, the enemy J-11 fighter planes that appeared from the direction of the glacier began to change their course and attacked the early warning plane northwest of Chandigarh.The early warning aircraft was forced to turn, and the movement of the target on the vertical display of Major Rolle stopped, which was caused by the interruption of the data update; however, after the two aircraft in the formation climbed, the information obtained after the radar scanning was used to transmit the target information. It began to change again, but the fighter plane did not have the vision of the early warning aircraft, and the information on the surrounding situation began to be incomplete.

Zheng Hui's formation suddenly discovered two MiG-110s 2 kilometers away, which was obviously bad news.The medium-sized J-29 fighter was still 10 kilometers away, passing through the Siachen Glacier. He found that his formation temporarily had some advantages in numbers (450 vs. 3). At the same time, the No. 2 aircraft just observed signs of enemy withdrawal on the ground. , that is to say, the exit of the underground fortification will be found immediately.He decided to let the No. 3 machine stabilize and continue to observe. He and another J-3 that had dropped bombs would deal with the enemy's double-click formation.The radars of the two sides began to test each other a hundred kilometers away, and neither of them had locked on the opponent decisively, but they were both trying to gain an advantage.

The two MiG-2s struggled to climb to a higher position, which may have added a lot of extra energy to the missiles outside the power range.But Zheng Hui couldn't let them get this cheap. He easily got rid of the opponent's radar tracking at a long distance. The opponent had already started to power on and initialize the R29 seeker. Under the condition of time and division, he intercepted the target for the second time at a distance of 77 kilometers. and fired missiles.The J-70 quickly raised its height and used vertical maneuvering to get rid of the radar again, which also made the two R16s completely lose their chance. The missile almost lost the ability to change its attitude after the seeker was turned on.However, this round of pediatric confrontation also made Zheng Hui's double-click a very large distance from the No. 2 aircraft that was searching for ground targets.

Sparrow 03 has been maintaining a level flight to search for people on the ground, and found a stream of people pouring out from behind a smoking rock.Apparently that alternate exit is here.He fired a laser to aim at the top of the rock. The Indians arranged the exit under the rock, just to avoid satellite surveillance. At the same time, these rocks can also resist some small bombs, but KAB1500 should not be listed here.

The first bomb roared down from the sky, and it was falling on the rock layer 25 meters above the exit. The explosion completely destroyed the rock layer on one side, and immediately hundreds of tons of rubble fell, covering all the people and the exit; The pilot is not in a hurry to drop the type bomb, he needs to wait for the smoke to dissipate for a while to evaluate it before making a plan.But Zheng Hui in the sky suddenly became anxious, and kept urging 03 on the radio to drop bombs immediately so that the whole team could leave the battlefield. He suddenly felt inexplicable anxiety.

Zheng Hui's intuition came true. Luo Er's formation suddenly came from a low altitude, and the situation suddenly became 5 vs. 3. Although the newly appeared 3 planes were at a relatively low altitude, they did not pose a threat to the Chinese planes above 30 meters for the time being. But Captain Roll knew that there was a Chinese Su-6000 that had been staying at an altitude of [-] meters, and he was aiming at that plane.

No. 03 sensed something was wrong, and immediately dropped the heavy bomb in an attempt to get rid of the pursuit.It was too late to say it, and a MiG-29 had come out from behind the mountain, and quickly caught the J-16 with radar.This MiG-29 approached at a low altitude, and it might only last a few minutes of fighting. The J-16 pilot decided to follow the general experience to increase the distance in the vertical direction, but the climb of the MiG-29 did not fall behind at all, which made No. Continue to be passive.

Major Roll was a tough opponent, he used the radar aperture to shoot directly at the enemy plane, and then chose to launch the R 27 missile.As long as the target is not thrown out of the wide range of the phased array radar, such missiles are sometimes more reliable than active radar-guided missiles, because there are powerful airborne radars to rely on.

The J-16 was forced to launch passive jamming to destroy the missile tracking, but he had already appeared within Major Roll's line of sight. The major controlled the aircraft tracking steadily, allowing the powerful radar beam to penetrate the chaff jamming, and it was always for the missile To provide effective instructions to fly to the target, as a supplementary means, he has prepared for the launch of 2 R73 missiles.The active electronic warfare equipment of the J-16 started to function automatically, and began to collect the characteristics of the opponent's radar waves in order to launch deception signals. When the trailing missile was close at hand, the jamming pods on the two wings began to emit jamming beams according to the irradiation frequency of the detected enemy aircraft .

As a user of the R27, the Chinese Air Force is naturally aware of some weaknesses that this missile can attack. The closer the R27 missile is to the target, the stronger the energy of the deception signal will be. In the end, its ability to measure the target position through reflected waves will be destroyed. At the same time, the correction command will not work due to noise interference, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. The missile flies directly under the fighter plane. , completely missing the target.

However, Major Rolle followed closely behind, taking advantage of the target's circle with the missile, and sneaked a lot closer. He already knew that the R27 was not invulnerable, but fighting bombs were not so easy to deceive.

The radar alarm reminded Roll that there was a radiation source in the direction of 3 o'clock, which was identified as the phased array radar of J-10B.He immediately ordered 02 and 04 to leave the battle to monitor their opponents, at least to measure the distance, and continued to pursue him. He was sure to shoot down the Chinese imitation Su-20 in front of him within 30 seconds, and he came here for this.When the Trident Squadron was refitted with the new MiG-29, it had experienced many times of dogfight training with the Su-30MKI, and already had some experience in dealing with this type of heavy aircraft.Relatively speaking, it is easier for a heavy machine to lose speed when maneuvering, so it cannot be allowed to climb all the way to high altitude or accumulate speed.

Seeing that it could not get rid of the radar during the climb, the J-16 plunged down and accelerated by diving. At the same time, it fired the anti-radiation missiles under its wings. Obviously, it noticed the problem of excessive load and weak acceleration.

The major was still aiming one-on-one, tracking steadily.If the opponent hopes to make himself rush to the front through the scissors movement of flying up and down, he must have made a wrong calculation, and he is not an impulsive novice.

He waited for the target to enter the optimal range of the R73 missile, and at the same time controlled the accelerator so that the opponent would not play tricks by slowing down, which made him always firmly grasp the initiative.At the current distance, chaff alone is no longer able to block the radar beam.He gradually approached the no-escape zone of the opponent's rear hemisphere, and then calmly fired the fighting bomb. At this time, the opponent's J-10 formation was still 90 kilometers away.

The fighting missile passed through the chaff, and the seeker was shaken by the tracer, but the target's reckless afterburner action made it difficult to block the heat of the tail nozzle.A missile caught up and exploded in the tail, destroying a vertical tail.But the aircraft still maintained its attitude and fled horizontally.Rolle didn't have time to pursue it. He estimated that the seriously injured plane would not be able to escape far, so he quickly turned to the J-10 formation coming from the west to cover the retreat of his own fighter planes.

He called his side to retreat quickly on the radio, rushed to Song Ning and Zhao Lin's two J-2s, and fired R10 missiles without hesitation; this is capable of head-on attack, infrared-guided R27, if the opponent is confused, it is very easy Easy to succeed in chaos.

Song Ning knew the enemy's recent head-on tactics, including firing the R27ET with a modified mid-range command to attack with a feint shot. If he made a wrong judgment, he would find that electronic interference has no effect on this missile.Of course, he has no way of judging the essence of the missile, he can only climb up and get rid of it, which is effective for any missile that comes from afar.

The enemy plane didn't keep the radar on. Seeing Song Ning evading, he quickly turned and fled.At this moment, Zhao Lin captured a MiG-29 that was unable to retreat in the enemy formation. He had been entangled in the sparrow formation and did not get out in time.He covered Zhao Lin's flank and chased after the lagging fighter. At this moment, the data link showed that the injured J-16 fighter could no longer be seen, as if it had fallen into the deep mountains.This seems to be the first time this kind of fighter plane has been shot down by the Indian Air Force, but the pilot is right to leave the area desperately. After using giant bombs to bury a large number of enemies alive, it is not possible to parachute in this area anyway.

At this moment, the power balance between the two sides is 4 to 5, and the numerical advantage is still on the Indian side, but the enemy's retreat may be due to insufficient fuel.Zhao Lincai did not choose to dodge the enemy's oncoming missiles, so he was in a much better position than the lead plane.The opponent tried to rely on low-altitude flight to get rid of the radar, but it was easier said than done. He quickly launched the SD-10 missile to attack; Before the outbreak of the war, the export sales had not been completed, so the necessary information had never been collected from the outside. Naturally, the warning devices of most fighter planes could not optimize their signal characteristics. On the battlefield, Chinese missiles often have special, different Detected or unrecognized treatment.

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