Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 54 New opponent

"Captain, you hit it. I saw it." Erish said on the radio, and the result was completely in the captain's expectation.

"I will watch for you from above, and you will drop the bomb immediately."

The captain pulled up the plane and climbed to 800 meters in the air. For him, things have become very easy and simple. He only needs to wait for other planes to continue dropping bombs, and then evacuate together.The following three planes flew towards the dam at a distance of 1 km. There was no threat of anti-aircraft guns on the top. The attack was similar to the exercise. All 3 TV-guided bombs hit the dam; Only three insignificant pits remained on the front of the Mu Dam.

"The attack was completed without causing any damage to the dam." The captain circled over the dam for a week and saw white smoke rising from the small pits.He suddenly felt that such an attack was worthless. Perhaps only an Agni missile carrying a nuclear warhead could destroy such a behemoth.Of course he also knew that was impossible.

"Scorpion team, return immediately, there is an enemy plane approaching from the north of you." Bad news suddenly came from the ground command.

"Distance, bearing?"

"Last seen at 40km. Now it's gone, maybe hiding behind a mountain."

The antenna of the PSM33 long-range radar can only rotate 1 times in one minute, so it is common to miss slippery targets.

"Where's Rhino Squad?"

"Bit 130, they are on their way, you must fly southeast."

The MiG 27 does not have fashionable gadgets such as data links, nor does it have a multi-function LCD that can display the respective positions of friends and enemies, and it does not even have a radar.Therefore, for the pilots of these bombers, voice command on the ground is almost the only way to obtain information beyond the line of sight (in fact, it is not the only way, when the enemy plane uses the fire control radar to lock the MiG-27 outside the line of sight, the pilot may also One can tell from the beeps of the Selina warning system that there is little threat to the naked eye.)
Now the captain doesn't know the exact position and distance of the enemy, so he can only run away quickly according to the command on the ground.But the captain kept an eye out, he didn't want to retreat against the Su-30MKI of the Rhino Squadron, although it seemed the safest way to do so.In the intelligence briefing meeting before the attack, no one will tell you what to do when you are sandwiched between two groups of aircraft capable of attacking beyond visual range.Anyway, when the captain passed through the ground radars of both the enemy and us, the working IFF panel never flickered. That is to say, the identification friend or foe device, which has never been upgraded in the past 20 years, may not work when it needs to work.

"The Scorpion team followed me closely, and adjusted the course to 102."

"clear."

No. 3 and No. 4 MiG-27s were being lifted up at this time, and the captain had to complete his circle and wait for them. He made up his mind that he would choose the shortest route back to the border later. "40 kilometers is not a very long distance. If these Pakistani planes that appeared suddenly carried medium-range missiles, it would be a very dangerous distance." The captain couldn't wait to point the nose of the plane to the east, and depress the slope to complete the final turn .During this period, he saw two light spots flying towards him in the sky.Pandit had never experienced a real missile attack, so he froze for a moment, then looked down at the radar warning system, which was still in a state of obscurity.

"This is……"

It was too late to say it, and the No. 3 and No. 4 machines below exploded in the air one after another within less than 10/1 of a second.

"The enemy has launched a missile, and the Scorpion team hastened to dodge it." The warning on the VHF radio just arrived. Obviously, the long-range warning radar with less than 1 revolutions per minute is difficult to update the target in time, and there is no way to detect that the enemy plane has launched a missile. warning.

"It's hit, the damn RWS didn't work, it's their F16." The captain yelled, searching around for Airish's #2.He now roughly knows that the enemy is one (or several) advanced fighter jets capable of attacking multiple long-range targets at the same time, so he naturally believes that these missiles were launched by F16, which is Pakistan's most advanced fighter jet.

"Follow me, speed up and fly to the border." The captain called the No. 2 aircraft, and pushed the throttle lever down to the afterburner position. During the acceleration process, the plane began to shake violently, and he frantically operated the variable-sweep wing to the maximum. Sweep back and turn on the anti-surge.Irish's voice appeared just in time:
"I'm behind you. The enemy's radar tracking disappeared just now, so I couldn't determine his position."

The captain didn't answer, the No. 2 machine has automatically followed him, and the only thing to do now is to speed up and escape from here.Maybe the rhino team could arrive in time to stop the opponent, or maybe the opponent had gone back contentedly, anyway, his eyes were dark, and he didn't have the heart to speculate about it.The captain has no way of knowing the enemy's position so far, so he doesn't know if the enemy will use his route to the east to intercept him. If the enemy was in the northeast direction just now, and used some method to deceive the ground warning radar to move in the horizontal direction The possibility of slow and inefficient scanning cannot be ruled out.So far, whether it's air support or ground command, it's a fucking mess. Could it be worse?Who knows?
A twin-tail aircraft emerged from the clouds far to the north, so large that the captain could see it with the naked eye from about 8 kilometers away.Pakistan does not have heavy fighter jets with twin vertical tails, so this plane is not PAF, but why is it on a wrong course?
This is definitely not the Su-30MKI of the Rhino Squadron, because the captain did not see the huge canards on the front of the aircraft.Maybe it was a Su-30K, as far as the captain knew, the Su-30K was deployed in the distant direction of Bengal.For some reason, the captain's fear was not calmed by the timely appearance of this own plane. He could see the wings of this Su-30, together with its two missiles, shining brightly under the setting sun.Now it's coming straight at it.

"Su-30 pilot, the enemy plane is behind you, don't fly towards us." The captain called in the simulated confidential communication channel preset before the operation.But the other party didn't respond at all, just rolled half a circle, getting bigger and more ferocious, the damn pilot must have lost his head, he was making an aiming action.

"Damn it! Enemy plane!" The captain shouted at the top of his lungs.This was the most frightening moment in his life, 1 times more frightening than seeing his companion explode in the air a minute ago.

"What did you say?" Ground Command asked.The captain ignored Houjue's headquarters. Since they have been unable to see the enemy clearly, they can't play any role now.The captain continued to release tracer bullets and chaff to interfere with the opponent's various possible aiming, and dropped from 1500 meters to 500 meters in one breath. During this time, he didn't care much about the fate of No. 2 aircraft.When the captain looked back, the solo Su-30 (Su-27?) was heading the other way, and it looked like it was heading for Irish.This aircraft does not look as thick as the Rhino's Su-30MKI, nor does it have any tactical identification marks painted on it.

"He's after me? I can't get rid of him!" Erish shouted on the radio.Communications were lost, but Captain Pandit saw no signs of an explosion in the air nearby.

"What's the situation?" The base asked the pilot in turn.

"I... saw it... I saw it..." the captain shouted out of breath. He had already accelerated above Mach 1, and he was out of breath just now due to the rapid turn.

"What...please say it again."

"A Su-30...theirs."

The captain fled straight back to the crossing. Because of the prolonged use of afterburner, he did not have enough fuel to return to the base of Jorbut, so he made an emergency landing at the nearby frontline airport in Beshiana. Two days later, when he returned to Jorbut, he was surprised to find that Lieutenant Ailish returned to the base without incident. Of course, the price was heavy. That MiG-2, in order to avoid the opponent's aiming, made an instant 18G hovering maneuver at a speed close to the speed of sound. This maneuver was far beyond the manual. He almost fainted at that time. This hovering perfectly performed the 27th Squadron The name of the flying bullet also saved the life of the lieutenant, but the price paid was also very high. When the plane barely landed, the ground personnel found that the fuselage was severely deformed, and the left wing could never return to the sweep of more than 10 degrees. position, this plane can only be scrapped.

(End of this chapter)