Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 578
"Wild wolf, I'm in need. If they still have fuel, it can be used to deal with the situation in the east, and I will give it to you to guide."

Sammy's radar can see this formation, but the incompatibility of the data link makes it impossible for him to command the two Su-35 fighter jets, but he is interested in every new type of aircraft and wants to see how they fight.

"They don't work with other aircraft just yet."

"I will switch the Thunderbolt fighter away."

Liu Zhaolin suddenly received an instruction from the enemy in the air, which he could not have wished for.Due to the rush delivery from the Russian side, the two planes are currently unable to integrate with the data link of the command system. If they stay in the country, this problem can be solved this week. However, because there is also an urgent enemy situation here, these fighter planes must be sent to Press down.Of course, for Liu Zhaolin, he only needs proper voice guidance to search for the target with his own radar.He originally came here to clean up the MiG-25 that doesn't appear often.The time window for using the J-10 to intercept that kind of high-speed aircraft is very short. In addition, the remaining land of Pakistan is long and narrow, everything is under surveillance, and the space for air dispatching is limited. Therefore, it can only rely on this to maintain a period of time on Mach 1. A fighter with the ability to fly in time cameo to launch the attack.

Another idea of ​​investing in the Su-35 is that if the enemy invests in the high-speed emb-145 early warning aircraft, it can use the new long-range missiles obtained with it to attack. The possibility of such an attack is still unknown, and it needs to be tested in practice.Relatively speaking, it is relatively simple to deal with India's MiG-25, because its electronic equipment is backward. Usually, the pilot sitting in the MiG-25 cabin can know that there is a fire control radar nearby to lock him, but he may not be able to figure out the accuracy of the pursuer. Position and threat level, so it's not too difficult to play.

The two planes gave up landing, turned around Mardan, and went straight to the southeast.Liu Zhaolin ordered his wingmen to keep a sufficient distance on his side so that he could adopt different tactics according to the situation.The passive phased array radar of this kind of fighter can detect the target at a relatively long distance, so some new long-range attack or deception tactics can be adopted.

At this moment, the early warning aircraft has seen the opponent's 2 Mirage 2000 fighters.According to the navigation information, Liu Zhaolin raised the altitude in a generally safe area. The fighter plane could sense all-round electronic threats. As it moved away from the border of Afghanistan, NATO’s radar was no longer able to do what it wanted. He kept raising the altitude, and then opened fire. Control radar, this condescending interception mode is conducive to it to play the maximum range of the missile, and he does not want to entangle with the opponent too close to the border.

In the first time, the phased array radar searched for 4 batches of targets. The closest ones were our own JF17 fighters. The escape flight at an altitude of 17000 meters was obviously threatened.There is a Su-30 on the border moving south. It is conducting electronic countermeasures against drones. It is obviously an electronic jammer, but it is too fast to meet the typical targets of R37 missiles.

The two-plane target flying from the depths of Rajasthan was identified as two Mirage 2 fighter jets.The Phantom is making a turn. Judging from the movement, it is about to pounce on the drone. The distance between the two sides is about 2000 kilometers. At this moment, the distance from the Su-120 is an astonishing 35 kilometers. The radar recognition is consistent with the voice information of the ground command post.Compared with the machine-scanning radar of the J-290, this fighter radar has a qualitative leap, but compared with the newer domestic aircraft, the advantage is not very obvious.

The Phantom 2000 did not detect the threat, and kept accelerating in a straight line. It did not respond to the radar tracking in the air. Maybe its RWS was not alert enough to the radar in the tracking and scanning state. Maybe the pilot just wanted to quickly solve the drone. risky strategy.

If the enemy doesn't make changes, the fight will go into typical volley mode within a few minutes.The difficulty is similar to that of intercepting the MiG-25. Although the Phantom’s radar cross-sectional area is small, at a super long distance of more than 200 kilometers, sometimes the radar will be lost due to changes in relative position or attitude, but its speed is relatively high. Slow, and the shooting window is relatively large.The speed of the Mirage 2000 is only 950 kilometers per hour at the moment, and the speed increase is insufficient, and there is no early warning aircraft support at all.Everything is like a mantis catching cicadas, with the oriole after the hunt.

The Indian pilot, Lieutenant Asiri, has been able to use the fire control radar to intercept the UAV. Obviously, the size of this UAV is quite large. He asked the ground to fire under appropriate circumstances; Depending on the model of the judged target, attack again.Just after the ground radar had just discovered that the nearby Raiden fighters suddenly retreated timidly, the commander had such an idea to make progress.The superiors are very nervous about every new Chinese weapon that appears on the front line, so they hope to confirm it as soon as possible.

Asiri increased his speed to 1050 kilometers. He was able to detect a large number of electronic scans from southwest to northwest. Some came from the air, and most of them came from the ground. Apparently at least one early warning aircraft was watching him. The temporary warning equipment did not interpret any major signals. Threat, those radar scanning beams, didn't stay on themselves for long.On the radar screen, the lone drone was still running away at a leisurely pace. The speed was a little slower than before, but the altitude increased by another 1000 meters.Now it hides at an altitude of nearly 2 meters, and seems to think that this can pose a problem for Mirage 2000.

Lieutenant Asiri of Tiger Squadron needed to perform a difficult jump maneuver, otherwise it would be difficult to reach the crafty drone.The electronic interference of the Flying Snake Squadron did not work. Obviously, the data link between the UAV and the ground command personnel has always been unimpeded. They know that only the UAV can survive if it runs to a high place.

The lieutenant ordered the wingman to circle around as a guard and monitor the X-band radar in the northwest direction. He guessed that it was a Thunder fighter jet that the ground radar hadn't seen. As long as the wingman turned the plane's nose and illuminated each other with the fire control radar, it should be able to scare those fighters away. Wet Pakistani rookie.And he himself had to make a jump at the risk of the engine stalling. The ground asked him to see clearly before firing. It was obviously a very stupid decision, but he had to implement it.

The lieutenant carefully controlled the throttle to chase at the limit altitude, the climbing speed gradually decreased, and finally he was forced to level off.The altitude at this time was still as much as 2500 meters below the target.The Indian Air Force has many aircraft that can perform such high-altitude shooting missions, but it does not include the Mirage 2000.The lieutenant felt that the plane was gradually becoming difficult to control, the lift provided by the wings was no longer enough to support level flight, and the instability of the intake pressure also made the engine speed unsustainable.

However, he could finally see the slender body high in the sky. The drone was flying over his head confidently. Judging from the outline, it was roughly confirmed that it was the latest high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the Chinese Communist Party with a turbofan engine.During its own observation, it despicably increased its altitude by several hundred meters.The lieutenant was very worried that shooting at the extreme altitude would cause the engine to stop due to vibration or smoke, but the ground was indisputable and kept urging him to act quickly.

The wingman reported that something was wrong. During the entire circling and guarding process, it once faced the opponent's radar direction, but could not see the opponent at all. Only the sensor could perceive the opponent's scan at 12 o'clock. He felt that things began to change. Be abnormal.India's Mirage 2000 has been upgraded to the level of 2000-5, so it will not lose to JF-17 in radar confrontation; but in doubt, the radar threat of that unit disappeared, and the threat seemed to be lifted.

Asiri didn't care so much anymore, he pulled the lever and barely raised his head. At the end of the sprint, the plane completely lost its climbing speed and fired two Mika missiles.He thought he could stabilize the plane, but the plane dropped rapidly and entered a stall spin.He knew that as long as the engine didn't stop, the flight control would be able to function after a fall of up to 2 meters; however, the early radar data must be maintained for at least a few seconds when shooting medium-range bombs. If the radar illumination is lost right now, the attack will inevitably fail.

Sure enough, the missile that had lost its correction drew a strange arc in the thin air and began to fall, while the Xianglong was still flying unhurriedly in the sky, not caring what happened at all.

The sudden drop of the Mirage 2000 caused Liu Zhaolin to lose the target for a few seconds at 220 kilometers, but soon the wingman radar found the target again, and the altitude had dropped several hundred meters.Obviously the enemy launched a reluctant attack, which in turn caused this embarrassment.

The two Su-2s had already accelerated to Mach 35, rushing towards the ignorant opponent at an unprecedented speed.If the enemy plane continues to dawdle, within 1.5 seconds, the formation will be close enough to fire.However, the Indian Phantom formation was not reconciled to being teased by a drone. They switched positions and continued to launch a new round of attacks by wingmen carrying medium-range bombs.

Liu Zhaolin chose a conservative plan, using the R77 to launch an attack at a relatively short distance. He and his wingmen assigned targets, prepared to strike and then reversed.They adopted a dual-aircraft radar tactic in turn, and used the formation data link to share information to offset the enemy's suspicion.Since the two planes are nearly 30 kilometers apart, the azimuth difference relative to the enemy plane increases to nearly 5° as the distance shortens, which allows the opponent's radar warning equipment to clearly distinguish the difference in their positions, which makes Indian pilots always feel that it is Being irradiated successively by two uncoordinated thunder and lightning in different areas, I was not too worried.But in fact, they have already fallen into the pincer attack maintained by the Chinese fighter planes using the data link. When the two planes dived and increased their speed to Mach 2, there was not much time left for the Indian pilots to escape.

The two fighters began to give up tracking and scanning at a distance of 2 kilometers, and directly locked on their respective targets. This would cause the opponent to perceive the continuous energy and give an alarm, but for the Mirage 80, it was too late.

Phantom sensed that something was wrong, so he could only escape to the height that was most beneficial to him by lowering his height, which was of course expected by Liu Zhaolin.Its weak acceleration and redundant maneuvers trying to get rid of the radar shortened the distance between the two sides to 40 kilometers in 25 seconds.Until then, Mirage 2000 knew the opponent's distance and speed through the radar on the Rajasthan highlands. They couldn't even increase the speed to Mach 1, and the missiles of Liu Zhaolin and his wingman were already launching.

The muzzle velocity of the missile is very high, which makes the range redundancy of this tail pursuit attack very sufficient.The Indian ground radar did not see the launch of the missile. While accelerating, the Phantom pilot kept turning his head with difficulty, only to see that the missile had reached his rear.

The desperate evasive action of the Phantom leader was completely out of shape during the chaos. This kind of aircraft is known for its instantaneous hovering, but the weakness of the power made it slow down rapidly in the continuous turning. Hit by a follow-up missile.The wingman's dodge didn't work either, and the R77's speed advantage made it easy to hit the target again. Two fighter planes were shot down on the border almost simultaneously.

Throughout the morning, the chaotic information led to the inability of Indian command organs at all levels to operate, and a lot of time wasted on endless debates.The airborne landing of the Chinese army in the Sigurd Corridor has just been confirmed to be an intelligence error. The Chinese plane did break into the narrow and long corridor from Assam to the Indian mainland, but it did not drop people, but bombs hung on parachutes.The attack derailed efforts to repair the railway.

In the north, the bombardment of Leh has not stopped, and the extended artillery fire has destroyed the last retreat of the city-the airport.The Dongfeng missile even hit Srinagar directly, destroying the hidden fuel warehouse.The strongholds on the high ground at the front were captured one after another. The commander of Leh screamed on the radio, saying that if the enemy tanks were sent out again, this important plateau town would not be able to defend.

Charmain's intelligence bureau has received all kinds of true and false intelligence, many of which are incompatible with each other. It is obvious that the opponent is trying to fish in troubled waters. What is really scary is that most of the contradictory intelligence analyzes come from the United States. Let the intelligence chief fall into an unprecedented predicament.After the Battle of Assam, the Indian intelligence community has reached a consensus that intelligence analysis by the United States is reliable.However, the Chinese have always played their cards unreasonably. They have modified their strategies and created new illusions and asymmetrical deceptions directly under the sky full of American satellites.In the end, Americans found that they were swallowed by information that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.The professional monitoring forces of the U.S. military have detected recurring units on different fronts thousands of kilometers apart; Serious errors have occurred in the assessment of the strength of the Chinese military on all fronts.

On the contrary, in the basin of the Chenab River, the chaotic army under the leadership of Lin Huaisheng, which was completely exposed to the satellites of various countries, did not attract enough attention.The American intelligence received by Charman was roughly the same as that of his own country. The intelligence agency believed that this was a weak counterattack by Pakistan to cooperate with China's offensive. Although a lot of troops were invested, the purpose of the campaign was limited. The railway line from Geralt to *** Fort, and this railway has enough troops to guarantee, and it is not irreplaceable, so the threat is limited.

(End of this chapter)