Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 583

"I saw the enemy column on the road."

The pilot yelled. From the high-speed flying plane, the enemy column below swept past, but it can be seen that the formation is well maintained and the degree of mechanization is high. Compared with the satellite photos seen in the briefing meeting, the crowded The troops behind the pontoon bridge don't seem to be the same thing.He estimated that such a column must be covered by anti-aircraft weapons.

After the radar alarm sounded, Jamoransi immediately took an S-shaped flight in the air to evade. He didn't need to know the precise position of the enemy's radar.This tactic is summed up through the simulated confrontation of India's Armor S1 and Doyle M1 systems.

In principle, this method can increase the countermeasure time of the opponent and destroy the enemy commander's grasp of the timing of the radar's power-on; of course, if you are driving a plane that loses speed as soon as it turns, it is best not to try this method.

If the MiG 25 flies high above, there is no need to face these nasty field anti-aircraft weapons. However, the pilot faces a dilemma. If he flies too high, he cannot clearly photograph the opponent's equipment on the ground. This is the primary problem.Shortly after the enemy launched its operation, the MiG-25 of the Triple Sonic Squadron flew over to conduct reconnaissance. Unfortunately, the altitude and posture when passing the ferry were not ideal, and the scale of the enemy was not fully captured.

The first round of counterattack should have come from Wang Zhenbei's field air defense system, but unfortunately it did not start.The Red Flag 17 lurking on the ground knew in advance that the enemy was approaching, but the time left for the ground to react was not long enough. After the fire control radar irradiated the target, the cunning MiG 25 began to change its route, which made most commanders distrust The enemy aircraft's route prediction failed, and these short-range missiles could not deal with targets that were too far and too fast.

The supersonic turning of the enemy plane made it quickly escape the missile firing envelope, and the attack could only fail.For a veteran pilot like Jimorancy, moving around blindly was much more effective than just speeding up along the predetermined route to avoid attacks.If the enemy's missiles have insufficient range, even if they are barely launched, they will not be able to reach themselves.

His electronic countermeasures silently recorded ground radar data.In ground-air confrontation, the situation where the ground air defense position is turned on but unable to launch missiles can be regarded as an overwhelming victory for the pilot.

Once returning to the voyage smoothly, the troops can use these useful data to interpret the characteristics of the air defense system on the ground.If it is only a brigade-level force (as judged by the Indian command), then the scale of its air defense force will not be too large, and the equipment is limited to several field air defense systems with strong mobility; including short-range missiles and self-propelled anti-aircraft gun systems .

Due to the weak power supply capability of these field systems, the detection distance of their radars is also quite limited, so it is not difficult to get rid of them naturally.From the response of the alarm and the time he got rid of, Jamoransi can roughly confirm that the thing that was just about to move below should be a system similar to Doyle M1, and it has been thrown dozens of kilometers away by now.They are the nemesis of helicopters and attack aircraft, but they are not in their usual range.

The radio reminded him that the opponent's J-10 fighter jet has turned back and is accelerating, and it is expected that the acceleration will not last long.

Carefully keeping an eye on the side, he continued to fly northwest.He can't get too close to the J-10 for the time being, and he can't just turn around and head towards the direction he really wants to go.He planned to quietly approach the target area (the area dozens of kilometers east of the pontoon bridge) after a zigzag turn, and then sprint with a feint.

If the route is not too convoluted, within 1 minute, he can fly to the area where the enemy crosses the river required by the headquarters to take pictures.But he is well aware of the pros and cons, the deeper he goes into the enemy's deep zone, the more they have all the anti-aircraft weapons.Blindly accelerating flight in a straight line, it is easy to break into the center of the shooting envelope of those hidden positions. An experienced enemy can wait until he enters within half of the range of the missile before turning on the tracking. He needs to destroy the enemy's prediction by changing the route so that The missile commander was at a loss.In Assam, in Aksai Chin, Triple Sonic Squadron did just that, and after the loss of 17 pilots, the tactics started to become quite complete.

Sami sat in the command plane and suggested that the two J-2 fighter jets tracking the target give up the pursuit, because they were doomed to have no good chances.Then he suggested again that it would be better for the "high-speed fighter" to go around more to the north, and use the blind spot of the enemy's radar sight there to sneak into the battlefield.

He knew that the real opportunity came from the two Su-35 fighter jets of the "high-speed interception unit". They might cut off the retreat of the MiG-25 without the enemy paying much attention.The Chinese have some weaknesses in dealing with old-fashioned second-generation aircraft like the MiG 25. As a solution, they purchased the Su 35, which can barely maintain a flight at slightly more than double the speed of sound without turning on the afterburner, to carry out interception The mission of the MiG 25, but the alias of the opponent's squadron is "Triple Sonic Squadron", so things still have some twists and turns.

Of course, he also knows that this MiG-25 will probably come and go today, because the Chinese are not the only ones to prepare. Even if the Su-3 cannot grab the shooting opportunity, they will follow the established plan and send it towards the surface-to-air missile position. He wanted to rush, but he personally didn't want the target to fall on the red flag missile, so he came up with a very rigorous and insidious plan within 1 minute.He knew that the enemy was flying around like a headless fly, it was just an illusion, the pilot must be an old guy, very good at hiding the destination; but the Indian reconnaissance planes and drones dispatched after the large-scale ground battle started, without exception They were all trying to figure out the size of the troops on the ground, so Sammy was sure that he would eventually return to the ferry to peek at the troops on both sides.

The only trouble is the small problem left over from the command. In principle, as a major general, he can command all fighters in the airspace from the command plane, but the actual situation is that he still has to repeat it in Chinese on the radio through Song Ning from the ground command. It is only by his own instructions that he can command the Chinese aircraft, which makes the command a bit procrastinated.He has long wanted to put on a challenge to fly a fighter jet, but at this moment he is still very interested in learning about the Su-35's sustained sonic turning capability.

"Major General, I found that there is a problem with your maneuvering. Our interceptor plane is moving away from the enemy plane."

Song Ning said on the ground.

"Don't worry, the enemy just wants to see the size of the ground troops, so no matter how chaotic they are, they will finally get back on track."

"It's better that way, at least there are surface-to-air missiles there to deal with it. Find a bastard to fly over the entire army, and it's best not to stay alive."

"In two or three minutes, I promise you can see it die."

Inside the Indian Northern Group Command in Jammu, General Meneyam is anxiously awaiting the results of the reconnaissance.He has learned some trivial enemy information through the radio, including that the enemy has not dispatched medium-range air defense missiles at the army level.This is the precious news that the pilot passed back through the radio, panting.It is impossible for him to know that due to the mess of crossing the river, the Hongqi 16 troops that originally planned to cross the river were adjusted to the rear. Now in the entire assault group that has crossed the river, there are only 6 Hongqi 17s that can fight independently, and 7 without command vehicles Coordinated 25 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.These weapons are spread out, and even the most basic field air defense system cannot be formed.The weak radar waves emitted by Hongqi 17 objectively gave Indian pilots the illusion that the enemy was not strong enough.

If the plane can return, then Meneam can get more information, of course not soon, he has to spend time waiting for steps such as film development; there is no digital equipment, no real-time data link communication, this kind of antique is indeed like this work inefficiently.

Liu Zhaolin took a lot of trouble to encircle the enemy from the north to the north, hoping to cut off its retreat. The outflanking action was quickly completed. As Sami expected, the enemy plane rushed towards the pontoon bridge on the Chenab River at a high speed of Mach 1.5. He knew that within 20 seconds, he would be seen by the enemy's radar at Fort ***, and now it was time to increase his speed and fight his opponent.

The electronic countermeasure system showed that the Su-35 dual-aircraft formation had been detected by the enemy's long-range warning radar. The fire-control radar of the Aster 30 system on the plateau also tried to track itself, but the distance was too large to succeed.Liu Zhaolin pushed the throttle valve to the maximum, and accumulated speed during the rapid climb. The headless fly was still scurrying over the heads of the entire ground force of his own side, as if entering no one's land.

Over the Jhelum Dam, the two Su-2s parted ways. According to the route instructed by the command plane, Liu Zhaolin directly cut in to the enemy plane in the southwest direction, while the wingman continued to go east, completing a larger outflanking action, trying to set up the first Second line of defense.Liu Zhaolin found that Sami's command style was indeed different from Song Ning's. He was not as straightforward as simply drawing the nearest straight line. His plan was more leeway and vicious.

When the radar of the Hongqi 16 missile continued to shine on the MiG 25, the major quickly made a turning movement. This movement could not get rid of the powerful radar, but it could keep away from the shooting envelope as much as possible. It is that kind of missile, the worst possibility is the Hongqi 9 with a longer range.

Two missiles shot up from the ground, chasing after him.When the missile rose to 4500 meters, the ground commander saw and reminded him of the location of the missile, and then reminded him that two other planes appeared in the airspace far away, which did not pose any threat for the time being, but might threaten him. retreat.

Jamoransi tried hard to maintain the turn, and looked backward from time to time. The huge overload and narrow field of vision made him unable to see anything even though he was struggling.

The bearing information given by the command, as well as the missile speed readings, indicated that he had a good chance of escaping.He couldn't see the 2 missiles that were already higher than him, but he saw sporadic flames flying towards him on the ground, obviously short-range anti-aircraft missiles were also firing at him.He simply accelerated desperately in order to escape from death.

Since the re-establishment of the Triple Sonic Squadron, 3 people have been killed. The average number of takeoffs for each pilot before death is 17 as of today, and it may drop to single digits tomorrow.The speed at which the ranks of this volunteer flying unit have been promoted has probably broken the world record.However, the major knew that these extraneous things would one day have to be repaid to the country.

The major watched the vibrating Mach meter creeping towards 1.7 and told him rationally not to make any harmful maneuvers to destroy the speed increase.

The pressurization equipment in the cabin might have malfunctioned, and he felt pain in his eardrums, and he couldn't hear the instructions on the ground at all, and had no way of knowing the approximate positions of the two enemy planes.The huge vibrations made the plane very difficult to control.Immediately he began to get dizzy, his old bones, like this plane, were no longer suitable for such supersonic flight; now the major could only bow his head, and determine the state of the plane through the basic instruments.

The scalding plane flew through the sound barrier for a long time, and it formed a huge cloud of condensation in the sky, like a wall.From a very long distance, Liu Zhaolin saw this white cloud that continued to extend away from him. He also saw the Hongqi 16 missile, which was 1 km behind the target, and became the end of the force and fell.The enemy's speed reading given by the ground radar is 2.0 so far, which is about twice as fast as your own.

Hurrying quickly, he still didn't catch up with the best shooting opportunity, and Hongqi 16 started ahead of time, ruining his own chance.He still has a chance to launch a missile from an area 12 kilometers behind the enemy, but it is very reluctant.However, his wingman was in the east and occupied an excellent position, so he simply stopped firing and gave up the opportunity to others.

Meneam stood in front of the generals with crossed hands. On the monitor behind him, the continuously moving blue dot was moving eastward. There were also various large and small circles on the monitor, which were references to the enemy missile positions that had been exposed. Attack range, it seems that none of them can stop this powerful aircraft.

But at the last moment, the signal of the MiG-25 suddenly disappeared. The three-coordinate radar deployed in Sialkot recently saw it turned into several pieces, slowed down rapidly and lowered the altitude, and finally disappeared.

"General, it has been determined that the enemy army that destroyed our railway north of Gujranwala is the battalion directly under the enemy's 1st Armored Division." Someone came in to report and broke the dull deadlock.

"Only one battalion? Confirmed?"

"It has been confirmed that the electronic reconnaissance unit has intercepted the communication of the T84 tank in Pakistan, and also intercepted its commander speaking in Urdu."

"That is to say, the Chinese army has not been found to be involved in the Punjab operation for the time being?" the general asked.

"So far, no information in this regard has been monitored. The intelligence agency has determined that the enemy's operation is code-named Cobra, and the commander is Lieutenant General Hamalan. The purpose of the campaign is to restore the territory. The input force is 7 divisions, of which Armored divisions, don't know where they'll stop."

"Is it really Hameran's defeated general?" Meneam couldn't believe it. It seemed that if he patted his chest in front of the Minister of Defense and assured that there would be no large-scale battles in this area, it was still very reliable, but what did the enemy do? Are you getting better?
"The enemy's attack is very subtle, with a lot of numbers hidden. It doesn't look like their style. At least there are Chinese soldiers involved in the command?"

(End of this chapter)