Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 627 Deterrence Plan
Zhao Lin got a very valuable target at the price that he was doomed not to be able to keep this fighter plane. He turned on the radar to search, and there was one last thing to do - to shoot out the last two missiles before the engine stopped. , It doesn't matter if it can be hit or not.

Sami kept reporting on the radio the location of the enemy planes seen by the Iranian fighters. They scanned from behind all three enemy planes that had just launched their missiles and were about to run away. Although there is no way to analyze the specific details, Sami thinks it is very likely It was from a lower altitude (the F14 was flying very low, avoiding being seen by the US military early warning aircraft at sea and in Afghanistan), and got an effective reflection of tilting the tail outwards or.

They were sneaking towards the Su 35, as if they were about to launch a surprise attack.

At a distance of 50 kilometers, Zhao Lin's enemy plane launched a missile. At such a distance, an attack from the rear hemisphere is destined to miss. However, at the moment when the afterburner is about to run out of fuel, this is the only thing he can do. that's it.The enemy plane's sensors are too sensitive, maybe at least scare the enemy, even if the enemy changes course slightly.

Taking advantage of the engine of the J-10 fighter jet not yet stopped, he circled rapidly and flew towards the nearest airport in Quetta, which was 200 kilometers away. When the turn was completed, the fighter jet completely lost power, followed by a level flight. Guaranteed, the altitude begins to drop.

"Zhao, try to parachute as far away as possible from the border tribal areas. I'll send out the army right away, and I'll find you soon. You fell too low, and I can't see you anymore."

"Viper, did you see the fighter plane I hit?" Zhao Lin, who was about to crash, was still thinking about this matter. "Viper, can you confirm the model? I'm worried that the wreckage will fall over the border and they will deny it."

"Sorry, I can only see the falling wreckage, but I can't confirm the model. Don't worry, the wreckage must have fallen within the boundary, and the search team will find it; congratulations, you will soon be Song's superior."

After saying this, the communication between Zhao Lin and the command plane was terminated suddenly, obviously because the J-10 lost too much altitude.What he has to face now is to give up the fighter jet; he remembers that Sammy once said that a pilot who has never lost a fighter plane is destined not to become an ace, even though he said it strangely to tease Song Ning when he was more cautious in the air. Bad, but given the history of the industry, it seems to make sense.

The plane gradually lost its speed and control, and began to fall towards the high mountain. Zhao Lin threw away the cockpit, ejected, and then watched the fighter plane fall to the ground full of ravines.

Colonel Hammond was full of anger. He knew that he had lost a fighter plane. He could not imagine what it would mean; What a politically difficult choice, the president is almost about to give up the punitive military action against China. Fortunately, his complicated plan has been supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The U.S. government has always been faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, it cannot tolerate India’s complete failure. Giving up interference in power is tantamount to self-destructing the post-war U.S.-dominated world order.But on the other hand, relying on the navy alone cannot launch operations against the Chinese army far away on the Punjab border.The Chinese ground offensive came quite suddenly, and it was obviously too late to train an Indian army.In such difficult times, Roy Hammond's plan was viewed differently by his superiors as a risky plan that could solve a sticky situation.

Simply put, Colonel Hammond needs to use a seamless naval and air force coordination to offset the enemy's many advantages in numbers and geography.

The plan is to destroy most of the strength of the Chinese Air Force in Pakistan through several steps.It is known that the Chinese air force in Pakistan has nearly 160 combat aircraft of various types and about the same number of transport support aircraft deployed at about 8 airports in northern Pakistan. combat aircraft.For the sake of the suddenness of the plan, F22 Raptor fighter jets were secretly transferred in this plan, deployed in Oman, and various support aircraft and 3 B2 bombers were deployed at the Diego Garcia base.

The plan was reworked many times to deal with the almost demanding requirement, the most difficult one to achieve, the so-called complete deterrence.Demanding superior military capability and expertise from the U.S. military forces the enemy to reassess the risks of sending ground forces directly into India.In the end, the slower B2 was ruled out of the first round of formal strikes as a Silent Eagle was shot down in an informal skirmish.The first round of strikes will be completed by the almost perfect F22 covering the F35. The main targets are the forward ground radar, the airport at a closer distance, and the fighter jets on the runway.If the first round of strikes achieves a satisfactory result, the next second round of attacks will attack air early warning aircraft and deeper airports.

Hammond knew that if the attack was unfavorable or suffered heavy losses, subsequent operations might be suspended. This is a politically necessary step to re-seek dialogue with China, although for the Americans, it is almost humiliating.

When he made the plan, he faced two main problems. One was the long and narrow airspace of Pakistan from south to north, which was very deep, while Iran behind the high mountains in the west was another variable.

Iran is very vigilant against the United States' intervention in the Baluchistan region and has issued many warnings.The colonel foresaw that Iran's ground radar would report the situation to the enemy, but he still didn't expect that they would send the air force to directly participate in the battle.

As the leader of the fourth-generation aircraft, the F4 has maintained a very high exchange ratio in the drills with the third-generation aircraft of the US military. This is the reason why the president finally changed his mind and supported the plan. The shooting down of an F22 means that, It is likely not that China will be intimidated, but that the new president will be intimidated.

The colonel can't think too much, because he himself is not out of danger yet, he has noticed the radar of the J-10 fighter coming from the rear, this is a strange enemy plane that has not been observed by the surveillance unit at all, now his 3 The aircraft formation was surrounded by at least 10 enemy aircraft from all directions, and the Super Hornet of the backup group had just taken off.

Between 110 and 140 kilometers, he scanned each other with six Su-6s. Two of the enemy planes were very threatening. Not only were they relatively close, but they blocked the way. He had to kill these two obstacles first, or at least force them to leave.The radar beam of the Iranian F35 can always be sensed. For the time being, it can only confirm the azimuth and the radar comes from a lower airspace, but cannot confirm the distance. I just didn't dare to go deeper, and kept hiding on the coast and flying unhurriedly.

"Raven, don't worry about those F14s, fire before these Su-35s, and when they evade, we will break through."

"clear."

He knew that his stealth advantage would decrease as the distance shortened. Currently, the Su 35 on the opposite side could not track continuously, so he couldn't wait any longer.

At the limit distance, he and the rest of the formation members each launched two AIM2 missiles, and then confronted the Su 120 head-on for a few seconds. During this period, the opponent also seized the opportunity to launch missiles.In the Raptor's tactics, there is no such thing as giving up the advantage and recklessly fighting with the third-generation aircraft.The colonel realized that he had encountered a ferocious Leng Bold, and it seemed that he would have to go through a lot of trouble to slip away from the enemy today.

Liu Zhaolin also successfully locked the target the moment the opponent opened the magazine. Although the enemy fired first, he also completed the lock after about 4 seconds, and then launched two R2 missiles.After launching the missile, he didn't choose to evade, but rushed forward. Theoretically, the missiles fired by the enemy would arrive earlier than his missiles. Bet your guts, as the distance approaches, the stealth ability of the enemy plane will weaken more and more, even if it avoids the missile at the last moment, it will be beneficial to the subsequent operations.

After the missiles of the two sides staggered in the air, he observed that the enemy gave up, and they did not correct all the way until the active radar of the missiles worked. Three enemy planes abandoned these missiles and ran to low altitude 3 kilometers away.

He carefully kept track to prevent the enemy from disappearing from the radar, but the enemy's strategy of lowering the height played a very good role. The good stealth shape and a lot of ground clutter began to cover its tracks. Finally, before the R77 missile actively searched for the radar, They disappeared without a trace again.This time, even the Iranian F14 got rid of it.

Liu Zhaolin looked at the condensation trails flying over his head, and the enemy's missiles never saw his formation.But in at most 2 minutes, the three enemy planes would slip away from under his nose, and he still couldn't relax.

He ordered half of the three fighters that fell behind to use radar, and he and the other two used infrared equipment to start a search, and all but one of them lowered their altitudes to positions that were not easily seen by Hawkeye early warning aircraft in the open sea.He knows that F3 is in the system, even if it does not use radar, it is easy to miss through the fingers only based on the positions of the enemy and us that it grasps.

At this time, three Iranian Tomcat fighter jets had crossed the border. Sami asked them to approach from the side and continue to use radar irradiation, but not to participate in the battle. Nasty side post expand search.Iranian pilots, don't listen to Sami's command, they can hear Sami's voice on the VHF channel, and never respond, but they have a rough idea of ​​where the enemy is hiding,

Hammond decided to slow down the speed. Excessive speed will have a negative effect on stealth. He must continue to endure. Those damn Tomcat fighters have moved from his own 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock. He has to continue to descend high.In addition, his battlefield intelligence is decreasing. At present, he can only perceive the radar beams emitted by 3 Su-35s, and the rest of the Su-35s have disappeared.

Damn Hawkeye has been dragging his feet and can't provide a complete enemy situation.Of course, the E2 early warning aircraft cannot be too far to the west, it must take into account the F35 formation in the east, and they seem to be in trouble at the moment.Hammond could hear from the radio that the captain of the vulture had been calling the formation members to change the route and avoid the enemy's pursuit. The details of the rear of the F35 were not handled well. Whether it was against radar or infrared search, it was not as good as the F22, and it was easy for the enemy to escape. Seen from behind.

Judging from the movement of the three Su-3s scanned at 1 o'clock and the collected radar pulse characteristics, the colonel should not be able to see themselves.So far, I have only lost one plane. If there is any chance to revive the follow-up plan, it is to completely defeat these enemies and use the exchange ratio of absolute advantage to speak.

Liu Zhaolin didn't get any more instructions from Sami about the enemy's location. Sami decided to let him try his luck. He decided to search the area he thought.

Instead of using radar, he tried to track infrared signatures.At low altitudes, infrared signatures are not as susceptible to background interference as radar waves.

If these raptors make a big circle, they can escape, but his intuition tells him that the commander of this formation is a guy who is eager for quick success and quick profit, so he shouldn't go far, and he should slip close to his formation to a certain place. Take a favorable position and strike back.Of course, he can withdraw his troops immediately, even if he didn't shoot down the enemy plane, but just now, he scanned the enemy's reflection features in front of him, which is of great value for improving the radar software's ability to identify stealth planes. Shooting down means that these key information will be lost together.Such a trade-off is an excellent reason to give up fighting, but he knows that he will not choose to give up, because he is also a competitive person.

Passive infrared detection finally made some discoveries, the HUD flickered, but it disappeared quickly.He judged that the enemy was in a certain area in front of him. When adjusting the route, he exposed some flaws. Through the data link between the six fighters, he checked the flight trajectories of several aircrafts used for radar search and judged their positions. The adjustment caused the movement of the enemy plane.

He speeded up to chase, and strictly ordered the two wingmen not to use the radar so as not to scare the enemy. At the same time, he let the radar search for the fighter, and constantly adjusted the route, forcing the enemy to respond passively and reveal its flaws.

Time passed quickly, and he kept searching the front range. It was displayed on the HUD again, this time the IRST caught a continuous signal.Although it is impossible to measure the range, judging from the trajectory, the enemy plane is climbing, which looks like it is about to attack from a low altitude.Perhaps from this angle, it can avoid being detected by the Su-35 downward-looking radar when the magazine is opened.

Before he had time to remind, IRST had captured a huge heat source, and the enemy had already opened fire. Liu Zhaolin charged forward and issued a warning.

This was a medium-range missile attack. The Su-35 above did not know the target and the location of the incoming missile for a while (the Raptor chose a favorable angle so that its radar could not see the missile, and the Su-35 could not detect the opponent's radar), while Liu Zhaolin only captured the target position passively, and could not display it to his comrades through the data link.

In desperation, the pilot turned to one side in an attempt to avoid it by increasing his speed.

Before the Su-35 was hit, the pilot had never seen the trace of the 2 missiles.

The missile from below exploded on the side of the Su-35, destroying half of the wing, but the plane still insisted on flying northward for a long distance, and did not parachute until the Pakistani army controlled area.

Liu Zhaolin restrained the urge to use the radar to fire quickly. He and the other three fighters accelerated towards the enemy plane. He was determined not to fire easily when the target was within visual distance.He knows that after the enemy succeeds, there must be a process of circling downwards and finding the best escape angle. This is what he noticed just now. The stealth machine behaves in a rather muddy manner, and then accelerates to escape, so he must rush to escape. The opponent grabs the speed advantage in front.

(End of this chapter)