Changkong Fighter

Chapter 68 The lightning rush
Swish!Swish!
One by one, AIM-120 missiles detached from the racks, their rocket engines ignited, and they flew towards the locked targets under the guidance of the early warning aircraft.

[Hyena Squadron, launch missiles]

The E2 early warning aircraft watched the missile connected to the data link fly head-on towards the enemy. Under normal circumstances, the F18 should break away and return after launching the missile. However, the enemy is not a human aircraft, and the F18 may need to enter WVR (visual) combat.

[Hyena 1 calls all aircraft, turn on track lights at target distance.]

Following the squadron leader's words, all the American pilots turned on their track lights and looked at the inky cumulonimbus clouds below, their breathing becoming heavy.

Close combat. It's too unfamiliar to them!
Wow!
It's raining harder!

Raindrops poured down, hitting the destroyer wandering on the ocean, an old ship that had served the empire for 30 years.

The USS Stout (DDG-55, Arleigh Burke-class) is part of the USS Truman Carrier Strike Group and is responsible for monitoring the ocean area east of the crater.

The sea and air search radar scanned the surrounding airspace, but found no sea or air targets except for a large area of ​​clutter.

The captain stood in the CIC, staring at the radar. From the beginning, the radar was interfered with by electromagnetic clutter. According to the combat records of the Carl Vinson, when the radar was interfered with, it was either 815A playing Xiyangyang or alien civilization approaching!

"Hasn't the enemy been found yet?" the captain asked in a serious tone.

"Sir! No! The radar interference is serious!" the radar officer replied loudly.

Looking at the increasing clutter on the radar, the captain knew exactly what it meant. He felt an invisible rope tightening around his neck. "Enhance the main lobe to resist interference. Can you contact the magician?"

"No! Communication interference is severe! We can only wait for the weather to clear up and use laser communication."

The US military also has laser communications, but weather conditions make it impossible to use laser communications for communication.

Suddenly, seven targets, one in front and six behind, appeared on the Stout's sea search radar!
"Sir, target detected, number 7! Approaching us! IFF identification is unresponsive! ECM is strengthening!"

The captain looked at the standard attack formation of 1 in front and 6 in the back, plus the lack of IFF response and severe electromagnetic interference. Each of these items matched what happened to the USS Carl Vinson.

"It's the enemy! Deploy all ships to air combat! Engage! Be prepared to fight!"

"Firefighters, take position! Lower the barrier! No unauthorized movement within the ship!"

A shrill battle alarm sounded inside the warship, and the soldiers quickly headed to their respective combat posts.

In the VLS (vertical launch unit), Standard 2 air defense missiles are launched continuously after the parameters are input.

Swish!Swish!Swish!
Under hot launch, the Standard 2 rocket engine ignited, flew vertically for more than meters, then turned in the air and flew towards the incoming enemy.

The Phalanx close-in weapon system turned its gun barrel, and the 21-barreled RAM short-range air defense missiles also pointed at the direction of the enemy's attack.

The RAM missile uses a composite guidance mode of passive radar homing and infrared homing, but when facing aliens, it mainly uses infrared homing.

The missile's seeker powered on, waiting for the enemy to enter its range before intercepting it at Mach 2.5. At the two o'clock position on the Stout, Liu Jun focused on piloting his fighter. The RWR and radar had completely failed at close range with the Sentinel.

As the rain got heavier, the risk of continuing to fly over the sea became higher and higher. Seeing that there were no sentries with a closing rate in the rear, Liu Jun judged that the energy gap between the two sides had been narrowed.

"War Eagle, it's time to pull up."

"understand!"

Liu Jun pulled the lever, and the J15S bow just lifted 15 degrees and climbed to an altitude of 1000, when he discovered that there seemed to be a large number of bright spots rising into the air on the sea in the distance!
After rising vertically into the air, the light spots quickly changed direction and rushed towards them, following the standard trajectory of vertical launch missiles.

"War Eagle, at one o'clock, there's something happening on the sea! It's a missile!"

At Liu Jun's reminder, Leng Peiqiang turned his head to look, but due to the rain and the weather, he could not see anything in that direction, but there was indeed a faint light spot. He adjusted the IRST's search range and the aperture mode focused on scanning the one o'clock direction.

Finally, after repeated scanning, the IRST captured the heat source emitted by the missile engine. The heat source continuously appeared in the IRST field of view and became clearer and clearer, which meant that the missile was approaching!

"Heat source detected, number 3, 4! And still increasing! Changkong! Evade immediately!"

"understand!"

Because of the different platforms they're launched from, ship-launched air defense missiles pose a threat second only to ground-based missiles! Their power levels far exceed those of air-to-air missiles, and their no-escape zones are much larger. Even just trying to dodge a single ship-launched air defense missile consumes a significant amount of energy, let alone a full-scale launch!
At a distance of 28000, the two sides were flying head-on, and the distance was decreasing rapidly. The Flying Shark was in the missile's no-escape zone. Liu Jun analyzed the current situation and immediately gave up turning to line 39 and chose to go down high!

If you turn to line 39, you will probably be hit in the face by the missile entering the inertial navigation before the missile's Doppler seeker can identify the J15S as the sky/sea surface and filter it out!

The J15S is not like the Sentinel, which is a source of clutter interference. Even if the missile does not hit, the turning will cause deceleration, allowing the six Sentinels behind it to ride on its face!

Descend high! Using the multipath clutter on the sea surface for cover, pull the lever, reduce fuel, and dive toward the sea surface.

"Decoy bomb! Splash!"

While Liu Jun was maneuvering the plane into a dive, Leng Peiqiang in the back seat immediately scattered decoy bombs, and the two had a clear division of labor.

Puff puff!
The J15S continuously drops heat decoys and chaff to interfere with the seeker of the incoming missile!
The J15S drew a curve in the air and dived towards the sea below. When it dived to less than 200 meters from the sea surface, it quickly pulled the stick. The aircraft continued to plunge down for more than 150 meters due to inertia, and finally leveled out when it was less than 20 meters away from the sea surface. The wind pressure caused the sea surface below to sink.

Pushing the throttle, the WS-10H ran at full power, the speed continued to increase, and soon reached Mach 1. Cumulonimbus clouds formed a semicircular cover on the surface of the fuselage, and it galloped across the sea in the heavy rain.

At this altitude, the advantage is that the ground effect will provide enough lift for the J15S. However, if you are not careful, the plane will be destroyed and people will die. Liu Jun's forehead was soon covered with fine sweat. Fortunately, the sea surface is not like the land, with uneven terrain, and there will be no trees to interfere with the flight path.

When the J15S skimmed the sea and entered the multipath clutter area and stabilized, Leng Peiqiang asked in surprise, "What's going on? Only old US warships are patrolling this area. Why would the Arleigh Burke launch missiles at us?!"

Launching thermal weapons is completely different from rubbing a ship, which is equivalent to declaring war. And declaring war on Todai during this time when aliens are infested? The Americans are not that stupid! Todai will also remind the Americans not to be stupid!

(End of this chapter)