Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 175 Precise Counterattack
Jaafar narrowly used chaff to fool the missiles fired at him two kilometers away.The enemy's transition from defense to offense was so fast that he was dumbfounded, and lost a wingman in an instant.His old teammate Goya was 2 kilometers away due north at this time, carefully dealing with another wave of flying leopards, and had no time to take care of here.He wanted to catch up immediately and fight back, but the enemy plane did not intend to let him approach. The early warning plane 30 kilometers away watched the two bombers turn and leave.

Captain Goya found that the good advantage he had planned was gone. In a blink of an eye, the flank had been breached by the enemy, and the number of the enemy was no longer 6 to 4, but became 5 to 8, and all the enemy planes seemed to be outnumbered. It can fire medium-range bombs, but the Tejas fighter that Jafar does not have (mounts) medium-range bombs.

"Bastion, I request to evacuate the battlefield."

"Captain Eagle, if you evacuate now, their bombers are likely to come back. Be sure to drive them away." The early warning aircraft replied coldly.

"Damn."

Before it was his turn to make the first move, the two Flying Leopards in the south had already fired missiles at a barely close distance.The launch was spotted by the AWACS, which alerted the Eagle formation in time.The situation is a bit chaotic. It seems that these planes did not carry any bombs when they dispatched today, and they seemed to have come prepared.The Eagle was forced to accelerate north to escape the missile envelope, leaving the 2 LCAs behind.The whole battle situation began to take a turn for the worse.

At the same time, two J-2Bs that had dropped their fuel tanks had already flown to the front. As Goya expected, these planes no longer had medium-range bombs, but they occupied an excellent position.

Colonel Sami was the first to rush out of the clouds, and his radar failed to scan the target all the way down, which made him a little anxious.The chaotic white steam in the sky indicated the violent dodge that had just occurred here.The colonel could see one of the hydraulic trails rushing towards the ground. It seemed that the enemy was trying to escape at low altitude. The AWACS updated the information of the enemy plane in time, which was exactly the same as his judgment; the enemy plane was 5 kilometers away.
The colonel lowered the nose of the aircraft and followed closely behind.He is now condescending, and his eyes are wide open to distinguish carefully; small planes fly close to the ground, and it is always difficult to see clearly.From a distance, he saw the fighter plane turning, and it seemed that he wanted to fight back.

If it weren't for the gleaming wings of the glorious fighter jet when it was flying on the slope, maybe it wouldn't have been discovered.The colonel tried again to track the bandit in down-sight mode, but was unsuccessful.The enemy plane a few kilometers away wanted to be nimble, and hid in the blind spot of the radar at once, but had no intention of using afterburner to escape.Sami sees through the plot of the enemy plane's Jedi counterattack. He can have many ways to kill the enemy plane, but a round of chasing is inevitable. If the time is delayed, it may give Song Ning, who is covering himself after 6 kilometers, a chance to steal the victory. This is not what he wants.The colonel took a risky dive and pointed at the bandit, trying to get as close to the bandit as possible without cutting into the inside of the turn.The enemy plane pulled up sharply at 10 o'clock, then dexterously rolled a few laps to lose speed, and always hid outside the radar field of view. This phased array radar also has some dead spots, sometimes at the edge of the scanning area The high-mobility target is also powerless.Sammy was absolutely sure that there was an experienced veteran in front of him. He did not enter into a flustered snake-like movement, but carefully circled in the radar blind spot on the left side of the cockpit cover, pretending to use a large overload to get out of it.Obviously, this Indian pilot is very familiar with the performance of that small aircraft. He wanted to lead the trailing opponent into a low-speed circle. Perhaps at that time, his sudden climb after the momentary circle played a little role.But Sami doesn't need to rely on better circling ability to forcibly use the radar to intercept the opponent. He wants to prove that the opponent's slowing down is a mistake.

"Colonel, the Su 30 team is turning back, and may have to counterattack, the direction of 045, the distance is about 45 kilometers." The early warning aircraft said on the radio.

"Continue to monitor those Su-30s, and ask Major Song Ning to keep an eye on the other escaped LCA for me. I can't see it now. He should be hiding in the clouds." .

Song Ning heard the colonel's arrangement, but had no choice but to follow through. In China, he couldn't imagine that there would be such a veteran in such a professional branch of the air force, so arrogant that he could bargain with the command and early warning aircraft.But do as the Romans do, the colonel can only let him if he wants to monopolize it.

The ring of the helmet's sight has caught the brilliance that it thinks it has succeeded, and the computer will sample for a few seconds to collect data on changes in azimuth.Sammy stabilized the plane and his own neck, and took a few sets of anti-overload breaths, so that the less violent and stable circle prevented the enemy plane from running into the 9 to 10 o'clock position, which is difficult for missiles to hit. After overloading, the colonel has not told anyone that he has fainted briefly during the high-g maneuvering. He knows that his old bones will be thrown into the sky sooner or later, but it is definitely not today.

Sure enough, the Brilliant lead plane pulled up and slowed down, trying to lure the colonel into a typical scissors chase, swinging the old man forward, which is the most powerful killing move of a flexible light aircraft.But today Jaafar found the wrong partner.

Captain Jaafar waited impatiently for his opponent to swoop forward, as most pilots would.The captain has only been studying LCA tactics for a month, but he has already discovered that this small aircraft has a huge advantage, that is, it can climb up unexpectedly and throw the fierce enemy aircraft to the front, so that the offensive and defensive situation will be changed.But once he pulls up, the J-10 fighter behind him will pull up immediately, keeping a distance.Gradually, the captain found that the guy in the back had a good grasp of the throttle lever. He even tried it a few times, but the opponent handled it carefully and was not in a hurry to point the radar at him.This made him a little anxious, he knew that in just a moment, the follow-up enemies would arrive, and their numerical advantage would be manifested.Of course he didn't know that the opponent behind him was just as worried about having a numerical advantage as he was, and what he feared most was being taken away by his comrades.

The lock-on of the helmet sights was interrupted a few times, and now it finally did, the audio signal that allowed that to happen finally sounded.

The two missiles flew off the pylon one after another, and went straight to the enemy plane 2 kilometers away.Gafar, who had been looking back all the time, lost his position and started firing tracer rounds, and flipping the joystick, trying to get rid of the missile by swooping and circling.Sammy took the opportunity to slip it into the radar aperture and aimed it firmly at him.Even if the plane could get away with avoiding the blow, the colonel promised to stay back.

Jaafar's dodge didn't work. Two infrared missiles passed through the tracer bombs and exploded on the side of the Tejas fighter. The shrapnel hit the vertical tail and the plane spun out of control. At 2 meters, I finally struggled to get rid of it and ejected.

Goya rushed over and couldn't find Jaafar on the radio. He predicted that Jaafar might have fallen west of the Indus River, but not too far.

"Fortress, I ask the Army to immediately send a helicopter to rescue the pilot, we cannot let the Valiant Medalist fall into the enemy's hands."

"I'll contact the army right away."

At this moment, Goya had two enemy planes approaching in front of him, posing for close combat, while the other two were trailing behind.The last fighter plane of Jaafar's team had already fled the battlefield in disregard of the early warning aircraft's instructions, which made Goya unwilling to fight. His team hastily fired a few medium-range bullets at the opponent and made a feint. Before the radar was turned on, the three Su-30MKIs turned around. east.These planes are loaded with medium-range bombs, which are very unsuitable for melee combat, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers. Escaping from the battlefield is his only choice right now.

Zhang Chengyan and other teammates completed the formation again.Now the air threats in all directions have been eliminated, and their fuel is more than half, but he is not going to bring the last ground-to-ground missile back just like that.

When each Flying Leopard took off, it carried a stand-off air-to-surface missile. The original plan was to try its luck with the accuracy of this missile.Because the United States has tampered with the navigation satellites over the Indian Ocean, all weapons and aircraft that use GPS navigation in the region have been greatly affected, but this missile is an exception. It can be independently developed by China, which is not controlled by other countries. The advanced navigation satellite system calibrates the INS and reduces the theoretical error to a radius of about 25 meters. It is hard to say whether such an error can be relied on to hit the long and narrow pontoon bridge.

The weapon operator will switch on the missile's inertial navigation system, and the computer will begin to calculate the starting coordinates of the target, the target distance and set the flight path in one fell swoop. There is a huge difference between the data of GPS and Beidou satellites.The operator chose to close the GPS channel without hesitation.

About 90 kilometers away from the target, Zhang Chengyan ordered the launch.Driven by a turbofan engine, the missile flew out of the pylon, and the aircraft was extremely light.The rest is completely left to the observation post of the missile itself and the infantry in front. 4 Flying Leopards turned and returned to Peshawar Airport.

Sukkur area.Spanga's army had just suffered again. The rockets brought white parachutes that fell from the sky. These terminal bombs attacked one of his convoys again, destroying a large number of military vehicles and equipment.However, thanks to GPS errors, these rockets deviated from the ferry by about 400 meters and missed the armored troops of the White Tiger Division who were gathering at the ferry.But the last sensitive bomb still hit the convoy and a regiment command post.The vehicles in this area are too dense, and you can hit some targets by throwing anything at random.

Immediately afterwards, the second air defense siren sounded, this time several cruise missiles came out from behind the mountains southwest of Sukkur and roared towards the ferry.A self-propelled anti-aircraft gun that just arrived had just established its position, and its position was in a good shooting range to the northwest. The search radar on the top of the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun immediately discovered the target over the open area, and the front tracking radar started a few seconds later. Track the first target.After the missile entered the range of the artillery, the two 2mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns fired several times. In the first scene, the explosion over the first pontoon bridge instantly destroyed one-half of the Indus River transportation line that Lieutenant General Spanga painstakingly managed; it will take at least 35 precious hours to repair this pontoon bridge, and it will take more than half of the completed pontoon bridge. On the No. 2 pontoon bridge, a section of the pontoon bridge body is removed.Soon, the direction of the No. 2 Infantry Division was also attacked by a similar cruise missile. Since it only hit the half-hanging pontoon bridge, it did not cause much damage.

(End of this chapter)