Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 190
Major Hasan was a little pessimistic now, since he was ordered to destroy the bridge over Sukkur, he had a premonition that the Indians might win.In order to clean up the mess for the incompetence of the headquarters, he actually wanted to blow up his own bridge. This is obviously not a sign of turning defeat into victory.The number of F5C/D fighters in the 16th Squadron has been reduced to less than 2 within 10 months.Although his personal rivalry with Sammy was still going on at the moment, it was over for him.Today, most of the elite squadrons in the north have exhausted their F16s, and more than half of the pilots have suffered casualties, and these losses cannot be made up.The Air Force Staff is training novices to fight in Quetta with a crash method. Some planes fell during the training. After decades, the Pakistani Air Force's deep-rooted thinking about elite soldiers is being uprooted.The higher authorities are even planning to use JF17block-2 to make up for the loss of the precious F16block52. These moves have chilled the self-esteemed major.

The war of attrition will obviously wear down the weaker side first, although the countries in the Middle East have extended a little helping hand, such as sending these CBU-105 models that can destroy an entire battalion of tanks under the strict arms sales treaty of the United States. Sensitive bomb dispensers, but these actions that are insignificant in the face of India seem insignificant.After all, it is impossible for the UAE or Saudi Arabia to lend Typhoon or F16 to Pakistan. He even has some personal plans. If Pakistan is defeated, he may retire immediately and go to some countries in the Middle East as a mercenary pilot. Flying is of course inseparable from the F16.

"Captain Fighting Falcon, this is Viper, the drone has collected new target location information, please re-adjust the route." The early warning aircraft called.

"Viper, I've seen a new route."

"The ground troops of the enemy and us may be in a stalemate, be careful of bombing."

"Understood." Hassan replied.He raised the nose slightly and climbed for a while, so that the pilot in the back seat could see farther away. From the target position displayed on the data link, the general battlefield was not far ahead.He had only to fly along the Chenab River to see it.He knows the power of the composite sensor of the ammunition carried today. Each warhead can scan a target within a few thousand square meters in a few milliseconds, and it has no ability to identify friend or foe. If the tanks of the two sides really get mixed up, Casualties are unavoidable.

"It has climbed to 2500 meters. Can you see it?"

"I can't see it yet, please fly more steadily, squadron leader."

Hassan tried his best to control the flight posture smoothly, while the weapon operator tried to scan the ground with the radar first, and soon the radar recognized the group of tanks in the distance. From the scanned image, the formation of the tanks is quite dense, which is very suitable for use These smart munitions.But he couldn't see the situation of the enemy and the enemy clearly from the image, it seemed that the two sides were really fighting together.He then switched on the targeting pod channel and used infrared to detect the front.He has roughly grasped the situation, and the position information returned by the drone is undoubtedly correct. Indian tanks are attacking northward in a very dense formation, and he can pass over the enemy's head from northwest to southeast.If you can get closer, you may be able to use the imaging advantages of the Blue Shield pod to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and then drop the bomb more accurately.

"Fighting Falcon, the enemy planes are dispatched, you only have one chance." Hassan shouted.It can be seen on the electronic tactical threat display that the enemy who turned on the radar swooped in. The Indians have established air superiority in this area. Although due to technical defects, they cannot rashly attack ground targets at night, they can expel Pakistani aircraft unambiguously.

"What's the situation?" the AWACS asked.Hesitant for fear of being attacked, this early warning aircraft flew almost close to the Afghan border, so that its observation blind spot was so large that it even needed fighter jets to tell him what happened.

"I don't know, the distance is unknown, but the MPCD shows that it is a Mirage 2000 fighter jet. More than one." Hassan replied.

"Fighting Falcon, the bomb has to be dropped anyway, and you don't care about the consequences. Got it?"

"I understand."

The Pakistani armored forces on the ground are dealing with the pressing enemy. The No. 221 tank has been hit 105 times by 3mm artillery shells.But there are still some losses. The crosswind sensor on the turret was destroyed, but it was not serious. Any other equipment on the turret was more important than this. .

"Commander, they must be able to see us." Gunner Tasim shouted.

"It's up to you to say." Yahini replied.At this time, the heroic Indian tanks in the front row all turned on their infrared searchlights, and almost all the retreating Pakistani tanks were exposed from the darkness.Now the only advantage that MBT 2000 can rely on is armor.In another round of shooting at a distance of 900 meters, the action part of three more Pakistani tanks was hit, and then fell behind. It seemed that the enemy had changed its strategy again.

"Block their view with smoke," Yahini shouted over the radio, counting on the smoke to block the view of enemy gunners.

At this time, No. 221's projectile smoke bombs have been fired, and now he can only use the electric smoke pump device to generate smoke.He flipped the switch on the power distribution board, and waited for a few seconds. The high-temperature exhaust gas formed by diesel came out from the vortex jet at the rear of the car, and No. 221, which was in reverse, gradually disappeared into the smoke. Continuous firing is also an effective obstacle for enemy gunners equipped with simple night vision goggles.

Thick smoke began to fill the turret, and the gunner choked and coughed.Yahini realized that he made a mistake in his busy schedule and let the exhaust gas get in. He raised his hand and pulled down the hatch above his head. During this time, the turret was hit by a flat shell again.It seems that these smoke screens are of limited use to experienced shooters.He turned around and came behind the gunner, released the locking pin on one side, and pulled the control lever to close the intake and exhaust shutters. Now the tank is completely sealed, and no poisonous smoke can get in.The sergeant had never seriously studied the use of these three-proof equipment, so he naturally forgot that the booster fan and air filter should be turned on together immediately.The enemy shells made him panic, he stood directly behind the director and watched Tasim shoot. The thermal imaging equipment of No. 221 played a role again, and the gunner accurately hit a tank that was trying to outflank from one side through the smoke.Yahini did the math, and within a few minutes, his crew had eliminated 6 targets. , but the frontal enemy has not been seen less.

"Played well."

"Sergeant, when will our plane arrive?" The gunner asked Yahini while the loader was operating.

"It will be there soon, I promise." He promised casually.

The T55 on the front completely disregarded the fact that one blow would destroy Germany, bravely outflanked the Pakistani tanks, and gradually formed a pincer formation.At this time, the regiment had lost one-third of its tanks, but it still had a five to one advantage in terms of strength.The balance of power will begin to tilt in their favor in a moment.The head of the regiment, Sahri, rushed to the front in a tank and took command.He firmly believes that he has a shortcut to destroy the enemy. Since the enemy keeps retreating and trying to increase the distance, what he has to do is to entangle with the enemy.

F16 skimmed over the battlefield at a speed of 250 meters per second. He was above the clouds, and no one could detect its existence.Of course, it is also difficult to distinguish the boundary of several hundred meters in the formation of the two armies.In fact, Yahini's tank group released a large amount of smoke, which also caused some interference to the infrared detection of the targeting pod. The pilot in the back seat had no intention of distinguishing who was who from the harsh warning sound of the Mirage fighter. With the experience of horizontal bombing, the bombing trigger was pulled in the first time.

Six 6kg dispensers were successively thrown onto the battlefield in a horizontal throwing mode.A few seconds later, the projectile fuze detonated, and 450 bullets were evenly scattered across the entire area at different angles.Then these ammunition will open the retarding parachute successively according to the different time set.The sky filled with smart ammunition descended like a celestial girl scattered flowers, and when the low-altitude bombs rotated, the rotating parachute began to work. Driven by the rotating parachute, the smart sensor began to rotate, and searched for heat sources and millimeter wave reflections on the battlefield at a scanning angle of 240 degrees. and distinguish them by identifying patterns.

The whole process was not noticed by anyone.When the multi-mode sensors found the targets one by one hundreds of meters in the air, the tankers below were still shooting each other, not knowing that the disaster was ahead.

Countless bolts of lightning suddenly shot out in the night sky.The dense lightning lasted for a few seconds, and when the last glare of brilliance disappeared.The battlefield on the ground finally fell silent, and most of the tanks were no longer moving.

Yahini saw a terrible scene from the surrounding mirror. He saw that the opponent's tank was hit by an evil spirit, was constantly struck by low-altitude lightning and then stopped. He wondered if it was his hallucination before he died, but all this It's all true.He turned the peripheral vision device and looked around. It turned out that not only the enemy was hit, but also his own tanks around him were hit one by one. He suddenly realized that there was an aircraft hiding in the clouds and dropping deadly ammunition.

"Division Headquarters, I have to report an important situation. A bastard dropped a bomb on us."

There was no reply from the division headquarters, and he suddenly felt a little dizzy, probably because he was angry.

Hassan drove the F16 that had dropped the ammunition and turned westward. He didn't feel any guilt, because he did it according to the requirements of the command, not to mention that he had more critical enemy situations to deal with now.Judging from the position and intensity of the enemy's radar scanning on the MPCD, the enemy has almost locked himself.He rolls and releases chaff in an attempt to escape.But he doesn't know the location and number of enemies, which is a big deal.After he completed the bombing mission, the early warning aircraft turned around and fled northward almost at the same time as him, because at this time a team of Indian Su-30s had secretly outflanked from the direction of Punjab in an attempt to catch a big leak.Since India's ground mobile radar was deployed to the newly occupied frontier of Kashmir, it has been able to control a large airspace from a high position. For Pakistan's early warning aircraft, the range of free movement has been greatly reduced.Now fighter pilots are on their own.

(End of this chapter)