Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 331
The Chinese command plane had been tracking the two Rafale fighters steadily until they suddenly disappeared from view.

No. 222 Squadron has a strong low-altitude combat capability in mountainous areas. Everyone knows this. Not long ago, when they sneaked into the snow mountain radar, they played this trick, and they were equipped with MiG 27UPG at that time.This is an extremely abnormal action. They seem to have neither chased the Su-30MKK, nor rushed towards the low-speed armed helicopters on the Yarlung Zangbo River. The change is not big, and the enemy may touch the front without ground guidance.

The lonely early warning aircraft immediately faced several choices, or quickly changed its course and hid on the side of the mountain. The Indian fighter jets lack ground guidance, so it is naturally impossible to succeed, but such a brave helicopter will lose guidance.Either continue to fly along the original route; in Linzhi territory, a concealed surface-to-air missile battalion has been deployed under the nose of the enemy. If the Indian fighter jets dare to rush in like last time, they will definitely be smashed.

As usual, the command plane asked the ground headquarters for instructions, requiring the surface-to-air missiles to be turned on, and at least one surface-to-air blinding radar to be turned on to make up for the blind spots blocked by high mountains.However, the veto order was immediately obtained. Obviously, the superiors did not want to expose the entire deployment and campaign intentions.However, the command plane immediately got good news that two fighter planes could take off from the front-line airport in Qamdo immediately.

After Dabrini lowered the altitude, he easily lost the tracking of the command plane, which he was very familiar with.He led his wingman to turn quickly, and according to the preset route, after 2 minutes, he will enter a position where he can attack.He expected that since he successfully raided the snow mountain radar, the Chinese direction would definitely strengthen the ground defense, but now he was driving, and it was no longer the original MiG-27.

"Watch out for their surface-to-air systems, especially the centimeter-wave radars for the anti-aircraft guns," he said.This is what he is most worried about. The threat of J-10 fighter jets in Qamdo has been left behind. The battle will end within 4 to 5 minutes. Although the enemy's airport is very close, it will definitely be too late to dispatch again. This is his reference The activation rate of the elite wing of the Indian Air Force, concluded.

On the 4300-meter Bangda Airport, two J-2 fighter jets accelerated and taxied one after the other. They did not pull up rapidly at the end of the runway, but continued to accelerate until they disappeared at the end of the runway.

If there is any advantage to this suffocating plateau runway, it is that fighter jets do not need to slowly climb to gain altitude. In fact, two planes fly together, and they have an altitude advantage of about 2 meters compared to the gust formation.

Through the multi-function display, they knew that the formation of enemy planes suddenly disappeared tens of seconds ago, and now the enemy planes may appear in various directions, so the two fighter planes temporarily changed their plans, one flew towards the helicopter fleet, and the other flew towards the helicopter fleet. The AWACS flew away, and the next two fighters would complete take-off preparations within 2 minutes, but they were not very conscious.

Dabrini guessed that he had already entered the range of the missile, and suddenly pulled up the fighter plane, followed closely by his wingman.His electronic tactical threat system immediately detected the early warning aircraft, and the phased array radar also scanned the target within ten seconds and carried out ranging. The command aircraft deviated slightly from the original route, so it was farther than expected. It seems that the enemy has taken precautions.

The colonel was in a hurry to accelerate and climb. If the enemy plane was allowed to bypass the mountains, the situation would take a turn for the worse. The Chinese Army must have a strong long-range air defense firepower network near the LS.

During the accelerated pursuit of the fighter jets, the colonel suddenly found another radar scanning to the east. He subconsciously used a vertical pull to get rid of the enemy and enter the tracking, but the wingman was a little slow and was caught by this radar. .

"Colonel, I'm bitten," a panicked voice on the radio called.

"Hold him for 20 seconds, and I'll finish the attack," the colonel said.He'd already lost a wingman here, so he wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice a second if necessary.

The formation disbanded immediately, and the colonel went straight to the command plane, leaving his wingmen to entangle with the newly appeared enemy plane. He didn't have time to think about why the enemy plane appeared so strangely. Now he only thought about using the shortest route to chase into the range.If nothing else, he can fire missiles in 50 seconds.In fact, Mika has already suffered a great loss in range, and can only make up for it with bold actions deep into the enemy's territory.

After the break, the wingman began to turn to the direction of the radar radiation source. He didn't know the type of the enemy yet, but judging from the performance of the radar's rapid interception, he could guess that it was almost the same.Now, he was at an absolute altitude and azimuth disadvantage, and there was nothing he could do but point the bullet at the bandit; the pilot prayed that the bandit would not open fire until he completed the turn.Before he could complete his turn, the electronic tactical warning device indicated a second source of radiation.

The two Chinese fighter jets are located 2 degrees apart, and the models, speeds, distances, and whether they have fired are unknown; the pilots know that it is difficult to reverse this situation.He didn't dare to turn to challenge hastily, so he resorted to the trick of dodging from the ground and air again, circling downward.At the critical moment of life and death, he completely forgot the mission of leading the plane.

Dabrini did not respond to his call to the wingman on the radio, and the data link remained unblocked. Obviously, the wingman did not play a role in delaying, because the new enemy aircraft radar quickly intercepted the colonel, and the colonel could quickly maneuver to get rid of it, but Doing so would undoubtedly ruin his good situation. There are only 20 seconds left before the missile can be launched, and he didn't know how to choose for a while.

"Where did these enemy planes come from?"

He never knew that the Chinese Air Force stationed a large number of professional ground staff at Bangda Airport, which made his wishful thinking a little bit off.

The 2-on-2 air battle turned into a one-sided battle. The two J-2s each bit an enemy plane and started chasing it.The AWACS in the distance is turning slowly to avoid it.The situation will change within tens of seconds, just above this no man's land.

The J-10 lead plane completed the radar interception. At this moment, the enemy was still on the edge of the missile envelope, but he knew that the problem must not be dealt with according to common sense, so he decisively launched all 2 missiles.He didn't expect to be able to hit it, but only hoped that when the missile's active radar was turned on, it could scare the enemy plane and force it to start evasive.

Dabrini's Rafale pursued all the way, accelerating to Mach 1.2.At this speed, the range of the Mika missile can be guaranteed to a certain extent, but it is still not enough.He kept an eye on the monitor from time to time, the data lotus was still working, and the triangular wingman logo was still changing. The guy hadn't responded. It was obviously his first time participating in a battle, and he was scared out of his wits.The Tiger Shark Squadron originally had many good players, but unfortunately it was split into two and a half to fight in the North and South battlefields, and those stationed in the area south of Darjeeling were mainly novices.

In the valley on the ground, several follow-up antennas that irradiate radar are following the data link transmission, the direction of the gust changes and turns, and the launch tube on the nearby launch vehicle has also been erected.But there was still no order to start it up. Of course, it was too late to start it up at this moment, so it could only be used as an actual combat exercise.

The orders from the superiors were monolithic. The equipment smuggled to the front must be kept absolutely concealed, and the Indian electronic reconnaissance force, which is very close, must not be aware of the clues.

In the Gust's cabin, the screams of the alarm disturbed the colonel's mood. He had already crossed the control line. Due to the lack of ground radar support, he could only rely on radar warning equipment to perceive threats in most directions.However, the height of the gust was still not ideal, and the speed slowly climbed to Mach 1.3 within a dozen seconds.And the target is taking advantage of the mountain to turn and try to avoid it.The colonel felt a heavy pressure on his shoulders, and the breathing in the oxygen mask became rapid.

The prompt to allow the launch finally appeared, he hesitated for a moment, and launched it anyway.He understands that this is a gamble with less than half the chance of winning, but he must try.

As expected.Just watching the missile fly towards the snow-capped mountains in the distance, MPCD sensed a deadly threat—at 6 o'clock, an active guidance radar was turned on, followed by the second one.The colonel never knew the distance of the enemy plane, so he had no way of judging the situation of the two missiles launched by the enemy. However, since the active radar was turned on, it must have reached a very close distance.

After all, he is a life-saving mortal. After his determination collapsed, he struggled to pull the joystick, hovered with a 9G, and launched several groups of chaff at the same time to avoid the threat of tailing, and the two Mika missiles launched by the Rafale flew not far away. , and then lost the command, forced to enter the inertial guidance stage.

The colonel removed his oxygen mask and looked back to see the threat. He saw 9 missiles in the 2 o'clock area limply turning towards him. These missiles were obviously launched from the edge of range. They were rapidly losing speed and began to fall.

"How is this going?"

The colonel really wanted to slap himself a few times. Standing in front of a huge victory, he didn't stand the final test?

"Turning back at this moment, is there still time to correct the Mika missile? After all, the data link communication of the missile is still continuing." But the colonel immediately regained his senses.The 9G turn of the previous gust made it lose too much speed, and now it is very difficult to forcefully point to the target.And the radar of that enemy plane has been biting him tightly, and now he needs to accumulate some speed to deal with the second round of shooting (he didn't know that the J-10 only has 2 medium-range bombs).

Chang Yong has been clinging to the river and struggling to move upstream. He saw several missile trails in the sky, which are extending rapidly. It is obvious that fierce battles are unfolding at various heights.He felt a little uneasy, the snow mountain was just ahead, did he climb as planned?Will it break into a chaotic air battle, but with little fuel left, he doesn't have many options.

When the helicopter was slowly pulled up, he saw a gray fighter coming out from behind the mountain on one side. The shape of this plane was very similar to the J-10. However, Chang Yong knew that Chinese fighters did not have such a painting. An Indian fighter jet.

The Indian fighter did not turn back to attack the helicopter. He only flew quickly over the forest, looking a little panicked.

Captain Chang Yong resumed contact with the command plane again. He informed the other party that it was impossible for the fuel to fly to the designated area. He asked the command plane to immediately guide a flat area behind the mountain pass for him to land. At the same time, there were wounded on the plane who needed Black Hawk to respond. .

This is a very risky climbing process. As the air becomes thinner, a higher flight speed must be maintained in order to maintain sufficient lift.With a little carelessness, the heavy helicopter may get out of control and crash due to insufficient lift, and here, it is actually still within the range of India's long-range firepower.

The command plane stopped for a while, and then indicated the forced landing area behind the snow mountain, and told him and the other two planes to be especially careful of the airflow at the mountain pass.

Namjagbarwa is vividly visible. There is a gap at an altitude of 4100 meters on the gentle slope on its east side. This is a shortcut for helicopters, and it is also a high-risk area with huge risks hidden. The airflow here is always changing. However, the horizontal airflow is extremely dangerous for a helicopter struggling to cross an impasse.

The three planes flew over the col close to the col, and the wounded soldiers sitting on the short wings were frozen to death, but Chang Yong was only worried about the seriously wounded man, because his vertical head hadn't moved for a long time.These soldiers have been operating in Shannan at a slightly lower altitude, wearing thicker clothing, and Chang Yong hopes that he can hold on.

(End of this chapter)