Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 332 The door is wide open
The pursuit in the air is still going on. The Rafale wingman is desperately lowering the altitude to avoid the radar tracking of the enemy plane. However, the J-10 has no intention of giving up. The advantage position so easily obtained cannot be given up. If the men are lenient, the enemy may turn back. The Chinese pilot who went deep into the enemy's territory knew very well that he underestimated the enemy's empty air defense firepower in this area.Although it is difficult to catch this fairly flexible target in the mountains, as long as it goes deep into the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, which is relatively flat, the J-10 fighter jets have a considerable chance to catch it with the downward-looking ability of the radar.

"Kunlun, please pursue to a more distant area. Help me look at the ground radar."

"Pursuit is allowed, but don't get close to the 30-kilometer air defense circle of Tespur." The command plane allowed this attack, and now it is not a matter of how far to break through, and drives the enemy plane farther. For the three planes that are crossing the ridge Helicopters are an important safeguard.

"clear."

The fleeing gust appeared and disappeared on the radar screen, and it was temporarily impossible to complete the tracking.The pilot doesn't want to take the risk of lowering the altitude and chasing the enemy in the mountains; he just wants to maintain the pressure at high altitude and force the enemy plane to make a mistake, maybe he will crash into the mountain himself.In fact, he has been secretly admiring the enemy's low-altitude skills. It is like a dexterous bird, swimming and turning in the valley.

This Rafale flies at an altitude of less than 2 meters. It does not carry a navigation pod, but the Rafale’s radar is also sufficient to complete terrain avoidance flight. This kind of flight cannot be carried out automatically. It can only provide terrain mapping data and prompt sounds ahead. This made the chase extremely exciting. The scanning beam of the Chinese radar was detected by the MPCD from time to time, and the danger followed. The Indian pilot knew that he would be bitten as soon as he showed his head.At this time, he thought of calling the lead plane, but the complex terrain interrupted the data link communication of the two Rafales.

The J-10 fought as if it had entered a land of no one, flying over the west side of Jabuwa Airport. This airport once deployed three Su-3MKIs of the 102 Squadron, but these aircraft have been transferred thousands of kilometers away. Now there are only Next an empty runway and fleeing ground crews.

The air-to-air radar around Jabwa Airport is completely within the command plane's reconnaissance. There is obviously no decent air defense here. In Lin Huaisheng's plan, the defense capability of this airport is a crucial part. Now its trump card It was exposed, almost wide open.

The mountains became flatter as they went south, and the Indian fighter plane finally lost the mountain barrier that could hide itself. In front of him was the wide Brahmaputra River. He could only pull up the plane to make a last-ditch effort.

The last attack of the J-10 has broken through the weak hinterland of Assam, so the Chinese pilots know that they are still quite safe.He didn't care about approaching Tespur for the second time in one day. His bottom line was on the line of Tespur, where there was still a relatively decent air defense system, and it was still insurmountable for the time being.

The Rafale is pulling up quickly, but such a climb is difficult to reverse the passive situation. When he maintains a 1000-meter altitude advantage with the trailing enemy plane, it is really ill-considered to try to recover the disadvantage by such a direct method. Novice In such cases, mistakes are always inevitable.

The vertical movement of the enemy plane could not escape the scanning of the J-10 radar. At the end of the ten-second somersault, the J-10's fire control radar finally completed the interception.

On the HUD, the red aiming circle around the enemy plane began to shrink, and the energy of the phased array radar was concentrating on the target.

The pilot adjusted his posture slightly, fired all the two medium-range missiles under his wings, then dived down, kept tracking, and prepared for the second round of engagement; he completely ignored the ground air defense firepower. In the airspace above 2 meters, the enemy is already defenseless.All of this must be thanks to the high-level Indians who demolished the original defense system.

Gust's sensitive electronic tactical system immediately detected the trailing active guided missile, and he was forced to sacrifice altitude again and use a dive to speed up.

In a few seconds, he returned to his original altitude. The active radar downsight ability of the medium-range bomb was limited, and he could not distinguish a piece of chaff close to the ground and the target hiding in it.

During the turn, the missiles both lost their target and fell into the river.However, this round of confrontation not only did not change Gust's disadvantage, in fact, such unnecessary vertical maneuvers exhausted his last energy. Now it has neither speed nor height, and the cost of confrontation is completely lost.The J-10 fighter jets in hot pursuit had already pursued to a distance sufficient to launch combat bombs, firmly occupying the 6 o'clock position.The only problem facing the Chinese pilots was to shoot down the enemy before they could escape into Tespur's air defense circle.

Everyone in the Second Army Headquarters in Tispur fell into panic. For the second time in his life, Chaguye got into the underground command post. The previous time was just 40 minutes ago.He was a little angry, because the enemy's air force seemed to be in no man's land.He has a sky missile battalion in the river valley, which is now on the run.There were 2 other battalions around Tespur, but the range was not enough.

Since 2000, an anti-aircraft missile battalion has been added every year. Not long ago, the total number of missile battalions reached 15, but now, only half of the anti-aircraft battalions are left.After Srinagar, an important town in Kashmir, was attacked by satellite-guided bombs from the Chinese Air Force, General Meneyam of the Northern Military Region exerted tremendous pressure on the Ministry of National Defense. In the end, the Army Staff, which was battered, had to send the air defense of the relatively stable Assam region Troops were deployed around Leh to strengthen defense.In Chaguye's view, the only reason for doing this is that Srinagar is closer to New Delhi, and the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense are afraid.He felt a little dissatisfied. Although Singh directly intervened in the Army Staff Department, he was promoted; but after taking office, he discovered that the Second Army that he took over had become an empty shell, and the Army Staff Department gradually got used to this. The method of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall is still constantly transferring the resources of the entire region to other military regions.The current military strength and technical equipment are simply unable to guard the entire Assam state, let alone the Arunachal area.

On the wall of the underground command room, a huge screen displayed the batches of invading enemy planes, from 2 batches to 3 batches, and the number became 4.Apparently it was the 4 that came not long ago.

"They are very proud now. They can fly over my head at any time and play wild." The lieutenant general said angrily.

"If I were their commander, I would do the same. It's like a professional boxer who discovers the opponent's weakness and will never show mercy." Charmain, who was standing by the side, said in a tone-deaf way, "They obviously see through your defenses."

"What can I do? Rely on those MiG-21s?" said the lieutenant general, who knew there was no point in getting those old planes into the air.And in fact, the previous 4 on-duty planes were knocked down, and there were no more fighter planes that could take off at the airport.

"It's useless to give you the Su-30. The airport in Tespur will be their main target for the first round of long-range fire."

Charmain said coldly, as if foretelling the future.

"You mean, they will have a larger attack?" The lieutenant general said vigilantly. He knew that the person in front of him was the chief of intelligence, so he wouldn't talk nonsense.

"I'm not sure yet. I have to go to the front to see." Charmain said that he originally planned to take the helicopter of the Secret Service Squadron to the front to investigate, but the enemy situation reappeared, making Tespur Airport closed again.

As soon as he finished speaking, the screen on the wall suddenly stopped changing, and all the signs stopped in place.

"What's going on?" the Lieutenant General yelled.

"Electromagnetic interference, they threw in a jammer."

"Look, everything is coming, I said the director, you must immediately report the serious situation here to the Ministry of Defense, they may bomb Tespur at any time."

The trembling in the air is still going on, and the gust of wind is still desperately countered during the hasty escape. The pilots use the excellent low-altitude maneuverability of the fighter planes to destroy the trailing aim by constantly sacrificing speed. Squadron 222 is one of the few in the Air Force. The elite troops are known for their strict training, so even a novice is not easy to give in easily.

The J-10 pursued all the way and dropped to 1500 meters. This altitude has fallen into the range of anti-aircraft guns. The pilot must always be alert to the threats around him. He thinks that he can't drag it any longer. He must use some strategies to solve the problem quickly.

The radar warning in the gust cabin suddenly went silent, and the pilot wondered if this was a good sign.He kept turning his head to search for the possible location of the enemy, but he couldn't see anything.So far, his confrontation with that J-10 has been carried out at the level of passive electronic sensors. He has never seen this opponent in his vision, and has no way of knowing the distance of the enemy.

"Did you go back?" He thought suddenly, "Or hid in a blind spot?"

Once he had the idea of ​​being lucky, he gradually slowed down his circling movement, trying to gather some speed to get closer to Tespur as soon as possible.It is only 100 kilometers away from Tespur, but the ground command seems to be dead, and has never recovered, nor can it provide a reliable air situation.

After the radar tracking ceased, the gusts began to die down.The J-10, which hid in the clouds to hide the condensation trail, quickly captured the heat source by using the IRST equipment. This infrared tracking equipment will be negatively affected by the cloud and fog, but the enemy plane used additional actions to make it exposed.

The pilot did not use the laser ranging that might trigger an alarm. He used the gap between the clouds to visually judge that the enemy plane was within range.He quietly pounced on the enemy while waiting for the missile seeker to fully cool down. The enemy's speed was still weak, and it was impossible to avoid the pursuit of dozens of G combat bombs right now, so he had to be patient.From the information transmitted by the data link, he saw an electronic warfare plane flying over the snow-capped mountains. Immediately, Tespur's several illumination radars that were staring at him all turned around. It can be seen that the suppression has taken effect. Will be picking up at your doorstep soon.

The two combat missiles completed cooling one after another, and then fired from the launcher and flew to the target.Even though the Rafale is likely to have a passive infrared warning capability, such a missile approaching from the rear hemisphere can still be hidden under its own afterburner flame for a period of time.

Without any suspense, the first missile hit the gust, and it wobbled and fell to the ground.Immediately followed by the second blow.The gust completely turned into a fireball and the pilot ejected just in time, but then fell into the rushing Brahmaputra River.The orange parachute struggled a few times on the river and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)