Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 369 Confrontation and the Bottom Line

In the sky, Song Ning led Zhao Lin to drive another J-10 fighter jet and told them to fly to the sea.The US military's strong electronic interference is covering the area overwhelmingly. Although it cannot interfere with the radar on the fighter jets, it still greatly hinders communication.His formation did not carry anti-ship missiles, and was only responsible for the first round of reconnaissance, finding the approximate location of the Indian landing fleet as soon as possible, and then it was up to the superior to decide whether to strike.The Flying Leopards are already on standby at the airport, ready to carry out super-ground and air-to-air approach attacks at any time.

Before the formation was dispatched, the ground personnel had analyzed the characteristics of this round of electronic jamming and carried out several targeted confrontations. It was found that the Growler was an order of magnitude higher than the Indian jammer in terms of jamming power and deception ability, and was capable of destroying general data. chain, and the possibility of a dedicated data link for weapon commands, so it is not reliable to use air-to-ship missiles for ultra-long-range attacks.

As soon as the two J-2 fighters approached the seashore, the voice communication and general data link became unstable. The radar could detect an American-made fighter plane flying swaggeringly along the coast not far away, and the powerful radiation source came from it; Whenever it gets closer, the voice communication will be damaged accordingly, and the data link will also have problems; now it seems that unless the early warning aircraft approaches a distance that loses its safety meaning, the communication ability will hardly offset the powerful power emitted by this dog .

"Captain, you should really shoot him down." Zhao Lin said through VHF communication.

"I want to too, but I can't." Song Ning replied.This is a death order issued by the country before take-off-no American plane can be shot down.

The U.S. Navy and Air Force in this area have more than 200 fighters (including the F16 squadron of the Afghan Air Force), while China has only more than 30 fighters here, which is not enough to resist the Indian Air Force, and obviously it cannot provoke them anymore.

On the monitor, two flashing triangles appeared at low altitude for a while, and the targets were identified as two Super Hornet fighters.The target then freezes.Obviously, the early warning aircraft had seen something, but the subsequent target information was overwhelmed by the huge noise of the US jammer, causing the data link to lose frames.

"Damn it. They might go around behind us."

Song Ning has been fighting in Pakistan for several months. He has experienced the interference of Indian jammers outside the area or with the team. Usually, such interference has some effect on ground radar, but it is not very useful for communication between combat aircraft. It interferes with the data link. Not to mention it.He reckoned that the Americans have been hiding in the dark to observe this war for a long time, and they have already had some experience with the Chinese data link. Judging from the cheap tricks they leaked today, at least they have mastered the frequency hopping range of the data link , so they can concentrate energy to apply broadband blocking interference; thanks to the power of their pods, this interference is very effective, and perhaps this may not be all the means they have mastered.

"Captain. Two Hornets just passed 2 o'clock, about 3 kilometers, and they may want to outflank us."

Song Ning was forced to give up reconnaissance and turn to search for the US plane, after all, they might be bullied until 6 o'clock in a blink of an eye.This is the only way to prevent the US plane from occupying a favorable position, and of course the price is that it is forced to give up the sea search.

Sure enough, the plane turned around and immediately saw two enemy planes secretly outflanking.What to do with them?Maybe Sami will have a solution, but Song Ning really has no choice. He can neither fight nor turn around.Judging from the ground-to-air sneak attack of the enemy plane, it seems that the comer is not friendly. It is quite similar to the situation when the US plane attacked the Pakistani Air Force not long ago. They secretly took advantage of the position and opened fire suddenly.

Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the two Hornets made a strong turn, trying to occupy a favorable position by maneuvering. During this period, both sides refrained from firing head-on.The hovering ability of the Super Hornet is lower than that of the J-2, and the altitude also suffers, and it gradually falls into a disadvantage.Song Ning asked the early warning aircraft to fire several times, but did not get a reply.It was already 10 o'clock in the morning, and the water level on the beach was rising rapidly. If nothing unexpected happened, the Indian fleet had assembled about 4 kilometers away, and the first attacking ship should have set off for a long time.

The several waves of reconnaissance planes dispatched by Shamsi encountered a similar situation to Song Ning. The U.S. Navy fighter jets adopted one-on-one urgent tracking, forcing all planes to abandon the pre-arranged reconnaissance plan, except Song Ning who was still in the mountainous area with the enemy plane. In addition to chasing with great interest, most of the Pakistani novices flying JF17 fighters were mostly scared off by the American planes.The drone sent by Yu Zhendong is not afraid of being followed by the U.S. plane, and the U.S. plane has no real hard attack.However, under the coercion of the growlers, these drones were unable to measure the position of the enemy fleet through radio sideways; there were even 2 non-reconnaissance planes, because they were too far away from the command cabin, the data link completely failed and finally fell into the sea .In fact, even if Yu Zhendong was able to measure the location of the target group, he would not be able to immediately notify the shore-to-ship missile force of the information. The communication between him and Qiu Rongcheng had been cut off long ago, and he did not know Qiu Rongcheng's location at all. All the personnel in the permanent fortification had long since fled, and the telephone lines had been systematically destroyed long ago.

Now, in this area, the only weapons that are not controlled by the Growler are only a few advanced C802s; these missiles do not rely on data links, nor do they rely entirely on tracking radars to indicate targets; they launch No matter what, they are not subject to external interference.

Qiu Rongcheng sat on the top of the command vehicle calmly, staring at the dark Gwadar Port.It is not unreasonable for him to hide ten miles away from Gwadar Port. He foresees that he will become blind without external information sources, and he also foresees that the enemy's fifth column will make trouble in the city before landing. If there is a fight, it can be regarded as an early warning before landing, which will help him grasp the precious opportunity to start the machine.For several hours, he had been waiting in fear for the American plane to attack his position, but the attack never came.The US aircraft carrier battle group only regarded Shamsi's attack aircraft as the main threat, and did not pay attention to the shore-to-ship missile force on the ground, and did not even conduct reconnaissance on the coastal road area.In fact, based on the wrong information source, they have already judged that all the coastal facilities in this area have been destroyed.

At 4:30 in the morning, a fire ignited in the direction of Gwadar, followed by faint gunshots.Qiu Rongcheng, who had been sitting on the roof of the car and meditating, immediately raised his binoculars.He has been to Gwadar Port twice and knows that the location of the exchange of fire is the police station building. There is currently an engineering unit responsible for the final blasting work stationed there, which is obviously the key point that must be eradicated before the Indian Navy lands.

"Great, level the radar car and start the power car."

Qiu Rongcheng finally issued an order. Before that, he had kept the radar vehicles in the marching state, just to prepare for the enemy air force or guerrilla raids, so that these vehicles would give priority to escape.However, such concerns are obviously superfluous, whether it is the United States or Indians, they don't take him seriously at all.Even in the middle of the night, several groups of local militiamen passed by the side of the road quickly and rushed towards Gwadar, but they did not stop to look at them.

It is impossible for Qiu Rongcheng to know that all the destruction of shore-to-ship missile positions was done under the guidance of the Indian Intelligence Agency and the CIA. The local militants were unwilling to use explosives because they planned to accept these positions and weapons after independence, so CIA technicians came up with what they thought was an ingenious way to direct the destruction of missiles.Subsequent assessments concluded that even with professional repairs and sufficient spare parts, it is impossible for these positions to be restored within a year.Such a judgment is based entirely on common sense. According to the three-level maintenance system of the U.S. military, damaged equipment in key parts must be returned to the factory for overhaul. In other words, it is an impossible task.However, they didn't know the efficiency of the Chinese in repairing missiles, and they didn't know how Lao Qiu brought a group of veteran military workers from China to maximize the four words "many, fast, good, and economical".

All 8 missile launching vehicles were deployed along an arc, and the hydraulic outriggers of the launching vehicles were not lowered nor leveled, because Qiu Rongcheng did not want to follow Yu Zhendong’s intention to launch missiles in a fan-like manner (the missile pilot and the It does not have the ability to adjust the route within 180 degrees, and there is no follow-up launcher on the launch vehicle, and the ability to attack the target is limited by the angle when the launch vehicle enters the position).However, Lao Qiu also knew that Yu Zhendong was right in at least one statement - before the enemy landed, no matter whether the radar could detect the enemy fleet or not, these 24 missiles must be launched, otherwise they would be scrap iron.According to Yu Zhendong's thinking, even if there is no radar guidance, there will always be a few lucky missiles that can blindly hit dead mice. In fact, he doesn't have high hopes for these tinkering missiles; Outside Dar City, in a dense formation, they fell into the coverage of his rocket launchers.

After a long warm-up, the search radar finally began to search the sea.Its small-angle fan-shaped beam swept across the sea and was detected by a Growler 100 kilometers away.The electronic jammer immediately turned its nose and rushed towards Iran, while making precise measurements on the position of the radiation source. In just a few seconds, the jamming pod pointed the jamming beam at the search radar of C802 with extremely high accuracy. antenna.The interference beam entered from the side lobe, and the display in the shelter was covered with snowflakes.The radar operator remained calm and immediately implemented countermeasures according to the pre-plan (Qiu Rongcheng had long expected that the radar would be interfered and had a countermeasure plan, but no one expected that the enemy's countermeasure would be so fast).

In principle, this foreign-trade radar produced in the 90s does not have the strength to compete with the growler, and according to the law of war, the US aircraft may launch anti-radiation missiles at the same time for hard strikes, but no one on the post panicked And flee.

The radar quickly got rid of the interference by means of adaptive frequency hopping, completed several cycles of horizontal search, and the small fleet that was approaching [-] kilometers south of Gwadar was completely exposed, and the route was basically within expectations.If the enemy did not play tricks, the larger fleet should be on standby on the sea behind this landing fleet.

EA-18G encountered a small setback, and immediately responded with color. Of course, it could not break through the bottom line, and fired two anti-radiation missiles to completely destroy the radar.In fact, the mere frequency hopping technology is definitely not difficult for it.It intercepts and analyzes the change of the opponent's frequency in a few seconds, and then suppresses it again within the tracked frequency hopping range, and keeps track of new changes at any time.As the distance of the Growler approached, and the interference power allocated to each frequency band was very large, the radar was completely blinded, and there was no room for a comeback.

At this moment, Qiu Rongcheng had already returned to the command vehicle.Based on the known trajectory of the first wave of landing ships, he made a corresponding judgment on the position of the enemy's large fleet.Obviously, the enemy's Grand Fleet could not be too far away, nor could it be too close.He hastily drew a circle on the map, guessing that it was probably close to ten. The C802 missile has terminal active radar guidance capability, and the search range of its monopulse radar is still very large, and there is no active interference that can destroy this search.

He ordered several launch vehicles that were not within the attack angle to immediately adjust their direction, and then leveled the vehicle body to prepare for launch. 2 Super Hornets appeared out of nowhere and circled over the position.Qiu Rongcheng went all out and ignored it completely.The enemy planes had no choice but to keep asking their superiors. Of course, the superiors replied that attacks were absolutely not allowed, because it was unclear whether it was Pakistanis or Chinese below.

On the commander, Qiu Rongcheng divided the launch batches for each vehicle and assigned targets.He used 6 missiles to attack the first wave of small landing ships, and the remaining 18 missiles were launched in the direction of the guessed enemy fleet aircraft assembly area.

The two launch vehicles that were the first to complete launch preparations launched all six missiles under the surveillance of the US aircraft.Most of what they will face are 2 to 6-ton general-purpose landing ships, the largest of which is the 500-ton Erawat landing ship, which carries 1000 main battle tanks. The ship has the ability to grab the beach and is rushing towards the beach aggressively.Its target was a beach east of Gwadar.The interference of the US military also caused these Indian ships to lose their ability to communicate, but fortunately, the internal response on the shore had already lit a fire to guide them.

Excited Indian marines were standing on the side of the ship, watching the burning Gwadar Port in the west. It seemed that everything was proceeding according to the script.By the time I get there, the battle may be over.

A spot of light emerged from the side of Gwadar Port like a morning star. It vibrated slightly against the surface of the sea and seemed to be motionless. Afterwards, several similar spots of light appeared on the surface of the sea. People who did not know the truth The marines all pointed and pointed.The captain who was watching the surroundings in the wheelhouse also saw this situation. He raised the binoculars vigilantly and observed for a while, and found that the light was getting stronger.He is not a fool, he knows that the reason why these light spots are not moving is because they are flying towards him.

(End of this chapter)