Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 605 New Friction

The Air Police 2000 early warning aircraft on duty has no difference in hardware from the previous aircraft of the same type, but the ability to identify low RCS targets has been optimized in software. Of course, this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.Of course, through the running-in of domestic aircraft of the same type, the stealth aircraft still has the effectiveness of long-distance detection when it turns or its attitude changes, while the same type of aircraft that has not been optimized can easily filter out the same signal as ground clutter.

The Khuzdar Air Force Base in Baluchistan Province is on combat readiness duty.The base is on the southernmost frontier that the Pakistani army can still control in the province and is garrisoned by about a regiment of troops.

The southern Indian occupation forces confronted it 25 kilometers away, but since November last year, the Indian army did not have enough supplies to launch a new offensive. The main threat in the area is no longer them, but various names in all directions The separatist guerrillas, and the unseen, malicious state behind the scenes.

A large-scale long-range radar is deployed in the base, and it has seen a large unidentifiable target near the coast. Judging from the target's speed, route, and characteristics of not emitting electromagnetic waves, it looks like a tanker.Obviously, this is not a big threat, but it should also cause vigilance. Usually, the growlers dispatched by the US military do not refuel in this area. Commander Pakistan made a report to his superiors according to the procedure, and there is nothing more he can do. .

The Huzmida base is equipped with a YLC-4 radar. This radar is a 2-coordinate long-range radar with strong anti-jamming and anti-stealth capabilities, but its mobility is not good. In principle, it cannot block one side alone, let alone Deployed at the forefront.But when Pakistan lost the 200-kilometer depth of the coastal zone, it could only bite the bullet, because the air force must see the coastal situation clearly.Such an adventure is based on the judgment of the upper echelons of the China-Pakistan military that even if potential threats are capable of attacking this radar, due to political considerations, they may not actually do it.

This radar itself needs other radars to cooperate to form a radar network. However, in view of the complicated situation in Banan, for the time being, it can only hang alone on the edge of the area controlled by the separatist guerrillas, and only one low-altitude blind-filling radar is deployed on one side. , to prevent the MiG-27 attack from Gujarat, India.

Over the past two months, the Chinese and Pakistani troops have used its anti-jamming and far-sighted features to monitor the air situation along the coast of India. Fighter planes from US aircraft carriers, or fighter planes from Gujarat, cannot escape its eyes.This information will provide an early warning for Song Ning, who is commanding operations in the northern region.

Of course, it is unavoidable that this reliable all-solid-state phased array radar will inevitably become a thorn in the side of the navy and air force of the relevant country, because it almost ended the history of howlers dominating the coastal areas. With its existence, The young pilots of the rebuilt Pakistani Air Force Squadron also often fly Thunderbolt fighter jets to practice with drones from various countries that invaded this area, and shot down many American drones. However, in order to avoid unnecessary friction, the Chinese Air Force never participates in these action.

A few minutes after seeing a large enemy target, the radar kept showing incoherent signal flashes without forming any track. In mountainous areas, such a situation can generally be understood as a false alarm caused by ground clutter.

It took a long time for the light spot to appear for the last time, and it seemed that for a short while, it maintained a complete trajectory, obviously it was no longer clutter interference.The azimuth was roughly around 170, the distance was 90 kilometers, and the altitude was unknown, and then the target disappeared again.

70 seconds later, the blind-hunting radar deployed at a lower position suddenly captured a densely arranged batch of targets that were approaching at high speed, just 15 kilometers away, and the radar data link sent messages to the command plane and the air force base synchronously .

Although Song Ning predicted that the United States might escalate confrontation and engage in some friction in the near future, he could not draw any judgment.After sitting there for a few minutes, he got the news that the Khuzdar Air Force Base was attacked, and the radar and surrounding facilities were damaged to a certain extent.

Immediately, he ordered the early warning aircraft to move to the northern border to prevent himself from being murdered.The Indian Air Force has long stopped its operations that were too deep in the southern region. This is obviously not the action of the Indian Air Force.According to his research on the actions of the U.S. Air Force, attacking the radar at the forefront is obviously the first step to invading the house. It is not difficult to guess the second step. Generally speaking, it is to dismantle the radar network. Of course, attacking the early warning aircraft is the first step. .

The Pakistani No. 5 Squadron (Fighting Falcons), which was patrolling in the air, immediately rushed to the south according to the instructions, and Liu Zhaolin, who was on standby on the ground, also quickly took off and prepared to fight.

Xu Jingzhe wrote in a 48-page report submitted 16 hours ago:
Even if the new Republican president is not so belligerent, the current situation in the South Asian subcontinent will force him to take more provocative actions than his predecessor.The United States should not sit back and watch India fail. If it does not take action, it will sit back and watch its international status decline, which will eventually further loosen the military alliance. This is something she cannot tolerate.

We should also observe that, militarily, the U.S. military is very reluctant to fight in a time and direction that it did not choose.But now that it is almost a critical moment for the survival of the Indian regime, how will they react?Obviously, it is the biggest variable besides the counterattack implemented by the Indian armed forces.

In the report, he listed in detail the various possibilities for the US military to take action, as well as the corresponding strategies.Since the possibility of the US military dispatching the army is basically ruled out (the troops stationed in Asia and Europe are basically not mobilized), the most likely scenario is to use its air superiority to support India by attacking the headquarters of the China-Pakistan coalition forces.

Since they don't know the height of the target and only know the approximate area where it finally appeared, the Thunder Fighter can only turn on the radar and run around without seeing anything.

A U.S. military E3 early warning aircraft flew unhurriedly south of Kandahar, monitoring the actions of these fighters throughout the process.

The track of this U.S. early warning aircraft is different from the usual patrol route. Usually, it will fly north and close to the border, trying to see clearly the transfer of the air force taking off from the Central Pakistan Airport.Of course, Song Ning knew it was behind him all along, but he just ignored it, but today's actions were very strange, almost crossing the border.

Sammy has been waiting in the ground duty room to take off. When he learned of the enemy's situation for the first time, he ordered the ground crew to activate the Thunder fighter and at the same time observed the battlefield through the data link, hoping to gain insight into the mystery behind all this.

Theoretically, the Su-35's radar can see stealthy aircraft at a long distance, but if there is no effective guidance, the opponent can still use the coordination of the early warning aircraft to evade it deftly. He doesn't think the opponent will really send stealth aircraft to attack Song Ning, there is a complete radar network in central Pakistan, which is insurmountable. In addition, there are many Chinese missile positions, which also have radar systems that can detect stealth aircraft at a certain distance. Therefore, before those missile positions are attacked, Song Ning Ning is safe.

Sammy himself has also read the report that the U.S. military may create friction in the near future; however, he believes that the attack on the command plane is just the worst guess; things usually do not happen exactly as predicted, especially those for the best or worst Prediction.

Song Ning lost his composure and evaded too far to the north, which would inevitably reduce the observation distance of the early warning aircraft. It seems that the Chinese commander is still a little afraid of the US air power.If Song Ning is always like this, it won't work, it seems that it's time to give him courage.

"Poisonous snake, the black spider requests to take off." After he got into the fighter plane, he called directly to Song Ning on the command plane. Of course, this was just a formality, and no one here could really command him.

"The situation in the south is unclear, I think it's better to wait for a while?"

"Don't be afraid, there really should be a next move, and it's time to do it. At this moment, I think their first batch should have gone back."

"You really think so?" Song Ning asked uncertainly.

"of course."

"Well, you decide for yourself."

"Let Liu make a turn in the northwest of the Thar Desert and search according to your plan. I will drive away the early warning aircraft, and those F35s will be blinded by then."

Sammy took off skillfully and started cruising. Of course, he didn't think the enemy had gone back. The early warning aircraft was still there, indicating that the conspiracy was not over yet.Now he had to stagger with the thunder and lightning crashing in the sky, he knew that as long as the E3 was there, those headless flies of the 5th Squadron would never see anything.

He drove the fighter plane straight to the American early warning aircraft. It was different from the strategy adopted by the Su-35 formation commanded by Liu Zhaolin. Those Su-35s always wanted to avoid the surveillance of E3. As a result, the farther east E3 was, the farther they hid and quickly retreated to India. The border is gone.

After taking off from Sargoda Airport in central China, Sami began to increase the altitude. After flying over the Suleiman Mountains, he was completely exposed to the enemy's surveillance.The ground radar network has monitored a total of 4 high-altitude drones and an early warning aircraft, 2 Viper Squadron F16 fighter jets, and the sea area south of Karachi, 2 interference sources whose distance cannot be confirmed; in addition, there are 2 more in the sky over Iran The F4 fighter plane should have taken off to monitor the US early warning aircraft.

After losing the Huzmida base, it is temporarily impossible to see the activities of those growlers in the coastal area, but it seems that the scale of this group of people today is not small, but it is not big. They should be here to provoke trouble, but Non-combat.

The difference between Sammy and Song Ning is that he has no sense of fear of the US military, which is also the difference between him and those guys from the Fighting Falcon Squadron who have been trained in the US.So in this sudden situation, he can analyze the situation more calmly than Song Ning.He knew that those stealth planes that could not be detected by ground radar at a long distance actually had to adjust their course to avoid all kinds of new air enemy situations. This had to rely on the information provided by the early warning plane, so he came up with a simple theory, why not Just go to that early warning aircraft.

He did not choose the more powerful J-10 fighter jet. In fact, there are some political considerations, because the Chinese Air Force does not use this type of aircraft, and he does not want to confuse the Americans by flying the J-10; the Pakistani Air Force will expel U.S. military aircraft should be what the Chinese are most willing to see. Song Ning always made such hints intentionally or unintentionally in the past, but recently he simply proposed a specific plan.

E3 immediately saw the Thunderbolt fighter coming straight from the northeast, but did not change the route, but the other two F2s of the Kandahar Viper Squadron scrambled into the air, so that the number of escort fighters would increase to four after a few minutes.China has been negotiating with Iran, requesting the deployment of radars in Iran for intelligence sharing, so that it can further monitor the movements of the US military in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Amman, but Iran is worried about getting burned and rejected this proposal.

Based on the real-time information obtained by the ground radar, JF17 continued to accelerate towards the AWACS. Sami could sense the other AWACS and the ground radar near Kandahar. The distance between the two sides was only about 150 kilometers at this moment.

The U.S. AWACS finally started to get scared, but it just turned towards Iran. Sami can guess some reasonable explanations. There are still some aircrafts in the airspace in southern Pakistan that cannot be seen clearly by radar. However, those aircrafts are flying silently, and the AWACS needs to provide air information. Therefore, this early warning fuselage has a heavy responsibility and dare not leave.

Sammy starts calling on the preset public channel 1234.5:
"This is the Black Spider captain of the Pakistan Air Force, Major General Mohammad Sami. You have invaded 11 kilometers from our border. If you don't leave, I will launch an attack."

He called several times in a row, and as before, there was no response, but he knew that the other party must have heard it.This early warning aircraft actually just stuck to the border and did not cross the border.But Sammy doesn't care about that. His purpose is to let his opponent know who he is. He knows that he has a bad reputation. Now is the time to use his bad reputation.

JF17 approached 120 kilometers, and the American plane really started to turn.In fact, no one knows whether this red-eyed Pakistan Air Force major general will launch missiles across the border. According to rumors, there is nothing he can't do.

At the moment, the Su-300, 35 kilometers away, is forming a clumsy formation, which is almost completed, and Sami drives away the early warning aircraft. Seeing those stealth aircraft that do not operate radar, they lose their intelligence support.

Liu Zhaolin's 6-plane formation completed a turn over Bahawalpur. The 6 Su-35s flew side by side at an altitude of 5 to 25 meters at an interval of 5000 to 6000 kilometers, and turned on the radar search, like a large net pushed over like a wall. , screening the huge airspace.This seemingly stupid approach naturally has its advantages.This is also one of the plans for sending Su-35s to Pakistan to deal with various enemy situations. To a certain extent, the detection range of six Su-6s in one direction is not inferior to that of the early warning aircraft, and the accuracy is higher.

A series of target reflections began to be transmitted to Song Ning through the data link. Two batches of targets were shot at once, some of them were moving away from the sea at low altitude, and the targets could not be identified.There are at least two other batches flying over the Makran Mountains from an altitude of 2 meters, heading northeast.Their trajectories show that their course should have been adjusted according to the movements of the JF2 fighter jets circling around in the central mountainous area. They seem to be very confident in their frontal stealth, and they are flying towards a radar station in the central mountainous area. Their target is probably Just to touch these ground radars.

(End of this chapter)