Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 606 Nowhere to Run

Of the six Su-6s deployed side by side from the northeast, at least half of them can detect two targets in this batch continuously from the side, and the farthest detection distance is even over 35 kilometers. Easily detectable, perhaps not lightning.

It was immediately guessed and confirmed that the radar identified it as a US-made F15 dual aircraft.According to the instructions, at such a long distance, the Su 35 did not take further tracking. Liu Zhaolin even turned off the radars of the three fighters in the formation, and adopted the formation data link sharing method for coordination.The reason for this is to prevent alerting the enemy, and try not to trigger the opponent's alarm by reducing radiation sources and controlling radar power.

Of course, there is some basis for this approach. Since these aircraft that think they are still stealth need to pass through the opponent's radar network at all times, their battlefield electronic threat analysis equipment is always set to be relatively "numb".This is actually part of the experience that China has gained when it uses its own aircraft of the same type to conduct drills and confrontations. Otherwise, the radar warning device will keep ringing due to scanning in all directions, but it will not be able to serve as a key reminder.

Judging from the routes of the two F2se, Liu Zhaolin's judgment should be correct. They have no intention of turning back at all. Although the routes are very tortuous, they are all to deal with the radar on the Red Flag 15 position on the ground and the JF9 fighters that have just returned. And change.

Liu Zhaolin participated in several targeted confrontations when he returned to China to receive Su 35, so he is not inexperienced, in fact he knows how to do it.In other words, these three-generation so-called stealth aircraft in front of him are far inferior to the domestic stealth aircraft he participated in in the front hemisphere. In the domestic confrontation, the Snow Leopard-E radar can predict the direction. , Only within 40 to 70 kilometers can the target be found, and it cannot be tracked continuously; and because of the high-power search, the opponent can perceive the existence of the Su-150 from 35 kilometers away, and then take some measures to avoid it.

He decided to sneak up from the side and occupy a more advantageous azimuth angle of 30 to 60°. At that angle, the rear hemisphere of these silent eagles should be more thoroughly exposed; at the same time, he had to spare one or two planes to search In the direction of the coast, beware of new enemy situations that may appear there. If these F15se are the second batch, then it is not ruled out that there will be a third batch.

Things are becoming more and more favorable to Liu Zhaolin. If the E3 early warning aircraft is still on the original route, one or two Su-1s that are relatively close can be seen passing through Jianbur; It's working.At present, these American planes are still at a loss. This is not because these American pilots lack vigilance. It is just that the new tactics matched with stealth aircraft have given new requirements to the pilots: they must calmly pass through the enemy's airspace. Unnecessary actions are easy. exposed.

As Liu Zhaolin guessed, in the past few minutes, the warning equipment on the Silent Eagle has been receiving all kinds of electromagnetic radiation from the surrounding air and the ground, and has already identified the Red Flag 9 position not far away, but it is not the same as driving. Unlike the fighter jets, the USAF pilot decided to slip cautiously to one side (the computer set Red Flag 9 as the main threat).Pilots know that missile locking on the ground or in the air requires a set of procedures. There will always be omens in this process. As long as the opponent has not used the stage of frequent scanning at full pulse repetition rate, it means that the stealth is still effective.Of course, even if it is found, whether it can be locked is also a problem. F15se generally has a more leisurely time to disengage, because it is difficult for the opponent to track continuously.

An unidentifiable radiation source appeared in the northeast, but it disappeared in a flash. The damn early warning aircraft hid over Kandahar and could not see such a far-reaching place for the time being. However, it is guessed that it may be a Chinese aircraft on a combat mission on the Indian border. The radiation is emitted at the time, so the scan is not long-lasting.For Silent Eagle pilots, there is no need to make too much fuss about various scans, otherwise nothing can be done.

After the watchtower early warning aircraft was forced to retreat, these F15se could still see the 4 JF17 fighter jets returning to Quetta on the display. When they were closest to each other just now, one of them was almost within 100 kilometers, and the radar also scanned several times to find silence. The Eagle, however, proved in the end that it was just a false alarm, and the American technology was reliable.

The two-aircraft formation carefully walks through the surveillance network composed of ground radars. Vertically on the display, each identified enemy radar displays a circular area representing its basic detection range according to its performance; for stealth fighters As far as you are concerned, all you need to do is to avoid them carefully, or use a suitable angle to cross from the edge.In general, as long as you don't get out of control, everything is like walking in a garden.

The U.S. military pilots still don't know that it is no longer the stealth ability that can save them now, but the final determination of the Chinese decision-makers.

Although Song Ning's Air Police 2000 is also a node in the anti-stealth plan, but because he temporarily evaded to the China-Pakistan border, like the escaped E3, he cannot take advantage of the detection distance; of course, he still has to use it now The role of air command, although there are some data link compatibility issues, must command Liu Zhaolin's attack.He has already consulted his superiors via satellite comms to attack.

After waiting for about 30 seconds, the request was rejected.The superior asked him to use the necessary methods to expel the enemy planes on the premise that the conflict could not be escalated.Obviously, in terms of tactics, the only way to force the opponent back is by exposing himself.

Sitting on the command seat, he smiled wryly and shook his head.It is naturally impossible for the superior to tell him the reason, but he estimates that it should be two months ago that the US Navy suffered a little loss in the operation of covering the Indian Air Force in the coastal area (Sami must be blamed for this). Save a little face; an operation of this scale is actually very difficult to shake the offensive of the Chinese army in the north.Since they came secretly, it seems that they still want to keep room for diplomatic control.Since the war against India is at the most critical moment, the higher authorities still hope to endure it for a while.

At this moment, Sami's plane suddenly disappeared over the border between Afghanistan and Iran, and then the communication disappeared.Song Ning knew it was the old man's old trick again, and wanted to lower his altitude to evade the American early warning aircraft. Anyway, he had already declared his identity and cleared the relationship. Now that the communication has also been lost, basically he can make trouble as he likes.

Song Ning ordered Liu Zhaolin to continue tracking and carry out several simulated attacks. When necessary, they were required to replace the early warning aircraft for voice guidance.

Of course Liu Zhaolin was a little unhappy, but the order was an order after all. He knew that Pakistan's thunderbolts would eventually come to counterattack, and it was impossible to watch the US plane continue to smash the radar station.

After Sami forced the U.S. Air Force AWACS back, he flew the plane through the mountains in the west. He temporarily lost the data link support, but through the communication just now, he knew that the enemy was targeting the long-range radar in the Suleiman Mountains, and the Chinese Air Force may not He will participate in the battle. According to the position of the enemy plane, he can roughly judge how to appear behind the enemy. As long as he raises the altitude at the last moment, he can resume communication and find the target.

The two Silent Eagles gradually approached the target, and suddenly the target radar was turned off. This was obviously not a precursor to the enemy's counterattack, but it seemed that the enemy was alerted.But they decided not to give up the attack; they were not launching anti-radiation missiles, but joint direct attack munitions. The target data had long been stored in the JDAM ammunition storage, and as long as it was powered on and initialized, it could drop the bomb.

Generally speaking, if the target is powered off, the threat to opening the magazine is smaller. Whether it can be hit or not requires Global Hawk or satellites to detect.

The two Silent Eagles opened the magazines on both sides at the same time, and the RCS increased suddenly. This made Liu Zhaolin, who was 2 kilometers away, almost saw two non-stealthy planes (he did not dare to get too close, for fear of being seen by the E80).Such a situation has almost met all the conditions for the R2 missile to fire. The seeker of the R3 can capture such an obvious target within 77 kilometers.But at this moment, he had to be calm, he had to wait for the ghostly Sammy to appear, and it would be better if Sammy made the first move, so that he could attack secretly at a longer distance without being seen by E77.

Even if the record is given away, it is worth fighting for.After the eastern part of Pakistan was occupied by the Indian army, a narrower strip of land was formed than before. It is very difficult for both Liu Zhaolin and the American pilots to move around in such a narrow strip without being seen. of.

The most southerly plane in the Su-35 formation suddenly spotted a new batch of enemy planes. The opponent was flying towards him just now, but he failed to spot it, but it was only after the opponent turned around in the Mokran Mountains that it showed its feet.It seems that the U.S. military is also troublesome for you in formulating routes. You need to beware of the radars in central Pakistan and southeast Iran at the same time. This stage is cramped enough and dangerous enough for stealth aircraft.In fact, if the Pakistani Army hadn't lost some key highlands in the south, making it impossible to form a radar network, it would have been difficult for US aircraft to fly in from the sea.

The radar could not identify the emerging targets, and the number was unknown.Looking at the route, it also came from the west.Liu Zhaolin suspected it was the F35, because intelligence indicated that there were no F15se and other stealth aircraft other than the F35 in this area.

Immediately, the fourth batch of targets jumped out from the central mountainous area. It was Sami's Thunderbolt. He very accurately rushed to the F4SE that was turning after dropping the bomb, trying to cut off the back road.

"Captain Black Spider, your route needs to be corrected to azimuth 55, so that you can occupy a favorable azimuth in the hemisphere behind the enemy."

Liu Zhaolin shouted on the radio, he knew what Sami was going to do, so there was no nonsense.

"Distance?" Sammy replied.

"You turn on the radar at the indicated position, I guarantee you can see them."

This action of Sami will obviously be seen by the US military early warning aircraft in Afghanistan, so it can be expected that the Silent Eagle who dropped the bomb and turned will definitely know Sami's position at the same time, so the old man knows that he must be fast, and he is not worried that he is at a disadvantage in numbers. Those Silent Eagles went deep into the deep area, surrounded by air defense facilities, they should be deeply afraid.As for whether the Chinese Air Force is on the sidelines, he doesn't care.

Sure enough, according to Liu Zhaolin's instructions, the radar immediately saw two targets 50 kilometers away, turning sharply. Obviously, their priority to avoid was not Sami, but the Red Flag 2 missile in the east.This allows Sami to use more compact turns to approach the opponent. When the enemy finally bypasses the ground radar, Sami has been chased by Sami to only 9 kilometers. The F25 twin planes began to speed up rapidly, trying to get rid of their opponents.However, they were immediately irradiated continuously by the powerful fire control radar from the eastern sky. This was done on purpose by Liu Zhaolin, who tried to drive the enemy towards Sami.

The enemy plane's plan to simply accelerate and escape was interrupted. Under the critical situation, the US pilots could of course make some simple judgments: avoiding unknown enemy planes in the east is the first priority, and the Raiden fighter is not a big deal. , According to intelligence, usually these planes are driven by Pakistani rookies who have reincarnated.

The two F15se are from the 64th "Aggressor" Squadron of the U.S. Army. Under normal circumstances, this squadron undertakes imaginary enemy simulation tasks. Since the recent "imaginary enemy" has also developed stealth aircraft, they simply accepted some of the silence that was originally provided to Israel. The Eagle, as a fighter plane for simulating imaginary enemies, chose this type of aircraft mainly because the senior officials of the US Air Force believed that the stealth technology of China or Russia was just in its infancy, and would not be as powerful as the F22 level, and should have more characteristics of the third-generation aircraft.Simulating with the fourth-generation machine is a bit of a fuss.And the United States also hopes to promote modified aircraft to open up the international market through actual combat, which is why they appear here.

In this attack, after the F35 formation smashed the front long-range radar, these Silent Eagles carried out a relatively safe "second wave" strike. Of course, since they belong to the "Eagle" family, they have also maintained this series of fighters and have never been attacked. The honor of being shot down.Now, they hit Sammy's muzzle.

Sami's radar bit the opponent tightly from the enemy's 5 o'clock position. Under the pressure of the Su-35 in the east, the opponent could only slow down and turn sideways. Their purpose was probably to fly towards the coast, and there might be naval forces there. Growler cover.For the time being, the opponent is at a disadvantage in terms of battlefield intelligence, and the disadvantage in the position and situation of air combat is even greater.

Sammy stared at the HUD closely, looking at the virtual connection line representing the target position. He did not carry medium-range ammunition, because he always felt that hitting outside the visual range was actually a stroke of luck, and the plane was full, but it was not Not suitable for real combat.

After losing the auxiliary fuel tank, Sami shortened the distance to 9 kilometers, and he could not see the target on the cloud for the time being.The enemy is still flying in an S-shaped route, and is still trying to use its shape to avoid the tracking of those ground air defense systems, and its contingency strategy is very clumsy.Obviously, they have been unable to follow the pre-established route to deal with the ground radar at a good angle. However, due to the shackles of tactical thinking and training, even in dangerous situations, pilots are still thinking of using some opportunistic methods to deal with it. Those who are willing to deal with it seriously are the thunder fighters approaching from the rear.

(End of this chapter)