Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 607 New style of offense and defense
Sami's thunder and lightning suddenly emerged from the sea of ​​clouds, like a shark lurking underwater and decided to attack. He immediately saw the black enemy plane with his naked eyes.On the radio, Song Ning kept warning him that the F35 was approaching, and the distance was still 200 kilometers away, but he never asked him to give up the attack.

None of the enemy planes dared to turn around to fight. Perhaps they were afraid that they would be discovered by ground missiles when they opened their magazines, or because they could not grasp the air situation in the area.

Sami’s radar locked on both targets. The opponent tried to get rid of the radar, but its movements were not violent enough; the maneuverability on the horizontal plane seemed ordinary, perhaps due to the need for stealth and ground attack, which made its aerodynamic shape inferior to the early ones. Eagle is so good at air combat.Of course, the smooth shape without external hardpoints should increase the acceleration of the enemy plane. Obviously, they also have this intention and plan to compete in straight-line acceleration.

jf17 has accumulated a top speed close to 1.3, temporarily occupying the advantage in speed, but the opponent also began to increase power after the last turn, and its speed is increasing rapidly, soon surpassing the speed of sound.

Sammy dived again, taking advantage of the small speed advantage, but the airspeed indicator stayed at 1.4 and barely moved.Not much. His purpose of diving is not entirely for speeding up. He has to take advantage of the moment when the enemy stops moving and concentrates on speeding up, and hides in a blind spot below where the enemy can't see. Generally speaking, he always chooses to fire from below 6 o'clock as much as possible. , so that the enemy will not easily see the condensation trail of the missile in the initial period of time.Of course, if the enemy plane is good at observing, they can choose to press the slope and turn sideways, or do a rolling motion to sit and observe the rear, but this will inevitably destroy its acceleration.Every bit of calculation is to achieve the conditions for missile launch faster.

"I heard the F15 was never shot down?" Sammy said before pressing the launch button.Of course, he is willing to believe that this is indeed the case, even though many of his comrades have worked as mercenaries in the Middle East and have brought back some news about the Israeli F15 being shot down in Syria, and now he chooses to ignore it.

Two PL2 missiles broke away from the launch pad and went straight to the last enemy plane.

After the launch, he immediately gave up accelerating and continued to consume fuel like this, so he would be unable to cope with the next battle.This time the fire was fired at the limit distance of the tail pursuit attack. Such a distance is usually used to deal with aircraft with poor maneuverability.

Due to the extremely high muzzle velocity during launch, the range of the missile increased correspondingly, but the acceleration of the enemy plane was indeed extremely easy, obviously far surpassing the Su-30MKI or the Super Hornet he had fought against, which was indeed beyond Sammy's experience.Of course he is not greedy, he does not want to shoot down all 2 enemy planes.

Now, this Thunderbolt only carries 2 missiles and less than half of the fuel in the aircraft, and it has almost reached the "high mobility" state that Sami likes most.He looked at the missiles chasing the target in the sky, and quietly lowered the altitude, still avoiding the vision of E3 in the west.Now is not the time to return immediately, he still has to carry out a sneak attack, or an extreme challenge.The target was the Global Hawk that swaggered past at an altitude of 19500 meters and overlooked the ground.In fact, it has been flying over the northern foothills of the Makran Mountains since the morning, which belongs to the territory of the separatist guerrillas. It should be nothing to see. It may be responsible for the communication relay or electronic reconnaissance mission of this attack.In short, just like the role played by the United States in this war, the drone pretended to be an indifferent outsider, dangling over Sammy's eyelids, which was really unbearable for him.

The Silent Eagle, which fell behind, fired a large number of radar chaff while accelerating, but did not launch infrared jamming bombs simultaneously. This is a request from the weapon guide in the back seat. He hopes to see the situation behind before choosing further processing. If Launching too many IR flares can easily fill the entire sky with smoke that blocks vision.

The backward vision of the Silent Eagle with double vertical tails is not as good as that of the F16. It has to make a rolling action to avoid the blind spot and avoid excessive deceleration; after the plane is turned over, the guy in the back seat can see the missile clearly up.

At a high speed of Mach 1.5, the pilot made a turn with a large overload beyond the manual, and launched a jamming bomb at the same time, but the seeker of the PL8 has the ability to identify general infrared interference. As for overload, it is absolutely impossible to lose to anyone. of fighter jets.

The fragments from the missile's volley explosion destroyed the rudder and the falling tail. Before the plane lost control, the two pilots ejected from the burning fighter in the rear half. They tumbling in the air, waiting for the parachute to open. Falling under the coercion of him.

No one knows what will happen next. This is the war zone between Pakistan and India. At present, most of the Balochistan guerrillas are receiving aid from the United States, but some are controlled by extremist religious forces. They don’t like Americans.

Liu Zhaolin's fighter plane was staring at the suspected f-130 35 kilometers away. The targets on the screen were not very coherent. Obviously, the radar could not capture them completely, and the number of enemy planes changed from 1 to 3, and then to 1 , obviously the snow leopard radar can see very far, but not very clearly.

The enemy plane seemed to adjust its course slightly, and suddenly disappeared from the radar screen. The movement of the enemy plane group had been discontinuous before, and it was impossible to judge how and where it turned.Logically speaking, it can be considered that the enemy plane retreated and escaped the radar, but the U-turn movement of the enemy plane should make the rear hemisphere behind it clearer.Another, bigger possibility is that they are coming this way.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhaolin couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. On the surface, he still had a numerical advantage, but this was only what the radar saw.During the 45 seconds of radar contact just now, he fully experienced the opponent's advantage. The formation of enemy aircraft did not become clear as the distance became smaller. In fact, when the distance between the two sides approached from 150 kilometers to 110 kilometers, Instead of being more exposed to the radar, the enemy plane remained invisible (only for distance measurement), until finally, it completely disappeared.When they will pop up again is indeed a mystery.

"Poisonous snake, I can't see the enemy anymore. They may be coming this way, have you found any enemy on the ground?"

"There is no enemy situation on the ground, and the enemy suddenly strengthened the interference outside the area from the coast." Song Ning replied, "I suggest that your formation turn off the radar." He then added.

"What?" Liu Zhaolin was stunned. The Snow Leopard-E phased array radar was one of his few advantages. Why did he give up?
"In case they follow your radar beam to find you. Exit the battlefield, move eastward, pass through the Indian army's position if necessary, try to avoid the field of view of E3 as much as possible, the enemy's situation at sea is unknown, so be careful."

"Is the U-turn too passive? Am I staying behind?"

"No, if they turn on the phone to scan, then make a judgment."

"Understood. Be careful, they may come after you."

"Forgive them for not having the guts."

After a series of mistakes and panic, Song Ning recovered somewhat. Now that a large number of ground planes have taken off and joined the escort, he began to speak hard; of course, the first round was the first round of competition. After some testing, it was discovered that the radar’s detection distance of these aircraft was actually acceptable (he didn’t have to consider the problem of continuous locking on the target like Liu Zhaolin did, so he felt differently).

Song Ning ordered the three Thunder planes that took off from Quetta to stand close to the border and confront the US plane. In the past, the Chinese and Pakistani air forces did not care much about this US plane that likes to peep, because it can't actually see the war zone. , but at this moment, after Song Ning ordered the fighter plane to take off, he used radar to lock it all the way.He knew that the commander of this early warning aircraft should be a coward, and he could scare him away. Without its help, the so-called stealth aircraft air combat seemed to be very difficult to fight.

Liu Zhaolin turned off the radar according to Song Ning's strategy, and the formation retreated northeast.He could choose to use the full potential of the Snow Leopard's radar and find the target head-on by adjusting the power and pulse repetition rate so that the target will always be seen at some point and then the conditions for attack will be formed, but this is really not safe.Even if the enemy plane will be exposed when the magazine is opened, it is a question whether the fire control radar can intercept at the same distance from the opponent and never lose the target. These are prerequisites for launching.Su 35 has no stealth ability at all, and suffers a lot from head-on encounters.

Song Ning's strategy seems to be very cowardly, but it is not stupid. By avoiding, the advantage accumulated by the opponent through invisibility will be lost. Now, both sides have returned to a state of equality with blind eyes at the same time. Considering that the ground radar advantage in the deep zone is still Testing in China, in fact, does not suffer.

On the other side of the battlefield, Sami climbed up again, ready to launch the final challenge. His usual battles rarely exceed 10000 meters, but now he is going to hit 19000 meters.

The single-engine JF17 fighter is of course not suitable for high-altitude combat. Although he is personally confident that a strong acceleration impact will make the aircraft jump to exceed the ceiling of the manual according to inertia. If the plan is feasible, there will be a window of a few seconds. , can make the launched missile reach the target, but at such a height, whether the missile can adjust its attitude through the rudder effect and fly to the target at such a reluctant initial attitude and initial velocity, he does not know.Another risk, of course, was that the engine might stall, but he didn't think much of that.

First, the E3 early warning aircraft saw this thunderbolt and came out to perform again. The target was the high-altitude drones that did not penetrate too much, and then the naval early warning aircraft by the sea also discovered such a threat.The only thing they can do now is to control the aircraft to turn slowly and avoid the sea, while praying for the failure of the opponent's attack.

When formulating an attack plan, the Global Hawk first considers the threat of ground missiles, followed by air force aircraft. Since the mission it performs does not need to launch weapons, it also has an extra layer of political protection. After many trials, The U.S. confirmed that China is overreacting to this level of provocation, so its scope of activities is getting closer and closer to the north.Of course, the officer who formulated the task never thought that there would be an unrestrained lunatic who would break through this tacit understanding, just to collect the results of the battle that he did not have yet.

At the same time, Liu Zhaolin's formation had not had time to close its formation to the northeast according to the order, and a fighter plane that landed on the southernmost side of his huge formation was suddenly locked by the enemy's radar from behind.

The pilot didn't know how the enemy plane could find him. Maybe the Hawkeye early warning plane at sea provided the target indication. In order to increase the search range, Liu Zhaolin arranged a huge formation like a wall. In fact, no matter how you dodge the deployment on the country's land, some of them will be seen by the sea or the radar on the Indian side.However, the Chinese Air Force has a good idea of ​​the ground radar in the direction of India, but it is still unclear about most of the situation at sea.

Without knowing the distance of the pursuer, Liu Zhaolin instructed the Su-35 to speed up and get rid of it, and at the same time turned on the rear-view radar in the tail vertebra to 'scare' the enemy.The Chinese Air Force does not have a corresponding plan for possible stealth operations, which is one of the reasons why the Su 35 came here (not every Su 35 in the formation has such a weak 'rear-view radar').

This Su-35 was still unable to get rid of the opponent's radar. During this period, the rear-view radar captured a continuous radar signal very briefly, which may be the reflection formed at the moment when the enemy plane fired. The distance was about 35 kilometers from the 30, and then the signal disappeared. On the screen, there are 2 missiles flying towards him.

The Su-35 has a special rear-view radar installed in the tail vertebrae. In addition to monitoring the rear, it can also perform fire control. Most pilots have reservations about this new thing that has not been practiced, thinking that it is at best a counterweight. People in the field even sneer at this kind of thing that may subvert traditional air combat.But sometimes, although the new technology seems to be unrealistic, the experience gained by designers from paper calculations, like the pilot's intuition, has its own value.When the Chinese Air Force is studying stealth combat, it believes that stealth aircraft are most likely to take advantage of their characteristics and stealthily seize small azimuths to launch attacks, so this kind of radar may be useful, so some of the imported Su-35s are equipped with rear-view Radar (the rest of the Su-35 is counterweight and electronic equipment) to ensure that in the formation, one can see behind.

Through this radar, the pilot can always find the two missiles that are on the way, which makes him calmer than other pilots when facing threats. Of course, the rapidly beating and reduced distance numbers still make his adrenal glands hormones are secreted rapidly.His hand was firmly on the throttle, and he didn't know whether he could escape with the strong power of the Su-2.

Similar to the situation in the domestic simulation, the enemy plane's attack was launched at an unpredictable timing, but the location of the attack (6 o'clock) could be guessed.It turned on suddenly in a latent state, and the action was very fast, and it was very coherent with the action of opening the magazine, without muddling, and then the radar was quickly shut down and the magazine was closed, so that the electromagnetic radiation and the body reflection disappeared together, and the entire plane disappeared again. film.The only flaw in this attack is that the distance selected for launching the missile is about 35 kilometers behind. For the active radar of the missile, this distance can ensure that the target can be found, so that it can be ignored after launch; but this launch distance is still a bit far. For medium-range missiles attacking from the rear hemisphere, the range is very limited.Perhaps, the American pilot originally wanted to carry out a sneak attack, and the target should have been hit by a missile in an appropriate reaction. Who would have thought that the target would suddenly turn on a radar that looks backwards to see the situation clearly?As the iron rule of stealth aircraft operations, keeping concealment is always the first. This principle prohibits stealth aircraft from getting too close to the target, in case nearby enemy pilots can detect their whereabouts with naked eyes or infrared sensors.

(End of this chapter)