Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 637
Goya decided to ignore the radar and continue to pass through the possible air defense circle. India was in a precarious situation. He could not give up such a fighter just because of prudence. The sense of responsibility oppressed him to take risks.

The other two Su-2MKMs are used as cover and are flying in an area one kilometer later, always alert to enemy counterattacks. If China's surface-to-air missiles attack, at least another radar will be put into tracking, so for the For a top team like the Eagles, the attack window still exists.The only problem is that there is a lack of an AWACS to keep an eye on most of the airspace.

The guidance radar on the ground has never appeared. This is an abnormal situation. With the normal level of the Chinese army, the guidance radar can be detected within 10 seconds. Or is this radar only responsible for surveillance and the purpose is to guide fighter jets?

"Eagle 2, we don't have much time, so get rid of those two J-11 fighter jets as soon as possible."

"clear."

Samoya, Goya's deputy, replied calmly.He is very good at using this set of tactics to lure the enemy deep into the enemy's offensive and defensive base. Generally speaking, the slight difference in the performance of the three generations of fighter jets is not worth mentioning in front of the numerical advantage. The Chinese always hold a numerical advantage. This is what they hate However, today, the numerical advantage is on the Eagles side. Although the Eagles' forces are scattered, the Eagles hold a 3-2 advantage in just one corner of the battlefield.

Now Major Samoya's task is no longer to cover the captain, who is already dozens of kilometers away, but to destroy the enemy's escort fleet with all his strength.He also noticed that Le and the squadron leader were in the same situation. The MPCD's work was very unstable. Occasionally, suspicious radiation was found, but the type or even the direction could not be identified.He can only judge based on experience. At an ultra-long distance, there is a Chinese early warning aircraft spying here with constantly changing pulse characteristics. His conclusion is a bit hasty, but his intuition is not enough to remind him of new threats beyond experience.

Two Su-2MKMs are continuing to hover several kilometers away from their opponents. The vector action will cause them to lose some speed, and the distance from the target will be dragged farther, but the distance is only secondary. It is important to be able to bite the enemy's rear. The principle In fact, the opponent cannot escape and enter vertical maneuvering. This is something that the two-seater and heavy Indian fighters must avoid. This is almost the only shortcoming when they face the J-30.

The Chinese plane finally found the trap, but it was too late. Now that they realized the threat, they simply dropped the transport plane and ran north. For the time being, Major Moya can only serve as a helper.

Eagle 4 understood the changes in the situation and approached from the enemy's left side without hesitation. Samoya reminded his wingman that he had already pressed the enemy from the other side so that he could not turn, so there was no need to be too hasty.The enemy plane was completely passive, and it was impossible to run away.

The opponent began to implement electromagnetic interference. For the phased array radar of the Su-30MKM, such a blind counterattack is not easy to work. The radar has been clinging to the target.But the jamming knocked out the radar warning anyway, making the thing scream.The pilot kept his eyes on the HUD. He still needed about 10 seconds to complete the preparations for the final launch of the R73. He was completely deaf to the false alarm. Now only the rear seat weapon guide and the lead plane could take on the alert task.

Two Su-2MKMs flanked one J-30, and the other Su-11 was monitoring the other J-30, making it unable to support. The situation was extremely favorable. The conditions for using the helmet to launch R11 had been formed, but the pilot kept reminding himself to be patient. , as long as the azimuth angle is smaller, he can completely fire in the area where the enemy cannot escape.

Major Samoa was waiting to the east, his siren undisturbed, so he could be sure there was no threat around.But the pilot in the back seat first saw behind the snow-capped mountains, a thin white smoke extending towards here, and then the second, approaching from a lower area. Experience told him that these were two missiles launched by the enemy plane, and the trajectory was different. all the same.The closest one is about 2 kilometers away, otherwise it would not be able to be observed with the naked eye.

This is a scene that does not match the height of experience. If the enemy locks on a certain aircraft in the formation, it should be exposed at least during the tracking and scanning phase. Even the Ukrainian-made infrared-guided R27ET missile needs to carry the aircraft At least scan, otherwise it is impossible for the missile to accurately find the vicinity of the target, and the infrared seeker will not work.

Major Samoya should really feel at a loss. In order to emphasize its technological superiority, the top Indian Air Force always refuses to admit that the intelligence unit has collected technology that the hostile country may have surpassed its own. This is true for Pakistan and China. Similarly, technical manuals always belittle opponents intentionally or unintentionally: JF17 is just a replica of MiG 21, with low continuous turning ability; , as long as you keep maneuvering, its radar will not be able to track Yunyun.

This practice of deceiving others by relying on one-sided and outdated intelligence ultimately prevented pilots from facing possible new threats. Intelligence units can analyze the ins and outs of some new Chinese weapons from the publicly available information, and Warn the pilots, but openly introduce to the pilots an enemy stealth aircraft whose technological level is far superior to that of India, it is politically unfeasible, after all, the Indian Air Force relies largely on bragging about its own weapons capabilities to maintain morale. It's the same in the Army.

Major Samoya shouted to the formation to be careful, because the other party had no power-on lock at all, so he could not judge which fighter in the formation the missile would turn to.And the Eagle 4, which was attacking with its head buried, could no longer call out. Obviously, the strong interference of the J-11 temporarily destroyed the communication.

Everything was as fast as lightning, and as clear as slow motion. About 1.5 kilometers away, the major saw a missile with an obvious inlet, which hit the Eagle 4 that was about to fire. The major did not remember being at such a distance before. He had seen the details of the air-to-air missiles before, but this time he was sure he was right.

The person who was shot down was the 6th top pilot in the history of the Eagles, and the 4th among the living pilots. He shot down 3 Pakistani aircraft, including an F16C.

Samoa watched him fall from the sky and jumped out just in time, while the parachute of the other pilot did not appear to have opened. Warm and humid air from the Indian Ocean this month may have blown him to Aksai Chin.But he can't control that much, he still has to worry about himself, those missiles of unknown origin don't seem to emit radiation before attacking?

The two J-2 fighters did not turn around and launch a counterattack. They made a large circle and flew westward, as if they were going to rescue the transport plane, leaving the Indian fighters a chance to pursue it from the rear hemisphere.

Samoya subconsciously pursued the past, which was an irresistible temptation for the pilot. Although he still had time to carefully consider the size of the risk, his strong desire to win back a victory supported him to do so.

As soon as he reminded the other wingman to be careful about the northeast direction, he saw a black smoke falling towards the snow mountain from the east. Judging from the position, this should be his other wingman?This time it was even more strange, and I didn't even notice anything wrong beforehand.

"Four o'clock, missile!" shouted the rear-seat weapons director.

This is Goya, who was in pursuit, heard the last words of Major Samoa's formation through the radio. He looked down and found that the data link communication of the 11-aircraft formation that was outflanking the enemy's J-3 had all lost, and the radio could not hear it. Their voices went off, and he was looking down at the vertical monitor every 20 seconds, so everything must have happened within 20 seconds.

Maybe it was just a false alarm?He didn't hear Major Samoa or anyone else calling for help, he only heard him remind his teammates that they saw the missile and be careful.

In the mountains, communication is usually intermittent unless you fly to higher areas.Goya thought, did they encounter surface-to-air missiles and use the mountains to take shelter?This is enough to explain why the communication was also interrupted.

He is traversing the air defense network of the Chinese missile force, chasing and killing those Yun-8s. He should not be too distracted and worry about his teammates. The other wingman is constantly calling, hoping to find the three missing fighters.

The radar warning device suddenly remembered that it was not the Hongqi-9 guidance radar as expected, but actually an air-to-air missile coming from the side.

He turned his head and immediately saw the missile, which was thicker than the usual PL12 or R77, and it was within 5 kilometers.

Under normal circumstances, these medium-range missiles are always 10 to 20 kilometers away, about a distance that is invisible to the naked eye, and the active radar is turned on. Before that, the guidance radar will keep tracking, so the pilot who is attacked will never As for being completely defenseless, this is also one of the reasons why the hit rate of medium-range bombs is lower than that of combat bombs, but the timing of this missile's active radar is very tricky. Too many tells (or there were, he didn't take it seriously).

Goya realized that he was facing an unprecedented challenge. He gave up the lock on the team's transport plane without the slightest hesitation, and swooped down in a neat dive to avoid the attack. The radar warning device immediately fell silent, obviously getting rid of the missile for the time being. But is it getting rid of the plane?

In a second, he suddenly thought of a lot of things. First, the enemy did not use the guidance radar to track. The truth is that he has been being scanned, but the Su-30MKM's alarm cannot detect it; second, the enemy did not launch surface-to-air missiles. It was because the radar was in charge of instructing the fighter jets. His sneak attack on the transport plane might have been a little sudden, but the enemy's command responded very calmly. They hid a few real weapons to protect the transport line in the rear, and Samo Ya's team should have been dealt with cleanly within 20 seconds.

He raised his head and saw that the medium-range bomb turned an arc in the air, with incredible overload, and turned to another fighter plane that was too late to escape.

In the blink of an eye, the plane turned into a fireball and fell. In the history of the Eagle Squadron, although it has suffered many defeats, there has never been a precedent for losing 1 planes in a row within 4 minute.

Goya could see that the last fighter plane of his own side was turning and fleeing. It seemed that he could use the snow mountain to get rid of the invisible enemy's tracking, but he couldn't turn back because the opponent who couldn't detect it was roughly between 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock The position of the clock, which he judged from the trail of the missile, made it easy for her to cut off her retreat.He was still amazed that the Chinese would invest in this new technology at the end of the war (he himself thought the war could last too long). Unfortunately, he really let himself experience it.

Now he can't return to the flight, so he can only go straight through the occupied area of ​​​​the Chinese army in Ladakh, and try to see if he can fly to the Srinagar airport controlled by Meneyam.

This was a blind escape, because he didn't know the enemy's position, so naturally he couldn't dodge.The only thing he can do is to increase the speed above the speed of sound, and he can fly for a while under afterburner, and consume the excess fuel by the way to prepare for the worst possible situation.

The technical department of the Air Force reluctantly admits that China will acquire stealth aircraft technology within a time no faster than India, but they further believe that even if the Chinese Air Force has stealth fighters, it is unlikely to have supersonic cruise capability. Acceleration is the easiest way to survive, but unfortunately he has to rely on the terrain here and cannot fly too high, so it is difficult to increase to the limit speed.

Xu Jingzhe was behind the air force commander, watching the four enemy fighter planes on the screen being shot down one by one within an area of ​​about 4 square kilometers. The smoking wreckage of these planes would soon be seen by American satellites, and they Some details of the attack can be obtained through radio monitoring, or from the Indian pilots who fled back, so that they should weigh the risk of expanding the war again.Maybe they will think that the previous defeat was just a matter of geographical advantage, or there were some accidents; then they should see now that the gap in military technology between China and the United States is not as big as they imagined, and it is big enough to bridge the geographical gap. Great political flaws; if there is any reason to support their continued confrontation with China, only political ones remain.Well, he thought Americans would admit it, they've always been practical people.

"Moving Yaoguai, pay more attention to the enemy's radar, I mean the ground radar." The commander said unhurriedly, everything was like an exercise.

"Dongyaoguai understands, everything is normal, and no special situation has been found."

"Continue to communicate, otherwise I won't be able to see you here."

"clear."

Obviously, Xu Jingzhe had no part to speak on such an occasion, but he was the one who facilitated the stealth attack. Now, it is close to a successful conclusion.It was he who convinced his superiors that a more forceful approach must be used to dispel illusions.According to his analysis, the dilemma for the United States lies in that on the one hand, it is unthinkable to lose India;

But the plan was not made by him. Of course, he would have preferred to shoot down the Indian plane close to New Delhi and drop it into the US embassy.However, the person who made the final decision was not so open-minded. He just wanted to try this newly finalized weapon near the border. Considering the newly opened route, it was obviously a direction that provoked the enemy's sneak attack, and the enemy in this area was Radar intelligence is completely passive, so it is most reasonable to launch an ambush in this area.Unexpectedly, the first time the three fighter planes took off, they encountered a surprise attack from the Eagle Squadron. As a result, the attackers became the targets of the surprise attack, but the distance was a little farther away.When the radar began to touch the target, everyone present was sweating, but judging from the indifferent actions of the enemy formation, the new radar could track the target stably without exposing itself. I noticed that I need to wait for one or two pilots to be caught before I can further master it.

(End of this chapter)