Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 712
When Sami's plane flew over the armored column below at low altitude, someone could be seen waving to them. After a long assault, the ground troops were looking forward to the air force appearing in sight for a long time.Hassan triumphantly made a roll at an altitude of 5 meters to pay tribute to the Chinese Army. He never missed any chance to show off.

"This kind of low-flying fuel consumption is too fast, squadron leader, do you know where our enemy is?" Hassan asked casually, as if he was dissatisfied with Sami's aimlessly missing the fighter plane, and he was confident that he could fight with him. F15 contest.

"Listen boy, I don't know where the enemy is, but if the enemy shows up, it will definitely fly to the army."

"If we fly higher, maybe we can wait for those F[-]s to return and launch an ambush, but the fuel consumption is too fast now." Hassan didn't seem to hear Sammy's words, and continued talking to himself.

"Black spider leader. Suspicious target found." The early warning aircraft suddenly issued a warning, but the suspicious target was not discovered by the air police. The fire control radar of the rear J-16 aircraft inadvertently saw a target. The target seemed small and at a very low altitude. , but the speed is very fast, and the J-[-]'s phased array radar failed to track continuously.

Sami hurriedly looked down at the vertical display. The target was fixed in an area 380 kilometers away from him. The rear fighter plane could not continue to track the target, nor did it recognize the target, so the target position was not updated.

"It's finally here. Everyone turns on the radar and flies to the southwest. Be smart and try to delay being seen by eagle eyes."

"Is B[-] here?" Hassan asked excitedly.

"No, the B2 doesn't fly that low, maybe the Australian F111C?"

"Boss, are you confused? Australia's F111 has been decommissioned. Didn't the Air Force intelligence department tell you?"

Hassan finally took a chance and made a sarcasm to the squadron leader.

"Perhaps not all retired?"

Sammy replied vaguely.He is sure that this will be a low-altitude penetration high-speed sneak attack or supersonic reconnaissance, and it may be F111 or F15E. Apart from this, he can't think of any other tactical aircraft.India's Rafale or MiG-27 also often fly low, but it doesn't feel like it.Another possibility is that this aircraft has certain stealth measures, and its reflection area on radar makes people mistakenly think that it is just a tactical aircraft?
In any case, he has to fight. The three-aircraft formation of J-16 is changing the pulse repetition rate to carefully search the area where the disappearing aircraft may appear, but their search may not last long. The three F3Cs in the west are approaching. If the J-15 16 If you don't give up looking down and searching, within 1 minute, you will lose the opportunity to seize the favorable position for medium-range projectiles to shoot.These F1Cs are also doing some kind of concerted action.

At present, in the corridor east of New Delhi, the Chinese Air Force does not have much air superiority. The enemy can at least advance and retreat, because they rely on the defense provided by the S300. No one knows how the United States and India can do it so quickly. Air-ground coordination. Obviously, the US advisory group alone is not enough to solve the problem of identification between Russian-made missiles and US-made aircraft. Perhaps the Indians have also received technical assistance from the Russians. To a certain extent, they are almost all over the world. war with the help of

In contrast, Chinese and Pakistani aircraft must be particularly careful in this area, because this is the overlapping defense zone of Patriot III and S300. Electronic suppression outside the area currently only has some effect on S300. This is because China also uses the same system. Mock confrontations were conducted, and interference with the Patriots was less successful.Of course, the numerical superiority of the China-Pakistan Air Force is unquestionable. In addition to Sami’s 4 fighters, there are at least 8 Chinese combat aircraft coming nearby. This does not include the 2 electronic warfare aircraft on duty. Interference, one of them is quietly approaching, this is the prelude to launching anti-radiation missiles.

Sammy dropped his fuel tank and flew towards the front of the group below. He has fought many times without the support of AWACS information. For him, informationization sometimes means more tricks to deceive, and common sense is not to deceive. my own.

He Fan's tank group is advancing rapidly on the ground, and the enemy's two newly formed armored divisions are blocking the front, preparing to defend the last passage into New Delhi.

Of course, He Fan will not be intimidated by the enemy's bluffing gimmicks. Insider intelligence shows that the two so-called armored divisions in front of him have less than 2 tanks and a total strength of only 60 people. This has also been detected by drones. Scouting verified.

These two divisions, numbered 2th and 47th, are just a shelf put together by the Indian Army using several units that were defeated a while ago. Although there are only 48 tanks, there are as many as 60 or 4 types.From the perspective of war history, this method of patching up numbers often heralds the defeat of a country.

The group of Type 99 tanks on the front line has already formed a formation and quickly broke through to the front. Behind the tanks are infantry fighting vehicles that are quickly following.The terrain in this area is slightly undulating, which is very suitable for tank combat.The self-propelled howitzers in the rear have already made a short fire preparation.

A 35mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun at the far end of the battle line searches for air targets.The S-band search radar on top of it keeps turning at a high speed. Today, when the threat of the Indian Air Force is declining, these tanks are deployed to every corner of the battlefield, and they must cheer up to deal with new opponents.

The alarm sounded suddenly, and a target suddenly appeared, and disappeared from the edge of the radar search limit in a flash.

Limited by power, the radar cannot see too far, but the commander found that he can continue to find the target through the infrared device.This is an uncommon experience, which indicates that the opponent's radar reflection is not very clear, but the infrared signature is extremely obvious.

The inter-vehicle data link starts to work, and the air defense nodes and command posts around it can receive warnings.The radar of a nearby Hongqi 17 also saw the target, which was flying from south to north at a speed slightly below the speed of sound from an altitude of less than 400 meters.By the time the AA tank's turret turned towards the target, it had missed the firing window, it was flying away too fast.

At this moment, the trajectory of the target route has roughly been exposed.

Sami received voice instructions from the early warning aircraft, and he roughly grasped the location of the suspicious target when it last appeared 20 seconds ago, and it was clear that he was going straight to the tank group.

If his judgment is correct, the enemy plane will pass in front of his nose in a very short time, and the altitude will probably decrease a little.The J-16 fleet has given up searching and turned to fight. Launching an air battle in this area really made them feel at a loss. Fortunately, a follow-up J-10C formation is approaching.

The formation of the black spiders rushed towards the approximate target route with increasing force. If things continued as usual, Sami would definitely order the formation to turn off the radar and carry out a surprise attack. This was in line with his basic tactics, but he also knew the seriousness of the matter. If he The speed of the formation is not enough, if the enemy throws himself to its position behind 3 o'clock, at least the radar can scare the enemy.

For those bombers with poor vision and side-by-side cockpits, the radar illumination from the rear hemisphere is the most troublesome, because the side and rear vision has a large dead angle.According to his experience, in this situation, the enemy has a great chance to give up the attack and directly evade.Of course Sammy just let the rest of the Thunderbolt block II use radar, he still uses IRST, his fighter is the only one in the formation using this system.

Sammy’s IRST even saw the target a few seconds earlier than Hassan’s machine-scanned radar. The infrared radiation of the target is very strong, which shows that the target’s speed is very high. Huge engine under one wing.

"15 kilometers ahead, I found the target." Hassan shouted, and another young pilot behind him also spotted the target.Lieutenant Colonel Latif hasn't noticed yet.

When Sammy raised his head, he could see a small dot moving on the HUD with his naked eyes. He had never seen a fighter jet visually from a distance of 15 kilometers. At this distance, he could at most see a commercial aircraft.

"That's not an F111, that's a big bomber."

Sammy knew that if he fell behind the enemy, it meant that he would have to get close to 2 kilometers before he could fire. He hoped that Hassan's radar could play a blocking role.

Campbell began to determine the bombing area. The low-altitude flight made him particularly constrained by the curvature of the earth and undulating terrain. The fire control commander was trying to find the target quickly. He knew that the main force of the enemy army would be spotted soon. They were at the most obvious landmark — the east side of the road.The U.S. military advisers who have gone deep into the front line have seen enemy tanks near the road, and they continue to report the enemy's progress to the rear through satellite communications.

The radar warning sounded inopportunely, the source of the radiation was some kind of fighter radar, just at 4 o'clock.

The enemy plane did not display its position on the monitor, that is to say, the enemy plane tracking the B1B was not seen by Hawkeye or Eagle.This worried Colonel Campbell a little.

Hudson, the co-pilot on the right, tried to look out, but could only see the huge wing and the engine.The position is more confirmed by the radar warning. The enemy is in this position, but it cannot be seen.The sirens kept screaming, the enemy radar had locked on to the bomber, and it was certain that there were not one but two.

The AN/ALR-56 alarm, just updated the software 48 hours ago, so it can identify the opponent as a JF17 fighter through radar signatures.Since the machine-scanning radar used by this light aircraft is not the same as that of other fighters in the theater, this conclusion must be correct, which makes the colonel slightly relieved, but this aircraft still has the ability to launch medium-range bombs.

Electronic jamming equipment has begun jamming, while chaff and infrared flares are fired.After the chaff was launched, it once got rid of the continuous tracking of the two radars, but the good times didn't last long. One of the radars quickly adapted, adjusted its power, and caught the bomber again.It can be seen that they are not too far away, close enough to "burn through" the interference.

At the same time, the fire control radar detected densely packed tanks moving fast close to the ground in front of them. All these targets automatically moved to the west. There may be both attacking Chinese tanks and retreating Indian tanks.

Before take-off, the commander of the base told him that if Chinese and Indian tanks were fighting at close range, there was no need to consider friend-or-foe identification. In fact, from a technical point of view, there was no way to identify them. However, the Indian side stated that it had already done a good job of stopping the enemy regardless of losses. preparation.But Campbell was still a little worried that if he decided to bomb, he would lose control of the plane's flight for a long time.After the bombardier locks the target area, he will temporarily take over the flight, and the aircraft will fly to the target group in a level flight attitude and use the simplest route to drop bombs. It will be a very dangerous moment.After worrying for about a second, the colonel decided to drop the bomb, but he was ready to take over control at any time.

Sammy observed the target's movement through the data link. Except for raising the altitude, the target had no extra maneuvers. The opponent was very sophisticated and was almost unmoved.

The Chinese tank group on the ground is charging towards the desperate Indian tank group. What they are facing is as many as 4 types of T72 tanks that have just been added to the battlefield. Some of them are Czech or Bulgarian tanks ordered by the Indian government at the end of last year. Second-hand goods, others are the latest batch of T72B repaired by the Awadi Heavy Vehicle Factory.This enemy has neither numbers nor morale.When they were 3 kilometers away, they started firing indiscriminately and retreated, while the Chinese tanks did not start shooting until they were 1500 meters away.

B1B opened the magazine, and 3 half-ton cluster bombs hung in the cabin of 30, waiting for the final fate.

The fire control commander has disarmed all ammunition.He omitted the identification of friend and foe, and will formulate an attack plan based on the approximate location of the ground cluster.

Everything will be carried out in automatic mode, the aircraft will maintain level flight through autopilot, and will automatically drop bombs after reaching the bombing area.

If there is no accident, after 40 seconds, the aircraft will fly over the target area at a speed of 900 kilometers per hour and an altitude of 400 meters, and then will complete the bombing in 2 groups at a speed of 5 seconds, and the ammunition will be split into thousands of sub-munitions , evenly distributed within tens of square kilometers.

These ammunition will search for any target that emits infrared signals below, and after determining the target, it will burst out self-forging fragments at a certain height to accurately destroy the target.During this period, the aircraft will leave the theater safely, and the next three bombers of the same type will drop bombs in several other areas at a higher speed and altitude.

The colonel turned his head nervously to the left, and he was horrified to see a fighter jet turning towards him at 9 o'clock.Why these hidden enemy planes could fly near him so easily, he didn't have time to think about it.He had to make an immediate decision whether to terminate the bombing.

With 1 engines, the B4B can resist the attack of combat bombs, but it is another matter if there are 30 disarmed combat bombs hanging under the fuselage.The colonel pressed the red button on the console that forced takeover of the plane, which meant the bombs would be dropped prematurely, at the wrong time, in the wrong way.But this can ensure that the magazine is quickly closed, allowing the bomber to resume acceleration.

A double-barreled 35mm anti-aircraft gun started firing at an extreme distance. The barrage blocked the colonel's observation to one side, but he could still feel the aircraft lose its load within a few seconds and change its attitude rapidly.Dropped bombs will still be scattered according to the preset program, and strictly speaking, they will still be on the enemy's front.

Sammy saw that the huge bomber dropped its bombs early and began to climb at high speed, and he knew that now he could breathe a sigh of relief, although the hasty bombing would still cause some loss of ground troops.

Hassan was pushing the throttle desperately and rushing through, completely disregarding the afterburner, which was rapidly depleting the fuel, he almost got into the AHEAD ammunition fired by no less than 3 nearby anti-aircraft guns, the dangerous rounds scattered in the air curtain.Sammy's formation had no medium-range bombs at all, so they all had to get close to fire combat bombs.

(End of this chapter)