Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 721 Shoot down the wild weasel

Although this kind of missile has a variety of rising trajectory options to achieve different attack ranges, it usually only has a fixed 70° climbing angle.The missile relies on the autopilot to climb to the top of the parabola, then dives down, and scans the ground against the previously locked target. This method is destined to have a relatively large minimum launch distance, which means that apart from the long distance, the seeker intercepts In addition, if it can rush to a relatively short distance, it will also fail to hit.China has developed a similar system, so it is more aware of the pros and cons of this weapon. Compared with the usual older anti-tank missiles, the attack range of this top-attack missile is relatively small.Although the Javelin's manual states that the minimum launch distance is only 150 meters, in actual combat, considering the lack of range measurement skills and the fact that the rudder effect is not enough to control the attitude when the missile is fired at its initial velocity, this distance is bound to be much larger.

He Fan is very good at putting himself in the enemy's shoes and thinking about the enemy's situation. He can roughly understand the enemy's intentions. The foreign coalition forces naturally want to entangle themselves with Indian tanks, so that they can avoid the possibility of tanks rushing in front of their noses and use Indian tanks at the same time. armor, cover yourself.

The 128X128 focal plane infrared imaging detector of the Javelin missile can record the characteristics of the target after the first lock. There seems to be a rationale.

However, it seems that Indian tank soldiers are unwilling to take the risk of being cannon fodder in the front.From the way the enemy retreated, He Fan could tell that there was a rift in command between them.The Indians probably also want to retreat to a deeper place with terrain support to resist, but that happens to be the position chosen by the foreign coalition forces.In the end, the Indian tanks stopped in front of the hill, and it seemed that the Foreign Legion had gained actual command.

It seemed that the bold plan he planned with Lin Huaisheng was feasible, so he grabbed the communicator:
"Artillery Battalion, continue to shoot."

"Comrade commander, our ammunition base..."

"This is not a question for you to think about. If you wipe out everything, there will be supplements for Mr. Lin."

He Fan began to confuse his subordinates. Currently, his ground logistics line has been cut off, and the shells are naturally fired. However, he hates lukewarm plans the most, especially in the current situation. If he continues to delay, The enemy will become stronger, but their own situation is the opposite. Their purpose is almost likely to succeed. There is rarely such a big comeback in the history of human warfare.Of course, he would not allow such a thing to happen. For him, any most aggressive tactics were under consideration.If the enemy thought that he was forced to return to the rescue and the only way to go was to restore the supply line, they would underestimate him.

Several drones in the air continued to fly north to indicate targets for the artillery. The average survival time of these drones on the enemy's head was only a few minutes, but it was well worth it.

Major General Elabi once again had a serious conflict with Lieutenant Colonel Yelinsky on the radio. The other party asked his troops not to abandon their positions and to resist successively in front of the coalition forces. This almost consumed him in the artillery fire of troops.

The Ministry of Defense stepped in directly, demanding the major general's full compliance with the above orders, and Singer promised that the air force would soon support him.But he didn't wait for any air force, but was continuously bombarded by the enemy relentlessly.The tanks of the Chinese army only produced smoke in the distance, and did not swoop over.Every time he takes a step back, the enemy's artillery fire will extend the strike, and it is quite accurate.Although the anti-aircraft firepower destroyed a large number of opponent's drones, the opponent's observation methods are various. Artillery reconnaissance vehicles have been wandering back and forth a few kilometers away, where the T72's artillery can't reach.His headquarters has been calling for artillery fire, but the artillery shells fired by friendly forces are far less than those hit by his opponents.

In a few 10 minutes, he lost more than 30 tanks and 60 various combat vehicles.When he thought that these weapons were all painstakingly accumulated by Marshal Pasade from the enemy's air strikes, the major general felt a twinge of pain.After his headquarters withdrew from Dudley Girls' High School, the People's Guards kept asking him for help, asking for troops to cover it.The so-called cover is nothing more than sending people forward to attract the attention of the enemy and share some firepower. However, since the Self-Defense Forces have decided to directly accept the command of the Foreign Legion, he has no obligation to rescue them.

Soon the major general lost contact with the Self-Defense Forces. He saw the smoke released by the Chinese tanks, moved forward, and finally covered the position of the Self-Defense Forces.He could only order the artillery to shoot a few shots hastily into the general area, which was regarded as support for the Self-Defense Forces.The major general estimated that the next round of the People's Liberation Army's attack, his troops will be finished, but where is the air force promised by the Americans?
The Wild Weasel fighter plane driven by Major Wilson continued to dispatch quietly, preparing for a surprise attack.He took off not from a base in Agra, where he would be spotted as soon as he took off, but from a deep airfield, where the enemy's surveillance capabilities were weak.

A day ago, he had just successfully destroyed a Hongqi 16 position, but today the target he attacked was the Hongqi 9 missile position.This is the latest enemy situation discovered by the RC135 reconnaissance plane 2 hours ago. The Chinese army has moved forward the anti-aircraft firepower in the rear.Such a deployment is obviously redundant when they still think they have firm air supremacy, but the Chinese must have realized the latest trouble, so they deployed the missiles forward so that their air force could not risk rushing into Agra or New Delhi. The core air defense circle goes to air combat.

These missiles can threaten coalition fighters 100 kilometers away, and can also sneak attack those Global Hawks hovering in the sky.But the further forward they are deployed, the easier it is to be eliminated by air strikes, just like the Hongqi 16 radar that is too forward.

The Hongqi 9 missile was locked by aerial reconnaissance after being turned on several times sporadically, which is enough to demonstrate the absolute advantage of the US military in electromagnetic control.The attack route of the Wild Weasel has been fully planned, and this F16CJ will complete this mission in the usual solitary style.Wilson drew for several hours, studying the enemy's corridor area that he was about to volley through. This narrow area has only short-range systems, which is very suitable for assault.The main difficulty is not to hit the enemy air force.The Growler will interfere with the ground radar, and the ground radar in the corridor will be damaged to the greatest extent.According to calculations, dispatching 3 Growlers is enough to cover the operation of a Wild Weasel.

Major Wilson adjusted the course carefully, and the electronic tactical threat display on the left showed dotted targets, which were the enemy's air defense positions locked by the aircraft with its own sensors.The major has never seen an enemy ground force with so many short-range air defense systems. In the absence of medium and long-range air defense systems, these things alone can cover the entire front. , the number of systems such as 35mm anti-aircraft guns or Hongqi 17 may increase by 3 times.

On another vertical display, the movement of the enemy air force seen by the watchtower early warning aircraft is updated at any time. The major can know the precise position of the enemy aircraft and the possible direction of the airborne radar, so as to avoid it.He must move deftly between threats on the ground and in the air.Of course, the rear roaring has a very high precision in locking on to the radar, as long as the moving radar is found, electronic interference can be launched immediately.

The red flag 9 radar was turned on again, and the scanning direction was concentrated in the direction of the two growlers. It seemed that it was concentrating its power to compete with their deception jamming. This was a good opportunity for wild weasels to attack it. The detection sensor of F2CJ is not inferior to the growler at all. If the opponent points at him, the major can get the warning at the first time and leave in time.But things are moving in the right direction, and soon he will be within range of the Hamm missile.

The third Growler came and penetrated into the depths of the enemy's air defenses. This is a designed tactic. It will go deeper than the first two jammers, destroying the enemy's air defenses. Take over and strike.It is a little different from the wild weasel acting alone in the past. This time, so many growlers were dispatched to help it, which shows that the headquarters is determined to knock down this red flag 9, although the enemy may also judge from this posture. Some hints.

F16CJ enters the acceleration phase to increase the initial velocity of the missiles, and in 10 seconds, all missiles can be launched. The EA18G is so powerful that it can firmly control the enemy radar on the nearby ground, so that the wild weasel only needs to control the height a little to avoid the threat.

The radar warning device flashed inappropriately. Major Wilson took a second to glance at the warning message at a low altitude. This is a new radar with characteristics similar to Red Flag 16. The aircraft is being illuminated by the continuous wave of the radar. This is the prelude to firing .The enemy still smelled a threat.They deployed a medium-range missile near the Red Flag 9. Not surprisingly, the major decided to continue taking risks. He might be able to deal with this new threat together.

The Growler escorted by the third plane quickly locked the radar position and immediately implemented jamming.Since the Sino-Indian fight, the U.S. military has been silently collecting Chinese radar signal data, so it is very confident that it will effectively interfere outside the range of its missiles.

Now the enemy's radar operators will have to make some adjustments to deal with the interference, and the major will have enough time to do whatever he wants over their heads.

The major looked in the direction of the radar and saw two slanting white smoke rising rapidly into the sky. Obviously they still fired missiles. As an anti-aircraft missile that can illuminate intermittently, the Red Flag 16 has the ability to attack multiple targets at the same time, but it is still a A semi-active radar-guided missile.In theory, as long as the ground radar is always jammed, you are safe.However, he felt that something was a little strange. It didn't look like some kind of vertically launched missile, but more like it was launched from a follower launcher...

No one would put their own safety on the known data of enemy weapons. Wilson looked into the sky, moved lightly, turned to his own missile trail, and suddenly realized that this was not Red Flag 16.

Those two missiles are obviously much smaller?A day ago, he was in the air and dodged the medium-range bomb fired by the J-16. At that time, he saw a faint trail falling to the ground. He can guarantee that it is exactly the same as what he sees now.

The guess was unfortunately fulfilled, the active seeker of the SD10A missile began to search the sky, and the radar alarm immediately screamed.

These two missiles do not require continuous ground radar exposure, and once they are in the air, any active jamming platform is powerless.While General Frings hurriedly transferred AMRAAM to the battlefield to replace the useless Avengers; Lin Huaisheng also realized that the relatively small air defense missiles that can be launched from light platforms are of great significance. The opponent across the ocean was closer, so this kind of air-to-air missile improved system was quickly shipped to the front line. The missiles launched by the follow-up launcher on the aircraft are obviously superior to the Hongqi 16.

Wilson used a powerful speed turn to try to get away from the missile.This time it was his bad luck. The plane carried too many missiles and electromagnetic wave reconnaissance/target designation pods, and it was impossible to make a large overload maneuver. The Wild Weasel was hit cleanly by the missile during the 6G maneuver.

Wilson ejected in time and fell to the ground. Seeing the billowing smoke rising from below, he knew that he might fall into the middle of the battlefield.

He Fan's tank group has launched a frontal attack, and the frontal enemy T72 is completely vulnerable.But He Fan's tank was not too close.

The Type 99 tank, even while maneuvering, can penetrate these tanks at a distance of 1.5 kilometers with relative certainty, while the accuracy of enemy tank artillery makes it difficult to hit a moving Chinese tank.Such superior firepower allows Chinese tanks to maintain a sufficient distance from enemy missile positions.He Fan knew that the enemy was expecting him to lose his head and rushed over. Of course, he couldn't let them succeed.

He Fan personally sat in a tank and directed the overall operation, watching the Indians resisting hopelessly. Although the Indians found several villages as cover, He Fan immediately instructed the artillery to completely destroy these areas.From time to time, he paid attention to the information collected by various sensors to see if the jeeps behind the enemy could not bear to move out first, but those mercenaries were also very careful not to expose them hastily, probably waiting for dark.

He looked at his watch, Lin Huaisheng's fire support was coming soon, so he got out of the tank and looked forward with binoculars.An erratic light spot fell and fell behind a low hill, and then a pale light was emitted from behind the ridge.This is the first Dongfeng missile launched by Lin Huaisheng to directly attack the infantry. The enemy tried to use the mountainous slope to avoid firepower, so they had to give them some weapons with a large angle of incidence. The war has reached a stage where the cost can be ignored.

He Fan picked up the communicator: "Detour the troops to chase, and immediately act according to the predetermined plan."

His two battalions began to outflank the enemy from the west, which was a direction the enemy could not have expected, because it was not from the outer line, but from the direction of New Delhi.

Taking advantage of the frontal forces attracting the enemy's attention and the Dongfeng missiles falling, this force began to move quietly. According to the plan, there will also be a force from the north operating at the same time, directly inserting into New Delhi.The purpose of the campaign is to select weaker Indian troops to attack outside the enemy's preset battlefield, thereby destroying the enemy's overall plan.

A large number of tanks and armored vehicles rumbled towards the west, sweeping across the east bank of the Yamuna River and all the enemy forces in the Faridabad industrial zone.If all goes well, the foreign troops may abandon the strategy of defense one by one and bring out all the tanks for a decisive battle.If the enemy does not move, the troops of He Fan and Lin Huaisheng will directly hit the outskirts of New Delhi.Although He Fan's attack power will weaken over time, he can still hold on to the initiative on the battlefield of his choice.

(End of this chapter)