Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 779 Completely Paralyzed
He Fan glanced at the position of his reinforcements, it was already very close.He ordered the troops to release smoke, and then retreated. The reverse speed of the 99 tank was not very good, and he had to use the smoke to turn the car. He was confident that he had been hit head-on once, and the enemy did not dare to approach his smoke rashly.

Yelinsky still barely maintained his formation. He had to use tanks as a guide to cover a large number of lightly armored or unarmored units, which made him lose command flexibility. Take turns to attack.

From the moment he chose the breakout route, mistakes had already been made.His course of action is almost a straight line between New Delhi and Agra, which is completely predictable, and the fuel consumption speed of the Abrams tank's engine is doomed to temporarily organize various devious tactics of dividing troops. Not very feasible.Although the opponent only blocked and did not form an encirclement, in essence, he had no room to escape from other directions.

If he meets a second-rate commander and distributes the limited mobile force to carry out non-moving defenses in all directions where this force may break through, then Yelinsky still has a great chance.However, he met an extremely shrewd and calculating person. He Fan only blocked the passage to Agra, and he was lenient in all other directions.He knew very well that the enemy's fuel base could not play tricks.

The situation has become more and more clear. Frings, who sits in Agra, can roughly guess how Yelins will end. Relying on tanks alone may not be able to stand out. If there is hope for a comeback in the situation, it can only rely on two things Things, one is the armed helicopter force that has an absolute advantage, and the second is the Patriot system.

At this moment, Frings still holds the most powerful armed helicopter force in the world, far outnumbering his opponents, but he is suppressed.And as Yelinsky's forces moved more and more into the core of the Agra air defense envelope, his role as a Patriot position began to emerge, and he must now try to cram helicopters into the field.

Of course, the biggest problem now is that his helicopters cannot respond to tanks, while the enemy's weak helicopter formation can easily fly to Yelinsky's head to attack.According to intelligence, China has very few armed helicopter units with limited ammunition; the average combat capability of each helicopter can only be a huge discount on the basis of the Longbow Apache.However, the hateful thing is that there are a few low mountain ridges in the northwest of Agra. If he had the foresight, he should have deployed a blind-supplying radar on the mountain. Now this mountain ridge has become the biggest limitation for Agra's air defense missiles.Those Pakistani pilots who are not afraid of death are taking advantage of the obstruction of the radar view by this mountain ridge, rushing into the combat zone, which makes it impossible for the helicopter to get close.

Major General Wenk, who is in charge of air operations in this area, has formulated a new plan. He will use the F16 fighter plane to launch a short low-altitude assault, and also use the terrain's restrictions on the enemy's long-range air defense system to quickly enter and eliminate the opponent's jf17 in a short time .However, Wenk doesn't have many aircraft at hand. If the F16 still has the power to attack the ground, it will focus on searching and destroying the enemy's Red Flag 17 system, and cannot directly participate in the strike against the enemy's ground forces.

Frings quickly approved the Air Force's plan, and he must do everything possible to rescue these people.

In the air refueling area east of New Delhi, the squadron leader Sammy, who has been waiting for the opportunity, has just completed refueling, and now it is time for him to perform again.

It is impossible for him to know that the opponent's air force is still ready to make a comeback.However, he and Song Ning also made a plan to slash their salary from the bottom of the pot to destroy the enemy's chance to counterattack.

They were going to use a low-altitude assault to wipe out the important radar installations in Agra. If successful, the main advantage the enemy relied on would disappear.

The Chinese Air Force has wasted too many extra-area ammunition in this area. Facts have proved that the opponent's electronic jamming is very good, and most of the anti-radiation ammunition falls one kilometer away from the target (the result of satellite reconnaissance of the impact point).Using satellite-guided weapons to attack this area will also be very effectively interfered with.A direct ballistic missile attack can eliminate interference, but it will be directly counterattacked by Patriot III, and the short-range air defense system recently deployed at the Agra base can intercept smaller fragments and warheads.At present, the war has not yet been upgraded to the point of using sub-guided warheads. Only Dongfeng 16 and its cluster warheads have been invested. The effectiveness of this weapon has been greatly reduced.

So far, although there are not many ground troops in Agra, the air defense network is like an iron barrel and cannot be broken.

At the enemy situation discussion meeting one day ago, everyone was at odds about the reality of Agra. For the Chinese and Pakistani air forces, it is one thing to seize air supremacy, but it is another to turn air supremacy into victory in the face of Agra’s defense. thing.

In the end, Sami was still surprised. He thought that Agra's defense was not as strong as it seemed.He went on to say that if its electronic jamming is only effective against guided weapons fired from outside the area, why isn't the Air Force able to take advantage of the terrain and launch an attack with laser-guided bombs all together.

His unexpected idea shocked most of the people present.Many people are pessimistic about the Air Force's ability to destroy Agra's missile system, and some even think that it may be more reasonable to use Army tanks to expel Agra's missile system.Sami criticized that this is not what the Air Force should have. Any idea of ​​relying on the Army to solve problems for the Air Force is a shame to the pilots.

In the end, with the support of Song Ning, Sami led the counterattack plan.He is indeed the right candidate. He is not only the oldest general in the venue, but also has considerable experience in low-altitude raids. His participation can make up for the shortcomings of the Chinese Air Force in this regard. Out of fear of casualties caused by low-altitude flight training, There are not many low-altitude penetration drills conducted by the Chinese Air Force.The plan was originally planned to be carried out at night, so that the assault effect would be better, but it was not expected that the counterattack of the Eagle Wall in the early morning disrupted the command, and the plan was forced to be postponed until now. If the air force does not move anymore, maybe He Fan's tanks will really replace them Mission accomplished.

Sami waited patiently in the sky for the clusters of aircraft to gather. They were scattered in all directions with different missions and routes, but most of them were supporting roles in cover. A formation of 4 aircraft formed by Sami and Zhao Lin would complete the core mission.To really paralyze the Agra base, the precise ammunition dropped by two planes is enough, but so far, the Air Force has wasted hundreds of long-range ammunition in vain.

The advantage of postponing the operation until daytime is that the difficulty of flying is reduced, and the pilot does not have to rely entirely on terrain avoidance. In addition, since most of the area around Agra has been controlled by pro-Jemiran guerrillas, even if it is hit, the pilot still has a lot to do. chance of escape.

As usual, electronic warfare aircraft launched attacks from outside the area in an attempt to disable Agra's radar, but the distance was too great for jamming to provide limited cover.Then the Su-30 launched an attack with long-range anti-radiation missiles. These missiles are destined to fail to hit the target. They will be near the radar and be attracted by the electronic warfare antenna. However, the attack itself can attract the attention of the radar commander. This is the assault force. Chances of getting closer to the target.At the same time, the Su-35 troops launched an attack deep into the hinterland of Rajasthan, the purpose of which was to expel the enemy's AWACS and force them to retreat.If they get too close, it is still possible to gain insight into low-altitude targets.

Everything is going according to plan, and by now the enemy should have seen anything amiss.

The Sami team kept an eye on the position of the enemy's AWACS, and the display did not show its exact location, but the command plane could provide the distance to the target. In the end, the AWACS was threatened, and it really retreated to the south of Jaipur surrounded by a group of F15s. He sent a request to the command plane to launch an operation, which was immediately approved by Song Ning.

Four single-seat J-4s lowered quietly, disappeared from the edge of the chaotic battlefield, and disappeared from the sight of all enemy eyes.Behind this formation, there is also a formation of two-seater JH-10s and the formation of JH-10s that just took off; The aircraft has a strong ability to match the terrain during the day and a good ammunition load, but there are not many other advantages.

Sammy was driving the only A-type in the formation, and it didn't carry much ammunition. However, as the command plane, he gave up the target designation pod and mounted an additional electronic reconnaissance pod, which strengthened the passive surveillance capability, which made him even more powerful. It is easy to judge the movement of the enemy and judge whether the formation is still hidden.

The fighter jets flew eastward, turned south near Aligarh, and began to fly close to the hills. The Bareilly base, which is [-] kilometers to the east, still has the radar station of the Indian Air Force active, and there may be US military advisers intervening with multinational forces. Troops communicate with each other, so it must be carefully avoided.

The formation has always been kept slightly higher than the height of the hills on both sides. Such a height can guarantee the vision, and the ground clutter can also be fully protected. It is not yet the final moment when it is necessary to venture into the ravine.

Sami could perceive all kinds of radar scans on the surrounding battlefield at any time. The pulse signals received by the reconnaissance equipment reached hundreds of thousands of times per second, and of course most of them were harmless.In today's battlefield, various data link systems and antennas are connected in series, coupled with a large number of various radars, and the simple tactical warning equipment trapped in it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish the real vital points.

The target was getting closer and closer, and Sami led the formation to continue descending altitude, using real terrain avoidance flight.The four fighters involved in the operation began to distance themselves, maintaining a distance of more than 4 meters.The nearby hills are still controlled by Indian troops, but these people have no early warning system and have no time to organize a counterattack. Even if they have portable missiles in their hands, they cannot have the opportunity to launch.

At the same time, the J-5000B fighter jets at an altitude of 11 meters also began to use joint attack munitions to launch a close-in strike on Agra. Even if the satellite-guided bomb encounters interference, it can still fly to the general area according to inertial navigation and cannot hit the radar. at least can wreck the runway

A J11 fighter was shot down by a Patriot missile when it approached the 70-kilometer area, becoming the first loss of this plan.

"There is a new short-range system at the mountain pass ahead. Let's try to go around it." Sammy reminded him to modify the route on the formation channel. He detected the Phalanx system on the roadbed through the electronic reconnaissance equipment, which was near the mountain pass. The vital point of the low-altitude penetration has been guarded, and it seems that the enemy is not stupid.

"If you miss this route, the strike mission will fall into chaos," Zhao Lin reminded.The turn now meant that the entire line of attack could not be carried out as planned.

"Follow me, we're entering from the east, don't tell me you can't recognize the radar if you change the direction?"

"Fortress, request limited reconnaissance of the eastern area of ​​the base."

He then asked the configured high-altitude drones to scan for new attack routes.UAVs have become the eyeliner of air fighters, monitoring temporary targets is a new breakthrough in technology, and the timeliness of information collected by UAVs is much superior to that of satellites.

The Phalanx deployed at the mountain pass southeast of Mathura found a low-speed target, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye. It was deployed here mainly to guard against incoming aircraft and cruise missiles at low altitudes, and has been moving to fight. It has shot down 2 cruise missiles and 2 drones.through the battlefield data system, the enemy situation is immediately sent to the intelligence center, but even if the computer, not the human, handles the threat sequence of various air situations, the three supersonic anti-radiation missiles are still an overwhelming priority .Early targets shot down by the Phalanx led the system to conclude that this could be another cruise missile strike, which Chinese missiles often bypass to attack Gwalior.

Sammy's fighter plane was passing through the hills, and he jumped up from time to time to detect the enemy's reaction. He was very good at height and could judge the position of the enemy's radar in a short time, while the opponent could not recognize him.He sensed Sentinel radar to the east of the Agra base, which meant there was probably a mobile missile system nearby.

Soon the unmanned aerial vehicle that had approached in advance jumped up and found a medium-range missile system on the chassis of a Humvee. Of course, the other missile also saw the unmanned aerial vehicle.Sammy could see a missile lift off from somewhere behind the mountain and hit the drone. He hardly needed the command plane to report the position, and he had a rough grasp of the missile's position.

According to the plan, Zhao Lin accelerated to the front, and his jamming pod could conduct self-defense jamming to the fan-shaped position of the target, destroying the radar tracking in a short time.

He crossed the ridge and immediately launched an LD10 anti-radiation missile. Almost at the same time, he saw the Humvee that had already started to transfer. He didn't see the nearby Sentinel radar trailer. He only saw the anti-radiation missile dragging white smoke and flying in another direction. go.He pointed the nose at the target, and to deal with such a sudden and dangerous target, a single-seat fighter plane at a low altitude cannot fly level to carry out laser designation, it is easy to hit the mountain like that, and there is no time, so he can only use rockets. give it a try.

The target heard the approach of the jet from 1 km away, and immediately stopped to fight back. It can be seen that its launcher quickly turned to Zhao Lin, but Zhao Lin launched the attack first.The rockets fly to their targets on extremely imprecise trajectories, but cover an extremely large area.Zhao Lin quickly pulled up and flew over the target.

"You hit it, and I saw it overturned." Sami reminded, so that Zhao Lin didn't have to go around a lot, and now time is the most precious.

As for whether the anti-radiation missile hit or not, it is temporarily unknown, but the signal from that mine has at least disappeared.

The 4 planes had no time to organize their formation and flew straight to the Agra base.After flying over the last few hills, you can see the vehicles assembled on the ground. The fronts of all the vehicles are facing south. It seems that the enemy is ready to evacuate at any time.

Four J-4s whizzed past these secondary targets at an altitude of 10 meters. They had to paralyze the enemy's most important targets as soon as possible, not these things.Sammy didn't have time to make out the threatening parts of the passing vehicles, but the warning devices kept alerting them to new threats.

(End of this chapter)