These two Cheetah R reconnaissance planes are also the only two high-speed jet combat reconnaissance planes in the entire South African Air Force, and they carried out this special mission lightly; in addition to the original reconnaissance equipment in the plane, only two 30-millimeter Defa rotary tube guns were loaded with 125 shells each.

They don't just go for air strikes, reconnaissance and demonstrations, they don't need to carry bombs, and Botswana doesn't have fighter planes, let alone air-to-air missiles.

After the world began to impose an arms embargo on South Africa in 1977, France also stopped the expected military trade, and the South African government has been unable to buy any new combat aircraft, and it is obviously not a day's work to develop it on its own.

There is no way, but to improve the existing fighters to improve their combat effectiveness, otherwise these Mirage 3 will not even be able to deal with the MiG-23 of the Anren Movement.

Fortunately, there is an Israeli who is secretly engaged in mushroom research can help privately, and after a few years of hard work in the 80s, the South African Air Force has a slightly weird-looking Cheetah series fighter with a nose like a hard jacket.

Although the body of the Cheetah fighter is a little old, the electronic equipment will be quite advanced after the improvement and upgrading, and as for the speed, the maximum level flight speed at an altitude of 12,000 kilometers can still be close to Mach 2.2.

The high speed is sufficient, although it cannot be maintained for too long in the high-speed situation of such afterburner, but it is no problem to detect a certain point target, and it can also use the supersonic sound at supersonic speed to put a certain psychological pressure on the people on the ground target.

Two reconnaissance planes acted together, to put it bluntly, in order to increase psychological pressure on the enemy: single-plane reconnaissance, what about two-planes?

It's hard to tell what they're trying to do, so it's okay to scare you!

The two South African pilots who flew the reconnaissance plane were not worried about their own safety at all, the opponent may have individual anti-aircraft missiles, but this will be their flight altitude of 12,000 meters, and after a while, they will turn on the afterburner, and the speed of passing near the target point will be Mach 2, and the mercenaries below will not take advantage of themselves at all!

The only worry is that the purpose of the investigation is easily achieved, but the people below don't even notice the threat of these two planes, and in the end it will be funny to show the blind man, and I hope that there is no problem with the ears of those people.

The ground is a semi-arid savanna, and there are few settlements to be seen from the cockpit, and if you do, they are pitifully small and barely visible.

Botswana is already sparsely populated, this area is wild and backward, and even international flights do not pass here, and the visual airspace is very refreshing.

The Cheetah looked at the radar display, it was still about 180 kilometers away from the target, and it would be four or five minutes before the afterburner needed to be turned on, intending to break the radio silence at that time.

Suddenly, the warning light in the cabin turned on, and a rapid warning sound came from the headset at the same time.

It's a radar warning light!

"One, we are locked by the anti-aircraft missile active radar, and the other side has anti-aircraft missiles!"

The man's adrenaline was rushing through the headset to break the silence of the radio, and the man's adrenaline was soaring!

Radar waves have been measured before, but it is normal, it is more than 100 kilometers away from the capital of Botswana, and the radar at the airport over there will also be turned on.

Moreover, your own radar is also turned on behind you, and the Cheetah R is not advanced enough to be able to distinguish all radar signals.

And locked by the active radar of the anti-aircraft missile, that's bad!

"Observe the direction of the missile attack and prepare to evade!"

At the same time as the pilot of the long plane gave an emergency order, the two pilots immediately checked the direction of the ground-to-air missile attack with the naked eye. Their radar does not have the ability to look down, and even if there is, it is not an all-round AWACS aircraft!

If you want to do effective evasion, you can only rely on the naked eye to see which direction the missile is flying from, otherwise which way it will flash!

I didn't expect that the opponent would have an anti-aircraft missile that could hit an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and there was no electronic jamming pod...

No, it's useless with a jamming pod!

"It's not Sam 2, damn it, what!"

The pilot of the long plane couldn't help but scold his mother!

The common SAM-2 surface-to-air missile is guided by radio command, and if it has an electronic jamming pod, it can jam, but that kind of missile has no active radar at all!

If it's not Sam 2, what would it be?

The pilot didn't have time to think about it, so he couldn't stop searching the sides and down: the plane was at an altitude of 12,000 meters, and even if other missiles could hit such an altitude, they would have to fly up from below.

This is a fighter modified by the Israelis, and the most basic self-defense warning facilities are still available, and as soon as it encounters an active radar-guided missile lock, it will play with the warning of life, and this system is very familiar with Soviet-style air defense missiles, and the designers built it this way.

The warning lights in the cabin kept flashing, and the pilot felt like a long time had passed, but in fact, just two or three seconds had passed!

Suddenly, the pilot of the long plane was in a state of death, and the joystick unconsciously turned to the lower right, "... ahead"

He also wanted to say "two missiles are coming, flash flash!"

It's a pity that there is no chance!

When he changed direction to observe just now, his eyes saw the trail of smoke left by two missiles in front of him and one behind him: the anti-aircraft missile actually rushed directly to the head, and it was not scientific at all!

Like the Sam 2, the shooting height can reach 27 kilometers, but the effective range is estimated to be 40 kilometers, and the target above 10,000 meters must be attacked from the bottom up, which will be smashed head-on!

And this speed is already unreasonable: the pilot has only said half a sentence, and as soon as the evasive action moves, a fireball appears in front of him!

After the long-range radar locked onto the incoming aircraft, the commander of the Sam 5 missile battalion, a retired long-range anti-aircraft missile colonel, ordered two rounds to be fired in a row: four rounds were supposed to be fired, but at the moment there were not many super anti-aircraft missiles weighing ten tons each and could not be wasted.

Besides, Comrade Colonel thinks that two shots are enough!

The South Africans don't know what kind of target they are up against, and if the two Cheetah R lucky stars dodge the Sam 5, then there are Sam 11s waiting for them.

Not only that, the two Su-27s are already ready to go in the hangar of the opposite side, once the other side evades the interception of ultra-long-range anti-aircraft missiles, the Su-27 will take off, quickly climb to the other side of the same height, and hide outside the range of the Sam-11 intercepted in front.

If the other party's real shit luck dodged two waves of missile attacks, two Su-27s should teach them how to behave.

It's a pity that the Su-27 didn't even have a chance to start the engine: it was enough for the colonel to give the order to launch only two shots, and that was because the warhead of the S200 anti-aircraft missile guided by the terminal active radar weighed 218 kg, and at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, this killing radius was 300 meters!

And the distance between those two target planes is only thirty or forty meters, which is accurate, and even one shot can solve the problem!