Chapter 384: Aerial Voyeurism
Cheng Da made careful tactical arrangements, except for the three fighters who entered the Beiku Mountains as a reserve and hid first, the rest of the fighters formed a large combat formation and pushed towards the north line.
It was a feint aimed at mobilizing the Blues' movements.
However, after taking off, Cheng Da has been unsteady in his heart, and he firmly believes that it is not because of the 037 J-7EGG Super Edition that followed the action to shoot the fighter and was unsteady, it was an inexplicable palpitation. It seems that someone is peeping in the dark, and the malicious gaze that may come from behind makes people's hairs stand on end.
I have to admit that Chengda's intuition is very accurate, at this time, the 1616 J-16 fighter is using its powerful radar search ability as a small early warning aircraft at an altitude of 10,000 meters away to spy on their every move, and the large tactical formation composed of nine J-10Bs of the Big Red Eagle has nothing to hide.
Sometimes the pilot's instincts are very accurate.
And sometimes when fighting, pilots will subconsciously trust intuition rather than instruments.
Therefore, Chengda did not hesitate to turn in advance, accelerating the evasive maneuver earlier than planned. Knowing that the detection range of the J-11B's airborne radar will not be much farther than that of the J-10B, but Chengda still made an early evasion maneuver that consumes aviation fuel, and if the battle is in a stalemate, it will be very disadvantageous for his side.
Obviously, the decision-making of commanders cannot be fully explained by theory, and it is precisely the commanders who are more out-of-the-box in their thinking that can often win more victories.
Chengda's knee-jerk reaction allowed his troops to dodge the first blow of the Falcon Brigade, and it was most likely a fatal blow.
Seeing that there were thirty more seconds to saturate the launch, the opponent ran out of range. Li Zhan doesn't feel depressed, it's not interesting to fight smoothly, when you are strong, you can fight for a few rounds to fully play the role of a whetstone.
The aerial voyeur glared, but soon saw nothing. The target is definitely still within the detection range, but they have obviously entered the mountain, and no matter how advanced the airborne radar is, there is no way to penetrate the mountain and see the target behind them.
Have the big red eagles, who have lost their height, lost their advantage? Not really. Cheng Da's keen instincts restored the balance of battle to a relatively balanced state, and the one-way transparency advantage of the falcon brigade on the battlefield was only maintained for less than a minute.
Finding that the target tracked and locked on the target to direct the tactical formation into battle, no matter how fast the process was, it would take at least three minutes to enter the attack stage, Li Zhan really couldn't get up fast, so he could only watch the big red eagles slip away.
In the case of two-way opacity, it is like pulling up a curtain on both sides of the war, each playing Tai Chi on one side, boxing, and various tactics and techniques are all in battle, until at a certain moment, the curtain suddenly disappears, and the battlefield situation becomes clear, and it is clear whose move is meaningless.
Victory is piled up by the decisions of commanders, one decision after another, any decision can affect the result, and any decision may be related to the life and death of thousands of soldiers. Without a strong heart, he cannot act as a combat commander.
At this time, Li Zhan needed to make an operational decision as soon as possible.
Do you wait or keep going?
The three J-10Bs that have not yet appeared are the biggest destabilizing factor in making decisions, and once they copy the back road, the entire combat plan is in danger of being paralyzed. The need to use a backup combat plan is obviously not a good option.
Li Zhan only thought for three seconds before making a decision, "Late-night bar goddess, the target will definitely turn around, you keep the altitude and move to the mountain pass on the west side of the Beiku Mountain Range, the long plane turns on the radar and searches, and waits for my instructions, over." ”
"Keep the altitude adjusted to the mountain pass on the west side of the Beiku Mountain Range, the late-night bar goddess received, is driving in, over." Tang Leilei, the pilot of the long plane of the goddess of the late-night bar, replied.
The pass of the North Ku Mountains is a famous location, and it is famous throughout the army. All this is because it almost became Li Zhan's Waterloo and even the last stop of his flying career. Because of communication, the Doyle Battalion of the Army's field air defense unit, which was assisting the No. 27 radar station in joint defense at that time, used live ammunition, and two batches of four missiles almost killed the No. 037 J-7E piloted by Li Zhan. The whole process happened to be filmed by the film crew who followed the interview with Doyer's camp at the time, and since then it has become an internal top-secret teaching material, and the photographer also got a second-class merit for it, and was promoted to section chief last year.
The officers and men of the Eagle Falcon Brigade naturally knew that the mountain pass was one of the important places in the battle of the captain's fame, and they usually had to pay homage to it when they flew by, so they were very familiar with the terrain and meteorological weather there.
Late at night, the bar goddess team entered the mountain pass on the west side of the Beiku Mountains from a low altitude, and Tang Leilei cautiously climbed the altitude and turned on the radar to search, but still did not find it.
The voyeurs on Li Zhan's side were still staring at the big-eyed and scumbag, looking around for the traces of the big red eagles. The advantage of the new domestic airborne active phased array radar is simply that the work is more delicate and accurate, and most of the clues will show prototypes.
However, it was the first time that Li Zhan had used this radar in actual combat, and he was not very confident about the actual combat results. The key is to be cautious about new equipment and new technologies. Officers and men at the grassroots level are the only group that directly uses weapons and equipment, and their criteria for evaluating a weapon are usually the only one: whether it is easy to use or not.
The 107mm MLRS is not technologically advanced, but can you say that it is a failed weapon? On the contrary, it is a world-famous weapon, a representative weapon on a par with the AK series of rifles.
Active phased array radar has been blowing in the wind for several years, and from a technical point of view, it has a great advantage over passive phased array radar, not to mention ordinary Doppler radar. However, this thing is still a new thing for the Chinese Air Force, and it is obviously impossible to tap and exert its full combat capability if it is not played with for a while.
After thinking for a moment, Li Zhan gave the second order, "Xiao Han, continue to ascend to the altitude of 12,000 and advance fifty kilometers. ”
"Understand, go up to an altitude of 12,000 and advance fifty kilometers." Han Hongjun couldn't hold back his strength for a long time, and the push rod accelerated to maintain the course and move forward.
Military control has been implemented in the airspace of the exercise, and no aircraft can fly to this area except for the fighters participating in the exercise, so there is no need to worry about the use of the airspace layer at all, and this is war.
Li Zhan implemented his bait link in advance, simply put, he used the No. 1616 J-16 command aircraft as a bait to attract the J-10B of the big red eagle, and the four tactical teams came out from the three directions of the ambush to divide the target and wait for the opportunity to break each one, or simply fight in a wave of melee.
To Li Zhan's surprise, when he narrowed the distance to almost two hundred kilometers and the altitude was at 12,000, he still couldn't find any trace of the big red eagles, and Li Zhan could even see the late-night bar goddess team ambushed in the mountain pass on the west side of the Beiku Mountain Range from the radar.
It's not like it's all crashing into the mountains, is it?
This unrealistic idea flashed in a flash and never came up again. If the Big Red Hawks can't even do basic low-altitude flying in the mountains, then they don't have the face to be the first unit to personalize the fighters. It is hard to believe that there are two liveries in the same service in the Chinese military, which emphasizes uniform and unified operation, but this has become a fact, which means that the Chinese Air Force is beginning to seek a new image that is more in line with the current and future military situation.
"This big red eagle has a set." Li Zhan said convincingly.
So far, at least, he hasn't faced an opponent who can hide under his nose.
This only aroused Li Zhan's competitive spirit, "The confrontation drill is starting to be a little interesting, Xiao Han, accelerate the pulse towards the North Kushan, I don't believe they can still be stealth." ”
"Understood!"
Li Zhan continued to order, "Northeast lords, you go to support the late-night bar goddess, Vulcan Invincible and Super Break Dancer, you carry out Plan B, go around to the north side of the Beiku Mountain Range, do you understand each unit, it's over." ”
"The Northeast lords understand, support the goddess of the late-night bar, over."
"Plan B, go around the north side of the Beiku Mountain Range, the Vulcan is invincible, it's over."
"Super Break Dancer Received, Plan B, Done."
Each squad quickly adjusted its deployment and quickly formed a "V" formation with an opening facing the northeast, with the Late-Night Bar Goddess Squad and the Northeast Old Man Squad at the bottom, who were responsible for the main attack mission, while the Vulcan Invincible Squad and the Super Breakdancer Squad formed two sides of the "V" formation, which was responsible for the feint mission of driving sheep into the circle, and the tasks between the two parts could be switched according to the situation.
The Big Red Eagles won't stay in the North Ku Mountains forever, they will come out eventually. There are only two possibilities, either climb directly or come out of the western pass along the North Reservoir Canyon. The former is tantamount to throwing himself into the net, and the battlefield situation that Cheng Da has managed to turn around will develop to their disadvantage, although he is still unclear about the situation.
In other words, Li Zhan judged that the big red eagles would definitely fly low along the Beiku Canyon and come out of the mountain pass on the west side, and with a clever little detour, he put himself in a vantage point behind the flanks of the Eagle Falcon Brigade. It is impossible for them to come out of the mountain pass on the east side of the Beiku Mountains, because it is not only close to the border line, but also more than 500 kilometers away, so it is obviously too far to go around, and the fuel load of the J-10B simply cannot support such a long-distance low-altitude flight and then a fierce air battle.
No one has a second chance to take to the skies.
Therefore, it is very likely that the Great Red Eagles will come out of the western pass, and he will therefore set up a heavy formation there. But what if the big red eagles don't take the usual path and choose to climb up directly? There is such a possibility, but it is very rare to be 100 percent sure of operational decisions, and one of them is already very high.
Moreover, since Li Zhan had already considered various possibilities, he naturally had a combat plan to deal with it.
The life-or-death choice quietly shifted to Cheng Da, and his next decision could make the difference between victory and defeat in the battle, and he may not know that it would all turn for him.
To a certain extent, the battle between the two armies was carried out in the guesswork of the commanders of both sides, and what was extended from this was the importance of battlefield intelligence, and reconnaissance operations were necessary to obtain battlefield intelligence. The reason why Li Zhan would rather violate the law and send the No. 037 J-7EGG Super Edition over seems to have been found.
Is this really the case?