Chapter 220: Dense Airspace
"Quick, get into the cave and dodge!" On the ground, an old man who was working in the field heard the shouts of the propaganda team.
When I looked up, I saw that it was the members of the Liberal Party in the village, organizing the villagers to hide.
"Hiding from what?" The old man asked.
"The Soviets are coming with an air strike." The party member shouted: "Come into the cave and hide!" ”
Soviets, air strikes? The old man looked at the sky in the distance and seemed to hear a rumbling sound, as if it were thunder.
Throwing down the hoe, the old man ran towards the hill behind him, organized by the members of the Liberal Party.
Recently, a mine was being opened in the mountain, and a hole tens of meters deep had been dug into it, and now, it can just be used as an air-raid shelter.
"Soviets, go back to your hometown! Why come to our Afghanistan and destroy our lives! The old man kept scolding as he ran.
This is a world of the jungle, and if you want not to be bullied, the only choice is to become stronger!
In the sky, battles are measured in seconds.
The MiG-31 is a four-plane formation, facing two Tomcat fighters rushing up, two of them launched R33 missiles, and the other two, turning on afterburner at high altitude, sprinting quickly, trying to get closer.
Originally, the radar of the Tomcat fighter was locked on two planes each, and they were in tracking mode while scanning, but the two MiG-31s flying from high altitude were soon out of reach, and one of the Immortal Bird missiles missed the target, while the other Immortal Bird missiles were still flying rapidly.
The MiG-31 fighter flying at high altitude, after dodging the attack of the Immortal Bird missile, approached a distance of 60 kilometers from the Tomcat fighter and fired the R33 missile again.
Listening to the sound of the radar warning receiver, Rick was still driving the fighter smoothly, and he had to persevere. Hold on until the Immortal Bird missile enters the active guidance process!
Finally, the radar operator in the aft compartment said: "The immortal bird is guided." ”
"Dive." Rick shouted at the wingman, and at the same time, pushed the nose of the plane, and began to dive down.
There are also two R33 missiles, which are coming at him. He had to dodge those missiles, and in the complex mountainous area, the way to dodge was still to use the clutter below.
Two Tomcat fighters, from an altitude of 5,000 meters, swooped straight down, followed by two missiles, and also began to turn around and dive downward.
When the missile's seeker is down. Immediately encountered the clutter on the ground, at this time the R33, has reached the stage of semi-active radar guidance in the final stage, the seeker receives the radar wave emitted by the carrier aircraft to the target, tracking the target.
When encountering clutter on the ground, the two R33s began to calculate rapidly, but their computers were built using analog circuits. Soon it was overworked.
"Boom!" A MiG-31 was hit by an Immortal Bird missile, the R33 missile it directed. Immediately lost the target signal.
Another R33 missile is still flying towards the Tomcat fighter.
The ground is rapidly approaching, bearing huge overloads, and even more under huge psychological pressure, and the next moment, it will collide with the ground. Shine a beautiful spark.
Rick still held on.
"The opponent's missile loses its target, immediately pull it up!" The radar operator in the aft compartment shouted.
Rick pulled the lever back hard, and the Tomcat was still using normal hydraulic operation, but it was an easy fighter to handle. With his pull, the fighter pulled up, almost touching the ground, and flew back into the blue sky.
Fight, keep fighting!
"Soviet devils! Soviet devils parachuted! The old man on the ground, before he ran into the cave, saw the flowers blooming in the air, and suddenly, the old man was excited.
"Let's go, catch the Soviet devils!" The old man shouted.
"No, danger, come back! Our Free Army will go and catch it! A member of the Liberal Party, who is responsible for the safety of the villagers, shouted.
The old man didn't listen to him, took his hoe, and ran in the direction where the parachute landed.
When Rykra got up, the radar operator in the back used the AWG-9 radar to lock on to the MiG-31 on the opposite side again, two Immortal Bird missiles had been launched, and the fighter plane was also equipped with Sparrow medium-range missiles.
This is the latest AIM-7M Sparrow missile, the performance has been very stable, until the AIM-120 missile entered service, it has been the most advanced medium-range missile in the United States. In the Gulf War, almost all of the results of over-the-horizon battles were created by this kind of missile.
At this time, it was an upward shot, looking at the empty sky, and the signal of the MiG-31 was very easy to capture.
"Launch!" Rick shouted.
The radar operator in the aft compartment pressed the button, and there was a flash of fire under the wing, and the medium-range Sparrow missile, at a distance of thirty kilometers, shot out.
The single-pulse seeker, constantly receiving signals, the MiG-31, began to accelerate, climbing towards the high altitude, and at the same time, the speed was constantly increasing.
Want to take advantage of the heights? The speed advantage? Due to the improved missile body, the AIM-7M missile, which can reach a speed of Mach 4, has exceeded the maximum speed of the other side, and now the two sides are approaching, and the other side has no intention of dodging.
The opponent did not dodge, or even make a maneuver with a high overload, and just like that, the forty-kilogram warhead of the AIM-7M missile, exploded near the opponent, the huge air intake tract of the MiG-31, inhaled countless fragments, and one engine stalled.
The pilot then began to rescue the plane, and Mahmad finally found out that it was the other party who did not find out that he had launched a missile at all!
In this era, the performance of the radar warning receiver is not very stable, it can be a false alarm, or it fails, and this MiG-31, as the most outstanding interceptor of the Soviet Air Force, the radar warning receiver failed.
"Eagles, attention, three o'clock direction, thirty kilometers, MiG-29 four-plane formation." The command of the AWACS aircraft continued to be heard in the headset.
"Eagle received." Rick replied that his wingman, who had also escaped the R33's attack, was flying in formation with him, and that they would continue to engage the Soviets in aerial combat.
The radar operator in the rear cabin continued to operate quickly, and Rick's fighter had one Sparrow missile left, and after locking on to a target, the second Sparrow missile flew out of the wing.
Peshawar.
All the fighters were sent out, Tomcat fighters, F-16 fighters, all airborne mounts, relying on the early warning of the E-3, each squad was flying towards the formation of the Soviets and separated to intercept.
In the narrow airspace, a large number of fighters are concentrated.
Originally, he thought that the Soviets' fighters were at most two squadrons, so their predetermined tactic was to use the undead birds at a long distance to solve the problem, and then retreat, let the Soviets chase them, and wait until they stopped chasing, and then go back, continue to use the undead birds until the opponent's fuel was almost consumed, and then rush up to kill the other party.
But now, in such a small space over Afghanistan, dozens of warplanes are concentrated, and just looking at the battlefield on the front line is enough to dazzle.
Fortunately, it is the American E-3 AWACS aircraft, which can command dozens of fighters at the same time and intercept their respective targets, otherwise, even if two E-2s take off at the same time, it will not be possible to command so many fighters to engage.
"We were supposed to avoid close combat with the MiG-29, but now, it seems that combat is essential." Old Arslan said.
"Well, the Soviets must be repelled and let them know that their latest fighter still has no advantage in front of the Tomcat." "Remind our air warriors not to get into their attack envelope, within forty-five degrees of the front hemisphere, it is all danger range, consuming their energy," said Mhammad. ”
The MiG-29 uses hydraulic operation, and the Soviets' machinery is sturdy and durable, and as a result, the operation is laborious, and the MiG-29 fights up and down will sharply consume the body of the Soviet pilots.
"Understood." The elder Arslan said that when you become a pilot, you have to keep exercising, and now, the muscles in the old Arslan's arms are still strong, and it is for this reason.
Now that the west is already inextricably linked, what about the eastern front, will the Indians come to make trouble? Now Mhammad is eagerly awaiting the Indians to get involved.
As long as the Indians are involved, there is a good reason for them!
On the battlefield in the west, in a small space, countless fighters are flying.
Hussein, piloting the Tomcat fighter, dived down from a high altitude, and an AIM-9M missile, detached from the pylons on the wing, flew towards a MiG-29 aircraft.
As a third-generation fighter, the MiG-29's field of vision has been significantly improved compared with the original Soviet-style fighter, but the high back of the aircraft still makes its rear vision very bad, and because it is a single pilot, it cannot see all the surrounding airspace.
The pilot did not notice this flying missile, until there was a roar from the tail engine and his own engine was destroyed, and he realized that it had been attacked.
He worked hard to operate the fighter to prevent the plane from crashing, and at the same time, the other three MiG-29s in the formation all pulled up violently to find the sneak attacker.
The two Tomcat fighters had already pulled up at this time and rushed towards an altitude of 20,000 meters.
Three MiG-29s, followed by the climb, however, the target quickly disappeared in front of the eyes, although it was a twin, the climb rate of the MiG-29 was not as high as that of the Tomcat fighters.
Inside the A-50 AWACS aircraft, mechanics were working hard to stuff a new piece of equipment into a box, and just now, there was another malfunction here.
The early warning officer looked at the screen in front of him and reappeared with a bright spot, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, just now, he couldn't guide the squadron again, and now when he looks again, one of them has broken away from the formation and flies very slowly, it seems that it was ambushed.
"643 squadron, attention, six o'clock direction, height three thousand, two-plane formation." He continued to lead.
In New Delhi, the Iron Lady stood in front of the map hanging high, without saying a word, and the high-ranking officials of the army stood behind her. (To be continued......)