Chapter 282: Flying over the enemy ship
Entering the Arabian Sea, the waves were smaller, and the 14,000-ton aircraft carrier Vikrant sailed on the rippling sea surface, and the water stirred up by the propellers formed two waves behind it.
The sky is clear, it's a good weather to fly! Although the wind is not enough, it is not difficult to take off and land carrier-based aircraft.
On the deck, two Sea Hawk carrier-based aircraft, having lowered their wings, and a deck crew commanded the carrier-based aircraft, came to the catapult slider in the ejection area, and hung the wheels in front.
At this time, the Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft has been ordered, but it has not yet been equipped with the Indian Navy, and they are still operating this Sea Hawk carrier-based aircraft that takes off by catapult, which is a carrier-based aircraft designed by the British in the fifties, and in the United Kingdom, it has been retired in the sixties, and in the Indian Navy, it has been in service until the eighties, until it was replaced by the Sea Harrier. And part of this batch of Sea Hawk carrier-based aircraft in the Indian Navy is British retired aircraft.
The turbojet engine in the tail spewed out a hot air stream, the baffle was already erected, and with the white smoke leaking from the steam catapult, the Sea Eagle carrier-based aircraft quickly left the deck and flew into the sky.
The catapult was reset, and the second carrier-based aircraft also began to eject into the air.
The pilot, piloting the fighter, took to the skies and left the sight of the fleet.
The radar on the aircraft carrier is still rotating, scanning the sky and sea, and the two carrier-based aircraft are still in their line of sight.
"Attention, approaching the Indian aircraft carrier formation, continue to reduce altitude." At a distance of 30 nautical miles, the formation of five fighters was originally only a dozen meters high, but now it has even flown to a sea height of five meters.
Such a height is very dangerous. Even if a huge wave hits, it can shatter the fighter.
However, the Pakistani pilots were not afraid at all, and the fighter plane at the front, with eight stars painted on the nose, meant that there had already been eight downed results. In the age of jets, such a result is something to be proud of.
In the cabin, there was the excellent pilot of the Pakistan Air Force, Major General Hussein, who had taken over the post of commander of the Peshawar Air Base at this time, but was still flying on the front line.
Two Tomcat fighters in front of them, with weapons mounted under the wings, including laser-guided bombs. If it was really in battle, now, they have entered the final stage of preparation before the attack.
Although these two Tomcat fighters have the ability to launch Harpoon anti-ship missiles, the United States only exported Harpoon anti-ship missiles when it bombed India's nuclear reactor last time, and since then, it has never provided such advanced air-to-ship weapons. So, they can only be close. Take advantage of the original way and drop normal bombs!
Bombs are also not ordinary, laser-guided bombs, with greater accuracy than ordinary bombs, and if it is in wartime, they are fully confident of blowing up the enemy's aircraft carrier!
Sparrow missiles. Sidewinder missiles... These are two tomcats with weapons and hideous teeth.
The air flow in the tail rushed into the sea, and on the surface of the sea, two waves were stirred. It's like a propeller stirring, it's spectacular.
Behind the Tomcat, there are two F-16 fighters, also loaded with bombs, and, moreover, anti-radiation missiles, capable of striking at the electronics of enemy ships at any time.
Followed at the end was a Mirage 3, this one of which was a reconnaissance type, and the camera was ready to scout and take pictures at any time.
The flight altitude of five meters, the threat of death that may come at any time, can not make them timid, they are the bravest Pakistani eagles!
In the naval battle between Britain and Argentina just two years ago, the Argentine air force also sank several British warships in this way. If the Argentine Navy had more Exocet missiles at that time, the outcome of the war would probably have changed.
The aircraft carrier formation was still sailing, and the smoke from the boilers formed a black area on the sea.
The deck crew was busy, they were going to catapult two Seahawks again, however, the pressure of the steam catapult was insufficient and was waiting for the boilers to continue pressurizing.
At this moment, on the sea, the roar of fighter planes was heard in the distance.
Did the two Seahawks come back? The deck crew couldn't help but look at the sea in the distance, only to see that on the sea, several bright spots were rapidly approaching.
Damn, take off the runway on the beveled deck! The deck crew is still strange, how come there is no call from the pilot?
When the fighter lands, the beveled deck must be emptied, although it is divided into a take-off area and a landing area, but once the landing fails, the fighter must return to flight, and it must be close to the front take-off area.
At this moment, a sharp-eyed deck crew shouted: "That's not our fighter!" ”
At this time, there were still more than 200 nautical miles from Karachi, and the Karachi base only had old propeller transport planes, and it was impossible to fly here.
What's that coming? The deck crew was in amazement, when they saw the two fighters, approaching rapidly, and under the fuselage, there were weapons!
"Turn on afterburner, supersonic flight!" Hussein gave the order to the wingman.
Although the current fighters are already supersonic, such as the J-8 2, which can fly more than twice the speed of sound, it is called a high-altitude and high-speed fighter, what a beautiful man in the air. However, this maximum speed of almost all fighters is achieved at high altitudes.
The air at high altitude is thin and the fighters experience less resistance, so it is possible to fly at supersonic speeds, which is possible for all fighters.
However, at low altitudes, it is capable of supersonic flight, but there is only one Tomcat fighter, turn on afterburner, it can fly at sea level, just at a speed of Mach 1.3! You know, this is achieved with a backward TF30 engine!
In later generations, in Grumman's new plan, the Tomcat fighter is equipped with the advanced engine of the F22, and it can easily achieve supersonic cruise at Mach 1.5 without afterburner! This qiē is all thanks to the variable sweep wing of the F-14! Relying on this swept wing, the F-14 still abused the F-15 to the ground despite its backward engines.
When the afterburner was turned on, the wings automatically retracted to the end, Hussein pulled the lever, and the fighter raised its head, and at the same time began to accelerate non-stop, accelerate!
In the wing box part of the wing, you can see some white air flow began to separate, in the nose, this phenomenon is more obvious, in the front, there is a thing called the sound barrier, blocked in front of the fighter, and then, the fighter easily passed through, at the same time, a huge sonic boom, was thrown behind the fighter, this huge sound, along the air spread rapidly.
"Wow!" On the bridge of the aircraft carrier Vikrant, countless portholes were shattered in a violent sonic boom, and every Indian Navy soldier, covering their ears with their hands to block out the terrible sound, they looked overhead in amazement, and the two warplanes skimmed their decks, bringing them the feeling of death coming.
Under the wings, there was the symbol of Pakistan with a crescent, and those heavy bombs flashed before their eyes.
It's the Pakistan Air Force! The Indian Navy soldiers were shocked, how did they evade their own air defense nets?
Before they could come to their senses, two more Pakistani fighters flew over.
The Tomcat fighter planes flew over at supersonic speed with afterburner turned on, and greeted them with a sonic boom, while the F-16 fighters, with a maximum speed of less than Mach 2 at high altitude, could not carry out this kind of flight, so they used another way.
Put down the landing gear! Get ready to go!
The two F-16 fighters of the Air Force regard this aircraft carrier as their own, and although the Air Force and the Navy are two branches of the armed forces, and this kind of fighter does not have the ability to land on the deck, they still do it.
Lower, lower! The main landing gear is only a dozen centimeters from the deck! You can even see that the wheels gently wipe the deck and then spin with a flying speed!
The Indian soldiers on the deck had long since ducked to the side, watching these two fighters pull up again, shaking their wings, and under the belly, there were bombs!
The fleet commander was on the radio and ordered the two Sea Hawk fighters to fly back to protect them, and before he could put down the radio, he saw another fighter plane flying over the aircraft carrier.
That plane, flashing constantly under the nose, it was a reconnaissance plane!
The formation of five fighters swaggered over the aircraft carrier formation until it flew away, and the Indians did not react.
On the Rajput-class destroyer, the one-armed anti-aircraft missile began to turn, aimed at the direction in which the opponent was flying, and prepared to start launching missiles.
At this moment, all the radars, the screens were covered with snowflakes, the radios were cut off, they couldn't hear anything, they couldn't do anything.
Pakistani jammers!
When the two Sea Hawk fighters rushed back, they only saw the butt of the Pakistani fighter formation, and they couldn't catch up.
At this time, they were still a hundred nautical miles away from the predetermined target sea area, but they had already been slapped in the face by the Pakistani Air Force.
This time, it was just a sea-skimming flight and flying over the opponent's aircraft carrier formation, and next time, if you dare to get closer, it will be an unceremonious bomb dropped from the sky!
When the Mirage 3 fighter returned to the base, the photos were immediately developed out, and the Pakistani side picked up a few of the best ones, such as those deck personnel of the Indian Navy, who were lying on the deck covering their heads, such as the glass on the bridge was broken, and these photos were released to the world by Pakistan.
"Thanks to our neighbors, today we conducted a joint exercise in which we flew over the aircraft carrier." Pakistan's Defense Minister Mushaaf said with a smile in front of countless cameras: "Our neighbors are very friendly to us. Look at the pictures, are they prostrate and praying? (To be continued......)