Chapter 804: Advantages of Fourth-Generation Aircraft
"Damn, what's that?" Saha, the leader of the SSG team, couldn't help but say as he watched as a mule had its leg broken and the things it was carrying emitted yellow smoke from the explosion.
The people around them, even if they weren't hit by the rockets, fell to the ground, covered their mouths, and rolled around.
"Chemical weapons, the Americans actually supplied the Taliban with chemical weapons!" Saha reacted, his face full of anger: "This is simply the most shameless act of the Americans to break the basic international norms!" ”
Providing some guns and ammunition is fine, after all, these are available in the international market, but even chemical weapons are provided, and it is absolutely unforgivable for the Taliban to kill and injure civilians.
You have the upper hand here, so you don't have to worry about being contaminated by chemical weapons, but at the same time, you can't go down and refill the guns of the terrorists and American personnel.
"Call Mountain Eagle, call Mountain Eagle, these Americans are carrying chemical weapons, please destroy them all!"
Without the report of the SSG team on the ground, the pilots on the two gunships in the air also realized that the situation below was not ordinary, originally they used rocket launchers to kill a large area, and then the rest was handed over to the SSG team, and now, these two gunships, turned back, used the machine guns in front of the nose, and cleared the ground.
"Da-da, da-da-da." Bullets flew everywhere, and the people on the ground, who were already stunned by gas bombs, soon went to another world under the fire of helicopter gunships.
"Mountain Eagle, Mountain Eagle, two jets found!" Just as the helicopter gunship was clearing the ground personnel, the call came again from the headset.
Saha's personnel spotted two fighter jets flying through the sky. Suddenly shocked, at such a time, the air force of the Americans came!
Originally, it was a hit-and-run, but now, two F-16s, US Air Force fighters that were supposed to patrol the skies over the south. Received a distress call from the team before they died, and rushed from the sky.
Fixed-wing fighters against helicopter gunships, that is a massacre, if it is in the plains, the gunships will be shot down without any suspense.
And now it is a mountainous area, and the helicopter gunships also need to return as soon as possible.
The two helicopter gunships, which had just made a big splash, were now flying almost close to the ground, drilling into the valleys of the mountains.
At the same time, two F-16s passed overhead. It had already swooped down, with a sharp roar, and followed into the valley.
The technical benefits are enormous, as both F-16s are equipped with the latest Blue Shield low-altitude navigation and targeting pods, which include terrain-tracking radar (TFR) and forward-looking infrared sensors (FLIR), allowing pilots to fly in day and night conditions, in any weather conditions, and at ultra-low altitudes. Especially cross-linked with the aircraft's four-degree fly-by-wire operating system, when encountering obstacles. The autopilot changes the altitude based on the data given by the TFR to prevent the risk of hitting a mountain.
American pilot David piloted the F-16 in front. At a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, flying in the valley, the constant appearance of mountain peaks passing by is simply a kind of deathless flight that makes the adrenaline rush.
Although the F-16 has a minimum speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, the handling characteristics at this speed are very poor, and if you are not careful, you will enter a stall tailspin. Now the speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour is already very small.
Even so, navigating the mountains requires a quick eye and a daring pilot.
If you fly out of the mountains, go into the sky. That was safe enough, but the two gunships must have slipped away, and now the Americans are anxious to eliminate the two Pakistani gunships that crossed the border.
Yes, it is to cross the border, and now the United States has obtained air supremacy over most of Iran's airspace, and Iran's fighters are at most to protect the airspace over Tehran, and cannot take into account the airspace in other aspects.
Dare to cross the border to the skies over Iran to make trouble, and also killed the Americans, we must not let the other side fly back alive!
Although the pulsed Doppler radar has excellent downward firing ability, the echo in the mountains will still dislock the target, and only the Sidewinder missile using the infrared seeker to launch an attack from behind the opponent is the most certain.
In this way, the F-16 fighter plane, under the control of a superb pilot, chased the helicopter gunship in front, and when it flew over a canyon, finally, the seeker of the Sidewinder missile was aimed at the other side.
A missile, trailing its tail flame, flew out of the launch rails at the wingtip and headed for the helicopter gunship in front.
The helicopter gunship continued to lower its altitude, and at the same time, at the tail, released a series of thermal flares, which were originally intended to deal with shoulder-portable anti-aircraft missiles on the ground, and are now used against missiles fired by fighters behind it.
The entrance to another canyon suddenly appeared in front, and the helicopter gunship flew in, and the pilot's back was covered in a cold sweat.
The Sidewinder missile hit the hillside with an explosion, and the pilot behind pulled up the plane, the fighter was not a helicopter, and it was impossible to turn in an instant.
The agile F-16, with almost a large elevation angle, flew out of the valley, and he needed to continue to look for the trail of the gunship from above the high mountain before coming down to attack.
This maneuver is almost a bit risky, he flies against the edge of the mountain, and the high maneuverability of the F-16 fighter is quite good here.
Just now, the other party panicked and flew to the west, that is, the inland flight of Iran, and now as long as the road to the east of the opposite direction is blocked, the other party can be intercepted, even if it is consumed, it will be consumed until the other party runs out of fuel!
The fighter plane flew over the mountains, searching for the track of the fleeing helicopter, and two minutes later, a shrill siren sounded in his headphones.
Attention, already locked, attention, already locked!
How is this possible! Can a gunship still lock itself onto this fighter? Even if it is locked, what does the opponent launch to attack itself? Anti-tank missiles?
David thought to himself as he made a rapid climb motion, and he was going to turn to the back to see what the other side was.
"Attention, David, at six o'clock, missiles were fired!" At this moment, the wingman, who was two kilometers away, saw David's tail, and a missile had already flown over.
"Boom!" David made a rapid climb to death, and his kinetic energy was further lost, and in front of the opponent's missile, this was simply his own circle around the door of his house, full of death-seeking behavior.
The flying missile accurately hit David's plane, and with the flames of the rocket that ejected the seat, David ejected from inside.
Dizzy, he still doesn't understand how he was shot down.
The wingman Alpha saw very clearly that the missile was a medium-range air-to-air missile, and the tail was still sflamed, indicating that the engine had not finished burning, and the other party should be very close to him.
Almost at the moment of the reminder, he aimed the nose of the aircraft at the airspace where the missile flew, but the airborne radar searched several times, but found nothing, and visually, he could not see any targets of the fighters.
It is said that the power range of medium-range air-to-air missiles is only about a few kilometers, and it should be within its own visual range, what's going on?
Just then, an alarm sounded in the headphones, and an echo appeared on the radar.
That's when the other side fired another missile! Damn it, my own radar can't even detect the other party, and the other party has already locked on to itself, and has launched missiles!
What the hell is this? In his mind, something suddenly remembered, damn it, it was a stealth fighter!
When he learned that the US plane actually dared to chase his two helicopter gunships around, the Pakistan Air Force immediately dispatched a stealth cat fighter and entered Iranian airspace.
With good stealth capabilities, the other side did not discover the Pakistani fighter at all, the pilot Bohari used the optoelectronic radar to search the airspace ahead, and after discovering the target, he intermittently turned on the radar to provide the missile with a launch element, and a second later, in the open cabin door, a Lightning-10C air-to-air missile with a ramjet engine ignited and flew out.
Pakistan already has an air-to-air missile with an active radar, which is developed on the basis of an active sky flash, with advanced performance, and at the same time, in order to dominate the sky in the future, Pakistan has also joined forces with China to come up with a ramjet engine facelift, codenamed Lightning-10C, and the range has been greatly expanded to 100 kilometers.
Compared to rocket power, this engine burns the whole time and does not reduce maneuverability due to the unpowered firing process later.
At the same time, this is also the first actual combat of this missile, showing a strong combat effectiveness, due to the close distance, after flying for dozens of seconds, it enters the stage of active guidance, being tracked by an active missile, whether it can be thrown off, it depends on the luck of the pilot.
Second Lieutenant Alpha was unlucky, he was hit by an oncoming air-to-air missile, and besides, the fighter exploded instantly, and he didn't even have a chance to eject and escape.
That's the advantage of stealth aircraft! In the face of the fourth-generation aircraft, the third-generation aircraft can only be slaughtered, and if you want to deal with the fourth-generation aircraft, the only way is to develop and equip the same fourth-generation aircraft! (To be continued.) )