Chapter 160: Tu-16 Hits
Jackson was constantly operating nervously, in just one minute, like a century, five missiles flying out, will they accurately hit the target?
One missile, having left its original intended trajectory, continued to fly at high altitude, and the other four, respectively, swooped down on four targets.
Two flew down from the sky and flew straight towards the two MiG-25 fighters, and the other two continued to strike at the MiG-25 at high altitude.
At a distance, twenty kilometers, the seeker of the Immortal Bird missile began to launch electromagnetic waves, and the Tomcat fighters behind it, could be temporarily liberated.
"Maneuver to get out." The Tu-126 AWACS aircraft spotted four missiles continuing to fly and issued a warning to the fighters.
The MiG-25, which was still accelerating in the air, immediately pushed down the operating lever and made a dive action.
The two MiG-25s at low altitude began to roll sharply and roll away.
The Immortal Bird missile has an overload capacity of 17G, and as long as the active radar is turned on, it can always lock on to the target.
However, the two low-altitude MiG-25s rolled through the valley, and the DSQ-26 radar's target analysis capabilities were insufficient, and it lost its way when it spotted the chaotic echoes ahead.
The MiG-25 in the high altitude swooped down from a height of 20,000 meters to 5,000 meters, and then climbed high again, hoping to rely on such an action to consume the kinetic energy of the opponent's missile.
The 60-kilogram fragmentation warhead exploded, and the MiG-25 was within the absolute radius of the explosion, and it could not escape the fragments of those missiles.
"Two were shot down, two were unlocked, and one more—" Jackson looked at the other Immortal Bird missile in surprise. It had already crossed the border and was heading towards another large plane in the distant sky.
"No!" Jackson exclaimed.
Fighting in your own airspace is completely different from fighting in Afghanistan, and shooting down a Soviet plane across the border would make the Soviets extremely angry. Especially since that plane is not a direct combat aircraft, it is a jammer!
However, at this time, the Immortal Bird missile had already entered a state of active attack, and no one could stop it.
With an elongated, streamlined fuselage, swept wings, flat and vertical tails with large swept angles, and two engines at the wing roots, this was an early Tu-16 bomber, just a protruding boat-shaped fairing in the weapons bay. There are also heat exchangers and exhaust holes around it, indicating that it is a jammer, as well as large panel antennas on the wingtips.
Now, the plane no longer flies idlely, and when it receives the warning of the AWACS aircraft that an immortal bird missile is flying towards it, it panics.
In order to jam the Immortal Bird missile, it flew almost to the border line of Afghanistan. Who would have thought that the Pakistani Air Force would dare to attack it across the border!
The pilot starts the engine to its maximum thrust. It's a pity that it's just a subsonic fighter and can't dodge the sniping of missiles at all.
Countless pieces of aluminum foil were released from the side of the bomb bay, hoping to effectively jam the missile, and at the same time, it turned on the jammer's power to the maximum.
If it is in active radar mode, then the Immortal Bird missile has already been successfully jammed. It's a pity that the current Immortal Bird missile is a special mode of attacking jamming sources, and the place with the largest interference source is its target!
At this time. Almost reaching the maximum range of the Immortal Bird missile, its speed has begun to decrease, and the distance between it and the Tu-16 is still getting closer and closer.
"Boom!" The 60-kilogram warhead, with countless fragments, filled the surrounding airspace, and suddenly, the belly of the Tu-16 bomber was blown open and scarred everywhere.
In front of the pilot, numerous lights flashed, the engine had stopped working, and the plane staggered and began to fall downward.
"Skydiving." The captain reluctantly gave such an order.
The Tu-16 is an old-fashioned bomber with a crew of six people, including the first and co-pilot, the first navigator, the second navigator, the communicator and the shooter. Now converted into an electronic jammer, the shooter becomes the operator of the electronic jammer. Although each crew member is equipped with an ejection seat, it is not ejected together. Its order is the shooter, the communicator, the second navigator, the first navigator, the co-pilot, and the pilot. In addition, except for the two pilots, who were ejected upwards, the other four were all ejected downwards. At the same time, it is not like a fighter jet, pull the emergency ejection handle, directly deal with the ejection process automatically, its ejection is extremely cumbersome, for example, the first navigator wants to eject, there are 8 preparatory actions: turn the seat to the right nose side, put the seat back to the rear limit, put down the seat basin, fasten the strap, and tighten the lock, unplug the headset cable and oxygen catheter, lift the foot, pull open the safety handle, after the foot pedal is released, place the foot on it, throw the emergency hatch cover, and press the ejection handle. These actions are all manual.
Such a cumbersome action made it almost impossible for everyone to eject and escape, and when the captain gave the order, the electronic jammer successfully ejected, and when the second navigator was ejecting, the hatch could not be thrown off at all.
In order to escape, the co-pilot actually gave up the order and ejected, and when the co-pilot's hatch was thrown off, due to the air pressure, the rest of the people's hatches could not be thrown away.
"Boom!" The Tu-16 electronic jammer crashed into the mountains and turned into a fireball.
(The same is true of China's H-6 bomber, which was developed from the Tu-16, and once an accident occurs, almost all of them are destroyed and killed, and they have become a widow-making machine worthy of the name.) Deeply remember the air warriors who sacrificed their lives for the cause of national defense! )
The battle continued, with only one Immortal Bird missile and two AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles remaining, and Rick pushed down the nose of the plane and flew towards the bomber.
The two F-16s have already drilled into the mountains separately to pursue the two MiG-25s that survived the attack of the Immortal Bird missiles.
Jackson was a little frustrated, in the initial test, he had brilliantly completed the result of six immortal bird missiles attacking six targets, with a hit rate of more than 80 percent, but now, in actual combat, five missiles were fired, and only two targets were hit at high altitudes, which were the easiest to be hit, three at low altitudes, two of them completely missed the target, and the other deviated from the target, and crossed the border to hit a jamming plane.
Three goals, 600,000! In Jackson's eyes, those were his bonuses!
Jackson knew that the report would be a headache when he got back, and the main thing now was to provide Rick with navigation information.
The radar in front is still working excellently, and that large bomber can't escape their attack!
When the Immortal Bird missiles were not needed, Jackson's job was mainly to navigate Rick and help search the surrounding airspace with his eyes to observe the surrounding situation.
With the flight speed of the fighter, the wing automatically adjusts the sweep angle under the control of the computer, and as the speed decreases, the sweep angle of the wing becomes smaller and smaller.
The Tu-22M2 bomber, which had already given up the bombing mission at this time, was the luckiest, and the Immortal Bird missile, which was originally aimed at it, attacked the jammer in the case of interference.
Now, it needs to get back to the airspace of Afghanistan as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, after completing a turn with a radius of several kilometers in the air, the Tomcat fighter had already swooped down from high altitude and caught up.
The air combat was very fast, just a long-range volley, and after a few minutes, it entered the approach dogfight, which was a battle between variable-swept wing fighters, but the outcome was obvious.
Tu-22M2 is a total weight of more than 100 tons, even if half of the fuel is burned now, there are still more than 80 tons of bombers, its weapon is a bomb in the bomb bay, for self-defense, only the tail is equipped with a radar-guided GSH-23 double-barreled 23 mm cannon, and its opponent, the Tomcat fighter, and an immortal bird missile, as well as two Sidewinder, plus a cannon, can send it back to its hometown at any time.
The operation of the Sidewinder missile is completely controlled by the pilot, and when Jackson visually discovered the Tu-22M2 in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is really a perfect big guy! It would be nice if I could get it down and bring it back to the United States to study it!
At this moment, he saw that his plane had already flown above the other party, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, what did Rick in the front cabin want to do?
Rick pushes the head flat, then, "Tom tom." The cannon shell flew directly in front of the course of the Tu-22M2, and the pilot of the Tu-22M2 was suddenly startled, subconsciously pressed the operating stick, and the plane rolled sideways and almost hit the top of the mountain.
Rick was very aware that he did not enter the tail of the other party's plane, and seeing that the plane was so wolf, Rick flew to the other side.
The two planes flew side by side, and from this side, you could almost see the fear in the eyes of the opposing pilots.
Rick was in the bubble-shaped cockpit, reaching out his hand, pointing at the other person, then at himself, and then giving a thumbs down.
What does that mean? Rick wants the other party to fly with him? God, this is ridiculous, Rick wants to make a crash landing!
This is simply impossible, the pilots of the Soviets will never do what they want, besides, this is a bomber! There are still bombs hanging in the belly of the plane, and if the other side has any intention of throwing bombs over their own air base, it will simply destroy the Peshawar air base!
Sure enough, the other party did not agree, but slammed the operating lever, and the fuselage of the huge bomber slammed into the Tomcat fighter.
The collision in the sky is very violent, and it is completely the advantage of the large size, so in such a collision, the Tomcat fighter will definitely be injured.
That's the idea that the other party hits!
The huge fuselage of the Tu-22M2 pressed towards the Tomcat fighter. (To be continued......)