"Azazel understands that Intruder 3 and 4 continue to maintain a low-altitude flight attitude and make a detour to the rear of the defenders, warm up the Immortal Bird missiles, and maintain the highest alert."

"Intruder 3 (4) received, the AN/APG-71 fire control radar is being activated, the rear detour begins, and the Immortal Bird missile is being warmed up, maintaining the highest alert." The two Tomcat wingmen repeatedly confirmed Rick's orders.

"Azazler, the position of the enemy aircraft is determined, the direction is 17 degrees, the distance is 110 kilometers, the altitude is 3500 meters, 8 J10A, note that at an altitude of 8000 meters above them there are 4 J8Ds." A hint of excitement was evident in the voice of the commander of Hawkeye 1.

"Hawkeye One, I've turned on the main switch on my weapon, ready to fight at any time." As soon as Rick finished speaking, he pushed the steering stick, and the nose of the F14E suddenly lifted up, and it was close to a 45-degree inclination angle and drove towards the sky.

Rick controls the new Tomcat from the original low-altitude flight state, raising the entire nose up at some angles, and the direction of the PLA military aircraft is included in the main scanning sector of the AN/APG-71 radar, but it has not yet been turned on, so as not to expose the target, mainly relying on the infrared passive detector to retrieve the target bearing.

"Intruder No. 3 and No. 4, you turn on the radar tracking and scanning parallel mode, aim at their Sky Eye and Tu-154, launch the full bomb, don't keep it, I will keep the course unchanged." Rick said calmly.

Under the parallel mode, the F14 fighter can track 24 targets at the same time and guide six AIM-54 "Immortal Bird" air-to-air missiles to carry out multi-target attacks, but in this mode of one dozen and more, the range of the AIM-54 missile is best controlled within 100 kilometers, otherwise it is easy to cause the missile to miss the target. The AN/APG71 radar, which was upgraded from the AGW-9 radar, continues to maintain and carry forward this advantage. The matching Immortal Bird C missile can reach a maximum distance of 200 kilometers!

"Intruder 3 (4) understands."

At this time, the two new Tomcats have flown 130 kilometers at ultra-low altitude and have gradually detoured back to the rear of the Huaxia fighters, such a distance is only a matter of less than a few minutes for the F14E fighter that has been cruising at Mach 1.05.

As the distance approached, the Immortal Bird missile supporting the new Tomcat was locking onto the target 150 kilometers away, and the short drip, drip, drip, and dripping sound of the AN/APG-71 fire control radar suddenly turned into a long beep sound.

"Lock them up." The excitement in the voice of the Intruder 3 (4) pilot could not be suppressed any longer.

"Kill them!" Rick coldly ordered.

"Take it. Friends of China" With the roar of missile launches, the two new Tomcat fighters trembled eight times in a row, and eight sharp white lines cut out from under the belly of the plane, extending straight to the distant skyline.

Two huge planes of the Huaxia PLA Air Force are flying leisurely under the protection of four J8Ds.

"What's that?" The radar operator of the "Sky Eye" early warning aircraft of the Eighth Policeman saw from the surveillance screen that eight shining light points suddenly appeared 150 kilometers away, and their speed had exceeded Mach 3, or even Mach 4 per hour! And it's speeding up and rushing towards them!

"What the hell is this! Inform Defender 1 that we are under attack! The commander gave the order in a bit of a panic

Naturally, the four escorted J8Ds did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed over to intercept the "long-range missile".

The Immortal Bird missiles did not fly at low altitudes. In order to achieve the longest range, after launching, it immediately climbed to a high altitude and was discovered by the Sky Eye.

After the eight missiles flew out, the two new Tomcats did not immediately return home, although the Immortal Bird missiles are missiles with active radar seeker, but the range of action is only 40 kilometers. In the initial guidance phase, it is also necessary to use a carrier aircraft to guide.

So. The pilot only needs to aim the nose of the aircraft roughly at the target, so that the target of the opponent's early warning aircraft and electronic jammer aircraft will not disappear from his field of vision, and at the same time, the on-board computer will constantly solve the problem and send the target data to the flying missile.

The J8D, who rushed to meet the enemy, found that the Immortal Bird missile they were about to face was climbing rapidly, and soon exceeded 20,000 meters. Until it reaches more than 24,000 meters, such an altitude, that the PL12A (Sky Flash Copycat version) equipped by itself has no chance to lock on to the target.

The Tu-154 electronic warfare aircraft hurriedly carried out full-frequency jamming operations, but they obviously did not know it. The Immortal Bird missile that flew over was mixed with an anti-radiation model with a passive seeker, and the more it interfered, the more obvious the electromagnetic radiation signal was, and the faster it died!

At this time, the immortal bird finally accelerated to Mach 6, and the time to reach the active guidance range only took more than a minute!

At the critical moment, the four J8Ds also went crazy, and after reluctantly launching their own PL series missiles, the pilots of the J8Ds piloted their own fighters and flew to the "Sky Eye" and the Tu-154 to try to block the guns, and the attack missiles were close at hand.

The director of the "Fighting Array" exercise ground.

The PLA military bosses looked at the electronic map in amazement, and listened to the cold electronic synthesis female voice: The director announced that in the missile attack just now, one Yunba police "Sky Eye" early warning plane and three J8D were shot down, and an immortal bird missile missed the target. The Tu-154 electronic warfare aircraft barely managed to save its life because of the J8D blocking gun, but because there were too many immortal bird missiles hitting, even if some of the immortal bird missiles failed to hit the target because of the J8D blocking gun, the debris in the sky detonated by the missile warhead still made the Tu-154 "scarred": one engine stopped working and had lost its combat effectiveness. The captain gave the order to disengage from the battle and move towards the rear airfield.

Everyone in the director's department looked at each other, out of politeness, the Pakistani generals on the side did not make any comments, but old Arslan smiled in his heart, well done, son! But the wide Ray-Ban glasses hid his smug smile.

"Azazler, Azazler, five enemy aircraft have disappeared from the radar, repeating, five enemy aircraft have disappeared from the radar. The enemy's electronic warfare support has disappeared," said the voice of the commander of the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft, full of excitement.

"All note, Dencat 1 implements electromagnetic interference, and all intruders resume pulse-Doppler search interception mode. Repeated, all fighters returned to pulse-Doppler search-intercept mode. ”

"Roger, converting pulse-Doppler working interception mode." The rest of the fighter pilots answered over the radio.

The dark gray painted F14E has gradually risen to an altitude of about 5,000 meters, and large clouds floating in the airspace have swept over the outside of the transparent cockpit of the fighter from time to time, and the deformed wings, which are still maintained at Mach 0.87 cruising speed, have been retracted to the smallest angle. From a distance, the body with the green smoke on its tail looks like a cobra in attack.

The four F16s in the Intruder team are also accelerating at mid-altitude and will form a synergy with the new Tomcat at high altitude.

The F16 is the main light air superiority fighter put into production by the United States in 1978, as a light match of the F-15, the wing-body fusion is very good, the flight quality is also very good, and it has the characteristics of strong firepower and flexible maneuverability. Although the slightly conservative and compact single-engine fuselage design layout naturally greatly reduces the cost of procurement and maintenance compared with the twin-engine fighter, resulting in a consequential reduction in reliability in actual use, its advanced performance, diversified combat capabilities, and sufficient room for improvement are beyond doubt.

The F16A/B-block 15 introduced in Pakistan in the early years. It does not have the BVR "over-the-horizon air combat" capability, and can only use the AIM-9L infrared close-range missile in air combat, and cannot use the AIM-7M "Sparrow" semi-active radar-guided missile.

However, as early as the beginning of the introduction, Mhammad worked hard to improve and upgrade himself, and even handed over the F16 to Huaxia Reverse Mapping during his trip to China. Pakistani engineers worked with Chengfei to slowly understand the characteristics of the F16 and roughly determined the upgrade direction of the F16: that is, the single release limited its potential for improvement in range, load and maneuverability, and all improvements were generally focused on electronic equipment and weapon systems, and the range could be solved by adding a back type fuel tank.

The main improvements include the fire control system for advanced weapons. Datalink communications, precision navigation systems, and advanced targeting pods were upgraded. The upgrade also includes a common upgrade of the data link system, joint helmet prompt system and aiming pod common to J10, F14, Flying Leopard and other fighters, the use of high-speed anti-radiation missiles and advanced electro-optical targeting pods.

It has become the standard TK-2M joint helmet display system for the air forces of Pakistan and China. Allowing pilots to observe, lock on, and attack enemy targets in the blink of an eye, the system was more advanced than Soviet helmet-mounted sights, displaying not only tactical information, but also the aircraft's altitude, airspeed, gravitational acceleration and angle of attack on a mask less than 76 mm from the pilot's right eye, thus improving the pilot's perception of the aircraft's state and combat conditions. Pilots can quickly locate, track, identify, and lock on air and ground targets at greater distances and altitudes by simply looking at the target. Due to the reduction in the time of exposure of pilots and aircraft to the zone of fire of a potential enemy. Not only increased the lethality of pilots and aircraft, but also their survivability. Pilots can focus their attention on the outside of the cockpit, so the chance of a collision in the air can be avoided.

At present, Pakistan is equipped with 120 F16 "Falcon" fighters, which have been improved and upgraded by Mhammad many times, and have basically reached the standard of the F16-block 52 in the early 21st century. It has the ability to launch AIM-9M and R73M infrared short-range missiles, "Sky Flash" active radar-guided missiles, AGM-65 "Maverick" air-to-surface missiles, "Paveway" BUG series laser-guided bombs, Huaxia PL series air-to-air missiles, and FT and LT series precision-guided weapons. Interestingly, these modified and upgraded F16 fighters are called F16Z by the United States, and the letter "Z" represents China as the name suggests, because in the eyes of the United States, without the help of the Chinese, those turtles in Pakistan would not have the ability to upgrade this advanced fighter. Of course, Huaxia's Chengfei Company has indeed provided technical support for the upgrading and improvement of the F16 for Pakistan, and they are very happy to use part of the J10A technology on the F16 to verify the integration of their own technology in Western equipment, laying a solid foundation for the future expansion of fighter improvement service business.

(PS: The integration of Eastern and Western equipment and technology was relatively common after the Cold War.) Then Israel launched an upgrade and improvement order for the MiG-21-2000 to compete for India's MiG-21 "Bis"; The South African Astra company cooperated with Russia's MiG company to launch the Super Mirage F1 fighter using the MiG-29 fighter RD33 engine and the "Beetle" radar, which made the faces of Gauls green; Russia's own "leading flower" Su-35 is known as the first third-generation aircraft, but in fact it also uses the operating stick of the French Mirage 2000 fighter and part of the avionics technology (to be continued. )