Just as everyone was preparing to celebrate the victory, the communicator in the command room sent another message through the data link: "It has been found that the Vietnamese fighter has been lifted into the air, the number is 6, judged to be the interceptor MiG-21, and it is expected to meet the enemy in 10 minutes." ”

Everyone was shocked, Qi Yiming immediately stood up and ordered: "Order the 4 J-10s at Luliangchang Station to take off to meet the battle, the ground radar will continue to monitor the aviation, and the flying leopards that have finished dropping bombs will cover the heavily loaded flying leopards and prepare to meet the arrival of the J-10." ”

He then added: "The Spring Thunder Fighter Bombardment Brigade can find planes to attack enemy planes, and the first goal is to protect themselves. ”

Even if he didn't spend much money to build these J-7 Flying Leopards, basically he got a batch of new fighters like planting crops and harvesting them in the future, but this is not a reason why he can ignore the enemy. After all, the MiG-21 is a high-altitude and high-speed fighter, and it will not take long to fly to the front of the fighter-bomber group, and the fighter-bomber group that has not dropped all the ammunition cannot go all out to fight with these interceptors, so he pays attention to fighting and leaving, shooting them down if he has the opportunity, and waiting for the J-10 to come to the rescue if he doesn't have a chance.

These Vietnamese MiG-21s took off from An Bai Airport and were 100 kilometers away from the Lao Son Theater, which was about the same distance as Luliang Chang Station. Although the fighters of the Vietnamese People's Army Air Force took off first, in order to cope with the possible outbreak of air battles, the four J-10s of the 152nd Regiment of the 51st Air Division, which was recruited by the air force recruited by the base, had already been waiting for the day.

Originally, both China and Vietnam had a tacit understanding not to use their air forces and not to expand the scale of the war, but in fact, this was because the strength and level of the air forces of the two countries were relatively backward, and the air forces were quite valuable assets for each other, and they could not use them to fight a war at will. What's more, in terms of the consideration of the rabbit family, the jungle wooden pen in the Laoshan Theater has complex terrain, and it lacked precision guided weapons and powerful intelligence gathering capabilities before.

J-7, J-6 and other fighters themselves do not have much ability to attack the ground, mainly for high-altitude interception and other territorial air defense, so in the end, when making decisions, the Air Force did not join the operation as a major unit.

But now the situation is different, the PLA Air Force strength has risen sharply, and it has begun to take on the level of crushing the Vietnamese Air Force, and it has been confirmed that the support of the Flying Leopard Fighter Brigade on the ground can be described as remarkable, so this border conflict, which was originally limited in scale, has naturally expanded to the sky, and the struggle for air supremacy and then air raids and close fire support have become something that must be mastered in the following operations.

The Vietnamese soldiers on the front line of the 166th and 168th positions were almost beaten by the Flying Leopard Bombardment Brigade, and the infantry units supplemented by sickle mecha in the rear had already received the order of the army commander Fu Quanyou and began to attack these positions that were already crumbling. The Thunder Bomb Brigade had just dropped a few bombs and swooped down to "torture" the enemy with its cannons, and at this time the Vietnamese Air Force came over, and the Flying Leopard had to pull up the nose of the plane and began to retreat backwards.

"Captain, my radar has swept down the enemy, ask for a shot!" Li Guangjian, a captain pilot piloting a Flying Leopard fighter, pleaded with Peng Fufang, the captain of their Chunlei Brigade, over the intercom.

Li Guangjian was not an Air Force pilot recruited by the Air Command Department, but a young pilot selected by the Air Force to go to the Dalinor base, and although he had only been exposed to the new fighter for more than a month, Li Guangjian was also the only cadet pilot who had been certified by an Air Force officer of the Air Force Command to board the plane.

As a rear-seat weapons control officer, he generally mastered some methods of bomb delivery and how to use the avionics system of the Flying Leopard fighter, and spent most of the flight time familiarizing himself with flight performance. This time, following the Spring Thunder Bombardment Brigade, his fighter only hung 2 tons of guided bombs, and all of them had been dropped at the moment, in addition to four PL-12 active medium-range air-to-air missiles. At this time, Li Guangjian was also the only fighter unit in the squad with light loads and the most anti-aircraft weapons.

The most of Li Guangjian's exercises on the plane were to drop guided bombs at medium and high altitudes, and his training program only reached the point where he had not yet learned how to drop bombs by means of ground laser designation, or to drop bombs with improvised inertial navigation, and to rely on pods to guide them. As for air combat, he didn't have time to familiarize himself with it, but he used to be a J-8 fighter pilot, and he still had some experience in air combat.

Peng Fufang, the captain of the brigade recruited from the Empty Finger Department, usually never talked about personal matters with Li Guangjian, and always had a meticulous and serious expression, in fact, almost all of Li Guangjian's new comrades-in-arms were carved out of this mold. Only occasionally a few words are more, but there is no discussion of family, origin, etc., but at least there is some gossip.

Li Guangjian particularly admired his captain, whose flying skills were absolutely excellent, and just now he witnessed Peng Fufang swooping down the plane and firing a series of cannon shells, directly tearing apart the bodies of dozens of Vietnamese. Li Guangjian has not even started to practice low-altitude penetration, and he can't even imagine diving and strafing near a mountainous terrain like this.

Peng Fufang did not hesitate, and immediately said to him: "Launch missiles and cover the retreat of the brigade!" ”

Li Guangjian immediately pressed the launch button, and the Condor radar carried by the Flying Leopard was already a very advanced Doppler pulse radar in the 80s, and there were six mission computers on the fighter plane, which had the ability to attack multiple targets. Although Li Guangjian has not practiced the air combat self-defense of the Flying Leopard, the PL-12 medium-range interceptor projectile he carries is actively radar-guided, which is commonly referred to as fire-and-forget, and the missile will take the initiative to grab its target and then hit head-on.

Moreover, the PL-12 air-to-air missile is still a rare large overload missile, which can fly 38 Gs, while even the fourth-generation fighter can only fly 9 Gs. There is a formula for converting the missile velocity, angular velocity, and turning radius. For example, a 0. A fighter flying at Mach 8 does a dodge maneuver with a limit of 9G, so a missile attacking at Mach 3 must make a 126G maneuver to hit the target.

In general, the industry uses the G-force of a missile that is 5 times that of a fighter as the standard for hitting an inescapable.

In fact, there are probably not many pilots on the planet who can make 9G maneuvers. Black vision may occur at 8G, and if 9G is maintained for too long, it is possible to die directly from the brain.

The four PL-12s rushed at the enemy aircraft at a high speed of Mach 4 and were launched at a distance of about 50 kilometers. Several Vietnamese pilots could not have imagined that someone could launch missiles at this distance, and their fighters kept sounding the sound of radar lock-on warnings.

The Vietnamese pilots panicked, wanted to get rid of the missile tracking, disbanded the formation, each prepared to maneuver, and two fighters directly released a piece of hot decoy bombs, hoping that the Chinese missiles would be deceived by these hot decoy bombs.

But they no longer understand the other party's combat mode, the terminal active radar-guided missile, is not infrared guidance at all, the hot decoy bomb has no effect on the active medium-range missile, the early air-to-air missiles are tracking the tail attack of the fighter, and the PL-12 is an omnidirectional attack, which has something to do with the change in its guidance form.

Several missiles whizzed, one after the other, hitting a MiG-21, causing it to explode in the air, while the other directly hit the middle of the fighter plane that wanted to make a sharp landing, tearing the fighter plane into two pieces from the air.

There was also a missile, which did not have several types, and flew past by the side of an enemy plane.

In the blink of an eye, Li Quang Kien hit three of the four missiles he fired and shot down two, which made the Vietnamese Air Force pilots even more frightened.

"What the hell is this missile? Why can you hit so far? XXX has obviously dodged, but it was still hit, the Chinese's missiles are too terrible! ”

"Captain, let's go back, we can't beat the Chinese, run!"

These Vietnamese pilots, who had fought decisive battles with the Americans in the air, were now terrified, and some of them were even pleading on their comrades-in-arms and immediately abandoned their Chinese fighters and returned home.

Their tower could not tolerate such a thing, and the news came: "Don't retreat, do everything you can to shoot down at least one Chinese fighter!" ”

And the man in charge of the command of the aviation of the Vietnamese People's Army did not expect that he would pronounce the death sentence for the remaining four Vietnamese MiG-21s. With the wave of attacks just now, Li Guangjian covered that his comrades-in-arms had withdrawn a certain distance, and at this time, four J-10s and two flying leopards with a set of electronic jamming systems had already flown with the Chunlei Brigade and began to face the Vietnamese.

In addition to being an excellent fighter-bomb aircraft, the Flying Leopard can also be used as an electronic warfare aircraft. This set of electronic jamming system can be mounted with different pods according to the needs of the mission, and at most five pods can be mounted at a time to carry out multiple electronic warfare tasks. At this time, the flying leopard was mainly hung with two electronic suppression and dual-frequency noise jamming pods, whose role was to disrupt the normal operation of the enemy's radar and cut off the opponent's communication capability.

Almost as soon as the Flying Leopard electronic plane was launched, the remaining four Vietnamese MiG-21s were all turned into headless flies, and some pilots had to tear off the communication devices because of the sharp buzz coming from their ears. Just when they were dizzy, several J-10s decisively fired air-to-air missiles, all of which hit, shooting down these MiG-21s in the mountains near Lao Cai.

Knowing that the threat of the Vietnamese Air Force had been lifted, Qi Yiming did not stop there, and ordered again: "The fighter bombing brigade will continue to dispatch to carry out the task of battlefield interruption, and destroy all the traffic entering the Vietnamese side of the Lao Son Nala area!" ”