Chapter 179: MiG-31

"Attention, flying over two valleys ahead, the Afghan resistance is about to be spotted, ready to attack." On a Su-22 attack plane, the pilot of the long plane said to several other pilots over the radio.

In the past few days, the continuous high-intensity bombing has completely made those noisy resistance forces taste terrible, as long as the height of the bomb is reached, you can completely avoid being shot by the Stinger missiles on the ground, although the accuracy of throwing bombs in this way is poorer, but, indiscriminate bombing, they will drop all the bombs they carry in a short time, so that those guys on the ground will still suffer heavy losses.

"Understood." There was a clear echo in the headphones.

Suddenly, there was a noisy sound in the headphones, as if there was a big drum beating, knock, knock, and as if there was a horn blowing, Ulu, Ulu!

The sound was so loud that their brains were going to go dizzy.

What's going on?

"SPASM interferes with the normal activation of the system." In the EC-130H AWACS aircraft, the operator in the cabin said: "The frequency is 0.GHz, the interference power is 5 kilowatts / MHz, and the channel is reserved for us." ”

An E-2 AWACS aircraft, patrolling in the sky, relying on a scanning radius of more than 400 kilometers, the E-2 AWACS aircraft can fly in the sky within 200 kilometers within the border, which is safer.

"The Soviets have a good time." In the early warning plane, an early warning officer said that he saw the signal displayed on the radar screen, and when the jamming plane started, the four-plane formation fell into a panic, and the two almost collided together.

The EC-130 has a formidable ability to jam all communications of the Soviet Union on the other side of the border when it is activated. All of them were in a state of interruption, the helicopters and attack planes could not communicate with each other, they could not coordinate the attack, and the ground personnel could not communicate with the sky, and everything was in a state of chaos.

The Free Afghan Army on the other side of the valley, taking advantage of the panic of the Soviets. Open a gap and retreat calmly.

Turkmenistan airbase.

A large twin-engine and double-tail fighter with a shape very close to the MiG-25 is waiting on the runway, its huge body represents that this is a heavy fighter, and the four pylons of the fuselage are mounted with four large missiles, looking at the volume and shape, it is very similar to the immortal bird.

The MiG-25 is not equipped with such weapons. Moreover, the cockpit of this fighter, the front looks as if it is a single seat, behind it, there are windows on both sides, which means that there is also a seat in the back.

"We've been waiting for half a year, just for this fighter." On the tower of the engine room, the window of the tower of Khosnetsov tunguò. Looking at the fighter plane on the runway, he said: "Pakistan's Tomcat fighter." Carrying the Immortal Bird missiles, which gave us a great threat, even forced us to stop the bombing of the Afghan resistance forces in Pakistan, and now, we can finally fight back, our warplanes. The latest product of the Mikoyan company can completely eliminate Pakistan's Tomcat fighters at a long distance! ”

His gaze followed the fighter, watching it glide away.

At the front, there are still large rectangular air intakes. The auxiliary air intake was fully opened, and in the tail, two brand-new P-30F6 turbofan engines burst out with a huge thrust of more than 150 kN, pushing the more than forty-ton fighter to start taxiing on the runway.

This is the heaviest fighter in the world, even if it is obtained in later generations, with a full weight of more than 40 tons, almost the same as a bomber.

The Pakistanis are equipped with F-14 fighters, relying on immortal bird missiles, giving them a great threat from a long distance, and the current Soviet Air Force, just like Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, is simply unwilling to cross the border to bomb Pakistan. It was simply an extreme irony of the mighty Soviet Air Force.

It is necessary to completely suppress the Tomcat fighter in a head-on battle! They needed a brand new aircraft, so they suppressed it for half a year until the new fighter completed all flight tests and was equipped with the Turkmenistan Military District.

It is the masterpiece of the Mikoyan company, the MiG-31 interceptor!

Compared with the MiG-25, in addition to the engine change and more fuel-efficient, the most important progress is the radar at the front of the nose, which is equipped with the first airborne phased array radar in the Soviet Union and the first in the world!

NIIPN007S-800 electronically scanning phased array fire control radar with a search range of up to 200 km, can simultaneously track 10 targets and attack 4 of them! This radar is no worse than the radar of the Tomcat fighter!

And, at the same time, it is armed with the latest R-33 missiles! It adopts a semi-active radar guidance method, and its range is shorter than that of the Immortal Bird, about 120 kilometers, and with the MiG-31 phased array radar, it can easily shoot down a strategic bomber flying at a low altitude of 25 meters or a strategic reconnaissance aircraft at an altitude of 28 kilometers.

Although it is slightly inferior in range, the 160-kilometer range of the Immortal Bird is also the maximum range, and both sides will not exceed 100 kilometers when they are actually launched.

Let the Pakistan Air Force also taste the taste of being sniped from a distance!

Equipped with an advanced high-power phased array radar, the MiG-31 requires a dedicated radar officer to operate and guide the huge R-33 missile at the same time, so it is a two-seat layout, and at the same time, in order to avoid sunlight irradiation, the rear seat cockpit has only two small windows, and the radar officer operates almost in semi-darkness.

Feeling the acceleration of the huge fighter plane, Anatoly, the radar officer in the rear cabin, was in a calm mood, this was the first battle, but, just like the previous training, lock on to them with radar, and then launch a missile attack!

He skillfully turned on the switches, and the 200-kilometer scanning area meant that when they flew into the sky and entered the airspace of Afghanistan, they could cross the border to scan the airspace of Pakistan.

In front of him, a point of light began to appear on the display screen of a cathode ray tube, which was a fighter plane taking off from Bagram Air Base.

The MiG-31 accelerated, flew all the way to an altitude of 18,000 meters, disguised itself as an ordinary fighter plane, and began to enter the airspace of Afghanistan.

Continue to fly east, the bright spots on the screen, began to gradually become more, Anatoly kept processing, some bright spots responded, this is the automatic response of the friend or foe recognizer, and some of the bright spots did not respond, but look at the position, it should be their own fighter, just the friend or foe recognizer failure, and then continue to fly forward, finally, a big bright spot began to appear on the screen, he adjusted the knob, and the bright spot became three.

That's it! The target of this sortie is three fighters of the Pakistan Air Force!

"R-33 missile preparation." Anatoly used the radar to scan the three planes as he began to engage the three R-33 missiles and enter the pre-launch preparations.

"Prepare to accelerate, climb." Gelhardt, the pilot in the front cabin, said, turning on the afterburner.

In order to increase the distance of the missile launch, it is necessary for the carrier aircraft to provide as much speed as possible, and when the carrier aircraft starts to fly at a speed of Mach 2, the missile is launched, and even if the missile does not ignite, it has a speed of Mach 2.

"Suspicious targets found." In the E-2 AWACS aircraft, an early warning officer said: "The altitude is 18,000, the speed is 0.9, the direction is due east, and the distance is 300." ”

The planes in the airspace of Afghanistan are all bombing the Free Army of Afghanistan, and now due to the interference carried out by their own side, the other side is a little flustered for a while, but their altitude is about a few thousand meters, and there are no 18,000 at all, and looking at the direction of the other side's flight, it is coming towards the border, and the early warning aircraft immediately provided a warning signal.

"Roger." Rick said over the radio, "045, protect the compass and call, I'll intercept it." ”

The compass call is the code name for the EC-130H.

After saying that, Rick pressed the lever, rolled to the left in a dashing way, turned to the left, and then turned on the afterburner.

The wing retracts rapidly and the sweep angle reaches its maximum, making it suitable for sprint flight.

The radar operator in the aft compartment turned on the radar and at the same time turned on the power of the Immortal Bird missile, ready to enter the firing state at any time.

"The target is rapidly climbing higher, the altitude exceeds 20,000, the target is confirmed, the MiG-25, judging by the enemy situation, it is likely to enter our airspace at high altitude and high speed, and the young eagle is ready to intercept." Messages continued to come from AWACS.

Can climb more than 20,000, only the MiG-25 is a fighter, the opponent can also sprint to Mach three, although it sounds scary, but Rick is not afraid, he has fought with this fighter several times, when the opponent sprints to Mach three, the maneuverability is very poor, and he can easily knock the opponent down.

Relying on missiles with a range of only 40 kilometers, how can you confront your own immortal birds? It's just stupid, aren't these Soviets still dead? Rick continued to accelerate as he said to the radar operator in the rear compartment, "Prepare to lock on to the target and launch the undead bird." ”

"Understood." The radar operator in the rear compartment looked at the monitor in front of him, the distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, and when it entered a distance of 100 kilometers, the Immortal Bird missile could be launched without fail.

The distance was rapidly approaching, one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and thirteen, one hundred and one, and suddenly, a message from the AWACS aircraft came from the headset: "The target has launched three missiles, pay attention to evasion." ”

What's the situation? Rick snapped.

Almost at the same time, on the screen of the radar operator in the rear cabin, he also saw that the bright spot was divided into three bright spots, and the other party was now at a height of 24,000, a speed of 2.6, and a distance of 100.

At this distance, the other side launched a missile, and since the other side launched it, it must be sure that this is a new missile, like its own immortal bird missile, which can attack targets a hundred kilometers away! (To be continued......)