In contrast, Colonel Said-Sanjar, who had an absolute numerical advantage and launched an attack with three squadrons of Thunder, was very nervous, because the US-Israeli fighters had been rampant in the skies over Persia for a long time, and the Persian fighters that had taken off to fight before were basically destroyed without touching the US-Israeli fighters, and they had no power to resist.

As an old pilot, in flight training, Sanjar felt that the performance of the Thunder fighter was worse than the early model SU-30 that he had flown over, and it was basically equivalent to the MiG-29.

It's just that compared to the SU-30 and MiG-29, Sanjar feels that the digital level of the Thunder fighter is much higher, and he flew the fourth batch of Thunder produced by China and Pakistan during flight training, which is called JF-17B in the Pakistani army, and is also equipped with aiming helmets, after all, most of these fighters were produced after 2010, and compared to the SU-30 produced around 2000, it is basically not a grade in electronic equipment.

However, Sanjar found that the Thunder's airborne radar was quite average, and the Doppler radar system imported by the Pakistani army from Italy was not as good as the Russian-style ZHUK-27 radar of the SU-30.

In response to Sanjar's question, the coach of the Pakistani army told him with great certainty: "After going to the sky, you should not care about any airborne radar at all, and you should not even turn it on, just follow the guidance of the radar system of the ground or air early warning aircraft, and strictly follow the instructions of the combat system." It's that simple. ”

Although the Persians had purchased early warning planes in the air and conducted some coordinated combat exercises between early warning aircraft and fighters, Sanjar had never tried to fight without turning on the airborne fire control radar, which was inconceivable to him.

However, suspicion is suspicion, this time in the air operation, Sanjar still in accordance with the requirements of the Pakistani army coach, so that all the Thunder fighters did not turn on the airborne radar system, after they took off, through the data link to receive the opponent's fighter information from the ground radar system, Sanjar's move, inadvertently delayed the time when the Thunder Dragon fighter squadron was discovered by the Israeli F-35 fighters, and only suddenly killed when the US iron fist squadron was pursuing, which played a surprise role.

More than 100 kilometers away, the US F-15 fighters and the Israeli F-35 fighters are under the monitoring of the ground radar system, compared with the previous operations, at least in the radar system, the Chinese's radar system is much stronger, can seamlessly integrate the ground radar system with the fighters in the sky, so that Sanjar has a wonderful feeling of anticipating the enemy's opportunities for the first time.

This gave Sanjar some confidence in today's air combat, and he was able to detect the radar system earlier than his opponent, at least he could control the opportunity in air combat, and he didn't have to worry about being helpless against the opponent's over-the-horizon attacks like a blind man.

On the other hand, the moment the Persian radar was turned on, the radar of the F-35 fighter piloted by Major Lennon immediately discovered the movement of the Persians, but the huge cluster of Persian Thunder fighters that followed at high speed made Major Lennon have no time to clean up these radars that suddenly appeared from the Persians.

His squad is now tasked with commanding the F-15 fighters in battle, and in Lennon's view, now that his F-15 has been discovered by ground-based radar, it makes little sense to destroy the Persians' ground-based radar system.

At this moment, the fighters of both sides turned on the afterburner and entered the supersonic flight state, and the distance between the two sides was shortened by dozens of kilometers in a blink of an eye.

Sanjar, who was nervously driving the Thunder Dragon fighter to pounce on the opponent, suddenly heard a "doodoo" prompt sound on the fighter, Sanjar heard that this was the prompt sound of the combat system locking the opponent's fighter, Sanjar glanced at the information displayed on the screen of the combat system at this moment, and the enemy plane locked by the system at this moment was still 70 kilometers away from him.

This is also too exaggerated, Sanjar, who piloted the Thunder Dragon fighter for the first time, couldn't help but hesitate in the face of the system's prompts, although in the flight training, the Chinese coach and the Pakistani coach repeatedly explained that the most important one is to operate in accordance with the instructions of the combat system and not to make your own decisions. Despite the words, Sanjar really had no confidence, and he needed to wait a little longer and wait until he was closer before firing.

It's not just Sanjar, in the Thunder Dragon squadron, there are many pilots who have the same mind as Sanjar, and there are less than 10 pilots who can attack immediately according to the prompts of the fighters, such a sparse attack, the hit rate is naturally not too high, Raymond's Iron Fist squadron has maneuvered to evade and release jamming bombs, so that most of the first round of attacks of the Thunder Dragon Squadron missed, and only one fighter was extremely unfortunate to be hit.

The extremely valuable opportunity for the Thunder Dragon Squadron to attack the enemy was wasted by Sanjar and them, and this result made Sanjar lose their confidence even more.

However, the Thunder Dragon Squadron took the lead in attacking, and this unexpected result made Raymond and Lennon startled, when did the Persian fire control radar become so powerful? They put away their contempt for the Persian Thunder fighter and began to treat this unexpected air battle with extreme caution.

They are all battle-hardened veterans, and they know that the Thunder fighter can fire the enemy first, although the first round of attack effect is very average, but this fully proves that the opponent is not as vulnerable as the old fighters before them, but has a real threat to them.

Therefore, after dodging the first round of attacks by the Persians, the Iron Fist squadron immediately returned the color, and the phased array radar APG-82 that they changed on board can track 26 targets at the same time and attack 4 of them at the same time, but the Iron Fist squadron is now very different in number compared to the opponent, Raymond They did not dare to waste ammunition, and this round of attacks they only fired 24 AIM-120C medium-range bombs.

The 24 Thunder fighters locked by the US fighters, and in the screeching siren, the Persian pilots began a desperate evasive maneuver.

The remaining Thunder pilots finally came to their senses and began to attack according to the prompts of the combat system. For a while, missiles flew sideways over Tabas, pulling out white lines one after another.