Chapter 568: The Great Reversal
Ah San first dispatched three SU-30MKI squadrons and one Rafale squadron to prepare to provide air fire support mainly for ground troops, so most of the three SU-30MKI of the A-3 Air Force carried ground attack weapons and were ready to attack the Pakistani ground fortress and Khalid tanks, while the Rafale fighter squadron was responsible for air cover.
The A3 Air Force is now very high-spirited, and it no longer regards the Pakistani Air Force as an opponent at the same level, and in their eyes, only China can barely be regarded as an opponent. Yes, the failure of the Thunder Dragon fighter made the Asan Air Force think that China's Thunder and J-10 fighters are actually inferior products, and what really deserves their attention is the SU-30MKK and SU-27 and its improved J-11 series, which are the same origin as the Su-30MKI of the A3 Air Force.
However, this seemingly blind action of the Pakistani army is actually a trap jointly set by the Chinese and Pakistani staffs, and it is a battlefield carefully selected in order to give full play to the theater joint operation tactical system.
When the SU-30MKI of the A3 Air Force rushed to the position to fire at the ground of the Pakistani army, it felt that the time was ripe for the Pakistani Air Force 3 J-10 and 5 Thunder Dragon squadrons to all be dispatched, and under the three-dimensional reconnaissance of the ground radar, 2 air police 2000 early warning aircraft, 2 Shadow UAVs and several front-line Pterodactyl-class UAVs, the position information of the fighters of the A3 Air Force was all revealed.
This information soon appeared in the theater joint combat tactical system of the Pakistani Air Force, which was launched into the air through the air wireless network, and after the fighters took off, the system began to obtain enemy information through various means, and began to analyze possible combat targets and how many air-to-air missiles needed to be launched to destroy the opponent.
As soon as the Pakistani Air Force moved, the A-3 airborne early warning aircraft also reconnoitred the intelligence of the Pakistani Air Force's sortie, so the A-3 Air Force did not show weakness, and while maintaining the continued support of the SU-30MKI to the front line, the remaining two SU-30MKI and two Rafale squadrons in Skadu immediately rose into the air, and because they were closer to the battlefield, they almost rushed to the battlefield with the Pakistani Air Force.
Through the experience of air combat in the early stage, the A3 Air Force is ready to use three Rafale squadrons to meet the three J-10 squadrons of the Pakistani army, while the remaining two SU-30MKIs are very confident to entangle the five Thunder squadrons of the Pakistani army, and wait for the three SU-30MKI squadrons to complete the ground attack, and use the remaining two air-to-air missiles mounted on board to solve the five Thunder squadrons together with the two heavily armed SU-30MKI.
Judging from the previous battle, there is no problem with Ah San's plan at all, if the SU-30MKI, which has the advantage of firing first and high mobility, adopts loitering, there is no problem for the two squadrons to entangle the five squadrons of the Pakistani army for more than ten minutes, and even if there are only two air-to-air missiles left, the SU-30MKI is not comparable to the Thunder Dragon fighters, not to mention that the number of the two sides is almost the same.
Therefore, when the main forces of the air forces of the two sides converged more than 80 kilometers away from Skadu and more than 100 kilometers away from Gilgit, the front-line command of the three Albanian militaries felt very good about the Pakistani army's all-or-nothing gamble, and they believed that this time they could completely accomplish the battle.
The Pakistani air force left the skies over Gilgit, where the air defense force was strong, and took the initiative to launch a decisive battle over a river valley with almost no ground air defense support.
This large-scale air battle can be called the largest air battle after the Middle East War and the Gulf War, and it has greatly rewritten the history of world air warfare and the direction of fighter research.
They were the first to suffer big losses from the two SU-30MKI squadrons of the Pakistani army, which had relied on the valuable combat experience they had gained a few days ago to deal with the Thunder fighters, and they did not expect at all that the five squadrons of the Pakistani army, which had just taken off, did not enter their usual attack position at all and launched two of the SD-10 air-to-air missiles they carried from a distance of several tens of kilometers.
These seemingly indiscriminately launched air-to-air missiles, but in the end, with the support of accurate radar information from the Air Police 2000 early warning aircraft, they hit the targets preset by the theater joint combat tactical system, and each SU-30MKI almost had to face three SD-10 air-to-air missiles launched from different positions at the same time, blocking the maximum possible direction in which it might maneuver.
Before the Ah San pilot had time to recover from the excitement, he was stunned to hear the siren of his plane being locked by a missile sounding sharply, and the system also prompted more than one! In the desperate maneuver evasion, except for a very few lucky people who dodged the first round of attacks, the SU-30MKI that maneuvered in strict accordance with the tactical maneuver were all waiting for the swarming SD-air-to-air missiles and directly set off fireworks!
Of course, this time it was not only them, the three SU-30MKI who had just completed the ground attack did not have time to raise and adjust their positions, and they ushered in the rain of SD-10 air-to-air missiles of the Thunder Dragon fighters, which were placed in the sky above the ground battlefield of the Indian and Pakistani armies like fireworks.
On the other hand, Ah San's three Rafale squadrons were relatively lucky, and the first round of attacks launched by the three J-10 squadrons, which lacked the support of detailed Rafale fighter performance data, was significantly less effective than the attack of the Thunder Dragon squadron, and nearly half of the Three Rafale fighters escaped the first wave of attacks.
However, although the Rafale fighters left behind by Ah San desperately launched an attack in a desperate situation, most of Ah San's Rafale fighters hurriedly launched Mika air-to-air missiles without effectively locking on to the J-10 of the Pakistani army, but this kind of dying struggle did not have much effect, and the Pakistani pilots only needed to calmly follow the prompts of the theater joint combat tactical system, make prompted maneuvers to evade the attack, and then launch SD-10 air-to-air missiles according to the prompts of the system.
This effective tactical cue allowed most of the Rafale fighters' Mika missiles to shoot into the air and disappear.
Therefore, the Rafale fighter pilots of Ah San, as desperate as the SU-30MKI pilots, were hit by one or two SD-10 air-to-air missiles before they saw the shadow of the J-10 fighters, just like they suppressed the Pakistani army two days ago, watching the Pakistani J-10 on the radar getting closer and closer, while the fighters on their own side were getting fewer and fewer.