The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master - Chapter 725

Chapter 725: Please explain to me, what is a surprise?

Slightly far away from the two Pakistan Air Force J-7Fs, a four-plane Mirage 2000H formation from the 7th Squadron was pursuing a high-speed pursuit almost along the border.

 Hence, it was also the first Indian aircraft out of a total of 4 groups of 16 to sense radar illumination in the forward direction.

The 1472A is a “new” radar that has only been in service for three years. Although its performance is not new, its lifespan is very new. The reason why it can be recognized by the RWR on the J-7F is because it is also a product of the 14th Institute of Electrical Engineering. My family naturally knows my family, and the target of the sale is a quasi-ally who is unlikely to pose a threat in the short term, so I didn’t delete it.

 But for other similar types of equipment on the market, the most they can detect is that it is an X-band radar, but they are definitely not familiar with the signal characteristics.

Therefore, for the Indian aircraft speeding up in pursuit, they can only perceive two sets of unknown signals from the side.

“Squadron Captain, he should be sent by China to observe the situation.”

The pilot of Wingman No. 4 said on the radio.

Siachen Glacier originally belongs to the junction area of ​​the three countries. Now two of them have become a pot of porridge. Although the third one has not been affected yet, it is normal to come and take a look.

“Of course I know this, but why did they come so fast this time?”

“I remember when I was in flight school, the teacher told us that the radar above the snow line could capture the reflected signal almost as soon as we took off and climbed.”

Then, after more than a year of preparations, China began trying to deploy fighter jets for a long time at an airport in Geji, ALD District a few months ago to make up for the long-term air defense loopholes in the southwest region.

Hence, he was eager for revenge and originally planned to take a shortcut from China, but the timely appearance of several Chinese fighter jets forced him to change his plan.

 After all, few other countries have such needs.

It is also due to this that although the number dispatched is only a quarter of the total number of Indian military aircraft, it now occupies an excellent launching position.

Even during the bat hunting operation two years ago, two J-8Cs from the 1st Air Division tried to make a transition at a high-altitude airport, verifying the possibility of the new type of fighter aircraft operating at a high-altitude airport.

 In fact, according to the aviation team leader’s opinion, it would be best to take off as a group to test the training results during this period.

  Prior to this, although China had built several military airports on the plateau, it had almost never deployed fighter jets on a regular basis. Only in a few cases did it send out individual models and ground crews for adaptive training.

“Maybe…it’s because of their radar station?”

However, the plateau environment tests not only the equipment but also the human body. It is difficult for the ground crews who have just been transferred from the mainland to work continuously. Therefore, each two groups of ground crews pair up with one aircraft to ensure the dispatch speed.

“So, either they have received the tip-off in advance and have been waiting for us, or they have deployed a new airport nearby so that they can arrive nearby immediately after taking off.”

 For the Chinese Air Force, which in the past mainly relied on imported and imitation aircraft as its main force, this problem is difficult to overcome.

 However, one of Chang Haonan’s important tasks when improving the design of the turbojet 14A is to improve the engine’s startup success rate in low-oxygen environments.

The wingman pilot who was obviously a novice just now guessed:

 Because although the aircraft can operate normally at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, the impact on the surrounding environment is relatively high when it is started.

This obviously scripted answer almost made Prayan laugh:

“Your teacher is right, but that radar has been there thirty years ago. However, until this time, their aircraft response speed had never exceeded two hours.”

Squadron leader Colonel Sumit Prajan’s voice was still a little sullen and unwilling:

 In fact, his guess was very accurate.

Colonel speculated.

 The two Mirage 2000Hs that were shot down just now were from the 7th Squadron.

The ones that took off today to respond to this emergency air situation were four of the first batch of eight J-8Cs dispatched for testing.

 “Then…what should we do now?”

The voice of the pilot of Unit 4 was slightly timid.

Although the RWR has not yet issued a locking prompt, the feeling of being illuminated by several airborne radars is obviously not good.

“Let’s fly along the national border first. We didn’t receive permission to cross the border to the north this time. If we are shot down over there, no one will be responsible for us.”

Although he was very annoyed when his plan was blocked, Prayan couldn’t think of any better way for the time being, so he followed up by half speculating and half comforting himself:

“And based on past experience, their fighter jets don’t have much fuel left after flying near the border, and they should return after a while. We’ll talk about it then.”

According to the previous plan, the attack planes lured by the fake positions should be quickly eliminated through an ambush. Then, if Pakistan takes off larger-scale fighter planes to seek revenge, their 16 planes will be responsible for forcing the opponent’s large forces back. .

As a result, I did not expect that in the end, the two three generations of their own side were beaten by 2: 1 to eat, and now it has become the Indian army to seek revenge.

And if it extends to others, Pakistan may also take off a large number of planes in an attempt to force them back.

 In short, the situation has undergone a 180° reversal.

Moreover, there are two menacing groups of Chinese Air Force fighter jets watching from the side.

At this time, a call tone suddenly sounded on the radio.

“This is the Black Archer’s lead aircraft. We found 4 targets appearing from the opponent’s direction from 250 degrees, with an altitude of 8500 and a speed of 1100!”

The Black Arrow squadron was the MiG-29 squadron that was at the front and had already caught up to the MiG-29 squadron, which was about 30 kilometers away from the two J-7Fs.

 At present, they are the only ones with radar on, while the other 12 aircraft are silent. This can disrupt the opponent’s judgment on the size of the attacker to a certain extent. (The Indian Army obviously has no channel to know that the other two companies have been blended together)

“To the southwest, there should be the Mirage 3 of the Fifth Squadron or the F16A of the Ninth Squadron. They don’t have medium-range bombs and can continue to pursue.”

Although Prayan is also a squadron leader, his military rank is one level higher than a colonel, so he will assume certain frontline command tasks in the air.

For countries that do not have early warning aircraft, it is also a common arrangement for an experienced veteran pilot from a fighter jet to take command.

“receive!”

The Black Archer’s squadron leader’s tone became visibly excited.

Although it is generally believed that the MiG-29 is not as technologically advanced as the F16 of the same era, if we look specifically at the early A models of the two, the former, which can launch R27 and R73, will have a certain advantage.

 Today may be an opportunity to clear up the name.

“Black Archer, pay attention to your due north direction. There are two groups of Chinese aircraft flying radars to collide with each other.”

 If he didn’t go in a straight line, Prajan felt that he might not have a chance to participate in the war today, so he just reminded the other party on the radio.

“My RWR has also reminded me, but don’t worry, I will avenge your two men.”

 The captain of the Black Arrow obviously did not listen to this reminder.

 Playan originally wanted to say a few more words.

 Because the biggest trouble caused by those Chinese aircraft was the restriction on combat airspace—

The boundary between mountains is indeed very clear on the ground, but in the sky, especially at the critical moment when dodging missiles or entering into a fight, the boundary can be crossed by accident.

Based on the relationship between the three countries, if the Pakistan Air Force planes fly in, there should be no serious consequences.

 But if our own aircraft enters, it will be difficult to say.

However, after hesitating for a few seconds, he still did not speak again on the radio.

 Mainly because I don’t want to be regarded as cowardly by my subordinates or some people in the base.

And if the opponent really only takes off a few F16s or Mirage 3s, then it is not expected that there will be any fierce air battles.

 A salvo of R27 and Super 530 on your own side should solve the problem.

Thinking of this, Prayan calculated the time and felt that the two escaping targets should have almost entered the range of his missiles.

 “Activate the radar and prepare to launch medium-range bombs!”

 He ​​said that he turned on the working switch of the RDI radar and said to himself at the same time:

 “Come on, let’s give you a surprise…”

 After a short period of warm-up and self-test, the radar search information is displayed on the HUD.

 Similar to what he had just guessed, two targets slightly lower than his own appeared at about 10 o’clock of the aircraft.

but…

 The expected surprise was not given.

 Because the opponent’s backhand came over with a bigger surprise——

At the 1 o’clock position of the aircraft, about 60 kilometers away, another two groups, a total of 8, are approaching their targets at high speed…

 Fighter radar can only search a cone-shaped area directly ahead, and these 8 aircraft are obviously outside the detection range of the Black Archer.

“Black Archers, pay attention to your three o’clock direction, there are 8 enemy planes!”

 He shouted on the radio:

 “Everyone, un-silence the radar!”

 Obviously, India and Pakistan, as equal rivals in South Asia, are almost synchronized in their moves.

They also prepared a huge fleet of aircraft at the back to suppress the opponent, they also adopted the formation form of multiple batches, and they also thought of using radar silence to delay the time for their own side to be discovered…

However, Pakistan, which took the upper hand in the end, was better and surrounded the Indian aircraft fleet from its posture.

Had Prayan not turned on the radar at that moment, the situation might have been even worse.

In this case, there is no point in continuing to remain silent. It is more realistic to quickly see what is happening in the sky.

 At the same time, the eight J-7Fs that found themselves scanned by radar also lifted their radar silence.

Although the locking distance of the specially designed small radar is very short, if you just want to search for targets, it can still be done at this distance.

 In an instant, the sky over the entire Kashmir region seemed to be lit up by a variety of radar beams.

 (End of this chapter)