Dominate South Asia

"Azazel understands. Intruders 3 and 4, you continue to maintain low-altitude flight and detour to the rear of the Defender, preheat the Phoenix missiles, and maintain the highest alert."

"Intruder 3 (4) received, AN/APG-71 fire control radar is being activated, the rear detour begins, the Phoenix missiles are being preheated, and the highest alert is maintained." The two Tomcat wingmen repeated Rick's order.

"Azazel, the enemy aircraft position is confirmed, the direction is 17 degrees, the distance is 110 kilometers, the altitude is 3500 meters, 8 J10A, pay attention, there are 4 J8Ds at their altitude of 8000 meters." The commander of Hawkeye 1 can clearly hear a hint of excitement in his voice.

"Hawkeye 1, I have turned on the main weapon switch and am ready to fight at any time." Rick pushed the joystick after he finished speaking, and the nose of the F14E suddenly lifted up, and it was heading to the sky at an angle of nearly 45 degrees.

Rick controlled the new Tomcat to fly from the original low altitude and lifted the nose of the aircraft to a certain angle. The direction of the PLA aircraft was included in the main scanning sector of the AN/APG-71 radar, but it has not been turned on yet to avoid exposing the target. It mainly relies on the infrared passive detector to retrieve the target position.

"Intruders No. 3 and No. 4, you two aircraft turn on the radar tracking and scanning parallel mode, aim at their Tianyan and Tu-154, and fire all the missiles. Don't hold back. I will keep the course unchanged." Rick said calmly.

The tracking and scanning parallel mode of the AN/APG-71 radar is the most famous specialty of the F14 fighter. Under the parallel mode, the F14 fighter can track 24 targets at the same time and guide 6 AIM-54 "Phoenix" air-to-air missiles to attack multiple targets. However, in this one-to-many mode, the range of the AIM-54 missile is best controlled within 100 kilometers, otherwise it is easy to cause the missile to miss the target. The AN/APG71 radar upgraded from the AGW-9 radar continues to maintain and develop this advantage. The Phoenix C missiles can reach a maximum range of 200 kilometers!

"Intruder No. 3 (No. 4) understands."

At this time, the two new Tomcats have flown at an ultra-low altitude of 130 kilometers and have gradually circled behind the Chinese fighters. For the F14E fighters that have been cruising at a speed of 1.05 Mach, such a distance is less than a few minutes.

As the distance approaches, the Phoenix missiles equipped with the new Tomcats are locking onto targets 150 kilometers away. The short beep, beep, beep sound of the AN/APG-71 fire control radar suddenly turns into a long beep.

"Lock them." The excitement in the voice of the pilot of Intruder No. 3 (No. 4) can no longer be suppressed.

"Kill them!" Rick ordered coldly.

"Take it, friends of China" accompanied by the roar of the missile launch, the two new Tomcat fighters trembled eight times in a row, and eight straight white lines like sharp blades were drawn from the belly of the aircraft. Extending straight to the distant skyline.

Two huge aircraft of the Chinese PLA Air Force are flying leisurely under the protection of four J8Ds.

"What is that?" The radar operator of the Y-8 Police "Sky Eye" early warning aircraft saw eight shining spots suddenly appearing 150 kilometers away from the monitoring screen, and its speed has exceeded Mach 3, or even Mach 4! And it is still accelerating and rushing towards them!

"What the hell is this! Notify Defender No. 1, we will be attacked by the enemy!" The commander gave orders in a panic.

The four escorting J8Ds naturally did not dare to neglect and rushed over to intercept the "long-range missiles".

The Phoenix missile did not fly at a low altitude. In order to achieve the longest range, it immediately climbed to a high altitude after launch and was discovered by the Sky Eye.

After the eight missiles flew out. The two new Tomcats did not return immediately. Although the Phoenix missile is a missile with an active radar seeker, the effective range is only 40 kilometers. In the initial guidance stage, it still needs to be guided by a carrier aircraft.

Therefore, the pilot only needs to roughly aim the nose of the aircraft at the target so that the target of the opponent's early warning aircraft and electronic jammer will not disappear from his field of vision. At the same time, the onboard computer keeps solving and sending the target data to the flying missile.

The J8Ds rushing to meet the enemy found that the Phoenix missiles they were facing were climbing rapidly. Soon it exceeded 20,000 meters, until it reached more than 24,000 meters. At such an altitude, the PL12A (Sky Flash knockoff version) equipped by themselves had no chance to lock the target.

The Tu-154 electronic warfare aircraft quickly implemented full-frequency interference operations, but they obviously did not know that the Phoenix missiles flying over were mixed with anti-radiation models with passive guidance heads. The more interference. The more obvious the electromagnetic radiation signal, the faster it will die!

At this time, the Phoenix finally accelerated to Mach 6, and it only took more than a minute to reach the active guidance range!

At the critical moment, the four J8Ds also went crazy. After barely launching their own PL series missiles, the pilots of the J8D drove their fighters. Flying in front of the "Sky Eye" and Tu-154 to try to block the gunshot, but the attacking missiles were already close at hand.

The director's office of the "Douzhen" exercise field.

The PLA army bosses stared at the electronic map with their mouths open, and listened to the cold electronically synthesized female voice: The director announced that in the missile attack just now, one Yunba Police "Sky Eye" early warning aircraft and three J8Ds were shot down. A Phoenix missile missed its target. Figure 154 The electronic warfare aircraft managed to save its life because of the J8D gun blocker. However, due to too many Phoenix missiles, even some Phoenix missiles failed to hit the target due to the J8D gun blocker. However, the missile warhead detonated debris all over the sky. Still let Figure 154 be "scarred": one engine stopped working and has lost its combat effectiveness. The captain ordered to break away from the battle and head to the rear airport.

Everyone in the director department looked at each other in confusion. Out of politeness, the Pakistani general on the side did not make any comment, but old Arslan smiled in his heart. Well done, son! But the wide Ray-Ban glasses hid his proud smile.

"Azazel, Azazel, five enemy aircraft have disappeared from the radar, repeat, five enemy aircraft have disappeared from the radar. Enemy electronic warfare support has disappeared" the voice of the commander of the Hawkeye early warning aircraft It was full of excitement.

"Attention to all, Dianmao 1 implements electromagnetic interference, and all intruders resume pulse Doppler search and interception mode. Repeat once, and all fighters resume pulse Doppler search and interception mode."

"Roger, switching to pulse Doppler interception mode." The remaining fighter pilots responded on the radio.

The dark gray-painted F14E has gradually risen to an altitude of about 5,000 meters. Large clouds floating in the airspace pass by outside the fighter's transparent cockpit from time to time. The deformed wings, which still maintain a cruising speed of Mach 0.87, have retracted. At the smallest angle, from a distance, the body with the green smoke on its tail looks like an attacking cobra.

The four F16s in the intruder team are also accelerating at mid-altitude, and will form support with the new Tomcat at high altitude.

The F16 is the main light air superiority fighter launched by the United States in 1978 as a light match for the F-15. The wing-body integration is excellent, the flight quality is also very good, and it has the characteristics of strong firepower and flexible maneuverability. Although due to the adoption of a slightly conservative and compact single-engine body design layout, the procurement and maintenance costs are naturally greatly reduced compared with twin-engine fighters, resulting in reduced reliability in actual use, but its advanced performance , diversified combat capabilities and ample room for improvement are beyond doubt.

The F1k15 type introduced by Pakistan in the early years did not have the BVR "beyond visual range air combat" capability. It could only use AIM-9L infrared short-range missiles in air combat, and could not use the AIM-7M "Sparrow" semi-active radar-guided missile.

However, Hamad worked hard to improve and upgrade himself as early as the introduction, and even during his trip to China. Hand over F16 to China for reverse surveying and mapping. Pakistani engineers, together with Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, slowly understood the characteristics of the F16 and roughly determined the upgrade direction of the F16: that is, the single-release layout limits its improvement potential for increasing range, load, and maneuverability, and all improvements are generally Focus on electronic equipment and weapons systems. As for the range, it can be solved by installing a back conformal fuel tank.

Major improvements include upgrading systems such as advanced weapons fire control systems, data link communications, precision navigation systems and advanced targeting pods. The upgrade also includes common upgrades to the data link system, joint helmet prompt system and targeting pod that are common to J10, F14, Flying Leopard and other fighters, and the use of high-speed anti-radiation missiles and advanced electro-optical targeting pods.

The TK-2M joint helmet display system, which has become the standard equipment of the air forces of Pakistan and China, allows pilots to observe, lock on and attack enemy targets in the blink of an eye. This system is more advanced than the Soviet helmet sight and can not only It displays tactical information, and can also display the aircraft's altitude, airspeed, gravity acceleration and angle of attack on the mask less than 76 mm away from the pilot's right eye, thereby improving the pilot's awareness of the aircraft status and combat conditions. The pilot just needs to keep his eyes on the target. It can quickly locate, track, identify and lock air and ground targets at longer distances and altitudes. By reducing the time pilots and aircraft are exposed to potential enemy fire, not only the lethality of pilots and aircraft is increased, but their survivability is also improved. Pilots can focus their attention outside the cockpit and therefore avoid the chance of a mid-air collision.

At present, the 120 F16 "Falcon" fighters equipped by Pakistan have undergone many self-improvements and upgrades by Hammad, and they have basically reached the standards of the F1k52 type in the early 21st century. They are capable of launching AIM infrared short-range missiles and "Flash in the Sky" Active radar guided missile. AGM-65 "Maverick" air-to-ground missiles, "Paveway" BUG series laser-guided bombs, Huaxia PL series air-to-air missiles, and FT and LT series precision-guided weapons capabilities. Interestingly, these modified and upgraded F16 fighter jets are called F16Z. As the name suggests, the letter "Z" represents China, because in the eyes of American imperialism. Without the help of the Chinese people, those local bastards in Pakistan would not be able to upgrade such advanced fighters. Of course, China's Chengdu Aircraft Company has indeed provided technical support for Pakistan's F16 upgrade and improvement. They are very happy to use part of the J10A's technology on the F16 to verify the integration of their own technology with Western equipment and lay the foundation for future expansion of fighter aircraft improvement service business. A solid foundation.

(PS: The integration of Eastern and Western equipment and technology is quite common after the Cold War. Israel launched the MiG-21-2000 to compete for the upgrade and improvement order of India's MiG-21 "Bis"; and South Africa's Astra Company cooperated with Russia's MiG Company to launch the Super Mirage F1 fighter using the MiG-29 fighter's RD33 engine and "Beetle" radar, which made the Gauls blush; and Russia's own "leading lady" Su-35 is known as the first third-generation aircraft, but in fact it also uses the control stick and some avionics technology of the French Mirage 2000 fighter) (To be continued ~^~)