Just as everyone was preparing to celebrate the victory, the correspondent in the command room once again sent a message via the data link: "Vietnamese fighter jets have been found to have taken off, number 6, and are judged to be interceptor MiG-21 aircraft. It is expected to arrive in 10 minutes. Engage the enemy."
Everyone was shocked. Qi Yiming immediately stood up and issued an order: "Order the four J-10s at Luliangchang Station to take off to fight. The ground radar continues to monitor the aviation. After dropping the bombs, the flying leopards cover the heavily loaded aircraft. Leopard, prepare for the arrival of the J-10."
He then added: "The Chunlei Destroyers and Bombers Brigade can look for opportunities to attack enemy aircraft. The first goal is to protect themselves."
Even though he didn¡¯t spend much money to build these JH-7 Flying Leopards, and basically got a batch of new fighters like planting crops and harvesting at the end of the day, this is not a reason for him to ignore the enemy. After all, the MiG-21 is a high-altitude and high-speed fighter. It will not take long to fly in front of the fighter-bomber brigade, and the fighter-bomber brigade that has not dropped all the ammunition cannot fight with these interceptors with all its strength, so he fought The key is to fight and leave, shoot them down if you have the chance, and wait for the J-10 to come to the rescue if you don't have the chance.
These Vietnamese MiG-21s took off from Yen Bai Airport, which is about a hundred kilometers away from the Laoshan war zone, and about the same distance from Luliangchang Station. Although the Vietnam People's Army Air Force fighter jets took off first, in order to cope with the possible outbreak of an air battle, the four J-10s of the 152nd Fighter Regiment of the 51st Air Force recruited from the base were already ready. With an order, they took off straight into the sky. , also rushed into the sky of Laoshan War Zone at high speed.
Originally, China and Vietnam had a tacit understanding not to use the air force and not expand the scale of the war. This is actually because the strength and level of the air force of the two countries are relatively backward, and the air force is a very valuable asset for each country and cannot be used at will to fight. What's more, judging from the Tu family's considerations, the Laoshan War Zone has complex terrain and a complex terrain. It previously lacked precision-guided weapons and powerful intelligence collection capabilities. If you throw a few ordinary aerial bombs over the criss-crossed battlefield, you will be hit. The probability of human beings is still very high, so there is no need to dispatch the air force.
Fighters such as the J-7 and J-6 do not have much ground attack capabilities. They mainly focus on homeland air defense such as high-altitude interceptions. Therefore, when making decisions, the Air Force did not join the battle as a major unit.
But now the situation is different. The strength of the PLA Air Force has greatly increased, and it has begun to crush the Vietnamese Air Force. It has also been confirmed that the support of the Flying Leopard Destroyer and Bomb Group on the ground is very effective. So this border conflict was originally limited in scale. , then naturally expanded to the sky. Fighting for air supremacy and then air strikes and close fire support became something that must be mastered in the following operations.
The Vietnamese soldiers who almost appeared on the front line of positions 166 and 168 were beaten repeatedly by the Flying Leopard Destroyer and Bomb Brigade. The infantry troops in the rear, supplemented by sickle mechas, had received orders from Army Commander Fu Quanyou and began to attack these crumbling positions. The Thunder Destroyer and Bomb Brigade has returned after completing its target. The Chun Lei Destroyer and Bomb Brigade has just dropped a few bombs and swooped down to "kill" the enemy's strength with its cannon. At this time, the Vietnamese Air Force came over, and Feibao had to pull up the nose of the aircraft and began to retreat backwards. .
"Captain, my radar has swept down the enemy, please shoot!" Captain Li Guangjian, piloting a Flying Leopard fighter, requested Peng Fufang, the captain of their Chunlei Brigade, on the intercom.
Li Guangjian was not an Air Force pilot recruited from the Air Force Command, but a young pilot selected by the Air Force to go to Dalinol Base. Although he had only been exposed to new fighters for more than a month, Li Guangjian was also the only one who had gone through the Air Force Command. An Air Force officer certifies student pilots to fly.
As the backseat weapons control officer, he has generally mastered some methods of dropping bombs and how to use the avionics system of the Flying Leopard fighter. Most of the flight time is spent familiarizing with the flight performance. This time he went into battle with the Chunlei Destroyer and Bomb Group. His fighter plane was only equipped with 2 tons of guided bombs, all of which had been dropped at this moment. In addition, it was also equipped with four PL-12 active medium-range air-to-air missiles. At this time, Li Guangjian was also the only fighter unit in the team whose fighter planes were lightly loaded and equipped with the most anti-air weapons.
Li Guangjian's most frequent aircraft training was to drop guided bombs at medium and high altitudes, and his training projects only reached the point of dropping bombs with ground laser guidance, or throwing simple inertial navigation bombs, and he had not yet learned how to conduct operations guided by pods, etc. arrive. As for air combat, he has not had time to become familiar with it. However, he used to be a J-8 fighter pilot, so he still has some experience in air combat.
Captain Peng Fufang, who was recruited from the Air Command Department, never talks about personal matters with Li Guangjian and always has a meticulous and serious expression. In fact, almost all of Li Guangjian's new comrades are carved in this mold. There are only occasionally a few words that talk more, but they never discuss things like family and origin, but at least there is some gossip.
Li Guangjian particularly admires his captain. His flying skills are absolutely excellent. Just now heI witnessed Peng Fufang dive the plane and fire a series of cannon shells, directly tearing the bodies of dozens of Vietnamese into pieces. Li Guangjian hasn't even started practicing low-altitude penetration yet. He can't even think of swooping and shooting near rugged mountains like this.
Peng Fufang did not hesitate and immediately said to him: "Launch missiles and cover the retreat of the brigade!"
Li Guangjian immediately pressed the launch button. The Condor radar carried by the Flying Leopard was already a very advanced Doppler pulse radar in the 1980s, and the fighter plane was equipped with 6 mission computers and had multi-target attack capabilities. Although Li Guangjian has not practiced air combat self-defense on the Flying Leopard, the PL-12 medium-range interceptor missile he carries is actively radar guided, which is commonly known as fire-and-forget, and the missile will actively capture it. Stay focused on your goal and hit it head on.
And the PL-12 air-to-air missile is one of the few large overload missiles that can fly 38 G, while even the fourth-generation fighter can only fly 9 G. Of course, don¡¯t think that it can definitely hit with such a difference. There is a conversion formula for missile speed, angular velocity and turning radius. For example, if a fighter jet flying at Mach 0.8 performs an extreme 9G evasion maneuver, then a missile attacking at Mach 3 speed must perform a 126G maneuver to hit the target.
Generally speaking, the industry uses the G-force of a missile that is 5 times that of a fighter aircraft as the criterion for a hit that cannot escape.
In fact, there are probably not many pilots on the planet who can perform 9G maneuvers. Black vision may occur at 8G. If 9G is maintained for too long, it is possible to directly explode the brain and die.
These four PL-12s rushed towards the enemy aircraft at a high speed of Mach 4, and the launch distance was about 50 kilometers. Several Vietnamese pilots could not imagine that someone would actually launch missiles from this distance, and their fighter planes also constantly sounded radar lock warning sounds.
The Vietnamese pilots panicked and wanted to get rid of the tracking of the missiles. They disbanded the formation and prepared to maneuver. Two fighter planes directly released a heat-decoying bomb, hoping that the Chinese missiles would be deceived by these heat-decoying bombs.
But they no longer understand the opponent's combat mode. Terminal active radar-guided missiles are not infrared guided at all. Things like thermal decoys have no effect on active mid-range missiles. Early air-to-air missiles are It tracks the tail of the fighter plane and attacks, while the PL-12 attacks in all directions, which is related to the change in its guidance form.
Several missiles roared in. Two missiles hit a MiG-21 one after another, causing it to explode in the air. The other missile directly hit the middle of the fighter plane that was trying to make a sudden landing. A fighter plane was torn into two pieces from the sky.
There was also a missile, one of several types, that flew past an enemy plane.
In just the blink of an eye, Li Guangjian fired four missiles and hit three of them, shooting down two of them, which made the Vietnamese Air Force pilots even more frightened.
"What the hell kind of missile is this? Why can it hit so far? XXX was hit even though he had already dodged it. The Chinese missiles are too scary!"
"Captain, let's return to our destination. We can't defeat the Chinese, so run!"
¡°These Vietnamese pilots who had fought decisive battles with the Americans in the air were now extremely frightened. Some were even encouraging their comrades to immediately abandon the Chinese fighter planes and return home.
Their tower could not tolerate this kind of thing, and a message came: "No retreat is allowed, and we must do everything we can to shoot down at least one Chinese fighter plane!"
¡°The man in charge of the aviation command of the Vietnam People¡¯s Army did not expect that he would be sentenced to death for the remaining four Vietnamese MiG-21s. With the help of the previous wave of attacks, Li Guangjian covered his comrades and had already withdrawn a certain distance. At this time, four J-10s and two Flying Leopards equipped with an electronic jamming system had already flown across the Chunlei Brigade. , began to face the Vietnamese head-on.
In addition to being an excellent fighter-bomber, the Feibao can also be used as an electronic warfare aircraft. This electronic jamming system can mount different pods according to mission needs. It can mount up to 5 pods at a time to perform multiple electronic warfare tasks. At this time, the Feibao mainly carried two electronic suppression and dual-frequency noise jamming pods, which were used to disrupt the normal operation of the enemy's radar and cut off the opponent's communication capabilities.
Almost as soon as the Feibao electronic machine took action, the remaining four Vietnamese MiG-21s all turned into headless flies, and the pilots had to tear off their communication devices because of the sharp buzzing coming from their ears. Just when they were dizzy, several J-10s fired air-to-air missiles decisively, hitting all of them, and shot down these MiG-21s in the mountains near Lao Cai.
Knowing that the threat from the Vietnamese Air Force had been eliminated, Qi Yiming did not give up and ordered again: "The destroyer and bombardment brigade will continue to dispatch, perform battlefield interdiction tasks, and destroy all traffic entering the Vietnamese side of the Laoshan Nala area. !"