Dominate South Asia

Jackson was operating nervously. A short minute seemed like a century. Would the five missiles hit the target accurately?

One missile had left the original orbit and continued to fly at high altitude. The other four missiles rushed to four targets respectively.

Two missiles flew down from the sky and flew directly to the two MiG-25 fighters. The other two continued to attack the MiG-25 fighters at high altitude.

At a distance of 20 kilometers, the seeker of the Phoenix missile began to emit electromagnetic waves, and the Tomcat fighters behind could be temporarily released.

"Maneuver to get rid of it." The Tu-126 early warning aircraft found that four missiles were still flying and issued a warning to these fighters.

The MiG-25, which was still accelerating at high altitude, immediately pushed down the control stick and made a dive.

The two MiG-25s at low altitude began to roll sideways and roll away.

The Phoenix missile has an overload capacity of 17G. As long as the active radar is turned on, it can always lock the target.

However, the two low-altitude MiG-25s rolled into the valley. The DSQ-26 radar had insufficient target analysis capabilities, and when it found the chaotic echoes in front, it lost its direction.

The MiG-25 in the high altitude dived rapidly from 20,000 meters to 5,000 meters, and then climbed again, hoping to consume the kinetic energy of the opponent's missiles by such actions. Unfortunately, its actions were too early. When it climbed again, it happened to encounter the Phoenix missiles diving from the high altitude.

The 60-kilogram fragmentation warhead exploded, and the MiG-25 was within the absolute explosion killing radius, and it could not escape the fragments of those missiles.

"Two were shot down, two were unlocked, and there was one..." Jackson looked at another Phoenix missile in surprise, which had already flown across the border and flew towards another large aircraft in the distant sky.

"No!" Jackson screamed.

Fighting in one's own airspace is completely different from fighting in Afghanistan's airspace. Shooting down Soviet planes across the border will make the Soviets extremely angry, especially since that plane is not a direct combat plane, it is a jammer!

However, the Phoenix missile has entered the active attack state at this time, and no one can stop it.

The slender streamlined fuselage, swept wings, horizontal tail and vertical tail have large sweep angles, and two engines are at the root of the wing. This is an early Tu-16 bomber. It is just the protruding boat-shaped fairing in the weapon bay, and there are heat exchangers and exhaust holes around it, indicating that this is a jammer, and there are large flat antennas on the wingtips.

Now, this plane no longer flies leisurely. When it receives the warning from the early warning aircraft that a Phoenix missile is flying towards it, it is very panicked.

In order to interfere with the Phoenix missile, it flew almost to the border of Afghanistan. Who would have thought that the Pakistani Air Force would dare to cross the border to attack it!

The pilot started the engine to the maximum thrust, but it was just a subsonic fighter and could not escape the missile's sniping.

Countless aluminum foils were released from one side of the bomb bay, hoping to effectively interfere with the missile. At the same time, it turned the jammer to the maximum power.

If it was in active radar mode, the Phoenix missile would have been successfully interfered at this time. Unfortunately, the current Phoenix missile is a special attack interference source mode, and the place with the largest interference source is its target!

At this time, it was almost at the maximum range of the Phoenix missile. Its speed had begun to decrease, and the distance between it and the Tu-16 was still getting closer and closer.

"Boom!" The 60-kilogram warhead, with countless fragments, filled the surrounding airspace. Suddenly, a big hole was blown in the belly of the Tu-16 bomber, and it was scarred everywhere.

In front of the pilot, countless indicator lights flashed, the engine had stopped working, and the plane was shaking and began to fall.

"Parachute." The captain gave such an order helplessly.

The Tu-16 is an old-fashioned bomber with six crew members, namely the pilot, co-pilot, first navigator, second navigator, communicator and gunner. Now after being converted into an electronic jammer, the gunner has become the operator of the electronic jammer. Although each crew member is equipped with an ejection seat, they are not ejected together. The order is gunner, communicator, second navigator, first navigator, co-pilot, and pilot. Moreover, except for the two pilots who ejected upward, the other four ejected downward. At the same time, it is not like a fighter jet, where you pull the emergency ejection handle and the ejection process is automatically handled directly. Its ejection is extremely cumbersome. For example, if the first navigator wants to eject, there are 8 preparations: turn the seat to face the nose, retreat the seat to the rear limit, put down the seat basin, fasten the straps, tighten and lock them, unplug the headphone cable and oxygen duct, lift the foot, pull the safety handle, and after the foot pedal is released, place the foot on it, jettison the emergency hatch, and press the ejection handle. All these actions were done manually.

Such cumbersome actions made it almost impossible for everyone to eject. When the captain gave the order, the jammer successfully ejected, and when the second navigator was ejecting, the canopy could not be thrown away at all.

In order to escape, the co-pilot actually gave up the order and ejected. After the co-pilot's canopy was thrown away, due to the air pressure, the canopies of the rest of the people could not be thrown away.

“Boom!” The Tu-16 electronic jammer fell to the ground and turned into a fireball.

(The same is true for my country’s H-6 bomber, which was developed from the Tu-16. The ejection escape has major defects. Once an accident occurs, almost all the aircraft will be destroyed and the crew will die. It has become a veritable widow-making machine. We deeply remember the air warriors who dedicated themselves to the national defense cause!)

The battle is still going on. Only one Phoenix missile and two AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles are left. Rick pushed the nose down and flew towards the bomber.

Two F-16s have entered the mountains to chase the two MiG-25s that survived the attack of the Phoenix missiles.

Jackson was a little frustrated. In the test, he had successfully completed the attack of six Phoenix missiles against six targets with a hit rate of over 80%. But now, in actual combat, he fired five missiles and only hit two high-altitude targets, which were the easiest to hit. Two of the three low-altitude targets were completely off target, and the other one deviated from the target and hit a jammer across the border.

Three targets, six hundred thousand! In Jackson's eyes, that was his bonus!

Jackson knew that he would have a headache after he returned with the report. The most important thing now was to provide Rick with navigation information.

The radar in front was still working well, and the large bomber could not escape their attack!

When the Phoenix missiles were not needed, Jackson's job was mainly to give Rick navigation and help him search the surrounding airspace with his eyes and observe the surrounding situation.

As the fighter plane flies faster, the wings automatically adjust the sweep angle under the control of the computer. As the speed decreases, the sweep angle of the wings becomes smaller and smaller.

The Tu-22M2 bomber had already given up the bombing mission at this time. It was the luckiest one. The Phoenix missile originally aimed at it attacked the jammer under interference.

Now, it needs to return to the airspace of Afghanistan at the fastest speed.

Unfortunately, when it completed a turn with a radius of several thousand meters in the air, the Tomcat fighter had already dived down from the high altitude and caught up.

The air battle was very fast. It was just a long-range interception, and a few minutes later, it entered a close-range combat. This was a battle between variable-sweep-wing fighters, but the outcome was obvious.

The total weight of the Tu-22M2 exceeds 100 tons. Even if half of the fuel is burned, it still weighs more than 80 tons. Its weapons are bombs in the bomb bay for self-defense. It only has a radar-guided Gsh-23 twin-barrel 23mm cannon at the tail. Its opponent, the Tomcat fighter, has a Phoenix missile and two Sidewinders, plus a cannon, which can send it back home at any time.

The operation of the Sidewinder missile is completely controlled by the pilot. When Jackson saw the Tu-22M2 in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is a perfect big guy! If we can get it down and take it back to the United States for research, that would be great!

At this moment, he saw that his own plane had flown above the opponent, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. What does Rick in the front cabin want to do?

Rick pushed the nose of the plane horizontally, and then, "boom, boom, boom." The cannon shells flew in front of the Tu-22M2's course. The pilot of the Tu-22M2 was startled and subconsciously pressed the joystick. The plane rolled and turned, and almost hit the top of the mountain.

Rick was very smart and did not enter the tail of the other plane. Seeing that the plane was so embarrassed, Rick flew to the side of the other plane.

The two planes flew side by side. From this side, you can almost see the fear in the eyes of the other pilot.

Rick stretched out his hand in the bubble-shaped cockpit, pointed at the other party, then pointed at himself, and then gave a thumbs down.

What does this mean? Rick wants the other party to fly with him? God, this is ridiculous. Rick wants the other party to make an emergency landing!

This is simply impossible. The Soviet pilots will never do it according to their own requirements. Besides, this is a bomber! There was a bomb hanging in the belly of the plane. If the other party had any intention to drop a bomb over the air base, it would destroy the Peshawar Air Force Base!

Sure enough, the other party did not agree, but pressed the joystick hard, and the huge bomber's fuselage slammed into the Tomcat fighter.

The collision in the sky was very violent, and the larger size had an advantage. With such a collision, the Tomcat fighter would definitely be injured.

This was the other party's idea!

The huge Tu-22M2 fuselage pressed up towards the Tomcat fighter.