Dominate South Asia

"Attention, we will fly over two valleys ahead and will soon find Afghan resistance forces. Prepare to attack." The lead pilot of a Su-22 attack aircraft said to the other pilots via radio.

In the past few days, the continuous high-intensity bombing has completely made those noisy resistance forces taste the power. As long as the height of the bomb is reached, they can completely avoid being shot by the Stinger missiles on the ground. Although the accuracy of the bombs is lower, they will drop all the bombs they carry in a short time in the indiscriminate bombing. In this way, those guys on the ground will still suffer heavy losses.

"Understood." A clear echo came from the headset.

Suddenly, a noisy sound came from the headset, as if a big drum was beating, dongdong, dongdong, and as if a conch was blowing, Ulu, Ulu!

The sound was so loud that their brains were dizzy.

What's going on?

"SPASM jammer system started normally." The operator in the cabin of the EC-130H early warning aircraft said: "Frequency 0.22-1.0 GHz, jammer power 5 kW/MHz, reserve a channel for us."

An E-2 early warning aircraft was patrolling in the sky. With a scanning radius of more than 400 kilometers, the E-2 early warning aircraft can fly in the sky within 200 kilometers of the border, which is safer.

"The Soviets are in trouble." An early warning personnel in the early warning aircraft said that he saw the signal displayed on the radar screen. When the jammer started, the four-plane formation fell into panic, and two of them almost collided with each other.

The EC-130 has a strong jamming capability. When it started, all Soviet communications on the other side of the border were interrupted. Helicopters and attack aircraft could not contact each other, and could not coordinate attacks. Ground personnel could not contact the sky. Everything was in a state of chaos.

The Afghan Free Army on the other side of the valley took advantage of the Soviet panic to open a gap and retreat calmly.

Turkmenistan Air Force Base.

A large twin-engine, twin-tail fighter jet that looks very similar to the MiG-25 is waiting on the runway. Its huge body indicates that it is a heavy fighter jet. Four large missiles are mounted on the four pylons of the fuselage. Judging from the size and shape, it is very similar to the Phoenix.

The MiG-25 is not equipped with such weapons. Moreover, the cockpit of this fighter jet looks like a single-seat cockpit in the front. There are windows on both sides of the cockpit, indicating that there is another seat in the back.

"We have been waiting for half a year just for this fighter." On the tower of the cabin, Hosnetsov looked at the fighter on the runway through the tower window and said, "Pakistan's Tomcat fighter, carrying Phoenix missiles, has posed a great threat to us, and even forced us to stop bombing the Afghan resistance forces in Pakistan. Now, we can finally fight back. Our fighter, the latest product of Mikoyan, can completely destroy Pakistan's Tomcat fighter at a long distance!"

His eyes followed the fighter and watched it taxi.

The front is still a huge rectangular air intake, and the auxiliary air intake is fully open. At the tail, two brand-new P-30F6 turbofan engines burst out a huge thrust of more than 150 kilonewtons, pushing this more than 40-ton fighter to start taxiing on the runway.

This is the heaviest fighter in the world, even if it is obtained in the future, with a total weight of more than 40 tons, almost equivalent to a bomber.

Pakistanis are equipped with F-14 fighters, relying on Phoenix missiles, which pose a great threat to them at a long distance. The current Soviet Air Force, like Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, is unwilling to cross the border to bomb Pakistan. Flying over is to die! This is simply an extreme irony of the powerful Soviet Air Force.

They must completely suppress the Tomcat fighter in the frontal battle! They need a brand new aircraft, so they have been suppressed for half a year before this new fighter has completed all flight tests and was equipped to the Turkmenistan Military District.

This is the masterpiece of Mikoyan Company, the MiG-31 interceptor!

Compared with the MiG-25, in addition to the engine change and more fuel-efficient, the most important improvement is the radar at the front of the nose. Its nose is equipped with the first Soviet and the world's first airborne phased array radar!

The NIIPN007S-800 electronic scanning phased array fire control radar has a search distance of up to 200 kilometers and can track 10 targets at the same time and attack 4 of them! This radar is no worse than the radar of the Tomcat fighter!

Moreover, it is also equipped with the latest R-33 missile! It uses semi-active radar guidance, and its range is shorter than that of the Phoenix, about 120 kilometers. By cooperating with the phased array radar of the MiG-31, it can easily shoot down strategic bombers flying at a low altitude of 25 meters or strategic reconnaissance aircraft flying at an altitude of 28 kilometers.

Although it is slightly inferior in range, the Phoenix's 160-kilometer range is also the maximum range. When both sides actually launch, it will not exceed 100 kilometers.

Let the Pakistani Air Force also taste the taste of being sniped at a long distance!

Because it is equipped with an advanced high-power phased array radar, the MiG-31 needs a dedicated radar officer to operate it and guide the huge R-33 missile at the same time, so it has a two-seat layout. At the same time, in order to avoid the sunlight that makes the display screen unclear, the rear cockpit only has two small windows, and the radar officer operates almost in semi-darkness.

Feeling the acceleration of the huge fighter, the radar officer Anatoly in the rear cabin was calm. This was the first battle. However, it was exactly the same as the previous training. Use radar to lock them and then launch missiles to attack!

He skillfully turned on each switch. The 200-kilometer scanning area means that when they fly into the sky and enter the Afghan airspace, they can cross the border to scan the airspace of Pakistan.

A cathode ray tube display screen in front of them began to have light spots appearing. It was a fighter that took off from Bagram Air Force Base.

The MiG-31 accelerated and flew to an altitude of 18,000 meters, disguising itself as an ordinary fighter and began to enter the Afghan airspace.

Continuing to fly east, the bright spots on the screen began to increase gradually. Anatoly kept processing. Some bright spots responded, which was the automatic response of the enemy identification device. Some bright spots did not respond, but judging from the position, it should be our fighter plane, but the enemy identification device was faulty. Continuing to fly forward, finally, a large bright spot began to appear on the screen. He adjusted the knob and the bright spots became three.

That's it! The target of our attack this time is three fighter planes of the Pakistan Air Force!

"R-33 missiles ready." Anatoly used the radar to scan the three aircraft while connecting three R-33 missiles and entering the preparations before launch.

"Prepare to accelerate and climb." The pilot Gerhardt in the front cabin said and turned on the afterburner.

In order to increase the distance of the missile launch, the carrier aircraft needs to provide as much speed as possible. When the carrier aircraft starts to fly at a speed of Mach 2, the missile is launched. Even if the missile does not ignite, it has a speed of Mach 2.

"A suspicious target has been found." An early warning personnel in the E-2 early warning aircraft said: "Altitude 18,000, speed 0.9, direction due east, distance 300."

The planes in the Afghan airspace are all bombing the Afghan Free Army. Now due to the interference implemented by the side, the other side is a little panicked for a while, but their altitude is about a few thousand meters, not 18,000 at all, and judging from the direction of the other side's flight, it is heading towards the border. The early warning aircraft immediately provided a warning signal.

"Received." Rick said in the radio: "045, protect the compass call, I will intercept."

Compass call is the code name of EC-130H.

After speaking, Rick pressed the joystick, rolled to the left in a chic manner, turned to the left, and then turned on the afterburner.

The wings quickly retracted backwards, and the sweep angle reached the maximum, becoming a state suitable for sprint flight.

The radar operator in the rear cabin turned on the radar and connected the power supply of the Phoenix missile at the same time, ready to enter the launch state at any time.

"The target is climbing rapidly, the altitude exceeds 20,000, the target is confirmed, MiG-25, the enemy situation is judged, it is likely to enter our airspace at high altitude and high speed, Eagle, prepare to intercept." Information continued to come from the early warning aircraft.

The only fighter that can climb more than 20,000 is the MiG-25, and the opponent can also sprint to Mach 3. Although it sounds scary, Rick is not afraid. He has fought with this fighter several times. When the opponent sprints to Mach 3, the maneuverability is very poor, and he can easily shoot it down.

Relying on missiles with a range of only 40 kilometers, how can you fight against your Phoenix? It's simply stupid. Are these Soviets still not giving up? Rick continued to accelerate while saying to the radar operator in the rear cabin: "Prepare to lock the target and launch the Phoenix."

"Understood." The radar operator in the rear cabin looked at the display in front of him. The distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching. When the distance reached 100 kilometers, the Phoenix missile could be launched without any mistakes.

The distance was closing rapidly, 150, 130, 110, and suddenly, the earphones came with a message from the early warning aircraft: "The target has launched three missiles, pay attention to avoid."

What's going on? Rick was stunned.

Almost at the same time, the radar operator in the rear cabin also saw that the bright spot had split into three bright spots on the screen. The opponent's current altitude was 24,000, the speed was 2.6, and the distance was 100.

At this distance, the opponent launched a missile, and since the opponent launched it, it must be sure. This is a new missile, just like our Phoenix missile, which can attack targets 100 kilometers away!