Dominate South Asia

There are fewer planes in the sky over Afghanistan. In the past two days, even Bagram Air Force Base has stopped fighter jets from taking off. There are no planes cruising on the border line. The Afghan Free Army has won a chance to breathe. However, everyone knows that this is just the calm before the war.

Everyone knows that once the battle begins, it will be a world-shaking war. The various statements made by the Soviets are likely to be looking for interfaces to provoke conflicts in the border areas of Pakistan.

In order to deal with it, the Peshawar Military Region is on high alert and ready to deal with foreign enemies at any time.

At this time, hundreds of kilometers away in eastern Iran, near Taiyebat on the Iranian Plateau.

This place is not as steep as the mountainous areas of the Pamir Plateau. There are large flat areas between several mountains. Vehicles can drive normally in them. Now, military vehicles are driving one by one in the open space between the mountains. Although they have no signs, people who are familiar with them can tell that they are Soviet logistics convoys.

It's the Soviets! I didn't expect that the Soviets would cooperate with the Iranians! On the top of a mountain, Osama carefully looked at the convoy with a telescope, his eyes full of anger.

What Osama could not tolerate the most was betrayal, and now, the Iranians would actually betray him!

"Captain, shall we do it?" A soldier beside Osama asked. As the most determined Afghan fighters, they would attack the Soviet convoys without hesitation.

Do it! Of course we have to do it! But... the mountains here are not as continuous as those in Afghanistan. It is easy for us to attack, but it is not convenient to retreat. It is not wise to launch an attack without accurately grasping the terrain here. Moreover, according to Mr. Muhammad, this is probably an agreement reached between the commander of the eastern Iranian garrison and the Soviets, and the Iranian high-level officials do not know.

The most appropriate thing for me is not to launch an attack here, but to go to Tehran! Go to meet their spiritual leader! Convey my strong opposition!

Even if it is instructed by the other party's high-level officials, I should weigh the pros and cons at this time. After all, I am the one who can really help them! Those spare parts of Tomcat are enough to strangle their deadly points.

Moreover, according to the arrangement given to him by Mr. Muhammad, this is still an opportunity to pit the Soviets, a great opportunity!

"The troops stay here and wait for my instructions." Osama said that he only needed to take a few people to Tehran. If the Iranians were really stubborn, even if he could not come back, he could let the troops stay here and harass the Soviet transport troops.

Several horses galloped in eastern Iran, heading towards Tehran, the capital of Iran.

The dark clouds of war continued to cover the entire Pamir Plateau, and the eyes of the world were focused here.

After a few days of silence, the air battle finally broke out.

"The targets are divided into two batches, with an altitude of 8,000, a speed of 0.8, and an interval of 50. Two aircraft in each batch are flying towards my border." The early warning personnel reported in the E-2 early warning aircraft.

Every day, the E-2 will take off to monitor the sky over Afghanistan. With a detection range of more than 400 kilometers, the E-2 early warning aircraft easily found the opponent's targets.

Next to the early warning aircraft, the EC-130H electronic jammer was accompanying, ready to interfere with the enemy at any time, and on their left and right, there were two Tomcat fighters escorting.

There were two batches, two in each batch, which was a double-plane formation commonly used by the Soviets. Now, they were flying towards the border at high altitude, and they were likely to violate Pakistan's airspace.

"Immediately take off four Tomcat fighters and go to intercept." Arslan said.

A red flare flew into the sky. Seeing the take-off signal, the pilots who hurriedly boarded the plane made preparations in an orderly manner. The engine ignited, the fighter began to taxi on the runway, and soon took off from the runway.

"Attention, the other four targets, as long as they are found to invade my airspace, immediately launch Phoenix missiles!" Hussein said in the radio.

"Received." The response from the pilots of the other three fighters came from the headset. One of the voices was a little strange. It was the American wearing the Pakistan Air Force flight suit, Navy Colonel Glitt.

The pilot of this fighter plane was ill temporarily. As representatives of the US Navy who came to observe, they were all tempted. Grete volunteered to be a temporary substitute. It was only a few hours. As a result, it was during these few hours that the Soviets took action.

The four Tomcats quickly climbed to an altitude of 10,000 meters and flew towards the border line. At the same time, the two batches of targets on the opposite side were also approaching quickly.

The AWG-9 radar began to scan the opposite side. The sky was filled with radio waves. At the same time, the Phoenix missile under the belly began to warm up.

Although the Tomcat fighter can carry up to six Phoenix missiles, this will seriously affect the maneuverability of the Tomcat fighter. It is a half-ton guy, and six missiles are three tons.

In the past, because there were not enough Tomcats, they had to be fully armed and carry six missiles. Now, due to the increase in the number of fighters, each Tomcat only carries two Phoenix missiles under the belly, and the rest are equipped with medium-range Sparrow missiles and short-range AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles.

Four targets, four fighters, only one-on-one interception is needed, which has the highest success rate.

The other party must be coming towards our airspace! They are here to challenge us! Hussein in the sky was making a calm judgment.

"One hundred and sixty kilometers away, about to enter our airspace." The sound of the early warning aircraft continued to come from the headset.

"Prepare to lock, launch the Phoenix!" Hussein said. At the flying speed of both sides, during the preparation before launching, each other will enter the absolute effective range of the Phoenix of one hundred kilometers.

"Understood." With the answer, the radar officer in the rear cabin began to mobilize the radar and prepare to enter the locking procedure.

Attack the two targets in front first. When the missile turns to active guidance, the two targets behind will just enter the range of our side, and we can continue to attack.

"Already locked." The radar officer said.

"Launch the missile." Hussein said.

A stream of fire came out from the belly of the two Tomcat fighters, and two Phoenixes, dragging flames, flew to the front.

"Great!" Greeter's words came from the radio. Although he was a naval colonel, he had only used AIM-9 to shoot targets once and had never launched a Phoenix in actual combat.

The US Navy rarely used it either. The Phoenix missile was too expensive. If it wasn't a war, they would not be willing to use it.

As a man, he longed for this feeling. Seeing a missile fly out from under his belly, he was immediately very excited.

The radar operator in the rear cabin was still operating non-stop. In the process of semi-active guidance, his work was very critical.

Suddenly, the shining light spot suddenly turned into four, and then disappeared on the screen.

Oops! The other party was flying in a dense formation!

"Hunter, pay attention, the first two targets are two four-plane formations, and now they have escaped the lock!" The headset came with nervous news from the early warning aircraft.

Four MiG-29s were flying in the sky. The distance between them was only five meters, and the height was only one meter. In this way, on the other side's radar screen, it was just a light spot.

Their radars were not turned on, and they kept radio silence, relying entirely on the information transmitted by the MiG-31 behind them through the data link to move forward.

The two light spots in front were two four-plane formations, and the two light spots in the back were two genuine MiG-31s. At this time, the MiG-31 was using the phased array radar in front to scan the airspace ahead.

In terms of maneuverability and combat capability, the MiG-31 may not be qualified, but in terms of command capability, the MiG-31 is also very powerful. It is equivalent to a small airborne early warning aircraft.

After receiving the news that the other side had launched missiles, the four MiG-29s immediately ended the formation flight, two turned left, and two turned right.

The engine turned on the afterburner, and the two engines at the tail were working at super-intensity, emitting black smoke, as if on fire, and pulled out four beautiful arcs.

The Tomcat uses a pulse Doppler radar, which eliminates clutter based on the Doppler principle. When the target flies horizontally, it will be filtered out as clutter, that is, it gets rid of the lock.

Four MiG-29s easily got rid of the opponent's lock, turned around, and continued to fly forward quickly.

Compared with pulse Doppler radar, phased array radar has obvious advantages. No matter what kind of maneuver the target makes, it will not be affected.

Their control of the airspace in the front hemisphere is no worse than that of the E-2 early warning aircraft.

Seeing that the two missiles became uncontrolled rockets, the two targets in front suddenly became eight. Hussein was still very calm: "Divide into two teams, prepare to intercept, use sparrow bombs!"

The Tomcat fighter carries three types of missiles: long, medium and short. At long range, the Phoenix missile can attack targets over 100 kilometers. At medium range, the Sparrow AIM-7F missile is used. Within visual range, it is the AIM-9L combat missile.

In the early days, the performance of the medium-range Sparrow missile was very poor, with a hit rate of only 10%, so that pilots would shoot all the Sparrow missiles in one breath in combat, hoping that the blind cat would hit the dead mouse.

When it developed to AIM-7F, the performance of the Sparrow missile was considered stable. Although the data during the target shooting process was very good, the actual performance was still waiting for the specific air battle.

Two Tomcats formed a team to meet the four MiG-29 fighters flying from the opposite side. First of all, they needed to attack them at medium range!

"The target has been locked."

"Fire."

At a distance of 30 kilometers, each Tomcat fighter fired a Sparrow missile.