Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

With the attention of countless people, open or dark, the codename "D-Day" has finally arrived.

Hamid Jadri checked his equipment again, and after confirming that there were no problems, he exchanged glances with his teammate Mohamed Yousef Chodri and made a fist.

"Sure!" he roared in a low voice.

"Sure!" He heard a sonorous response from his teammate.

This is Batie, a place where he and his comrades are willing to defend their airspace and glory with blood. Here, no one can take victory from him. The Indians can’t, the Soviets can’t, even if they are Not even the Chinese people who come to learn as friends!

He walked towards his car. It was a metric F16ABlock15, the most advanced fighter equipped by the Pakistan Railway Air Force. He knew that this fighter had been carefully maintained by the ground crew and kept in the best condition. Every inch of his body has been wiped to make it slender and dusty, shining brightly in the morning sun.

"Man, it's up to you today." He walked to the side of the fighter plane, and did not rush to board the plane, but lightly patted the fighter plane's wing, murmured like to his closest comrades. , And under the wing he was tapping, four AIM-9L coach bullets with red circles gleamed with breathtaking cold light.

Except that there is no warhead, there is no difference between trainer ammunition and live ammunition, so this time it is a real air combat!

Hamid Jadri climbed up the boarding ladder, and when he was about to step into the cockpit of the fighter, he finally glanced under the cockpit cover, where the silhouettes of three fighters were painted in white paint-a J-7 Two Su-22s, of which the J-7 and one Su-22 are solid-filled, and the other Su-22 only outlines the outline. This is his record and represents that he has "shot down" during the exercise. One "J-7" was shot down and one "Sukhoi 22" fighter was shot down and wounded in actual combat.

"After today, I will add at least one "Flying Leopard" to it. It will be the first time he has shot down a twin-engine fighter." He thought, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he closed it. The ground crewman in the cockpit gave a thumbs up.

"Good luck, major." The ground crew made the same gesture and smiled at him.

A few minutes later, two F16s roared from the Rawalpindi base into the sky.

The air distance between the Rawalpindi base and the Peshawar base where the Chinese are temporarily stationed is about 160 kilometers. Since the "free air combat" exercise subject mainly considers the performance of the fighter aircraft, in the details of the exercise agreed by both parties, The effects of other factors are excluded to the utmost extent. Except under special circumstances, the fighters of the two sides cannot receive the intelligence support from the ground radar station. In other words, in such a vast airspace, it is completely necessary to find the enemy. Rely on the fighters themselves.

160 kilometers is a very short distance for the fighters equipped by both sides. The two sides are facing each other, and the time left for capturing the enemy is only a few minutes. Therefore, at the beginning of the lift-off, Hamid Gadri immediately turned on the radar. Scanning the airspace is a tactic he discussed with the wingman. The two aircraft will first fly at an ultra-low altitude, and at the same time they will be staggered to scan the sky, keeping one radar in working condition. Scanning performance is often weaker than aerial scanning due to the clutter of ground echoes. The APG-66 radar equipped with F16 must have an advantage over China. The detection range of this radar can reach 90 kilometers when looking up and 65 kilometers when looking down. Meters, and for twin-engine "big aircraft" targets such as the "Flying Leopard", there must be a bonus. It is also expected that the distance is greater than 100 kilometers.

Sure enough, shortly after lift-off, when Hamid Gadri had just turned off his radar and handed over the task of finding the enemy to the wingman, he reported that he had found an enemy plane.

"At twelve o'clock, two planes, height 10,000 meters, distance 96 kilometers, speed 500 knots!"

"It's really swaying, keep track, don't lose it, I will take over in 1 minute." Hamid Gadri commanded briefly, silently calculating the time to meet the enemy in his heart-his main battle weapon AIM-9L The "Sidewinder" missile has an effective head-on attack distance of about 10 kilometers. At the current speed, he needs to quickly climb and switch to the lock tracking mode when he turns on the radar again. At the same time, he turns on the missile's infrared seeker to let it capture the target.

But just as he was thinking about it, the wingman's exclaim suddenly came from the intercom: "Attention, I'm locked, and the enemy plane is launching a missile!"

"What? How is it possible!"

Hamid Jadri's heart was tense, and he could no longer save the power supply of the radar and the power supply of the fighter. He immediately turned on the radar of the aircraft. At the same time, there were continuous warnings in his cockpit. Sound, this is the autonomous reaction of the passive radar warning device after being continuously illuminated and locked by the fire control radar.

"Aspide!"

At this moment, Hamid Gadri's mind suddenly became clear. The long-term hard training and many actual combat experience allowed him to exercise his tenacious nerves and fearless coping ability, which made him immediately remember the situation of his opponent. The weapon and equipment that he had brought with only a few words in the introduction also made him immediately understand the enemy’s equipment and tactics—the Flying Leopard is a dual-engine heavy fighter. The goal is to maintain certain air combat self-defense capabilities while possessing ground/sea attack means. However, dual-engines and large fuselage have natural advantages, which can obtain a greater thrust-to-weight ratio, have more thrust reserves, and can also be equipped Radars with larger power and antenna calibers can mount more and heavier weapons, even the big guys on the ground/sea can mount them. Then, mount two or more pieces weighing 230 kg. What is the Spade medium-range air-to-air interceptor missile?

Aspide is a semi-actively guided medium-range air-to-air interceptor developed by Italy and an important piece of equipment introduced by China during the "Golden Decade" of cooperation with the West in the 1980s.

It should be said that people who have always been regarded as "noodles" have a lot of good things in the military industry, especially the China Navy, which has obtained a lot of advanced and practical equipment and technology from the country. .

For example, the B.515S three-tube 324 mm torpedo launcher and the A.244S light anti-submarine torpedo introduced from the "Alenia Company" in 1985, the introduction of these two equipments allowed the Navy to finally have a reliable anti-submarine torpedo. It changed the awkward situation that China can only rely on old rockets to boost depth charges to anti-submarine, and filled the gap!

For another example, the medium-caliber twin naval gun technology imported from the "Breda Company" and its "double hit" design idea is applied to the domestic "76A" twin 37 mm caliber naval gun system, greatly shortening the The gap between the gun and the international advanced level.

The "Aspide" missile is a heavyweight product in the naval equipment that China has deliberately introduced.

This missile is a mid-range interception missile system developed by Yili people on the basis of the American "Hawk" and "Sparrow" missile systems. It is divided into two branches, "air-to-air" and "surface-to-air". Among them, the "air-to-air type" has a maximum range of 80 kilometers, while the "surface-to-air type" has a combat distance of 5-15 kilometers. In the last time and space, Huaxia deliberately introduced a full set of technologies in the mid-1980s, and developed a number of models on it. Among them, the "air-to-air type" finally developed into the first-generation mid-range officially equipped by Huaxia. The air-to-air missile "Thunderbolt 11", and the "surface-to-air type" has derived a series of models such as "Hongqi 61", "Hongqi 64", "Haihongqi 64", and once became the backbone of the navy's air defense weapons.

However, in the last time and space, Huaxia officially introduced this missile system until 1988, but in this time and space, it was at least 18 months ahead of schedule!

As for the reason, it is also very simple-in another time and space, the introduction of "Aspide" was not prepared for the "Flying Leopard", but to adapt to China's first type of fighter "said" capable of launching mid-range interceptors. That is, the "F-8II" of the Shengjing Aircraft Factory. Although the initial model of the "F-8II" is "said" to be able to launch medium-range interceptor bombs, the fire control radar equipped on it is really hard to describe. The adaptation of "aircraft" to "munitions" caused a lot of disturbance and directly led to the slow progress of the introduction of this type of missile.

However, in this time and space, due to the early advent of the "Flying Leopard", and the performance of its initial model far exceeds the level of the previous time and space, and this type of fighter has adopted a large number of Western-originated technical systems and standards in the development process. At the request of Tan Zhenhua, the compatibility between the "aircraft" and the "bombs" of the Western system was particularly emphasized, which resulted in the "Flying Leopard" fighters being able to adapt to a large number of "bombs" of the NATO system, and objectively promoted the leading The developer, the Huaxia Navy, was enthusiastic about the introduction of medium-range bombs, and completed the negotiation with Italian power at the fastest speed. This is how the "Aspide" can be mounted under the wings of the "Flying Leopard" during this exercise. s reason.

Hamid Jadri is not familiar with this missile. He only knows some necessary parameters. However, he at least knows that this is only a medium-range air-to-air interceptor equipped with a semi-active seeker. Said that after the launch of this missile, the carrier must continue to illuminate the target with radar for a period of time to guide the flight path of the missile until the seeker on the missile locks the target.

Knowing this is enough. He is driving an F16 and is attacked by an Aspide launched by the opponent at this distance. He has plenty of time to take countermeasures.

"Roll off!"

He shouted, telling himself and reminding the wingman what to do. Then he stepped on the rudder and the joystick, and the fighter suddenly turned to one side in the violent shaking.