Chapter 430 "Stealth Aircraft of Unknown Model"
Bayani, who had completed the scheduled eviction mission, did not choose to return immediately, but still followed the target in hot pursuit for a while.
This is also the experience he gained in the Iran-Iraq war.
When facing a long-range fighter, if the mission is immediately ended when the opponent turns around, the enemy pilot who has calmed down may still choose to make a comeback, and then the passive pilot will become Own.
Especially after the F4 fighter of the Turkish Air Force experienced a 180° sharp turn that greatly affected altitude and speed, it did not seem to have a very urgent desire to accelerate and had been flying west slowly at a high subsonic speed. He looked like he was trying to pull a knife, which made the lieutenant colonel even more worried.
In the end, he drove the F4EC to chase the target all the way to the western border of West Azerbaijan Province. At one point, he was close to about 35 kilometers behind the target and adjusted the radar to tracking mode.
Up to this moment, the target on the radar display seemed to finally feel the fatal threat, and after a period of acceleration that was quite rapid for the F4, it broke the speed of sound and fled westward.
Watching the number representing speed next to the target on the HUD keep jumping upwards, Bayani finally breathed a sigh of relief. While retracting the throttle to slow down, he gently took the lever with his right hand and turned through a small slope. The course was adjusted to the south - he had just been able to clearly see the main peak of Mount Ayr with an altitude of over 5,000 meters not far ahead, indicating that the plane was quite close to Turkish airspace.
Although the relationship between Iraq and Turkey is not good, the two sides do not have any conflicts over border demarcation. In 1932, the two countries conducted a rare territorial exchange that both sides believed they had earned. At present, he has no idea of changing the status quo, so he can no longer continue westward.
“Report to the headquarters that the expulsion mission has been completed.”
He reported his success to the command center on the radio,
"Well done, Kava 01, you can return."
Kava is a hero in Persian mythology. After Ni made his first air combat victory and was promoted to squadron leader, he has been using this call sign.
But after receiving the order, he hesitated, and then applied to the headquarters:
“I still have some fuel and can patrol near the border for a period of time.”
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There was no immediate response from the radio station, perhaps because they were communicating with the more senior commanders around them.
A few seconds later, the voice sounded again:
"Approval of the request, but pay attention to the fuel situation."
Compared to Lieutenant Colonel Bayani who was in a good mood here , Major Zehra Ergai in another F4E 40 kilometers away felt that he had just walked away from the gate of hell.
“Is that radar signal still locked on us?”
Although the sharp warning sound of the RWR had disappeared, he still gasped in shock and asked Lieutenant Hakan Danger in the back seat.
The latter was just a humble ballast who had just graduated from the Air Force School. Seeing the majors in front of him in such a panic, he was already panicking and didn't even hear the message on the radio. The sound came, and he didn’t react until Erguy called him twice more:
“Uh... the warning light is no longer on.”
But it was the first time to participate. The young man on the actual combat mission was obviously still immersed in the panic of having just been locked up:
“But Major, I heard that the Soviet Union...the Russians have an infrared-guided medium-range air-to-air missile. Launched one?”
After all, Ergai was more experienced and had calmed down a little at this time:
"How is it possible? Only the MiG-29 of the Persian Air Force can launch the R27ET, but the radar just now is definitely not the radar of the MiG-29."< br>
Having said that, he still hesitated for a moment, and then placed his hand closest to the infrared bait launch button:
“If you are really worried, just look back more often. Look, if you find anything unusual, tell me as soon as possible. "
The strategies for dealing with radar-guided weapons and infrared-guided weapons are completely different. It is difficult for the major to make accurate judgments in the blink of an eye, but in the past. The knowledge he learned told him that it was always right to maintain a higher speed at this time.
Theoretically, any R27 series missile's tail-chasing range when facing a supersonic target will not exceed 20 kilometers. The faster it goes, the safer it will be.
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About a minute later, Erguy finally came back to his senses from the panic just now:
"Lieutenant, you should know what to do when you go back. How did you report it to the superiors? "
The purpose of their attack was actually to bomb the separatist armed forces in the mountains on the southeastern border, and they carried as many as 3 tons of bombs for this purpose.
However, when they actually flew to the mission area, they discovered that a considerable number of targets had moved to Persia, so they lingered near the border for a while, hesitating whether to conduct a cross-border bombing.
The result almost caused disaster. Just now, his radar did not detect any targets in the sky, but the radar warning device kept beeping one after another.
Even after it turned to return, the ghostly signal source continued to be locked for a long time, so that the major had to ask Dange behind to send all 12 bombs at once Throw away all the fuel tanks and auxiliary fuel tanks to speed up your escape.
If his superiors knew about this kind of thing, he would probably not get any good results.
However, the young man in the back seat is obviously not experienced enough in this regard:
"You are saying that we encountered an unknown enemy plane during the mission, so we dropped the bomb midway?"
The honest answer almost made Erguy choke to death:
"Idiot, if you report like this, you will never be able to become a formal pilot in this life!"
< br>The cockpit of the F4 fighter jet will also have a cockpit voice recorder similar to that of a passenger aircraft, but the data storage time is very short. Except for the crash, the major has never seen anyone retrieve the information inside, so he is not worried about this. Conversations are heard.
The effect of such a threat was immediate, and Dange was immediately frightened by the major:
"Then...what should we say?"
"Alas..."
Ergai sighed for his inexperienced partner, but in this case the two of them were grasshoppers on a rope, and they had to give some advice anyway:
"Just say us I found a Kurdish training camp near the border, but the angle was not good, so I used all the bombs to destroy it. Then on the way back, I encountered a Persian plane coming to intercept it, so I dropped it in order to maintain mobility. Auxiliary fuel tank.”
After finishing speaking, he felt that this explanation was still somewhat inappropriate, so he modified his statement:
"No, don't say training camp, just say that we discovered a transport team. This way there will be no proof."
The major now regrets that he just threw down all the mounts in desperation. If he had kept two auxiliary fuel tanks, he could at least behave a little more calmly.
"Okay...Okay."
In Dange's opinion, it seemed inappropriate to do so, but when he thought about his dream of flying a plane alone, he finally decided to listen to Earl Guy's suggestion:
"Then Major, you just said that we encountered a Persian F14?"
"That signal is obviously not AN/AWG9, and..."
Earley did not continue.
Although the paper detection data of AN/AWG9 reaches a very exaggerated nearly 200km, judging from the examples of the Iran-Iraq war, either this number is seriously watered down, or the Americans simply exported the monkey version of the product. In short, At least it is difficult for the Persian F14 to really lock on a fighter-sized target at a distance where the AN/APG59 cannot see the target at all.
Besides, he had just tried some maneuvers that were very effective against old-fashioned radars, but they obviously had no effect.
And there is a more important point -
To say that I encountered an F14 does not seem to be enough to express the urgency of the situation at that time.
"No, we just encountered a stealth aircraft of unknown type, so the radar was unable to search for the target throughout the entire process and was forced to return."
"Huh?"
< br>This statement made Dange feel that he was playing a little too big.
"Is there a problem?"
"No."
Under the flight helmet, the young lieutenant found that a cold sweat had broken out on his forehead.
(End of this chapter)