Chapter 281: Old rival, F4EJ comes to join in the fun

"TMD, I finally found you..."

According to the settings set by the director (actually due to the range restrictions of the J-6/J-7), the blue team commanded by Shen Tao does not have escort fighters, so even if the opponent's approximate location is known, it cannot send a plane to intercept.

But he can choose to avoid its edge.

Although I don’t know what kind of black technology the other party used to interfere with its own radar from outside the beam at such a long distance, the red team’s take-off time was nearly 40 minutes late. The H-3000, after traveling in such a large circle, could still approach itself from the east before the H-7D launched its attack. Calculated based on the flight speed and distance, afterburner must have been used in the middle, and it was obviously impossible to retain too much fuel.

Although semi-active medium-range missiles generally have a range of more than 30 kilometers on paper, at low altitudes where the air density is higher and in a tail-chasing state, it is quite remarkable that they can hit a target 10 kilometers away. This point must be appreciated by the director. will be taken into consideration.

So he should be safe now.

And as long as it drags on for a while, the other party will be forced to return!

Shen Tao made what he thought was the most reasonable judgment.

However, the actual situation on the other side was slightly different from his speculation.

Almost as soon as they entered the exercise area, the two test pilots on the JH-7 discovered the traces of three blue fighters through passive radar——

The electromagnetic waves emitted by the two two-coordinate radars on the destroyer are powerful and stable, and they are simply the most perfect third-party signal source.

And another advantage of passive radar is that it can detect the target without aiming the transmitting antenna of the aircraft nose at the target.

Perhaps because the electromagnetic environment is relatively clean, the actual effect even exceeded Chang Haonan's initial calculation on paper.

However, since forwarding jamming requires first receiving the opponent's radar signal and then transmitting the jamming in the original direction, it cannot protect targets whose angle ranges are too different. Therefore, after discovering the target, the J-Handian-7 pilot can only choose First lower the altitude and fly at an ultra-low altitude to avoid alerting the enemy, and then seize the opportunity to cut between the opponent's aircraft and your own ship and activate the jamming pod to give the blue team a surprise.

And that's exactly what they did.

And judging from the subsequent inexplicable route adjustments of the Y-8J, electromagnetic interference should have had a very good effect.

"What should we do next?"

the weapons control officer in the back seat asked the pilot in front over the radio.

According to the combat scenario before the start of the exercise, in addition to the jamming pod, they also carried two PL-11s, two PL-5s and three auxiliary fuel tanks. They could take a blind look at them without knowing that they were getting closer and closer to the interceptor. The two nearby H-6Ds carried out simulated attacks.

But on another level, the director's mission requirements for the red team did not actually require them to "shoot down" the incoming blue aircraft. It just said that they would win if they could successfully interfere with the carrier aircraft before the missile was launched.

And they now have enough fuel left, and they can stay in the middle of the blue bombers and their own ships to maintain interference.

In other words, the red team actually wins according to the rules.

But because they are currently flying at a low altitude, they cannot conduct normal radio communication with the tower to determine the results of the exercise.

The three blue planes did not seem to have any intention of evacuating the exercise area.

If it climbs rashly, the destroyer and frigate formation behind will lose cover.

If the opponent takes advantage of this moment to launch a simulated attack, the outcome is still unknown.

So the four participating aircraft and the two warships, who were confused and didn't know what was going on, were frozen like this for several minutes.

"What is the Y-8J on the blue side doing? It is almost flying out of the exercise area towards the coastline."

The results of passive radar detection can currently only be displayed on the multi-function display in the back seat. Therefore, unlike the situation in most aircraft, the weapons controller has more control over the situation than the pilot.

"It's been flying west?"

Since the active radar on the nose of the aircraft was not turned on, there was very little information on the HUD in front of the pilot. However, judging from the comments of his comrades behind him, the situation was indeed quite strange.

"Yes, oh, now it has changed its direction slightly, as if something is chasing behind it."

The weapons controller’s description made the pilots a little worried:

"Whatever, the interference has lasted long enough now, let's climb."

After saying that, he made a lever movement, and the aircraft's altimeter began to rotate rapidly.

As the flight altitude gradually climbed, the radar warning equipment of the JH-7 suddenly had a new response.

"Wait...this is not the signal characteristic of SouShui 2000."

The military controller said and pressed several buttons on the panel.

The jamming pod has the function of analyzing radar signals. If the result matches the model already in the database, it will directly output the radar model.

However, this database has not yet been formed and only stores a few radar features.

But these few are just right.

"The result displayed here is...AN/APG66."

"Moreover, passive radar also shows that there are two formation targets very close to each other about 8 kilometers behind the Y-80J."

"F16?"

The pilot blurted out subconsciously.

The most typical installation target of AN/APG66 is F16A/B.

But this is not a model that is often encountered over the East China Sea.

So he quickly changed his judgment:

"No, it's Kongzi's F4EJ."

"Fuck, the road between enemies is narrow today."

At this moment, the two people in the cockpit figured out what had just happened.

The Yun-8J does not have the warning equipment that can display all radar models like the JH-7. It must have regarded the X-band signal of the APG66J as a red interceptor.

With its back to the target, the SouShui 2000 located on the nose of the aircraft obviously cannot see the target.

The F4EJ's location is more than 250km away from the Daocheng, which has exceeded the detection range of the 517H radar for targets the size of typical fighter jets.

Not to mention the two H-6Ds, they have no air sensing capability at all.

Finally, this place is located over the high seas, far away from the coastline, and shore-based radar cannot grasp the air conditions in real time.

This resulted in such a strange scene.

Before the JHD-7 was scanned by the opponent's radar beam side lobes, everyone failed to detect it by mistake, or ignored the two F4EJs that came to join in the fun.

Although it sounds a bit outrageous, this is a true portrayal of the Chinese Navy's air surveillance capabilities.

Such were the days without area air defense capabilities or early warning aircraft.

Relying solely on ground radar and land-based aircraft will never truly lead to the deep blue.