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 you see the opponent turning around and end the mission immediately, then the enemy pilot who has calmed down may still choose to make a comeback, and by then the passive pilot will become himself.

Especially after the F4 fighter of the Turkish Air Force experienced a 180° sharp turn that greatly affected altitude and speed, it seemed that it had no very urgent desire to accelerate and had been flying westward at a high subsonic speed slowly, as if it wanted to drag. The scheming look 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.

Until then, 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 through the speed of sound and fled westward.

Watching the number representing the speed next to the target on the HUD keep jumping upwards, Bayani finally breathed a sigh of relief. While closing the throttle and slowing down, he gently took the stick with his right hand and adjusted the course to the south through a small slope turn - He had just been able to clearly see the main peak of Mount Ayr with an altitude of more than 5000 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. Neither country has changed the status quo. idea, so he couldn't continue going west anyway.

"Report to command, the expulsion mission has been completed."

He reported his success to the headquarters on the radio,

"Well done, Kava 01, you can return."

Kawa is a hero in Persian mythology. Bayani has been using this call sign since he achieved his first air combat victory in his life and was promoted to squadron leader.

But after receiving the order, he hesitated, and then applied to the command headquarters:

"I still have some fuel and can patrol near the border for a while."

There was no immediate response from the radio station, perhaps because they were communicating with the more senior commanders around them.

After a few seconds, the voice sounded again:

"Grant the request, but be careful about the fuel situation."

Compared with Lieutenant Colonel Bayani who was in a good mood here, Major Zehra Ergai in another F40E 4 kilometers away only 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 so panicked, he had already panicked and didn't even hear the sound coming from the radio until Ergai called him two more times before he responded:

"Uh... the warning light is no longer on."

However, the young man who participated in the actual combat mission for the first time was obviously still immersed in the panic of being locked up:

"But Major, I heard that the Soviets...the Russians have an infrared-guided medium-range air-to-air bomb. Have they already launched one?"

After all, Ergai is more experienced and has calmed down a little:

"How is it possible? Only the MiG-29 of the Persian Air Force can launch R27ET, but the radar just now is definitely not the radar of the MiG-29."

Having said that, he still hesitated, and then placed his hand closest to the infrared decoy launch button:

"If you are really worried, just look back more often. If you find anything unusual, tell me as soon as possible."

The strategies for dealing with radar-guided weapons are completely different from those for dealing with infrared-guided weapons. It is difficult for the major to make accurate judgments in the blink of an eye, but the knowledge he has learned in the past tells him that it is 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.

……

About a minute later, Erge finally came back to his senses from the panic just now:

"Lieutenant, you should know how to report to the superiors when you return."

The purpose of their attack was actually to bomb the separatist armed forces located 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 drop all 12 bombs and auxiliary fuel tanks at once to speed up his escape.

If his superiors knew about this kind of thing, he might not get any good results.

However, the young man in the back seat is obviously not experienced enough in this regard:

"Just say 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!"

There will also be a cockpit voice recorder in the cockpit of the F4 fighter jet, 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 access the information inside, so he is not worried about these conversations being recorded. People hear.

The effect of such a threat was immediate, and Dange was immediately frightened by the major:

"Then...then what should we say?"

"Ugh……"

Ergai sighed for his inexperienced partner, but in this situation, the two of them were grasshoppers on a rope, and they still had to give some advice anyway:

"Let's say we found a Kurdish training camp near the border, but the angle was not good, so we used all the bombs to destroy it. Then on the way back, we encountered a Persian plane that came to intercept. In order to maintain maneuverability Sex so the auxiliary fuel tank was lost.”

After finishing speaking, he felt that this explanation was still somewhat inappropriate, so he revised his statement:

"No, don't say training camp, just say we discovered a transport team. That 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 be a little more calm.

"Okay... okay."

To Dange, this seemed inappropriate, but when he thought about his dream of flying a plane alone, he finally decided to follow Erge's advice:

"Then Major, you said we encountered a Persian F14?"

"That signal is obviously not AN/AWG9, and..."

Erge 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 the Persian F14 is very The difficulty is that the AN/APG59 can truly lock on a target the size of a fighter jet at a distance where it cannot see the target at all.

What's more, 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——

Saying that he encountered an F14 does not seem to be enough to express the urgency of the situation.

"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."

"what?"

This statement made Dange feel that he was playing a little too big.

"Any questions?"

"No."

Under the flight helmet, the young lieutenant found that a cold sweat had broken out on his forehead.