Chapter 148: Practice well

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 148: Practice well

"The tracking interference is completed. Their communication should have been interrupted. What should we do next?"

In the cockpit of the J-10D, Yu Linan calmly reported the situation to the ground.

In fact, encountering such an unexpected situation during the test really caught him off guard. Especially, what they caught this time was actually a big fish!

EC-130H, the largest, most advanced, and most complex electronic warfare aircraft in the world.

It is not just a supplement to the EA-6B, it is a unique airborne electronic warfare platform with huge transformation potential.

When accompanied by fighter jets for escort, it is almost invincible to certain effective air defense systems.

The only shortcomings are that it is too big and flies too slowly.

If we could capture this plane as well.

It doesn't seem to work.

The current location of both parties is over the high seas, and the behavior of asking the other party to make an emergency landing at the slightest disagreement is really too rogue.

Not only will the United States not give up easily, even international public opinion will not accept it.

After all, no one wants their country’s planes to just wander around in the airspace and be ambushed when they go out.

That's no different than going to war.

It seems that they are lucky this time.

At this moment, a reply from the ground tower came through the headset.

"Turn off radar interference, maintain electromagnetic interference, and wait until they turn to return home before leaving."

"Pay attention to keeping a distance. After communication is lost, they should have escort fighter jets taking off. Don't conflict with them."

"clear."

Yu Linan opened his mouth to answer, and then he gradually turned off some functions of the J-10D jamming pod, and began to raise the altitude in preparation for disengagement.

But at this moment, he suddenly discovered that the altitude of the EC-130H opposite suddenly began to drop rapidly.

"Osprey, what's going on? Their flying condition is not normal."

Yu Linan asked his wingman.

"Dolphin, I'm not sure. I can already visually see the opponent's aircraft, but from the appearance, there is nothing abnormal about the opponent's aircraft."

"The engine is working normally, and there is no damage to the body. Maybe you want to get rid of the interference at low altitude?"

"It shouldn't be. Isn't our radar jamming turned off?"

Yu Linan asked doubtfully.

"Confirm that it is closed. Do you want to ask on the public channel?"

"Forget it, wait a little longer, maybe it's just a normal decline."

"Received, continue tracking. It's best not to have an engine problem, they can't fly back from this distance."

As they spoke, the two J-10 fighters accelerated at the same time, quickly closing the distance with the EC-130H.

At the same time, the cockpit of the EC-130H was already in chaos.

"What's going on? Are we surrounded?"

"Where's the plane? Where's their plane?"

"Why did the squadron disappear just now? Is it radar interference? Are those planes real?"

"I don't know. The radio altitude data is distorted, but the air pressure and altitude data are normal. It should be radar interference."

"Fuck, we're going down too fast, pull up, pull up!"

Lane gave the instructions impatiently, and all the crew members were busy operating. Finally, when the altitude dropped to only 1,000 meters, the aircraft's condition was finally stabilized.

He breathed a long sigh of relief and almost collapsed in his seat.

The scene just now really frightened him.

A dozen flying units appeared inexplicably on the radar VSD, and they were all within 20 kilometers of our own side.

At high-speed cruising, covering such a distance takes almost a blink of an eye.

At first he thought it was a cruise missile, but after looking at the radar screen again, he quickly ruled out this possibility.

Then, it’s the airplane.

But if it is really a plane, then the other party is obviously coming for you. Once you fall into their encirclement, the situation will definitely not be optimistic.

So, before he had time to think too much, he immediately issued an emergency descent order, but at this moment, all flying units on the radar screen disappeared.

Only then did he realize that it was not an airplane at all, but simply an abnormal echo after the radar signal was interfered with.

In other words, there is nothing there, they are just scaring themselves.

Since when did you become so timid?

Looking at the two targets clearly displayed on the VSD, he felt both ridiculous and helpless.

There is no doubt that this time I was really unlucky. In such a mission, I accidentally bumped into the opponent's electronic interference fighter.

Moreover, the opponent's electronic warfare capabilities are obviously much stronger than our own EC-130H.

In fact, the other party can actually use tracking interference mode to directly block its own frequency hopping communication!

Such methods, even in our own country, are only in the small-scale experimental stage.

How did they do it?

Obviously a few months ago, they did not have electronic jamming capabilities.

But in just the past few months, they have actually been able to completely suppress themselves.

Is it really because of those EA-6Bs?

But even if they really get the jamming pod, it will take time to absorb the application.

At this moment, he finally realized how terrifying his opponent was.

"Check the heading and prepare to return. Has communication been restored?"

Ren asked.

"The heading is wrong and is being corrected. Return immediately."

"The communication has not been restored. I am increasing the frequency hopping communication channel range, but it seems to be of no use. The other party is tracking very quickly and we cannot escape."

Hawke on the other side replied helplessly.

This is the first time he has encountered such strong electromagnetic interference. Before this, even in his own internal confrontation drills, he had never been so embarrassed.

"Shit, if I had known that we should have let the FA-18 escort us, I would have known that this mission would not go smoothly."

"Stop complaining so much, raise the altitude, and get out of here quickly."

"They have no intention of keeping us, it should just be a warning."

Upon hearing Ren's words, Hawke immediately pulled the joystick, and then, the EC-130H dragged its huge body and began to rise slowly.

But at this moment, a huge crash suddenly entered the cabin, and then the entire fuselage began to shake violently!

"What's going on?!"

The alarm lights in the cabin flashed crazily, and Renn looked around frantically, trying to understand what was happening.

Hit by a missile?

What a joke, the other party didn't turn on the fire control radar at all!

"The engine is damaged! The propeller of the second engine on the right is broken! The two engines on the right are scrapped!"

Cold sweat broke out on Hawk's head. This was definitely the last thing he wanted to see.

He had long doubted the safety of the aircraft's engine. After all, aircraft of this type had been involved in accidents more than once or twice.

In just one year, he knew that three C-130s were grounded due to propeller problems.

But luckily, their problems were discovered on the ground.

But now, I am in heaven!

Before takeoff, he raised the issue of propeller oil leakage to the ground crew.

But the ground crew didn't care at all and told him that it was just a normal phenomenon.

Are you kidding, is this normal?

You know, the propeller of this plane was made 30 years ago!

After decades of high-intensity flying, its components had long been overwhelmed, and he even suspected that the internal components had cracked.
To be continued...