To the east of Chogori Peak, China's airspace is 50 kilometers north of the border.

An "Air Police 2000" early warning plane with a large disc on its back and a bright logo of the Chinese Air Force painted on its vertical tail is soaring at an altitude of 8,500 meters. As the electronically scanned antenna rotates at a rate of every five seconds, every five seconds, a dense array of light spots appear on the lower half of the screen of the twelve tactical displays, one of which is very bright and eye-catching.

That's a "compatriot": the A-50I AWACS aircraft of the Indian Air Force.

Like the Air Police 2000, the Indian Air Force's A-50I uses the Il-76 transport aircraft as a radar carrier. The difference is that the A-50i is equipped with a large phased array radar developed by Israel for the "Filcon" AWACS aircraft, instead of the radar developed by India itself. The performance of the solid-state electronically scanning radar of the "Air Police 2000" and the "Filcon" radar is on par with that of the "Air Police 2000" radar, both of which have a detection distance of more than 550 kilometers, and can simultaneously detect hundreds of targets, track dozens of them, and provide tactical guidance information for 12 fighters. Both also have a common drawback: the detection performance of ultra-low-altitude targets over rough terrain is not ideal.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, the "Air Police 2000" model has installed a large active phased array synthetic aperture radar in the belly of the aircraft, which is specially used to detect ultra-low-flying targets and can also be used to map terrain and landforms.

On the contrary, the Indian Air Force, which lacks self-developed capabilities, is not able to provide similar equipment for the A-50i.

There is no doubt that the AWACS aircraft of the Indian Air Force also spotted the "counterpart" to the north.

It's just that China did not participate in the war, and it is operating in China's airspace, and the Indian Air Force can only look at the sky and sigh.

Similarly, the Indian Air Force cannot prevent Chinese AWACS aircraft from providing tactical intelligence to Pakistani fighter jets.

In fact, the Pakistan Air Force has also dispatched a "Saber-2000" early warning aircraft purchased from Sweden to patrol east of Islamabad to track and monitor the combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force. The problem is that the detection range of the "Eriyan Eye" radar on the "Saab-2000" is only a pitiful 300 kilometers, and it cannot "see" the Indian AWACS aircraft at a distance of 450 kilometers.

If you want to take out the Indian AWACS aircraft, you have to rely on the tactical intelligence provided by the Chinese Air Force. It's just that it's not enough.

Srinagar North. North of the India-Pakistan ceasefire line. 18,000 meters in the air. The "Vulture" unmanned reconnaissance plane is traveling at a speed of 320 kilometers per hour. Soaring leisurely.

At this time. The Vulture is performing two tasks at the same time. The first is to act as a relay point for tactical communications. The ground tactical information collected by the "Air Police 2000" was transmitted to the Pakistani "Thunder" fighter planes on combat missions. The second is to use millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radar to map the terrain. Provide accurate navigation information for Pakistani warplanes.

Southwest. Four Thunder fighters are weaving through the valley.

On the "Thunder" fighter at the front. Major Khadiff did everything he could. barely managed to control the fighter like a wild horse.

Thirty-five minutes ago. Major Khadiff piloted the Thunder fighter with three large fuel tanks, six medium-range air-to-air missiles, and two combat missiles. With three wingmen took off urgently from Rawalpindi airbase. Just flew out of the airport. Four fighters reduced the flight altitude to fifty meters.

Half a year ago. Major Khadiff and three other pilots began training in ultra-low-altitude flight.

At the time, he thought it was for a deep strike mission in the war. After all, ultra-low-altitude flights are the most effective means of breaking through the air defense network.

Now Khadiff thinks otherwise, they are not carrying out a mission to the ground, but to the air.

The planes were full of anti-aircraft ammunition, and it was impossible for the Pakistan Air Force's most expensive fighter jets to strafe ground targets with machine guns.

Within 35 minutes, four fighters had successively thrown away the auxiliary fuel tanks under the inner pylons of the wings.

According to the route sent through the tactical data link, the four warplanes adjusted their course eleven times in 35 minutes, and had to turn almost every three minutes.

Gradually, Major Khadiff found out that they had been flying in the valley!

What he couldn't figure out was where those tactical navigation data came from.

At first, he thought it was provided by the ground command center, or AWACS. After entering the skies over Indian-controlled territory in Kashmir, Khadiff did not think so.

It is impossible for the ground command center to know the situation ahead, and the radar on the "Saab-2000" AWACS aircraft cannot detect the situation here. What's more, neither is capable of providing fighter aircraft with navigation information accurate to the meter.

It is certain that some other force is behind to provide support.

The only thing Khadiff could think of was the Chinese Air Force.

After flying over a pass, the fighter turned again. The flight altitude has been reduced to less than fifty meters, and the wingtip of the fighter's right wing is less than twenty meters from the cliff. Even highly skilled aerobatic pilots do not dare to take it lightly at this time. If the maneuver is wrong, it only takes a fraction of a second, and a fighter plane flying at a speed of more than 1,000 kilometers per hour will crash into the cliff on the right!

As he flew over the next pass, Khadiff gritted his teeth.

There are steep mountain walls ahead, and the course on the main display on the front is like a twisted earthworm, adjusting its course almost every few kilometers. It has to be very accurate every time, and the slightest mistake can destroy the machine.

Half a year of hard training and more than 5,000 hours of flying experience played a decisive role.

Khadiff served in the Pakistan Air Force for twenty-one years and flew six types of aircraft, four of which were fighter jets. He flew more than one and a half thousand hours on the Thunder fighter. The other three pilots were no worse in technique than Khadiff, and even a little better. The main reason for making Khadiff the captain is that he has a higher military rank and has actual combat experience in the Kashmir conflict eight years ago.

Before entering the final course, Khadiff threw away the auxiliary fuel tank in the belly of the fighter.

The "Thunder" fighter has 2,400 kilograms of fuel in its internal fuel tank, which is enough for the fighter to fly 2,400 kilometers and enough for them to return to base.

With less interference from the auxiliary fuel tank, the fighter becomes more agile and easier to control.

After flying for a few more minutes, the red indicator light above the main display lit up. Khadiff quickly glanced at the screen, on which a vertical route map appeared, with an icon of the missile launched at an altitude of five hundred meters relative to the elevation.

What is this directive?

Without much thought, Khadev immediately pulled up the fighter plane, and at the same time completed the operation of charging the missile, entering the midcourse inertial guidance information he had just received into the missile guidance system, and finally opened the missile safety and lifted the shield on the missile launch button on the top of the joystick.

As soon as he reached the launch altitude, Khadiff pressed the missile launch button.

In less than five seconds, all four medium-range air-to-air missiles hanging under the wings of the sides were fired.

Seeing the tail smoke pulled out by the missile, Khadev immediately depressed the control stick and reduced the flight altitude to less than a hundred meters in accordance with the new course provided by tactical navigation information.

At this point, a set of countdown data appears on the screen.

With many years of experience, Khadiff knows that this is the time when the missile hits the target, to be precise, the missile enters the self-guidance stage.

After only a few seconds, a new prompt appeared on the screen.

It was only then that Khadiff understood the whole tactical process.

The sixteen medium-range air-to-air missiles launched by the four fighters will approach the target along a set flight path in an inertial guided manner. About 15 seconds before the missile enters the self-guidance stage, the fighter needs to illuminate the target with a fire control radar. After receiving the radar wave emitted by the target, the missile enters the self-guided state, and under the guidance of the self-guidance control system, it actively attacks the target until it hits the target.

Very advanced, very extraordinary tactics.

Khadif had to admire the pilots who came up with this set of tactics. He also realized that this was by no means a tactic of the Pakistani Air Force, but of the Chinese Air Force. There are few pilots in the Pakistan Air Force who are better than Hardiff, and the Pakistan Air Force has never used such tactics.

With ten seconds left in the countdown, Khadiff turned on the radar and the fighter began to climb higher.

The "Thunder" fighter jumped into the sky at a speed of 240 meters per second. When the countdown reading jumped to one, Khadiff activated the radar, allowing it to work in automatic anti-air combat mode.

A very noticeable, very dazzling target immediately appeared on the radar screen.

A-50i for the Indian Air Force?

Khadiff was secretly shocked, he had no idea that the Indian Air Force's AWACS aircraft was about 45 kilometers above him. Before that, Khadif never dreamed that he would be able to attack the AWACS aircraft of the Indian Air Force with missiles! If conventional tactics were used, even if forty Thunder fighters were dispatched, they would not necessarily be able to get close to the A-50I and launch air-to-air missiles at it.

By the time Khadiff and the other three pilots were shocked, the fire control radar had done all the work automatically.

After determining that the missile had locked onto the target, the four "Thunder" fighters immediately swooped down and accelerated.

The radar warning plane screamed, and the "Thunder" fighter jet burrowed into the valley like a dart. Thirty kilometers away, four Su-50MKI fighters escorting the A-30I had just locked on to the four "Thunder" fighters that had suddenly appeared with their radars, and before the pilots could press the button to launch the missiles, the four "Thunder" fighters disappeared from the screen of the fire control radar without a trace.

Sixteen "Thunderbolt-12" air-to-air missiles pierced the interception net of Indian fighters like sixteen lightning bolts.

In the face of the Su-30MKI fighter worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sixteen missiles turned a blind eye and were completely indifferent. In their eyes, the A-50i is the most valuable target.

Twenty seconds later, these overheated missiles will give the A-50i a deadly kiss.

Whether that A-50I would be shot down or not, Khadif did not think at all.

Not to mention the heavy early warning aircraft, even if it is a dexterous fighter, it is impossible to avoid the encirclement and suppression of 16 medium-range air-to-air missiles.

When the A-50I was disintegrated into tens of thousands of pieces under the hot kiss of the "Suitor" and scattered to the ground one after another, the "Thunder" fighter piloted by Khadiff and his three wingmen had already run more than 10 kilometers.

On the "Air Police 2000", Liang Guoxiang and Di Boqing looked at the tactical screen dumbfounded.

After witnessing the Air Force's air commanders complete the entire set of tactical commands, Liang Guoxiang and Di Boqing's first thought was not the unlucky A-50i, but the incident in which they were inexplicably shot down by the Air Force J-10 during the exercise over Qinghai Lake. They now know how powerful the new tactics of the Air Force really are.

It's extraordinary, and it's hard to imagine