Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Sky Corridor

The desolate hillside is littered with gravel and charred sand......

The 1,000-kilogram high-explosive warhead of the Abdali-2 tactical ballistic missile is truly extraordinary, as evidenced by the five shocking craters. Unfortunately, this missile does not have the ability to penetrate into the ground, and apart from destroying surface facilities and leaving huge craters, it does not pose any threat to the air defense command center, which is hidden 15 meters underground and reinforced with reinforced concrete up to 5 meters thick.

Su Ming cautiously set aside a few scorched stones in front of him and glanced at the luminous watch.

It was already 4:50 a.m.

"Don't worry, the attacking force will definitely arrive on time." Kang Xiaoting moved his somewhat stiff body slightly.

"I'm not worried about that." Su Mingjin also moved his muscles and bones gently. "Lao Kang, are we getting too close?"

"I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?" Kang Xiaoting laughed, "Don't worry, the air defense command center is underground, and the attack aircraft can only use ground-penetrating bombs, so there is no threat to us." ”

Su Mingjin stuck out his tongue and stopped being wordy.

Six days ago, they received an order to go to Indian-administered Kashmir to look for U.S. operatives who had participated in the war. At that time, Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin knew that this task was very arduous and were ready to fight a "protracted war". When they set out, they brought not only a week's worth of dry rations, but also enough ammunition.

For the past five days, the two have been operating in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir.

According to the information provided by Lu Chengwen, the two mainly operated near the battlefield of air combat, and arrived at the crash site of Pakistani and Republic fighter planes several times ahead of schedule, waiting for the US special forces to appear. The luck of the two was not very good, and several actions were pounced, and they did not wait for the prey.

Twelve hours ago. The two took part in the rescue operation for the Pakistani pilot.

It was also in this operation. The two met Lu Chengwen, who had come all the way. Obtained the ground laser pointer brought by Lu Chengwen. Accepted the current mission.

It took eight hours to traverse the mountains of southern Kashmir. The two came to the vicinity of Bertangod. Then it took another three hours to pass through the ground line of the guards. A suitable ambush site was found.

Right now. They were only 500 meters from the entrance and exit of the underground air defense command center.

It's a bit close, indeed. But there is no other way. Except for the current location. It is suitable for ambush and can see the entrance and exit of the air defense command center, and the ideal location is 1,500 meters away. Although the laser pointer has a maximum range of 5000 meters. However, the accuracy of this bombing operation was very high. The indicated distance must be shortened to within 1000 meters.

Su Mingjin is not afraid of death. Rather, he was afraid of dying at the hands of his comrades.

Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and as soon as Su Mingjin glanced at his watch, the radio on his body vibrate.

The observer did not connect to the voice channel, but connected the radio to the data output port of the individual soldier's computer.

Soon, a set of tactical data appeared on an eight-inch flat-panel display.

"The spear is about to arrive." Su Ming took out the laser pointer in the backpack, "It's really punctual, I hope the pilot's skills are excellent, don't throw the bomb off." ”

"Just aim at the target, and don't shake your hands!" Kang Xiaoting spit out the gum in his mouth and set up a sniper rifle.

"Do snipers' hands tremble?" Su Mingjin rolled his eyes and picked up the laser pointer.

Kang Xiaoting smiled and shook his head. "I'm kidding you, don't rush to shoot at the target."

There was a battalion of guards near the air defense command center, and half an hour ago more than a dozen T-90 tanks and more than twenty infantry fighting vehicles were driven. As a last resort, the two special forces didn't want to engage in an exchange of fire with so many enemies.

Within two minutes, Su Mingjin made preparations. As a message appeared on the screen providing laser designation, he pointed the laser pointer at the exit of the air defense center, pressed the switch.

A beam of infrared laser, invisible to the naked eye, landed precisely on the roof of the entrance and exit of the air defense command center.

55 kilometers away, on the J-10B fighter, Liang Guoxiang and Di Boqing were waiting for orders from the rear.

Because the fighter is flying at an ultra-low altitude and is blocked by lofty mountains and mountains, it cannot receive the laser signal reflected by the target, so it can only be guided by the "Vulture" UAV, which has been hovering at high altitude in the war zone. After receiving the laser signal, the drone sends a signal to the fighter on the attack mission to drop the bomb.

"Brother Liang, the target is lit up, ready to climb high!" Dipp glanced at the time in the bottom right corner of the screen. It was five minutes past five, five minutes later than scheduled.

"Understood, get ready to climb high, check the ammunition!"

"The bomb is normal and ready to be dropped at any time."

The J-10B quickly pulled up and jumped into the night sky at an elevation angle of nearly 60 degrees. Liang Guoxiang kept staring at the altimeter, and at 500 meters, he turned on the power of the bomb and activated the bomb; At 750 meters, he turned on the bomb safety and let the bomb's seeker automatically search for a laser signature; At 1,000 meters, the green indicator light for bomb dropping turned on, and he pressed the bomb dropping switch.

The rocket-boosted laser-guided gliding bomb of the "Thunderstone-3" type on the belly pylons immediately separated from the fighter.

The J-10B did a nice vertical somersault and returned to an ultra-low altitude. Liang Guoxiang did not immediately return to the plane because there were two clusters of cluster bombs hanging under the wings. After blowing up the underground air defense command center, they will also bomb the nearby air defense positions and destroy the mobile air defense missile launchers, especially the "Tunguska" air defense missile launchers, which pose a huge threat to low-flying fighters, and open up an air corridor for the large aircraft group behind.

After the "Thunderstone-3" bomb separated from the fighter, it first ascended in a parabolic trajectory to reach the apex of the trajectory, and the rocket engine was activated, pushing the bomb to an altitude of 5,500 meters above the ground within 15 seconds, and at the same time increasing the speed of the bomb to 2,000 kilometers per hour. After the rocket booster engine is turned off, it separates from the bomb on its own, and the folding wings located on the back of the bomb automatically pop open, and the bomb enters the gliding flight phase.

With its high speed and good aerodynamic shape, the "Thunderstone-3" bomb can fly 60 kilometers!

About two minutes after Liang Guoxiang and Di Boqing's J-10B dropped the bomb, the J-10B piloted by the Air Force Test Unit pilots who followed them also dropped a "Leishi-3" bomb.

To destroy the underground air defense command center in Bertangot, at least two Thunderstone-3 bombs were used.

"Thunderstone-3" is not a ground-penetrating bomb in the true sense of the word. This kind of bomb with the barrel of a 203-mm heavy gun can only penetrate a maximum of 18 meters of soil or 6 meters of concrete, filled with hundreds of kilograms of high explosives. The bomb dropped by Liang Guoxiang was responsible for blowing up the soil layer above the air defense command center, and then the second bomb penetrated the reinforced concrete on the top of the air defense command center and entered the air defense command center to explode.

The hit points of the two bombs had to coincide, and the deviation could not exceed 3 meters. This is also the main reason why laser-guided bombs are used, and not navigation satellite-guided bombs. The accuracy of the guided bomb, which relies on the "Beidou-2" generation navigation satellite to provide guidance information, is only 5 meters at most.

Because there were no encounters with the Indian Air Force's air defense fighters, the two J-10s on escort duty were the first to return home.

The speed of the bomb is about twice as fast as that of the fighter, and after the air defense command center is destroyed, the nearby short-range air defense units will definitely activate the search radar to search for enemy planes in the air, and even blindly open fire, thus exposing the hiding place and creating an opportunity for Liang Guoxiang and them to attack.

For Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin, the minutes before the bomb arrived were unsettling.

They could not be sure if there were laser warning devices installed outside the underground air defense command center, and if they did, they would definitely be exposed, and the guards would soon find them.

For special forces, the longer they stay in an exposed environment, the more dangerous it becomes.

At eight minutes past ten, Su Mingjin looked at his watch for the third time.

As soon as his gaze returned to the entrance and exit of the underground air defense command center, he saw a black object smashing down from the night sky at a near-vertical angle and at a speed that was indistinguishable to the naked eye. Before he could react, the ground slammed, and in the dull sound of explosions, the smoke swept thousands of tons of dust into the night sky. There were no flashes of explosion, no fire, indicating that the bomb exploded under the ground.

"Fucking accurate!" Feeling the vibration from the ground, Kang Xiaoting was also dumbfounded.

"The best is yet to come, the second wave is coming soon!"

Before the smoke cleared and the dust had not yet fallen, the second "Thunderstone-3" bomb fell on the impact point of the previous bomb. In an instant, it was as if time had stopped. When the ground shook again, a puff of dust erupted from the entrance and exit of the underground air defense command center, throwing two steel doors into the air, and a bright fireball rose from the point of impact, illuminating the surrounding night sky.

It was only by this time that the nearby Indian army reacted.

Amid the sound of artillery one after another, dozens of anti-aircraft guns aimlessly poured shells into the dark night sky. Tracer bombs are like fireworks set off during the Spring Festival, leaving gorgeous traces in the night sky and exploding brilliant fireworks.

There was a burst of rolling thunder in the air, not rolling thunder, but the sound of fighter planes flying at an ultra-low altitude.

"Our fighter?"

Kang Xiaoting nodded. "Damn, flying so low, aren't you afraid of being knocked down?"

Before Su Ming could speak, two anti-aircraft missiles jumped up from the hillside in the northeast direction of the two.

In the night sky, a vague fighter plane quickly climbed up, and at the same time dropped a string of bright jamming bombs.

"It's our fighter!"

The two special forces tensed up, and the bomb-dropping fighter flew too low and entered the strike range of the short-range anti-aircraft missile.

The anti-aircraft missile in front was deceived by a jamming missile and ended up turning into a spark in the night sky. The anti-aircraft missile behind it was not deceived, and after leaving a serpentine light trail in the night sky, it caught up with the fighter plane that was still climbing. At the moment when the missile exploded, Kang Xiaoting and Su Ming recognized that it was a J-10 fighter, and the missile hit the fighter's belly, blowing up the fighter's waist.

Two bright flashes of fire flew away from the wreckage of the burning and falling fighter plane, and quickly disappeared.

The ground shook violently, a fireball rose from the northeastern hillside, and the missile launcher that had just shot down the J-10 fighter was blown to pieces.

"The crash site is less than 5 kilometers away from us." Kang Xiaoting quickly put away his rifle, "The enemy must have seen the pilot's ejection and escape, and we must find them in front of the enemy." ”

Su Mingjin also immediately put away the laser pointer. "I'll contact Team Lu immediately and ask him to send reinforcements."

"I can't contact Team Lu right now." Kang Xiaoting got up from his hiding place and quickly glanced around. "The Indian army has entered a combat situation and they will definitely look for the pilot who parachuted by monitoring the radio distress signal sent by the pilot. Rest assured, after receiving the distress signal, the Lu team will definitely send someone to rescue the pilot. ”

"Perhaps, the US military will appear."

Kang Xiaoting nodded, and when Su Ming was ready, he immediately ran to the northeast.

Damn it*

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