Chapter 1589: Crisis and response

In fact, as soon as he received this call, General Liu connected three seemingly unrelated things together.
The first is the hundreds of false targets created by Tan Zhenhua on the "Tiger Division" air defense radar with a helicopter carrying an electronic jamming pod during the "Confrontation 1995" exercise.
The situation today is exactly the same as that day!
The second one is naturally a combat plan submitted by Tan Zhenhua through the confidential secretary: In the "sand table exercise", in order to seize air supremacy, a strategy he will adopt-the "Blue Army" will require third-party forces to The right time is to fully demonstrate the strength, and the method is to implement comprehensive interference and suppression on the radar stations and communication facilities of the "Red Army" in the entire southeast coastal area!
Could this be a coincidence?
If this is a coincidence, then there is a third, more coincidental thing.
Since May of this year, the US CVN-68 "Nimitz" aircraft carrier stationed at Yokosuka Port as a combat readiness watch has been insecure. It often haunts the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea. According to the latest intelligence sent by the Navy, recently In the past few days, it is in the ocean near Zhejiang Province!
The "Nimitz" is the first ship of the US "Nimitz" class aircraft carrier. It is also the largest tonnage carrier designed and manufactured by the US so far. The ship uses nuclear power and has a full load displacement of 100,000 tons. The warship-based aircraft wing governs 9 flight squadrons. In a typical mission state, 85 to 90 types of carrier-based aircraft are deployed, including 20 F-14 "Panda" fighters and F/A-18 "Hornet" combat 24 attack aircraft, 16 A-6E "Invader" attack aircraft (including 2 KA-6D tankers), 4 E-2C "Eagle Eye" early warning aircraft, and 4 EA-6B "Prowler" electronic warfare aircraft There are 6 S-3B "Viking Pirates" anti-submarine aircraft, 6 SH-60F "Sea Hawk" anti-submarine helicopters, and 2 HH-60H "Black Hawk" rescue helicopters.
For an aircraft carrier, due to the limited area of ​​its hangar and flight deck, there is a limit on the number of aircraft that can be carried, especially the fixed-wing aircraft with a larger floor area. Take the "Nimitz". In other words, under normal circumstances, only more than 60 aircraft will be taken to sea. Even if it is deployed in the maximum aircraft mode, all the fighters together will not exceed one hundred-but now the radar station reports that there is something on the screen. More than 200 goals!
Then there are only two possibilities: Either some or all of these targets are fake and are artificially released interference, or the Americans decided to make a desperate move and mobilized all the sea-based and land-based air forces in the Wa country to try to fight against China. Start a war-although this latter situation is terrible, the probability of it happening is too low. Nuclear powers have their own set of dialogue mechanisms for discussion and resolution of differences. Unless someone is completely crazy, this The method of undeclared war will cause strategic misjudgment with unpredictable consequences. No one can bear the responsibility for the complete destruction of Blue Star.
General Liu can almost certainly think that this is the electronic interference launched by the Americans on China!
But this is only a speculation after all. Standing in his position, even if the probability of other things happening is only one in a million, he must be prepared to deal with the worst situations.
Because the cost of taking a wrong step is so great that even a veteran like him, who has experienced countless wars and baptized from the sea of ​​corpse mountain, feels the heavy pressure.
Now, what is needed is time and evidence.
Time passed by, and the evidence was finally late.
Because the data provided by the ground radar station is too suspicious and the target airspace covered is extremely large, the Ningdu Military Region took off 4 sorties of fighters to carry out verification missions. Among them, two sorties took off from the Hangzhou base in Zhejiang Province. "Flying Leopard", the "Su-27" took off two sorties from Wuhu Base in Huizhou Province, respectively forming two standard two-aircraft formations.
The two formations arrived at the target airspace indicated by the ground radar, turning on the radar and supplemented by visual search-on the radar screen, there were still aircraft echo signals that almost overflowed the screen. In the real airspace, except for the thick The thick clouds can't even see a bird!
Although the cloud cover is thick and obscures part of the line of sight, it is absolutely impossible to hide a fleet of 200 aircraft in this cloud cover-what kind of aircraft group can keep flying blindly in the cloud cover? And just now, the two teams of 4 planes repeatedly crossed the clouds, and nothing was abnormal.
The lead plane of the "Flying Leopard" formation is a pair of experienced veteran flying partners, and when they were trained to modify the "Flying Leopard", the instructors had focused on training the radars on the plane to be more effective in various working modes. The special usage. Faced with this situation, the radar and weapon operators in the back seat suddenly recalled.
He quickly switched the radar from RWS mode for full-airspace search to SAM mode for single-target situation detection, and began to scan the airspace little by little.
The SAM mode is an upgrade on the TWS mode of the single target tracking function. It allows the pilot to track 1 or 2 targets while maintaining a scan and search action on a designated small area at the same time. The tracking accuracy meets the requirements of the guided missile. The target performs an over-the-horizon attack, and although the airspace for scanning and searching is limited, it also provides pilots with additional battlefield monitoring capabilities.
For example, this is like a smart sniper. While aiming at the target, he can still observe the surrounding environment. This undoubtedly greatly enhances the sniper's battlefield adaptability.
This is the so-called "advantage of latecomer." The "Flying Leopard" fighter was officially approved and put into production in 1988, and it has been installed as a unit today. It has been 7 years. After 4 batches, each batch has some improvements. According to the agreement between the air and sea military, batches 01, 02, and 04 were returned to HNA, and the Air Force received batches of 03 goods. Starting from this batch, the airborne radar was upgraded slightly.
This upgrade did not make major changes to the entire system structure of the radar. It only upgraded some parts that have naturally improved performance with the progress of China Electronics Industry in recent years. At the same time, it updated part of the signal processing software system and the sensitivity of the radar. Therefore, a certain degree of improvement is obtained, the data refresh rate is higher, and the sidelobes of the radar wave can be better suppressed.
These upgrades, from a practical point of view, have the greatest impact on actual combat, which is to upgrade the original single target tracking mode of the radar from TWS to SAM mode, which adds an additional field of view to the pilot.
Radar and weapon operators remember that when receiving training on modification, the instructor specifically mentioned a special purpose of SAM mode in a specific environment-in a strong electromagnetic interference environment. This mode is due to the more concentrated radar beams. Yes, the quality of the echo is better, the sidelobes are smaller, and therefore, the degree of interference is smaller.
Used in today’s situation, just right.