Changkong Fighter

Chapter 280 Missile Tail Chase
The missile's internal battery provides power to the seeker transmitter, which then emits radar waves toward Liu Jun.

Ding ding dong! Ding ding dong!
RWR seemed to be singing a cyberpunk high note, each note higher than the last, and the AIM120 at the rear entered the active seeker activation distance!
[Enemy sabotage (missiles)! Enemy sabotage (missiles)!]

The onboard AI kept reminding Liu Jun that the missile behind him was rapidly approaching.

After Liu Jun entered the S-shaped maneuver, which can be considered as entering the vertical 39th line defensive maneuver, several AIM-120 missiles behind him also entered the vertical maneuver. However, due to the angle, the seeker of one of the missiles treated the J-15T as "ground" and filtered it out. The seeker disengaged and the missile maintained its inertial flight and flew forward.

Liu Jun, monitoring the four approaching AIM-120 missiles through the EODAS system, managed to evade one by using the "Three-Nine Line - Lower High" maneuver. The missile flew past him at a distance of over 4 meters and gradually moved away.

Due to the angle, the F-22 did not launch the remaining three missiles simultaneously, but rather launched them one after another. Except for one of them, the remaining missiles did not enter the standard 39 line, and their seekers were still locked on the J-15T.

"Hold on! Long Sky!"

The voices of his comrades came through the communication channel; they were trying to help Liu Jun deal with the three AIM-120 missiles at the rear.

"Gold coins, hurry up!"

As a team, when a teammate is attacked by a missile, it is certainly not enough to just watch. Jinbi quickly manipulates the electronic warfare pod of the J15T to interfere with the incoming missile.

"I'm working on it! 12km from the sky! Suppression!"

The invisible electromagnetic waves began to suppress the AIM-120 missiles that were following behind Liu Jun. Due to the dive, the missiles lost less energy, but the J-15T's speed was also increasing. Liu Jun was trying to bring these three missiles into the dense air of the low altitude and use his own production capacity to completely exhaust the energy on the missiles.

At the same time, the dive attack can prolong the chase, giving comrades more time to suppress missiles behind them.

Under the influence of invisible electromagnetic waves, the tracking of the three AIM-120 missiles at the rear became unstable, and the missile seekers were constantly in a state of locking onto and losing the target.

At a distance of 10 kilometers, Liu Jun looked at the omnidirectional view provided by the EODAS system. However, even without looking, he could detect the positions of the three missiles through situational awareness.

As the altimeter readings continued to decrease, Liu Jun watched the increasing airspeed, then slightly reduced the throttle to keep the J-15T at the critical point below its breakup speed, thus achieving a greater airspeed.

8KM glanced at the EODAS system, then looked at the altimeter again: 5000!

The sea below is rapidly expanding, surrounded by calm waters, which is good news for fighter jets flying close to the ground.

After quickly planning how to evade the missile, Liu Jun pulled the stick in advance. To minimize energy loss, the J-15T had to pull the stick early and maintain a large angle of turn in order to avoid crashing into the sea.

Liu Jun pulled the side stick and felt that the control stick was a bit heavy. Because of the excessive speed, the rudder was locked, and the horizontal rudder was locked by the pressure of the high-speed airflow.

As Liu Jun gradually increased the force of the stick pull, the flight control AI automatically adjusted the weight distribution. Liu Jun felt the stick pressure was slightly lighter, and the J-15T gradually recovered from its vertical dive, smoothly raising its nose. When it was still 40 meters above the sea surface, the nose leveled off. However, aircraft have inertia in flight, and the Flying Shark continued to descend for more than 30 meters. When it was only a few meters above the sea surface, Liu Jun finally brought the aircraft under control. With the assistance of the newly modified three-dimensional vector engine, it climbed again, and the resulting airflow flattened a large indentation in the sea below.

The J-15T then continued to fly forward and maintained an altitude of about 15 meters above the ground.

In the EODAS system, it can be seen that the moment it touched the sea surface, due to multipath clutter and J15T electromagnetic interference, the three AIM-120 seekers were severely interfered with, the missile's attitude began to fluctuate, and multiple reflection sources made it impossible for the missile's seekers to distinguish which one was the real target.

Missile range 1500
Splash! A missile plunged into the sea and exploded with a bang.

Missile range 1200
The second missile also went out of control and flew into the sky. After the seeker could no longer detect the reflection source, it entered inertial navigation and flew straight into the sky. At this time, the Flying Shark had already flown out of the seeker's detection range. When the battery ran out of power, it would self-destruct.

However, the third missile remained locked on, firmly "staring" at Liu Jun's aircraft.

Missile range 1000
Instantly, Liu Jun felt a throbbing sensation in his temples, and his mind raced with electric currents. The missile posed an increasing threat to him.

On the sea surface, although the missile had little energy left, it still had a good chance of getting close. It slowly approached the fighter jet in front of it. The Flying Shark flew at low altitude at supersonic speed, and cumulonimbus clouds appeared at the wing roots, as if it was charging forward with an umbrella on its head. The sonic boom echoed in the surrounding sea.

What's going on? A normal AIM-120 should have already lost seeker lock! Wait! This AIM-120 is a joint guidance missile?!
Liu Jun's heart sank as he watched the missile, which was now within 600 meters of him. He kept launching flares, but under planar imaging, the flares were completely unable to interfere with the missile that was locked onto him!

Climbing?

No! It would be too dangerous to leave the ground at this point; and neither turning nor flying straight would escape the missile's pursuit.

Liu Jun scanned the altitude and speed. It was too low, leaving no room for vertical maneuvering. The speed was Mach 1.1, which was already the low-altitude limit for the J-15T. The air density was too high, and the Flying Shark seemed to be traveling through an air wall.

Parachute? After estimating the distance, parachuting would require jettisoning the canopy and ejecting. The missile behind him was still very fast, and if the missile caught up with him in a moment, Liu Jun couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't be hit by shrapnel if the J-15T were to detonate.

Having given up the option of skydiving, Liu Jun's mind raced, and he decided to take a gamble!
Thinking about his next move, Liu Jun felt his heart race. It was a bold move! But the feasibility was extremely high!

Once you've made up your mind, then see it through to the end!
Liu Jun's eyes hardened, and then he used the hand-on-stick control system to deactivate the angle-of-attack limiter!
Now, flight control computers no longer limit stick inputs, which is also to prevent pilots from stalling the aircraft.

Slightly reduce the throttle, the exhaust from the tail nozzles decreases, the speed drops slightly, and the speed gradually decreases due to air resistance, which also indicates that the Flying Shark's maneuverability is increasing.

The missile was 800 meters behind, traveling at a speed of about Mach 2.0, while Liu Jun's aircraft had slowed down to Mach 0.85, the speed most suitable for maneuvering.

Thinking about the operations he was about to perform, his breathing gradually quickened, and he firmly locked onto the missile's spatial coordinates in his situational awareness.

(End of this chapter)