Changkong Fighter

Chapter 354 Main Energy Facilities

Through the helmet-mounted sights, Liu Jun's gaze quickly swept over the approaching alien spacecraft. With the buzzing sound of the seeker being activated, the seeker in the vertical launch module was turned on.

Through electrical connections, the J-50's onboard systems "tell" small-diameter missiles where the enemy is, and the seeker head inside the vertical launch unit can then see that location.

Beep beep!

One by one, the virtual cubes were locked by red circles. Under high-precision industrial processing, the vertical launch unit on the back, which was almost seamless, opened, and the small-diameter missiles inside were pushed out. The seeker head protruded from the fuselage, looking like a bunch of "gopher heads" coming out of the back of the aircraft.

The seeker head, resembling a cataract, locks onto the target heat source. After pressing the launch button, the missile's first-stage rocket engine ignites, much like the first power stage of a rocket, to propel the munition out of the launch pod.

After the small-diameter missile reaches a safe distance from the J-50 airframe, the second stage of the power stage ignites. For Tokyo University, which possesses dual-pulse technology, enabling the small-diameter missile to accelerate a second time is very simple.

With the second stage of acceleration, the small-diameter missile, which was not fast, quickly accelerated to Mach 3 and flew towards the alien spacecraft flying directly in front of it.

The "cataract" seeker keeps its eyes on the enemy, while the anti-radiation seeker integrated into the missile body is also being adjusted.

Inside the launch unit, missiles flew forward one after another, giving Liu Jun a sense of exhilaration from single-unit firepower coverage.

The reason why a fighter jet can achieve such a firepower coverage effect is entirely due to its payload capacity, and watching the missiles flying forward gives me a strange sense of exhilaration.

This feeling of being able to launch missiles freely without having to conserve them is exactly what pilots lack. Even the most capable J-16 cannot carry 112 vertical launch systems on a single aircraft, as well as missile pods under the wings.

Missiles streaked across the alien atmosphere, leaving white trails as they flew. Their seekers kept a close watch on the enemy, and if they veered off course, they would use their anti-radiation seekers to correct the course and find the point where the two missiles would actually meet.

The yaw correction process repeats continuously until it finally approaches the target, at which point the metallic hydrogen warhead detonates, demonstrating a power that is in no way inferior to that of a 152mm howitzer.

The Type 2 missile, which was previously very difficult to deal with, is now completely defenseless against the new small-diameter missiles. This is a testament to technological progress. In just three years, the Type 2, which was once so difficult to deal with, has become no different from ordinary fighter jets.

In a salvo, Liu Jun fired half of the small-diameter missiles from the vertical launch unit, leaving 56 cannon rounds. There were also missile pods on the hardpoints under the wings to further supplement the number of missiles.

After firing half of the vertical launch system's ammunition and two PL-15 missiles, Liu Jun felt that the J-50's maneuverability had greatly improved.

A barrage of fireballs erupted from the front, and the IRST detected individual heat sources, which quickly dissipated. This salvo created a passage for Liu Jun.

There are also some Type 2 ammunition magazines outside. After considering it, we decided to abandon firing the ammunition magazines. After all, we have just encountered the enemy. If we do not control the ammunition, we will soon run out of ammunition. We must have the awareness of ammunition management and resist the urge to fire all the ammunition. Instead, we should keep the ammunition supply running slowly during the operation.

The two sides rapidly approached, observing the proximity rates displayed on the cubes in the digital cockpit. With superior vision, the cubes, initially invisible to the naked eye, gradually transformed into bright spots, which then rapidly enlarged. The two aircraft were now flying face-to-face, their proximity rate extremely high. Feeling the power rapidly amplifying in his heart, at the height of the crisis, Liu Jun pulled back on the stick. The aerodynamic force provided by the all-moving wingtips propelled the J-50 like a nimble bird, quickly rolling through the air. Almost at the instant the defensive barrel rolled, the focused laser beam pierced through its original position.

After dodging the laser, the two sides continued to approach each other. Before Type 2 could react, in the instant of their collision, as if by magic, their noses pointed at each other.

The electromagnetic cannon mounted on the J50 flashed, and steel needles were driven into the Type 2. Accelerated by the Ampere force, the needles were inserted into the body from head to tail like a sewing machine. The octopus inside, facing the Mach 6 and the self-sharpening tungsten metal, was like a squid strung on a telephone pole, bursting its body with a "poof", and colorful stuff was pasted inside the body.

The Type 2, having lost its pilot, plummeted downwards, while the J-50 had already passed through the Type 2 defenses and continued flying forward. At that moment, several Type 3 aircraft caught up with its rear hemisphere.

No evasion is needed. With the assistance of the EODAS system, the missiles in the vertical launch unit lock onto the Type 2 missiles behind it. The vertical launch system itself has all-aspect attack capability.

More than 20 missiles flew out of the vertical launch unit on the back of the aircraft, and after flying upwards for more than ten meters, they were adjusted by the vectoring engine and attacked several Type 2 aircraft that were locked onto the rear hemisphere.

After the missile turned in the air, it helped Liu Jun clear out the enemies that were chasing him in the rear hemisphere.

In EODAS's gray-white field of vision, the small-diameter missile launched accurately hit the alien spacecraft behind it, shattering it in mid-air.

Looking at the Type 2 crashing behind him, Liu Jun couldn't help but marvel at the rapid pace of technological development. In the past, being pinned down by the enemy in the rear hemisphere was an absolute disadvantage, putting immense psychological pressure on the pilot. But now, even if the enemy pins down the rear hemisphere, it's possible to deal with them through over-the-shoulder firing and hard kills from vertical launch.

With a whoosh, it passed the enemy again, used its 30mm electromagnetic cannon to destroy another Type 2, and flew towards the coordinates after passing other Type 2s.

By checking the aircraft's ammunition using the hands-on control system, there were 36 small-diameter rounds remaining, two PL-10 missiles in the wing pylons, and 240 rounds in the cannon. The fuel was sufficient to ensure Liu Jun could continue fighting in the upcoming battles. His superiors' mission was to deploy the special weapons mounted on the belly pylons to the mission area.

[Distance 23KM]

Under the guidance of the onboard navigation computer, Liu Jun could see the target distance marked in the digital cockpit. In Liu Jun's view, there was a huge, chimney-like object standing on the ground in the distance.

The airborne IRST revealed that the temperature around the facility was much higher than the background temperature, and the light emitted by the facility also dispelled the darkness within a radius of more than ten kilometers.

This is the objective of his mission: a "power plant" used by an alien civilization to supply energy to the "sinkhole" and stabilize its state.

As he gazed at the distant building, an alarm suddenly sounded in his ear. He saw that the air-to-ground system deployed on the building was firing crystal missiles, which turned in the air and flew towards Liu Jun.

(End of this chapter)