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[Sasha Lecture Hall No. 1,458] (Military Series Lecture 466)
Shooting down 14 Soviet fighter jets only accidentally injured one of our own: The F16 in Pakistan's hands against the Soviet air battle history
The relationship between the United States and Pakistan is very ordinary, and it did not undergo fundamental changes until 1979.
In 1979, the Soviet Union launched a large-scale invasion of Afghanistan, and the United States was extremely shocked.
Half a year before, the pro-US Pahlavi dynasty of Afghanistan's neighbor Iran fell, and the US power was eliminated.
However, after the Iranian pro-US regime died, fortunately, the Khomeini regime was also anti-Soviet.
But Afghanistan is different. After the Soviet Union occupied it, it immediately supported the puppet regime.
Of course, the United States does not allow the Soviet Union's power to expand at will, and Pakistan also felt deeply saddened and began to vigorously assist Afghan anti-Soviet guerrillas.
As a result, Pakistan and the United States entered a 10-year honeymoon period.
At that time, what Pakistan feared the most was the Soviet Air Force!
The Soviet Air Force stationed the 40th Army in Afghanistan, with a total of 4 powerful aviation regiments equipped with MiG21 fighter jets, Mi24 military aircraft and Mi8 helicopters.
Since 1981, Soviet fighter jets have unscrupulously patrolled, bombed, and even crossed the borders of Afghanistan refugee camps.
These refugee camps contain a large amount of supplies to assist guerrillas, and guerrillas are also trained.
Pakistan is unable to resist this naked military invasion.
The reason for the Indian-Pakistan war is that the Pakistan Air Force is completely focusing on fighting against the east and India, and has never considered the issue of the direction of Afghanistan in the west.
The border between the two countries is 1,400 kilometers long, but Pakistan only has two airports, which can take off and land jet fighters.
More importantly, the three Pakistani Air Force squadrons stationed here are equipped with Chinese J-6 fighter jets.
Everyone knows that the J-6 is a product of imitating the MiG 19.
At this time, the Soviet army was equipped with the MiG21, which was the next generation of fighter jets.
J-6's maximum flight speed is Mach 1.36, while the MiG21's maximum speed is Mach 2.2, which is very obvious.
Once the MiG21 encounters the J-6, there is no need to fight and just turn around and fly away, the latter cannot catch up at all.
In addition, the J-6 is a relatively backward fighter. It does not have radar equipment installed and can only conduct dog fighting at visual distances.
Not to mention air combat, even if you want to discover farther enemies, the J-6 will rely on the guidance of ground radar.
The border area between the two countries is mountainous. As long as Soviet aircraft fly at low altitude, it is difficult for Pakistan's ground radar to detect targets, and there is no way to know where the J-6 enemy aircraft are.
In short, it is very inappropriate for J-6 to fight here.
Naturally, the J-6 is not without achievements. It once shot down an Afghan government army's An26 transport aircraft in 1980.
The aircraft flew across the border into Pakistan and was shot down immediately.
At that time, China itself did not have advanced aircraft and was considering purchasing French Phantom 2000 or American F16.
In this case, Pakistan officially requested the United States to purchase fighter jets.
The United States is also very loyal and needs Pakistan to restrain the Soviet Union.
So, from 1983 to 1986, the United States delivered 40 F16A/B fighter jets to Pakistan.
Pakistan's decision proved to be correct.
Starting from 1984, the Soviet Air Force began to invade Pakistan's airspace unscrupulously.
As the Soviet army lost steadily in Afghanistan, they completely gave up the constraints of not crossing the border 3 kilometers and began to go deep into Pakistan to bomb.
Sometimes Soviet fighter jets actually penetrate dozens of kilometers to throw bombs into refugee camps.
Obviously, no country can stand this kind of thing.
1986, Pakistan was forced to move the main force of the air force westward and fight the Soviet army with all its might.
From February to April 1986, the first thing is that the J-6 had many contacts with the Soviet fighter jets, and the results were unknown.
, however, was a French Phantom 5 fighter jet, shooting down two Soviet Mi24 warships.
Starting from May 1986, three F16 fighter squadrons were put into actual combat, and the situation immediately changed.
On May 27, two Su22 fighter jets entered Pakistan 10 kilometers and were immediately intercepted by two F16s.
In front of F16, Su22 had almost no resistance and was shot down by the cannon and Rattlesnake missiles.
The Soviet Union confirmed that it was indeed a loss of 1 Su-22 on the same day, but it was a plane of the Afghan government army.
Later, the Soviet army's Map 16 bomber was also intercepted by F16 and survived because he quickly fled back to Afghanistan.
After this incident, the Soviet Union understood that existing fighter jets could not deal with F16, completely stopped cross-border attacks, and replaced them with a large number of state-of-the-art fighter jets.
The Soviet army took out magic weapons, 34 latest MiG23 fighter jets.
This time, the MiG 23 is an MLD model and is the latest fighter that just improved in 1984.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian test pilots who flew over the F15 and Phantom 2000 believed that the flight performance of the MiG 23MLD was very close to that of Western fighters.
and its new radar is no less than the F16A's APG66 radar. It is also equipped with a variety of advanced air-to-air missiles and has over-visual range capabilities.
Pakistan's F16A does not have the ability to operate beyond the visual range, and the radar can only conduct long-range searches.
In principle, these MiG 23MLDs can kill Pakistan's F16.
didn't expect that theoretical data is one thing, and practical combat is another.
On June 19, 1986, two F16s encountered MiG 23 again.
The two sides had a fierce dog fight, and in the end, a F16 bit the MiG23, but the system failure occurred while launching the missile.
mG23 escaped by luck and flew back to Afghanistan.
In March 1987, the F16 launched a missile, shooting down an An26 crossing the border, and all 39 Soviet troops on the plane died.
On April 16, F16 shot down two more Su22s.
On April 29, the Soviet army began to retaliate and dispatched two MiG23 fighter jets to penetrate deep into Pakistan, looking for an aircraft to shoot down F16.
Their wishful thinking is to use hovering to lure F16 to approach, and then shoot them down with an over-visual range missile.
The battle this time was ridiculous. The MiG23's seemingly powerful Soviet radar failed as usual, but it was not discovered that the F16 was approaching.
and F16 quickly approached the enemy plane and launched the missile.
Unexpectedly, Pakistani pilot training is still limited. There are major problems with the cooperation between the chief and wingman.
The wingman was eager to attack, but when the long aircraft was about to launch the missile, he rushed up and tried to attack the enemy plane with the machine gun.
As a result, the rattlesnake missile hit the wingman just in time, and the Pakistani pilot jumped in a hurry.
At this point, MiG23 suddenly discovered F16 and immediately returned to Afghanistan with high speed in panic.
From this until the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan, F16 shot down a total of 4 MiG23 fighters, 5 Su22 fighters, 2 Su25 attack aircraft, 1 An 24 reconnaissance aircraft and 2 An 26 transport aircraft.
and F16 only lost 1 aircraft, but it was still injured by accident.
has real knowledge in actual combat, which shows that there is still a big gap between US and Soviet Air Force fighter jets.
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