157 First cruise

Soon, Chen Fei's first mission to Pingchuan Base came!

Six members of the Shenlong Squadron studied together in Chen Fei's dormitory. They first learned about the relevant background of this mission, and then collectively learned about the geographical topography and meteorological knowledge near Pingchuan Base. After all these things were familiar with them, they began to perform ground simulation.

Because it was the first mission, the first flight of the Dragon Squadron, all six of them were on, and they performed the first flight mission together.

The route for the first cruise mission was already set by the superior department for them. Everyone only needs to memorize the coordinates of each waypoint, as well as the geographical terrain and meteorological conditions between the two waypoints. Of course, how to fly, how to form a plane, and which fighter plane is in which position, these have to be practiced over and over again in order to be familiar with it and form an instinct.

Of course, among them, everyone also needs to set up some air situations, such as suddenly encountering bad weather, or suddenly encountering alien fighter jets, how to deal with it at this time, etc., and make a plan for everything.

The next morning after arriving at the base, the Shenlong Squadron began to join the combat readiness team. At 10 o'clock in the morning of that day, the brand new Shenlong Squadron took off for the mission for the first time.

Six J-10 Ds were launched collectively and the formation was completed at a height of 1,000 meters at a distance of 090.

The formation of the Shenlong Squadron is very different from the previous J-10 C formation. The six fighter jets are divided into three groups, one at high altitude, one at hollow, and one at low altitude. Moreover, the two fighter jets in each group are also arranged in an orderly manner, with a long distance apart.

The reason for this formation is that the J-10 D already has advanced data link technology and can fully achieve data sharing. Therefore, the purpose of the formation is to weave a large network and hit one network in one direction in order to catch it all in one network.

The most excellent ordinary airborne radar is the AESA radar. The scanning range is only 60 degrees on the left and right, about 45 degrees on the upper side and about 15 degrees on the lower side. This is still the limit. In fact, each scan can only be 60 degrees on the left and right, about 10 degrees on the upper side and lower side, and the detection distance is only 100 kilometers. The field of view is very narrow. Detection and guidance require the head of the aircraft to be aimed at the target first.

What is advanced than this is the three-sided array wide-angle radar, whose detection ability is about 2 times higher than the previous one, with a field of view of about 120 degrees, and has a certain ability to look backwards. For example, the LKF601E radar focuses on strengthening the multifunctional fire control capability, with a detection distance of more than 170 kilometers for fighters, which can track 15 targets at the same time, and combat 4 targets at the same time, with a maximum detection distance of 220 kilometers for seas and a maximum detection distance of 300 kilometers for ground.

But despite this, the airborne radar detection space of a fighter jet is very limited, and this limited space is really too small compared to the vast airspace of combat.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the previous fighter jets, even the J-10 C, was really limited unless they were covered by early warning aircraft.

But the J-10 D is different. The J-10 D has complete data link technology, so everyone can make each J-10 D fighter a node in the network. To give a simple example, a J-10 D is a searchlight. The six fighter jets of the Shenlong Squadron are six searchlights. Different searchlights are distributed in different locations. Through strict marshalling, the six searchlights can form a searchlight network. When they are illuminated, they can illuminate six times the space of a single aircraft. The data link is to combine the contents seen by these six searchlights into the network and then transmit them to each fighter respectively. In this way, the field of view of a J-10 D is six times the original one.

If there is an early warning aircraft above your head, then—

The field of view of the early warning aircraft will also be transmitted to the fighter aircraft in a timely manner. In this way, the J-10 D has the real Qianli ear and Qianli eyes, and can detect the enemy first and strike first.

However, the most terrifying thing about data links is not just this. The most terrifying thing about data links is that they can make comrades invisible.

To give a simple example, six fighter jets of the Shenlong Squadron flew together in formation. Yang Dong, located on the far left side of the formation, found a target with his fire control radar. Of course, at this time, because he turned on the airborne radar, his radar beam was also detected by the other party. The other party knew his existence and was careful to beware of him.

At this time, Chen Fei, who was far away from the target, also saw the target through the data link, so he quickly raised the height and carried out radio silence while encircling the detection edge of the opponent's radar, just like a big bad wolf stealing a lamb. When he touched the opponent's side and turned on the fire-controlled radar, the opponent had no choice but to escape. If Chen Fei did not use the radar, but directly used the optoelectronic system to lock it, then - the opponent would not even know how he died.

Therefore, among the six members of the Shenlong Squadron, Li Cheng likes data links the most and studies the most, because the data links and his personality complement each other.

After the formation was completed, Chen Fei began to call the base: "Yangtze River, I am the Shenlong. The formation was completed. Will you cruise as planned? It's finished!"

Zhang Yunlong is the commander today.

Due to Zhang Yunlong's strong request, the call sign of the base was designated as the Yangtze River, and the call sign of the early warning aircraft was designated as the Yellow River.

This guy's mind is known to Sima Zhao. He just wants the local pilots who join this base in the future to shout the Yangtze River or the Yellow River every time they go on a mission. He wants to engrave these two names that have special meaning to the Chinese into the bones of those pilots.

Hearing Chen Fei's voice, Zhang Yunlong picked up the mezzanine and said, "Dragon, direction 090, cruise as planned, it's over!"

"I understand!" Chen Fei agreed, then pushed the accelerator lever, increased the speed, pressed the joystick, and lowered the height to 500 meters.

Their Shenlong Squadron's cruise was different from other squadrons. Their height difference was very large. Chen Fei's height was only 500 meters, but Qin Qingyu and Huang Haijun had a height of 5,000.

Chen Fei controlled the fighter jet to continue to lower the altitude.

He and Li Donghai were flying at a low altitude, but they also had a height difference. Li Donghai was at an altitude of about 500 meters, while Chen Fei was at an altitude of about 80 meters.

Therefore, Chen Fei's fighter jet is very low from the ground, and some places are even only more than fifty meters. When people stand on the ground, they can see his fighter jet as soon as they look up.

Chen Fei flew in a fighter plane while protruding his head to look at the ground. At this time, his eyesight was already very good. He could see his every move on the ground.

At this time, the place they passed was the local rural areas, and on the land, one farmer after another was working.

However, due to the battles some time ago, many places were covered in scars.

When the farmers heard the roar of fighter jets, they raised their heads together, and the paint of the Dragon Squadron fighter jets, the dragon head and the August 1st badge on them came into view one by one.

"China?"

At first, everyone looked confused.

Soon, everyone showed a positive expression: "China!"

After a while, the farmers, uncles and aunts who were in a very bad mood because of the destruction of their homes, were all excited: "China! China! China!!!"

Someone cheered and chased along the way.
Chapter completed!