The passenger train headed eastward, crossing the Ob River and Yenisei Rivers. Long Yun thought his journey was thousands of kilometers away.

However, things are unpredictable. When the train was approaching the frozen Lake Baikal and Irkutsk, an important city in the Far East of the Soviet Union, was about to be in sight, he and Valentina received the notice from the above and were told that the end of the journey had changed, or that the real destination they were to arrive was not the Communist Qingcheng from the beginning.

"Ah, Lieutenant General! Good afternoon, it's very hard to fly all the way over?"

The sun was shining brightly, facing the bitter north wind, two black Volga cars were speeding on the open road.

In the back row of one of the cars, the thick-sized elderly man took off his glasses and greeted Victor Rezenov who was sitting beside him with a smile, while stretching out his chubby hands:

"It's okay, go to the bed for lunch, maybe you'll have some strong vodka. I bet you will be refreshed and full of energy today! Oh, Comrade General, I said the wrong thing again. I can't change the fatigue of the morning's journey. This is the ghost weather in Irkutsk. When winter comes, it's like falling into an ice hole; oh, over the years, my head will be a little rusted..."

"Ah-Haha! Still, okay,"

The man was talking nonstop in his ears. Long Yun was sitting upright in the back row. At this time, he felt a little hot in the car. He leaned over to shake hands with the speaker with a red face, and felt the sweat in his palm. It seemed that the talkative old man himself was quite stuffy:

"I'm glad to meet you, Comrade Mikhail Simonov."

"—Xie Miao. Turn off the air conditioner."

Seeing that the old and young men behind were both nestled in the back seat of the Volga sedan, which was originally quite generous, they shook hands and greeted each other awkwardly. The middle-aged woman with soft blonde hair looked at her in the rearview mirror and asked the driver to adjust the temperature. She turned her head and smiled at the guest:

"Comrade General, Mikhail is just talking too much, please forgive me."

"Oh! Vera, I don't talk much at all. I only scratched my head when I saw our number one ace, the super combat hero, and wanted to say something. Don't make it wrong. Haha! - Haha! - Having said that, our Comrade Rezenov, what do you want to eat at the dinner? I'll let my inner men prepare and choose one of the recipes that meet the nutritional requirements of the pilot?"

"Uh, it's okay! Comrade Simonov, anything is OK."

The enthusiasm for Simonov was a bit difficult to resist. Long Yun on the seat was really a little dry. In fact, he really wanted to drink some water now, but he would rather wait until he was at his residence.

Irkutsk, an important industrial city on the northern shore of Lake Baikal. It is the real destination of Longyun's trip to the Far East.

Looking back just a few days ago, he received a series of arrangements from the KGB, including going to the Far East, where Knaapo is located, Long Yun had some speculations about this. He felt that as a combatant, he was unlikely to be called to guide work or visit and research, so it was probably the same as before when he went to the MiG Design Bureau. Maybe there was something to do with Knaapo that could help him.

However, just like all the KGB arrangements, such a trip plan has actually been concealed.

Generally speaking, based on Long Yun's experience, if the National Security Council informs him to take a plane, he will likely stuff himself into the train car; if he is notified to go to Rostov for a meeting, and when he really gets off the bus, he may find that he is actually in Izhevsk. And this time, the answer is actually easy to guess. It is not fake to participate in some activities of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, but the destination is not knaapo, but Iazo in Irkutsk.

The subordinate departments of the Sukhoi Aviation Industry Federation, either Knaapo and Iapo, had to pass through the Siberian Railway. So when the electrified train headed east and stopped on the shore of Lake Baikal, Long Yun, who had hurriedly packed his luggage, got off the train with Valentine, and was escorted by the KGB, before seeing the people coming to greet the Iapo.

Mikhail Petrovic Simonov, when he first saw this person, Long Yun really didn't recognize the man with loud voice and endless voice.

From the real world, I also know that Sukhoi Design Bureau had a chief designer named Simonov. However, no matter how he looked, he felt that this thick-shaped elderly man looked more like a corporate manager. Even if he had glasses on his nose, wouldn’t a person like the chief designer stayed in the office all day long and looked in front of the drawing board, with a cold expression and serious smile?

With such doubts, outside the gate of a military airport in Irkutsk, he got into a car to the IPO factory. Long Yun and Simonov sat in a car to greet him for a while. Even without exploring it, Long Yun also knew how cheerful and outgoing the designer's personality was. In theory, it was not surprising that such an extroverted technical expert designed an excellent work like Su-27. However, when thinking about the development era of "Project T-10", the young people with doubts still didn't understand it very much. Perhaps the trajectory of the two worlds is indeed different, and they can't care about that much now.

After leaving the front line for a long time, the war in the Far East is about to ignite, but Viktor Rezenov has arranged such a business by the superiors. Long Yun's doubts have been answered on the day he arrived in Irkutsk.

In the evening of that day, I settled in the guesthouse where Iapo belonged, and then went to Mikhail Simonov's residence to have dinner together. I chatted with the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau at the dining table, and also met Simonov's wife Vera Simonov. Long Yun learned some situations through his consciousness, and with the conversation between drinking and drinking, he roughly understood the above arrangement intentions.

"Oh, yes! - There is nothing to keep secret here. Regarding the new model of the "pennant" and the improved model of our bureau, the model of the Su-27, the model of the Su-27m, the national acceptance and corresponding testing work, all of which require experts like you to participate. Of course, everything is simple during the war. The specific situation depends on the National Defense Committee and the military's intentions. As the VVS acceptance attendee, you must be very clear about this, haha!"

"I don't dare to take this, but I actually got some materials and haven't read it much."

Long Yun was a little confused at first about Simonov's enthusiasm. He didn't know much about the Soviet military industrial system, so he didn't know the situation in the parallel world. However, in his opinion, the test and acceptance of technical equipment must be a systematic project that requires professional background and rigorous attitude. The protagonist should be the engineering and technical personnel. Even super combat heroes like Victor Rezenov are difficult to play any role in such occasions.

Of course, for such an arrangement, Long Yun's emotional intelligence has increased a lot now. I know that I don't need to ask too much, just show up on the scene.

Compared with the acceptance test work, Simonov also revealed some information in his words, and Long Yun was more interested.

He didn't ask much at the dining table, but he just thought in his mind that the "pencil flag" R-77 missile would be sent here to test and accept with the su-27m. Andrew Ushakov had not mentioned this before, so it was natural that the acceptance work focused on fighter jets, not missiles, and the main consideration was probably the adaptability and compatibility of the r-77 missiles and fighter electronic systems?

The su-27m, as a major improved model of the basic su-27, has been equipped with front-line troops in batches, including the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment where Victor is located. As a weapon, it can meet the actual combat needs. What we need to solve now is the matching problem between fighter jets and new missiles.

In this way, it seems that the r-77 can indeed meet practical applications. Even if there are still some flaws for the time being, it will not be difficult to solve them.

With this idea, in the next one or two days, Long Yun was accompanied by Mikhail Simonov to conduct internal activities at the huge Irkutsk Aviation Industry Consortium. During this period, he not only showed up at the project acceptance site, expressed his own opinions, and also made a visit to learn about the research and development and production of some Su-27m fighter jets.

Visiting an aviation industry consortium, this experience is still very attractive to Longyun from the real world.

As an ordinary citizen in the real world, he has never looked at the factory building that manufactures fighter jets since he was a child. Now he is walking around the large factory as Lieutenant General Victor Rezenov. Long Yun is indeed very eye-opening. He had visited the MiG Design Bureau in a parallel world before, but the Design Bureau is not the same as a manufacturer. The Mapo located in Moscow is not far away, but he never had the chance to take a look.

The next morning, along the factory road where the cold wind whistled, Long Yun and his group came to an assembly factory in IAPO to visit the production and assembly workshops of Su-27 fighter jets and Su-24 fighter bombers.
Chapter completed!