They are all war weapons in the sky, but the fighter jets and attack aircraft give people a very different visual experience.

This feeling can only be experienced with your own eyes as you see now. Compared with the fighter jet with smooth lines and mechanical beauty, the strong attack aircraft with abundant engine thrust is not overly concerned with the aerodynamic appearance, and the lines of the body look even more sharp, and the whole body exudes a powerful aura that dominates the sky.

At this moment, just in Long Yun's sight, it was just a lonely fighter plane. However, compared with the fighter plane he had already become familiar with, the metal giant bird was indeed larger and more filled with a thick murderous aura.

Is this the invisible oppression that the attack aircraft, the epoch-making strongest aerial weapon, brings people...

Just as I saw the true appearance of the attacking plane, Long Yun on the off-road vehicle was still sighing secretly.

However, unlike the young man who was excited by the eyes of the "Flame Dragon" next to him, Lu Chunjiang, who was used to seeing the "Flame Dragon", was still driving an off-road vehicle to turn the intersection and stopped next to a building near the base runway. He leaned on the side of the road and asked Long Yun to get out of the car. Then he raised his hand and pointed to the reinforced hangar opened in the distance, and waved to the young man with a relaxed expression:

"Oh, young man, I think you are very strange about the situation over there!

This is nothing. Today I can make an exception for you to visit. It is such a little preferential treatment. How about it? There are very few opportunities for ordinary people, but you must obey the command; you cannot walk around and look around, otherwise the consequences may be serious!"

"Ah, yes! It must be."

Getting off the "Warrior" off-road vehicle and hearing what Lu Chunjiang meant, he could get himself closer to visit. Long Yun was naturally overjoyed and responded quickly; but he was also a little confused. He was notified by the "organization" today that he was going to come to the air force base, so it was not just to arrange a tour of the attack plane, right?

But no matter what, the opportunity is indeed rare!

So he reluctantly suppressed his excitement and walked with Lu Chunjiang to the reinforced hangar two or three hundred meters away.

While walking forward, he focused his attention and Long Yun glanced around casually, and his main focus was naturally on the "flame dragon" that gradually approached and became bigger.

This close-up observation was different from the situation that he had seen for the first time a few minutes ago and was only surprised. Now he looked at the gray attack aircraft in front of him with great care. The first impression that emerged was that "the attack aircraft is indeed huge": compared with the vague words on the Internet page and no one knows whether the accuracy of the "full length of 35 meters", only by looking closer can you realize how tall the x-8 "Flame Dragon" is. As far as Long Yun feels, it is similar to the visual experience of a tu-22m3 bomber.

"Haha, young man, look at your stare and you should be able to see the model? - Be careful not to get close, let alone contact. It is okay to keep the current distance and turn around and see."

"Okay,—this should be x-8a, 'Fire Dragon'?"

"That's right! When the fighter plane takes off later, you follow me and stay away. You must remember."

"--clear!"

When he heard Lu Chunjiang walking in front say, "The fighter plane will take off later", he also saw that there were several ground crew members busy next to the huge body of the "Yanlong". Long Yun thought that he was so lucky today, or was it a little extra benefit to join the "organization"?

It was even rarer to witness the attack aircraft taking off at close range here. So while paying attention to keeping a distance of more than 30 meters from the "Fire Dragon" in front of him, he began to study this attack aircraft that he was familiar with but unfamiliar.

"Familiar and unfamiliar" is the same for many aviation and military enthusiasts.

In this era when atomic hydrogen engine research has made major breakthroughs and strong attack aircraft have become a new generation of sky overlords, fighter jets in the traditional sense have long been no longer the main force of major parties, and have long spread among the people with the development of aviation competition. Therefore, for fighter jets, ordinary fighter jets and military enthusiasts, not to mention flying fighter jets in person, if they just want to feast their eyes or experience the feeling of soaring in the sky in two-seat type, it can be said that it is still easy.

However, unlike the situation of fighter jets, as the new generation of main combat weapons of the Air Force, the raid aircraft must be strictly confidential; the high-cost and amazing combat power of the raid aircraft, in addition to showing off its face on military media pages and magazines, if ordinary people want to see the true face, they may only be able to watch the National Day parade or watch from afar outside the military base.

However, even now, I don’t know what the above arrangement is. Since I have obtained permission to observe the "Flame Dragon" with my own eyes, Long Yun naturally doesn’t want to miss such a rare opportunity.

The so-called strangeness refers to what I saw with my own eyes for the first time today; as for familiarity, it should be said that it mainly refers to performance parameters: if you talk about the "fire dragon" in front of you, just talk about performance, as a military enthusiast, Long Yun, an aviation competitor, is quite familiar with it.

The attack eight type, code-named x-8, is a high-speed interceptor produced by Shenyang Aviation Industry Group. From the appearance alone, it seems to be somewhat similar to China's former main high-speed interceptor J-8, but in fact it is exactly the case. It inherits the aerodynamic configuration that seems completely outdated but has its own advantages under the new situation. Combined with the redesign of the atomic hydrogen engine and distributed radar system, the "Yanlong" with a total length of more than 35 meters and a take-off weight of 100 tons, adopts a conventional aerodynamic configuration with nose/machine back air intake and a side strip to swept wing. It looks a bit like a sci-fi J-8i, but its actual handling performance is completely different.

As a strong attack aircraft that emphasizes extreme speed, with a take-off weight of hundreds of tons of x-8 and a fuselage size close to the bomber, it looks like a long-range bomber; however, with two maximum thrusts reaching 150 tons, the propulsion is simply comparable to some launch vehicles. The long-weight "Yanlong" still has a thrust-to-weight ratio of the entire aircraft of more than three points. Combined with excellent aerodynamic design and an auxiliary vector engine with a front thrust of 60 tons in the fuselage, the maneuverability can be said to be far better than any traditional fighter, but it also has a Mach 4, that is, a maximum level flight speed of 4,300 kilometers per hour!

As a veritable epoch-making war weapon, it can be said that the x-8 "Flame Dragon" has the dual functions of high-speed interception and air-optimal combat. Although such a large air killer is very expensive and expensive to use and maintain, it is indeed worth the money for the Air Force of a major country.

Of course, when it comes to burning money, Long Yun only has a vague concept, and he is not very clear about the specific cost of the attack aircraft.

But no matter what, the equipment and usage expenses of the attack aircraft are at least ten times that of the same number of fourth-generation fighter jets. Otherwise, how could this be said to be the exclusive weapon of the superpower?

At this moment, just in front of Long Yun, several ground crew members were busy around the fighter jet, probably performing routine inspections for the fighter jet. The scheduled flight of the "Yanlong" this time was probably for some air patrols or live ammunition training tasks. It looked like an automatic missile truck of a medium-sized truck, but it looked a little smaller under the "Yanlong". Seeing that air-to-air missiles were lifted by the missile truck like bullets and sent into the belly bullet cabin of the 8th type aircraft, Long Yun was busy observing and quickly remembered that he remembered that someone broke the information online that if it was an air-to-efficient combat against fighter jets, could the "Yanlong" carry more than 30 air-to-air missiles at a time?

With more than thirty ammunition carrying capacity, what does this mean? It’s like an assault rifle with a lasting firepower!

With undoubted excitement and excitement, Long Yun paved and watched while talking to the colonel land beside him, but he did not expect the colonel to answer seriously. After all, he was not sure about all the information about the attack aircraft, which were absolutely confidential, and which could be made public:

"This, colonel, it is said that our 'Yanlong' can carry thirty air-to-air missiles at a time?"

"Oh?...yes, hehe!"

When Lu Chunjiang heard the young man’s question, he smiled without comment, and then said something slowly, as a response:

"Are you talking about a fully built-in situation? - Hehe, maybe. But young man, I can remind you that the 'Black Dragon' itself does not pursue altitude radar stealth, and if external plug-ins are allowed, in fact, as long as it is equipped with a missile nest, one or two hundred are not difficult.

You can't say the specific numbers, you can guess the score yourself! Haha."

"Oh-yes, that's it! I get it."

While hearing the colonel's generous laughter, Long Yun was a little surprised. He had read a lot of news online before, so why didn't anyone mention this? The load capacity of one or two hundred bullets is too terrifying. Think about the scene where thousands of bullets were fired in the sky and missiles poured like rockets. This was simply a rhythm of a cloth tear in the air and splashing water!

Shocked by the terrifying carrying capacity of the "Flame Dragon", Long Yun continued to walk back to the fuselage, and thought of the so-called "air arsenal aircraft" that many military enthusiasts once laughed at. To be honest, for strategic bombers like the tu-160 and the H-8, it would not be difficult to fly with just one hundred air-to-air missiles; but it is completely different from traditional fighter jets. Even if the "Flame Dragon" has a full power, it can still maintain the flight performance and maneuver power of the fighter even if it is hung with one hundred missiles!
Chapter completed!