Chapter 782 The Severe Situation
After the brief combat meeting, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.
After the meeting, I returned to the barracks. In fact, I was a thickened tent. Long Yun took a comfortable hot shower on the shower truck at the temporary base under the guidance of his new partner. He then brought back a midnight snack next to the cooking car. He ate a little in the tent, packed his luggage and lay down to rest.
As a volunteer pilot, he stayed in the Air Force. Although Nata is in a difficult situation now, he is still very safe for the pilot's basic treatment - not to mention anything else, if he is working in the army and wants to take a hot bath after completing the mission every day, he is dreaming. As for the food, he must have made up for it. He is a combination of meat and vegetables like the food truck on the base (and pork!), and the nutritional ratio is reasonable. You don't have to think about meals.
Maybe he had just arrived at Sharkater Fort and had not fully adapted to the new environment. After working hard for a day, Long Yun was released from fatigue from a hot bath and tossed and turned in his sleeping bag, but he couldn't sleep for a while. He was a little conscious and peeked for a few times and knew that there was no one around the tent. So he chatted with Qi Hui for a while and asked about the general situation of the Sharkater Fort base, as well as the combat situation facing Nata now.
Of course, during the conversation, because he knew that Qi Hui was just a support force sent by the country, he himself was not aware of the secret investigation of the "organization", and Long Yun was also kept a secret of his true purpose of coming to the Middle East.
Regarding the search and investigation of the mysterious aircraft, only the Russian pilot code-named "Sultan" in the Independent Third Squadron knew about the situation and would also participate in the matter as the Soviet KGB. However, in order to keep it confidential, Long Yun was not in a hurry to contact this person.
It was late at night and chatted with Qi Hui who had just met in the tent. The two of them had a topic other than the previous Ift qualifiers, which was naturally the current war. After leaving the "Thunder" team almost a month ago, Qi Hui seemed to have no interest in the process of the qualifiers. He just asked Long Yun what to do after 'Chenlong', and then he seriously discussed the battle in the Middle East Sky with him:
"Oh, Captain Long, I have indeed observed this.
I won’t talk about the trivial details for now; you will soon know that the air battles happening here, tsk tsk... are like being out of touch with modern wars, and are fighting on a forgotten continent.
Are you here? Tactics and tactics are basically not important. What matters is that you have to have skills and a little bit of luck; but even so, our next battle is not easy. These Iraqis are still quite crazy when they take off. It takes a little effort every time I fight them down, and it is not that easy.
In short, the situation in Iraq is not good, very bad; and I also heard bad news that the Syrian Liberal Party in the west seems to have gotten some high-end products. My feeling is that we will have big trouble soon."
It seemed to be warning his partner, and it seemed to be talking to himself. After a sigh of mindlessness, the young man turned off the cold light and snored into his sleeping bag. He quickly made a light and even sleeping snoring sound. However, unlike Qi Hui who seemed carefree and had a very good sleep quality, Long Yun, who was lying on the marching bed, felt the chill that leaked in from the tent. In the darkness, he looked straight at the ceiling, as if he could see through the canvas for a long time.
Just like my vague intuition, the situation in the Middle East is serious, right?
The partner said that the situation was serious, Long Yun, who had just arrived in Iraq, soon had the opportunity to experience it personally.
As a foreign pilot who "volunteered to come", he was ready for combat before entering Iraq like other volunteers. As expected, Nata now has no time and conditions to allow the pilot to adapt to the fighter jets and conduct pre-war training, and he has to fly the fighter jets directly into the air to fight.
Of course, considering that even if you are flying the same series of fighters, pilots and aircraft must have time to adapt to the running-in. They drove the red dragon-shaped su-27skm fighter early in the morning to take off. Long Yun just followed Qi Hui's blue-painted plane to meet the enemy, and only carried out over-visual combat with the support of ground command. The two aircraft carried several R-77s on the fuselage and wing mounts, which is indeed rare in the Middle East battlefield where it emphasizes that it is judging that the enemy and us will attack again.
In the Middle East sky where the enemy and us are intertwined and the forces of all parties are constantly in exchange, IF is extremely important to any fighter jet that takes off to fight. This greatly limits the use of active radar-guided missiles. In order to avoid misattacks, all parties usually approach the visual distance before fighting each other.
However, for Nata, which has been baptized by war, this situation gradually changed with the formal establishment of the "Iraq No-fly Zone" hosted by Alsa: For the no-fly zone that runs across Iraq and lasts hundreds of kilometers, Alsa clearly declares that the western section is an absolute control area, while the eastern section is prohibited from entering its own fighter jets to avoid accidental injury. So now, Long Yun and Qi Hui's su-27skm dual aircraft no longer require cumbersome enemy-to-me recognition, and the target in the southern sky can only be the enemy. Of course, this sentence is also true for the fiaf fighter jets that are coming in full force.
The cold night just passed, and the next day was a sunny weather with white clouds floating away. Two slender fighter planes that climbed all the way after taking off cut through the sky, leaving two shallow white trails in the background of the azure sky.
As the fighter jets accelerated and rushed out of thin clouds, the bright sunshine sprinkled on the back of the smooth line of the fighter jets. On the side of the red and blue dragon pattern patterns on the backs of the two fighter jets, the huge letters of "nata" were particularly eye-catching from a distance. The gray-white missiles like long swords shone brightly on the hanger, as if the entire fighter jet was coated with a light golden yellow.
The accelerated fighter plane stretched its body in the sky, like an eagle flying freely in the clear sky; however, the dark clouds of war, which were completely different from this glorious scene, have emerged from the horizon.
"Fighter jets 0313, 0315, pay attention to the enemy situation in front of you. The number of enemy aircraft is four to six, the height is three thousand, and the course is eighty-year; repeat, the enemy aircraft is three thousand and the course is eighty-year-old. The radar determines that the enemy is a medium-sized target. Pay attention to screening before firing to avoid accidental attacks."
"The 0313 has been received, the target has been intercepted and completed."
Ended the call with the command station in the cockpit, poked the button next to the lower viewing monitor with both hands, raised his hand to adjust the goggles, and scanned the dashboard twice, then tilted his head to look at the red painted su-27skm on the back.
Unlike when playing games in China, he has been struggling in the Middle East for many days. Qi Hui is very clear about the logistics support of Nata. Before picking up the enemy, he must first make sure that the landline systems are operating normally. However, missiles cannot be tested until they are shot with real swords and guns. So he habitually clicked the trigger, swept a cannon and fired it, but he was confused by Long Yun following behind:
"Chief aircraft, long aircraft, did you fire the gun just now? No enemy aircraft were found nearby. What's the situation?"
"Ah, it's okay; I said that wingman, there is no need to be a stern call here. And I suggest that you can also test it out, so as not to lose the chain at critical moments."
"Oh...is it?"
The driver followed the long aircraft and saw a series of shells falling from the belly of the Blue Thirteenth fighter plane and disappearing in the sky below. Long Yun thought about it and gave up the attempt to fire the gun. He felt that compared with the delicate missiles that were difficult to serve, the GSH-301 cannon was not difficult to maintain. The occasional jam was also easy to fire the gun when it was overloaded. Thinking of this, he set the lightning to RWS mode and turned on Doppler filtering. He soon discovered the incoming targets at a low altitude of 3,000 meters. After a brief confirmation with Qi Hui in the channel, he manually marked these targets as enemy aircraft one by one.
I don't know where the Nata was purchased from. The onboard data link has been damaged and information sharing cannot be achieved. However, this is nothing for the New Party Air Force, which has few fighters and is not a good formation to fight, so the ground crew has not had any effort to repair it.
A moment later, the radar ranging data was displayed on the screen. Long Yun found that the target incoming at 11 o'clock in front was about 60 kilometers away. If the r-77 was launched at this time, there would be a theoretical probability of killing. However, just like Long Yun's idea, Qi Hui's light voice came from the radio. In the Middle East sky with a tactical level, his voice was still so comfortable:
"The target is eleven o'clock, with a height of 2,700; it seems there are four in total. What are your considerations for the 'wingman'?"
"……I?"
Long Yun was a little speechless when he heard this. He was doing a combat mission? Why did he hear this guy say it was like he was playing hunting?
However, before setting foot in the Middle East, he also did some homework. He knew that the current battle with a huge gap in strength between the enemy and us was not a complicated tactic, but mainly relied on the personal performance of old pilots. This way of combat, Nazi Germany did this when facing the absolute advantage of the Allies. Of course, they were finally blown up by the overwhelming Allied planes, hoping that this situation would not be repeated in Iraq:
Chapter completed!