Chapter 429 Why Are Your Ghosts and Mine Different?

While Chang Haonan was busy working on the Air Police 200 and Turbofan 10 projects.

Tehran, Mehrabad International Airport.

An Il-76TD transport aircraft painted in a Soviet civil aviation livery that is quite strange for this era is preparing to land in a quite classic "maximum slope landing" attitude.

This method requires the pilot to align the aircraft with the runway in a dive attitude and level the aircraft at the last moment before touchdown.

A great test of courage and skill.

A few minutes later, the IL-76 stopped smoothly at the end of the runway. There were already many people and two trucks there, obviously waiting for a long time.

Yang Jin, an engineer from Factory 112, walked forward quickly with the staff behind him, preparing to unload the goods.

The huge three-flap tail hatch slowly opened.

The scene inside the cargo hold shocked Yang Jin, who saw the Il-76 for the first time.

There are six turbojet 14 engines flown from Shengjing.

Although the turbojet 14 is an engine with a small size and weight, in order to ensure a foolproof transportation process, the 410 factory often uses very exaggerated boxes for packaging before installation.

The first batch of four engines were all transported by Y-8. Only two engines could be transported at a time, and the cargo hold capacity was still tight.

Several people jumped down from the huge springboard door. The leader came to Yang Jin, shook hands with him, and then said in a slightly anxious tone:

"This is the second batch of six engines. Move quickly. There will be another plane coming later."

"Six more engines?"

Yang Jin was a little unbelievable.

As a technician at Factory 112, he is still aware of the capabilities of Factory 410, a sister unit.

Only 4 units were delivered in total in the past six months.

After all, the turbojet 14 model is used everywhere, and it is impossible to give it all to them.

"No, there are some other aviation materials behind it, as well as radar."

It wasn't until everyone started unloading the cargo with the help of the tail crane that the other party breathed a sigh of relief and introduced himself:

"Comrade Yang Jin, right? My name is Han Linping. I'm from Factory 410. I'm responsible for cooperating with Persia's ghost modification project."

"Hello, but it wasn't always Lin the past few times..."

"Lao Lin was transferred to be responsible for the logistics support of key model projects, so I came to replace him."

Han Linping explained.

Yang Jin was stunned after hearing this. He had followed the overseas working team established by the factory to Persia six months ago and had not returned to China since then, so he had very little information about this aspect.

However, he also knew that this was definitely not a place to discuss confidential topics, so he had no choice but to suppress his curiosity:

"That's a pleasure to work with."

“A pleasure to work with.”

As Han Linping said, about twenty minutes later, another Il-76TD with the same painting landed in the same wild way, bringing other parts involved in the improvement project.

"You rented these IL-76s specifically from Lao Maozi?"

After unloading all the aviation materials and loading them into the truck, a somewhat out of breath Yang Jin found Han Linping.

These two huge aircraft really left a very deep impression on him.

"No, I bought a few finished aircraft from the Tashkent factory a few months ago. I didn't have time to change the paint. The superiors considered that this could be a bit confusing, so they used them like this for the time being."

Han Linping, who had just taken off his gloves, shook his head and looked at the IL-76 who was preparing in the distance and explained.

At just this moment, a Land Rover off-road vehicle stopped in front of the two of them.

"Get in the car first"

Yang Jin opened the car door and motioned for the other person to sit in.

In fact, as a dual-use airport with a large passenger flow, Mehrabad International Airport is not suitable for undertaking such sensitive military transportation tasks.

Even the Persians themselves know this and are therefore planning a new Imam Khomeini International Airport.

However, construction has just started and is far from being completed.

The reason why I have to use this place is because the only Persian Aircraft Industry Company (IACI) that has the technical ability to maintain F4 and F14 fighter jets is right here.

It even shares one of the runways with Mehrabad International Airport.

If it lands somewhere else and is transported by truck, not only will it cause more noise, but there will also be other risks along the way.

In the end, we can only choose to carry out transportation tasks in the evening or early morning when there is less passenger flow.

Fortunately, after switching from Y-8 to Il-76, the number of flights required will be much less.

"How is our current modification progress?"

After watching the rapidly regressing scenery outside the window for a while, Han Linping quickly felt a bit monotonous, so he turned back and asked about the project.

"The first two upgraded aircraft have been delivered, and now we are just waiting for your engines to start work."

Speaking of this, Yang Jin couldn't help but smile:

"Seriously, you should have come here a month earlier to listen to how the Persians praised the two new engines we installed..."

While the two were talking, an F4 fighter jet painted in blue and gray roared and took off from another runway not far away.

"Well, that's one of the ones we modified. The Persians renamed it F4EC and also changed the paint."

…

Lieutenant Colonel Siavash Bayani and Captain Sania Hoda were sitting in the cabin of the F4 that had just taken off, flying towards the northwest.

Radar stations there reported several unusual approaches by the Turkish air force.

Since the Persian Air Force has been troubled by the problem of aircraft readiness rate since the Iran-Iraq War, under normal circumstances, it will not respond to such actions by neighboring countries.

Moreover, Tehran is more than 400 kilometers away from the border between the two countries, so most of the time it is simply too late.

But one of the opponent's targets seems to be particularly persistent today, wandering near the West Azerbaijan Province several times and showing the intention to cross the border many times.

Then you have to go and see it.

After quickly climbing to the predetermined altitude of 12,000 meters, Lieutenant Colonel Bayani pushed the throttle valve to the end and opened the afterburner.

The number on the aircraft's airspeed indicator increased rapidly and soon exceeded the speed of sound.

As an ace who has shot down Mirage F1, Su-20 and MiG-25, the 40-year-old Bayani is almost the most experienced pilot in F4 in the entire Persian Air Force.

But after being transferred to TFB1 base and equipped with this new aircraft, he even began to doubt his nearly two thousand hours of flying experience.

Although the sea-level thrust of the turbojet 14 is about 7% lower than that of the J79, its dry weight is almost only 60% of the latter. As a result, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the entire aircraft has even increased after thrust reduction and trimming.

But this is not a big problem. What makes him uncomfortable the most is actually the difference in feel caused by the increase in power feedback speed.

In the past, the F4 would have a very slow speed increase process after the throttle valve was activated. As a result, Bayani, who had already formed a habit, felt like he was acting like an old man in the first ten hours after boarding the plane. dementia.

Always half a beat slower than the plane.

He hadn't felt this way since his second year at flight school.

However, after getting familiar with the new control rules, he quickly forgot all the unpleasantness during the running-in period.

Bayani must admit that before this, he definitely looked down on Chinese equipment.

In that protracted war, due to huge consumption and increasingly empty national treasury, both countries invariably purchased a large number of weapons produced by China.

But what about the experience of using it...

The term for high emotional intelligence is probably that the price/performance ratio is relatively high.

However, this fighter jet that had been modified by the Chinese greatly changed his mind.

To put it simply, it’s great.

At least when he used the J79 in the past, he would never dare to turn on the afterburner so unscrupulously.

"Lieutenant Colonel, the radar has detected a target with a distance of 90, an altitude of 10,000, a speed of 970, and a heading of 110."

Heda reported from the back seat.

In fact, there was no need for this process on this aircraft, because the HUD in front of Bayani in the front seat also displayed almost all target information simultaneously.

But beyond that he really didn't know what he could do.

In the past F4E, because the radar operation was quite complicated, a second pilot in the back seat was set up to be responsible for this operation.

However, after the Chinese upgraded the radar, the significance of his existence as a weapons control officer was completely eliminated.

However, the Persian Air Force did not have time to adjust its organization, so he still had to take off again and again, and then just watch the performance of Lieutenant Colonel Bayani in front of him.

"I saw it. It should also be a Phantom, but the other party probably hasn't noticed us yet."

This new radar with superior performance is also one of Bayani’s favorite things.

The fly in the ointment is that the Pili 11 missile sold as a package is about the same as the Sparrow. Even if it is fired head-on, the attack range is only about 30km, which is a complete waste of radar performance.

This mission did not require permission to use weapons first, but this did not prevent Bayani from doing what he wanted to do.

For example, switch the working mode of the radar.

Although he hasn't been able to really lock in the target yet.

The other party obviously felt the malicious radar signal, but at this distance, old-fashioned radars like the AN/APG59 obviously had no way of seeing clearly what was going on.

The two sides are still flying head-on, but Bayani can guarantee that the other side's pilot has begun to feel fear in his heart.

Just like when he was locked by a MiG-25 during his first airborne combat many years ago.

And even if he really came into visual distance, he didn't panic at all.

When the sun rises in the morning, the side in the east has an inherent advantage.

The opposing pilot will be dazzled by the rising sun, making it difficult to see the target clearly.

Bayani had just mentally praised the opponent's pilot for his courage, and was about to ask the backseat pilot to pay attention to the surrounding situation - this is the only role that ballast can play in an air battle.

"Captain, pay attention..."

However, only halfway through the words, the F4 lost the psychological battle, made a 180° turn, and accelerated away from the border.

Although according to the experience of the lieutenant colonel, the opponent only needs to fly for another 5 to 6 seconds to see clearly that he is facing an "identical" Phantom fighter.

"What should I pay attention to?"

Heda asked confusedly in the back seat.

"It's nothing. Please be careful in the future and never be as timid as them."

Bayani shook his head:

"If this was a dogfight, the opponent would have had a 30% chance of winning, but now they are dead."