Chapter 360 ? Press the Accelerator and Don’t Be Afraid of Wind and Rain

Chapter 360 Don’t be afraid of wind and rain when you step on the accelerator

Li Zhan could see clearly that after Davalev sat in the cockpit, he took out a towel and put it aside.

Is the canopy leaking?

This guess scared me into a cold sweat. If it went up to high altitude, wouldn't it explode?

The Russian side dispatched three fighters, two Su-27SM and the Su-35 numbered 03. They also had a Su-27UB left there. The two-seat combat trainer aircraft was occupied by the colonel they led. The colonel did not participate in the exercise, so it was not dispatched.

The Chinese side dispatched four J-11Bs, all of which were single-seat fighters.

The content of the collaborative exercise is very simple. The full name should be an aerial joint anti-terrorism operation exercise, in which air superiority fighter aircraft cover and attack fighter aircraft conduct fire strikes on ground targets. The focus is on the coordination of combat communications and tactical actions between the two sides. It is actually an exercise in which they become familiar with each other.

The content of the drill is simple, but both pilots take it very seriously. Li Zhan wished he had spent three days in advance to practice repeatedly. The political significance of this coordinated exercise is greater than the military significance. Winning or losing is not important, but face is.

So from the moment they took off in the heavy wind and rain, the two sides began to compete secretly.

The Su-35 took off first. Li Zhan saw Vasily sliding on the wet runway for more than 300 meters before suddenly pulling up to climb vertically. The heat wave from the engine nozzle steamed up all the water on the runway, forming a spectacular wall of fog.

Li Zhan was stunned. The power of this plane was too powerful.

Rolling more than 300 meters to lift off the ground is nothing. The J-11B can do it, and the J-10 can do it, but after pulling up, it climbs vertically at the maximum elevation angle and disappears into the clouds in a moment. Li Zhan asked himself that none of his current fighters could do this.

"Lao Li, have you seen that? The power of the Sanwu is too strong. What the hell is the engine?" Nie Jianfeng couldn't help but exclaimed on the radio.

Fang Chenghe's voice appeared coldly, "Pay attention to communication discipline!"

Then Nie Jianfeng took off, and the two sides alternated in this order. It can be seen from the arrangement that there is a strong sense of competition.

Li Zhan ranked last. He held the battle and was responsible for the main attack on the ground. Vasily was so fierce, Li Zhan naturally couldn't let him take the limelight. At this moment, the bosses of both sides were watching from the tower. Even though it was raining, it was not difficult to see clearly the details of the fighter's movements from such a close distance.

However, God seemed to have posed a special problem for the Chinese Air Force pilots - the rain suddenly increased, and for a moment, only a hazy outline of a fighter plane could be seen from the tower.

The sharp drop in visibility brings a sharp increase in danger.

The current weather completely exceeds the minimum meteorological requirements in the syllabus, but no one will think of calling a halt at this moment. Even if you take the knife, you have to keep going down.

"Dongyao, the ground wind has increased to seven meters, and the northeast has not changed. Are you sure?" Fang Chenghe asked, holding his breath and pressing the call button.

Li Zhan, who had already put on an oxygen mask, tightened his white labor protection gloves and answered calmly, "Tower, I'm fine, it's over."

He is the only one who has not taken off. If he cannot take off, his performance in this collaborative exercise will be greatly reduced. Even the dispatch rate can't compare with others, so what's the point of talking about the performance during the battle?

Fang Chenghe knew that Li Zhan had a well-known nickname after arriving in Beiku: Good Luck. When he was serving in the Second Division, he was nicknamed the Little Prince of Tie Rods, and it started to spread throughout the army during the Sanhe Flood Fighting Period - even though he was about to lose his life, he still had to pay for the tie rods.

After arriving in Beiku, we didn't encounter dangers very frequently, so we got the nickname Good Luck, and it even became the radio code name when we simulated the Blue Army.

However, from the situation in front of you, it seems that the good luck is not worthy of the name, but when you take off, there is a heavy downpour and a strong crosswind. Normally, forget it, but this is the critical moment.

“When Heaven entrusts a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions, so that he can stir up his heart and forbearance and gain what he cannot.”

Li Zhan silently recited the famous saying "Born in sorrow, died in happiness" to cheer himself up.

He has extensive experience flying in extremely difficult weather conditions, but the weather conditions at this time were worse than ever before.

When J-11B No. 01 was parked at the takeoff line, Li Zhan could feel the aircraft shaking obviously. One can imagine the difficulty and danger of taking off in this situation.

The throttle lever was pushed to the afterburner position, and the hot tail flames ejected from the engine nozzle quickly turned the water on the runway into water vapor, which became dense behind the fighter aircraft.

Li Zhan very calmly chose to follow the power trend of the fighter plane and release the brakes. The landing gear tires of the fighter plane were grinding against the wet runway. The outline of the fighter plane was hazy in the heavy rain. If there are writers and poets, they will be inspired. One piece of prose and one piece of poetry: briefly.

When the speed reached 200 knots, Li Zhan cautiously raised the wheel. As soon as the nose landing gear left the runway, the fighter's head tilted toward the left wing. Li Zhan seemed to have been mentally prepared for it. His method was to reduce the output power of the right engine, so that the thrust of the two engines was high on the left and low on the right, in order to withstand the strong wind coming from the direction of 20 degrees.

Viewed from the tower, the nose of the No. 01 J-11B first shifted to the west, and then stubbornly shifted to the northeast to face the strong wind direction, diagonally facing the tower.

Colonel Andreevkosky, the commander of the Russian team, gave a heartfelt thumbs up to Fang Chenghe and said, "General Fang, the little prince of the lever is great! His code name is very vivid!"

The Russian army does not have the rank of senior colonel. They believe that a senior colonel is equivalent to their brigadier general, so they call Fang Chenghe a general. In fact, if there are no big surprises, it is only a matter of time before Fang Chenghe wears the star. Bao Guanhua is old and has little chance of becoming a general.

Fang Chenghe's smile was a little stiff and he could only laugh.

Andrevkosky could understand some Mandarin. He accidentally heard the soldiers talking and mentioned the self-created vocabulary "Little Prince of Pull Rods" and asked what it meant. To cover up his embarrassment, he casually explained that this was the commander of our Falcon Brigade. The captain's radio code name.

As a result, Andreevkosky took it seriously and asked what the lever meant. The pilot at that time gestured with the lever and explained that it meant flying a fighter plane, and that he was the prince who flew the plane. Of course, only one who can fly a plane well can be called a prince, Andreevkosky took it for granted - and it was indeed true.

Are you afraid there is some misunderstanding? This lever is not that lever.

So Andreevkosky wrote down this code name, and the more he thought about it, the more it sounded good to him. At this time, they were praised by name, but the officers and soldiers of the 101st Brigade present did not know what expressions they should show. You can't explain that our captain is a little obsessed with money and has a general ideological consciousness. This is what the little prince of the pull rod means. But Andrevkosky's understanding was not wrong - wasn't Li Zhan's flying skills the most handsome in the Falcon Brigade and even the 101st Brigade?

The three rickety legs of J-11B No. 01 are all off the ground, and there may be danger before reaching altitude. There should be the most accidents during takeoff and landing in the history of world aviation. An airplane relies on high speed to fly, but the take-off and landing stages require a lower speed. If you can land at 60 kilometers per hour, you are considered awesome.

The so-called bricks fly if you are strong enough, the premise is that your strength must be strong enough.

After sliding for more than 700 meters before lifting the wheel, Li Zhan was very cautious. This is not the time to be cool, let alone competing with Vasily in flying movements. Being able to take off smoothly at this time has actually fully demonstrated the superb skills of Chinese Air Force pilots in front of friendly forces.

The plane was still about ten meters in the air, and the people in the tower were still following the movement of J-11B No. 01 with breathless eyes. Only Andreevkoski looked relaxed. He thought it would be easy for his pilots to take off and land in such weather.

However, when J-11B No. 01 was suddenly blown thirty degrees to the left wing by a strong crosswind, Andreevkosky's expression suddenly changed. He wanted to check the latest weather report, and his face became more and more serious. It was obvious that he had not fully understood the situation before.

When the fighter plane suddenly tilted to the left, Li Zhan quickly canceled the unbalanced thrust setting, pushed the throttle lever decisively to the end and turned on the afterburner. The Taihang Aircraft engine roared and quickly sprayed out blue tail flames. In the heavy rain, it was very difficult. conspicuous. The fighter plane suddenly arched forward under the strong propulsion.

The fighter plane has an elevation angle, and when it leans to the left about 30 degrees, it basically approaches the flight envelope infinitely. Li Zhan used the simplest, crudest and most risky method to escape from the dangerous situation. At an altitude of more than 30 meters above the ground, he actually followed the left leaning trend of the fighter plane and performed a roller climb!

The unilateral wingspan of the J-11B is more than ten meters. From a distance, the left wing tip of the No. 01 J-11B almost touches the ground.

The most maddening thing is that, in their opinion, the No. 01 J-11B was blown over by a strong crosswind instead of being made by Li Zhan following the flipping trend.

The No. 01 J-11 was rolling rapidly at an elevation angle of about 45 degrees in the heavy rain, like a shell fired from a rifled cannon, and shot towards the high altitude covered by thick clouds.

"Great, great, the little prince of the lever is great!" Andreevkoski breathed a sigh of relief and praised excitedly with two thumbs up.

Fang Chenghe and others were also frightened to the point of sweating, and said with emotion, "Colonel Andreev, our pilots are basically able to take off and land in bad weather."

There is nothing wrong with this. There are also levels of severe weather. Some weather conditions are acceptable and some are not. But when people say this at this moment, they subconsciously think that other pilots can take off under the weather conditions at this moment like the little prince.

Colonel Maozi didn't realize that the vodka they liked to drink was some kind of alcohol, and it didn't have the all-encompassing taste of Chinese liquor.

Li Zhan climbed with all his strength until he reached an altitude of more than 6,000 meters before he penetrated the clouds and welcomed the scorching sun. There are undoubtedly two worlds above and below the clouds. The airflow in the airspace layer above 6,000 meters tends to be stable, and further up to 10,000 meters is the most stable stratosphere. However, they can only operate below 7,000 meters. There are many international and domestic routes above.

The difficulties Li Zhan faces are still to come. To be precise, they are the difficulties he and Tang Leile share. He and Tang Leile acted as an attack group to penetrate westward along the Beiku Mountains. Nie Jianfeng and Han Hongjun cooperated with two Russian fighter planes as an air cover unit to conduct an air combat simulation with the Su-35 driven by Vasily to compete for air supremacy.

After quickly forming up with Tang Leilei, who was waiting at high altitude, he immediately received the order from the tower.

Low-altitude penetration means going down to low altitude, and facing more complex meteorological conditions in the Beiku Mountains. Li Zhan should consider whether to break through from the side of the Beiku Mountains, but the order given by his superiors was to avoid the Su-35 search.

In other words, if the Su-35 locks Li Zhan and Tang Leilei, it means that the Red Army's attack has failed. Although it is a friendly and collaborative confrontation exercise, it is either a fight or a win.

The order to start the operation was issued at the same time, and Li Zhan and Tang Leilei plunged into the Beiku Mountains with a push. It is said that the Su-35's new airborne radar has extremely strong downward search capabilities. Facing a brand-new model of fighter plane, Li Zhan did not dare to take it lightly.

It is necessary to master information such as the advantages and disadvantages, service status, equipment quantity, etc. of most fighter aircraft in various countries around the world. Every month, the intelligence department will conduct various intelligence briefings, sometimes twice or three times. The briefings contain a lot of content, such as when and where a certain country's satellite will transit, what measures are recommended for the troops to take, and so on.

The history of the Su-35 is too complicated, and there are many theories. Even Shen Hoy's people sometimes can't figure out what Maozi is doing.

The understanding of grassroots pilots is even more limited and biased.

At first, Li Zhan thought the Su-35 was the No. 711 Su-37, which was famous for its super maneuverability and was known as the "Lonely Warrior" because it only had one prototype. However, after confirming that the Su-35 did not have canards, Li Zhan It was discovered that the Su-35 had another purpose.

In the past period of time, Li Zhan occasionally heard a few words related to the Su-35 from Hu Wenbing, which was nothing more than the purchase of this fighter. The negotiations that had started long ago have now undergone major changes. When we were negotiating with Russia on the purchase of Su-35 fighter jets, there was no timetable for the first flight of the domestically produced fourth-generation aircraft. Even the upper management did not expect that Lockheed Martin would produce the fourth-generation aircraft so quickly. It can be seen that Cheng Loma's shot was unexpected by many people.

As a result, the Air Force's interest in the Su-35 dropped sharply. What kind of bicycle do I want when there is a fourth-generation aircraft? The Chinese side's interest dropped sharply, and Sukhoi became anxious. He took no opportunity to send the prototype over for on-site demonstration, and also strongly invited Li Zhan, who could represent the majority of grassroots pilots, to conduct a test drive. The purpose was self-evident.

However, in the final analysis, Li Zhan does not know the performance of the Su-35.

So he had to adopt conservative tactics.

At this time, conservative tactics are risky tactics - you don't know the performance of the opponent's airborne radar, so you can only use your most extreme capabilities. Vasily said that the Su-35's airborne radar has a downward-looking detection range of more than 100 kilometers. Regardless of whether he was bragging about Li Zhan at this moment, Li Zhan must take it as truth.

So, he and Tang Leile plunged into the canyon of the Beiku Mountains in one step, and simply disappeared from the sight of any radar.

"Huh? Didn't the war take off? I can't see him." Vasily turned on the airborne radar after turning around in the west. After scanning a circle 300 kilometers away, he found that two targets were missing, and he immediately issued a torture of conscience.

Fang Chenghe and others in the tower could not help but smile.

PS: Is there any problem with typing the full name? Dear pilots of the Sand Sculpture Brigade.