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Chapter 854 Ghost Operation (Second update, please subscribe)

Air Force Base Kuching.

As night falls, the sky is covered with a dark blue curtain dotted with sparse stars.

At the airport, a black plane was parked silently on the runway, its outline looming in the night, like a sleeping giant.

Although this plane looks small, its wingspan is over thirty meters.

In the lighted photos, ground crew are busy, either refueling the aircraft or conducting final checks on the aircraft.

Two years ago, at the request of Li Yian, Nanyang Aerospace Industries Corporation began to develop a new type of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and develop high-altitude reconnaissance capabilities to detect the enemy's military deployment as early as possible in order to seek strategic preemptive action.

Engineers used a jet glider as a prototype and used a large wingspan wing to design a new high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft in two years. Its flight altitude can reach 25000 meters, enough to avoid the interception of various anti-aircraft guns and fighter jets currently set by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; the mission radius is 3200 kilometers.

The aircraft completed its first secret test flight in February this year, directly breaking the world record of 22707 meters ceiling held by the British. According to the original plan, the aircraft would continue to conduct test flights, but the sudden mission forced it to enter actual combat ahead of schedule.

"…As long as you stay at 20000 meters, no weapon can threaten your safety."

In the mission room, Cheng Li introduced the mission to the pilot in front of him. Although the plane took off from a military airport, it belonged to the Secret Intelligence Service. As an intelligence officer of the Intelligence Service, Cheng Li was responsible for implementing this mission, including recruiting pilots.

Since flying over enemy airspace is extremely dangerous, the Secret Intelligence Service not only requires that no Chinese or corporate logos appear on the aircraft to avoid revealing the ownership of the aircraft, but also decides to hire some foreign pilots to perform these tasks. In this way, even if the plane is shot down over the enemy, Nanyang can completely shirk the responsibility - the plane is not Nanyang's, and the pilot is not Nanyang's either. In this case, it has nothing to do with Nanyang.

And there are indeed suitable pilots in Nanyang - Black Knight Company employs more than 500 Japanese pilots, all of whom have very rich experience in air combat. Although some of them have settled in Mindanao or Surabaya and naturalized, the company still employs a group of excellent pilots.

Nobuo Fujita was one of them. As a naval pilot, like many others, he was unemployed after the war. In order to make a living, he joined the Black Knight Company and became a company pilot. The proudest thing in his life was that he had bombed the United States mainland in a Zero seaplane carried by a submarine. Although the incendiary bombs thrown into the forest did not have any effect, he was also the first person to bomb the United States mainland.

"Sir, can we take clear pictures from 20000 meters?"

Nobuo Fujita asked.

"You don't have to worry about that. Zeiss has developed the most advanced high-resolution camera for the Ghost. The aircraft is equipped with eight fully automatic cameras for photo reconnaissance. The film is 8 kilometers long and can take 3.5 photos of scenery within a range of 200 kilometers and 5000 meters. The clarity of the photos taken by this camera is very high. At an altitude of 4000 meters, the activities of people on the ground can be clearly displayed."

"Ghost" is the code name given by the military to this high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and the camera it uses is the pride of Carl Zeiss Company in Yongning. In the past few years, thanks to the technical personnel recruited from Germany, the product quality of Yongning Zeiss is not only not inferior to that of Zeiss in East and West Germany, but has even surpassed them in some aspects. For example, the fully automatic camera for military photographic reconnaissance is different from the Zeiss Company in East and West Germany which basically stopped research and development. In the past ten years, Carl Zeiss in Yongning has continued to conduct research in this area, and its technology has not only not been interrupted, but has also been further developed.

"It's truly a Carl Zeiss product!"

Fujita Nobuo was amazed and analyzed the mission details with the intelligence officer. It was not until about 3 a.m. that he put on the pressure suit with the help of the ground crew. This pressure suit is somewhat similar to the space suit of later generations. After putting on the pressure suit, not only eating and drinking became a big problem, but even "going to the bathroom" required urination through the insertion of a catheter.

At 3:20 in the morning, Nobuo Fujita, who was dressed neatly, was lifted into a wheelchair by the ground crew, and then took a car to the side of the "Ghost" high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Then he boarded the plane with the help of the ground crew. After checking the plane, he started the engine. With the roar of the engine, at 3:30, following the signal sent by the tower, the "Ghost" flew into the air like a sharp arrow piercing the sky.

According to the established route, it will fly to Pattani and then conduct reconnaissance all the way north. It takes a long time for the large-winged Ghost reconnaissance aircraft to climb to an altitude of 20000 meters. It took almost an hour. When flying over Yongping Island, also known as Natuna Island, Fujita saw that the flight altitude finally exceeded 20000 meters.

"Okay, just stay at this height!"

Then Fujita, flying the "Ghost", headed north and finally entered the airspace over Pattani at 5:13.

At the same time, the operator of the Siamese coastal defense radar station, which was just built with Soviet aid two years ago, also discovered a special signal in the air. He looked at the signal on the radar screen with some surprise.

"Platoon leader, an unidentified flying signal was detected on the radar."

"Unknown signal? What signal?"

"Sir, this signal is a little strange."

"Why is it weird?"

Without waiting for the platoon leader on duty to come over, the altitude radar operator, who was lying on the observation window of the radar screen, saw the frown on the screen and said.

"The altitude is out. It's flying at an altitude of over 20000 meters!" "What? 20000 meters? How is that possible?"

the platoon leader asked, staring at the radar screen.

“Is the altitude correct?”

Although we knew it was unlikely to be an airplane at this altitude, the sudden appearance of a signal would not deceive us.

"Could it be that the Soviet advisers mentioned the high-altitude spy balloons?"

The reason why he asked this question was that when Soviet advisers were training them, they mentioned the high-altitude reconnaissance balloons of the United States. They claimed that the purpose was to conduct scientific research. However, they carefully selected and established five high-altitude spy balloon launch sites in Scotland, Norway, West Germany and Turkey.

After being launched from these places, the spy balloons flew from west to east over the Soviet Union and Tangshan with the help of the winter jet stream in the stratosphere to take pictures. The balloons also carried other spy equipment and were finally recovered over the Pacific Ocean.

Even the Soviet Union had no way to deal with those high-altitude balloons. Many times, they could only watch those high-altitude reconnaissance balloons fly over their heads.

And today was the first time they encountered such a high-altitude target.

"Spy balloons fly at higher altitudes and are not so fast. The signal moves very quickly, at over 600 kilometers per hour, and its signal is very clear. If it is a reconnaissance balloon, it usually cannot be detected by radar. Advisor Ivan mentioned that balloons can usually only be detected visually."

Indeed, they are often powerless against spy balloons, not only because their flying altitude is above 20000 meters, but more importantly, due to the backwardness of radar detection technology, it is basically difficult to be detected when they fly over their heads.

But the situation today is different. The signal is very strong. It must be an airplane.

But as far as they knew, no aircraft had ever been able to fly that high.

"Comrade Stationmaster, I think the situation here should be reported to the headquarters immediately."

"It should be reported to the headquarters."

The radar station chief turned around and asked.

"Has Big Brother's technical advisor returned?"

The answer is No. At this time, Big Brother's advisor is definitely not at the radar station, but is definitely living in the expert building in the city.

The radar station chief thought for a moment and said.

"Report truthfully."

As he spoke, he once again stared at the radar screen, watching the rapidly moving light dots on it, muttering to himself.

“Is there really an airplane that can fly that high?”

At the same time, Nobuo Fujita, who was at an altitude of 20000 meters, had discovered that he had been exposed through a radar warning aircraft.

But he was not too worried. After all, the plane was flying at this altitude.

"No plane can fly that high. We just need to stabilize the altitude."

Nobuo Fujita was thinking this in his mind, and he used the map to navigate, determined his direction, and then flew towards the target.

"Songkhla Base... This is it!"

(End of this chapter)