Great Power Fighting Falcon

The second half of every year is a period of intensive training and exercises for the troops. In the first half of the year, basic training is done, and in the second half of the year, tactical training, collaborative exercises and even drills begin, etc.

Specific to the Second Division, they fly combat stunts during the day and engage in night flights at night, which is definitely in line with the style of a front-line fully trained unit. Even if the child lives in the camp, it is rare for the child to see his father. The reason is precisely because of the high-intensity flying all year round.

Li Zhan already has a strong feeling that the average flying hours of pilots in the division this year will definitely exceed 200 hours. He has already begun to calculate how much the rod fee will be in a year.

No one in the Second Division regarded him as a new pilot. Unless during a certain training course, they suddenly discovered that Li Zhan was also a novice, and then they would think of it - Oh, I forgot that this guy was a new pilot.

Slowly, the leaders at both levels of the division discovered a fact that they had known for a long time - Li Zhan's flying skills were first-class, his control of the aircraft reached a first-class level, and he did many actions very well, but in many combat subjects , for example, the training of empty and ground targets is obviously much more unfamiliar, and there are even zero experience in many subjects.

Is this what a human being is?

This is why both division and regiment levels put him on the combat readiness list.

It was also the reason why he had to receive combat training with other new pilots.

The J-7 series has more than a dozen models. It is not only the fighter aircraft with the largest number of equipment in the Air Force, but also the fighter aircraft with the most derivative and improved models and the strongest vitality in China's history. Several early models did not have night combat capabilities, nor could they fire missiles. They were called day combat types. They could only use cannons for air combat, which was exactly the air combat model of the 1950s and 1960s.

With the E-type, the situation has changed dramatically. The biggest change is undoubtedly the change from the so-called delta wing to a double delta wing, which improves low-altitude, low-speed and hovering performance, although it is still relatively poor. The second is that it has night combat capabilities. Not only can it fire missiles, but it also has a search radar inserted into the drogue of the nose air inlet.

All in all, there is a technological gap of about twenty years between the early model and the latest mass-equipped improved E-type. You can imagine how big the difference in performance is.

After Li Zhan reviewed the summary of the past night flight training of the Second Division, he was surprised to find that the J-7 night flight training frequency of the Fourth Regiment was the highest among the three flight regiments, followed by the SU-27, and the J-7 of the Fifth Regiment. 8 has the least dispatch frequency.

This proves that the J-7's night flight performance is very reliable, even more reliable than the SU-27.

As June approaches, the ground temperature in West County is getting higher and higher, and the heat is also unbearable at night. There is almost no wind, and the stars are bright, which is a good weather for flying. Li Zhan was sweating profusely after carefully inspecting a circle of fighter planes in his summer flight suit. However, he had to be very cautious, even if there was Lou Yiwang, the deputy captain of the maintenance group, in his maintenance team.

Whoever checks is responsible, and whoever signs is responsible.

The doctor in the aviation hospital signed his name on the pilot's examination report, which means that the doctor determined that the pilot's physical condition meets the flight requirements. In the same way, the pilots' signature on the mechanical inspection sheet indicates that they have approved the work results of the maintenance team and that the fighter aircraft meets flight standards.

What are you most afraid of when flying at night?

Bird strikes, mechanical failures, lightning strikes, mid-air collisions, that is, the same as during the day. For pilots, the first thing to overcome is the human fear of the dark and the fear of irrelevant environments. Instrument flying, command flying, and blind maneuvering are the basic skills of pilots. They have been well-established in flight schools and training bases, and now is the time to put them to use.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Xueyang's two-plane formation took off, roughly in a formation with the lead plane in front of the wingman on the right side and behind it. They taxied and took off at the same time, shooting straight into the night sky, eliminating the need for an aerial formation. Li Zhan was flying at night with veteran pilots, so he also had to take off in formation with the leader Nie Jianfeng.

The reason why a two-plane formation does not take off in a column is because if the rear plane inhales the exhaust of the front plane, it will cause the engine to gasp and easily cause a mid-air stop. Therefore, the aircraft formations we usually see are not in a column following each other, but in a tilted formation.

Taking off in formation is a piece of cake for Li Zhan.

At 8:15 p.m., Li Zhan and Nie Jianfeng took off in a two-plane formation. The WP-13F engine ejected orange-red tail flames and roared off the ground. After climbing, they immediately turned left and adjusted their course to 270. They were over the sea in a few minutes.

Li Zhan glanced at the heads-up display, which displayed a few important flight information such as airspeed, flight altitude, and heading. It was much simpler than the improved screen display used by the SU-27, and was used by the J-10 that could intuitively understand the flight attitude. The screen-to-display ratio is even more lagging behind.

The most common use is for machine gun shooting and aiming, using a head-up display, which to be precise is called a parallel aiming weapon system.

However, compared to other models of J-7, the human-machine interaction of the E-type is much more friendly. Even at this moment, the cockpit where Li Zhan is sitting is still filled with a bunch of instruments, and it looks as messy as the Seven Kingdoms.

"Dong Sanguai, let's go there." Nie Jianfeng's order came from the radio.

Li Zhan replied, "Dong Sanguai received it."

The J-7E's nose is equipped with a ranging radar. Older models simply don't have radar. Therefore, combat must be carried out with the cooperation of ground radar, otherwise it will be useless. The ranging radar must be used after discovering the target to obtain the relative distance to the target. As for other data, it can only rely on ground radar instructions.

Ground search and fire control lock, sorry, we don’t have those functions.

To put it bluntly, the J-7E still has the characteristics of a typical second-generation aircraft and does not have the capability of distance combat. When using air-to-air missiles, the target must be within the effective range of the air-to-air missile. The target can only be locked by the missile's seeker. The carrier aircraft has no way to interfere with the missile's movement through instructions. As for the small seeker of the air-to-air missile, the effect can be imagined.

What I was shooting was the fate bomb.

Tonight is an air confrontation training. Two J-8s take off from the Guixi Field Station to act as imaginary enemies. Two of the four regiments conduct a search and attack. The so-called attack means occupying the attack position. It does not matter whether you win or lose. It is mainly through this process. Exercise pilots' night combat capabilities.

Similarly, Zhang Xueyang's two-plane formation also followed the same subject, but they flew eastward. The First Division of the Fourth Regiment stationed in eastern Guangdong for training took off two J-7s to act as imaginary enemies and start a confrontation with them. This arrangement is based on the range of the SU-27 and J-7. The former has all been domestically improved and has a longer range. It can reach the Western Pacific with just a kick of the accelerator. The short legs of the J-7 simply cannot keep up. , so the J-7 can only be arranged to walk around in front of the house a few times.

That's how the nickname Airport Defender came from.

The Ba Ye has a fire control radar, and the fifth regiment uses the best D type among the Ba Ye in active service, which is exactly the same model equipped by a certain Hainan Airlines division. The J-8D, which has air intakes on both sides and uses a domestically produced fire control radar with better performance, has actually formed its unique style after years of use by the military.

Anti-aircraft interception is probably what Mr. Ba needs to do for the rest of his life. Of course, he may also use his high-altitude and high-speed performance to engage in aerial reconnaissance.

No matter how much Li Zhan looked down on the J-8, he had to swallow his anger at this moment.

The tower had just informed them that two J-8s were heading straight for them. It's obvious that people have discovered you and you don't even know it. The most terrible thing is that once you enter the locking range of the opponent's fire control radar, you don't even know whether it is locked by the radar.

Because you don't have a radar warning.

"This is not fair." Li Zhan said on the radio.