Great Power Fighting Falcon

Chapter 583 I can’t contact the Great Wall!

"Nanny, the most handsome son in the family who is getting married is calling. I can't contact the command post. Please help me transfer it. Over!"

After Li Zhan continued to fly more than 100 kilometers in the direction of 030, he found no news when trying to contact the command post, indicating that the position had exceeded the communication distance. He could only seek help from the tanker located in the center to help transfer.

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Li Zhan's voice from the tanker side was relatively weak, and it was almost at the limit of the air communication distance. The captain immediately replied to Li Zhan, "I am relaying the command. Son, what happened to you? Over."

The situation was so urgent that the captain omitted the prefix of the radio codename.

Li Zhan didn't pay attention to these details. He couldn't contact the command post using the established code words, and he didn't care about it at this time. He directly reported to the captain of the tanker in plain language: "Nanny, I can't contact the Great Wall. Repeat, I cannot contact the Great Wall. I plan to conduct a comprehensive search of the relevant sea areas, please approve! Over!"

“Reply later!”

The tanker captain immediately asked the command post for instructions.

Why our aviation force has not conducted long-distance training for such a long time? In addition to limitations in fighter aircraft performance, the lack of long-distance communication capabilities is also one of the reasons. We don’t know what will happen after the plane is released, and we don’t know whether we are dead or alive. No one can afford such a risk.

In the years before Beidou, the neck of military communications was still stuck, and it was uncomfortable and helpless.

Li Zhan planned to lower his altitude and use airborne radar detection and visual search to conduct a carpet search of the relevant sea areas. Because the altitude was very low, it meant that he would lose contact with the tanker, so he had to report to the command post for instructions.

No one knows whether the Great Wall boat is dead or alive. If they want to communicate with the headquarters, they must rise to the surface to raise the communication mast and use a long-wave radio. There is no way to maintain contact in the water. Submarines are the real weapons whose position is difficult to grasp in real time. Every communication must be timed before departure, and the initiative in communication lies entirely with the submarine. If it does not surface, you will not be able to contact it at all.

Not long after, the captain of the tanker conveyed the order from the command post - Li Zhan can conduct a low-altitude search and search for the Great Wall boat with all his strength!

At this time, the command post actually didn't have much hope. According to the instructions, the Great Wall boat must be in a semi-submersible state to wait for the arrival of J-15 No. 533, and at the same time maintain contact with the command post through the long-wave radio station. The Great Wall boat either sank or was forced to make an emergency dive to avoid possible danger.

Li Zhan didn't know what kind of failure the Great Wall boat encountered, but according to his guess, it was probably a serious failure of the power system, which would be fatal for a submarine more than 2,000 kilometers away from the mainland.

He calculated the remaining fuel in his mind, quickly descended to five thousand meters, and then turned on the airborne radar and adjusted it to the sea detection mode. After a while, all the unnatural objects on the sea surface came out, more than a dozen of them, from Judging from the distance, it is not a fleet, but an ocean-going ship passing through the Qingqing Strait.

The Qingqing Strait is the chokepoint between the west coast of the Pacific and the East Asian maritime transportation line. The ocean-going ships that appear here are bulk carriers of tens of thousands of tons, oil tankers of twenty to thirty tons, and container freighters of hundreds of thousands of tons. There is no single one. It's small. Except, of course, for thousands of tons of offshore fishing vessels. Some distant-water fishing boats that follow the Pacific Rim Current are frequent visitors to Qingqing Channel.

Li Zhan found that the J-15's airborne radar was very easy to use, and the sea detection range was very long and the accuracy was very high. He suspected that the manufacturer had inserted an AESA radar into his 533. No. 533, like other trial J-15s, was not equipped with airborne radar when delivered. Domestic aircraft avionics technology has developed so fast in the past few years. It is not an exaggeration to say that each one is updated every year. For economic reasons, the army hopes to be able to get it in place at once, so as to ensure that it will not fall behind for at least ten years. So I would rather not install it for the time being and wait for the best radar currently available.

At the same time, facts have ruthlessly proved the advantages of heavy fighters - they have more space and take-off weight to equip radars with larger diameters. As we all know, the larger the diameter, the farther the detection distance and the greater the possibility of having multiple functions. One of the criticisms of the Rafale fighter is that the diameter of the nose is too small to be equipped with a radar with better performance.

There are many reasons why the Chinese Air Force and Naval Aviation Forces favor heavy fighters.

The dozen or so targets displayed by the tactical HUD and radar HUD were not very different, and the conclusions given were all large sea targets. The words "large sea surface targets" are not set casually. There are strict classification standards. Moreover, surface targets are different from sea targets. The latter includes aircraft.

Li Zhan needed to check one by one, even though the radar had told him that none of the targets that had been detected had submarines. When a submarine is in a semi-submersible state, that is, on the surface of the water, the radar reflection area will not be so large, and is roughly equivalent to a small sea surface target. When advanced airborne radar searches the sea surface, it can determine what kind of target it is based on the area and pattern of radar emissions. Some awesome ones can even directly give the model. For example, the radar reflection characteristic of the Enterprise is A, and the aircraft The recognition program in the airborne radar has preset the radar reflection characteristic A of the Enterprise in advance. Then in actual use, if the radar reflection characteristic A or A+ or A- is obtained and the similarity reaches the specified percentage, the program of the airborne radar Will tell the pilot what kind of ship it is or highly suspect what kind of ship it is.

At present, none of the ships detected by Li Zhan match any of the data in the preset database, so it is basically certain that the detected ships are civilian ships - military airborne radars generally do not preset data for civilian targets.

As an aside, many people have a big misunderstanding about intelligence agencies, which here refers to intelligence departments other than combat intelligence agencies. Under the influence of movies and TV dramas, people think that people in the intelligence department are responsible for detecting spies, counter-espionage, and so on. In fact, in non-war years, there are very few such cases. Most of the work is to collect public intelligence information and analyze it to form a basis that can be used. Very boring job. The author has worked as an intelligence consultant and knows a little bit about it, but it is just common sense.

For example, when our navy commissions a new ship, the intelligence agencies of some countries...well, you know?

After continuing to descend, Li Zhan immediately saw the first target. The weather is very good, the sky is clear, the sea water is blue, the sky is blue, and the scenery is truly natural.

It was a large oil tanker, estimated by visual inspection to be 300,000 tons. Its size and displacement were much larger than those of a large aircraft carrier. Its radar reflection area was also larger, and its characteristics were more obvious.

Li Zhan descended to a sea height of more than 200 meters and visually searched the surrounding sea area with the oil tanker as the center. There was nothing else but the oil tanker. There was a panic in the cockpit of the oil tanker. This was a Japanese oil tanker. Those Juepnis were running around and screaming because they saw the August 1st military emblem on the No. 533 J-15.

"Baga, why did the Chinese fighter planes fly here, Baga!" the captain shouted angrily, grabbed the emergency contact line and started calling.

Naturally, Li Zhan didn't know about these situations, and he couldn't see them either.

After confirming that there were no suspicious targets around him, he accelerated towards the next target...

PS: 6000/52000.