A big country of aerospace with black technology

"This is the data recorded on the fighter plane."

The technical expert inserted the 3.5-inch floppy disk in his hand into the computer's floppy drive.

Then he clicked on a computer file.

"According to airborne data, the fighter jet flown by the pilot was continuously illuminated by the radar of an unknown fighter jet for thirteen minutes."

"The final radar exposure time was at 10:25 a.m."

"After the F-16 pilot flew 25 nautical miles eastward from the sea area of ​​124°33'50" east longitude and 25°54'06" north latitude, the radar illumination disappeared."

"And on subsequent flights, it never appeared again."

The intelligence officer carefully introduced the situation they currently have.

The large war room fell into an eerie quiet atmosphere.

The sea breeze in the Ryukyu Islands is still hot even in autumn.

Looking west from the window of the war room, one can still see the tranquil sea.

The person in charge of the air base is Brigadier General Joel Carey, commander of the 18th Fighter Group.

Joel, a professional fighter pilot, stared at this strange report for a long time.

This is not the first time they have received reports of ghost fighters.

However, it is the earliest contact report found about the "Ghost Fighter".

In the past two days, their pilots encountered the radar illumination of "ghost drones" while flying fighter planes twice in a row.

Joel was very annoyed when he first found out.

I thought it was a prank played by the pilots.

However, those pilots swore that this was definitely what happened.

And the data recorded on the fighter jet also supported their statement.

Only then did Joel begin to face the matter.

You won’t know if you don’t check, but you’ll be shocked if you check.

It turns out that the first contact with the "Ghost Fighter" was only a week ago!

At that time, fighter jets were exposed, and some pilots suffered from mental illness as a result.

Joel thought he could enjoy it for a while when he came to Kadena Air Base.

After all, there are very few people around here who can threaten them.

Who knew that such a strange thing would happen just a few months after the handover of work.

"What do you think is going on?"

After Joel thought for a while, he turned around and lit his pipe, and then asked the intelligence officer beside him.

"From a technical point of view, the most likely possibility is that this is a stealth fighter."

The intelligence officer himself hesitated when he said this.

After all, as far as he and Joel knew, there was no stealth fighter that had completed its service in the world!

Even the F-22 fighter jet, which their air force has been secretly developing, has not yet completed service.

Not to mention the stealth fighters of other countries!

"Of course, it is also possible that the geomagnetic field in this area has undergone inexplicable changes, causing the airborne equipment to malfunction."

Although this reason seems more outrageous, after all, how could the magnetic field environment of the ocean undergo such strange changes overnight.

However, Joel still preferred to believe this seemingly outrageous explanation.

"What you said makes some sense."

After taking a long puff of his pipe, Joel said expressionlessly.

He couldn't help but believe this reason, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why such a situation would occur as soon as he entered this area.

Do you want him to believe that there is a stealth fighter formation that has been cruising in this sea area? !

What a joke!

"Contact the Navy and ask them to send a ship to detect any obvious changes in the local magnetic field from the sea!"

After Joel finished speaking, he looked out the window at the sea with a heavy expression.

On the other side of the sea is a worrying enemy!

As an extremely important link on the first island chain, Kadena Air Base controls the airspace of an extremely large area.

As the supreme commander of Kadena Air Base, the situation Joel faces is actually very complicated.

The most important threat faced was the kingdom to the west.

In the past few decades, the threat has not been great.

After all, most of their fighter jets are still old-fashioned fighter jets.

More than ten years ago, during the honeymoon period, the two sides also modified their J-8 fighter jets.

Joel was an ordinary fighter pilot at the time and had been to that country together.

The impression given to him at that time was that he was very backward.

However, in recent years, they have developed rapidly in the aviation industry.

If the "Ghost Fighter" is really their stealth fighter, then the problem is too big.

Far more than he could handle.

This was also an important reason why he couldn't believe it in the first place.

And one of the reasons why the navy was notified of sending a professional detection ship.

The navy's action speed is not too slow.

After receiving a coordination request from Kadena Air Base.

Within three days, an ocean monitoring ship was dispatched to the target sea area to conduct detection work.

After the exploration team exhausted all the means they could use, they still found no problem in this sea area.

The news quickly reached Joel through the ship's communication equipment.

Seeing that all the data showed normal data, Joel called several senior commanders in the base into his office.

"Gentlemen, this is the data we just got from the Navy."

Joel asked the intelligence officer to hand over the sea area situation analysis report to the commanders present.

Most of the people present were commanders of various squadrons.

Naturally, we know the significance of this report.

"So, is there really an invisible fighter jet patrolling the sea?"

Bill, the commander of the 67th Fighter Squadron, said unceremoniously.

In fact, most people present believed that the theory of magnetic field anomalies was untenable.

But what if they believed that there really was a practical stealth fighter patrolling next to them every day?

It is also very difficult to accept!

"Judging from the current comprehensive intelligence analysis, this is indeed the case."

Joel said as he smoked his pipe.

"Does the intelligence officer have any clues about this stealth fighter?"

Bill saw that his superior seemed to be in a bad mood, so he turned to the intelligence officer beside him and asked.

"There is currently very little intelligence on this stealth aircraft."

The intelligence officer reports on the information he has collected.

"Most of the information we know comes from pilots who had three contacts."

"First of all, the distance between each contact of this fighter jet should be more than fifty kilometers."

"Most of our fighter jets use Doppler pulse radar, with a maximum detection range of 160 kilometers. Even stealth fighters can be detected within 50 kilometers according to estimates."

"And the opponent's fighter jets have always been outside the detection range of our radar."

The intelligence officer's estimate was not very accurate.

Doppler pulse radar, trying to detect stealth fighters 50 kilometers ahead is tantamount to wishful thinking.

The J-20 conducted experiments during the tests after its first flight.

Let a J-10 that has been equipped with an active phased array radar search for the presence of J-20 in the sky.

It was not until within 40 kilometers that it was about to be visually discovered that the active phased array radar found traces of the J-20.

(General visual limit for air combat is 20 kilometers)

This is the replacement of an active phased array radar with better search performance.

It is almost impossible for the Doppler pulse radars they are currently equipped to detect the J-20 in the sky.

"Second, the opponent's average speed must be maintained at supersonic speed."

This is actually easy to understand. When the afterburner is turned on, the F-16 can reach a speed close to Mach 2.

The opponent's ability to remain locked for ten minutes proved that the opponent's speed could at least reach the same level when accelerating.

The intelligence officer also guessed at this time:

"It is possible that this fighter jet can achieve supersonic cruise."

The origin of this speculation is mainly due to the third contact.

The fighter pilot at that time was the ace pilot of the 12th Aviation Squadron of the 18th Aviation Group.

They were flying an F-15D fighter jet at the time.

After discovering that he was targeted by radar.

The pilot quickly accelerated and gained altitude.

Although in modern air combat, there is almost no such thing as grabbing altitude.

But the ace pilot still did it subconsciously.

The height limit of 19,000 meters was reached almost quickly.

And the speed reached Mach 2.4.

However, this still did not escape the enemy's locking range.

In fact, Shihu was always 23,000 meters above their heads at the time, following them at a cruising speed of Mach 1.8.

With a radar range of 250 kilometers, he didn't have to be so anxious and could slowly hang behind them, creating huge physical and mental pressure on them.

The pilot driving the F-15D flew rapidly for 12 minutes and covered a distance of 500 kilometers.

Finally, he had no choice but to slow down his speed.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue flying at extreme speeds.

It's that the fighter jet is running out of fuel.

Turning on afterburner flight itself consumes more fuel than normal cruising.

The 12-minute supersonic flight had already consumed most of the fuel.

If the flight continues at this speed, the pilot may consider parachuting.

Because the remaining fuel will not be enough for him to fly back to the air force base, or even to the nearest land.

Might as well jump into the sea and wait for rescue.

Fortunately, Shi Hu didn't make things too difficult for him. After the opponent flew eastward out of the airspace, he turned off the radar lock.

"Third, we suspect that the fighter jet came from a country to the west of us."

The intelligence officer said this very cautiously.

"Other than that, we can't think of a possible source."

"Is there any basis for this?"

"Don't talk nonsense without evidence!"

This time it was not just Bill, but other commanders also said seriously.

"There is some evidence."

The intelligence officer produced several documents.

“A paper from three years ago showed that their active phased array radar seemed to have made breakthrough progress and achieved great success with second-generation gallium nitride diodes.”

"This is a paper published by their Flight Design Research Institute five years ago, titled "Research on the Starting Layout of a Small Aspect Ratio High Lift Aircraft."

"Judging from this paper, they have already started developing high-performance stealth fighters."

There are many more articles on the desktop, such as "Fast-curing Stealth Coating Based on the Frontline Polymerization Principle", which is a technology used to quickly cure stealth coatings on fighter jets.

These articles and information all show the rapid breakthrough of Longguo in stealth fighters.

Everyone here has served in the Air Force for a long time.

It may not be feasible for you to ask them to conduct research, but just reading the report is not a big problem.

After watching it, I realized how far Long Guo had developed in these technologies without even realizing it.

"How come I've never heard of this before!"

Bill quickly looked through the files on the desktop in disbelief.

"Loma has been promoting how advanced their fighter planes will be all day long, but they are always missing. Now the people of the Dragon Kingdom have taken the lead!"

Bill, who has a more impatient temper, said angrily after reading it.

Although Lockheed Martin's F-22 has completed final production and will be equipped with troops next year.

However, these flying groups stationed overseas will definitely not be the first batch to change their uniforms.

This is one of the reasons why Bill is angry.

What they will face now may be the most advanced stealth fighter in the world.

However, their names will not be on the list of the first batch of costume changes.

It is to let them fight the enemy with fighter jets that cannot detect the enemy or track the enemy.

Bill could imagine that if the opponent hadn't maintained restraint and didn't want to start a war.

They are fully capable of shooting down their fighter jets on the vast sea during the previous frictions!

Joel stood up silently and stood still in front of the huge map on the wall.

Then he drew a few times on the map with his finger.

After thinking for a moment, he said:

"Next, I will report to the country and ask them to help collect intelligence."

"And let them try not to put pressure on neighboring countries during this period."

"And until the investigation is clear, neither our fighter jets nor the local Self-Defense Force fighter jets are allowed to fly over the 125 degrees east longitude line."

The eastern part of this line should be safe for now.

Joel thought silently in his heart.

As the supreme commander of Kadena Air Base, Joel still has a very strong say in the local Self-Defense Forces.

He couldn't say he would fly over this line, and the other party would certainly not fly over it.

"During this period of time, I hope you will restrain your subordinates and not do anything particularly outrageous."

When Joel said this, he looked at Bill specifically.

As a foreign garrison, their local reputation cannot be said to be good, but it can also be said to be disliked by people.

Especially soldiers involved in hawk sauce are not bound by local laws at all.

This also caused many of them to cause many vicious incidents when they were stationed overseas.

Joel didn't want something like this to happen again during this special time.

So he directly used military orders to restrain his subordinates.