Dominate South Asia

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for the confrontation exercise.

The Vice Chairman of the Military Commission, the Minister of National Defense, and the commanders of the major military regions were all very interested in this confrontation exercise. On this day, they all came to the command hall of the Air Force Test Flight Institute in Yanliang, Xi'an, Shaanxi, to observe this confrontation exercise.

Originally, the plan formulated by the General Staff Department was to conduct a confrontation exercise over the Shenfei base, but Chengfei proposed a new proposition. Both sides took off from their respective airports and made a long-distance raid to conduct an air confrontation over Shaanxi!

One of the most basic elements of a modern fighter is that it must have a strong endurance. Needless to say, it must at least take off from Hainan and fly to Nansha for patrol for half an hour, and then fly back, right?

Therefore, Chengfei was not unwilling to go to Shenfei for a confrontation, but from the perspective of actual combat, it felt that such a long-distance raid and then a confrontation was what the domestic air force lacked the most. As a result, Shenfei was unwilling! Finally, General Wang, the commander of the Air Force, made the decision that the actual combat would be fought this time!

The straight-line distance from Shenfei to Chengfei is nearly 2,000 kilometers, so each of them flew half the distance, and then relied on their own capabilities to launch attacks on the other side. From beyond-visual-range attacks to close-range combat, all kinds of tactics can be used. The entire confrontation exercise does not design any plans, which is exactly the same as real combat.

This is also the first time for the Chinese Air Force to fly over several military regions and conduct air confrontation.

Shen Fei hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed. In this way, the airspace scheduled for the exercise became Shaanxi, where there happened to be a test flight center with various complete ground radars and other equipment. Everything that happened in the air can be recorded truthfully. Since there is no early warning aircraft, the victory or defeat can only be judged on the ground.

This is a completely unfamiliar airspace. Needless to say, it is difficult to fly here correctly and accurately detect the opponent.

In the hall of the test flight center, progress is constantly reported, and fighters on both sides have taken off. They are flying towards the war zone at the most fuel-efficient cruising speed in the sky!

Looking at the light spots on the big screen, the atmosphere on the ground began to become tense. This confrontation was almost related to the selection of China's next generation of fighter jets!

The person in charge of Shenfei and Chengfei also came here. Tu Lao and Song Lao sat in a corner and never spoke. Only Song Lao's clenched fist. It represented his complicated mood at this time.

The person in charge of Shenfei sat with the people from the Third Machine Department. On the surface, it seemed very relaxed, but when he picked up the water cup, the tea in the cup spilled out, and he didn't even notice it.

At this time, the two pilots flying fighters in the air had eliminated all distractions. In their minds, there was only one goal, locking each other!

Lei Qiang had not been on the battlefield. In terms of air combat experience, he was far inferior to Pakistani pilots. Therefore, if Pakistani pilots were allowed to fly this time, their skills and mentality should be the strongest. It's a pity. This is a new fighter, and it has not been fully finalized! Therefore, if you want to control this plane, you can only Lei Qiang.

Lei Qiang has not experienced real air combat. Even in the past two years, there has been no confrontation training. His work focus is on test flying fighters, but because of this, he is very familiar with the No. 10 aircraft, as if he is familiar with an old friend.

At this time, he was cruising at an altitude of 18,000 meters, performing a 0.8 Mach flight.

Although it was a simulated confrontation, as long as the opponent was locked, the opponent could be shot down in theory, but four training bombs were still mounted under the wing to maximize the authenticity.

As for the auxiliary fuel tank, he did not mount any. After using the F110 engine, although the thrust increased, the fuel consumption rate was further reduced. Without the auxiliary fuel tank, it has a combat radius of more than 1,300 kilometers. Moreover, after the confrontation, it will land on the runway of the test flight institute and then perform a static display, so the fuel in the aircraft is enough.

At this time, in another direction, an F-16 fighter was also flying in the most fuel-efficient way at high altitude.

In addition to the four training bombs, this F-16 also carries three large auxiliary fuel tanks, which results in greater resistance and a cruising speed of only 0.7 Mach.

In the bubble-shaped cockpit, pilot Henry was a little impatient.

This time, after repeated consideration, Shenfei decided to invite pilots from the United States in order to defeat Chengfei. So General Dynamics transferred Henry. Now Henry is a test pilot of General Dynamics. Before becoming a test pilot, Henry was a pilot stationed in Europe by the United States. He has flown more than 600 hours on the F-16 and is definitely an experienced pilot.

Although he has no experience of shooting down enemy aircraft, Henry often conducts combat cruises in Europe, the forefront of the Cold War, and has a strong psychological endurance.

But now he is annoyed by this plane.

Even if he was given an initial production F-16A, Henry would not find it difficult to control. But now, the maneuverability of this castrated version of the F-16 has been significantly reduced compared to the F-16A.

In 1977, then-US President Carter announced that the United States would no longer export aircraft with the same performance as its own equipment, and could only export castrated versions. Therefore, General Motors replaced the original Pratt \u0026 Whitney F100-PW-200 with General Electric's J79-GE-119 engine. Although this engine was an excellent engine in the F-4 era, the era of this turbojet engine has ended. The maximum thrust is only 80% of the original, resulting in the F-16 lacking sufficient thrust and a significant decrease in maneuverability. Moreover, due to the mismatch in size, it had to put an engine heat shield weighing nearly one ton on the outside of the engine. This further hindered the development of the aircraft, so this originally agile and advanced third-generation aircraft became what it is now.

Although it is one million US dollars cheaper than the standard model, according to the original currency value, the F-16A is only 9 million US dollars, and this F-16/79 is only 8 million US dollars, but no one is willing to buy the poor F-16/79. In 1980, President Carter overturned his previous decision and allowed the export of standard F-16. In this way, no F-16/79 was sold in history.

In 1985, the United States planned to export F-16 to China, but the price was not low at that time, and China did not have enough funds to buy it, so it had to give up.

Now, in order to promote this project, the United States has given a preferential price, and also promised to export the production line, which will allow China's military aircraft production to enter a new level. Moreover, the most important thing is that the United States cooperates with Shenfei, which is an opportunity that Shenfei cannot miss. Therefore, with the joint efforts of Shenfei and the Third Ministry of Machine Building, this arms sale has begun to have a substantial leap.

Today is the most important day, and we must convince Chengfei! Using an unfinalized aircraft to fight against our own side is simply courting death!

Although Henry has rich flying experience, he can't stand the poor performance of this aircraft, and Henry can't help but want to curse.

According to the combat plan, the two fighters will meet over Shaanxi, so Henry immediately turned on the radar after entering the sky over Shaanxi.

As a castrated fighter, the radar of this aircraft is only an air search radar with the performance of the early F-16A. The ground-to-ground synthetic aperture and other modes are blocked, and it has no ability to guide medium-range air-to-air missiles. After Shenfei's insistence, the software was updated to guide medium-range Sparrow missiles.

Anyway, it's just a simulation now, not a real missile shooting. As long as the opponent is locked, it will be considered a success.

After Henry turned on the radar, a bright line on the screen began to rotate. As the bright line rotated, the scanned target would appear on it, and then operate the radar to lock the opponent!

In the hall on the ground, the bright spots representing the two aircraft were constantly approaching, and had entered 80 kilometers from 100 kilometers. This distance was already a distance that could be searched and locked.

The F-16 never found the target, nor did it find the electromagnetic radiation from the opponent. Could it be that the opponent was lost?

Henry operated the fighter, turned a direction, and continued to search.

Lei Qiang was driving the 004 fighter, looking at the data on the HUD. He did not turn on the radar, and everything was scanned by the photoelectric radar.

Soon, he found a light spot on the HUD and found the target!

At this time, the target was flying on the left side in front of him, with a bearing of 024 and a distance of 70.

A very good opportunity, turn on the radar and lock it!

At the front end of the nose, the pulse Doppler radar of the new flat slot antenna jointly developed by China and Pakistan was finally turned on. The radar wave radiated from the gap of the antenna and shot towards the opposite sky. Suddenly, a bright spot appeared on the screen.

The onboard computer was calculating quickly. After only one second, an aperture appeared on the radar screen, and at the same time, a familiar voice came from the headset.

Good! The other party has been successfully locked!

At the same time, a harsh voice came from Henry's headset, which was still an American English reminder that it had been locked!

Damn, where did the other party come from! In the US military, Henry was used to fighting under the command of early warning aircraft. Now, facing the sudden threat, Henry suddenly found himself feeling powerless. (To be continued ~^~)