.Chapter 16 Waiting Patiently

When the four F-22s roared into the night sky, twelve F-22s had taken off in advance. Half an hour ago, two large tankers left Akigi Air Force Base under the cover of fighters, and were flying southwest along the 130-degree route on the 130-degree route.

In this tightly organized counterattack operation, Ryotaka Takagi was only one of the participants.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force was ready.

After Yasuji Nakaji came to power, Li Pingko first realized that Japan was likely to break the deadlock with counterattacks. Then Teng Yaohui personally ordered his mother Qi Tie to strengthen his local air defense force.

Mother Qi Tie is not a fool, so he immediately adjusted the air defense deployment.

Yasuji Nakaji was a famous hardliner politician and a retired general. He adhered to the policy of Toshio Nakajima and always regarded China as the primary imaginary enemy. Now that he was the Prime Minister of the Wartime Cabinet and obtained the power given by Congress, he would definitely take substantial actions to turn the situation around the war.

For Japan, "substantive action" is to fight back against China.

Before dark, China's local air defense forces more than doubled.

There is a strategic early warning aircraft and a tactical early warning aircraft over the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Sea. There is also a strategic early warning aircraft over the southern waters of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. In four directions, there are eight-30-30s of four formations, and the same number of fighter aircraft can take off at any time at the rear airport. If the -30s that perform air control missions near Japan are included, the Chinese Air Force has used at least sixty fighter jets.

For the Japanese Air Force, this is an insurmountable "dragon wall".

Let’s not talk about how advanced the -30 is. Just the reconnaissance and detection defense line composed of early warning aircraft will leave Japanese fighter jets nowhere to hide.

As mentioned earlier, -1 is completely different from the previous early warning aircraft. In addition to multi-task n, it also uses more advanced radars. From the appearance, the biggest difference between -1 and previous early warning aircraft is that it has cancelled the radar fairing, and the radar antenna is all integrated in a conformal manner on the outer surface of the fuselage and the wings, with no obvious protrusions, maintaining the aerodynamic shape of -20. While flying n can be mentioned, the passive/active active dual-mode phased array radar gives -1 extraordinary detection and early warning capabilities. Compared with early warning aircraft such as -2000, the most obvious advantage is that -1's detection capability on stealth fighters has been greatly improved.

When the radar works in passive mode, the detection distance of -1 on the stealth target exceeds 300 kilometers.

Because it uses the principle of metal body absorbing and reverse electromagnetic signals, even if the stealth fighter does not send any electromagnetic signals, it will affect the ubiquitous electromagnetic b and thus be detected by -1. However, the n energy of the passive radar is not advanced enough to be determined. Therefore, after detecting the enemy aircraft, the radar of -1 will turn to active mode and concentrate the b beam in the direction of the enemy aircraft's attack.

According to the tests conducted by the Chinese Air Force, the effective detection distance of the fourth-generation fighter, such as -1 and -20, is more than 400 kilometers, and the maximum tracking distance can reach 350 kilometers, and the lowest is about 300 kilometers. Even if -30, it cannot completely hide its whereabouts.

Of course, -1 is not perfect either.

Passive radar is extremely sensitive to environmental interference, so the N energy when detecting low-altitude targets is not ideal, especially over land, the effective detection distance for ultra-low-altitude fighters is less than 200 kilometers. If it is an ultra-low-altitude stealth fighter, it is even closer.

For this reason, in tactical use, -1 is often used in conjunction with -2 tactical early warning aircraft.

Only over the ocean, -1 is active alone, because the background interference of the ocean is much lower, and the impact on -1 is not very large.

In this war, the Chinese Air Force's ability to overwhelm the Japanese Air Force is an indelible contribution.

According to the information released by the Chinese Air Force after the war, more than 80% of the results in air combat are related to -1. Without the support of -1, even -30 may not be able to kill, at least it is impossible to easily defeat the opponent and achieve such a huge gap in combat results.

The combination of l-1 and -30 can be said to be a typical representative of the fifth generation of air-control power.

The only combination of -12 and f-44 can be compared.

After eight o'clock, Captain Sun Houting finished his dinner and went to the pilot rest and standby center according to regulations to replace the pilot who was about to fly a fighter plane and perform the ground standby mission.

Because there are enough pilots and the combat pressure is not very high, fighter pilots like Sun Houting stationed in China all make the service according to the normal aircraft. In other words, the pilot's time is divided into three parts: rest, preparation, standby and attendance. After resting for twelve hours, the preparation will be completed for four hours, then standby on the ground for four hours, and finally take off for four hours to patrol.

In this way, a pilot only needs to take off once a day.

If the fighter does not have a fault, two flight crews are required to ensure they are dispatched twice a day.

Because the fighter jets need to be maintained regularly, the pilots of the two crews will receive a day off after completing the three-day deployment.

Obviously, for pilots, this is not a wartime standard at all.

Sun Houting was a little envious of his comrades deployed in the Northeast because they could be dispatched twice a day and had the chance to compete with the enemy on the battlefield.

One-third of his classmates at the aviation school went to the Northeast, and several of them reaped results.

Sun Houting was a little depressed because it was not because his flight skills were not good, but when he made a two-way choice, he chose the 14th Aviation Division deployed outside Suzhou. At that time, he thought that the possibility of a war in the Taiwan Strait was much greater, so he felt that the Nanjing Military Region was more promising.

Who would have thought that the situation in the Taiwan Strait was calm and quiet.

"Why, are you planning to write a transfer report?"

Hearing the hello, Sun Houting would turn around and see his partner Captain Wu Zhongbang walking towards him with the pilot's helmet.

"Is it useful?" Sun Houting always wanted to join the war, so for more than ten days, he wrote three transfer letters, but was beaten back by the division commander.

"You have to persist, like the protagonist in Shawshank's Redemption, write a transfer report every week. If it doesn't work, write one every day." Wu Zhongbang sat on the bench opposite and said with a smile, "As long as you never get tired of it and compete with your teacher for endurance, you will definitely get what you want."

Sun Houting smiled and shook his head, got up to sort out his storage locker.

"I heard that 'Hero Hua' shot down another enemy plane, only one result from the double-produced ace."

"Is that true?" Sun Houting said, and closed the cabinet hard.

"Hua Yingxiong" was their squad leader when he was in the aviation school. Because his surname was Hua, he had this nickname. He is now the major squadron leader of the 7th Air Division and one of the pilots with the most results in this war. Sun Houting was a little dissatisfied because he was the deputy squad leader in the aviation school and had been competing with the squad leader.

"Be patient, the opportunity is coming soon."

Sun Houting was stunned for a moment and looked at Wu Zhongbang.

"Remember the secret of the division headquarters?"

"She is your fellow villager?"

Wu Zhongbang nodded and said, "Last night, I invited her to dinner and got some news. The division headquarters has received an order from the headquarters and will soon join the war."

Sun Houting was stunned and sat down immediately.

Wu Zhongbang's fellow villager was the secret of the combat department of the division headquarters. He looked pretty good, but he was a little bit ice and snow. Usually everyone likes to joke about her. A few good pilots even made secret bets to see who could get her in. I heard that the bet has accumulated more than 200,000.

As far as Sun Houting knew, Wu Zhongbang also bet heavily.

Of course, this has little to do with Sun Houting. He already has NV friends and is his high school classmate. The two originally planned to get married on National Day. Because they were from the same place, their parents had already met and discussed the wedding at the beginning of the year.

Now it seems that the wedding will definitely be postponed, at least until after the war is over.

"Don't tell anyone else about this."

"Don't you believe me?"

Wu Zhongbang smiled and lowered his voice, saying: "The news is very reliable. After the first phase of the bombing is over, the Marines will gather, and the next step is to attack the Okinawa Islands. The Air Force Command did not make any adjustments to the deployment, which means that we will act as the air vanguard."

"About when will it start?"

Just as Wu Zhongbang was about to speak, two pilots came to the standby room. He also closed his mouth and made a gesture to tell Sun Houting to be patient.

Sun Houting sighed, feeling that Wu Zhongbang said nothing.

In his opinion, even if the war has not escalated, the Air Force will undergo a major rotation in half a month, allowing the Air 14th Division to replace the Air 7th Division or other tactical aviation divisions, and let the troops that had fought for a month be withdrawn and rest. After just one month, there may not be so many opportunities.

In less than five minutes, all eight standby units arrived at the standby room.

They will all stay here for the next four hours, making sure to fly the fighter into the air within five minutes of receiving the order.

The hangar is right next to it, and eight fighter jets have already completed preparations before takeoff.

At this time, the F-22 driven by Major Ryota Takagi had left Japan's mainland and flew more than 800 kilometers over the Pacific Ocean south of Honshu Island.

According to the plan, four F-22s carrying out bombing missions will be combined with the refueling opportunity in half an hour.

Because we had to avoid the Chinese Air Force's air defense line and enter the East China Sea from the south of the Miyako Islands, the attack distance of the aircraft fleet exceeded 2,500 kilometers. After completing the mission, the F-22 aircraft fleet did not have to return to the local area, but flew to Kadena Air Force Base, replenish fuel before returning.

In this way, the fleet only needs to refuel in the air after flying 1,500 kilometers.

Perhaps in order to avoid the Chinese fleet that has been moving south in the local area, the fleet led by Ryotaka Takagi has been flying over the sea. The cruise speed is only one Mach one, about one thousand four hundred kilometers per hour. Only when refueling in the air can the flight altitude be increased to two thousand meters.

In order to operate concealedly, the Air Force did not dispatch early warning aircraft.

In fact, the Japanese Air Force does not have many early warning aircraft.

Half an hour passed quickly. After receiving the message from the tanker, Ryotaka Takagi took the lead in pulling up the fighter and approached the tanker in front.
Chapter completed!