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"Don't worry, the tanker has already set off, and the ground crew will have to wait half an hour before leaving..." Xia Fei assured Liu Yijiu, "If the opponent escalates provocatively tonight, this kind of deployment would be inappropriate."

Everyone is clear.

"This is also impossible. Our ground crew training has never kept up. This time, some Soviet ground crews followed." Li Yunlong is responsible for most of the logistics and knows this.

Liu Yijiu nodded and said nothing.

The first batch of J-10s had already flown halfway. During the night flight, there were not many planes in the sky. After a period of calming down, everyone was not as excited as when they first set off.

The entire formation kept radio silent, and only the Beidou satellites in the sky could determine their location based on the satellite signals above.

Chengdu, Phoenix Mountain Airport, is brightly lit this night.

A large number of J-7 and J-8II of the Rongcheng Air Force are stationed here. Qiangwu has been transferred from this airport long ago.

On both sides of the airport runway, there are neatly arranged J-7s on one side and J-8ii neatly arranged on the other. These fighters are not necessarily owned by the Rongcheng Air Force. In recent years, the Air Force has equipped a large number of these two fighters for use. Replace the top five of the J-6.

At the end of the airport runway, there is a huge hangar with a concave shape. The gates of the hangar are usually closed. At this time, the huge gate has been opened, revealing the huge fighter plane inside.

The ground crew waved the red flag in their hands. The pilot in the cockpit of the plane calmly controlled the fighter plane to taxi out of the hangar and finally stopped in the middle of the runway.

This is the equipment of the Tu-22m Backfire Bomber Group, which belongs to the Strategic Support Group of the Blue Army.

The fighter plane parked in the middle of the runway, compared with the J-7 and J-8ii next to it, is like a giant standing among the general population.

Some of the Chengdu Air Force pilots who performed night training looked enviously at the pilots on these huge fighter planes. Although they were stationed at the same airport, they were not the same unit, and even their treatment was different.

"You can take off!" The tower replied, causing the Tu-22m tail to start emitting huge flames. At that moment, the roar sounded over the entire airport runway, the louder and further.

Three consecutive Tu-22m backfire bombers took off and formed a triangular formation over 30 kilometers east of the airport and flew slowly towards the east.

"How come the escort formation hasn't arrived yet?" With a satellite connection, the location of these aircraft can be clearly seen on the satellite image of the command base inside Daba Mountain.

"There are still three minutes before the escort formation arrives!" Xia Fei said to Liu Yijiu, "This is in our hinterland, so there will be no problem."

Liu Yijiu frowned. Three minutes is not a short time. If there is a war, an air battle will be able to tell the winner, not to mention that there are no bombers with strong air combat capabilities.

"From tomorrow, it will be changed to a two-aircraft formation." Liu Yijiu looked at the three-aircraft formation, thinking that it would be difficult to maintain the bomber's pressure on the East China Sea area. "In addition, the escort formation must take off early and get used to it. Iraq battlefield Above, the bombers and transport planes that were not escorted were attacked by the Iraqi Air Force. I hope everyone will not forget that although the speed of the Tu-22m is faster than that of our fighter planes, this is not a fighter specially developed for aerial combat, but a bomber... …"

Xia Fei nodded.

"Are the tankers ready? We can be prepared. We need tankers to be able to respond at any time. The escorted fighters have a combat radius of only 1,300 kilometers. Although they can return safely, we must not allow any accidents. All aerial tankers All on standby!" Liu Yijiu constantly adjusted the plan according to the situation of the entire aircraft.

From Daba Mountain to the eastern sea baseline, the flight mileage is more than 1,700 kilometers. Just counting the voyage, the J-10 with 3,300 kilometers still has a lot of fuel left, but if you want to return, it will not be enough.

In the atmosphere, the airflow flies from the west to the east due to the rotation of the earth and the terrain. Because it is flying downwind, the same fuel will fly faster.When flying, the drag is much larger due to the windward flight, which makes the aircraft consume more fuel to maintain the same speed.

Not only do civil aviation need to consider these factors that affect aircraft flight, but fighter aircraft must also consider these factors. These factors have a great impact on the flight speed and dead time of fighter aircraft.

"All tankers have been deployed along the route. Although our fighters have a long enough range and have a combat radius almost twice as high as those in active service, it is impossible to extend the combat radius from the hinterland to that side. In the afternoon, the air tanker It has already been arranged. Other aviation bases do not have the fuel needed by our fighters. This is a big problem..." Xia Fei had a headache. "If Turbofan X uses ordinary aviation kerosene, there will be no such problem."

"Absolutely not! Ordinary aviation kerosene is very harmful to the service life of the engine. Our test has fully proved it."

Liu Yijiu shook his head resolutely.

The domestic oil refining technology is very backward, making the sulfur content in it higher than the standard. This damages the engine very seriously. The more powerful the engine, the more obvious the performance in this regard. The turbofan ten's aviation fuel is still in Under pressure from the military, two barrels of oil jointly developed a small-scale production technology.

High cost!

In addition, a special fuel catalyst is added to make the combustion more fully, making this fuel almost three times the price of fuel used by other domestic fighters.

Otherwise, I wouldn't bring a tanker.

"The first wave of tankers are already waiting at the refueling point!" Seeing three dots appeared on the satellite map, Xia Fei reminded everyone.

In the area above Wuhu, three Il-78 aerial tankers, with only the cccp logo removed and painted with an eight-pointed star, are in the combination of Soviet pilots as captains and Chinese pilots as deputy captains. Slowly hovering in the predetermined airspace.

The first six fighter jets to set off were hundreds of kilometers away.

"Open the communication channel and get ready for milk!" Seeing the three green dots on the radar, Yin Qingyuan opened the communication channel.

"Nanny One, we have already seen you, please adjust your posture, we are going to have milk..."

"Nanny No.1 received, please lower the speed, we are going to take off our clothes!" The three tankers in front changed from the original triangle formation to fly together.

When the big guys in the command center heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

"When did our pilot become so rippling?" Liu Yijiu also wryly smiled.Isn't it just doing air refueling? It is so volatile, "Ideological education must be strengthened!"

"Speed ​​460, course 93, altitude 7800, please pay attention to the wind, wind force 7, wind direction..." After communicating with the Soviet captain, the Chinese pilot of the aerial tanker said the parameters to the connected communication channel.

The distance of more than 100 kilometers, under the high-speed flight of the fighter plane, arrived in just a few minutes.

After reaching a distance of less than five kilometers, the three fighters lined up directly, each aimed at the bottom of one fighter.

"Attention, take off your clothes." When the fighter was less than a hundred meters away from the air tanker in front of it, and after flying for almost a minute, the air tanker popped up while maintaining a synchronized flight. Filling pipe.

At the same time, on the left side of the J-10's nose, there is also an oil delivery pipe of less than half a meter.

"Pay attention to adjust the attitude!" The pilot reminded the fighters behind that under the Beidou satellite, the parameters of both parties were clearly displayed in the installed system.

The pilots of the refueling fighter can see the docking of the refueling pipe with the refueling pipe with the naked eye. As long as they are aligned, the device on the top of the refueling pipe will tightly connect the refueling pipe.

The tens of meters long aerial refueling pipe kept swinging under the influence of the wind, and the fighters behind it adjusted its direction continuously, and finally the port of the refueling pipe was tightly connected with the oil delivery pipe.

I have practiced many times before and there is no problem at all.

On the ground, the operators of the radar stations monitoring along the route were a bit silly.

On the radar, there are six red dots. The front one is larger and the rear one is much smaller. A thin line can be clearly detected in the middle to connect.

If it had not been for the order above, the air defense alarms would have been sounded at the various monitoring stations, and the air defense forces might have fired missiles to knock down these enemy aircraft.

"What are they doing? They fly side by side!"

"Refueling in the air?"

"Nonsense, do we have a tanker in our country?"

There was a lot of discussion at each ground radar station, and the news kept reporting to the person in charge of the base.

After the air tanker was connected, the air refueling was started. Under the driving of the Soviet pilot, the tanker in the front flew very smoothly, and the fighter aircraft in the back also maintained the same speed. If the wind was stronger, they would speed up slightly. Ensure that the tubing does not cause problems due to excessive tension.

From the sky over Wuhu, it has been flying towards the east.

The destination of the three fighters was the HNA Sixth Division station on Baoxing Island.

This scene was also detected by HNA's radar.

"What's the situation?" The big guys of the East China Sea Fleet waiting in the Sixth Division couldn't help but wonder when they saw the situation displayed on the radar.

After flying for tens of kilometers, the fuel tank of the J-10 fighter was full, the refueling device was disengaged, and the tanker turned to the north to clear the airspace ahead, and the J-10 instantly began to accelerate.

As soon as the Blues came out, they staged an air milking scene of Chiguoguo in front of the troops over the east...