In Qinghai Lake, a modified flat-bottomed barge floated quietly on the lake.

This is a barge used to transport potassium salt. It was bought by the Air Force six months ago. Several close-range self-defense weapon systems and electronic equipment were installed on it, and it was converted into an unmanned ship. In the following six months, a mysterious force entered the Daheba Air Force Base and began to carry out training missions over Qinghai Lake.

In fact, this is a test force jointly established by the Air Force and the Navy Air Force.

The unit was equipped with only five aircraft, two of which were HNA's Su-30mkk, two were Air Force's J-10, and one was an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

These five aircraft are not simple, especially the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft with a strange appearance and a wingspan of nearly 40 meters.

Over the plateau south of Qinghai Lake, two su-30mkks lined up in echelons flew north at a height of about 1,100 kilometers per hour at a height of about 150 meters from the ground.

In the cockpit of the leading aircraft, Liang Guoxiang focused on controlling the fighter jet, while Di Boqing provided him with navigation information.

"It's five meters tall and it's converted to manual control."

"Turn to manual control." Liang Guoxiang grabbed the joystick. "Damn it, can you measure the height of five meters?"

"Brother Liang, don't get angry. The image is sent to you. You can see it on the posture display."

Looking at the route data appearing on the screen on the left, Liang Guoxiang sighed and looked up at the sky ahead.

The formation flight information is provided by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flying at an altitude of 18,000 meters, rather than measured by the ground radio altimeter on the fighter plane.

For half a year, Liang Guoxiang and the others have been practicing attack tactics guided by unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

In this new set of tactics, the key role is the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

Relying on the "Longxiang Battery" and superconducting motor, the "Gully Vulture" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft with a self-weight of 17 tons can fly for 54 hours at a height of 18,000 meters, or fly to a 5,400-kilometer-long war zone at a speed of 540 kilometers per hour, and then perform 12-hour search and reconnaissance missions. If the ground-friendly solar panels being developed by Xi'an Aircraft Company can be integrated into the wings of the "Gully Vulture" ground, the endurance of the "Gully Vulture" can be at least twice.

What is really amazing about the "Vulture" is not its flight performance.

Compared with the US military and local "Global Hawk", especially the 40-type "Global Hawk". The flight performance of the "Global Hawk" is not outstanding. Several major performances are a little worse than that of the "Global Hawk".

What makes "Vulture" the protagonist is its powerful information collection, joint command and battlefield reconnaissance capabilities.

Three broadband satellite communication lines and five tactical data links enable the "Vulture" to receive information sent by three military satellites at the same time, and maintain communication with the command center while providing tactical information to four fighter jets.

The high-resolution optical digital camera and millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radar give the "Vulture" two eyes that are hundreds of times sharper than Hawkeye, allowing it to see the numbers on the car at an altitude of 18,000 meters, or identify the specific models of tanks with radar. The Air Force also plans to equip the "Vulture" with infrared and ultraviolet phase gauges to enable it to detect ballistic missiles hundreds of kilometers away.

How to exert the powerful ability of the "Vulture" has become an important tactical subject for the Air Force and HNA.

After half a year of hard training, Liang Guoxiang, Di Boqing, and the ones on the fighter plane behind, Major Zhu Ronghui and Captain Yang Jinjie, who also came from HNA, have explored more than a dozen new tactics and have initially mastered these tactics.

Today, they will play two roles at the same time.

First, in the sea attack mode, under the guidance of the "Vulture", and using the target information provided by the "Vulture", the flat-bottomed barges of the imaginary enemy were attacked with anti-ship missiles. Then, it switched to the anti-aircraft combat mode, playing the imaginary enemy of the Air Force, and intercepting two J-10 fighters supported by the "Vulture" and launching a sudden attack.

In order to achieve realistic effects, two su-30mkks have already flew 1,200 kilometers near Kunlun Mountain.

Now, it is less than three hundred kilometers away from the target.

"Brother Liang, I have received the target data."

"Enter the data into the missile guidance system." Liang Guoxiang looked back at the wingman in the left rear, "the missile will be launched in fifteen seconds."

"Understand, enter fire control data."

Under Di Boqing's operation, the fire control computer inputted the target information he had just received to the guidance system of the anti-ship missile under the wings on both sides. At this time, Captain Yang Jinjie on the wingman also completed the same operation.

In order to achieve the effect of a sudden attack, the two Su-30mkks flew very low altitude throughout the entire journey, relying entirely on the data provided by the "Vulture" to attack the target. There is no need to use fire-controlled radar to illuminate the target as before launching the missile. In this way, before the attack, the two Su-30mkks will not send any radio signals, and they will not even have to climb high to find the target.

"The guidance information is loaded and requested to launch the missile."

Liang Guoxiang hesitated for a moment and said, "You can launch missiles."

As Di Boqing pressed the control button for launching the missile, the explosion bolt on the hanger detonated, and two heavy anti-ship missiles weighing 1.8 tons were thrown out. Liang Guoxiang's reaction was very fast. As soon as the fighter jumped less than ten meters, he suppressed the nose and re-controlled the flight altitude.

When about fifty meters away from the ground, the rocket-ramjet engines on the four missiles are started. Within five seconds, the missile's flight speed exceeds Mach 2 and the engine works in ram mode. When it reaches the sky above Qinghai Lake, the missile's flight altitude is reduced to less than twenty meters. Fifteen seconds before hitting the target, the missile enters the self-guided stage. According to the attack mode that has been set, the missile will choose to jump up and dive attack, or skip sea level attack. In the end, the barge is destroyed by the missile, which means that the missile is shot down by the rapid-fire cannon on the barge.

"Shall out the secondary fuel tank and turn to air combat mode, with a height of 6,500, 8-shaped flight lines, and search for nearby airspace."

"No. 2 understands that the height is 6,500, and the air combat mode."

Two su-30mkk fighter jets pulled up one by one, and the airborne fire control radar was immediately activated to start searching for the surrounding airspace.

Air combat is completely different from sea combat, especially when there is no early warning aircraft support.

The h001m Doppler fire control radar equipped on the su-30mkk has a detection distance of 180 kilometers for targets with a radar reflection cross-sectional area of ​​five square meters, and a tracking distance of 120 kilometers. It can track eight aerial targets at the same time and attack two of the most threatening targets.

At this time, Liang Guoxiang and the others were going to challenge the second j-10.

Neither Liang Guoxiang nor Zhu Ronghui have much confidence in defeating his opponents.

The two J-10s sent by the Air Force are not ordinary models, but the latest models. In addition to using new engines and greatly improving maneuverability, they are also equipped with more advanced passive detection equipment. The fuselage is coated with a composite material that can absorb radar waves, and the radar reflection cross-sectional area is less than one square meter.

In the previous few training sessions, su-30mkk failed to gain much advantage.

If there is support from the air early warning aircraft, Su-30mkk still has some chance of winning. But now, not only do they not have the support from the air early warning aircraft, their opponents can also rely on the battlefield information provided by the "Vulture" to quietly approach and launch an attack without any consciousness.

There is no suspense in this battle.

As time passed by minute by minute, Liang Guoxiang became more and more uneasy.

"Brother Liang, how do you think those two Air Force bastards will deal with us? They won't go behind our butts and use machine guns to kill us like they did last drill?"

"It's not that outrageous." Liang Guoxiang breathed a sigh of relief, "This time it's a combat effectiveness test drill. They will definitely launch missiles outside the visual field, and then use data links to provide guidance information for the missiles, which will not give us a chance to fight back."

"Damn it, if we beat it like this, can't we become the fish on the chopping board?"

"What's the solution?" Liang Guoxiang smiled bitterly, "Who told the Indian Air Force to equip su-30mki, and we became the most ideal 'important enemy'?"

"However, the Indian Air Force has early warning aircraft. To make the drill closer to actual combat, we should provide early warning aircraft."

"Stop talking, pay attention to the radar warning aircraft." Liang Guoxiang glanced around, "Those two bastards will not be hidden all the time. The data link can only provide medium-range guidance information. Ten seconds before the missile arrives, they must illuminate us with fire-controlled radar, otherwise the missile will not be able to obtain the final attack data."

"I understand, there are only ten seconds left for us to pray."

As soon as Di Boqing finished speaking, the radar alarm plane screamed.

Liang Guoxiang immediately pressed down the joystick and pressed the launch button of the radar jamming bomb. The radar on the j-10 fighter can obtain the necessary data in only five seconds. If it cannot leave the illumination range of the opponent's fire-controlled radar within five seconds, it will definitely be "shooted down".

“Where are they?”

"Not on the left rear, not on the right rear, and the radar did not find the enemy plane. Damn, where are they?"

"Damn it, let's fight!" Liang Guoxiang felt excited. This was the result of rapid secretion of adrenaline.

Two su-30mkks rushed towards the lake below like meteors.

The radar alarm aircraft did not stop, and the frequency of alarm sounds was getting higher and higher.

When the red signal light lit up, the alarm stopped abruptly. Liang Guoxiang immediately pulled back the joystick and increased the accelerator. When the su-30mkk was changed to dive, a white airflow was pulled over the lake.

"Falcon, here is the command center. The exercise is over and the ultra-low altitude returns. Repeat it, the exercise is over and the ultra-low altitude returns."

"The command center, here is the Falcon, received the order and returned to the air at a very low altitude."

After changing the flight status to automatic control mode, Liang Guoxiang pushed up the goggles in his helmet and wiped off the sweat from his face.

There is no suspense. Without even seeing the shadow of the "enemy plane", it was shot down by the medium-range air-to-air missile launched by the "enemy plane".

Liang Guoxiang was a little unwilling to give up. He was really better than fighting. He would not lose to the fighter pilot of the Air Force.

Thinking of this, Liang Guoxiang looked up at the sky above his head.

A drone that is not equipped with any weapon, cannot attack any target, and does not even require pilots, completely changed the combat mode between the Air Force and the Navy aviation force and subverted all tactics.

Fortunately, this revolution took place in the Republic's army.

When the two su-30mkks disappeared into the mountains, the flat-bottomed barges that were blown into pieces by four anti-ship missiles also disappeared without a trace.
Chapter completed!