After the fighter plane stopped and the engine was turned off, Li Tianling breathed a sigh of relief.

Even Li Tianling, the most outstanding fighter pilot in the Imperial Air Force, was extremely scared when he thought about it.

When climbing to the extreme height, in order to give the missile a better shooting angle, Li Tianling took the risk of pulling up the fighter jet.

This action almost caused the fighter to enter the tail spin state.

Fortunately, Li Tianling was very clear about the challenges he had to face and knew how to deal with them. He was not panicked by facing extreme situations.

During the training in the previous two days, Li Tianling mainly taught the key points before and after launching the missile.

There is only one key point to say.

The actual flight envelope of "War-11B" is slightly larger than that specified in the flight manual, leaving about 5% safety redundancy.

When launching missiles when reaching the edge of the flight envelope, there will be no danger.

As for challenging the actual flight envelope of "War-11B", that is not a wise act.

When the ground crew climbed up and helped Li Tianling leave the cockpit, the second "Battle-11B" had returned and landed smoothly on the runway.

Getting off the fighter plane, Li Tianling did not rush to leave.

Subsequently, the other three "War-11B" returned one after another.

After seeing the last pilot come out of the cockpit, Li Tianling felt completely relieved.

In any case, these squadron leaders and squads were elites with flight time of more than 3,000 hours, and all of them had experienced the test of war.

Anti-satellite missions are difficult, but compared with air combat, they are not considered dangerous at all.

After the other four pilots arrived, Li Tianling asked the servants to drive them to the pilot's lounge and replaced them with bulky anti-duty suits.

This thing looks like a space suit, but it is much heavier than the space suit and is completely airtight.

After only one hour or so, Li Tianling was already sweating profusely and weighed at least 3 kilograms lighter.

Not tired, but hot!

After taking a cool shower, Li Tianling went to the command center of the base.

The interception results have come out. Five XKT-1 missiles destroyed 2 satellites, and one satellite was intercepted, but it did not deviate from orbit, so it was impossible to tell whether it had been destroyed. Two missiles directly off the target, and to be precise, they did not detonate the warhead at the predetermined location.

If you want to say, this is also the key to the fact that XKT-1 has not passed the acceptance after nearly 10 years of development.

Just like KT-2, XKT-1 also uses a high-explosion warhead to destroy satellites by relying on debris generated by the explosion, as well as thermal radiation and shock waves.

Using a high-explosive warhead on KT-2 is not a problem.

The reason is simple. The carrying capacity of KT-2 reaches 500 kilograms. Even when dealing with satellites with orbital height of 2,000 kilometers, it can reach 200 kilograms. It can be filled with enough explosives and debris, and the explosion killing range is large enough to pose a huge threat to the satellite.

As for the kinetic energy warhead used to deal with satellites operating at a height of 5,000 kilometers, it has not been successfully developed so far.

But the problem is, XKT-1 is much smaller!

Although the launch mass is close to 3 tons, less than 50 kilograms are left to the warhead, and even if the performance requirements are reduced, it is only 100 kilograms.

This is why, when the project was established, the Air Force firmly demanded the adoption of kinetic energy warheads.

This is also the key reason why the latest improvement of KT-2, namely the KT-2C's warhead is limited to 100 kg, so as to share the warhead with XKT-1.

Because the development of the kinetic energy warhead is too difficult and the supporting guidance system is too advanced, there are many technical problems that cannot be overcome at the moment, so the KT-2C has been in the planning stage, and XKT-1 has to temporarily replace it with the high-explosive warhead.

The previous live ammunition tests were all equipped with high-explosion warheads.

As for the test results, they are not ideal at all.

The reason is also very simple. The 100 kg high-explosion warhead is too small and the killing radius is very small. If the guidance accuracy is not high enough, the missile will easily fall off the target.

How big is this 100kg warhead? Just make a simple comparison.

Modern long-range air defense missiles, such as the "Arrower" DK-10A that has been deployed to Saudi Arabia, have a warhead of more than 100 kg. Some, such as the 5V55 series missiles used in the S-300 system of Xiluosha, have a total mass of nearly 200 kg.

When the guidance progress is not enough, in order to improve the killing effect of the missile, the power of the warhead can only be enhanced.

Whether it is increasing the charge, loading more fragments, or adopting a more complex destroy mechanism, it will cause the warhead to become heavier.

But the problem is that the missile's warhead cannot be unrestricted.

Affected by this, the Imperial Air Force has long shifted its focus to the kinetic energy warhead.

According to the Imperial Air Force's plan, not only XKT-1 and KT-2C, but also the next generation of "Arrower" air defense and anti-missile systems will use interceptor missiles equipped with Dongneng warheads. When the technology is further mature, especially after the development of electronic original miniaturization technology, the Air Force will also consider using kinetic energy warheads on air-to-air missiles, thereby giving air-to-air missiles a longer range and greater power.

Because the high-explosion warhead is indeed not good enough, the XKT-1 has not passed the test and has never entered the mass production stage.

After getting the results, Li Tianling immediately made arrangements and made a second interception in the afternoon, but a more detailed report is needed for how to fight.

The key is whether the third satellite was destroyed by a missile.

If it has been destroyed, it can be concentrated on dealing with the other two satellites.

If not, then you have to consider reinterception.

It was almost 1 o'clock, and the Air Force Command sent the latest news.

It has been confirmed that the two destroyed satellites have the highest value, and these two satellites must have undergone orbital maneuvering during this orbit period, and their height has been significantly reduced. The implication is to go to the huge land battlefield to collect military intelligence from the Oriental Group.

As for the other three satellites, the threat is not too great because they did not perform a second orbital maneuver.

Afterwards, Li Tianling led a team to the Officer's Restaurant.

Because the Air Force Command did not order the cancellation of the afternoon's interception operation, Li Tianling decided to continue his efforts and strive to capture the other three satellites.

Of course, you have to fill your stomach first.

If you have enough time, you can still have a half hour rest.

However, before Li Tianling finished lunch, Ding Zhennan arrived.

When he met Ding Zhennan, Li Tianling knew that there must be a new task.

In fact, throughout August, Li Tianling was "increasing trouble" to Ding Zhennan.

The reason is that there is no need for air combat aircraft in Boshawan.

The Iraqi Air Force has long been defeated, most of the fighter planes were destroyed on the ground, and a few surviving combat aircraft also fled to Boi more than a month ago.

On the side of Posa Bay, what you really need is a multi-purpose fighter that hangs bombs to perform bombing missions.

Of course, both "War-10" and "War-16" have strong enough air combat capabilities. Even when performing bombing missions, they will be equipped with two fighting missiles that use from defense. There is no need for "War-11B" to provide escort cover, and early warning aircraft and support aircraft are even deployed in the rear.

Even if there is a possibility of going to war with Boy, isn’t there still the Imperial Navy’s carrier-based aviation force?

In Li Tianling's words, the Navy has always been dissatisfied and believes that the "War-9B" is the best fighter jet today, so let the Navy prove it.

To be honest, the Posa Bay War lasted for more than a month, and the Navy's "War-9B" had not received any chance to fire.

The recorded air battles were actually intercepting missions. The invading enemy aircraft was an MG-25 that could fly Mach 3, and the "War-9B" could not catch up at all.

Since you don’t even have the chance to make soy sauce in Boshawan, it’s better to return to the Northwest War Zone as soon as possible.

The key is that there are more opportunities to make contributions there.

At least in the eyes of "ace" pilots like Li Tianling, the MG-29 fighters of the Xiluosha Air Force, the "Storm" ADV of the Tianman Air Force, and the "Phantom 2000" of the Locke Air Force, all of them were flying in the sky, waiting for them to pick the military medals!

For this reason, last month, Li Tianling went to Ding Zhennan every day and asked Ding Zhennan to open a "outing order" for him.

Several other pilots were very sensible and took the initiative to give up their seats when they came over Ding Zhennan.

"Staff Officer Ding, we are doing pretty well, are we?"

Although his military rank is several levels higher than Ding Zhennan, his authority is there, no matter whether Li Tianling is convinced or not, he must be more polite to Ding Zhennan.

"Battle Li, your request has been approved."

Ding Zhennan was very direct, which made Li Tianling uncomfortable.

"I just received it. You set off this evening and flew to the Peshawar Air Base in Pakistan by transport plane. There will be arrangements there and joining the bomber troops."

"bomber?"

"I don't know very well what the specific mission is. The only thing that is certain is that you will follow the bomber to the Northwest War Zone to participate in the war."

Li Tianling's brows jumped a few times.

What Ding Zhennan said made him feel very upset.

If you only carry out strategic bombing missions, this is obviously a bit of a big deal.

The reason is also very simple. Modern strategic bombing does not mean flying over the target to drop bombs, but allowing the bomber to project cruise missiles thousands of kilometers away. Only when dealing with shallow-deep targets will the bomber use short-range missiles or gliding bombs.

Before seizing absolute air supremacy, there is no possibility of flying to local local areas to drop bombs.

The key is that no bomber can break through the air defense system composed of air defense radar and air defense missiles.

It is precisely because of this that the Imperial Air Force gave up the tactic of escorting bombers and no longer specializes in developing long-range fighters to escort bombers.

Of course, heavy fighters are long-range fighters.

It would be even more unreasonable if it weren't for the escort of the bomber.

To go to the Northwest War Zone, you can stop and refuel at the Pakistan Railway at most, and you don’t even need to land. You can bypass the Boyi Kingdom and reach Dongluosha by doing aerial refueling.

So, what are the reasons to join the bombers deployed in the rear?
To be continued...