The entire Forgotten Reef has entered a state of combat readiness, including local staff and construction workers on the island and reef.
"Big Black Fish determines that the movement is in the Sulawesi Trench area, which is 1,200 kilometers away from our airport and less than 100 kilometers away from the nearest large island of a certain country. If a tsunami occurs, the large island of a certain country will be severely damaged!"
"A certain country's early warning and monitoring technology is very weak. They may not know that the Sulawesi Trench is undergoing abnormal movements. Therefore, what we need to do now is to find out the situation and report relevant information to the humanitarian rescue center of a certain country! Comrades, this is a human crisis
Let’s work together to fight against natural disasters!”
Xue Zhengrong made a brief mobilization. Li Hai was not yet able to control this situation. The military chief still had to take action at the critical moment.
Li Hai frowned slightly, then slowly relaxed it, with a vague smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
Xue Zhengrong noticed his abnormality, but didn't say anything.
Forgotten Reef is thousands of kilometers away from the Sulawesi Trench. Even if a magnitude 10 earthquake occurs there, it will have little impact on Forgotten Reef. Therefore, the first thing to consider is to issue navigation warnings to ships passing through this sea area and
Find out the situation and report the situation to a certain country.
The first thing Zhong Guobang is doing, the second thing can only be relied on the independent brigade.
With a round trip of 1,000 kilometers, plus the time spent in the mission airspace, the aircraft must have a maximum range of at least 2,800 kilometers, which is exactly the maximum range that the J-8F can achieve by adding three auxiliary fuel tanks.
There is no doubt that Lehi once again went into battle.
When Xue Zhengrong's body has not recovered to the state of go-around, only Li Hai and Dang Weimin can carry out the flight mission, and only Li Hai can carry out the all-weather flight mission.
I don’t know when, Li Hai inexplicably acquired the ability to fly around the clock, and everyone seemed to quickly adapt to this surprising change.
The staff sergeant carried a camera bag over and handed it to Li Hai. He introduced it, "A telephoto lens, a wide-angle lens and two spare batteries are enough. Deputy captain, please give it a try and I will teach you how to take pictures."
"I've used it before, and it's no problem." Li Hai checked it and after confirming that it could work normally, he held it in his hand.
Because the mission is non-military and the disaster situation needs to be reported to other national agencies, the reconnaissance equipment on the J-8FR No. 81101 cannot be used, and there is no way to use it. We can only use the camera to take pictures for analysis, and report verbally first, and then return to
A formal notification will be issued through other channels after ground clearance.
It was obviously very troublesome, and reporting it a second earlier might have saved many lives. However, this was already the limit of what the Forgotten Reef Independent Flying Brigade could do.
Before boarding the plane, Xue Zhengrong pulled Li Hai aside and warned sternly, "No matter what they have done to us in history, we must go all out to investigate this humanitarian disaster. Do you understand?"
Li Hai solemnly replied, "Yes! I promise to complete the task!"
"Ike Island is home to a small half of the Thousand Island Country's industries. It is only over a hundred kilometers away from the Sulawesi Trench. Theoretically, they have almost no warning time. The only person who can provide them with accurate disaster information now is
us."
"Xue Da, I understand. There are two coastal cities on Aike Island, which are famous ladies concentration areas in the Thousand Islands Country, with a permanent population of over one million. I have fully understood this information. Please rest assured that I will do my best to find out.
situation, timely feedback on the situation!”
Xue Zhengrong nodded slightly and was very satisfied with Li Hai's correct attitude. He patted Li Hai on the shoulder and said, "Let's go."
Li Hai put on his flight helmet, saluted Xue Zhengrong, and picked up his flight bag to board the plane. Li Yuanchao quickly went up to help Li Hai pick up various excuses to check the seat belts. After confirming that the aircraft was ready, he quickly came down and removed the boarding ladder.
The conductor waved the red and blue flags to signal the slide out.
Li Hai slowly pushed the throttle lever and slid it out quickly. After waiting in the take-off position for about a minute, the tower issued a timed take-off instruction.
J-8F No. 81103 taxied for more than 700 meters before lifting off the ground. After climbing several hundred meters, it turned to the left and sped away in the east direction.
Xue Zhengrong's steady take-off movement made Xue Zhengrong shake his head and smile bitterly, saying to himself, "This kid is just too narrow-minded."
I don't know what I thought of, so I breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said to myself, "That's fine."
When a new pilot realizes that he has become more proficient in controlling the fighter plane, he will try to make some bold moves, such as taking off harder, pulling up in advance or turning to climb in advance, just like he feels very proficient after learning to drive.
When starting, I will involuntarily step on the accelerator and rush out, looking for excitement.
Li Hai is currently in such a situation. In the past short period of time, in addition to leading the flight, his take-off movements have been very fast and violent, showing the passion of a young man.
During this emergency humanitarian reconnaissance mission, he seemed to have returned to his original nature and became more stable. Xue Zhengrong knew exactly what he was thinking.
After returning to the tower, Xue Zhengrong saw from the radar that the airspeed of J-8F No. 81103 remained at 900 kilometers per hour, which was consistent with the cruising speed of a civil airliner.
He shook his head slightly again, picked up the microphone and said seriously, "Dong San! Increase the speed to one thousand."
"Increase the speed to a thousand, got it."
Li Hai shook his head slightly and increased the accelerator.
The airspeed began to increase and gradually approached the speed of sound. He said, "Tower, the airspeed is one thousand and one. It cannot be increased any more. It's over."
With three auxiliary fuel tanks, if you want to fly at supersonic speeds, the fuel consumption will double. The J-8F can fly at supersonic speeds with external mounts. This will cause a serious problem
——The voyage will be greatly reduced.
Xue Zhengrong stopped asking Li Haifei to hurry up.
At a distance of 1,200 kilometers, the J-8F can basically only fly at the highest economic speed, and must try to avoid large overload maneuvers. Even the flight altitude is best kept at an altitude of 8,600 meters.
It takes Li Hai 1 hour and 15 minutes to reach the mission airspace, which is the coordinate point of the Sulawesi Trench marked in the Big Black Fish intelligence.
This process is lengthy.
Dang Weimin, who was also on the tower, was sitting in the deputy commander's position, but his expression was not as nervous as expected. Looking at the radar operator, weatherman, and the superior soldier's correspondent, they were all in normal condition.
Xue Zhengrong shook his head helplessly, and it could be seen that everyone was somewhat conflicted in their hearts.
Thinking of some things that happened decades ago, Xue Zhengrong sighed, "As the saying goes, it's not about not reporting that the day has not come, but doing your best to obey fate. It depends on the fate of Thousand Islands Country. Alas... I hope some people who have done many evil things will die without a burial place.
