At about 9 a.m., Li Hai arrived in the designated airspace.
The Sulawesi Sea is not well-known. It is neither a sea area that important routes pass through nor an important geographical location. There are several countries nearby. When flying through international airspace, it is more than 300 kilometers farther than the straight-line distance.
Li Hai flew very cautiously in international airspace, with international air routes above his head.
He intentionally got in touch with the big black fish. After sending a radio signal, there was no reply for a long time, which meant that the big black fish was already in a diving state.
The weather was very good, with sparse clouds and stable airflow. There was no sign of a catastrophe coming.
Li Hai slowly descended from the flight altitude and visually observed the sea surface conditions. Judging from the whitening waves, the sea conditions were not good, but not bad either. For ocean-going ships with tens of thousands of tons, tens of thousands of tons, hundreds of thousands of tons, or hundreds of thousands of tons.
To put it bluntly, a wave height of just a few meters is nothing at all.
One thing that is certain is that Big Black Fish must have discovered something on the seabed. Maybe he discovered changes in the trench during his extreme dive, or maybe he heard unusual noises from the trench during sonar search training.
Big Black Fish's judgment cannot be wrong, otherwise they would not report to the Submarine Command and send a copy to the Forgotten Reef long-wave radio station at the same time. All naval vessels operating in this sea area know that the nearest contact station is Forgotten Reef.
If there is a situation where it is impossible to contact the submarine command, the long-wave radio station on the Forgotten Reef is their only point of contact.
Li Hai's eyes suddenly condensed and he saw the whirlpool.
He hurriedly steered over and took a closer look. Oh, what a big whirlpool. He checked the direction of the trench in the topographic map of the Sulawesi Sea and compared it with the coordinates of the whirlpool. It was right above the trench. It was certain.
What is surprising is that not only are the trenches changing, but new cracks are definitely appearing on the seafloor, creating whirlpools.
He adjusted the channel to the international channel, and as soon as he entered it, he heard English with various accents rushing wildly. He listened carefully, and it was all about the whirlpool. Basically, they were informing each other about the situation of the whirlpool to avoid being affected.
Freeing up one hand to take out the camera, he flew around the whirlpool and gradually lowered his altitude. Li Hai started taking photos of the whirlpool, 360 degrees without blind spots, taking photos at different heights, angles and distances in one go.
More than a hundred pictures.
"Tower, Cave Three reported that a whirlpool was found on the water surface, about 800 meters in diameter, and there are signs of expansion. The coordinates are..."
For a while, there was no reply from the tower.
Li Hai frowned and called a second time.
Still no reply.
The tower called Li Hai earlier, but found that he could not be called. At this time, Xue Zhengrong realized that a serious mistake had been made - the mission airspace exceeded the maximum communication distance.
The Forgotten Reef Independent Brigade generally operates within a range of 500 kilometers. To be precise, it has never operated beyond the east, west, and south lines. Their missions are protection, assistance, and police patrols, and they have no combat missions.
This time it was the first time to travel 1,000 kilometers eastward.
The maximum detection range of the radar on Forgotten Reef is less than 1,000 kilometers, which means that the tower can no longer see the position of J-8F No. 81103 at this time.
This is not a problem. When fighter jets at land-based stations engage in long-distance flight training, they disappear from land-based radars most of the time.
Before the Beidou system came into service, when conducting long-distance flight training, the ground command post and the air formation were unable to contact each other for a period of time and could not provide guidance. The air formation had to rely on itself. After the Beidou system came into service, this problem was solved.
Theoretically, air formations can communicate with ground command posts anywhere in the world.
The problem is that the J-8F does not have a Beidou communication system and can only rely on shortwave radio to maintain contact with the Forgotten Reef tower.
1,000 kilometers is far beyond the combat range of airborne shortwave radio stations.
Xue Zhengrong immediately took remedial measures.
"The Party is for the People! Take off immediately!" Xue Zhengrong pointed at the Party for the People, "Open 81101, go quickly!"
"yes!"
Dang Weimin quickly left the tower and ran to the flight briefing room to dress, and then rushed to the apron, where Li Yuanchao and others were conducting emergency inspections on J-8FR No. 81101 before takeoff.
It is a common practice to use another fighter plane as a communication relay. Each fighter plane has passive signal relay equipment. Assuming that Li Hai's communication distance is 300 kilometers and the party is 300 kilometers away, then he sends
The shortwave signal will be received by the fighter plane flown by Dang Weimin, and then directly transmitted back to the ground command post. If the distance is still not enough, then the signal forwarded by the Dang Weimin fighter plane will be received by other fighters, and then try to transmit it back to the ground command post.
Passive relay does not require manual operation by the pilot.
This is the purpose of letting the party take off for the people.
However, the communication distance of the J-8F was still not enough, so Xue Zhengrong asked Dang Weimin to fly the J-8FR tactical reconnaissance aircraft and mount a communication pod to increase the communication distance. Dang Weimin only needed to fly to a location three hundred kilometers away from Li Hai.
It can play the role of communication relay.
The maintenance staff attached two auxiliary fuel tanks to J-8FR No. 81101, hung a communication pod on the heavy-duty pylon under the belly of the aircraft, filled it with fuel, and handed the aircraft over to the Party and the People.
The party took off urgently for the people and rushed to the airspace over the Sulawesi Sea.
Unable to call the Forgotten Reef tower, Li Hai quickly realized what the problem was. He suddenly lost ground guidance and instructions. For a moment, Li Hai panicked and didn't know what to do next.
He quickly calmed down and thought about it carefully, maybe this was not a bad thing.
Furthermore, there will be more and more ultra-long-distance training in the future, and it is not advisable to develop the habit of relying on ground command and guidance.
Just take this opportunity to exercise.
A new pilot in his unit who has been in the army for less than three months has continuously performed high-risk and difficult flying subjects, and it can only appear in a special place like Forgotten Reef. If he is in the Flying Shark Unit or other shore-based aviation units, he wants to
Don't even think about it.
After thinking about it, Li Hai stopped being nervous and kept flying around, maintaining an appropriate altitude and airspeed, and observing changes in the vortex and sea conditions.
When an earthquake occurs on the bottom of the sea, the sea surface must be the first to change. If you keep an eye on this sea area, you will definitely be able to see the clues.
Li Hai could stay here for more than an hour, and he was not in a hurry.
In fact, after knowing that the earthquake had a high probability of not having an impact on the sea area where the Forgotten Reef is located and the international waterways, his attitude was not very positive. When he knew that the tsunami would cause devastating damage to the unprepared coastal city of Ike Island,
At that time, he actually felt a little secretly happy in his heart.
Of course, he knew that he was narrow-minded, but he had no intention of changing, especially when facing the Thousand Island Country.
He liked the words of a certain great emperor very much: Whatever crime they committed will be judged by God, and I will be responsible for sending them to see God.
Now, a major earthquake from the bottom of the sea seems unavoidable. Li Hai thinks that he is doing the best he can by being here to collect relevant information as much as possible.
However, even if a major earthquake occurs, it may not trigger a tsunami.
Li Hai's mood was very complicated. He neither hoped it would happen nor hoped it would happen as soon as possible. In the face of natural disasters, all mankind should stand together to deal with them. However, from a personal emotional point of view, he hoped that the judgment from nature would bring justice to those who had committed the crime.
Some people who have committed heinous crimes will go to the eighteen levels of hell and never be reincarnated...
