The jet black F-15E fighter jet is flying at an altitude of about five thousand meters, its body tilted and circling in a large radius.
And just inside the circle where the fighter planes circled, there was a straight road.
On the road, there are some "attack targets" made of wooden boards and abandoned vehicles parked.
Four GBU-12 "Paveway" laser-guided bombs and a targeting pod are hung on the fighter's fuselage pylons.
The heads of these bombs are marked with yellow rings, indicating that they are completely "genuine."
Obviously, this is a live-fire training.
This is also thanks to the fact that the Shadao base receives a large amount of funding from the military every year, so it has a lot of money.
Many times there is no need to use something as petty as training ammunition.
To be precise, the dedicated training range area of the Sand Island Base is located on the continent where the empire is located. It is very troublesome to send special personnel to recover the training bombs. In this case, it is better to conduct training directly with live ammunition.
In short, Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin's mission today is to fly fighter planes and use bombs to destroy simulated targets on the ground.
At this time, more than half a month had passed since Wang Yu officially took over the F-15E.
It can be said that he has completely mastered the ability to fly this fighter plane.
After a while, it will be the day when he officially "graduates" from Instructor Xu.
At that time, he will become a member of the combat force of Shadao base.
Although they are still training with different contents every day, the current training is completely different from the previous training.
The previous training was mainly specialized training to familiarize Wang Yu with a specific system on the fighter aircraft.
Today's training is comprehensive, and different situations require different responses, testing all abilities of the pilots.
Moreover, both pilots and weapons system controllers need to complete their jobs.
The content of the training is also easy to understand. The base simulates various scenarios with targets on a fixed shooting range, and then the duo of Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin will use the weapon configurations in their hands to "process" these scenarios.
For example, today's training is that there is an enemy armored convoy on the road, and they need to destroy this convoy.
The F-15E arrived at the training area and then began to circle.
Wang Yu opened the weapon's main safety, switched to ground attack mode, and then let the fighter plane hover in a stable large radius while looking at the road where the target was located, waiting for Liu Lingxin in the back seat to complete the settings of the bomb, pod and laser guidance.
This is her job, so that pilots will not have to set these things during flight, and can focus more on their own job - flying, and pay attention to the special conditions around the target area.
Soon, Liu Lingxin's clear voice sounded in Wang Yu's headphones.
"The bomb parameters have been set, GBU-12, instant fuze, automatic mode, laser guidance, code 1688."
As a weapons system operator, her movements are still very neat.
When Wang Yu heard this, he lowered his head and glanced at his weapon mounting interface.
Sure enough, under the mark of the GBU-12 laser guided bomb, the words RDY and some detailed parameters appeared.
This means that the bomb is ready to be dropped at any time.
He pressed the stick to the side to make the fighter plane start to turn: "We are turning to the attack route, get the laser ready."
"The pod is already aimed at the target. We are the first in the convoy. I will start firing the laser when you drop the bomb."
The fighter jet quickly ended its original circling and began to fly towards the road.
In order for the bomb to successfully hit the target, the fighter plane still needs to fly over the area where the target is located.
On the HUD in front of Wang Yu, a bomb release line appeared. It is now in automatic mode. That is, the fighter's computer will automatically calculate the bomb release time based on the fighter's altitude, speed, and distance from the target. Wang Yu only needs to adjust the flight direction.
Aim this line, press the Pickle button within ten seconds, wait for the bomb drop time to reach zero, and the bomb will be dropped automatically.
In fact, it is very interesting that although the weapon system operator is called this name, the pilots in this position cannot operate and release any weapons. Not only are they unable to launch air-to-air missiles, but even the right to drop bombs is in the hands of the pilot.
inside.
Just like in the game called Boyfriend 3, the story mode has a level where the F-18E Superbug performs a CAS mission. The player plays the role of a WSO. After going to space, he launches missiles and attacks the ground.
Many people are hooked and think that the pilot is just a tool and high-end operations such as attack and defense are all handled by the WSO.
But in fact, these jobs are basically the tasks of pilots.
The work that WSO is responsible for is probably to help pilots observe the surroundings, find targets in pods, provide laser guidance for bombs/missiles, set attack point locations, help record JTAC reports, etc...
It can be said that they are the pilot's assistant, adding a little helper to the original single-seat fighter pilot.
That's too far.
Wang Yu aligned the flight direction with the direction of bomb release, and then gently pushed the throttle lever to increase the speed slightly.
He couldn't see the picture of the pod. He could only see the bomb delivery auxiliary line and the expected impact point on the HUD in front of him.
The display of the pod is in the back seat. There are four screens in front of Liu Lingxin, one of which is the pod screen of Lu Yingying.
At this time, she was concentrating on using the operating lever next to her seat to control the position of the crosshair, slightly correcting the final impact point of the bomb to ensure that the bomb would hit the top of the target directly after being dropped.
"Ten seconds countdown!"
Wang Yu looked at the bomb release time displayed on the HUD and pressed the red bomb release button.
A small horizontal line began to move from top to bottom. At the moment when the countdown returned to zero, the horizontal line crossed the flight vector symbol simultaneously. Then at the same time, Wang Yu heard a slight sound, and the fighter plane began to tilt slightly.
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Sitting in the cockpit, he was very aware of this feeling. He really felt that something was being thrown down.
Not to mention that Irene was secretly telling him that the bomb had been dropped...
"Pickle, bomb drop!"
When dropping bombs, the call sign used is Pickle. To put it simply, if you yell like this when dropping bombs, your teammates in the channel will know what you are doing...
Liu Lingxin said simultaneously: "Confirm the throw, and the laser guidance will begin."
She made sure that the laser safety was on, and then pulled the trigger on her operating rod.
On the pod screen in front of her, the words L ARM appeared and flashed.
The aiming pod under the fighter jet will emit a laser beam and shine it on the target, and the GBU-12 will fly towards the place where the laser shines during fine-tuning.
Wang Yu maintained a stable flight. With his current field of vision, he could not see what the bomb would look like when it exploded.
He could only learn about the attack through Eileen's inner voice.
But Liu Lingxin could see that the pod was like a high-precision camera.
As the fighter plane officially flew over the target, Liu Lingxin saw through the pod that the target she had locked onto was blown into a ball of fire at this moment. Along with billowing smoke, the target had been completely destroyed.
GBU-12 is a five-hundred-pound bomb. One blast is enough to destroy a tank. Hitting such a wooden target is naturally easy to capture. After the smoke and flames dissipated, Liu Lingxin could see that the original target had been scattered around.
Within a large area.
"Target hit, destruction confirmed." At the moment of hit, she immediately reported, "Start looking for the next target."
There are four targets in total below, which means they have to drop bombs and guide them back and forth four times to completely destroy them.
But this is indeed a very interesting thing. Regardless of the process of dropping the bomb, when the bomb is dropped and the target is blown to pieces, it does make people feel a "pleasure" spontaneously arising from the heart.
Perhaps this is because the destructive desire that exists more or less in people has been satisfied.
Liu Lingxin moved quickly, and she quickly found and locked the target so that Wang Yu could start to turn.
Once the pod is locked, the coordinates are automatically recorded.
Even if the field of view is later lost due to fighter maneuvers, it can still return to the original locked position immediately after readjustment.
The fighter jet circled around and took half a minute to re-enter the attack route. Wang Yu dropped another bomb.
Liu Lingxin also began to guide immediately.
Cooperation is tacit.
With a loud bang, the second target was successfully destroyed.
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Thanks to book friends "Vorwarts", "Life Childhood", and "Mountain-Ghost" for their rewards.
By the way, someone came to the book review section yesterday who didn’t know what the ingredients were. He said that the "Star Alliance" in the book reminded him of Japan because of its long coastline. Then he started to question my ingredients. My expression at the time was like this
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Anyway, for everyone’s reading experience, I have deleted the book review.