The lieutenant colonel gave the two of them time to absorb the content, and then continued to introduce the mission.
"Our reconnaissance aircraft showed that they had been moving during the day and arrived at the entrance to the mountain two hours ago, but the target convoy did not enter the mountain directly - of course, this may be because they did not dare to walk through the narrow road at night
It has something to do with the mountain road. In short, they have parked the convoy on the mountain pass road, and this is a perfect opportunity for us to attack. So, we applied to our superiors to carry out the mission, and the superiors immediately approved it."
Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin responded in silence. They showed their true qualities as soldiers, listening more and asking less.
Anyway, the message of this mission is very clear. It is a ground attack mission, without too many details.
Just fly a fighter plane over there and use bombs to send them all into the sky.
"As for the enemy's strength, intelligence shows that they possess two 'Stinger' individual air defense missiles. This is the only thing in their hands that may pose a threat to you. The remaining weapons are all incapable of anti-aircraft capabilities.
So as long as you maintain the combat altitude to launch the attack, there won't be any problems. Do you have any questions?"
Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin shook their heads.
No more doubts.
Now they only need to know the detailed target coordinates, and then they can take off to perform the mission.
However, the lieutenant colonel seemed to have something to say. Seeing that there were no problems with the two of them, he nodded: "Then, it's time to answer the questions you may have - the reason why you are mobilized to carry out this mission."
This mission was not in charge of the pilots from our base, because the leader of your base said hello to me..."
"Is it Colonel Zhang?"
Liu Lingxin asked in surprise.
The lieutenant colonel nodded: "When I submitted the mission application to my superiors, Colonel Zhang heard about it somehow, so he called me specifically and said that he had a group of outstanding pilots who were training.
Partnering with the weapons controller, he hopes that the latter can have experience in carrying out actual combat missions... The senior colonel once helped me and was kind to me, so I am naturally willing to agree to his request, so... now you are here,
Execute tasks across regions.”
So this is ah……
This time it was really arranged.
Fortunately, cross-regional mission execution is not considered a violation of regulations. As long as it is approved, the mission can be completed. It doesn’t matter who did it. Therefore, Colonel Zhang’s behavior of sending himself over to steal other people’s missions is a big deal for military senior officials.
Nor will it interfere.
However, he specifically found an officer at a base so far away and arranged an actual combat mission for himself.
It seems that Colonel Zhang really values his own development.
How pilots in the army should grow up, naturally, they grow through battle after battle.
Actual combat tasks are always different from target training.
Even though the processes are similar, the properties are completely different.
Speaking of which, when we were at the airplane cemetery before, he came to invite us in person, and his sincerity was enough.
A soldier will die for his confidant. Although this is a bit exaggerated, Wang Yu still feels that he must complete this mission beautifully.
And his weapons control officer may also have such thoughts.
He glanced at Liu Lingxin, and the girl smiled at him, showing her cute little tiger teeth.
"That's all I have to say about the mission. More detailed coordinates and weapon configurations will be recorded on the tactical tablet by the ground crew. You should be prepared before takeoff."
The lieutenant colonel concluded with this sentence.
So Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin stood up and saluted him, and he immediately returned the salute.
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When they returned to the tarmac, the fighter planes were ready for departure.
As a fighter aircraft with enhanced ground attack capabilities, the F-15E has many external hardpoints for hanging bombs.
At this moment, this fighter plane has been equipped with various weapons needed to carry out this mission.
On the pylons under the wings on both sides are a combination of AIM-9M and AIM-120C-5 anti-air missiles for self-defense.
The pylons on the fuselage adopt an asymmetric mounting mode. The hanging points outside the conformal fuel tank on the left are hung with four GBU-12 laser-guided bombs that were just trained today, and the hanging points on the right are six-shot.
The MK-82 free-fall five-hundred-pound bomb equipped with a snake-eye deceleration system has a targeting pod and a navigation pod under the inlet, and there is no auxiliary fuel tank.
Obviously, the laser-guided bombs are designed to target tanks and armored vehicles, and the remaining bombs are used to completely wipe the convoy off the road after the main targets are eliminated.
“What a violent configuration.”
Liu Lingxin exclaimed: "Our goal is in trouble."
Wang Yu estimated that if the conformal fuel tank is filled up, the take-off weight of this fighter should be about 30 tons.
A veritable "bomb truck".
"Stop looking, these things have to be consumed, get on the plane quickly."
"receive!"
Liu Lingxin walked briskly along the boarding stairs and took her seat.
Wang Yu put on his helmet and sat in the cockpit.
While executing the cold start procedure, he said to Liu Lingxin: "Don't rush to check the pylon condition. Help me calculate the weight difference between our left and right sides. I need to adjust the trim."
The mounts on the left and right sides of the fighter aircraft are different, and there is a certain weight difference. If the aircraft is not trimmed in the roll direction, it will shift to the heavier side after takeoff, which will pose a certain risk.
Liu Lingxin quickly started to calculate and soon told Wang Yu the results, and Wang Yu also set the balance according to the checklist.
Soon, the fighter jet was launched, and Liu Lingxin also set a flight route to the target point based on the navigation information.
She had even turned on the power of the pod and let it warm up and start up.
Under the guidance of the ground crew, the fighter jet left the apron, entered the runway through the taxiway, and then took off amidst the noise.
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Fly to target location.
They soon left the area controlled by the ground, so the flight lighting rules no longer applied. Liu Lingxin adjusted the lights of the fighter plane so that the lights on the wings and belly were extinguished, leaving only the flickering lights on the tail of the entire fighter plane.
anti-collision lights.
In addition, the jet black F-15E just blended into the night.
Perfect fighting posture.
Wang Yu rose to an altitude of 6,000 meters after taking off.
The combat target point is about 80 nautical miles away from the forest farm base, so there is no need to ascend to too high an airspace to save fuel.
Anyway, in order to make it easier for Liu Lingxin to aim the laser at the target, and for the process of dropping bombs along the road, she still had to lower the height.
At this time, Wang Yu opened the main weapon safety.
Liu Lingxin simultaneously started to set the parameters of the weapon.
GBU-12 naturally sets the fuze, mode and the same code as the laser emitted by the pod, while MK-82 sets the instantaneous detonation, opening of the deceleration device, and the time interval and distance interval when released.
She reported the settings to Wang Yu, and Wang Yu could hear the excitement in her tone.
"Sir, you are right. Come out and have a real battle. Isn't this more interesting than watching some bad movie?"
Is she excited about the upcoming actual combat mission?
Maybe, but again, actual combat is always different from training.
Wang Yu still looked neither sad nor happy, even if he was about to personally drop a bomb on the heads of his kind.
Soon, the fighter plane had covered a long distance and was only fifteen nautical miles away from the target location.
It was pitch dark outside the cabin at this time, and Wang Yu could not see anything, so he naturally stopped thinking about his visual target.
We can only rely on pods with infrared vision fields to detect enemies.
"It's time for you to work. I will lower the height of about one thousand meters and set the navigation point at the target location as the initial aiming point. You will be responsible for fine-tuning the aim to the specific target... Well, although it is a bit thin, but
It shouldn’t affect your search for enemies.”
"okay."
The screen in front of Liu Lingxin lit up.
She switched to infrared mode and began to focus on finding the target.