A few days later, at 9 p.m., the Jizhou Squadron once again received permission to take off.
Two F-15Es in anti-aircraft configuration took off into the air after gliding in formation for a moment.
They followed standard procedures, climbed to departure height with all lights on, and said goodbye to the base tower.
Then the two fighters successively turned off the most obvious navigation lights and lights, leaving only the flashing strobe lights on the tail fins to determine the relative position between the two fighters.
However, in a formation about one nautical mile apart, the importance of this light is actually not very important. If you want to know the position of your teammates, just look at the SA (situation awareness, situational awareness) interface. This is a horizontal perspective display.
, it can directly display the location of friendly units based on the data link synchronized from the early warning aircraft.
In short, after most of the lights were turned off, the f-15e entered the night.
Viewed from the ground, the jet-black painted fighter jets just disappeared into the night sky.
This evening's takeoff is actually a night patrol mission.
The purpose is to conduct air combat patrol missions within a range of about one hundred nautical miles around the base.
This is the first night mission since coming to Yin Mulan, and it is indeed a bit sudden.
The superiors did give the two pilots a certain explanation before takeoff.
The intelligence department of the Principality of Yinmulan believes that as the first formal air confrontation breaks out between the two countries, the conflict between the two sides will become more intense. It can be seen from their previous attacks on Yinmulan Air Force attack aircraft in their own territory.
It turns out that the Kasts are happy to expand the friction and continue to take advantage of the Yimlan people - so they may use the night to carry out some actions including but not limited to possible air strikes on border military facilities.
Therefore, in order to maintain the normal operation of the air surveillance force, Yin Mulan borrowed the early warning aircraft code-named "Red Moon" from the Star Alliance Empire to achieve unilateral transparency on the battlefield. This is not considered Star Alliance's involvement in the affairs of the two countries, but just
It was only intelligence support provided by early warning aircraft, and Custer was unable to grasp this and launch an attack on the international community.
In fact, judging from the size of the two countries, even if the Custer Federation protested in the international community against the Star Alliance for providing early warning aircraft support to Yin Mulan, their opinions would be drowned out as long as the Star Alliance did not directly participate in the war.
On a large number of international issues.
In short, this is the general situation at present.
The early warning aircraft "Red Moon" that took off at night has been flying in the airspace near the base.
The huge disc on the early warning aircraft is the radar, which monitors the airspace within a range of hundreds of kilometers. At the request of Yin Mulan, the skies over the borders of the main friction areas and within the Custer Federation are focused on scanning directions.<
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As long as Custer's fighter planes take off from their country, early warning aircraft will be able to capture their traces on radar immediately.
Complete one-way transparency on the battlefield is the advantage that technological development has in confrontation.
The only regret is that the imperial military and royal family will not authorize the use of military reconnaissance satellites for these expatriates in Yimlan. Otherwise, every detail of the Custer Federation will be clearly visible to the empire. p>
This early warning aircraft modified from a large civil aviation platform can provide more than ten hours of air cruise, which can fully cover a night's aerial intelligence support needs - but the Yinmulan people will not let Star Alliance early warning aircraft in the sky.
If they are on duty for a long time, they only need to persist through the first half of the night, which is a few hours, before they can return.
During this period of time, there should be fighter jets with full fuel tanks accompanying the flight to perform escort missions.
However, the Yimlan fighter planes that were supposed to be responsible for this mission needed to be on alert to meet Custer's challenge. Therefore, the defense around the base was empty, and there were no fighters in the airspace that could perform the bat_air_partol (that is, the air combat patrol mentioned above) mission. Naturally,
It is necessary to allow the Jirid Squadron to perform patrol missions in the airspace near the base at night.
According to the waypoints, the patrol route is roughly a pentagonal flight process starting from the base.
However, although it is said to be an air combat patrol, the mission of the Jizu Squadron is actually to protect the Star Alliance's early warning aircraft from threats. If Custer does not attack the early warning aircraft but wants to attack the base, then the Jizu Squadron has no right.
Interfering.
The superior's words were very clear: "Unless the early warning aircraft is threatened, it is not allowed to take the lead in attacking."
Therefore, in order to ensure that they are energetic for night flights, the members of the Extreme Day Squadron use their time during the day to rest and recharge their batteries, and around nine o'clock in the evening, the scene at the beginning of this chapter occurs.
"Sir, it's completely dark already."
Generally speaking, there will be no weapons controllers in cap missions. Even if there is a battle, they will be discovered outside the visual range and destroyed outside the visual range. There is no need for their work - in fact, according to the principle, the existence of the back seat in many missions
It’s not necessary. With the F-15e’s front-seat hotas logic and system integration, just one front-seat pilot can complete many tasks independently.
So Liu Lingxin’s task at this time is to sit down and look at the night sky outside the window.
Speaking of which, since Wang Yu gave Liu Lingxin a birthday surprise that night, it seemed that her knot had been resolved.
She began to be willing to take the initiative to talk to Wang Yu about things about herself, her family, her childhood, and even some worries - things like these before, even if Wang Yu took the initiative to ask, she would avoid talking about them.
To put it bluntly, Wang Yu felt that he and Liu Lingxin had become friends.
This is a good thing, but of course the premise is that Wang Yu has to deal with Irene's "jealousy" while chatting with Liu Lingxin...
Although most of the time Erin is just performing.
After hearing Liu Lingxin's words, Wang Yu nodded and turned his head to look at the scenery outside the cockpit.
During the climb, you can still see the lights from Yimlan City on the ground, but after climbing to a certain height, the thin clouds block the light from the ground, and only the full moon hanging high can provide light.
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The moonlight shines on the clouds, as if the clouds have turned into a silvery ocean.
This is a beautiful scene.
This is not Wang Yu’s first night flight mission.
But whenever he sees the moonlight and clouds, he will feel addicted to it.
Perhaps this is the joy of flying. Simply looking at different scenery is more interesting than any battle.
The scene at this time will remind him of the City in the Sky, and the song "Sea of Clouds Under the Moonlight" will ring in his ears.
Without realizing it, he began to hum a familiar melody softly.
Liu Lingxin originally wanted to say something to ease the boredom of cap flying, but when she heard the humming melody, she couldn't help but give up the idea of talking and listened carefully to the melody hummed by Wang Yu.
It sounds really nice.
But this interaction that seemed to slow down people's thinking did not last long.
After arriving at the navigation point at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the Jizhou Squadron received a notification from the ground command.
"JiZhi Squadron, this is the headquarters, codenamed 'Fortress'. Please patrol along the standard route. At about six o'clock tonight, intelligence personnel discovered that there were unusual movements in several of Custer's bases, and their border troops also began to
There is a certain degree of mobilization, and I think this must be a sign that they are about to take action."
"Ji Zhou Squadron received, Fortress, what does this mean?"
"At present, it can only represent their offensive intentions on behalf of Custer, but I don't know whether they want to go to war directly, or simply want to intensify border friction - but in any case, the current situation is not optimistic.
Perform the cap mission seriously, be more vigilant, and ensure the flight safety of the 'Red Moon'."
The ground command command ordered the Jizhou Squadron: "Next, you will contact Hongyue directly. If there is any further news or intelligence, they will notify you directly."
"Fortress, thank you for your message." Wang Yu replied, "Ji Zhou received it, end the call."
"The situation is not optimistic..."
Wenxuan, who also heard the conversation, said: "No. 1, the atmosphere of war is getting more and more intense. New Year's Eve is coming soon. These two countries will not really break out into large-scale conflicts at the turn of the New Year." "The current situation is that the storm is about to come."
Wang Yu simply said: "The cloud of war cannot be dissipated. It will break out one day, it's just a matter of time."
"Hmm... Shan Yu... what's going on?" Wenxuan was stunned.
"The storm is about to come, and the wind will fill the building." Liu Lingxin heard this sentence, and after thinking about it for a while, she felt that it really made sense.
"In short, even if a war breaks out, we just need to stay out of it." Wang Yu said, "The rest will be taken care of by our superiors."
When Wenxuan was about to say something, they heard the notification from the early warning aircraft on the channel that had been switched: "JiZui Squadron, our radar shows a more threatening fighter formation due south, marked as possible hostility.
Target (bogey), altitude 2,000, speed 500, four F-111 fighter-bombers and two Su-27s, flying due north, you will adjust the patrol direction to the airspace south of the base."
"JiZui Squadron has received it and is adjusting the flight route."
The two F-15Es followed the instructions and slightly deflected their fuselages to fly in the corresponding direction.
Adjusting the flight direction does not mean that the original route is invalidated. This is regarded as a temporary variable in the mission, so after the variable is over, they need to return to the original route and continue the original mission.
"Does Custer really want to launch an attack?" Wenxuan said in surprise, "Send out four F-111s at once? They don't really want to blow up the troops on the Yin Mulan border.
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"Right now they are just bogey, not bandit, so there may be new situations - not to mention, I have said that based on the current situation, it would not be surprising if anything happens."
Wang Yu's tone was as usual: "Let's just follow the mission and don't make any extraneous things."
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