Li Zhan consumed more fuel than planned, so he called the tanker to come over and join him, so as to ensure that there was enough fuel to fly back and deal with other emergencies.
It was already nine o'clock Beijing time, and Li Zhan had been in the air for more than three hours. It was a highly stressful three hours. If he hadn't had a lot of high-intensity flight training while working in Beiku, he would have been in the air for more than three hours.
Going to feel tired.
The tanker and the No. 533 J-15 were heading towards each other. Li Zhan, who maintained a high degree of vigilance, turned on the airborne radar to search the air and sea from time to time. At this time, he had to be very careful. If he encountered pirates in the West Pacific, he could avoid it.
Avoid it, everything should be sent back safely.
There is another huge hidden danger at this time.
From the emergence of armed gunboats to the emergence of anti-submarine ships, this process is a standard combat preparation. Li Zhan, Chief Li and Tu Meiri all have a strong feeling in their hearts - the West Pacific pirates are well prepared. Look,
It seemed to be inadvertent but actually had a clear purpose. Apart from the important data information carried by the Great Wall boat, they could not imagine anything that would make the West Pacific pirates go on like this.
The West Pacific pirates are a group of extremely rampant illegal armed forces at sea. They do all kinds of evil and cruel methods, and have seriously endangered the safety of world shipping. Interpol has included this group of pirates in a priority list for attack. However, international cooperation and communication in combating piracy
There are many obstacles in the world, which has led to the failure to take substantive actions, allowing the West Pacific pirates to develop and grow.
Li Zhan was very worried about the safety of the Great Wall boat and the ocean-going tuna fishing vessel "Qian Tuan Yu 101". One broke down, and the other was a fishing vessel with limited self-defense capabilities. If they encountered the main fleet of West Pacific pirates, they would
The situation will be very dangerous.
But he can't do anything before sending the data information back.
Facts have proved that his return flight was also full of difficulties and obstacles. When the radar warning buzzed and the serious female voice warned "The enemy is searching! The enemy is searching!", Li Zhan knew that he was being targeted by the armed aircraft of the West Pacific pirates.
Up.
"Nanny, stop moving forward! I encountered an armed aircraft!" Li Zhan swooped and accelerated like crazy while warning the approaching tankers to keep them away from the threat area.
The tanker is slow, has poor maneuverability and has no self-defense capability. If it encounters an armed aircraft, it will only be beaten. If Li Zhan wants to concentrate on dealing with the two unknown armed aircraft that appear, he must first ensure that the tanker is not within their threat range. Come on.
The captain of the aircraft immediately made an evasive turn.
After Li Zhan gained enough kinetic energy, he climbed out and made a "J" maneuver, pointing the nose of the aircraft in the direction of the threat. As soon as the airborne radar searched, two threatening targets appeared on the display screen. aesa radar
The judgment given by the intelligent database is that there are two F-5 fighter jets capable of launching air-to-air missiles. Many of these fighter jets have flowed into the civilian population, and the West Pacific pirates must have obtained some through some illegal channels.
In order to ensure nothing went wrong, Li Zhan did not rush into countermeasures. Instead, after confirming that the fire control system locked the target, he began to turn with afterburner and cut in from the left wing of the F-5 formation. The J-15's avionics system is very advanced, and it is closely related to
The technical level equipped on the J-10c is quite high. The huge aesa radar it carries can track twenty targets and attack eight of them at the same time. Of course, it is difficult to exert its theoretical capabilities in actual combat, but it can track ten targets.
It is no problem to attack five or six targets at the same time. When necessary, the J-15s can even act as an air command aircraft to command silent formations for air combat.
When air combat skills have reached Li Zhan's level, they are no longer limited to one move and one move. You have no way to judge his next move based on ordinary logic, because your tactical thinking is far behind.
His free-wheeling maneuvers confused the two mercenaries flying the F-5 - this was neither preparing to escape nor a standard tail-biting action. They only needed to follow the turn to easily maintain the tail-biting advantage over the target.
It's just that you will lose some distance advantage.
In other words, if they want to continue their advantage, Li Zhan will be about five kilometers away from them. The key to the problem is that they have no way to judge Li Zhan's next move, and there is no way to choose from Li Zhan's moves.
Seeing what he meant, their initiative was lost at this moment.
The problem is that they don't know it and think they just met a newbie.
The mercenaries driving these two second-hand F-5 fighter jets are actually not experts. They have rich flying experience but very little real combat experience. In order to pay high wages, they are hired by West Pacific pirates, most of the time.
It just maintains an existence and will not be used normally, so their experience has not improved much.
If the three armed gunboats had not been sunk, the West Pacific pirates would have been reluctant to send two F-5s to pursue the "murderer". They were originally chasing the ocean-going tuna fishing vessel "Gun Tuan Yu No. 101", but the "Gun Tuan Yu"
"Yu No. 101" suddenly rushed in the opposite direction to support the Great Wall boat. They lost their target and accidentally discovered the No. 533 J-15 at high altitude, so they chased it. During the pursuit, they learned that one of their own
An anti-submarine ship was sunk. Now the West Pacific Pirates' command staff went crazy and gave two F-5s an order to chase down J-15 No. 533 and shoot it down!
As the saying goes, if you don't do anything, who will the heaven bypass?
It's a pity that the mercenary pilots of the two F-5 fighter jets have limited combat experience. They used radar to lock the target before entering the air-to-air missile attack range, which aroused Li Zhan's alert. If they continued to quietly attack from Li Zhan's rear hemisphere
Follow up and wait until Li Zhan and the tanker converge for aerial refueling before taking action. Their success rate will be greatly increased!
It's a pity that there is no if.
They will soon pay for their mistakes with their lives.
Li Zhan took advantage of the J-15 equipped with front canards, which has better instantaneous performance than the J-11 series fighters, to make a turn with a very small radius. When his nose was once again aimed at the two F-5s
When the fighter jets were approaching, the F-5 happened to take a tail-biting route, and the distance between them was shortened to five kilometers at this moment.
Two F-5s entered the completely no-escape zone of the two PL-9 close combat missiles carried by Li Zhan.
He set up the attack program when he locked the target for the first time. The two pl-9 short-range air-to-air missiles will attack the target separately, and there will never be a problem of attacking the same infrared signal source at the same time.
Two PL-9 short-range air-to-air missiles were launched at an interval of two seconds. Li Zhan did not evade the turn, but maintained his attitude and continued to rush towards the two targets. He was prepared for the worst - if the missile failed
Yes, he will use the machine gun to kill the target.
The two PL-9 short-range air-to-air missiles quickly accelerated to Mach 2 with the help of rocket boosters. Seven seconds later, they both accurately hit their respective targets. The two F-5 fighter jets had not had time to evade.
The maneuver was disrupted and the pilot didn't even have a chance to eject.
Li Zhan flew over the wreckage that fell to the sea, and he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he didn't see the parachute. He was very angry, and he could be said to have tolerated the West Pacific pirates again and again. As a result, the pirates refused to give up and repeatedly took the initiative to provoke them.
, regarded his reasonable concession as weakness, and now actually sent armed gunboats to intercept our fishing boats and anti-submarine ships to threaten our submarines. If we do not give necessary and legitimate counterattacks, the mission of maintaining world peace will really become a slogan.
These pirates who do all kinds of evil and cruel things must be attacked with the most severe means. Their arrogance must be suppressed. If possible, it is absolutely necessary to eliminate them all and restore a stable and prosperous living environment to the people of the world.
But what Li Zhan was most worried about at this time was the Great Wall boat and the ocean-going tuna fishing vessel "Qian Tuan Yu 101". Even armed aircraft were dispatched. The main fleet of the West Pacific pirates must be hidden somewhere in the nearby waters. They all descended on
Obviously, they will not go back if they don't hit something. Therefore, it is certain that in addition to the Great Wall boat and "Qian Tuanyu 101", Li Zhan has previously detected more than a dozen civilian ships that will definitely become targets for their looting.
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Li Zhan climbed to an altitude of 12,000 meters and turned on supersonic flight with afterburner, calling the tanker to get ready for refueling. At the same time, he informed Captain Li of the encounter just now through secret words and gave his own judgment. At this time, he
That's all we can do. The top priority is to send the data back before twelve o'clock.
When Li Zhan completed his second in-flight refueling and received six tons of aviation fuel, the time had reached 10:15, and he only had one hour and 45 minutes to return.
In view of this, he asked the command post to make an alternate landing in the Northeast region, then replenish fuel and ammunition at any air force station in the Northeast region, and then took off for the second time to support the Great Wall boat and the ocean-going tuna "Gun Tuan Yu 101"
Fishing ship. Of course, before that, he gave a complete report to the command post on all the situations he encountered, from the ocean-going tuna fishing ship "Qian Tuanyu 101" being chased by the West Pacific pirate armed gunboat to the Great Wall boat being threatened by an anti-submarine ship.
Then he encountered an aerial interception.
The command post was furious.
Our majestic navy was actually bullied by a group of pirates. I can't bear it anymore!
The command post approved Li Zhan's request to replenish ammunition, and at the same time launched an emergency plan to combat piracy. All units responded to the order, and the atmosphere of battle swept over instantly.
Li Zhan rushed to a certain station in Northeast China at supersonic speed. At this time, he especially hoped to fly a fourth-generation aircraft. During supersonic flight, he needed to turn on afterburner at certain intervals, and the change in airspeed was obvious, otherwise the fighter plane would not be able to fly at supersonic speed.
Flying, and the fourth-generation aircraft can cruise at supersonic speeds without using afterburner.
At 11:10, Li Zhan was preparing to land at a certain station in the Northeast. The relevant ground crews were already on standby, and the team urgently ordered to receive data information was also in place. While the maintenance officers and soldiers were busy conducting emergency maintenance and repairs on the fighter planes,
While filling aviation fuel and loading weapons and ammunition, Li Zhan hurriedly replenished his food. While he was eating in the flight briefing room, the duty leader of a certain air force department asked him about the situation in the sea area where the incident occurred according to the requirements of his superiors.
Knowing that a certain regiment stationed at the station had been ordered to urgently support the Great Wall boat in combating pirates, Li Zhan simply helped them formulate a combat plan and made suggestions on communication plans. The leader on duty was the leader of the regiment and knew who Li Zhan was.
, so his suggestions were fully considered, and Li Zhan knew the situation at the scene very well, so he basically adopted Li Zhan's suggestions on the battle plan.
The regiment modified a brigade of J-11Bs last year. This brigade is also the only unit of the ministry capable of long-range ground and sea strikes. After receiving the order from their superiors, they quickly switched to first-class operations, and twelve J-11Bs were flown at the same time.
Pre-flight preparations were carried out. Nine of them adopted sea attack mounts, and the other three were equipped with air superiority mounts and were responsible for air cover.
This is actually one of their combat plans. After making targeted changes, it can be used directly. The pilots who were ordered to dispatch were very excited. They usually hit targets, although since last year, the troops have
The amount of live-fire training has increased dramatically, but it's still not as exciting as hitting a real target.
What is the purpose of training for so long? Isn’t it just to use the troops for a while?
Even though they were just dealing with a group of pirates.
Li Zhan took the time to take a shower and change a diaper, then dressed up again and came to the tarmac. The regiment's strike team was still preparing, waiting for orders from superiors to be dispatched. He needed to take off immediately to serve as a reconnaissance team. And the "Gun Regiment"
The situation of the Yu 101" and the Great Wall boat was unknown. He had to seize every minute to rush over.
The Il-78 tanker codenamed Nanny has returned, and they are running out of fuel. Another Il-78 tanker that took off from the Guanzhong area is on its way, and this Il-78 tanker will
It will be on standby at the second turning point as a backup means.
Taking off from a station in the Northeast, the sea area where the incident occurred was within the combat radius of the J-11b fleet, and the J-11b has aerial refueling capabilities, so the tanker was basically prepared for Li Zhan's No. 533 J-15
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Because Li Zhan took off with a half-full tank of fuel, he only had enough fuel to fly 2,500 kilometers and could not reach the maximum combat radius.
Four twin-mounted aviation rocket launch nests are on both sides of the wings, all of which are 90 mm caliber aviation rockets. The two innermost heavy-duty pylons on both wings carry two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles, and there are two air inlets.
The pylons also carry two kh-59mk air-to-ground missiles, while the front pylon of the two column pylons under the belly of the fuselage carries the indicator pod, and the latter one carries an R-77 medium-range missile.
Air-to-air missiles.
In addition, a PL-9 short-range air-to-air missile is hung on the wingtips on both sides.
In other words, Li Zhan brought eight 7-tube 90mm caliber aviation rocket launchers with a total of 56 rockets, 4 anti-ship/air-to-ground missiles, 1 medium-range air-to-air missile, 2 short-range combat missiles and 5 tons of fuel
It took off. All twelve hardpoints were mounted, and the No. 533 J-15 taxied for more than 500 meters before Li Zhan pulled up.
It is simply impossible to take off from an aircraft carrier with such a full load, unless it is ejected.
Judging from the complexity of the types of weapons and ammunition mounted, a certain regiment of the Air Force must have taken out everything they had at the bottom of the box. Even this was not enough, and they could only adopt a comprehensive combination of domestically produced/imported. That weapon
The instruction pod is specifically designed to allow the J-15 No. 533 to use the YJ-83 anti-ship missile. Otherwise, the J-15 of Soviet origin cannot use this domestic anti-ship missile.
The manufacturer is working intensively to solve the final interface problem so that all subsequent fighters with Soviet Flanker lineage can use all domestic weapons and ammunition.
Li Zhan turned on the afterburner and climbed, reaching subsonic airspeed with full load, and rushed to the sea area where the incident occurred at a speed of more than 1,100 kilometers per hour...