Chapter 689 I will tell you a solution to the backlight
The service support force deployed more than a dozen moving targets on the vast sea surface, and used five or six scrapped iron fishing boats weighing 180 tons to simulate surface vessels. They put in a lot of effort.
There are three targets assigned to Li Zhan, and the rest must be left until night for night live-fire shooting training. Li Zhan must find the designated three from more than a dozen moving targets on the sea, and only one of the three targets is a 100-ton target.
The iron scrapped fishing boat, the other two are very small targets, and the difficulty can be said to be quite high.
Moreover, Li Zhan had to search from east to west, which meant that he needed to search the sea surface in a backlight environment. This was a requirement, and Li Zhan could not make any changes.
The time reached 16:30 in the afternoon, and it had been in the air for an hour. Fortunately, three auxiliary fuel tanks were mounted, otherwise there would not be much fuel left for Li Zhan. The advantages of long-range fighters were highlighted at this time.
Come out, Yu Chenglin's J-11BS doesn't have to worry about fuel consumption at all.
The tower commander gave Li Zhan instructions to conduct live-fire training at the specified time according to the live-fire plan.
Li Zhan immediately turned on the airborne radar and tilted the nose of the aircraft downward at a very small angle from an altitude of 5,000 meters. This can improve the accuracy of the airborne radar's search for the sea. The airborne radar used by the J-10A has the ability to detect the sea.
The search function is not as good as that of the J-10B, and the gap is relatively large. During use, Li Zhan discovered that if the sea search is carried out in a low-angle and slow-speed dive attitude, the sea search accuracy of the airborne radar can be improved.
This little trick was promoted in the troops he worked in. Li Zhan did this when he flew the old flying leopard. The effect was good, but the shortcomings were also obvious. This limited the flight attitude of the fighter plane.
Yu Chenglin was keenly aware of the small changes in the movements of No. 17 J-10A, secretly noted them down, and at the same time paid close attention to the search process of No. 17 J-10A. He knew that Li Zhan must have done this intentionally, but he did not improve it.
In terms of the accuracy of the airborne radar's sea search, he thought that Li Zhan was very confident and was prepared to dive and shoot in advance during the search.
Li Zhan is not a god. He also has shortcomings. For example, the time he has used the J-10 series fighters is relatively short. His J-10 series fighter jets only have a few dozen flight hours. This is when he was in the Dahongying Division.
It was accumulated during the J-10A modification training.
So he had no idea what the outcome would be.
Another important reason is that the J-10 is his dream fighter. His motivation for joining the army was the first flight of the J-10. After graduating from aviation school, what he wanted to fly most was the J-10. For various reasons
I have never had the opportunity to fly the J-10, but I finally took the opportunity to modify the J-10. As a result, during the modification, the engine stopped in the air and almost got hung up on the mountain. I also briefly came into contact with the J-10 later, but
This fighter is like the unicorn he has been attached to for a long time but cannot get. Every time he touches her, something happens, as if a fixed chemical reaction has been formed.
There is no choice but to let the flowers fall away. I have worked hard for thousands of hours but cannot get what I want. The injustice is nothing more than this.
From the moment he took off, Li Zhan was very energetic. The most important reason was precisely because of the painful Platonic love between him and the J-10A.
Li Zhan stared at the sea surface with wide eyes. Let alone targets, there was not even a ghost. The airborne radar received some intermittent reflected signals, and Li Zhan judged that they were large marine animals jumping out of the water.
Marine animals such as sharks and dolphins are eager to jump out of the water. Groups of such marine animals can form relatively obvious radar emission signals on the water surface. Advanced airborne radars can keenly determine this when searching the sea.
At the same time, it is treated as clutter and eliminated to reduce the pilot's burden.
The J-10A's airborne radar is not yet capable of such intelligence when searching the sea, but Li Zhan is experienced and can make judgments very quickly.
Li Zhan still wanted to rely on visual search. However, even with anti-glare goggles under backlight, it was difficult to see clearly the sea surface two to three kilometers below. The target was unpowered, which meant that it would not leave a conspicuous white track.
The difficulty of visual search suddenly increased.
Towards evening, the sun was hanging in the west, and the position happened to be able to directly affect Li Zhan's field of vision. Li Zhan was absolutely certain that this live-fire shooting session was deliberately set up like this, and maybe it was tailor-made for him.
Although he is an old army, he is not a soldier of the Second Division after all. It is normal for Yu Chenglin to have some small thoughts in his heart, such as testing Li Zhan with some difficult problems and weighing his strength. Of course, if he can stump Li Zhan, it will be the best.
Okay, this can show that the combat effectiveness of the second division has reached a certain level.
Various troops have regarded Li Zhan as the gold standard for judging the combat effectiveness of troops.
Li Zhan had a way to solve the backlight problem, and when he realized that it was unrealistic to rely on airborne radar to detect small targets on the sea, he decided to use his unique skill.
The first problem is to solve the impact of backlighting.
Yu Chenglin was watching the flight all the time, very much looking forward to Li Zhan coming up with some new tricks. Ordinary people can invent new tricks throughout their flying career, which is enough to enjoy a lifetime of honor and wealth, like
A combat pilot like Li Zhan who is constantly able to innovate is a rare person like a genius.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the modern air force Guo Xingfu.
Li Zhan came and started performing.
His solution is absolutely insane!
When Yu Chenglin saw Li Zhan flying the fighter plane upside down, a flash of light hit his head and he figured it all out.
The dignified deputy division commander actually cursed: "Damn! This guy is so fucking awesome!"
Li Zhan’s solution to the backlight problem was to fly upside down!
After flying upside down, the pilot's chin is facing the setting sun, because the pilot has to hold his head high to observe the sea, and there is also the fuselage as a shield!
Li Zhan turned his entire field of vision upside down by flying upside down!
"What a genius!" Yu Chenglin exclaimed.
Don't other pilots know how to fly inverted? It can be said that any combat pilot can easily fly a fighter plane inverted. But it is one thing to be able to fly inverted, and it is another thing to apply inverted flight in actual combat. Not only inverted
Flying skills are more demanding, and you must have a clear concept of the purpose of tactical use.
Flying upside down means giving up all the upper view, and the attitude of the fighter is also in an unsatisfactory situation. This puts higher demands on the pilot. Yu Chenglin absolutely does not believe that Li Zhan would give up the air in order to attack sea targets.
He had the initiative, so he was sure that Li Zhan had some backup plans.
Another problem with inverted flight is that it is difficult to maintain it for a long time, which is a great test for the pilot's physical fitness. In the inverted flight state, the pilot's whole body is upside down, and he is on the sea, which is very easy to cause visual illusions.
, the plane will crash if you are not careful.
There have been many similar air crashes in aviation history. Often the pilots did not parachute after the crash. This was because normal human vision had not been restored. It was very tragic.
Li Zhan is naturally sure, otherwise he would not take the risk. It is impossible for a person to achieve all successes in his life, and one or two failures are inevitable occasionally. The problem is that this sentence does not exist in the dictionary of combat pilots, because once
Failure means death!
No. 17 J-10A flew upside down, slowly lowering its altitude, with its belly facing the sky, the rocket launcher facing the sky, and several reinforcing ribs at the air inlet also facing the sky. In this strange posture, it was hundreds of meters above the sea.
Wandering around at such a height, like an acrobat walking upside down.
The Second Division is also equipped with an aerial real-time monitoring system. The J-11BS opened by Yu Chenglin shoots training footage through the camera and transmits it to the tower in real time. The tower commander can know the training situation of the troops at any time.
At this time, everyone saw No. 17 J-10A flying upside down, and each one was more surprised than the other. Many people were confused about what was going on.
The tower commander immediately asked urgently, "Yaoguai! What's going on with the plane? It's over!"
"Everything is normal. The maneuver I made is over." Li Zhan replied.
The chief of staff sitting at the tower smiled and said, "You haven't noticed that he did this to deal with the impact of backlighting. It is a very effective, smart and dangerous approach."
It took a while for everyone to figure it out, and the look of surprise was even worse.
This is still a human being, and they can think of such a method. Who has ever used inverted flying except for flight performances, let alone used it in combat. This time, their eyes were opened, and they realized it more deeply.
What’s so great about the famous Little Prince of Pull-up Rods?
They can't see where Li Zhan's level is at all.
After using the stunt, Li Zhan's situation suddenly improved a lot, his vision suddenly became very good, and this upside-down posture was not a problem for him at all. He is a man who has withstood ten G overloads.
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He quickly discovered that the waves on the sea more than three kilometers to the southwest were different, and immediately accelerated the fighter plane to fly over, and at the same time quickly resumed level flight with the rollers. Once the distance and direction were determined, there was no big problem. And in his heart
There are actually some taboos about flying upside down.
While flying the Su-27SK, he encountered a very strange danger - the flight control failed and the plane flew upside down. He cut off the flight control bus and switched to manual control to avert the danger.
He still needed to confirm whether the target he found was the target he wanted to hit. Li Zhan lowered his flying altitude and flew over slowly, trying his best to observe the situation on the sea surface.
He successfully found the target. Several targets were scattered on the sea surface within a kilometer, and they were all moving targets. It was probably due to the influence of ocean currents that these scattered moving targets slowly gathered together.
To his disappointment, there was no target in it.
Li Zhan was unwilling to give in and counted again. A strange thing happened. The number of moving targets was consistent with the live ammunition shooting plan, but there was no target of his own.