At present, our brigade is applying to its superiors to form an advanced air force unit for ground force support, but there is no suitable model. Tang Xin's eyes widened.

These people will hold a meeting for a long time, but the result of the meeting is not at all unexpected.

Xie Kai nodded, "Totally agree." Not only these three are provided to you, but even the F-14s that have been repaired later have been provided to the special operations brigade. ”

"Why do I feel that there is a problem? When did these guys become so generous? Three fighters, that's hundreds of millions of dollars, just send them? No superior chief has spoken......" He Chao frowned and asked Yang Bin next to him in a low voice.

Yang Bin's mind is also complicated, constantly speculating about the other party's purpose.

But in any case, they couldn't figure it out.

"The most advanced in China is the J-8, which does not meet the needs of our special operations brigade. I don't know when the J-8II will be made...... With the F-14, a lot of our theories can be put into practice. Tang Xin said happily.

"Chief of Staff Tang, there is no problem with the fighter planes for you. We are only a military science and technology research unit, but there is a condition......" Zheng Yucheng spoke.

Tang Xin looked at Zheng Yucheng, she had been guessing what Zheng Yucheng wanted to do.

Sure enough, the old fox began to make conditions.

Wan Er smiled, "Director Zheng, please speak, as long as we can do it, it is not a problem." ”

It's all foxes!

Xie Kai listened to it on the side, always feeling that his living environment was too complicated.

How good it used to be, there was no need to think about these issues at all.

"The fighter belongs to you, whether it is fuel consumption or maintenance, this has to be borne by your special operations brigade, how about it?" Zheng Yucheng said with a smile.

Tang Xin originally thought it was a big problem, for fear that Zheng Yucheng and others would regret it, "This is natural, the fighter was given to us, and the active equipment that belongs to us, logistics and maintenance should be our burden......"

"Chief of Staff Tang, we hope that you can provide us with the data of each flight. In addition, these fighters are also the object of our research......"

"No problem, overhaul, etc., will be handed over to your experts, and it just so happens that we don't have the personnel to maintain this kind of fighter. Tang Xin didn't hesitate at all.

She couldn't agree with it.

The fighters were originally used by 404 for research, and now the other party agrees to give them all these fighters, or let them study, can't they say it?

Seeing that the other party had no more opinions, Tang Xin negotiated with Zheng Yucheng and others that the fighters would stay in the airport runway of the base, and even if they got some fighters in the future, they would also stay at the airport in 404.

Zheng Yucheng: They also have no opinion.

The two sides reached an agreement, and Tang Xin was afraid that the people of 404 would regret it, so he hurriedly pulled He Chao, Yang Bin and others away.

On the way back, the more Yang Bin thought about it, the more wrong he became, the people of 404 had never been so generous.

Tang Xin also noticed that Yang Bin was frowning, "Political commissar, they finally agreed to give us the fighter plane to form a top-level air force, even if they have eyebrows." Now that the special operations brigade includes most of the cutting-edge arms, the combat effectiveness of one of our brigades far exceeds that of ordinary combat divisions, and we should be happy. ”

Tang Xin was indeed very happy.

Although the F-14 from Persia is not the kind used by the United States, it cannot be compared with the F-15, it is also the most advanced and most combat-capable fighter in China, isn't it?

"We can use the F-14 as a sharp knife and take the J-8 or J-7 formation as an air assault force," Tang Xin is full of hope for ......the future of the special operations brigade.

F-14 less?

Not a problem.

The sharp knife used as an air force can not only attack the air, but also carry out attack missions on the ground. Assist some domestic fighters, and the combat effectiveness will be very strong.

"Chief of Staff, we seem to have been fooled. Yang Bin sighed, "According to our understanding, 404 people never do things that don't take advantage. ”

"How can they take advantage? An F-14 is tens of millions of dollars. Didn't they also sell our 359 tanks to us at a very low price? Political Commissar Yang, are you thinking too much?" Tang Xin was a little dissatisfied.

This is to treat other people's kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs.

He Chao and Yang Bin glanced at each other, but finally did not speak.

When the F-14 carried out the exercise mission for the first time in accordance with the requirements of the special operations brigade, the advanced Western fighters caused the ground troops to suffer great losses, and the anti-aircraft firepower was beyond the reach, showing extremely strong combat capability.

When the military leaders knew that 404 was generous, they even sent a certificate of merit to Zheng Yucheng and others as encouragement.

With a wave of his hand, he allocated an extra amount of special funds for F-14 flight training and combat training.

Usually, flight training, etc., basically only consumes fuel, although it is expensive, it is not too obvious.

However, the consumption of this exercise was great, and the three fighters were constantly taking off and landing at a high frequency, not only to confront the "enemy's" air forces, but also to deal with ground targets.

As a result, Tang Xin was worried, "It seems that the flight cost of this fighter is a bit high? Just one exercise, not to mention the ammunition, just aviation fuel, the three F-14s consumed 2.6 million, which accounted for one-third of the cost of the entire brigade exercise......

Yang Bin smiled bitterly.

He Chao just didn't speak.

The cost of the exercise was higher than the expectations of the higher-level leaders, but it was not much.

In the end, the military chiefs waved their hands and added some additional funds.

The next year, 404 repaired the F-14 at the base, and even repaired two scrapped aircraft provided by the Persians, and Chief of Staff Tang Xin happily received another three-plane attack formation.

Therefore, the new exercise script is to test the survivability of ground forces under large-scale air raids by Western air forces.

The two three-plane formations, due to the large bomb load of the F-14, can exceed 6.5 tons at a maximum of 6.5 tons, in order to ensure combat capability and range, neither the US military nor the Persian Air Force will do this.

In the special operations brigade hidden in the Qilian Mountains, there is no such problem.

What's more, the air defense capability of the ground armored forces under a large-scale air attack is tested, and the distance from the airport to the exercise site is only 200 kilometers, and even a fully loaded F-14 is just a matter of one foot on the accelerator.

The larger the scale of the air raid and the more bombs dropped, the better the effectiveness of the exercise.

As a result, the 404 electromagnetic bomb, heavy aviation cloud burst bomb, the country's top aerial bomb, and ground attack missiles can be vigorously mounted on six F-14s.

In order to see the effect, many military leaders came to the special operations brigade.

The high-speed and dripping attacks, the air echelon running away after dropping bombs, and even the ground air defense system having fled the combat area and appeared in another area before the ground air defense system came into play, all made the higher-level leaders very happy.

The Air Force needs advanced fighters with outstanding combat performance.

Especially Long Yaohua and Li Mingshan, they are even happier.

This exercise is said to test the survivability of ground forces in the face of large-scale air raids, but it is better to show the scientific research results of 404.

With the development of more and more new equipment in the world, military leaders have also found that more and more equipment in the world is developing more and more in the field of electronic information technology.

Therefore, the electromagnetic bombs that even the military leaders forgot were also used in this exercise.

"The effect of this exercise is very significant, no matter how powerful the armored group, under the large-scale air attack, the anti-aircraft fire can not achieve too effective defense, the only thing that can be solved is the interception of the air force, medium and long-range air defense missile interception...... This is of absolute guiding significance to us in the entire process of building ground forces......" After the end, Tang Xin happily reported to the higher-level leaders.

The effect is significant.

In such an attack mode, even if a brigade of the special operations brigade does not use special operations to carry out decapitation operations and does not use tactical support, the range of the ground-red flag ground-attack missile can exceed 220 kilometers, and the air attack alone will make the defender be beaten without the slightest ability to fight back.

"With such combat effectiveness of a special operations brigade, a brigade should have a great chance of winning against three full-fledged armor divisions!" a general sighed.

Another general also nodded in agreement, "If a few more special operations brigades are formed in the country, the number will be smaller, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved." ”

He Chao stood up solemnly when the higher-level leaders were happy, "Chiefs, I think everyone should listen to the cost of this exercise first. In this exercise, a total of 43.785 million was spent, of which 37.88 million was consumed by 60 sorties of six F-14 fighter formations, accounting for about 86.5% of the entire exercise cost. Among them, the fuel consumption alone is more than 10 million ......"

The chiefs only saw the effect, not the high cost of it.

During the three-day exercise, six F-14s made a total of 60 sorties and dropped nearly 300 tons of bombs and missiles, and these bombs and missiles were not cheap items like ordinary aerial bombs, and they were all friendly prices of 120,000 yuan at every turn.

In the end, two F-14s had problems with their spare parts and had to be overhauled, which was again a cost of millions.

"In addition, the tactical missile battalion of the special operations brigade and the long-range rocket artillery battalion have not yet been dispatched. If the first plan had been adopted, and the fire support battalion had participated in it, at the price of 600,000 yuan for a red flag and 370,000 yuan for a 304 long-range rocket launcher, the entire exercise would have exceeded 100 million ......" Yang Bin stood up and asked with a serious face.

"So many?" said the general, who said that a few more special operations brigades should be formed, widened his eyes. "The national defense budget has not risen at all in the past two years, and this year's budget is only 21.8 billion, and 100 million will be lost in one exercise?"

"If you count the cost of equipment, a brigade accounts for almost one-tenth of the national defense budget, which still does not count the cost ......of F-14 fighters, counting even higher," Long Yaohua sighed.

He finally understood why Zheng Yucheng and the old guys agreed to give the F-14 to the special operations brigade for free.

Tang Xin also understood, but now, no?

404 is obviously sharing the cost with them!

"Leader, we have good intentions, you are so suspicious, isn't it appropriate?" Zheng Yucheng complained, "At the beginning, you also asked to provide these fighters to the special operations brigade, and we spent a lot of money to get them back......"