Chapter 171: F4 Ghost Attack!
Rear Admiral Fitz was in charge of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, and he drove to work at the base early in the morning eating sandwiches, and when he was halfway there, he saw an F4 fighter plane flying at high speed over a hill in the distance, and disappeared into the clouds in an instant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As an air force test site, Edwards Air Force Base will not be stationed in the second-generation fighter that the F4 cares about, and even if it is to carry out bomb tests, it will not be today. Because this air base has been selected as the first alternate landing airport for the space shuttle, and the Colombian space shuttle will land here in a few months, today is the day when the base will conduct landing exercises, and all the pilots at the base will have a holiday to rest in order to cooperate with the smooth implementation of the exercise.
There was actually a fighter plane with unknown circumstances taking off at the base, and as a supervisor, I didn't know anything about it! Maj. Gen. Fitz threw the sandwich out the window, slammed on the gas pedal, and raced to the base at 120 yards.
After parking the car, he had just trotted out of the parking lot, when there was a loud bang behind him, and the scorching air wave knocked him to the ground, and then he saw a huge flame burst out of the parking lot behind him, and more than a dozen cars were ignited in the explosion, and the fire was raging.
Major General Fitz touched his whole body, and with palpitations, he lit a cigarette for himself, and if it weren't for the wall at the garage door blocking most of the shock wave, he would have died if he had walked a little slower, and there was absolutely no chance of surviving the explosion.
As an air force officer who participated in the Vietnam War, Major General Fitz's psychological quality was absolutely excellent, and he did not feel how frightened he was because he had just brushed shoulders with death; in those days, he came into contact with death almost every day on the battlefield, and more than 10,000 US warplanes were shot down during the entire Vietnam War, and it was extremely dangerous to fly a plane into the sky.
Strong psychological quality, so that Rear Admiral Edwards quickly realized that the explosion must be related to the previous F4 fighter takeoff. He got up and ran to the tower, the fire department of the base had already activated the emergency mechanism when he heard the sound, several fire trucks were whizzing towards the parking lot, and many base guards also rushed over with guns.
On the way to the control tower, Edwards saw several controllers running towards him, and the direction they came was actually the cafeteria, so he hurriedly stopped them and asked, "Who is on duty at the tower now?" Who passed the fighter plane that took off just now! ā
"There was no mission today, so Daniel was alone in the tower, and the F4 fighter plane flew over last night, saying that the pilot was a little unwell and couldn't continue flying, so we let him land. It may have been that the pilot felt better and flew back in the fighter......" One of the controllers said quickly, touching the back of his head.
"Find the F4 pilot, I bet he must still be in the base, the fighter plane is flying towards the Pacific Ocean, it is definitely not back to some base. Come with me to the tower and see what the hell Daniel is up to! "Rear Admiral Fitz had a strong hunch that the pilot on that plane must be some pilot at the base. The two controllers immediately ordered the two controllers to summon the guards at the base to find the original F4 pilot, and at the same time take people to the tower to figure things out.
The group took the elevator to the top floor of the tower, and as soon as they got out of the elevator door, they saw Daniel lying on the console, the left half of his face was gone, and his brain was splashed all over the console and the wall behind it, and the glass window opposite the console had been shattered, and it was obvious that someone had sniped Daniel on the mountain bag outside the base.
Major General Fitz stared at Fitz with a hot nose for a while, then picked up the phone and called the base security department: "We have been attacked, block the entire base to check for suspicious persons, and notify the police to block all the traffic arteries within a radius of thirty miles to track down suspicious persons!" Send someone to search the hill next to the tower to find out where someone sniped Daniel. ā
After the call, Major General Fitz shouted at the scrambling controllers: "Leave Daniel alone, he is dead, find a cloth to cover it to protect the scene." Let's see where the fighter jet from the radar just flew! ā
The base is now in chaos, and Major General Fitz instinctively feels that the F4 that took off just now is the root cause of these things, as long as this fighter is found, everything will be clear. He even saw a lot of dead bodies back then, he even after a plane crash, he carried the upper body of the co-pilot behind him, holding the two legs of the co-pilot in front, it took three days to walk through the primeval forest, and found a stronghold of the American army before he was finally rescued, he did not want to throw his brother in this foreign land to be eaten by jungle beasts, even if he died in battle, he should be able to lie in the coffin and be buried.
Several controllers did not have such a strong psychological quality as Major General Fitz, and they turned on the airport's radar and began to detect the situation in the nearby airspace.
"Sir, I've found that F4! However, the pilot turned off the radio and we could not communicate with him. An air traffic controller covered his nose and reported loudly.
"Where did that plane come from? Look at its height is not a civil aircraft! Fitz looked at the radar screen and immediately noticed that the F4 fighter was flying straight towards another plane, and the speed and altitude of that plane must have been a transport plane, but the code name on the radar was not that of the US Air Force or Navy.
The air controller quickly made contact with the transport plane on the opposite side through the radio, and after a brief exchange, he turned around and reported to Fitz: "Sir, this is a Chinese C5 Galaxy transport plane, which was invited by the Ministry of Defense to attend an important military meeting in our country, and it is full of high-ranking officials of the Chinese military and government!" ā
"Oh my God! Let Adam and Flo fly the F15 to intercept, and it must not be allowed to be shot down by American fighters on American soil, it will become a diplomatic disaster! Fitz immediately realized what the F4 fighter was doing, and immediately ordered the F15 fighter at the base to quickly rise into the air to intercept it, no one knows better than him that if the transport plane is shot down, not only will his position as a major general be lost, but a large number of officials in the Air Force will be implicated in this matter, and even the Pentagon will not be able to get out of it, and maybe the Secretary of State will have to step down.
"It's too late, sir! The F4 fighter will catch up with the transport plane in ten minutes, and the F15 will arrive in fifteen minutes at the earliest. Five minutes was enough time for the fighter to launch several rounds of attacks. The air traffic controller also knew that things were going to be big, and his legs couldn't stop shaking, and he couldn't press it with both hands.
"Warn the pilots of the transport planes to speed up their escape and try to hold out until help arrives." Rear Admiral Fitz also knew that the transport plane was defenseless in the face of the attack aircraft and would be shot down almost instantly, and now he could only pray that the pilots on the transport plane would have superb piloting skills to reverse all this.
Li Xiaohua is the main pilot of the C5 Galaxy transport plane, and he has been exhausted from a whole day of flying missions, and if it weren't for the flight with the co-pilot, he would have collapsed from exhaustion.
Just now, Edwards Air Force Base sent a warning, saying that an F4 fighter jet that had been hijacked by unknown persons was flying towards this direction, which was extremely aggressive! The Chinese pilot was asked to flee as quickly as possible, and two F15s had already rushed over to support.
Li Xiaohua was now rubbing his eyes, he thought he was dreaming and had not yet woken up, and after asking again in English and getting a positive answer, he realized the danger of the situation.
Everyone knows that the maximum speed of the F4 ghost can reach 2400 kilometers per hour, and the full power operation of the four engines of the Galaxy can only achieve 800 kilometers per hour, so it is impossible to run!
Before Li Xiaohua took off, he was repeatedly told by the commander of the 18th Air Force Division that Chen Xu's identity was special, and there were forces all over the world that wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, so the plane must be cautious and cautious, and after arriving abroad, unless it was to fly to the destination, it was not allowed to open the cabin for refueling on the way, so as not to allow anyone to break in with a gun.
Who knew that they flew cautiously all the way, and they were about to reach their destination, but something went wrong on the US side, and a fighter plane came directly to shoot down the transport plane.
This situation is really beyond everyone's imagination, if you know in advance, you must let the fighter escort.
"Chief! Heads! Wake up and have an accident. Li Xiaohua asked the co-pilot to speed up, and at the same time unbuckled his seat belt and ran to the cargo hold behind him, waking up Chen Xu and Chen Weiguo, who was lying next to him and snoring.
"What's wrong...... Is it that the plane is about to crash due to a breakdown! Chen Weiguo woke up with a spirit, rolled out of his chair into the cabin, and shouted.
"Pretty much the same thing! There was a warning from the United States that a U.S. Air Force F4 had been hijacked and was now flying towards us, and it was supposed to shoot us down. Li Xiaohua made a long story short and truthfully reported what he knew to Chen Xu, but the other entourages in the cabin were so frightened that their faces were pale, and one government official even began to circle in place, so nervous that he had lost his square inch.
"Give me all the silence! They're not dead yet! What are you afraid of......" Chen Weiguo completely sobered up from his daze, and yelled at the officials next to him, showing the stability unique to a soldier.
"Report the specific situation, how far the enemy aircraft is still and how much time we have!" Chen Xu threw off the down jacket on his body, got up and rushed to the cockpit with Li Xiaohua to save himself.
"The enemy plane is still ten minutes away from our plane, and now we are flying at the fastest speed, and we can extend the time to twelve minutes. And the U.S. F15 will take at least 15 minutes to arrive, that is, we will have to survive three minutes. Li Xiaohua took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, he had never encountered such a situation, and his mood was inevitably agitated.
"In three minutes, we're all dead ten times! But today it's cloudless here, and there's not even a place to hide. Chen Xu saw the blue sky outside through the porthole, and cold sweat unconsciously flowed from his forehead.
"Chief, what should we do?" Li Xiaohua gritted his teeth and asked Chen Xu how to deal with it, this kind of thing is no longer something that a pilot can handle, he can only ask the biggest person on this plane, hoping to get a solution.
Chen Xu pinched the soft flesh in the center of his eyebrows, first glanced at the cargo hold behind him, and then at the land like a sand table below, and said decisively: "There is no way, reduce the altitude and abandon the plane immediately, and prepare to parachute all the staff!" (To be continued.) )