Chapter Twenty-Four: The Vespa Brothers and Sisters

"Enemy aircraft were spotted. Throwing the auxiliary fuel tank, Tiger Bee No. 1 engaged. ”

On the radio, her sister Casey's voice always sounds like this mezzo-soprano without undulating rhythms. Little Carl in the cockpit? Green looked ahead, and the lead fighter dropped the two auxiliary fuel tanks that the wing roots were mounting.

However, he did not abandon the drop fuel tank with him, because his sister would not let him. Casey takes fuel very seriously and is also a master when it comes to fuel consumption management. But he can't control the consumption of oil, and it is completely up to his temperament, so his sister never let him abandon the precious fuel.

Little Carl doesn't care, anyway, the targets in the air will be swept away by his sister Casey, and no one can escape the attack of the tiger wasp. As long as you concentrate on shooting the missile out and then have enough fuel to return home, you will be successful.

Thinking back to the First Sino-Japanese War, among the carrier-based aircraft pilots who survived the "Ford" aircraft carrier, all of them were excellent managers of fuel control. Green was one of them, and the others ran out of fuel and died in a wave between Okinawa and Miyako.

"Call Tiger Bee 2, you don't have to throw the auxiliary fuel tank. Pay attention to the amount of oil and try to keep up with me. ”

"Tiger Bee 2 understands." Carl Jr. replied, glancing at the fuel gauge again.

After checking the fuel tank, little Carl touched the storage bag again, which was already prepared with a toothbrush and a neatly folded change of underwear, which his sister had prepared for herself. Even if you run out of fuel and need to divert to other airports, don't be afraid, Casey always has a plan B.

The night sky was pitch black, and my sister's fighter jet glowed a silvery-gray sheen under the moon.

Little Carl sat in the cockpit and stared at the long plane closely, thinking that if he didn't have him, maybe his sister would be more relaxed. He doesn't have any goals or ambitions in life, just do nothing. At one point, Carl even thought it would be nice to be killed in his home in Los Angeles with his parents during the war. Who made him succumb to his parents' expectations and join the Navy at that time?

But now Carl Jr. has a goal, that is, to firmly guard the back of his sister, and never let anyone attack the tiger bee from behind.

"Call the head wolf, are you sure the good dog doesn't have missiles?"

Little Carl heard his sister's inquiry about the wolf in the communication headset, and from his tone, he felt that his sister was a little nervous.

"There are no missiles."

"Steller Bee 1 asks for a repeat."

"The head wolf repeats, the good dog has no missiles."

It sounds like my sister doesn't trust the head wolf. Carl Jr. knows that his sister Casey and the head wolf used to be teammates in the same squadron, and the relationship between them is inexplicable.

"Head wolf! I tell you, four missiles are being fired in my face! Four! The alarm sound deafened my ears! ”

"Impossible! Good dogs don't have missiles. ”

Little Carl listened like an outsider to the conversation between his sister and the head wolf. He also knew that the mercenary named Meng Zheng was piloting a J-10BM fighter jet of the government army. And when it took off, the head wolf was next to him, knowing that there was no missile attached to the attack.

"I shouldn't have trusted you." Casey said over the radio, "Call Tiger Bee 2!" ”

Carl Jr. was excited: "Tiger Bee No. 2 received." ”

"Execute plan B! The defense is scattered! ”

"Tiger Bee 2 understands."

At this moment, the hoarse and choked scream of Bill the head wolf was heard over the radio: "No! Don't scatter! I saw it, the trail of missiles in the sky is red! Scarlet smoke, that's a show bomb! Don't hide! Repeat, that's a show play! Seize this opportunity to attack head-on ......"

In the night sky, four blood-colored bullet trails sliced through the dome, as if the sky had been wounded.

"No—" the radio was filled with a wolf's howl, "Casey, you've fallen for him!" ”

Casey didn't answer.

Carl Jr. understands that the main purpose of "defensive dispersion" is to protect himself. He also vaguely felt that his sister's choice had been affected by his own existence over the years. All he can do is obey his sister Kathy.

Carl Jr. pressed the steering stick to the right of the No. 2 machine, causing the plane to turn 90 degrees to the right, and then pulling the lever to make the plane start to circle horizontally, which allowed the head-on missile to withstand as much overload as possible and cause it to miss the target or overload and lose control. And began to simultaneously release two types of jamming bombs, infrared and chaff, interfering with the work of the missile's seeker.

At the same time, the "Tiger Bee No. 1" directly pulled the rod to climb and perform a vertical roll.

As the dense burst sounded, the entire night sky was lit up by the jamming bombs of the "tiger bee". Continuous, dense jamming projectiles form two semi-circular arcs perpendicular to each other on the dome, shaped like paper clips broken at right angles.

This is the "defensive dispersion" maneuver - No. 2 dodges, No. 1 climbs to cover.

The radio was still filled with the roar of the wolf: "Casey, you've been fooled!" ”

Carl Jr. perfectly completed the No. 2 action in the defensive dispersion, standard and beautiful. He knew that his sister had climbed up at the moment, looking after herself from high in the sky.

He looked up, relieved to see Casey in the air. Little Carl habitually raised his chin and looked up, and then his sister's warning came from the headphones: "Tiger Bee No. 2!" There are enemy planes directly behind you! ”

Carl heard his sister's warning, but he didn't look back, his eyes wide open. In front of him, a gray fighter with a huge mouth flashed, and like an evil dragon, it slammed its huge wings into his sister. He also shouted, "Tiger Bee No. 1! Enemy planes are behind you! ”

Casey saw the gray J-10BM fighter in the rearview mirror. Undoubtedly, that is the wolf's worst enemy, the Bombarded Fighter, whose exaggerated giant mouth is the only identifying feature. In an instant, she saw through the plan of the attack, and shouted from the radio, "Tiger Bee 2, leave him alone!" That's a feint 'eyeball' machine! ”

Little Carl was shocked, the "eyeball" is a long machine for the "attack dispersion" action, which is fast, mainly to attract his own pursuit; Such an obvious action indicates that there is another aircraft in the air, that is, the wingman of the "attack dispersion" action - "shooter", and that is the real threat. Where is the shooter? Could it be the rear of my sister that I was warned?

"Nope! That guy is going to attack! Little Carl didn't know how to come up with the courage, he saw that the blow of the so-called "eyeball" plane position opened the cocoon under the wings, and that was where the missiles were loaded, "He's behind you!" The bomb bay has been opened! ”

"Leave me alone!" Casey saw this, but she could also see that little Carl was ready to take a risk, "The head wolf said that he didn't have missiles in the bomb bay, that's a bluff!" ”

"Don't trust the wolf."

Carl Jr. said it was perhaps the most courageous to date. He pulls the rod with both hands and deflects his tail inward at the same time. The vertical tail of the "Advanced Hornet" fighter is tilted outward, which can slow down and give the fuselage a head-up moment when deflected inward at the same time, plus two huge horizontal tails and a three-piece deflector variable vector nozzle, a violent amount of downforce is exerted on the rear of the fuselage. In an instant, the entire fuselage stood upright. But the trajectory of the plane remains the same, just like a swan standing upright and moving quickly on the water.

Relying on the help of the variable vector nozzle and the four tails, Carl Jr. instantly stood up the plane, the nose of the plane was firmly aimed at the attack that bit his sister, and the aperture in the head-up display lassoed the J-10BM.

The sound of the fire control system locking and his sister's shouting came from the headphones, little Carl had never heard her shout like this, he felt that Casey's voice was always a mezzo-soprano without undulating rhythm, but Casey's voice was so sharp at the moment that it broke: "Carl! Parachuting! ”

"Why?" Carl Jr. didn't know what was going on.

At that moment, the plane's engine began to stir, making irregular wheezing and metal crashing sounds, followed by a near-death choking cough or a drowning cough. Both F414 engines rev down, and the rate of decline is very uneven.

Carl Jr. panicked, it was the engine that was spurting. Soon, as the thrust of the F414 engine became smaller and smaller, and the air flow from the upper surface of the wing was separated from the upper surface of the wing, causing a stall. The "Advanced Hornet" fighter shuddered twice, tilted its head to the left, and then spun in circles and fell like a dead leaf.

"Skydive! Cal. Casey completely ignored the attack behind him, and still shouted in spite of it.

"Why? I can handle it. Carl replied that he was worried about his sister's safety.

The slam had bitten Casey's back tightly, and the only one who could save her was Carl Jr. himself. He thought to himself, and it wasn't a big deal, but it was just stuck in a horizontal spiral, and the engine didn't turn off, and he was able to handle it.

Carl Jr. pushed the throttle and pushed the left rudder in an attempt to make this terrible spiral. He was trained to know that a plane that went into a spiral state would get out of control, but he could completely change out of it. While each aircraft has a different way of creating a spiral, he has learned how to create an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet that is stuck in a spiral.

In the night sky, the vent of this "advanced bumblebee" ignited unevenly, as if an old car was firing a cannon. The fuselage kept whirling and falling, like a helpless dead leaf leaving the branches, and it was only a matter of time before it fell to the ground; Or a boat caught in a whirlpool, waiting for the moment when it sinks to the bottom.

Meng Strike firmly bit Casey No. 1 at this time, but he didn't expect No. 2 to be so irrational. He muttered to himself about the trajectory of the crashed No. 2 aircraft: "The fuselage carried too much oil and was too heavy." Why bring so much oil. ”

As Meng Zhen said, when he received the J-10BM, he asked Tang Yujian to remove the conformal fuel tank on his back. But the situation of Carl Jr. of "Tiger Bee 2" is completely opposite, his sister Casey not only made him carry a conformal fuel tank full of fuel, but also did not let him abandon the auxiliary fuel tank. These burdens were simply too heavy for his fighter.

The "Advanced Hornet" is a good fighter, and the F414 engine is even more outstanding, but it still can't support that much of a load. In addition, as Meng Ji said, if the belly center line is not thrown away, don't think about changing it.

Carl Jr. didn't think of this, and he was convinced that his sister was right to value fuel. At the moment, Carl is still mechanically doing a textbook spiral change-out operation. But he didn't pay attention to the altimeter like in the textbooks, or rather, he only had his sister Casey in mind, and he had to get the plane flying again, and only he could protect his sister's back.

The plane fell round and round, and little Carl heard the sound of clattering. What is that? It sounded like a cool breeze through the woods, just like my sister used to do when she took her out to play. He saw through the front windshield of the plane that there were many leaves rubbing upwards against the fuselage, and he also saw branches and trunks, one by one, piercing upwards.

A fireball erupted from the mountains in the distance, and only then did a rumbling explosion be heard.

At the castle tower airport, the head wolf saw this scene. Not only the wolf, but everyone saw it: Bill said that the good dog had no missiles, but there were missiles emitting red smoke under the fuselage of the attack; Bill said that the good dog fired a show bomb, and as a result, everyone saw a fireball coming from the opposite hill, and too much oil was so powerful that the flames instantly burned the nearby into a vacuum. The shock wave unstoppably blew away the nearby vegetation, mud and rocks, leaving nothing behind.

At the airport, the mercenaries were whispering. Everyone has some whispers, the head wolf obviously doesn't take everyone's lives seriously, first the "platoon cannon", now the "tiger head bee", who is the next to become the victim of the head wolf?

"That's not good." The baseball cap leaned over to the wolf and whispered.

"Hmm." Bill answered, and then said, "It's not busy, the most critical moment hasn't come yet." ”

In the night sky, "Tiger Bee No. 1" was circling around the wreckage of No. 2 aircraft. Casey knew that it was she who had made her brother retain too much oil, that the plane was too heavy to exceed the limit, and that it crashed during a stall maneuver. She was the one who killed her brother.

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