Chapter 15: The next stop, the Divine Toilet
Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Kanto Regional Flight Control Center.
Under the influence of the United States for a long time, in order to strengthen air traffic control in its territorial airspace, Japan has also established a nationwide radar monitoring network in its territory, and flight control centers have been set up in each responsible sub-region to provide information and data through military and civilian radars throughout the Japanese archipelago to complete the tracking and identification of aviation aircraft within the area of responsibility.
It's night.
Before the defection of an F-2 multirole fighter jet at the Songdo base, the control center was still very busy.
There are many civil and military airports in the Kanto region, and the airport dispatching tower is only responsible for real-time monitoring and command of the airspace within a radius of 90 kilometers and an altitude of 3,500 meters with the airport as the center, and most of the time is to guide the landing and take-off of aircraft.
The airspace between the airports is handed over to the flight control center, which not only needs to control and monitor the airspace between the airports, but also provides the necessary flight information to the air target, including the weather conditions, wind direction, wind force and so on the airport or route.
According to the regulations, whether it is a military or civilian aircraft, non-wartime, non-air restriction time, etc., any air target should submit a flight application to the flight control center before takeoff, including military aircraft performing air patrol or training missions.
Watanabe Ozawa, a young second lieutenant at the flight control center, spends most of his night recording flight applications from various airlines, which have a strict application format, including aircraft type, flight route, port number, flight time, flight speed, flight altitude, and the code of the onboard transponder.
Watanabe Ozawa will make reasonable arrangements for these applications according to the use of airspace, and then the four-digit identification code will be transmitted to the aircraft through the radar radio channel, and then the civil aviation flight crew will input this code into the on-board transponder.
After the flight takes off, the radar on the ground will continuously verify the identification code, and the aircraft that is not identified or cannot be identified at all will be listed as unidentified aircraft.
Of course, if any of the altitude, speed and route of the aircraft are inconsistent with the declared altitude, speed and route, such as flying high or fast, or yawing for several kilometers, Watanabe Ozawa will contact the aircraft in time to correct the mistake.
According to the regulations, if Watanabe's admonition fails, or the other party does not answer, he will promptly report the situation to the officer on duty, and it will be up to him to decide whether to continue to call the aircraft for inquiry and wait for a response, or immediately arrange for a patrol or combat-ready fighter plane to fly to the target for identification.
Fortunately, since the end of the Cold War, unidentified aerial vehicles have generally rarely appeared, and occasionally once or twice they are also used by private aircraft.
But this time it was different, the garrison troops at the Songdo base reported to the Air Self-Defense Force that a fully fueled F-2 multirole fighter had taken off and defected to an unknown destination, and the flight control center immediately activated the emergency plan.
"Watanabe, did you find anything?"
The voice of the officer on duty was full of anxiety and reached the eardrums, Watanabe raised his sore neck and shook his head, and responded loudly: "Report, nothing found!" ”
"Eight Tooth Road, where did it fly!"
The officer on duty was unusually anxious, and a series of explosions occurred at the Songdao military base, and the aviation flight captain directly called the flight control center, demanding that once an unidentified aircraft was found, it would be reported immediately.
The situation is urgent, and the Japanese defense minister, who has been woken up in his sleep, has asked the Ground Self-Defense Force General Staff and the Maritime Self-Defense Force Staff to assist the Air Self-Defense Force General Staff through the central command and control system and through the army, navy, and air force joint defense data communication network to find the defected fighter as soon as possible.
Within the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, it was naturally as if a major war was approaching, and all four air bases in the capital Tokyo had entered a state of emergency, including the Jujo base in Kita-ku, Tokyo, the Ichigaya base in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, the Meguro base in Meguro Ward, Kyoto, and the Fuchu base in Fuchu City, Tokyo.
Of course, the air defense units equipped with the Patriot III surface-to-air missiles are also in combat readiness, as well as the special flight unit equipped with the E-767 large airborne early warning aircraft, which is equipped with advanced AN / APY-2 radar, which can easily detect targets within 320 kilometers above high altitudes, but it will take time to prepare for the flight and take off into the mission airspace.
The AWACS aircraft were temporarily useless, and the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force had no choice but to pin its hopes on the 28 ground-based radar stations deployed throughout the country, which were equipped with advanced three-coordinate radars of the J/TPS series, of which the J/TPS-3 used active phased array technology, and the maximum detection range in the air could reach 650 km.
It can be said that the entire Self-Defense Forces of the Japanese Ministry of Aviation focused on the defected F-2 fighter, but it was nowhere to be seen.
Everyone knows that it must have entered an ultra-low-altitude flight state, otherwise so many military and civilian radars would have already discovered its traces.
Watanabe Ozawa knew that it was only a matter of time before he would be able to spot the fighter.
After anxious waiting and a long patrol, Watanabe Ozawa suddenly noticed a bright spot on the radar, but soon, the identification system in the integrated radar marked it with four code values.
This code is no different from the code of many civilian flights in the air, and it is also a combination of 4,000 yards, and from its working mode, its identity is a military target, which proves that the aircraft uses the same type of identification system as the Air Self-Defense Force.
Watanabe Ozawa quickly inquired about the target identification code for military aircraft approved during this period, and was surprised to find that the identification code had long expired, and the latest application approval was given to an F-2 multirole fighter stationed at the Matsushima military base.
"Could it be the one who defected?"
Watanabe Ozawa held back his ecstasy and was about to raise his hand to report, but suddenly, the bright spot on the radar screen disappeared.
This fighter that suddenly appeared but disappeared suddenly was indeed the F-2 multi-role fighter "piloted" by the Spirit Core.
After taking off from the Songdao base, the spirit core, which still has no experience in piloting and combat of contemporary third-generation fighters, can only operate and fly while familiarizing itself with various systems under the remote guidance of Wu Feng.
In the ultra-low altitude flight at night at less than 100 meters, even with the assistance of terrain radar, human pilots are difficult to withstand a long period of mental concentration flight, the undulation of the terrain and the interference of air currents will bring great difficulties to the fighter pilot, and a momentary mistake will cause the fighter to crash to the ground immediately.
Fortunately, it is not a human who controls the flight but the spirit core, and by the way, thanks to the 3-degree digital wire-based flight control system adopted by little Japan for the F-2 fighter, to ensure that every flight control command of the spirit core can be accurately executed in place, the heavy fighter actually flew out of dazzling high maneuverability, and easily skimmed between the ups and downs of the mountains.
Had it not been for the climb to the altitude of the flight in order to search for and lock on to the Shin-Shinano inverter station in Nagano Prefecture, the discovery of the fighter would have been delayed a bit.
In order to realize the power exchange between the two transmission systems with different frequencies and ensure the economy of operation, Japan has successively built a 300,000 kilowatt capacity Sakuma inverter station in Shizuoka Prefecture and a 600,000 kilowatt capacity new Shinano inverter station in Nagano Prefecture.
Since the closure of many units at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Kanto region, where industry and commerce are relatively more developed, has a serious imbalance in power generation and consumption, and has long relied on the Kansai regional power grid to provide a large amount of electricity.
Since the new Shinano inverter station has been in operation for a long time, the infrared signatures emitted by a large number of variables and inverter equipment have been easily captured by fighter jets from a long distance.
"Spirit core, don't use missiles for the time being, use the auxiliary fuel tank under the No. 6 pylon, anyway, the fuel in the tank is about to be exhausted!"
"Master, understood!"
In response to the spirit core, the F-2 fighter that did not climb at high speed turned on the afterburner, and the speed soared almost as if it was about to crash head-on into the towering transmission tower, but the fighter under the night dragged a dazzling tail flame, but only threw down the auxiliary fuel tank under the "belly".
The streamlined auxiliary fuel tank with great inertia hit the new Shinano inverter station with a perfect parabola, and the aluminum alloy auxiliary fuel tank could withstand such a high-speed hard collision, and it exploded immediately.
The jetted aviation kerosene burst into flames, and the already scorching power equipment was quickly enveloped in a sea of fire.
The workers on duty at the frequency conversion station only heard a loud bang, followed by a raging fire in the frequency conversion station, in the firelight, a large number of equipment was burned, the transmission line with high voltage was broken, and the ultra-high voltage power instantly penetrated a lot of equipment that was not on fire, which completely triggered the destruction of the frequency conversion station.
In less than a minute, the inverter station was caught in electric sparks and blazing fires, and the power that had been continuously transmitted to the Kanto region was immediately interrupted, causing a crazy alarm to sound in the power dispatch center in the Kanto region with a sharp increase in the power grid load.
And the initiator, after throwing away a fuel tank, easily destroyed the frequency conversion station without a single bomb, causing the power consumption of industrial production in the Kanto region to be strained, and by the way, it also solved the problem of the fighter plane's load, and made a lighter sharp turn to Tokyo, which is less than 180 kilometers away.
"Spirit core, next stop, Pure Country Divine Toilet!"
Easily destroying the new Shinano inverter station, this is just a small episode, Wu Feng's biggest purpose in letting the spirit core seize the F-2 multi-role fighter is to disgust the people of the world, especially the descendants of Yan and Huang for many years.
When the fire truck in Nagano Prefecture sounded the alarm and rushed to the Shin-Shinano inverter station, the F-2 fighter was already under the control of the spirit core, and went straight to the Jingkuni Shin toilet in an almost straight course.