Chapter 1949 Training Pilots (Second Shift)

The Capital Garrison is the most well-equipped of the seven major military regions of the Republic, and the Capital Garrison is the first to be equipped with all kinds of new equipment.

This is also a reasonable thing, the capital garrison is responsible for the important task of defending the capital and the safety of the heart of the republic, and whether it is well-equipped or not has a direct bearing on the security of the capital of the republic, and it is natural that it should be inclined to them in terms of equipment. Putting aside the innermost Central Guard Bureau, in terms of the equipment of the army and air force, the capital garrison has always been the best. Naturally, then, in order to adapt and accept all kinds of new equipment, it is completely understandable that the air force airfield of the capital garrison is occasionally under martial law, as it is today.

Today, the military airport of the capital garrison is under a high state of martial law, and a tight cordon has been deployed within 30 kilometers of the airport as the core

There is naturally a reason for such a high degree of vigilance, because the Capital Military Region has to test two new types of equipment: a new strategic air tanker and a long-range strategic transport aircraft provided by the Alice Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and as for the other long-range strategic bomber, because the core combat mission of the Capital Military Region is to defend the security of the capital, simply put, it is necessary to do the defensive work to the extreme, and as for the offensive task, it is good to hand it over to the companion of the Capital Military Region: the Jinan Military Region.

Therefore, today, while the Capital Military Region is testing long-range strategic transport aircraft and long-range air tankers, the task of testing long-range strategic bombers is handed over to the Jinan Military Region.

The abrupt change in the attitude of the military and the government is very intriguing.

The original government's attitude was very tough: as an army that has always pursued a defensive and limited offensive strategy, the Republic Air Force does not need to be equipped with long-range combat forces, especially long-range strategic bombers, long-range strategic transport aircraft, and long-range air tankers that can greatly increase the combat radius of fighters.

It seems that in the eyes of the government, these pieces of equipment are all the things that are equipped by the army that pursues a long-range offensive strategy, and is it necessary for our army, which pursues a limited offensive strategy, to equip these things?

Of course, the attitude of the military is obvious, and they are not willing to let go of any equipment that can improve the combat effectiveness of the army, not to mention the long-range strategic transport planes, long-range strategic bombers, and long-range air tankers that we have been longing for all these years but cannot obtain, but this year's military budget has already been made, and if you want to add new equipment, you need to allocate a special military budget from above, and the government does not give money, and the military has no choice.

Although it still did not loosen its mouth on whether to equip these three aircraft, it agreed to the military's request, first testing the performance of these three aircraft, and if the performance can meet the requirements of the military and the requirements of the national defense strategy of the republic, a small batch of equipment can be used for trial by the troops.

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"Your Alice Group is bleeding a lot this time." In the tower of the Air Force Airport of the Capital Military Region, a general standing next to Zhang Yingrui looked at the four huge silver fighters that were preparing for departure at the airport, and said to Zhang Yingrui with emotion.

This emotion can be regarded as the general's feelings, others don't know, but as the major general who secretly supported the Alice Group along the way, he knew how much effort the Alice Group had put in behind the sudden change of attitude of the government: 40% of the engineering volume of these three aircraft was outsourced to Shenfei and Xifei...... Several other aircraft manufacturing companies also have the idea of coming in and getting a piece of the pie, but their manufacturing capacity and level cannot keep up; although the government has the idea of sharing profits with everyone, it will not joke about such a major event as military equipment.

Zhang Lan nodded slightly, the general saw the benefits of the Alice Group's profits, but he didn't see the essence inside, if it wasn't for the guarantee given to Brother Hu by the Zhang family and the Alice Group, would Brother Hu be able to open this opening? Just kidding, for any politician, the world is not as big as the seat under his ass, if it weren't for the Alice Group and the Zhang family to ensure that Brother Hu would have three of the most weighty titles in the next five years, this matter would not be known until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the Monkey would have a result...,

"By the way, who are the test flights today?" Zhang Lan thought for a moment and asked the general beside him.

This matter was arranged by him, so Chu Liangfeng opened his mouth to answer Zhang Lan's question, "The ace test pilot specially transferred by the aircraft manufacturing company from the first time specializes in testing the extreme performance of various improved models of our national transport aircraft, and his flight skills are quite good, and he has made two first-class merits. ”

"Awesome" Hearing that the transferred test pilot had made two first-class merits, Zhang Lan's heart was suddenly full of admiration.

In a peaceful environment, it is extremely difficult for a soldier to make a second-class meritorious service, and if he wants to make a first-class meritorious service, it is almost necessary to exchange his life, and this test pilot can actually earn two first-class merits, and there is no need to have the slightest doubt about the level of piloting skills.

Chu Liangfeng hesitated for a moment, but still asked Zhang Lan, "By the way, how is your driver over there?" ”

Zhang Lan understood what Chu Liangfeng meant, to a large extent, whether the two aircraft of the Alice Group can be equipped with the troops, this test flight is very important, if the test pilot of the Alice Group has a problem in this test flight, the loss will be big for the Alice Group.

"I don't know exactly how it is, but I'm sure that it is definitely not weaker than this ace test pilot of West Flight, these two aircraft, from ground taxiing to air test flight, are all carried out by them, and the entire flight envelope is all done by them, and I have confidence in their technology." Zhang Lan said confidently.

Chu Liangfeng's eyes were suddenly filled with surprise.

Alice Group's test pilot's piloting skills must be quite good, Chu Liangfeng is sure of this, the test pilots of any aircraft manufacturing company are not easy masters, but Zhang Lan actually said that their test pilots flew the entire flight envelope of these two aircraft, which made Chu Liangfeng a little surprised: The test pilots of Alice Group themselves also know more or less, retired pilots recruited from the domestic air force, before retirement, although the piloting skills can be said to be good, but it is just good, There is still a considerable gap between the level of undertaking the test flight of the new aircraft and the test flight envelope. How on earth did the Alice Group manage to train such a character into such a good test pilot?

Chu Liangfeng couldn't believe it.

"There's nothing to make a fuss about," Zhang Lan said to himself as if he knew what Chu Liangfeng was thinking, "It's just to let them fly more, fly more, practice makes perfect, and the driving skills will naturally go up." ”

Is that so? Chu Liangfeng didn't believe it at all in his heart.

It is true that the domestic air force is limited by the level of equipment and military spending, and cannot be compared with the world-class air force powers such as the United States and Russia in daily training. If a pilot who can only be said to be in the middle of the upper level in the army has the potential to become a top pilot, the chief in charge of the Air Force will not be able to find out? It doesn't make sense.

In other words, if such a thing happens by chance, it can be explained by ignorance, but if the dozens of test pilots who serve the Alice Group have such a level and use this reason to explain it, wouldn't it be naked to draw the face of the leader of the Air Force?

"Perhaps, we can ask Alice Group to help the army train some top pilots?" This thought suddenly popped up, and it immediately startled Chu Liangfeng, and even Chu Liangfeng himself couldn't believe it, how could this kind of "big rebellion" idea come from his own head?

But as soon as he thought of the flight envelope information of the two aircraft provided by Alice Group to the Air Force, Chu Liangfeng's heart couldn't help but stir again: If this can really be done, it will definitely be a huge improvement for the Air Force, and Dalian is busy......

As a general serving in the Ministry of National Defense, Chu Liangfeng naturally knows more information than ordinary military commanders, and the Central Military Commission and the supreme chief have already made a decision on the final use of the "Varyag" aircraft carrier, which has already begun to carry out basic maintenance and repair in Dalian Port, and the preliminary work is being carried out in an orderly manner. Qualified carrier-based aircraft pilots have become a huge problem for the naval aviation of the Republic and the Air Force of the Republic.

Although the Air Force and the Navy have now begun to carry out the preliminary selection work in an orderly manner, and the next step is to conduct targeted training for these selected pilots, but it is impossible to get the results out of the equation without a few years, and the most important thing is that the qualified carrier-based aircraft pilots that the military has been able to train in recent years are really limited, if the Alice Group is willing to help in this matter......

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a very good idea, Chu Liangfeng's heart began to beat non-stop, and he made up his mind, and after he went back, he reported his thoughts to the leaders of the Military Commission. Before that, in addition to effectively verifying the level of these test pilots of the Alice Group, another "task" is to probe Zhang Lan's tone from his mouth: Is the Alice Group willing to take on this job?

Although Alice Group has the grace of promoting itself, for the soldiers of the Republic, defending the country is always the first choice.

"Zhang Lan, if the country wants you to help train a group of excellent pilots, what conditions will you propose?" Chu Liangfeng gritted his teeth and asked directly to Zhang Lan.

"Train pilots?" Zhang Lan frowned, and said as if talking to herself, "It doesn't make sense, the capabilities of the Air Force and the Navy are not weak...... Is it for the Varyag? ”

Hearing the three words "Varyag", for a moment, Chu Liangfeng felt that his heart had stopped beating......