Chapter 393: Encountering the "Global Eagle" Again
Chapter 393
The things that Xu Ziling made out all took into account all the behaviors and habits of the Chinese people.
The design of the control terminal in terms of cāo work continues his usual style: simple and straightforward. The system screen is clear at a glance, and those cāo buttons are also marked with Celestial Empire characters one by one.
After a full day of training, a few trainers selected from the flight team have been able to control the drone decently, if you want to be proficient, it is a matter of time, depending on their progress, I believe that a few more actual cāo will be able to perfectly control the drone for mission operations.
The time of the operation was 10 a.m. Celestial Empire time the next day, and that evening, he led the relevant staff to conduct a complete inspection of the drone, and then waited for the next day's operation to begin.
Early the next morning, the people involved in the operation gathered very early.
The first thing, of course, is to maintain and inspect the drone again, and after checking that everything is correct, the previously unloaded missiles are reloaded into the aircraft's magazine.
After all the preparations in the hangar were completed, Xu Ziling returned to the command center.
Here, Zhu Gang and Yang Kaiming have been waiting here for a long time.
Sitting in his place, he immediately turned on the control terminal and began to check the instrument.
With the preparations completed one by one, the time has also come for the scheduled action.
Looking at the big screen, the hangar door of the flight team opened, and the drone was pulled onto the runway by the tractor, and he turned on the connection between the control terminal and the drone.
The connection was successful, and the necessary work began immediately.
When the ground crew on the runway of the airport was withdrawn, he began to activate the drone.
After checking the data of the aircraft, he did not find any abnormalities, so he started the engine and controlled the drone to start taxiing.
Accelerating violently, the drone spewed blue flames from the tail spout
Paddle forward on the runway and soar into the sky at a rapid pace.
The landing gear is retracted, the landing gear compartment is closed, the drone flies to a certain altitude and begins to adjust the course.
After adjusting its course, the plane continued to climb until it reached 24,000 meters, when it stabilized at this altitude.
The destination of this operation is in Turkey, and it is the first time that the drone has left the country, taking off from the base to the target position, with a range of nearly 5,000 kilometers, and passing through the airspace of several countries on the way.
That is, whether in terms of range or stealth, this is a huge test for UAVs.
I was sure that the drone would be able to successfully complete this mission, but at that time, it was based on the results of the lion's rigorous calculations, but you must know that everything in the road has a sudden situation, so when the plane took off, Xu Ziling's heart was still a little nervous.
During the entire operation, this time the drone will not have the opportunity to refuel in the air, so as soon as it takes off from the base, he lets the drone fly at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters.
Because for the "Shadow Dragon", this altitude is its best flying condition, and of course, it is also the most fuel-efficient.
The route is of course a straight flight, different from the previous flight in the domestic airspace, this time to fly through the airspace of other countries, at this altitude, it is unlikely to encounter other countries' aircraft, and is not afraid of being detected by the radar on the ground.
But just in case, he is not arrogant enough to let the drone cruise automatically, but is ready to use manual control all the time, so that even if he finds an airplane, he can avoid it first.
Starting from the base, hundreds of kilometers away is the border, and after flying not long after, the drone quickly crossed the big snow mountains on the border and entered the airspace of country J.
All the people in the command hall had seen the stealth ability of the "Shadow Dragon" before, but from the moment it flew into the airspace of other countries, everyone was still inevitably a little worried.
However, their worries did not last long, country J was not big, and a few minutes later, the drone successfully crossed their airspace and entered the sky over Pakistan.
After flying over Pakistan for nearly ten minutes, they did not find any abnormalities, and they knew that the radar on the ground of the road did not detect the existence of the drone, which made them put their hearts at ease.
At Mach 5, the drone flew towards the target position beyond ordinary people's imagination.
On another large screen in the command hall, a reconnaissance satellite was displayed monitoring the target's position.
I saw that several cars began to drive into the road in the valley in the picture, and it seemed that the target people had begun to arrive this time.
The satellite used this time is the same model as the satellite used during the last East China Sea operation, and it is also a low-orbit high-definition reconnaissance satellite.
By the time the vehicles began to appear, the satellites were fully operational.
The camera follows the movement of several cars all the way, and at the same time constantly scans the people in the cars from several angles, hoping to further confirm whether they are the target people.
Unfortunately, the windows of these cars were all curtained, and the people inside did not open the windows, so the satellites could not confirm their identities at once.
However, the car quickly arrived at the location of the castle, and when they got out of the car, no matter how many people were around them, they could not prevent reconnaissance from satellites in the sky.
"Target Number 1 confirmed!"
"Target No. 2 confirmed!"
"Target No. 3 confirmed!"
“……”
All the vehicles stopped in front of the castle one after another, and the occupants of the cars got out of the car one by one, followed by reports from intelligence analysts, and the details of each target began to be displayed on the screen.
"All nine targets are here."
It was not long before the intelligence agent reported that all the target had arrived.
"How long do we have to get to the target?"
Zhu Gang looked at the positioning system of the drone and asked Xu Ziling.
"Thirteen minutes."
Listening to Zhu Gang's question, Xu Ziling looked at the screen of the control terminal, and then answered him without looking back.
"Hmm!"
Hearing that he would be able to arrive soon, Zhu Gang answered, and stopped talking, for fear of disturbing Xu Ziling to control the drone.
The drone has just flown over the Caspian Sea and reached the western part of Iraq, which is not very far from Turkey, and the target location is in the east of Turkey, which is not very far from Iraq.
flew a distance of thousands of kilometers, and found a lot of traces of planes on the radar along the way, and Xu Ziling checked them one by one.
It turned out that many of them were civil aviation passenger planes, and of course some of them were some fighters that were cruising in the airspace of various countries passing by, but most of these fighters were at an altitude of several thousand meters.
Their radar was completely unable to detect the "Shadow Dragon One" flying above their heads. ”
Another few minutes passed, and the drone flew through the airspace of Iraq, and finally arrived at the country to which the target location belonged - Turkey.
Continuing to fly towards the destination, after flying several hundred kilometers in Turkish airspace, the "Eagle Eye" system has been able to scan the target location.
"Drip ...... Drip...... Drip ......"
As soon as it entered the range that the radar could scan, the radar began to sound the detection of an unknown aircraft.
Hearing this voice, he thought that it might be the same as the previous times, that it might be the discovery of civil aviation aircraft, which is different from the airspace of his own country, and the planes that can be scanned will be included in the "enemy aircraft" line by the "Eagle Eye" system.
However, for the sake of safety, he still projected the radar picture on the big screen for the first time, and at the same time called up the close-up picture of the newly discovered enemy plane.
The picture zoomed in, and at a glance, Xu Ziling, who was still unimpressed, immediately became serious, because what he saw from the picture was a drone reconnaissance aircraft.
"There is a situation!"
Seeing this, he immediately shouted.
In fact, I don't want him to make a sound, Zhu Gang and others also discovered this situation for the first time on the big screen.
"This is the Global Hawk drone of the United States!"
Lin Jianbin on the side saw the plane in the picture and immediately called out its name.
In fact, Xu Ziling also saw it when he saw this plane. After all, this "Global Hawk drone" is too familiar to him.
When I was in the South China Sea, I was beaten by him, how could I not be familiar with it?
No matter what others think, he called up the flight data of this drone for the first time.
At a glance, he found that the "Global Hawk" also happened to be flying at the target position of this operation, and the altitude was also 20,000 meters.
Seeing this, he thought that the people of the United States must have also received the news that those terrorists held a secret meeting.
"It seems that the people of the United States have also gotten the news, what should we do?"
He turned back to Zhu Gang next to him and said.
Since there is a "Global Hawk" here, then their operation will definitely be filmed, although the "Shadow Dragon" has a stealth system, not afraid of being photographed by it, but once the story is known to the people of the United States, it will be combined with the encounter in the island country of the East China Sea.
They will definitely have some speculation, so that the secrecy of the "Shadow Dragon" may be exposed in advance, and Xu Ziling does not dare to make decisions about such an important matter, of course, he can only ask Zhu Gang.
Xu Ziling can think of it, and of course Zhu Gang can think of it, not to mention that Xu Ziling has already asked for instructions in words.
He was also very annoyed by this unexpected situation, and he was completely aware of what "Shadow Dragon" had caused in the East China Sea before.
It's good that those weird things happen once, it can make people think, even if someone says that the Celestial Empire has developed a new weapon, they can not admit it.
But if it is exposed again after a short period of time, and the targets of both times are hostile to the Celestial Empire, then even the stupidest person can know that there is something wrong with this.
Keep moving? Or termination?
For a while, he decided that he couldn't come down.
"Suspend the operation first, and you must ask your superiors for instructions in this situation."
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to ask his superiors first to see what his superiors said, so he gave Xu Ziling an order to suspend his actions.