July 16 at 8 a.m.

Two J-11B, eight SU-27SK, and six SU-27UBK, which were the "remnants" of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Division, were finally determined.

However, if the results of the exercise are carried out in strict accordance with the results, it will be impossible for the Dongkuchang Station to restore the ability to take off and land fighters in 10 days and half a month.

As a result, the sixteen "remnant" fighters of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Division were transferred to the North Kuchang Station.

Since it is an air combat competition, it is not limited to the take-off area. If it had not been clearly stipulated that the "battle-damaged" fighters and their pilots would no longer be allowed to participate in the subsequent confrontation, the two sides would probably have poured out, and Li Zhan would have been able to fly the J-7B of his brother group to participate in the air combat competition.

This is a very distressing thing, watching others eat and drink spicy food and spicy themselves, they can only swallow saliva with their necks high, who knows what it tastes like.

Life still has to go on, after Chen Hualin made a mobilization speech to the pilots of the Crazy Demon Brigade, Li Zhan came to the front of the stage, and he wanted to talk about specific tactical deployments.

"Since we want to fight, we must find a way to win, although the hope of winning is relatively slim." Li Zhan has always been realistic, he glanced at the seventeen mad demon pilots with blazing eyes, and said, "Everyone is very clear about the performance gap of fighters, basically don't have hope for equipment." There is only one way to win - to dodge the long-range shooting of the Red Army and get close to the fight. ”

He was in a heavy mood, and even lit a cigarette in public and smoked it, saying, "We don't have any advantage in the medium and long distances, and how to force the Red Army to engage in close combat with us can only rely on the use of tactics when we cannot rely on the performance of the fighters." ”

"I've taught you how to use the terrain to force the enemy into close combat with us."

Everyone is confused - you haven't taught!

Li Zhan slammed his fist on the table, a cigarette in his mouth, "Low-altitude penetration can not only be used for ground strikes, low-altitude high-speed maneuvering is an effective way to quickly close the distance between the enemy and me before being locked by the enemy!" ”

Everyone was stunned - I see!

"I have said many times that the height difference in ideology is more fatal than the height difference in tactics. When fighting a war, we absolutely cannot use rules and regulations to fix our thinking, just like an air-to-air missile fights a fighter, can it only fight a fighter, and can't it be used as a ground-to-ground missile in an emergency? Tank armored vehicles on the ground have such a strong and noticeable infrared signature, can't they really be hit with infrared-guided air-to-air missiles? I don't believe it. I can even responsibly tell you that I once used rockets and aerial artillery to shoot down incoming surface-to-air missiles! ”

Li Zhan said with a light in his eyes, the cigarette in his mouth shook with the frequency of his speech, before the cigarette ash was shaken off, he took off the cigarette and flicked the cigarette ash, took another puff, threw the cigarette butt under his feet and stepped on it, regardless of Chen Hualin and Xue Xiangdong's frowns.

"Comrades, war is never a personal arena for the side with superior equipment, and having superior equipment does not necessarily mean victory. Even though this is a competition, I ask you to treat it as if it were a battle to the death. The dawn operation we did the day before yesterday was very well and beautifully, and the Red Army was mostly annihilated on the ground before it could move, and it gave the famous Nanbatian a loud slap in the ear. It is true that the air combat competition to be launched today has objectively limited many of our advantages, but our understanding of the terrain and landforms, weather and weather is far superior to that of the Red Army, and the right time, place, and people are still in our hands! ”

Li Zhan said in a deep voice, "Closing the distance between the enemy and us at the fastest speed at low altitude and high speed, and climbing into the Red Army formation to start a fight, this is the combat plan I formulated for you, nothing else, to sum it up in one sentence, closing the distance is what you do!" I'm done with that, and I wish you all success! ”

After speaking, salute.

The crowd was thrilled by his passionate mobilization speech, and they were eager to immediately drive the plane to die with the enemy, so as to prove the value of the Chinese soldiers!

"Commander." Li Zhan looked at Xue Xiangdong.

Xue waved his hand to the east, "Everyone will fight the morale of my western stronghold, just say this." ”

Li Zhan turned to the pilot who was sitting neatly below in a flight suit like a sculpture, and gave the command, "Prepare for boarding!" ”

"Wow" stood up neatly and set off in a column.

Seeing the passionate team set out, Chen Hualin asked Li Zhan, "Is it certain that the low-altitude and high-speed rush can avoid the lock of the Red Army?" ”

Li Zhan lost his high spirits, but became a little depressed, shook his head and said, "It's very difficult, those Su Liangqi have undergone two relatively large improvements before and after, and the most important one is that it has been replaced with a new type of domestic radar, which has a strong down-looking combat capability, and the effective combat distance reaches 80 kilometers. No matter how low-altitude and high-speed it is, at most it can shorten this distance to 50 kilometers, and only by shortening it to a range of 30 kilometers can our J-7E have the power to fight back. ”

"It's no wonder I see that the color of their radome is different from what it was more than 10 years ago." Chen Hualin suddenly realized.

Li Zhan asked, "Division commander, you remember it so clearly for more than ten years. ”

"It's impossible to forget. At that time, the whole army was like a baby pimple of a third-generation machine, and every year there were brother troops visiting and studying in the second division, and I also went there at that time, and I was directly impressed by Su Liangqi's beautiful appearance. Chen Hualin recalled slightly.

Sighing lightly, Li Zhan said, "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, but there are also benefits." If war breaks out, such a competition will at least give us an idea of what the outcome of using second-generation aircraft against the enemy will be, and we can also find some weaknesses that can be exploited. All in all, the Su 27 is by no means perfect, and those third-generation aircraft of a strong enemy certainly have shortcomings. Our old seven also has some relative advantages, such as being more flexible in melee combat. ”

"You're going to comfort yourself." Chen Hualin smiled and strode out of the flight briefing room with his hands behind his back.

Li Zhan accompanied them to the command room of the tower, the main tower belonged to the Blue Army, and the second tower belonged to the Red Army, and only the North Reservoir Station could accommodate two ground command posts at the same time, and even two independent communication lines that did not interfere with each other could be established.

The commander of the Red Army was Fang Chenghe, and Qi Hong and Luo Hecheng, the commander of the Sixth Regiment, were to participate in the competition. This was determined by the loss of the fighters, Fang Chenghe's plane was "destroyed", so it could only command from the ground. The second division will not break the rules.

The two leaders of the referee team, Vice Minister Liang and Yang Heng, supervised in the two towers, the former in the main tower and the latter on the side of the Red Army in the second tower. In fact, the most important positions are those technical officers who follow the equipment to be responsible for the operation. The ground terminal of the simulated air combat confrontation system needs to be operated and judged by professionals, and the results can be produced in no more than one minute at most, and everything is determined by the system itself, eliminating the factor of human intervention. Vice Minister Liang and Yang Heng's supervision is just a formality.

At 8:45 a.m., Vice Minister Liang gave the order for the start of the competition, and the Red Army took off first. They spent a long time in the air and took off first to get away and wait for the Blues to take position. This is the battlefield advantage brought about by the superiority of equipment, which can have more time to arrange troops and familiarize themselves with the airspace situation.

The SU-27 has a range of 4,000 kilometers without auxiliary fuel tanks, and the fighter can carry nearly ten tons of aviation fuel and six or seven tons of weapons and ammunition, making it a veritable heavy fighter. And the maximum take-off weight of the J-7E is not as heavy as the internal aviation fuel...... Even if you can fill the auxiliary fuel tank, you can't fly this distance, and the gap is so big.

Fang Chenghe of the second tower commanded all 16 fighters of the Red Army to take off in two planes and leave the scene one after another, and then the airspace for take-off and landing was quickly cleared, and the Red Army units quickly opened up the distance according to the plan and flew 200 kilometers to the east to stand by.

The command was in the hands of Li Zhan, and he ordered the seventeen fighters of the Mad Demon Brigade to take off. What he adopted was a surprising way for multiple batches of twin planes to take off at the same time - the runway was divided into three parts, each kilometer was used as a take-off distance, and three batches of twin planes taxied and took off at the same time, which could take off six fighters at a time, which greatly shortened the take-off time, saved aviation fuel, and improved the average air time of the fleet.

This hand surprised Vice Minister Liang, who looked at the spectacular scene of the three twin-plane formations taxiing and taking off at the same time, and asked Li Zhan, "How did you come up with this?" It's so close, aren't you worried about a collision? ”

"Chief, no, there is a margin of three or four hundred meters, and we have been trained many times, after leaving the land, we will climb according to different elevation angles, and then form a formation when we reach the designated airspace, which is a very simple way, but we can use every inch of the runway." Li Zhan introduced.

Vice Minister Liang is an old pilot, and his eyes are vicious, so he immediately grasped the point, "How much can the sortie rate be increased?" How to solve the return landing? ”

If you go up so many fighters at the same time, it means that the fuel level of so many fighters will be approaching the warning value at the same time, and theoretically you must land at the same time, otherwise the purpose of extending the average stay time will not be achieved.

Li Zhan replied, "I was forced by the situation to come up with this method at the beginning. The training task was heavy, and we had 10 days of high-intensity training in the past, requiring each major unit to consume a certain amount of aviation fuel. In order to improve the attendance rate, such a method was devised to get more fighters into the air per unit of time. We have calculated that the daily attendance rate can be increased by 80 percent, leaving more time for aircraft maintenance and maintenance, and most fighters will be able to make a second flight. But there's still a lot of room for improvement. ”

"As for the return landing, it is not difficult to deal with it, it can be solved by increasing the landing frequency. Many large airports of civil aviation can take off and land an aircraft every two minutes, no more than five minutes, we only need to meet the standards of civil aviation airports to solve the contradiction of take-off and landing. ”

Vice Minister Liang smiled slightly bitterly and said in a deep voice, "You said it easily, is the efficiency of the civil aviation airport comparable to ours?" It is also different in nature. However, your idea is still relatively new, at least this kind of take-off can really improve attendance, which is good. ”

"Chief Xie praises."

Li Zhan was satisfied, but he was forced to increase the intensity of training and came up with an ordinary trick, but he did not think that it was so novel, and he did not think that one of the important indicators for measuring the combat effectiveness of air force airfields, bases, and stations in the future would be the attendance rate, let alone that the attendance rate was an important indicator that directly reflected the combat capability of aircraft carriers.

It can be seen that his vision is still limited, and he has a long way to go.

It only took more than six minutes for all 17 fighters to take off, and Vice Minister Liang was deeply shocked by the ultra-high efficiency, and he vaguely felt that the 101st Regiment might show surprises one after another, and this regiment was really the explorer and pioneer of the air force aviation unit of the military region!

The fighters of both sides were in place, and at 9:20 a.m., the order to start the competition was given.