The second half of each year is a stage in which the troops' training and drills are concentrated, and in the first half of the year, all basic training is carried out, and in the second half of the year, tactical training, coordinated exercises, and even exercises begin to begin.

Specific to the Second Division, flying combat stunts during the day and conducting night flights at night is absolutely in line with the style of the front-line all-training troops. Even if you live in the camp, it is rare for children to see their father, why, it is precisely because of the high-intensity flight all year round.

Li Zhan already had a strong feeling that the average flight hours of the pilots of the division this year would definitely exceed 200 hours. He's already thinking about how much the tie rod fee will be for a year.

No one in the second division regards him as a new pilot at all, unless when he is conducting a certain training subject, he suddenly finds that Li Zhan is also a novice, and then he remembers - oh, I forgot that this kid is a new pilot.

Slowly, the leaders at both levels of the division and regiment discovered a fact that they had known for a long time -- Li Zhan's flying skills were first-class, his control of the aircraft had reached a first-class level, and many movements were very good, but many combat subjects, such as the training of air and ground targets, were obviously much more rusty, and there were even many subjects with zero experience.

Is this what people are?

This is also the reason why he was placed on the list of combat readiness duty at the division and regiment levels.

At the same time, it is also the reason why he has to train in combat subjects with other new pilots.

The J-7 series has more than a dozen models, which is not only the fighter with the largest number of equipment in the current Air Force, but also the fighter with the most derivative and improved models and the strongest vitality in China's history. The early models did not have the ability to fight at night, nor could they fight missiles, called the daytime combat type, and could only use cannons for air combat, which was a proper air combat mode in the fifties and sixties of the last century.

In the E-type, the situation changed dramatically. The biggest change is undoubtedly the so-called delta wing to a double delta wing, which improves the performance at low altitudes, low speeds and hovering, although it is still relatively poor. The second is that it has the ability to fight at night, not only can it fight missiles, but also stuff a search radar into the cone sleeve of the nose air intake.

All in all, there is a technical gap of about 20 years between the early model and the latest batch equipment improvement E-type, so you can imagine how big the difference in performance is.

After Li Zhan looked at the summary of the night flight training of the Second Division in the past, he was surprised to find that the J-7 night flight training frequency of the fourth regiment was the highest among the three flight regiments, followed by the SU-27, and the J-8 of the fifth regiment had the least frequency of sorties.

This proves that the J-7's night flight performance is very reliable, which is more reliable than the SU-27.

Approaching June, the ground temperature in Xixian County is getting higher and higher, and the same scorching heat at night is unbearable, almost windless, and the stars are shining, but it is a good weather for flying. Li Zhan was already sweating profusely after carefully inspecting the fighter planes in his summer flight suit, but he had to be very cautious, even if there was a building in his maintenance team to see the deputy captain of the maintenance team in charge.

Whoever checks is responsible, and whoever signs is responsible.

The doctor in the aviation medical office signed the pilot's examination report, which means that the doctor determined that the pilot's physical condition met the flight requirements. Similarly, the pilots sign the mechanical checklist, indicating that they have recognized the results of the crew's work and that the aircraft is in compliance with flight standards.

What is the most feared night flight?

Bird hits, mechanical breakdowns, lightning strikes, mid-air collisions, that is, the same as during the day. For pilots, the first thing to overcome is the fear of the night and the fear of the irrelevant environment. Instrument flight, command flight, blind maneuvering, these basic skills of pilots have been very solid when they were in flight academies and training bases, and now it is time to come in handy.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhang Xueyang's two-plane formation took off, roughly showing the formation of the front wingman of the long plane on the right side and behind, and took off at the same time as the taxi, piercing the night sky, eliminating the link of air formation. Li Zhan followed the old pilots to do night flights, so he also had to take off in formation with the long plane Nie Jianfeng.

The reason why the two-plane formation takes off is not in a column is that if the rear plane inhales the exhaust gas of the front plane, it will cause the engine to wheez, which is easy to cause a stop in the air. Therefore, the aircraft formations we usually see are not columns following one after another, but inclined formations.

Taking off in formation was a piece of cake or two for Li Zhan.

At 8:15 p.m., Li Zhan and Nie Jianfeng took off in formation, the WP-13F engine sprayed orange-red tail flames, roared off the ground, and immediately turned left to adjust the course 270 after climbing, and reached the sea a few minutes later.

Li Zhan glanced at the head-up display, which showed airspeed, flight altitude, and course of a few important flight information, which was much simpler than the screen used by the SU-27 after improvement, and the screen display used by the J-10, which can fly intuitively, was even more backward.

The most commonly used time is for cannon fire aiming, using a head-up display, to be precise, it should be called a parallel aiming weapon system.

However, compared to other models of J-7, the human-computer interaction of the E-type is much more friendly, even at this moment, the cockpit where Li Zhan is sitting is still full of a bunch of instruments, and it looks like the Seven Kingdoms are so chaotic.

"Three turns in the hole, let's go." Nie Jianfeng's command came over the radio.

Li Zhan replied, "Dong Sangui received." ”

The nose of the J-7E is equipped with a ranging radar, and the older model than her simply does not have a radar, so it must be operated with the coordination of ground radar, otherwise it is all a dish. The ranging radar should be used after the target is found to obtain the relative distance from the target, and as for other data, it can only rely on the command of the ground radar.

Ground search, fire control locking, sorry, no function.

To put it bluntly, the J-7E still has the typical characteristics of a second-generation aircraft and does not have the ability to fight at a distance. When using air-to-air missiles, the target must be within the effective range of the air-to-air missile, and the target can only be locked by the missile's seeker, and the carrier aircraft has no way to interfere with the missile's action through commands. As far as the small seeker of the air-to-air missile is concerned, the effect can be imagined.

It's fate.

Tonight's training was an air confrontation, with two Jian-8s taking off from the Guixi Field Station to act as imaginary enemies, and two of the four regiments conducting search and attack; the so-called attack was to occupy the attack position, regardless of whether they won or lost, and the main thing was to temper the pilots' night combat capability through such a process.

Similarly, Zhang Xueyang's two-plane formation was also the same subject, but they flew eastward, and the first part of the fourth regiment stationed in eastern Guangdong took off two J-7s to act as imaginary enemies and confront them. This arrangement is based on the range of the SU-27 and J-7, the former has all been localized and improved, the range is longer, and the throttle can be reached in the western Pacific at every turn, and the J-7 can't keep up with this little short leg at all, so the J-7 can only be arranged at the door of the house for a few laps.

That's how the nickname of the airport defender came about.

The eighth master of the family has a fire control radar, and the fifth regiment uses the best D type among the eight masters in active service, which is exactly the same as the model equipped by a certain division of HNA. The J-8D, which has air intake on both sides and uses a domestic model of fire control radar with better performance, has actually formed her unique style after many years of use in the army.

Air defense interception is probably what the eighth master needs to do for the rest of his life, and of course, he may also engage in aerial reconnaissance with high-altitude and high-speed performance.

Li Zhan looked down on the J-8 again, and he had to swallow his anger at this moment.

The tower had just informed them that two J-8s were coming straight for them. Obviously, people have found you, and you don't know it. The worst thing is that once you enter the lock distance of the opponent's fire control radar, you don't even know if you are locked by the radar.

Because you don't have a radar siren.

"It's not fair." Li Zhan said on the radio.