Chapter 689: I'll Tell You A Solution to Backlighting
The logistics support unit deployed more than a dozen moving targets on the vast sea surface and used five or six scrapped 180-ton iron scrapped fishing boats to simulate surface vessels.
Li Zhan had to find the three designated targets from more than a dozen moving targets on the sea surface, and only one of the three targets was a 100-ton iron scrapped fishing boat, and the other two were very small targets, which could be described as quite difficult.
Moreover, Li Zhan had to search from east to west, which meant that he needed to search the sea surface in a backlit environment. This is a requirement, and Li Zhan cannot make any changes.
The time came to 16:30 in the afternoon, and it had been empty for an hour, but fortunately, three auxiliary fuel tanks were mounted, otherwise there was really not much fuel left for Li Zhan. The advantages of the long-range fighter are highlighted at this time, and Yu Chenglin's J-11BS does not have to care about fuel consumption at all.
According to the live-fire plan, the tower commander gave Li Zhan an order to conduct live-fire training at a specified time point.
Li Zhan immediately turned on the airborne radar and tilted the nose of the plane downward at a small angle from an altitude of 5,000 meters, which could improve the accuracy of the airborne radar's search for the sea. The sea search function of the airborne radar used by the J-10A is not as good as that of the J-10B, and the gap is relatively large. In the process of use, Li Zhan found that if a small-angle, slow-speed dive attitude is adopted to search the sea, the accuracy of the airborne radar's sea search can be improved.
This little trick has also been popularized in the troops he has worked in, Li Zhan did this when he opened the old flying leopard before, and the effect is there, but the shortcomings are also relatively obvious, which limits the flight attitude of the fighter.
Yu Chenglin was keenly aware of the small changes in the movements of the No. 17 J-10A, and secretly wrote them down, while paying close attention to the search process of the No. 17 J-10A. He knew that Li Zhan must have had a useful intention in doing this, but he did not think about improving the accuracy of the airborne radar's search for the sea, but thought that Li Zhan was very sure in his heart and was ready to dive and shoot in advance during the search.
Li Zhan is not a god, he also has shortcomings, for example, the time to use J-10 series fighters is relatively short, and the flight hours of his J-10 series fighters are only a few dozen, which is still accumulated when the J-10A modification training was carried out in the Big Red Eagle Division.
So what kind of fight can be made, he has no bottom in his heart.
Another important reason is that the J-10 is his dream fighter, and his motivation for joining the army is because of the first flight of the J-10, and the one he wants to fly most after graduating from aviation school is the J-10. For various reasons, there has been no chance to fly the J-10, and finally seized the opportunity to modify the J-10, but when the modification came, there was a dangerous engine parking in the air and almost hung on the mountain. Later, he also briefly came into contact with the J-10, but this fighter is like a unicorn that he has been attached to for a long time but can't get, every time he touches her, something will happen, as if a fixed chemical reaction has been formed. :/
Helplessly, the flowers fell, and thousands of hours of hard training were not begged, and the injustices were nothing more than that.
From the moment he took off, Li Zhan was in good spirits, and the most important reason was precisely because of the painful Plato love between him and the J-10A.
Li Zhan's eyes widened and he looked at the sea, not to mention the target, not even a ghost. The on-board radar received some intermittent reflected signals, which Li Zhan judged to be large marine animals that had jumped out of the water.
Marine animals such as sharks and dolphins are eager to jump out of the water, and groups of these marine animals can form a more obvious radar signal on the surface of the water. The advanced airborne radar will keenly judge the sea search and eliminate clutter at the same time, so as to reduce the burden on the pilot.
The J-10A's airborne radar is not yet able to do such a level of intelligence when searching the sea, but Li Zhan has a lot of experience, and he can make judgments very quickly.
Li Zhan still wanted to rely on visual search, but even if there were anti-glare goggles in the backlight, it was difficult to see the sea surface two or three thousand meters below. The target is unmotivated, meaning that no conspicuous white track will be left, and the difficulty of visual search increases dramatically.
Towards evening, the sun was hanging in the west, and the position happened to be able to directly affect Li Zhan's vision. Li Zhan was completely sure that this live-fire session was deliberately set up like this, and it was probably tailor-made for him.
Although it is an old army, it is not a soldier of the Second Division after all, it is normal for Yu Chenglin to be a little cautious in his heart, such as testing Li Zhan with some difficult problems, and weighing him as two catties. If Li Zhan can be stumped, of course, it is the best, which can show that the combat effectiveness of the Second Division has reached a certain level.
All units have regarded Li Zhan as the gold standard for judging the combat effectiveness of troops.
Li Zhan had a way to solve the backlight problem, and when he realized that it was unrealistic to rely on airborne radar to find very small targets on the sea, he decided to adopt his unique trick.
The first issue is to address the effects of backlighting.
Yu Chenglin was paying attention to the flight at all times, and he was very much looking forward to Li Zhan coming up with some new methods. Ordinary people can invent new tricks in their entire flying career, which is already enough to enjoy the honor and wealth of a lifetime, and a combat pilot like Li Zhan who is constantly able to innovate is simply a rare person like a genius.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is Guo Xingfu of the modern Air Force.
Li Zhan came, and he began to perform.
His solution was insane!
When Yu Chenglin saw Li Zhan flying the fighter upside down, a spiritual light hit his head, and he figured it all out.
The dignified deputy division commander actually burst into foul language: "Damn! Fuck this kid awesome! ”
Li Zhan's solution to the backlight problem is actually to fly upside down!
After flying upside down, the pilot's chin is facing the sunset, because the pilot has to hold his head high to observe the sea, and there is also a fuselage as a shield!
Li Zhan took the method of flying upside down and turned the entire vision upside down!
"What a genius!" Yu Chenglin was amazed.
Won't other pilots fly upside down? Suffice it to say that any combat pilot was able to fly the fighter upside down with ease. But it's one thing to be able to fly upside down, and it's another thing to apply upside down to actual combat. Not only is the grasp of the inverted flight more demanding, but the purpose of tactical use must also have a clear concept.
The fighter flew upside down, which meant that all the upper vision was abandoned, and the attitude of the fighter was also in an undesirable situation. This places higher demands on pilots. Yu Chenglin absolutely did not believe that Li Zhan would give up the air initiative in order to attack sea targets, so he was sure that Li Zhan would definitely have a backup move.
There is also a problem with flying upside down, that is, it is difficult to maintain for a long time, which is a great test of the pilot's physical fitness. In the upside-down flight state, the pilot's whole person is upside down, and it is on the sea, which is very easy to cause optical illusions, and the slightest carelessness will crash.
There have been many similar air crashes in the history of aviation, and often the pilots did not parachute after the crash, because the normal vision of people was not restored, which was very tragic.
Li Zhan was naturally sure, otherwise he would not have taken this risk. It is impossible to achieve all the successes in a lifetime, and once or twice a failure is inevitable, the problem is that there is no such phrase in the dictionary of combat pilots, because once a failure means death!
No. 17 J-10A flew upside down, slowly decreasing in altitude, belly facing sky, aviation rocket launcher facing sky, and several stiffeners at the air intake also facing the sky, wandering around at a height of hundreds of meters on the sea surface in this strange attitude, like an acrobat walking upside down.
The second division is also equipped with a real-time monitoring system in the air, and Yu Chenglinkai's J-11BS shoots training footage through a camera and transmits it to the tower in real time, so that the tower commander can know the training situation of the troops at any time.
At this time, everyone saw the No. 17 J-10A flying upside down, one was more surprised than the other, and many people couldn't figure out what the situation was.
The tower commander immediately asked urgently, "Kidnapping!" What about the plane? Complete! ”
"Everything is fine, I did the maneuver, done." Li Zhan replied.
The chief of staff sitting at the tower said with a smile, "You don't see that he is doing this to solve the effects of backlighting, which is very effective, clever and dangerous." ”
It took a while for everyone to figure out that the look of surprise was even worse.
This is still a human being, and such a solution can be imagined. In peacetime, except for air performances, who has ever used the action of flying upside down, let alone used it in combat. This time, they opened their eyes and realized more deeply what the famous little prince of the lever was.
They couldn't see where Li Zhan's level had reached at all.
After using the stunt, Li Zhan's situation suddenly changed a lot, and his vision suddenly became very good, and this upside-down posture was not a problem for him at all. He's a man who's been overloaded with ten G's.
He soon noticed that the waves on the sea surface in the southwest, which were more than three kilometers away, were a little different, and immediately urged the fighter plane to accelerate and fly over, and at the same time quickly resumed level flight. Determining the distance and direction is not a big problem. And he actually has some taboos in his heart when it comes to flying upside down.
When flying the Su-27SK, he encountered a very strange danger - the flight control failed, and the plane flew upside down, and he cut off the flight control bus and changed it to manual control to save the day.
Whether the target he found was still the target he wanted to fight still needed to be confirmed, Li Zhan lowered his flight altitude and flew over slowly, trying his best to observe the situation on the sea.
He successfully found the target, several targets, scattered across the sea within a kilometer, and all of them were moving targets. Eighty percent of the moving targets are slowly gathered together under the action of ocean currents.
To his disappointment, there was no target for him to hit inside.
Li Zhan was not reconciled, and counted again, something strange happened, the number of moving targets was the same as in the live firing plan, but there was no target of his own.
What the hell is Lao Tzu fighting?
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