Li Zhan could see it clearly, and after Davalev sat in the cockpit, he took out a towel and put it aside.

Could it be that the canopy is leaking?

This speculation scared me out of a cold sweat, wouldn't this be bursting if I went up to a high altitude?

The Russian side dispatched three fighters, two Su-27SM and the Su-03 with the number 35, and they also had one Su-27UB left there. The two-seat combat trainer was sat by the colonel they led, and the colonel did not participate in the drill, so it was not dispatched.

On the Chinese side, there were four J-11Bs, all of which were single-seat fighters.

The content of the coordinated exercise is very simple, and the full name should be a joint anti-terrorist combat exercise in the air, in which air supremacy fighters provide cover and attack fighters carry out firepower strikes against ground targets. The focus is on the coordination of the two sides' operational communications and tactical movements, which is actually a drill in which they are familiar with each other.

The content of the exercise was simple, but the pilots on both sides attached great importance to it. Li Zhan's side couldn't wait to concentrate three days in advance to carry out repeated practice. The political significance of this kind of coordinated exercise is greater than the military significance, and winning or losing is not important, but face is very important.

So from the beginning of taking off in the wind and rain, the two sides began to compete in secret.

The Su-35 took off first, and Li Zhan saw Vasily only sliding on the wet runway for more than 300 meters before he suddenly pulled up and climbed vertically, and the heat wave from the engine nozzle steamed up all the water on the runway, forming a spectacular wall of fog.

Li Zhan was dumbfounded, the power of this plane was too fierce.

Running for more than 300 meters to pull up off the ground is nothing, J-11B can also do it, and J-10 can also do it, but after pulling up, it will disappear into the clouds in a moment after climbing vertically at the maximum elevation angle.

"Lao Li, have you seen it, the power of Sanwu is too strong, what the hell is the engine?" On the radio, Nie Jianfeng couldn't help but exclaim.

Fang Chenghe's voice appeared coldly, "Pay attention to communication discipline!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Nie Jianfeng took off, and the two sides interspersed in the order of you and me, and it could be seen from the arrangement that there was a strong sense of competition.

Li Zhan was the last, and he was the main force responsible for the ground attack. Vasily is so fierce, Li Zhan naturally can't let him be in the limelight, at this moment the bigwigs on both sides of the tower are watching, although it is raining, it is not difficult to see the details of the fighter's movements at such a close distance.

However, God seems to have given the Chinese Air Force pilots a special problem - the rain suddenly increased, and only a hazy silhouette of a fighter plane could be seen from the tower.

With a drastic drop in visibility comes a dangerous surge.

The current weather is completely beyond the minimum weather requirements in the outline, but no one will be tempted to stop at this moment. Even if you go under the knife, you have to keep going.

"Dongyu, the wind is seven meters, and the northeast remains unchanged, are you sure?" Fang Chenghe held his breath and pressed the call button and asked.

Li Zhan, who was already wearing an oxygen mask, tightened his white labor protection gloves and replied calmly, "Tower, I'm fine, it's over." ”

He is left without taking off, and if he can't take off, then his own performance in this coordinated exercise will be greatly reduced. Even the sortie rate can't compare to the performance in the combat process that people talk about.

Fang Chenghe knew that Li Zhan had a well-known nickname after arriving in Beiku: Good luck comes. When he served in the Second Division, he won the nickname of the little prince of the rod, and it began to spread throughout the army during the flood fight in the Three Rivers - his life was lost and he was worried about the rod fee.

After arriving in Beiku, there were no frequent encounters with danger, so he was given the nickname of Good Luck, and even became the radio code when he simulated the Blue Army.

But the situation in front of you seems that good luck is not worthy of the name, but when you take off, it will pour rain and strong crosswinds. Usually forget it, but it's a critical moment.

"Heaven descends on the people, they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are motivated to endure and gain what they cannot."

Li Zhan silently recited the famous sentence "Born in Sorrow, Died in Peace" in his heart to cheer himself up.

He had a lot of experience flying in extremely difficult weather conditions, but the weather conditions were worse than ever.

No. 01 J-11B stopped at the take-off line, where Li Zhan could feel the obvious shaking of the fighter, and the difficulty and danger of taking off in this situation can be imagined.

The throttle lever was pushed to the afterburner position, and the hot tail flame from the engine nozzle quickly turned the water on the runway into water vapor, which became dense behind the fighter plane.

Li Zhan very calmly chose to follow the power trend of the fighter plane and let go of the brakes, the landing gear tires of the fighter plane crushed the wet runway, and the silhouette of the fighter plane in the heavy rain was hazy.

At a speed of 200 knots, Li Zhan cautiously lifted the wheels, and as soon as the front landing gear left the runway, the head of the fighter plane tilted to the left flank, and Li Zhan seemed to have been mentally prepared for a long time. His method was to reduce the output power of the right engine, and the thrust of the two engines was high on the left and low on the right, so as to resist the strong wind coming from the direction of 20 degrees.

Looking from the tower, the nose of the No. 01 J-11B first shifted to the west, and then stubbornly shifted to the northeast to meet the direction of strong winds, diagonally facing the tower.

Colonel Andreev Kosky, the commander of the Russian team, gave a heartfelt thumbs up to Fang Chenghe and said, "General Fang, the little prince of the lever is great!" His code name is very vivid! ”

The Russian army does not have the rank of colonel, and they consider a colonel to be equivalent to their brigadier general, so they call Fang Chenghe a general. In fact, if there were no big accidents, it was only a matter of time before Fang Chenghe put on the general's star. Bao Guanhua's age is at the point, and he does not have a great chance of entering the ranks of generals.

Fang Chenghe's smile was a little stiff, and he could only laugh.

This Andreevkosky can understand some Mandarin, and when he heard the soldiers speak, he mentioned the self-built word "little prince with a lever", and asked what it meant, and in order to hide his embarrassment, he casually explained that this was the radio code name of the captain of our falcon brigade.

As a result, Andreevkosky took it seriously and asked what the lever meant, and the pilot at that time explained that it was the meaning of piloting a fighter plane, that is, the prince who flew the plane. Of course, it is only when the plane is well driven that it can be called a prince, Andreevkosky took it for granted - and it is.

You're afraid there's some misunderstanding, right? This tie rod is not a pull rod.

So Andreevkosky wrote down the codename, and the more he thought about it, the more it sounded. At this time, the praise was given by name, but the officers and soldiers of the 101st Brigade present did not know what expression to show. You can't explain that our captain is a little bit of a wealth fan, and the idea of the little prince is generalized, and the little prince of the lever means this aspect. But Andreevkosky's understanding is not wrong - isn't Li Zhan's flying skills the most beautiful in the Eagle Falcon Brigade and even the 101st Brigade?

The three legs of the No. 01 J-11B are all off the ground, and there may be danger before reaching the height. The take-off and landing phase should have been the most unexpected in the history of world aviation. The plane relies on high speed to fly, and it is precisely the take-off and landing stage that requires the lower the speed, the lower the speed, and if you can land 60 kilometers per hour, then it is called awesome.

The so-called power brick fly, the premise is that your strength must be big enough.

It took more than 700 meters to lift the wheel, and Li Zhan was cautious. This is not the time to be handsome, let alone compete with Vasily in flight maneuvers, at this time to be able to take off smoothly is actually completely able to demonstrate the superb skills of the Chinese Air Force pilots in front of friendly forces.

The plane was still more than ten meters in the air, and the people in the tower were still holding their breath and following the movement of No. 01 J-11B. Only Andreevkosky's expression was relaxed, and he thought that his pilots would take off and land easily in such weather.

However, when the No. 01 J-11B was suddenly blown by a strong crosswind and tilted to the left flank thirty degrees, Andreevkosky's face changed suddenly. He was about to take a look at the latest weather report, and his face became more and more grim. It was clear that he had not fully understood the situation before.

Li Zhan quickly canceled the unbalanced thrust setting when the fighter suddenly leaned to the left, and decisively pushed the throttle stick to the end and turned on the afterburner, and the very Taihang aero engine roared and quickly spewed out a blue tail flame, which was very conspicuous in the heavy rain. The fighter arched forward with a strong thrust.

The fighter has an elevation angle, and when it is about 30 degrees to the left, it is basically infinitely close to the flight envelope. Li Zhan used the simplest, roughest and most adventurous way to get out of the dangerous situation, in the air more than thirty meters above the ground, he actually followed the trend of the fighter plane to the left and did a drum climbing action!

The unilateral wingspan of the J-11B is more than ten meters, and from a distance, the left wing tip of the No. 01 J-11B almost touches the ground.

And the most maddening thing is that in their opinion, the No. 01 J-11B was blown over by a strong crosswind, not a drum made by Li Zhan following the trend of flipping.

The No. 01 J-11 rolled rapidly, at an elevation angle of about 45 degrees, and shot into the air covered by thick clouds like a rifled cannon in the heavy rain.

"Great, great, the little prince of the trolley is amazing!" Andreevkosky breathed a sigh of relief and gave two thumbs up excitedly.

Fang Chenghe and the others were also a little sweaty with fright, and said with emotion, "Colonel Andreev, our pilots are basically able to take off and land in bad weather. ”

There is nothing wrong with this, bad weather is also graded, some weather can and some weather cannot. But at this moment, others subconsciously think that other pilots can take off in the weather conditions like the little prince of the trolley.

Colonel Si Maozi didn't realize that the vodka they liked to drink was more like some kind of alcohol, and it didn't have the all-encompassing taste of Chinese baijiu at all.

Li Zhan climbed the whole process until he reached a height of more than 6,000 meters before he penetrated the clouds and ushered in the scorching sun. There are undoubtedly two worlds above and below the clouds, and the airspace layer airflow above 6,000 meters tends to be stable, and the stratosphere is the most stable when it goes up to 10,000 meters. However, they can only operate below 7,000 meters, and there are many international and domestic routes.

The difficulties faced by Li Zhan are still to come, to be precise, the common difficulties between him and Tang Leilei. He and Tang Leilei broke through to the west along the Beiku Mountains as attack planes, and Nie Jianfeng and Han Hongjun cooperated with two Russian fighters as air cover detachments to conduct air combat confrontations with the Su-35 piloted by Vasily to simulate air supremacy.

After quickly forming a formation with Tang Leilei, who was hovering and waiting at high altitude, he immediately received an order from the tower.

Low-altitude penetration means going down to a low altitude and facing more complex meteorological conditions in the Beiku Mountains. Li Zhan should have considered whether to choose to break through from the side of the Beiku Mountains, but the order given by his superiors was to evade the search for the Su-35.

In other words, if the Su-35 locks on Li Zhan and Tang Leilei, then it means that the offensive of the Red Army has failed. Although it is a friendly and coordinated confrontation exercise, it is necessary to win the battle if it is not to fight.

The order to start the operation was issued at the same time, and Li Zhan took Tang Leilei and plunged into the Beiku Mountains with a putt. The new on-board radar of the Su-35 is said to have extremely strong downward-looking search capabilities. Faced with a brand-new model of fighter, Li Zhan did not dare to take it lightly.

The advantages and disadvantages of most fighters in various countries in the world, their service status, the number of equipment, and so on, must be mastered. Every month, the intelligence department will make a report on all kinds of intelligence, sometimes two or three times, and there are many contents in the report, such as when a certain type of satellite of a certain country will transit from where, what measures should be taken by the troops, and so on.

The history of the Su-35 is too complicated, and there are many theories, and even Shen Hoy's people sometimes can't figure out what Mao Zi is doing.

Grassroots pilots have a more limited and biased understanding.

At first, Li Zhan thought that the Su-35 was the No. 711 Su-37, which was famous for its super-maneuverability and was known as the "Lonely Warrior" because it only had one prototype, but after determining that the Su-35 had no canards, he found out that the Su-35 had another aircraft.

In the past period, Li Zhan has occasionally heard a few words related to the Su-35 from Hu Wenbing, which is nothing more than the purchase of this fighter, and then the negotiations that began a long time ago have now undergone major changes. When negotiations were held with Russia on the purchase of Su-35 fighters, there was no timetable for the first flight of the domestic fourth-generation aircraft, and even the upper echelons did not expect Cheng Loma to get the fourth-generation aircraft out so quickly. It can be seen that Cheng Luoma's cannon shot was unexpected by many people.

As a result, the Air Force's interest in the Su-35 plummeted, and there was a fourth-generation aircraft, what bike do I want. The interest of the Chinese side plummeted, and Sukhoi was in a hurry, and he did not seize the opportunity to send the prototype over for on-site demonstration, and also strongly invited Li Zhan, who can represent the majority of grassroots pilots, to take a test drive, and its purpose is self-evident.

However, in the final analysis, Li Zhan is not clear about the performance of the Su-35.

Therefore, he had to resort to conservative tactics.

And the conservative tactics at this time are risky tactics - you don't know the performance of the opponent's airborne radar, then you can only use the most extreme capabilities. Vasily said that the Su-35's on-board radar has a downward detection range of more than 100 kilometers, regardless of whether he boasted about it at this moment, Li Zhan must be taken as true.

So, he and Tang Leilei plunged into the canyon of the Beiku Mountains in one step, and simply disappeared from the eyes of any radar.

"Huh? Didn't the war take off? I can't see him. After making a U-turn in the west, Vasily turned on the airborne radar, and after scanning a circle from 300 kilometers away, he found that two targets were missing, and immediately sent out a conscience torture.

Fang Chenghe and the others in the tower couldn't help but smile.

PS: Is there a problem with typing the full name? Pilots of the Sand Sculpture Brigade.