Chapter 40: It's Raining
Yang Luo stayed at the tower all day, even eating lunch at the tower until he was kicked out of the tower by Hu Zhongming at half past five in the afternoon.
At seven o'clock, Yang Luo came to the No. 1 hangar, ready to carry out the night flight mission, today's night flight is the Jianjiao-7, the implementation of the ground target mission, not missiles, but rockets.
Yesterday's daytime target shooting mission did not successfully launch missiles, and Yang Luo did not yet have the qualifications to fly alone to hit the target, so he still needed to be accompanied.
Maybe Yang Luo came too early, when Yang Luo arrived, Ye Jianlong hadn't arrived yet, and even Jianjiao-7 was not ready.
The maintenance team headed by Gou Quan is carefully uninsuring the 90mm rockets and loading them into the HF-16A rocket launchers.
In the No. 1 hangar, around No. 811 Jianjiao-7, there was a circle of heavily loaded guards, with their backs to the direction of the fuselage, looking at Yang Luo vigilantly.
Guns and ammunition have always been strictly managed, and ordinary people don't want to touch them, even if they see each other, it's hard to see them.
Although Yang Luo is a pilot, qualified to hold a gun, and can carry it with him at any time, when the maintenance personnel are loading weapons, they can still only watch from a distance and cannot approach.
The weapon must be uninsured first, this period is the most dangerous time, and if you don't pay attention to it, it may explode, but after the weapon is loaded, the danger is not great.
There are two rocket launchers on board, one on the left and right wings, and six rockets per launcher. Yang Luo can play six, and the other six are Ye Jianlong's demonstration fights.
Soon after, Ye Jianlong arrived, and at the same time, the rockets were loaded, and the guards withdrew.
A power cord is pulled out and connected to the Jianjiao-7 to provide external power for the Jianjiao-7 and start the engine.
Gou Quan stepped forward to report and handed over the handover folder, Yang Luo checked the plane and signed the document, and Ye Jianlong also signed his name.
When two people board a two-seater aircraft at the same time, they must be signed by both people.
Follow the process to inspect the aircraft, taxi out, contact the tower, and take off.
In the vast dark night sky, the heading light under the belly of the Jianjiao-7 flickered, making an earth-shattering loud sound, which was exceptionally clear in the night and spread throughout the nine days.
During the day, the sun is still shining brightly and the weather is good, but at night, it is covered with dark clouds, obscuring the moon and the starry sky.
Because it was night and there were Cumulus clouds, the tower gave a flight altitude of 7,500 meters, flying under Cumulus clouds.
Before reaching the airspace of the shooting range, Yang Luo suddenly noticed something unusual, and something seemed to hit it on the cockpit glass cover. When I looked closely, I realized that it was raining, not very dense but very large.
The sound of raindrops hitting the cockpit glass was completely covered by the roar of the engine, and the cockpit glass was coated with a water-repellent coating, which would not absorb rainwater and quickly slip down, if it wasn't for Yang Luo accidentally seeing it, he wouldn't have found it at all.
"Bugs, it's raining." Yang Luo said.
Ye Jianlong raised his head, then looked at the cockpit glass with the light of the cockpit, and said after a while: "It's okay, the rain is not dense, and it won't have any impact on the target." ”
To shoot a target, you must first find the target, otherwise what else to hit.
The ground target is a white circle in the daytime, more than ten meters in diameter, and it is very large on the ground, but it is a small dot in the air.
The vision at night is not good, and it is difficult to find the target, if the heavy rain obscures the vision, and the target is still hairy, even the target cannot be found.
"I'm afraid that the rain will get heavier and heavier." Yang Luo said worriedly, "The weather forecast in the morning can be said, there is a wave of cold air from Siberia moving south, I don't know if this rain is affected by cold air." ”
"Don't crow's mouth, be careful if it really comes true." Ye Jianlong said with a smile.
"No, I have to speed up."
Yang Luo pushed the throttle valve to the end as he spoke, and at the same time turned on the afterburner device to increase the speed and rush to the airspace of the shooting range as soon as possible, he didn't want this target training to be canceled.
Ye Jianlong did not stop it, and the person was operated by Yang Luo.
Suddenly, high-performance aviation fuel was injected into the afterburner, and the afterburner ignited and started, providing high power for the Jianjiao-7.
The speed began to soar, and the values on the airspeed meter jumped wildly.
Before entering the supersonic speed, the airspace of the shooting range was reached, and the next step was to look for the target.
Finding the target does not require a very high speed, Yang Luo turned off the afterburner device, slowed down the speed, and handed over the control of the plane to Ye Jianlong.
The first target shooting was demonstrated by Ye Jianlong to shoot six rockets, and then it was the moment of Yang Luo's performance.
After Ye Jianlong took control, he controlled the plane to reduce altitude and hovered over the shooting range to find a target.
Yang Luo, who was idle, found that the rain was heavier, and it was much denser than just now, which would definitely have an impact on the search for the target.
Suddenly, Yang Luo felt that the fighter plane was diving, and then the fighter plane trembled, and then pulled up.
Looking down from the side glass, six rockets dragged long tail flames straight to the ground.
I could see the faint light on the ground, which was the indicator light of the target.
The rocket exploded on the ground, emitting a violent fire, and I don't know whether it obscured the light of the indicator light or destroyed it directly.
"Awesome." Yang Luo cocked his thumb and said to Ye Jianlong in the rear cabin. Although he didn't know the specific result, Yang Luo still praised it.
The specific results can be reduced during the day, but at night they are completely unknown, and they will not be known until the end of the target shooting is checked by the field management of the station.
"It's up to you." Ye Jianlong smiled faintly, although the result is not known, but he is confident that he will definitely hit, and it is not the first time that he has hit the ground target in the night flight.
Yang Luo took over the control of the plane and looked at the dashboard, the altitude was 2,000 meters, the airspeed was 680 kilometers per hour, and the heading was 210.
Adjust the course and search for the next target.
The rockets fired this time were rockets without seekers, and the search targets could only be carried out by visual sight, and the search radar could not help at all.
The location of the target is random, and it depends on the choice of the field work to which the target is arranged, and the pilot is completely unclear in advance, so finding the target is actually part of the training.
Yang Luo still quickly noticed that there was a looming light in the distance in front of the right, and the entire shooting range area was a military control area, and no one would enter when there was a target mission, so this could only be a target.
Kick the leg to turn, the nose is aimed in the direction of the target, dive down to a height, ready to launch.
However, the light disappeared from Yang Luo's eyes, and there was no trace, and it was pitch black in front of him, and with the help of the light in the cabin, the raindrops could already be vaguely seen hitting the windshield.
Yang Luo chuckled in his heart, the bad was really said by himself, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, covering his vision.
"Yang Luo, if it really doesn't work, let's go back, next time." Ye Jianlong saw the light disappear and knew that it was because of the rain, so he said.
"I'll fly a little further and see."
Yang Luo was struggling, he didn't want to go back with six rockets, he wanted to shoot it out, he didn't want to shoot the target for two days in a row without any results.
Even if it didn't hit, Yang Luo admitted it, it's better than not pressing the launch button.