The climate of the Shuiling region is characterized by hot, humid heat, and sticky feeling, especially for northerners. The ground staff here all wear wide-brimmed jungle hats, and camouflage caps don't work at all. Qiong Island is a tropical island topography, characterized by a middle high and then gradually decreasing towards the coastline, and there are several peaks above 1,500 meters above sea level in the Six Finger Mountains.

When the troops conduct training, they have to avoid the mountains in the middle of the island, so the runway is deployed along the coastline, which also happens to be in line with the characteristics of the marine monsoon climate.

The food here is also very different, and Li Zhan has eaten the taste of his hometown anyway. Nangang and Qiongdao face each other across the sea, the customs and habits are basically the same, and the dialect is also of the same language family.

For several days, Jinhua organized a variety of seminars, mainly for pilots to learn from Li Zhan and the three of them how to use the J-8FR tactically. For a division of China Southern Airlines, the J-8FR is an aircraft that has never been touched, of course, they are familiar with the J-8, and they are still using the J-8D until now. That's their advantage, and they'll get started faster with the same platform.

After analysis and discussion, the China Southern Airlines Command decided to adopt Li Zhan's suggestion to set up a special squadron to use the J-8FR, and gave it the nickname 117 Squadron, and selected several top fighters from the J-8D pilots to be personally responsible for Jinhua to make the troops form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

When giving a lesson to the pilots of the 117 Squadron, Li Zhan held a model of the J-8FR in his hand and said, "The off-white J-8FR is a specialized tactical reconnaissance aircraft that focuses on electronic reconnaissance. As I said earlier, this plane does not have any air combat capabilities, and you don't even have air guns. ”

He raised a finger and asked solemnly, "Let me ask you, what is the first thing to do when encountering an enemy plane?" ”

"Report! Judge the enemy situation and find an opportunity to attack! A pilot stood up and replied.

Li Zhan shook his head, "Wrong." ”

"You all fly fighter jets, now you have to change your thinking, the first thing you have to do when you encounter an enemy plane is to turn and run away! What do you have no weapons to use against enemy aircraft? You need to be aware of the nature of the tasks you are tacculating. What you have to do is scout, and then take advantage of the aircraft's excellent high-altitude and high-speed performance to quickly get rid of the battlefield and get rid of enemy planes! ”

"To sum it up in one sentence, it is to sneak in and shoot guns."

Li Zhan wrote a few big words heavily on the blackboard and circled them heavily.

"But if you need to go deep behind enemy lines to carry out reconnaissance missions, you will definitely be intercepted by enemy fighters, which requires you to rely on your superb skills to complete the mission."

Li Zhan began to play the internal video teaching materials, he said, "I brought several video materials for internal use in the Air Force, all of which are related to the tactical flight of the J-8FR. I'll show you a paragraph. ”

The lights in the teaching room dimmed, and the screen began to appear on the screen, which was divided into four parts, different four angles, one was the picture taken by the aerial camera on the ground, one was the angle of the coaxial camera in the direction of the nose, and the other two were two angles of the left and right wings.

Obviously, this is an image taken by the camera equipment installed on the aircraft, and everyone is familiar with it.

But!

At the beginning of the image, it is a blood-pumping shot - it is actually a chase and grapple with two Su-30MKI!

This video interception is the process of Li Zhan driving the J-8FR to conduct in-depth combat tactical reconnaissance and encountering the Su-30MKI of the simulated blue army, which was also attacked by the anti-aircraft fire of the ground air defense unit of the simulated blue army, which can be said to be encircled.

Relying on the extremely limited air combat capabilities of the J-8FR, Li Zhan flew out of the place where he was certain to die and returned safely, completing the reconnaissance mission beyond expectations.

What kind of video teaching material is this, it's even more exciting than a military blockbuster!

The naval pilots were immediately fascinated, their eyes were bigger than one by one, where had they seen such internal teaching materials, where they had experienced such a scene, and then went to see Li Zhan, everyone's hearts were settled, it seemed that this legendary little prince with a lever had something!

If they have watched the recorded video of "Mediterranean Spring", I am afraid that Li Zhan will regard Li Zhan as the god of war in the world.

Li Zhan's idea is very clear and clear, there are some things that are not replicable, but have the opportunity to be completed by a very small number of specific talents in a specific environment. If he blindly asks all the pilots to do all the actions to meet the standards he demands, the results will not meet expectations.

It is very important to teach students according to their aptitude. Pilots are very valuable military resources, and if there is an opportunity to train each one according to their characteristics, so that they can have outstanding abilities in one or several aspects, it is undoubtedly a very ideal result.

It is difficult to do this, but Li Zhan has a lofty heart and has his own set of ideas about teaching.

Li Zhan paused the picture, and just happened to play the picture of the J-8FR pulling supersonic speed out of the high-threat area, and behind him was the embarrassed Su-30MKI, which gave people the feeling that a second-generation aircraft had played a trick on the famous classic third-generation aircraft, and then left quickly with better acceleration performance.

He said, "The J-8FR I was driving at that time was armed, had a certain air combat capability, and had ground attack capability. But as you have also seen, in the event of an enemy plane, my first choice is to run away, creating an opportunity to escape at all costs. If I was piloting a J-7, I might take the risk of fighting with the opponent's dog, and everyone knows that the J-7's close-range fighting ability is not weak. ”

"Speaking of which, we have to return to the original question, how should a specialized tactical reconnaissance aircraft be used? My opinion is that professional people do professional things, do the best to do their best, and don't look forward or backward. Let me ask you, if you receive a call for help from the ground team during the mission, if you make a move, it will affect the mission, and if you don't shoot, the ground team will be wiped out, what will you choose? ”

This is a proposition, just like a mother and girlfriend who fell into the river at the same time to save first.

The pilots of a certain department of China Southern Airlines looked at each other, and some of the pilots who opened their mouths and wanted to say the answer suddenly found that the atmosphere was very strange, closed their mouths at the moment, and then fell into deep thought. Neither to make a shot nor not to make a move seems to be the right choice.

It's too hard.

Li Zhan raised a finger and said with great certainty, "You should put your mission first, and you must remember that the tactical reconnaissance plane is the farthest and clearest eye that the command post can see, and your mission has a bearing on the life and death of thousands of officers and men and on the success or failure of a campaign." So have a firm and clear concept in your hearts. Again, from now on, there must be a change in thinking. ”

At the end of the day, the nature of tactical missions has changed, and the pilots of 117 Squadron need a process to adapt. Objectively speaking, driving the off-white J-8FR is relatively passive.

"Flying technology is based on tactical concepts, and everyone is an old comrade, so I won't talk about this aspect. Saying a thousand things and ten thousand things has not been effective in one practice. In view of the characteristics of the tactical tasks of the 117 Squadron, our instructor group planned a very interesting confrontation training according to the instructions of Chief of Staff Jinhua, telling you to chase me and run. The way it works is very simple, our three instructors act as enemy planes to search and intercept you, and you find a way to avoid our search and interception. There is only one key point in the whole process, you have no air combat capability, so you can only give full play to the advantages of the gray-white J-8FR. ”

Li Zhan's suggestion to the 117 Squadron was to position itself as a "technical scout," and there were two kinds of scouts in Lao Lu's combat unit, one was technical reconnaissance, also known as technical reconnaissance, and the other was armed reconnaissance, also known as armed reconnaissance. If someone introduces themselves and says that I am engaged in technical reconnaissance, then you know that he must be a technical soldier, and these people basically do not sneak behind enemy lines, and the danger is relatively not so high.

If you meet a soldier who is engaged in armed investigation, then it is best to be polite, these tempers are not very good, and the key is that thieves can fight. When these people are training, they are playing with their lives, and they don't take their lives seriously, and when they engage in reconnaissance, they always gnaw the hardest bones to gnaw, and those hard bones that technical reconnaissance can't gnaw.

The "technical scouts" of the 117 Squadron have some differences, although they specialize in technical reconnaissance, they often need to go deep behind enemy lines. Therefore, the ability to protect oneself is quite important, especially when there are no weapons and no attack ability.

It also summed up very simply, technology plus fighter performance. The gray-white J-8FR has electronic warfare capabilities, but it is more difficult to effectively jam enemy aircraft, after all, it is not a professional electronic warfare aircraft.

Li Zhan immediately began to talk about specific tactical moves, relying on his rich experience to explain in detail the maneuver maneuvers that should be taken in a variety of enemy situations. These specifics were an eye-opener for the pilots of the 117th Squadron - it turned out that they could still do this!

The weakness of the inexperience of the HNA units was exposed, and many tactical moves were commonplace in the Air Force, but in the HNA units, except for those top-notch units, the rest of the units were still in the stage of learning to catch up and surpass.

Generally speaking, it can be seen that the units that have been reorganized from the air force and returned to the navy are relatively powerful, while the new navy units formed by the navy itself are relatively immature. This is also the main reason why most of the pilots in the Flying Shark unit are Air Force pilots. After all, the HNA troops are still young.

After the theory class, Jinhua invited Li Zhan and the others to the war room to study the modified flight plan. The pilots of the 117 Squadron must first complete the modification of the gray-white J-8FR before they can proceed to the next step of training work, even if the pilots of the 117 Squadron have flown the J-8D.

The modified flight of a certain division of China Southern Airlines is different, mainly because of the area where it is stationed, and it is the sea when it goes out, and there is neither a landmark nor a navigation station, and it all relies on the instructions of the ground tower for guidance, so the modified flight plan must be repeatedly scrutinized to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Jinhua has rich experience in this regard, and Li Zhan, Zhu Wei and Li Zixin only put forward some technical suggestions for the characteristics of the J-8FR aircraft.