Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is already time for confrontation exercises.

Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, and commanders of major military regions were all very interested in this confrontation exercise, and on this day, they all came to the command hall of the Air Force Test Pilot Institute in Yanliang, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to observe the confrontation exercise.

Originally, the plan drawn up by the General Staff Department was to conduct a confrontation exercise over the Shenfei base, but Cheng Fei put forward a new proposition, and the two sides took off from their respective airports and made a long-distance attack to conduct an air confrontation in the skies over Shaanxi!

Modern fighters, one of the most basic elements, is to have a strong endurance, needless to say, at least take off from Hainan, can fly to Nansha to patrol for half an hour, and then fly back, right?

Therefore, Cheng Fei was not unwilling to go to Shen Fei to engage in confrontation, but from the actual combat, he felt that such a long-distance attack and then a confrontation was the most lacking in the domestic air force. As a result, Shen Fei was unwilling! In the end, General Wang, commander of the Air Force, made a decision, how to fight in actual combat, how to fight this time!

The straight-line distance from Shen Fei to Chengfei is nearly 2,000 kilometers, so each of them flies half the distance, and then relies on their own abilities to launch a strike on the other party, from over-the-horizon attacks to close-range combat, all kinds of tactics can be displayed, and the entire confrontation drill does not design any plans, which is completely the same as real combat.

This is also the first time that the Huaxia Air Force has flown over several military regions to conduct air confrontations.

Shen Fei hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed, and in this way, the airspace scheduled for the exercise became Shaanxi, where there happened to be a flight test center and all kinds of perfect ground radar and other equipment. Everything that happens in the air can be faithfully recorded, and since there are no AWACS aircraft, the winner can only be judged by the ground.

This is completely unfamiliar airspace, needless to say, fly here correctly and spot your opponent accurately. It's all a difficult thing.

In the hall of the test flight center, the progress is constantly reported, and the fighters on both sides have taken off and are flying towards the war zone at the most fuel-efficient cruising speed at high altitude!

Looking at the light spots on the big screen, the atmosphere on the ground also began to become tense, and this confrontation is almost related to the selection of Huaxia's next-generation fighters!

The person in charge of Shen Fei and the person in charge of Cheng Fei. They all came here, Tu Lao and Song Lao sat in a corner, and they didn't speak all the time, only Song Lao's clenched fists represented his mood at this time, which was also very complicated.

The person in charge of Shen Fei sat with the people of the Third Aircraft Department, on the surface. It seems relaxing, but. When the water cup was brought up, the tea in the water cup was spilled, and I didn't even notice it.

At this time, the two pilots of the fighter plane in the air had eliminated all distractions from their minds. There is only one goal, lock on to each other!

Lei Qiang has not been on the battlefield, and in terms of experience in air combat, he is far inferior to Pakistani pilots, so. If the Pakistani pilots were to fly this time, the technology and mentality would be the most powerful. It's a pity that this is a new fighter, and besides, it hasn't been completely finalized yet! Therefore, if you want to control this plane, you can only be on Lei Qiang.

Lei Qiang has not experienced real air combat, and even in the past two years, he has not conducted confrontation training, and his focus is on test flight fighters, but because of this, he is very familiar with the No. 10 aircraft, as if he is an old friend.

At this time, he was cruising at an altitude of 18,000 meters, at Mach 0.8.

Although it is a simulated confrontation, as long as the opponent is locked, the opponent can theoretically be shot down, however, under the wings, there are still four trainer bombs mounted to maximize the realism.

As for the auxiliary fuel tank, he is not loaded, after the use of the F110 engine, although the thrust has increased, the fuel consumption rate has further decreased, without hanging the auxiliary fuel tank, it has a combat radius of more than 1,300 kilometers, and, after the end of this confrontation, it is to land on the runway of the test flight institute, and then carry out a static display, so, the fuel in the aircraft is enough.

At this time, in the other direction, an F-16 fighter plane is also flying at high altitude in the most fuel-efficient way.

This F-16, in addition to the same four trainer bombs, also carries three large auxiliary fuel tanks, which causes the aircraft to have more drag, only 0.7 Mach cruising speed.

In the bubble-shaped cockpit, pilot Henry was a little impatient.

This time, after repeated consideration, Shen Fei decided to invite pilots from the United States in order to defeat Cheng Fei, so General Dynamics transferred Henry, and now Henry is a test pilot of General Motors, and before becoming a test pilot, Henry was a pilot sent by the United States to Europe, and the flight time on the F-16 exceeded 600 hours, and he was definitely an experienced pilot.

Although he did not officially shoot down enemy planes, in Europe, which was at the forefront of the Cold War, Henry often carried out combat cruises, and his psychological endurance was very strong.

It's just that now he's going to be annoyed by the plane.

Even if he was given an initial production F-16A, Henry would not find it so difficult to control, but now, this castrated version of the F-16, the maneuverability to the F-16A, has decreased significantly.

In 77 years, then U.S. President Carter announced that the United States would no longer export aircraft with the same performance as its own equipment, and could only export castrated versions, so General Motors replaced the original Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 with General Electric's J79-GE-119 engine, although this engine is an excellent engine in the F-4 era, but the era of this turbojet engine has ended, and the maximum thrust is only 80% of the original, resulting in the lack of sufficient thrust in F-16, Maneuverability was drastically reduced, and, due to the mismatch in size, it was necessary to put on the outside of the engine an engine heat shield weighing almost a ton. This dragged on even more, and as a result, this originally agile and advanced third-generation aircraft became what it is now.

Although it is a million dollars cheaper than the standard one, according to the original currency, the F-16A is only nine million dollars, and this F-16/79 is only eight million dollars, but no one wants to buy the poor F-16/79 at all. In the 80s, President Carter reversed his previous decision to allow the standard F-16 to be exported, and in this way, not a single F-16/79 was sold in history.

In 85, the United States had planned to export F-16 to Huaxia, but the asking price was not low at that time, and Huaxia simply did not have enough funds to buy it, so it had to give up.

And now, in order to promote this project, the United States has given a preferential price, and has also promised to export production lines, which will make Huaxia's military aircraft production enter a new level, and the most important thing is that the United States and Shen Fei cooperate, which is an opportunity that Shen Fei must not let go, so with the joint efforts of Shen Fei and the Third Aircraft Department, this arms sales have begun to make a substantial leap.

Today is the most important day, and we must beat Cheng Fei convincingly! Using an unfinalized aircraft to confront your own side is simply looking for death!

Although Henry has a lot of flying experience, he can't stand the poor performance of this plane, and Henry can't help but want to scold his mother.

According to the battle plan, the two fighters will meet in the sky over Shaanxi, so after Henry entered the sky over Shaanxi, he immediately turned on the radar.

As a castrated version of the fighter, the radar of this aircraft is only an air search radar with the early performance of the F-16A, which is shielded from the synthetic aperture mode to the ground, and has no ability to guide medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Anyway, now it's just a simulation, and it's not really using missiles to shoot, as long as you lock on to the other party, it's considered a success.

After Henry turns on the radar, a bright line on the screen begins to rotate, and with the rotation of the bright line, the scanned target will be presented on it, and then, operate the radar and lock on to the other party!

In the hall on the ground, the bright spots representing the two planes are constantly approaching, and they have entered from 100 kilometers to 80 kilometers, which is already a distance that can be searched and locked.

The F-16 has never found the target, nor has it found the electromagnetic radiation from the other side, could it be that the other side has lost its way?

Henry operates the fighter, turns in a direction, and continues the search.

Lei Qiang piloted the 004 fighter, looking at the data on the head-up display, he didn't turn on the radar, everything was scanned by the photoelectric radar.

Soon, he found a point of light on the heads-up display and found the target!

At this point, the target is flying to the left in front of him, bearing 024 and 70.

Very good chance, turn on the radar, lock it!

At the front end of the nose, the pulse Doppler radar of the new flat slot antenna jointly developed by Huaxia and Pakistan was finally turned on, and the radar wave radiated out from the gap in the antenna and shot to the opposite sky, and suddenly, a bright spot appeared on the screen.

The on-board computer was doing the math quickly, and after only a second, an aperture appeared on the radar screen, and at the same time, a familiar voice came from the headphones.

Good! Successfully locked each other!

At the same time, a screeching voice came from Henry's headphones, which was still a reminder of American English, which had been locked!

Damn, the other party came out of nowhere! In the U.S. military, Henry was accustomed to fighting under the command of AWACS aircraft, and now, in the face of a sudden threat, Henry actually found himself feeling powerless for a moment. (To be continued......)