The fighter planes formed in pairs, flying over the lofty mountains and mountains, only to see the decentralization suddenly appear thousands of acres of fertile land, and suddenly the rivers and rivers flowing, which can only make people sigh that the motherland's rivers and mountains are very good. Chen Feng who was sitting in the driver's seat and Xu Yiran, the radar intelligence officer in the back seat, were both stuffy gourds, and there were hardly any words in this long-distance attack and training except for the necessary tactical exchanges.

Xu Yiran's situation is easy to explain, this guy is a tendon Red Police soldier, his usual life is as simple as boiled water, and there is nothing else to do except serve is service. But Chen Feng is a different matter.

Chen Feng is piloting this warhawk, which has been changed into the original Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcat in Shanghai Airlines livery. This type of plane is the best aircraft in China's air force, and since the beginning of the year, when it began to be reequipped with the HNA unit, it is said that the commanders of various divisions have almost broken their heads in order to grab these planes. The first batch of 24 planes were obtained by their 9th Division of the HNA Division, and the division commander Han Xihuai said very stinky when he saw people, which caused a burst of scolding from his comrades.

However, Chen Feng was still very grateful to the division commander for his efforts to make them renovate this new model, and the pilots always expected to fly the best, most advanced and coolest fighters. They have long been transferred from Hainan to the northeast, waiting for the completion of the new aircraft modification work, and at the same time following the commissioning and training. After about five months of training, their first batch of fully formed Tomcat air regiments has basically formed combat effectiveness.

"If my dad had flown such a fighter back then, I'm afraid he wouldn't have sacrificed." This thought had occurred in Chen Feng's mind more than once, although he knew that it was a rather meaningless thought. Chen Feng was a child who grew up in a martyr's family, and he had a vague memory of his father. The father rarely came home, was always in the army, there were no telephones at that time, and letters were not always so intuitive for a child.

He just remembered that when a few soldiers with black armbands and solemn faces came to their door, his mother fainted from crying, and then he knew that his father, who he didn't know very well, would never see him again. It was the 60s, a ruffian born in Zhejiang, bald, still had all kinds of whimsical ideas about ********, and conflicts and air battles broke out again and again in the strait, and it was often the reconnaissance planes on the right bank that were intercepted over the mainland, and then the escort fighters joined the battle group.

Although as I grew older, my father's shadow became more and more blurred, but I remember that as soon as I was a child, my father would come home with candy and other knick-knacks that were difficult to get by others, sometimes a fountain pen, supposedly a souvenir of a captured reactionary, sometimes a cannon shell the size of a kettle. In short, every time the man with an apologetic face comes home, Chen Feng can always raise his eyebrows among his friends and be looked at with envy.

Even if his father never came home again, his influence on Chen Feng has never weakened. Every year on the Qingming Festival, the school will always organize a tomb sweep, his father's tomb is in the martyr's cemetery, and the teacher or classmate who gave the speech will always mention him, Chen Feng can always feel a kind of respect for himself at that time. As he grew older, he knew that the respect did not belong to him, but he hoped that one day, others would give him the same respect.

Of course, there are also people who always say strange things behind their backs, in that air battle, my father was the only pilot shot down, and gave up parachuting in order not to crash into the residential area, but his comrades shot down two reactionary enemy planes under his cover. So some people will laugh at Chen Feng's father for being useless.

Of the people who said such things, the heaviest one was broken by Chen Feng's jaw and half of his ear was torn off.

Since then, Chen Feng has become more silent, and when he graduated from high school, he embarked on the same path as his father and became a HNA pilot because of the preferential treatment of the martyrs and his tenacious character and good qualities. It's just that his era is destined to start from the gloom, the country's center of gravity has shifted to economic construction, the army has been allowed to do business, and the leaders seem to be no longer concerned with training tasks, and there are few flying subjects in the schedule, for the simple reason that fuel and material are saved.

Chen Feng was angry at that time, probably even more angry than when others insulted his father. He couldn't understand what kind of mental illness his father's troops had committed with his life, and the morale was disheartened and unbearable, which made Chen Feng disheartened and wanted to retire from the army and change careers after the end of his service.

Something unexpected happened, the leader who did not do his job was punished by the political cadres sent down by the peak, and the division dragged a new fighter, although it did not look very trendy, but it was much more capable than his J-6. Fuel, refuel, and the like began to be met in unlimited quantities, and 18 flight hours per month became the minimum standard. Chen Feng had new hope, he withdrew his application for discharge from the army and stayed in the 9th Division of the HNA Army.

Good fortune followed, and when his troops had not yet reached mastery of flying leopards, the division held a great contest and selected 60 of the best pilots in the division, and then they were sent to Shenyang to become the first Tomcat pilots of the glorious republic.

The long-term training in the Northeast has been basically completed, and this long-distance training is also a transition task. The 24 Tomcats will fly from Shenyang to Lingshui in Hainan in batches in one day, making a big transfer that rarely does. Their Tomcats carry no weapons or fuel tanks, travel completely light, and do not land on the way, but are refueled twice in the air along the way.

Air refueling is a subject that they don't practice very often, at least Chen Feng practiced three times when he flew the J-7, and he also practiced three times after the flying Tomcat, undoubtedly this is a very skillful job, but Chen Feng knows the importance behind the road. Without in-flight refueling, the strategic air force is a big shortcoming.

When Chen Feng received the training, he took tens of thousands of words of notes according to the instructor's description, and then watched the video of the US military's in-flight refueling that he didn't know where he got it, and then got on the plane to experience it himself. Although he is definitely not very proficient, he should not make any big mistakes under his care.

Under the 16,300 pounds (more than seven tons) of internal oil of the F-14, it also flew 2,800 kilometers without hanging auxiliary fuel tanks, so from the very beginning of the take-off in Shenyang, the F-14 was in a half-fueled state, and after flying to the territory of Shandong, several of the Air Force's Bombardment -6 took off, and then refueled these Tomcats.

Hainan Airlines itself does not have its own tankers, and this task is now undertaken by the Air Force, so now the Air Force's planes sometimes need to fly on the surface of the sea to avoid too many phenomena such as the reversal of the sea and the sky.

The original H-6 under the Air Force has undergone a major rectification, and finally the Air Force retired all the H-5, and the bomber force is mainly composed of 36 H-6K cruise missile bombers, and the remaining H-6 have been pulled by Qi Yiming to the maintenance plant to change the use of H-6. The Bombardment-6 is barely usable as a tanker at best, but Qi Yiming's main production is still on fighter jets, so if he can make do with it, he will make do with it first.

After some construction and modification, the Air Force has a total of about 40 H-6s, and these primary versions of the tanker aircraft only have a fuel load of more than 18 tons, and to refuel a pot-bellied man like the F-14, one can only add two at a time, which shows the degree of embarrassment. However, it is also a good thing that a group of tanker pilots can be honed through the platform of the Bombing Tank-6.

Chen Feng and his partner Xu resolutely completed the first aerial refueling and continued to fly according to the established route, the second refueling was set at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong, and this time it was the Air Force's main tanker to transport the Tank-20.

As the first derivative of the Y-20, the Y-20 has far better performance than the H-6. With a maximum take-off weight of 230 tons, it can carry 74 tons of fuel into the sky, and can supply 10 F-14 fighters for combat at one time. Although it has not been used for the time being, the Y-20 is equipped with a hard refueling pipe, and if there is an aircraft that needs hard refueling in the future, it can also be used directly. (J-10 and J-8V are removable hoses for refueling, F-14 and Leopard B are telescopic hoses, and Leopard A does not have refueling pipes, embarrassment)

Chen Feng raised his head and looked out at the huge tanker from his helmet, feeling a completely different atmosphere from the Bombardment-6. He saw the signal light on the outside of the tanker turn yellow, and a communication came from his ear: "Thunderbolt 1-3, Thunderbolt 1-4, refueling operation begins." 1-3 Use the left filler pipe, 1-4 use the right filler pipe. ”

"Understood." Chen Feng steered the fighter to accelerate from the rear to the refueling plane, then slowed down, slowly pulled up a little height from below, and slowly approached the refueling floating anchor thrown by the tanker-20. Another F-14 next to him followed, and began to try to make contact on another fuel pipe. This is also one of the benefits of hose refueling, which can refuel different fighters at the same time.

Since there is no refueling operator in the hose refueling, it requires the absolute patience of the pilot of the tanker, who needs to maneuver a 20-meter-long, 30-ton aircraft to touch the refueling anchor, which is the size of a hat, with a refueling tube that is less than the thickness of an arm's length.

Chen Feng tried a few times, but he still successfully inserted the fuel pipe into the floating anchor, starting from the locking system, he now only needs to maintain a constant speed and wait for the yellow light on the fuel dispenser to go out, and the entire refueling operation is completed.

After the refueling was completed, Chen Feng slowed down his fighter in accordance with the standard operating procedures, and then because of the pull of the reverse force, the floating anchor was separated from the refueling pipe on his plane, Chen Feng continued to slow down and reduce the height until he opened a safe distance from the refueling plane, and then he made a rolling action, let go of the operation area, and gave the space for the fighter to catch up below to continue to complete the refueling operation.

"There are still more than 1,000 kilometers to Lingshuichang Station." Chen Feng glanced at the display screen and said in his heart. He also has a general understanding of what to do in the air to refuel, and will be brought to a key position for training in recent times. Although the F-14 has a combat radius of more than 1,000 kilometers, it is still a little short of the South China Sea, which is very deep, but with air refueling, it can ensure long-term cruising and combat.

"Is there going to be a war?" This thought suddenly flashed through Chen Feng's mind, and a trace of inexplicable excitement lingered in his heart.