Sitting in his lavishly decorated office, Kordunov, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Territorial Defense Forces, frowned and read a report until he had read every word of the report, and then he read it over and over again, and finally he placed it on the table with a stiff motion, like a fragile porcelain bowl instead of a stack of papers.

"Comrade Zakurov, how much do you think this report is true?" Kordunov asked.

Zakurov, who was a MiG-25 pilot and is now a major general of the USSR Territorial Defense Forces, cautiously replied: "Logically, most of the content of this report should be true......"

The Air Force Commander, who was like a bloated big hairy bear, slapped the table and scolded: "You mean that the Chinese, who were once disdained by us, have completely thrown off our great Soviets in the Air Force?" If the Chinese want to be detrimental to our great alliance, then our territorial air defense forces will not have any power to fight back? ”

Zakurov was sincerely frightened and said: "Comrade commander, the Chinese dare not do anything to us, the nuclear bomb in our hands is enough to destroy them hundreds of times." ”

Kordonov said angrily: "If we need to rely on nuclear weapons to deal with weak Chinese, then where will the face of our territorial air defense force go?!" ”

Zakurov could only say: "The cunning Chinese must have cooperated particularly deeply with the imperialist United States and the capitalist minion countries, and acquired some key skills." The main combat power shown by the Chinese Air Force is their ability to fight over-the-horizon air combat, as well as the means to gain opportunities through electromagnetic suppression, and in close combat, the Chinese are certainly not our opponents. ”

Kordunov was still upset: "Grappling? You shoot you down without even seeing the shadow of the enemy, what are you fighting for? We must get such powerful intelligence from the Chinese about over-the-horizon air combat, so that the KGB will do whatever it takes and exhausts all means, and we must get the Chinese's long-range attack missiles with a high hit rate! ”

Zakurov said again: "And what about the electronic warfare aspect of the Chinese? ”

Kordonov narrowed his eyes and said: "Let's do it together, get the best, even if you can't get it, you have to figure out how the Chinese do it, our scientists are much more powerful than Chinese scientists, and they will definitely be able to come up with more powerful electronic warfare weapons than them." ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander!"

Kordunov did not relax in the slightest, and his mood was still extremely restless. Naturally, the Vietnamese helped them compensate for the loss of four MiG-25s, but when he was crushed by the rabbit he used to look down on, Kordunov was not happy. According to the two Soviet pilots rescued by the Vietnamese at that time, they recounted their experiences in more detail - they were electromagnetically suppressed shortly after takeoff, neither radar nor communications could work properly, so several planes became deaf and blind in the sky, and they never saw a single plane of the Chinese from beginning to end, only those missiles that suddenly rushed out and shot them down one by one.

Zakurov raised another question at this time: "Could it be that China got it from Iran and shot down our MiG-14 with the AIM-54 Immortal Bird missile launched by the F-25?" ”

"There is a possibility, but the Iranians also have Chinese FC-1 fighter jets there, and it is said that they are also equipped with a medium-range air-to-air missile produced by China, and I think it is more likely that this kind of missile is more likely, and the information we have received is that China has not yet begun to install the F-14s obtained from Iran and the United States, and it is said that they are working with the Americans to upgrade and improve the work," Kordinov said. ”

"China is a potential enemy, and we should pay more attention to it."

Kordonov snorted and said angrily: "After the new general secretary came to power, he didn't seem to care about things like strengthening our armaments, and even I went to that Georgian (Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze) before, and he actually said that he should be committed to rapprochement with China." Compared to our external enemies, these internal silverfish are the ones who can make the Soviets dangerous. ”

Zakurov also suggested: "Since Iran has Chinese missiles in its hands, we may be able to ask Iran for one or two, disassemble them for research, and maybe reverse engineer and copy them, and then develop our weapons." ”

Kordunov's face was not good-looking, and he said: "Do you think we can't think of such a simple truth? I have been in contact with Iranian people for a long time, and the Chinese are very close to their missiles, and every one of them must be strictly recorded in terms of how they are used and where they are kept, and Iran must be held accountable if there is a problem, and they even have so-called technical maintenance personnel in Iran to supervise the use of weapons. Iran wanted to provide us with samples of Chinese missiles, but unfortunately, they couldn't. ”

He said viciously: "Also, when did we fall to the point where we had to pick up the Chinese's techniques?" Give me a pennant design bureau, I want them to speed up on the project of the R-77, the Americans have an immortal bird, the Chinese have a shot and ignore it, where to put the dignity of our Soviets?! ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander. However, there is another question, the Vietnamese side has put forward the idea of leasing more powerful fighters to us, do we still want to support them? ”

"What do you think?" asked Kordunov. ”

Zakurov confessed: "I don't think it's of much significance, we have generally understood the combat mode of the Chinese Air Force, which is to use advanced air-to-air missiles that are fired and ignored, as well as electromagnetic suppression of the battlefield, to form a huge air combat advantage over the enemy." From this point of view, China's fighters are not advanced on a weapon platform, but advanced in their operational thinking. I firmly believe that the air combat capabilities of the MiG-29 or Su-27 are stronger than those self-produced fighters of the Chinese, but even so, if the Chinese cut off the radar function and communication function, we will become extremely passive. The Chinese Air Force does not intend to duel with us one-on-one in the air, like the knights of the Middle Ages, they will use their superiority to weaken our superiority in maneuverability of our MiG-29 and Su-27. ”

He took a breath and said one of the most important reasons: "More crucially, this war is actually nothing more than a border conflict between Vietnam and China, with tens of thousands of people barely fought, and China's air force is limited to using air cover or battlefield interdiction missions against them within the territory they claim to belong to, and has not bombed other military and civilian facilities in Vietnam." Strategically, China is vigorously propagating economic development and deviates from the path of socialism, as if it wants to become a capitalist country, while the economically exhausted China cannot afford to support a large-scale war of aggression, so in the situation, Vietnam is only suffering in the air battle, but there is no more real danger. ”

Kordunov listened to the words of the major general and nodded, thinking that it was very reasonable. Now no one thinks that the rabbit family will march into Vietnam in a big army like in 1979, and their war has been fought for several years, all around the mountainous area where the birds don't, and there is no artistic sense of mountain grabbing games. Although China has now sacrificed the magic weapon of its own advanced fighters of the Air Force, it does not mean that the Chinese will rely on this advantage to achieve greater results. Many strategic experts in the Soviet Union saw through the essence of the round war - to suppress Vietnam's development through tense conflicts, causing them domestic difficulties.

To put it bluntly, this is a gamble to take revenge on Vietnam, not to beat Vietnam to death with a stick.

At this time, Kordinov asked another question: "Major General Zakurov, you also once tested the MiG-29, do you think China's advanced fighters, in the face of our MiG-29, who wins and who loses?" ”

Zakurov replied cautiously: "It's hard to say, because I haven't seen the real thing after all, but I just imagined the situation of the Chinese fighter through the content of the report." However, I firmly believe that the number of these advanced fighters in China must be limited, and when we really fight against China in the Soviet Union, our means can be much more than Vietnam, even if China has electronic suppression, we can also contain Chinese fighters, and when the time comes, we can give full play to our mobility advantages, and we can beat the Chinese all over the ground. ”

Kordunov listened with satisfaction, nodded, and said: "I hope so." ”

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When the Soviets were talking and worrying about the Rabbit fighter, they did not expect that in China at this moment, Qi Yiming would release his new toy.

This fighter is a STOVL (short vertical take-off and landing fighter) prepared for HNA, and the foundation of its skills is from the Allied invader fighter in Red Alert 2. At this time, the base gave him another big gift, his fighter unit shot down a total of more than 20 enemy planes (including the data of the Iranian Air Force shot down by Red Alert pilots), and the base's air command gave him a new function - arms fusion.

It's just that this fusion ability is very unintelligent, and it's similar to a reward, and when it's used up once, you can't decide when you can use it next, what's even more rigid is that the object of fusion can only be Qi Yiming's choice of equipment in the Red Alert, and the base system randomly selects the equipment he already has on his side for fusion, which may be a PLA weapon, or it may be other weapons of the Red Alert.

Qi Yiming gave this opportunity to the fusion invader fighter, and with a little apprehension, he pressed the start button, and as a result, the base selected Shen Fei's J-8II to fuse with the invader fighter.

"Well, it's not too bad, if you choose the J-6 for fusion, you will really cry." Qi Yiming comforted himself a little, in fact, this integration is still a very valuable opportunity, because although he has a lot of overhauled PLA weapons and equipment in his hands, he can't do it himself, and the J-10 will take off and land vertically.

At most, he can give the J-10 a vector spout, but he still can't do it if he wants to really STOVL. The fusion function can combine several distinctive features of the fighter, and solve the cycle time of armament development that can take more than ten years.