The sneak attack carefully planned by the Vietnamese was shot down before it could fly into the territory of the Celestial Empire, which also gave the Vietnamese side great fear. Fortunately, Zhongxiu didn't have the heart to bomb their capital Hanoi with planes, but the strength of the Celestial Empire's fighters was enough for the PLA to complete this task, so the nature of the matter is that China has the ability, and it depends on whether it has the will.

Just like in Qi Yiming's era, whether the Celestial Empire wanted to dominate or not, as long as it had the ability or potential to push the US imperialists down from the hegemonic position, the US imperialism would be very nervous and use all means to contain it. Therefore, many problems in international politics have nothing to do with subjective factors. Politicians are a bunch of insecure old men!

In order to solve the serious imbalance in the strength of the air force (as if there is no imbalance in other services), Vietnamese Defense Minister Van Tan Dung specially expressed to Voroshilov, the air attaché of the military advisory group from the Soviet Union, that Vietnam needs more assistance from the socialist big brother to support the Vietnamese people in resisting the unjust central revision and regaining the land that belongs to them.

It's just that in May of this year, Gorbachev, the map head, who can be called the main culprit of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country, took office, and a group of Soviet officials, large and small, who surrounded the map head, were all a little neurotic figures. Wen Jinyong's request went to Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, who reacted coldly, saying only to think about it first.

Shevardnadze is a Georgian, and he later became the president of Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He served as the first secretary of Georgia in the 70s and established himself as a clean official by fighting corruption. During his tenure as Soviet Foreign Minister, he belonged to the group of people who most embraced the new thinking of map heads. During this period, the Soviet Union actually launched its own policy of non-interference, allowing the West to enter and exit Eastern Europe and play a big game of peaceful evolution. When the ruling parties in Eastern Europe pinned their hopes on the Soviet Union to take strong measures to counter Western infiltration in order to suppress the democratization movement that swept Eastern Europe, he actually refused to intervene on behalf of the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the discoloration of Eastern Europe. One of his oft-quoted quotes is: "We should now realize that socialism, friendship, neighbourliness and mutual respect cannot be achieved with bayonets, tanks and blood".

The unclear-headed guy eventually fell due to corruption during his tenure and maintained power through election fraud. It is really a particularly ironic thing to think that he rose to prominence because of his anti-corruption and was praised by Western observers for promoting democratization.

The Vietnamese did not fully understand what the Soviet Union would look like, but they captured the cold attitude of the Soviet Foreign Minister. Just at the juncture of despair and despair for the Vietnamese, someone saved them.

This person is none other than the current commander of the USSR Territorial Defense Forces, Kordunov. To say that the map head and Shevardnadze don't care about any guns, blood and fire, and are dedicated to reform, this air force combat hero who was born in the Great Patriotic War will always maintain a fighting mentality.

Ever since Chinese fighter jets repeatedly shot down Soviet-made fighters in Vietnam and Chinese-made FC-1s repeatedly shot down Soviet-made fighters in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the commander of the Territorial Defense Force has been very curious about the situation of the Chinese Air Force. However, because of the long-term hostility with the Chinese side, coupled with the relatively large racial gap between the two countries, it is difficult to carry out intelligence work, and with regard to China's new fighters, including the FC-1, as well as the fighter-bomber Flying Leopard that has been known to the outside world, and even the outside world has been rumored to be China's own medium-sized advanced fighter for air supremacy, he wants to know what is the gap between these fighters and the MiG-29, MiG-31, and Su-27, which are the main forces of the Soviet Union.

In fact, the news about the J-10 did not come from the Vietnamese at all, but from the Pakistanis and Iranians. The Iranians have never seen the J-10, but they have heard that the FC-1 is the product of the Chinese based on a fighter technology for their own use, and the Pakistan Air Force has watched the J-10 fly up close, but they have been warned not to disclose too much.

As for the Vietnamese, they were even more miserable, they fought with the PLA Air Force several times before and after, but whenever the J-10 shot, none of their fighters could escape back, and during the air battle, the electric flying leopard of the cameo electronic attack aircraft interfered with the communications of the Vietnamese, so that their rear could not hear what the downed pilot said at all. Even if the pilot was shot down on his own border, he was inexplicably hijacked by the Chinese special forces. So the Vietnamese themselves are not sure whether there is a second fighter in China besides the Flying Leopard.

Kordonov was not very interested in supporting the Vietnamese, but he was interested in knowing the level of Chinese fighters. The contradictions between China and the Soviet Union, although not so structural, are no less acute. If China had the ability to suppress Soviet fighters, it would be unacceptable and dangerous for the Soviet Union.

As a result, the air marshal single-handedly pushed the Soviet Union to lease 4 MiG-25 fighters to Vietnam.

The MiG-25 was developed in the early 60s, mainly to deal with the XB-70 bomber and the SR-71 "Blackbird" high-altitude high-speed reconnaissance aircraft that the United States was developing at that time, both of which had a speed of more than Mach 3, and the ceiling was relatively high, ordinary interceptors such as the MiG-21, although they were known as high-altitude and high-speed, but they were still powerless to compete with these fighters.

In order to be able to intercept these high-altitude and high-speed US reconnaissance planes and bombers, the Soviets created this aircraft with a speed of Mach 3 and an altitude of 30,000 meters, and the main aircraft in service was the interception model MiG-25P and the reconnaissance model MiG-25R. In order to be able to achieve such a high flight speed, the aircraft put a lot of thought into aerodynamics: it uses a medium swept upper wing with a sweep angle of 42°, a lower reverse angle of 5°, a relative thickness of 4%, and a aspect ratio of 3. 2, wing area 61. 9 square meters. The rectangular binary air intake is adjusted with a horizontal adjustment ramp, so it is a two-sided air intake. In order to ensure the stability of the course, the double vertical tail and tail pelvic fin were adopted, and the vertical tail and pelvic fin were changed to be smaller.

The MiG-25 shocked the West once it came out, and the West once thought that the Soviet Union's aviation industry had reached a very high level, and the MiG-25 set 16 world flight records from 65 to 73 years, showing the super performance of double three (Mach 3/30,000 meters). It was not until 1976, when a Soviet pilot Belenko defected to Japan in a MiG-25, that the West breathed a sigh of relief. It doesn't use any extremely high-tech materials, but is a 70% stainless steel aircraft. There are still a lot of backward tubes in the avionics, and the problem of flight stability has not been solved. The interceptor model MiG-25P cannot fly past Mach 25 like the MiG-3R, generally at 2. Mach 8 is the largest, at which point the weapon it carries will tremble.

But even so, the Americans admit that relying on such a bunch of backward things to put together, they can put together a fighter that has repeatedly set records and has many records, and the Soviets' system integration ability is also worthy of recognition. Later, there was also a management term called the "MiG-25 effect", which means that the parts that are not good are used to make relatively good things.

Although the Soviet Territorial Defense Force now has its own MiG-29 and MiG-31, the MiG-25 is still a fairly advanced fighter.

Now, in order to find out the level of fighters of the Chinese, the Soviet Union not only leased four MiG-25s from Vietnam in the form of loans, but also sent Soviet pilots to fly them to fight, and the actual idea is self-evident, that is, to let the Soviet Union's own pilots fight with the Chinese and get first-hand information.

At this time, the Soviet Union and Vietnam were still very close, and the Pacific Fleet was stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, so it was relatively easy to transport things to Vietnam. Four MiG-25s departed from Vladivostok and were sent to cargo ships along the coast of China to the port of Haiphong in Vietnam.

As a pilot, the Soviet Air Force officer who commanded all four fighters at the same time was named Malenkov, a soldier who was not tall but had a small temper.

"Hell, it's so hot here, I wouldn't want to stay here if it weren't for the mission from above!" Malenkov proudly complained to the Vietnamese foreign affairs personnel who were in charge of hosting him.

For these uncles who fought for themselves, the Vietnamese foreign affairs personnel must take good care of them, even if they let him be their grandson, they have to pretend to be some.

"Hey, do you have vodka here? The stronger, the better! Malenkov took his comrades in arms and said to the Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese foreign affairs officer sweated and said, "We don't have vodka here......"

"What? Aren't we, the Soviet Red Army, stationed here with you? How could there be no vodka? Are you righteous people who want to embarrass us to support you in the fight against the Chinese? "Malenkov buttoned down with a big hat.

"Uh, no, no, your comrades-in-arms are all in Cam Ranh Bay, this is the ...... of Haiphong"

"I don't care where you are, there's no vodka to order another bar!"

"It's good, our rice wine from Vietnam is very mellow, you will definitely like it."

One of Malenkov's comrades-in-arms smiled and said to Malenkov: "Colonel, it's boring to only drink, maybe we should find a few beautiful girls to dance for us or something." ”

Malenkov smiled and pointed at the foreign affairs officer: "Did you hear it, Vietnamese comrades, we fighters need to maintain combat effectiveness, we need mental and physical pleasure, I think for the sake of your victory against the Chinese, you will not refuse such a reasonable request." ”

This foreign affairs officer was unhappy, but he had no choice but to deal with it: "It's good, it's good, I'll report to Lu's superiors and arrange it for a few comrades......"

Seeing the hunched yellow-skinned monkey retreating, Malenkov couldn't help but laugh with his comrades: "It's just a slave in our 'colony', that is, it can provide us with some food and women, and things like war should be left to our Slavic fighting people!" ”