Tu-114 airliner? When the Tu-95 was discovered, the entire base was immediately raised to the highest combat readiness alert level, and one after another F-4 fighters were pulled out of the hangar, loaded with missiles and fuel, ready to take off at any time.

Tu-95, that is a bomber capable of carrying nuclear warheads, is this visit a provocative demonstration, or a reconnaissance activity, or the moment of the outbreak of a major war?

Therefore, the entire base was immediately ready, and as a forward position, they had to be ready to take off to meet the enemy at any time.

And now, the news of Nathan's return has made them relax a little.

"Tune in to the public channel, tell those Russians that they are lost, tell them to leave quickly." General Richard said.

Emily on the side frowned, the Tu-95 of the Trek, turned into a passenger plane? I'm afraid it's not that simple!

"Tell the Eagle to let him see clearly, is that really a passenger plane?" Emily said. Although up to now, in fact, she has no authority to intervene, but the young eagle is an exchange student after all, and she is responsible for this activity of the exchange students.

"Soviet flight, please note, this is Alaska, please report your flight, you may be on the wrong course, end." The caller repeated the call twice in Russian and English, however, there was no echo in the air.

"Look, how's that? These Americans treat us as ordinary flights, right? Victor had a smile on his face: "Now, let's ignore them and keep flying." ”

The radio received a warning message from the ground, and Victor ignored it, anyway, some flights may have radio failures in flight, and it is normal not to hear them, so they will continue to fly and see what other reactions the Americans have.

They are here this time to collect this information, to see how quickly the Americans can react, to see how large they can take off and intercept, and so on, and may also induce more of their radars to turn on to facilitate their own collection of parameters.

Victor had no scruples about this, while Habasf, with some nervousness, looked outside, just now, an F-4 fighter had already passed by his side, and then, the other party would definitely fly over again, fly level with his side, and then force his side to change course.

The next confrontation will be quite dangerous.

"Eaglet, pay attention, look at the target carefully, and identify the target model again." Nathan had just turned the nose of the plane when a call from the ground came from the headset, and he pushed the throttle stick and headed towards the huge plane.

"No other targets have been found, so far there is only this one, and the situation at low altitudes is uncertain." Steve in the rear cabin said that at the moment of the flight, he had turned on the radar and scanned the airspace in front of him, that is, the airspace behind the "airliner".

If the Soviets had deliberately done so, they might have been followed by escort fighters, but now nothing has been found, either they are really not, or they are hiding at low altitudes.

After all, the radar of this era is still unable to effectively detect targets from low altitudes.

"Let's go up and have a look." "I always felt like it wasn't like a normal airliner, and if it was a Trek plane, it would be too coincidental," Nathan said. ”

A few days after the Korean Airlines passenger plane was lost, Maozi's passenger plane was also lost? This is definitely not a coincidence, it must have been premeditated.

It was just a flash, and Nathan didn't observe it properly, and now, as he slowly approached from behind, a lot of suspicions came out.

In later generations, he was a pilot, and here he was also a pilot, Nathan naturally knew all kinds of aircraft at home and abroad, and the difference between the Tu-95 bomber and the Tu-144 passenger plane was also easy to see.

In the eyes of the layman, it is a slender fuselage, swept wings, four large propeller engines, but, in the eyes of the layman, it is different.

"The Soviets, they almost fooled us." Sitting in the cockpit, gradually approaching the "airliner" from behind, Nathan quickly saw the doorway.

The wing of the Tu-95 bomber is a mid-mounted wing (that is, vertically, the wing is in the middle of the fuselage), in this case, the front and rear nacelles are divided into two parts that are not connected to each other by the wings.

For the bomber, it doesn't matter, anyway, the front and rear don't need to communicate, the back is the bomb bay, and the front is the personnel compartment.

However, the passenger plane is not good, the passenger plane must be connected to the front and back, and it will not be divided into two groups of maintenance personnel, right?

Therefore, the Tu-114 was changed to widen the cabin of the Tu-95, and at the same time cancel the bomb-carrying bay and various cannons, and change the mid-mounted wing to a lower wing (the wing is in the lower part of the fuselage), so that the front and rear are connected.

So, identifying the wings is the easiest way.

The wing of this aircraft, not the lower monoplane, that is, it is definitely a Tu-95!

"This is supposed to be a reconnaissance aircraft." Nathan judged, "They're trying to turn into a passenger plane to fool us, and now that we've seen through it, we might as well scare them!" ”

"Nathan, be disciplined, we have to follow orders from below." Steve said, seemingly guessing what the daring Nathan was trying to do.

"The ground requires us to identify targets, and right now, we're just identifying targets. Steve, lock it on with radar for me! ”

If it is an ordinary passenger plane, it does not have any identification equipment for friend or foe, let alone a radar warning receiver, while a bomber or reconnaissance plane is different, and it must have a radar warning receiver on it.

As long as it locks on and it changes course, it confirms its identity!

"Understood, lock it with radar." Steve said, turning on his radar.

Compared to later generations, this radar is very simple, and at the same time its working state is also very simple, there are only 7 working states: "OFF", "Ready" (STBY), "Air-to-Air" (A/A), "Air-to-Earth" (A/G), "Antenna Fixed" (CAGE - the antenna shaft is fixed to the weapon baseline), "Self-Detection 1" (BIT1) and "Self-Detection 2" (BIT2).

Now, when the radar is adjusted from the air-to-air state to the fixed antenna state, the radar antenna in front of the parabola immediately converts the beam, from the just conic scanning pulse wave to a continuous wave.

This radar was developed on the basis of the APQ-72, APQ-100 and APQ-109 radars. The purpose of combining the pulse search radar, the continuous wave guidance radar and the target interception computer in one device was realized.

And the powerful continuous wave will immediately trigger the opponent's radar warning receiver!

Soviets, are you afraid?