Chapter 34 Civil Aviation Incidents (3)

Most of the next things don't need our synthetic battalion, and Camp Commander Xu and the local public security department can deal with it.

The instructions given by the higher authorities to the public security departments were: First, interrogate the hijackers and find out the ins and outs of the matter. The second is to liaise with the Soviet side and properly handle follow-up matters. The third is to place the personnel on board, and no accidents must occur due to cold weather or other reasons.

The first is very simple, since the hijackers are here to surrender, they will naturally be very cooperative with our interrogation.

The reason for the hijackers' hijacking from Battalion Commander Xu can't help but make me a little ridiculous, that is, because he was not accustomed to the practices and style of the leaders of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Soviet Union, he wrote a letter to the authorities to report the problem, and as a result, because there was a nepotism between the Discipline Inspection Commission and the leaders, instead of dealing with it, they retaliated against him and forcibly underwent a psychiatric examination, so he took this opportunity to flee.

This reminds me of another incident in the Soviet Union a few years ago ('76), which was also a desertion, but that time it was a more serious case, when a fighter pilot fled to Japan in a MiG-25 to seek refuge in the United States.

The reason why the MiG-25 became a high secret was that it was the winner of the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it had trampled American scientists in fear for a long time.

The reason for this is that the MiG-25 is a veritable high-altitude high-speed fighter, which can reach an astonishing speed of Mach 3, and even missiles cannot catch up when flying at high speeds.

In fact, the idea of this high-altitude and high-speed fighter was first put forward by the Americans, who originally wanted to produce a bomber, and the requirement for this kind of bomber was high-altitude and high-speed. Its speed and altitude requirements are not attainable by ordinary fighters. So strategically. This bomber became a high-end equipment outside the combat system at that time. To put it simply, it is a kind of asymmetric warfare, and once it has this kind of bomber, the United States can drop bombs wherever it wants, while enemy countries, including the Soviet Union, have no choice but to be passively beaten.

This idea is good, but it is very difficult, because once the speed of the fighter reaches Mach 3, which is three times the speed of sound, the temperature of the surface of the fighter body will reach 300 degrees due to friction with the air. At such a high temperature, the traditional aluminum alloy material of the fighter will quickly deform and then disintegrate. This is often referred to as the "heat barrier".

The American method is to use titanium alloy that can withstand high temperatures, but titanium alloy is difficult to process and expensive, and no matter how you get it, you can't get a practical thing out.

As a result, the Soviet Union could not sit still as soon as it learned the news...... The United States has to get it too, otherwise if he gets it and I have nothing, wouldn't it just let the United States bomb and have no power to fight back?!

Moreover, this Soviet Union really got this way, and it only took eight or nine years to start the test flight, and the test flight began to be put into production in one year, and it was put into actual combat in 71 years...... On the eve of the outbreak of the Fourth Middle East War, four MiG-25s flew to Israel for reconnaissance, and Israel sent F4 fighters to intercept them. As a result, he was left far behind. The F4 hurriedly launched the Sidewinder missile, but surprisingly, it couldn't even catch up with the missile. Later Israeli ground-based radar stations found out. The MiG-25 reached a speed of Mach 3.2.

This time all Western countries, including the United States, were stunned...... This is okay, the fighter plane that flies so fast can't even catch up with the missiles, and it is mass-produced, doesn't that mean that the Soviet Union can fight as much as it wants, and Western countries, including the United States, have no power to fight back.

Therefore, Western countries naturally speculated that the Soviet Union's military aviation manufacturing technology was already ahead of the world, and this was not a little bit ahead, because the United States could not catch up with all its efforts.

This made the Soviet Union stand on a commanding heights for a long time, and international diplomacy is actually the same thing, whoever has a hard fist has the right to speak.

But I didn't expect that the good times would not last long, and in 76, a Soviet pilot defected in a MiG-25, and the fighter plane made a forced landing in Hokkaido, Japan, which undoubtedly made the Americans ecstatic, and immediately sent a large number of scientists to collect the numbers.

The result made everyone stunned: the MiG-25 has no high technology at all, and even its avionics can be described as "backward", and the materials that have plagued American scientists for many years to make the MiG-25 are too ordinary to be ordinary...... Steel.

No one ever thought of making an airplane out of steel, because it was heavy.

But the Soviets thought of it, because it could withstand high temperatures, and the heavy problems were easy to solve, as long as they got two high-thrust engines, they easily made a high-altitude and high-speed fighter that the Americans couldn't make if they wanted to. Although its actual combat capability is not very good because of its weight, it can bluff the Western countries and stand on the commanding heights for a period of time, and it is still very successful in this respect.

If it weren't for this defected pilot, I don't know how long I would have been able to bluff the Yankees and the Western countries!

And the reason for the pilot's defection is equally ironic...... It is said that he always quarreled with his wife because of family reasons, and he defected in order to avoid his wife.

From this point of view, I think the Soviet military really needs to pay more attention to the issue of family harmony in the army, and we in China know that "family and everything is prosperous".

The second point is also very easy to do, liaise with the Soviet side...... Although we do not have a direct dialogue channel with the Soviet Union now, we can contact the Soviet Embassy in China. At this time, the Soviet civil aviation was only afraid that it would also be overwhelmed by the disappearance of a plane.

A little problem arose in the implementation of the third point.

This should be the easiest part, just to protect the safety of the passengers on board...... We have the heart to protect, and the passengers on the plane don't want to die, so what's the problem?!

But the reality is often so unexpected, the main reason is that China and the Soviet Union have been at odds for too long, from about 60 years to more than 20 years now, and there are many unpleasant things happening in between, so the Soviet passengers on the plane will naturally be wary of us "enemies", and even be skeptical of the help we provide.

On the other hand, this plane is a small plane, there is not much clothing and food stored on it, and some of the female passengers are still wearing skirts, and they have long been shivering in the ice and snow at minus 30 degrees.

Battalion Commander Xu originally wanted them to get off the plane to keep warm, but they refused, for a simple reason...... They believed that the airplane was the property of the Soviet Union, so the airplane represented the territory of the Soviet Union, and they could not leave the airplane, a symbol of the national land.

Later, there was no way, so Battalion Commander Xu could only try his best to get the people to accept some clothes and food, transferred two buses to turn on the full heating next to the plane, and then asked the pilot to start the plane every 20 minutes to heat it, so he barely persevered.

These things were not of my concern, and if it weren't for the fact that our helicopter was going to pick up the personnel of the Soviet Embassy in China here to do the ideological work of passengers and deal with follow-up matters, I would have taken the soldiers of the synthetic battalion home a long time ago.

"Battalion commander, Commander Zhang's phone!" While I was smoking a cigarette with Scar, the correspondent handed me the phone.

"I have a general understanding of the situation." Commander Zhang said, "But now...... This question is more tricky than you think, what do you think?! ”

I know what Commander Zhang is talking about, that is, how to deal with this Sino-Soviet relationship.

You must know that we have a good relationship with the United States now, and we have also received many substantial benefits from the United States, such as artillery sight radar, and then Black Hawk, and it is foreseeable that we will receive more support in the future. Not to mention the rest, as long as the United States does not provide parts to the Black Hawk, it will not be long before the Black Hawk will not be able to fly.

Therefore, a considerable number of people, including Commander Zhang, were worried that if relations with the Soviet Union were restored, it might anger the United States.

"Commander!" I didn't think about it, so I replied: "I don't think we can think like this about international issues, just as Vietnam was left and right between our country and the Soviet Union, and we in China can do the same today." ”

"Oh!" Commander Zhang seemed to understand a little.

"But it should be said that Vietnam was wrong in the end." I said: "It's wrong because it miscalculates the shape and takes itself too seriously, and the lion opens its mouth, and finally challenges the bottom line of our country." What we have learned from this incident is that as long as we do not challenge the bottom line of both sides, we can be left and right. To put it simply, this is like a rocker, with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union at both ends. The United States is a smart person, so not only will we not anger the United States, but it will also become a bargaining chip for the United States to increase its support for our country. ”

"Makes sense!" Commander Zhang hung up the phone after saying these three words.

In fact, the relationship between countries is like this, in fact, history has also developed like this, during the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, China as an intermediate country buried its head in development, until the Soviet Union collapsed with a bang, China lost this lever and was pushed to the front line.

But it should be said that China is lucky, because the United States has always been very vigilant, and no country on the earth has a total industrial output value of more than 70 percent, it will try to strike at this country by all means, such as Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan.

However, after winning the competition with the Soviet Union, the United States cocked its tail into the sky, feeling that "history is over", and after that, he ran after terrorists all over the world, and accidentally surpassed China in terms of gross industrial output, and in modern times, it was even left behind by half of China.

In the face of a China that has become a climate, the United States may only look to China and sigh. (To be continued......)