Fortunately, after more than 20 minutes, the three fighters successfully arrived at the target airspace indicated by the ground monitoring system without any danger and one by one.

Because the target location information provided by the ground monitoring station is now jumping more and more, Cheng Chongjin has received relevant technical training, knowing that this is almost the maximum range of the ground monitoring station, and the received Global Hawk communication signal is relatively weak, and the measurement accuracy of signal strength is getting lower and lower.

"Hunter No. 2, Hunter No. 3, there is not much time left for us" Cheng Chongjin looked at the beating position information from the monitoring indicator, and then looked at the trajectory and location characteristics of the target's movement, and quickly predicted the area where the target would move next in his head, and finally selected the direction to continue to the south and gave the order.

"We continue to go south at full speed, I fly along the line of territorial waters, Hunter 2 is responsible for 50 kilometers to the left, Hunter 3 is responsible for 50 kilometers to the right, we first search 100 kilometers south to see if we find anything."

"Yes! Hunter Two (Three) understands! Li Dashan and Tong Fangyong replied in unison.

Although they have now entered the airspace where the ground monitoring station has detected the target of the Global Hawk, because the effective range of the air monitoring system is far worse than that of the ground station, after all, it is unlikely that a full-angle ground satellite pot like the ground station will be installed on the aircraft to receive information in a short period of time.

From the point of view of the area of the air signal receiving system, it is less than one-third of the ground system, and it is not possible to carry out multi-directional automatic adjustment, so that the air monitoring system receives much less signal than the ground system, and its effective range is at most one-third of the ground station.

Therefore, in places where the ground stations are beyond the reach of the whip, their air monitoring system has not moved at all, proving that it has not yet entered the effective monitoring area.

Seeing that the target was about to slip away, Cheng Chongjin was so anxious that they could only find a direction to continue flying with experience, hoping to keep up with the target before the ground monitoring system completely failed.

Judging from the target's flight trajectory of more than 100 kilometers in the past, Cheng Chongjin basically followed our coastline and headed south within about 100 kilometers of airspace above the territorial waters. So Cheng Chongjin chose to catch up south.

Two minutes later, the ground monitoring station completely lost the trace of the target, and Cheng Chongjin and they found nothing, and the air monitoring system on the three fighters remained quiet, showing that it still did not enter the effective range of the system.

"Hunter One, Hunter Two has now completely lost the location information of the ground station!"

"Hunter 1 and Hunter 3 have also lost the location information of the ground station!"

Listening to the report of his subordinates, Cheng Chongjin's sweat beads rolled down from his forehead at once, and he finally found a target, but he didn't expect to completely lose his trace so quickly, although they had done their best, but if they really lost the target, it would be really embarrassing.

For their squadron, such a chance is definitely the last chance, and the base will definitely not give them another mission next time.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin clenched his fists, he must not fail! Cheng Chongjin secretly made up his mind in his heart.

He concentrated on re-examining the target's trajectory in the past period, and at the same time, his mind quickly flashed to his own side's military deployment target in the next area, according to his understanding, more than 100 kilometers to the south, he would be approaching a famous disputed island, and the military had several important tactical missile bases on the west side of the island.

Then the next area is a series of military hot spots of confrontation between the two sides of the strait, and there are many military targets of all kinds, and here has always been a hot spot for the adversary's reconnaissance, perhaps the goal of this Global Hawk is to reconnoiter these hot spots.

This consideration based on the opponent's purpose, it can't be said that there is no risk at all, but it is the most likely situation that Cheng Chongjin can guess under the current situation, he doesn't have much time to waste, after losing the target information, the target may be moving away every minute and every second, so it will be more and more difficult for them to bite the target.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin made up his mind to grit his teeth and ordered into the intercom: "Hunter No. 3, immediately go straight to the east longitude at full speed, and the sky above the north latitude will be circled and searched, and the Hunter No. 2 and I will continue to search along the coastline." ”

If the guess is accurate, the Hunter No. 3 plane sent out by Cheng Chongjin will reach the target airspace in advance of the Global Hawk, plus Cheng Chongjin and the Hunter No. 2 search forward, which is equivalent to searching the two 300-kilometer airspace net, if the Global Hawk is really as Cheng Chongjin expected, then it will be difficult for him to escape from this huge search net.

"Hunter Three understands!" Tong Fangyong also knew that the situation was urgent now, this time he didn't bite the target before the ground monitoring failed, so he could only bet on it, he only believed in the captain's intuition to bet on this, so after receiving the order, he adjusted the direction without hesitation, and accelerated to the highest speed again and went straight to the target airspace.

Cheng Chongjin and Hunter 2 twinplanes searched and moved forward at cruising speed along a range of about 50 kilometers above the coastline and territorial waters.

Time passed minute by minute, and Cheng Chongjin's search for more than 20 minutes still had no results, and the monitoring system still did not respond at all.

"Hell, where the hell is this damn guy hiding," Li Dashan was a little difficult to breathe when he was oppressed by the solemn atmosphere, and couldn't help but speak, "It doesn't make sense to just disappear silently?" Could it be that we have gone back and we have missed it? ”

Going back? Cheng Chongjin's heart moved, although this possibility is extremely small, but if his three fighters were discovered by the opponent in the tracking just now, then for safety reasons, it is entirely possible that the personnel operating the Global Hawk will choose to avoid the three fighters of the Chinese side.

After all, in frontal combat, no matter how old the J-7 model is, it is much more capable of fighting than the Global Hawk.

The Global Hawk can conduct a large-scale radar search, and it is not difficult to detect Cheng Chongjin's several old fighters without stealth functions in advance, not to mention that they are still flying in a three-group formation, and the target is even more conspicuous, so it is very possible for the operators of the Global Hawk to maneuver to see if the Chinese planes passed by by unintentional coincidence or came with a purpose.

If so, now everyone is chasing after them.

"Hunter II, let's disperse and then turn around 50 kilometers east and search back north." Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin felt a thrill in his heart, now it seems that this possibility is really not small, Cheng Chongjin took a few heavy breaths and then ordered.

"Hunter III, after arriving at the target airspace, control the speed and search north about 50 kilometers outside the coastline!"