As the battle alarm stopped, the green indicator light in the hangar lit up, and in the face of the gusts of wind and rain that gradually rose outside, the doors of the hangar from the base to the airport runway slowly opened.

Fighter planes on rainy days should be dispatched more carefully than when the weather is fine.

Sitting in the cockpit of the white No. 20 Su-27S that he took over for the first time, Long Yun quickly made the pipeline connection, and by the way, he also fiddled with the ZSh-3UM helmet sight that had not been used before; As soon as he prepared for the flight, he saw the fighter being slowly dragged out of the hangar by the dark green tractor that drove to the front, and the hatch was immediately blurred by the rain. Listening to the sound of wind and rain crashing against the metal fuselage, and the rustling of the headphone call, he could only roughly see the tractor carrying the fighter to the runway take-off and then releasing it, and everything else could only be confirmed by radio.

Generally speaking, the fastest way for fighters to be dispatched on rainy days (in fact, including sunny days) is to complete the engine start in the hangar, and the fighters rely on their own power to taxi into the runway and take off; But this method is dangerous when the rain is heavy, because the pilot sitting in the cockpit will not be able to see the runway at all.

Therefore, as far as the 224th Regiment is concerned, since it is not a front-line aviation regiment on duty, and there is no need to race against time to attack, the ground crew can calmly tow the fighters out of the hangar, take them to the runway, and then start the fighters' engines one by one.

"No. 07, the captain is reporting; One qiē is normal, preparations for take-off have been completed, and instructions are waiting. ”

"No. 20, a qiē is normal. Preparations for take-off have been completed. Wait for instructions. ”

"Number 19. 一qiē normal ......"

In the huge base that was raging in the wind and rain, the previously opened hangar door had been closed, and blue-gray camouflage fighters were lined up at intervals on the runway, and the KAMAZ power generation vehicle that had completed the engine start accelerated away from the take-off area; In the thick rain and fog, the tower dispatcher confirmed that the radio contact of each aircraft was normal, and then ordered the heavy fighters on the runway to take off in groups of two in turn, ensuring that the 12 fighters in the regiment flew in a sparse formation after taking off.

Fighter sorties on rainy days are a test for pilots and ground crew. Of course, this is also the same for the enemy.

In such stormy weather, NATO's attack aircraft fleet is still very active, relying on high-performance flight and navigation equipment to persistently brave the rain to carry out air strikes on the coastline of the Ukrainian republics in the northwest direction of the Black Sea. Although there is a risk of accidents due to bad weather and the use of laser-guided weapons is greatly limited in the rainy weather, the attack aircraft itself can avoid the detection of Soviet long-range radars under the cover of the weather, which is quite a good deal all in all.

Hey, "pretty good deal", that's for the Commander too.

Sitting in the cockpit of an accelerated F-16 fighter jet that was particularly clumsy because of the heavy load, Air Force Captain Spencer and his comrades didn't necessarily think so. Attack in the rain early in the morning. Loaded with enemy ammunition and rushed to the heavily guarded Russian Black Sea coast, the 500-kilometer rush path was originally quite easy; But maintain course and flight altitude in a dim sky where clouds roll and vision is extremely poor. That's another story.

In the stormy sky over the Black Sea, the figures of these silver-gray gradient camouflage F-16C and D "Fighting Falcon" fighters are almost all hidden in the gray sky background, which is a good cover visually speaking.

Thinking about the target location of this air raid mission, Spencer felt that it was very tricky, originally their 15th Squadron had been participating in air strikes against targets in Bulgaria in depth with other fighters of the wing, and in the face of the Bulgarian Air Force, which was not too good in terms of technology and equipment, this kind of mission was not too good; But now the scale of the Air Force's operations has increased dramatically, and this easier task has been snatched up by the Army and assigned to them by the "Apache" helicopter gunships!

Do these detachment liaison officers and generals really regard the Warsaw Pact members as Iraq, and want to use the AH-64 "Apache" to sneak attack the opponent's radar station and military port, and really not worry about being annihilated by the Bulgarian MiGs?

However, after complaining and receiving the target information from the chain, the Spencer fleet could only muster up its spirits and break through the dense rain and fog all the way to the north.

Not far behind them, the US Navy E/F-18 "Hornet" fighters, which were at an altitude of about two thousand meters above the cumulonimbus clouds and had clear skies as far as the eye could see, flew quite leisurely, and the naval fighters, as escort planes, did not need to face the bad weather under the clouds, as long as they always paid attention to the air situation in the rear and intercepted any approaching Russian fighters. Although they were hindered by the precipitation, they could not use their radar to "see" the attack aircraft fleet in front of them, but this kind of heavy rain and ghost weather was almost completely unsuitable for air combat, and there would be no MiG planes chasing and killing the "Fighting Falcons" at low altitudes in the rain, so they only had to pay attention to the enemy planes attacking from high altitudes in the north.

Of course, the phrase "there are exceptions to any principle" is not wrong at all.

At a time when NATO fighters were swarming and relying on navigation information to approach the battle line, a large number of fighters of the Soviet Union and Romanian front-line air forces that had taken off in the rain had already occupied the northern sky under the guidance of the GCI, forming a dense fighter interception line.

According to the unified deployment of the command center, the MiG-23ML series fighters with poor electronic equipment and excellent high-speed performance are deployed at high altitudes, and anyway, this kind of weather does not need any radar Doppler downward view function; The relatively new-equipped MiG-29, piloted by veterans, and the latest cutting-edge MiG-29M are uniformly dispatched by the command according to real-time reports from the meteorological system.

As soon as it is discovered that NATO fighters are approaching the coastline and the weather conditions in the airspace engaged meet the minimum requirements for air combat, the detachment closest to the enemy aircraft will immediately rush up to intercept it, and use white-bladed and blood-spattered hand-to-hand combat to oppress the opponent, forcing them to throw away their ammunition and give up their intention to attack.

In the stormy sky, killing machines are already everywhere.

So where are the Su-27 formations where Long Yun is at this time?

Taking off in the rain in the face of a fierce south wind, and following other fighters to climb all the way up after liftoff, the white No. 20 Su-27S and several other fighters piloted by Long Yun quickly separated from other fighters and turned to the northwest to sail; With the abundant internal fuel of Sukhoi fighters, fighters departing from Kherson will first spread horizontally over the land, and then enter the theater of operations from Odessa and Crimea.

In the past few days, according to the secret instructions of the Air Force Command, the 224th Regiment was as stealthy and deliberately weak as other aviation regiments stationed in central Ukraine.

In the southern sky, there is a strong wind and a torrential rain, but since the NATO boys are rushing to the horse, the warriors of the Red Air Force are naturally ready to accompany them!

After taking off, it turned to the northwest, and Long Yun's fighter formation soon approached the city of Mykolaiv, near Kherson.

Sitting in the slowly climbing white No. 20 fighter, looking from afar from the rain at the confluence of the two rivers at the mouth of the Soviet military-industrial town, Long Yun still has a lot of concerns about the Black Sea shipyard located in it, especially for the "Almaty" aircraft carrier that is still on slipway zero at this moment and is under "intense construction".

Is this spontaneous concern because it is a real aircraft carrier?

As a Red Air Force pilot who fought hard over land, Long Yun, or Viktor Rezenov, did not have the opportunity to board a real aircraft carrier to take off, but this did not prevent him from having an inexplicable curiosity and emotion about this largest war weapon ever built by mankind.

In this bizarre parallel world, the city of Mykolaiv, located in the territory of the Ukrainian republics, has a total of three large shipyards, among which the "Black Sea Shipyard" is the most well-known.

Since the 1980s, it has been the birthplace of the first generation of aircraft carriers in the Soviet Union; Under the leadership of the famous doer Yuri Makarov, after a series of preparatory work such as the introduction of a large overhead crane, the expansion of the zero slipway, and the construction of a floating reactor assembly plant, the plant has started the construction of several large aircraft carriers, including Project 1143.5 "Tbilisi", Project 1143.6 "Varyag", and Project 1143.7 "Kremlin" and "Almaty".

In the real world, Long Yun knew that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unfinished Project 1143.6 aircraft carrier "Varyag" was shelved for a long time, and the subsequent Project 1143.7 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk" was dismantled because of a fraudulent contract; As for the "Varyag" that later came to China and raised the flag of the People's Liberation Army after going through ups and downs, which became the great beginning of China's aircraft carrier road, it is a story that everyone is familiar with.

However, in this bizarre parallel world, the situation is different from reality.

Flying the slender white No. 20 Su-27S at low altitude over the southern land of Ukraine, passing through busy railway lines and fields, Longyun can vaguely see the huge factory workshops, various towers, and docks and factory docks that are still very huge from a distance. The hustle and bustle of the Black Sea Shipyard was still faintly visible in the gray rain and fog, and as he flew past the side of the compound, he even caught a glimpse of the huge hull of the super-large Dock Zero.

It was the "Almaty", which had already completed about 60 percent of the time, but did not make it to the vast ocean. (To be continued......)

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