Chapter 1204: The Eve of the Storm
Of course, the so-called "profligacy", ordinary troops may not use the R-77P, and the 239th regiment does not have such concerns.
The smaller size and weight of the R-77P, but the range is close to the R-27EP such a large gun, the usable overload is higher than the latter, which means that when it is necessary to mount anti-radiation missiles, the Su-27 series fighters can be mounted with many at a time through the guò composite pylon, which is of course a very good weapon for the next battle.
On the one hand, Long Yun continued to make careful preparations, and on the other hand, he also learned about the Red Navy's ocean-going movements through the top-secret intelligence channels exclusive to Viktor Rezenov, and at the same time maintained close contact with the IAPO side to pay attention to the improvement of the An-124 carrier aircraft and the Su-27M2.
An ocean-going naval battle, in which both "fighters" and "carrier aircraft" are indispensable if he really wants to get involved.
In terms of "fighters", considering that the combat power of the carrier-based aircraft units of the US Navy is often superior to the USAF fighter units with the same weapon platform, Long Yun, who is about to face the "Tomcat" and "Super Hornet" fighters, will naturally choose the Su-27M2 to meet the enemy.
Compared with the improvement of fighter aircraft, the "carrier aircraft" is almost a layman, Long Yun still received a report from Comrade Sergei Koneshev, in the past week, the An-124B modification work has also been relatively smooth: the B transport aircraft was originally designed to carry the "Buran", can carry a total weight of more than 100 tons, a huge space shuttle, carrying the Su-27M2 into the air, of course, there are no restrictions on its capabilities.
However, compared to the transport "Buran" class. The former only needs to carry the shuttle on its back from one place to another and land at another. Just complete the transition. The latter needs to release the aircraft over the ocean to participate in the battle, it seems, they are carrying an aircraft to the sky, the Su-27M2 is much lighter than the "Buran", but this stage of air separation can be said to be the most dangerous link in the whole plan, for this reason, Koneshev not only studied and calculated together with the technicians of the Antonov Design Bureau, but also had to carry out several flight and air separation tests with the M2 aircraft.
Aircraft design and flight test. Even in the real world of the 21st century, theoretical analysis cannot solve all problems, and many things can only be determined by practice.
Knowing the research progress of the IAPO, Long Yun went to pay attention to the movements of the Red Navy.
The secret modification of the carrying platform, the latest movements of the Pacific Fleet, all these things, the facsimiles that he flipped through in his hands were all highly classified, especially the movements of the fleet on the oceans, even to Viktor Rezenov. The information provided by the Theater Command and the Fleet Command may not be exhaustive.
Through the pages of guò, young people gradually formed a general idea of the activities of the Red Navy in the waters of the Far East. Although we do not know the specific composition of the fleet, nor do we know where the ocean-going fleet composed of these large warships has gone, judging from the intelligence of all sides, especially the movements of the US Navy, it is true that a long-awaited contest between the two sides in the open sea is about to start somewhere in the vast ocean.
The request to attack, along with some conjecture and speculation, can probably outline Victor's role in this contest.
Time passed day by day, in the cold wind and snowy Irkutsk, in the huge factory of the aviation industry complex, the skilled mechanics who were temporarily transferred from NAPO to be responsible for the modification of the White 20 Su-27M2 fighter had finished their work, and the newly overhauled Sukhoi fighter had just left IAPO and went to a long-range aviation base of the Red Air Force somewhere in the vast forest with two Su-27Ms.
In the northern land, where the cold wind was wrapped in snow and covered in snow, the two gray-white An-124B transport planes that had arrived at the IAPO in the previous stage to receive the modification were on standby by the long runway on the side of the huge base. According to the plan of the project team, the modified "Ruslan" B aircraft will first undergo flight tests without fighters, and then carry Su-27M2 for several long-distance flight tests, and finally overcome the difficulties of this modification plan, that is, try to separate from the aircraft in the air and let the fighters enter the battlefield alone.
The huge An-124B, flying with a Sukhoi fighter on board, such tests would obviously be impressive.
For the sake of secrecy about the combat plan of Comrade Lieutenant General, the "fighters" and "carriers" who had been modified at the IAPO were assigned to the Orekhminsk base, a small city located in the interior of Siberia, on the outskirts of the middle reaches of the Lena River, to complete a series of flight tests in a large area of inaccessible forests.
A few days before waiting for the arrival of Su-27 fighters, two An-124Bs have completed routine tests and are ready to carry out flight tests with fighters on board early this morning.
In the continuous wind and snow, slowly sliding under the tall tower that had just been assembled, a huge "Ruslan" stopped in the center of the tower span, and the operator struggled to stabilize the trajectory of the crane in a gust of wind, trying to put a color-blocked camouflage painted fighter that had been lifted to the bottom of the crane on top of the transport plane.
It was the coldest season of the year, and the raging cold wind made this work extremely difficult, but in the end, the docking was successfully completed, and the "Ruslan" carrying the Su-27M was towed to the runway take-off position by the KZKT-537L tractor with a stack of ballast iron in the rear compartment, and with the pilot's control, the howling of the four D-18T engines gradually rose, and even overshadowed the howling of the north wind, and the "Ruslan" B aircraft carrying fighters and fuel tanks half full began to slide and accelerate. Soon the Su-27M fighter with its head held high rose into the gray-white sky.
The first time the carrier fighter lifted into the air, carrying not the M2 type, but the Su-27M, this is naturally for risk management and control considerations, if, just if, in the event of any accident, "Ruslan" can also be urgently transferred from the space base, but the Su-27M2 can not be immediately replenished.
"Oh, - very good, at the moment a qiē shun lì!
Anatoli, save the video data, the number collected by the sensor is not necessarily reliable, and you have to compare it with the take-off track you shoot. ”
The whistling sound of the turbofan engine gradually faded away, and the head of the IAPO ad hoc team in charge of the secret modification task looked into the distance, and watched the "Ruslan" with its main wings flat and majestic posture gradually climb higher and disappear from sight.
I was very satisfied with this test flight, how many days of busy day and night finally began to have a harvest, although the next more difficult carrier aircraft air separation test will be carried out, but think about the responsibilities on his shoulders, and the proposer of this crazy idea, put his hands with leather gloves on his ears, the person in charge confidently stepped on the snow and walked quickly to the airport dispatch room, he has always firmly believed that this plan will be successful, because this is the "Caucasian death" put forward the battle plan.
Isn't it, that awesome super ace, even if he puts forward such a bold idea, he should be confident that it can become a legend of the war again!
The project is in an orderly manner, and it is fed back to Long Yun's desk day by day, and the confidence of young people is also accumulating.
However, even if he has confidence in the next ocean-going battle, taking the latest news from the General Headquarters every day, Long Yun can't predict when the battle will break out, and he doesn't know the specific movements of the ocean-going fleet, after all, for the Red Navy, the whereabouts of the ship formations and submarines are top secrets, even if Viktor Rezenov himself is absolutely reliable, and the intelligence cannot be guaranteed to go wrong in the process of transmission, so the news in this regard is naturally leaky.
Of course, for Long Yun, who single-handedly formulated the plan of "carrying 'Ruslan' into the battlefield", if he really wanted to figure out the whereabouts of the fleet and prepare for battle in advance, it would be completely possible to go directly to Vladivostok.
A trip to the Pacific Fleet headquarters would have known the message, but he didn't do it, but temporarily put aside a distraction and concentrated on doing what the VVS ace should do, after all, he chose to be on standby on land, and once he had something to do, he took the An-124B to attack in order to make the most of the time, and before the Navy issued a call, he just continued to take to the air to kill the enemy.
The operational deployment of the Red Navy and the movement of a large number of combat ships of the Pacific Fleet are not yet known to Long Yun.
However, he is obviously not alone in thinking about this issue.
In the past few days, after the inaction in the early stage of the war and a large-scale deployment adjustment, at the urging of the Pacific Command and even the United States government, which was deeply stimulated by the war situation, the two major fleets of the US Navy sitting in the Pacific Ocean finally began to move, and the gray-and-white U.S. Navy warships appeared in groups in the North Pacific, the uncertain nuclear submarines cruised in the depths of the ocean, and the two aircraft carrier battle groups dispatched from the home port of San Diego, large and small warships, all the way to the waters of the Northeast Pacific.
At the same time, the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is also heading north, and the two large ship groups are scheduled to meet in the waters southeast of the Aleutian Islands, and then move west together to launch a massive offensive planned by the Pacific Command. (To be continued......)