Russia is actually not easy, this country that received the scientific and technological military strength left by the Red Soviet Empire at the beginning, the land area alone has reached more than 17 million square kilometers, almost twice the size of our country, accounting for more than one-eighth of the entire earth's land, and also has rich natural gas, oil and mineral resources, and even fresh water accounts for a quarter of the world, only in terms of natural resources, it can be regarded as a unique gift.

But no matter how big its territory is, wouldn't it be useless if there was no one? The population of the whole of Russia is only a little more than 100 million, and if you put it on such a huge map, what is a vast and sparsely populated area? That's it.

And because most of the locations are located in the northern temperate zone and the northern cold zone, the harsh environment also makes the distribution of the population extremely uneven, some places can have more than 50 or even hundreds of people per square kilometer, but some places do not even have a figure in the range of 100 square kilometers, the coldest temperature in history has reached minus 50 degrees, your sister, let no one live.

However, as a certain tall and fat man said, the peoples of the cold regions are usually very combative, so the people of Russia have a very powerful name in the mouths of netizens in our Celestial Empire: fighting nation.

It is the kind of fight that fights when there is a disagreement, and the winner goes away, and the loser sighs to himself, and he has always been neat and tidy, and never chirps crookedly and entangled, which is also reflected in Russia's diplomatic expression. For Russia, centuries of military and cultural superiority have made its sense of superiority deeply rooted in the spirit of every Russian people.

The Russians are self-confident and proud, and even if due to historical reasons, Russia is so poor that they can't even afford to buy their own airplanes, their people can still proudly sue any country or force in the world: Don't mess with me, or I'll beat you.

How poor is Russia now? Take a look at their aircraft carrier, as a large country with more than 17 million square kilometers of land, they now only have one aircraft carrier, and the 24 main fixed-wing carrier-based fighters Su-33 equipped with this aircraft carrier are also only 18 available due to backwardness and aging and other reasons, not because they don't want to replace them with new ones, but they don't have money to buy them at all.

How poor is it that you can't even afford to buy an airplane that you produce yourself? Even the new MiG-29K, which will replace the Su-33 as a carrier-based aircraft, is fortunate because India wants to buy this aircraft as a carrier-based aircraft for its own aircraft carrier, and then Russia plans to produce some for its own use, otherwise even the cost of building a production line will not dare to invest lightly.

I only have one aircraft carrier, and the order placed is only 24 planes in a flying group, and even India has placed more orders than the Russian military, plus the so-called India-Russia cooperation in the development of the fifth-generation heavy stealth fighter T50, in fact, India's role is just an ATM, if there is no India, the unjust big man is stupid and has a lot of money, even the development of the fifth-generation fighter, Russia itself is not capable of doing it. It's not that there is no level of technology, but there is no money for research.

That's right, the fighting nation is poor now, but whoever dares to underestimate their combat potential is a stupid X. Because once it declares that it has entered a period of war, when every resource will be put to the service of war, the tremendous energy that the whole of Russia can burst out can be underestimated by no country or organization in the whole world.

The problem is that no one twists the tiger's whiskers now, at most, some people scratch it twice from time to time, throw a few stones to provoke it, and get mad, not to that Cheng dù, if you don't get mad, you will be pinched as a soft persimmon, and it is easy to be taken by people, so sometimes in order to properly express your attitude, various political activities, including military exercises, will continue to be carried out.

Do you think we don't feel distressed? Planes fly out, ships go out, what doesn't cost money? Russia's finance ministers are eager to tear one ruble into two.

Russia's finance minister vomits blood or not, it doesn't matter about our affairs, and it has nothing to do with Xia Yu, Xia Yu doesn't have the time to think about Russia now. Just came to Zhoushan and found the arranged air crew apartment, Xia Yu and Ye Zi still have a bunch of things to do, although the most basic living materials are equipped, there are still many things that need to be purchased by themselves.

This is already my own home, and I can't still maintain the style of the army dormitory, right? Xia Yu himself may not mind, but it is impossible for Ye Zi to follow him to live that kind of life, right? So after Xia Yu signed and received the key, he began to purchase with Ye Zi non-stop, and after purchasing, he also needed to tidy up the room, all kinds of furnishings or something, it took a whole day, and after he was busy after dinner, he was finally busy.

Looking at the room that had been rejuvenated and became quite warm, Xia Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Ye Zi and smiled, as for what happened next, in fact, you know.

"Report." Xia Yuli saluted and reported to Mu Shaoqing.

"Yo, here it is." Mu Shaoqing raised his head, he was a little happy when he saw that it was Xia Yu, he was thinking about Xia Yu's problem, now is the right time. Putting down the pen in his hand, Mu Shaoqing smiled: "Just thinking of you, come, sit down, I have something to talk to you." ”

Xia Yu put down his saluting hand, walked into Mu Shaoqing's office naturally, then sat down on the sofa, and said with a smile: "If there is any task, you can say it directly, can I still refuse?" ”

"That being said, I'm still going to tell you about your arrangement." Mu Shaoqing said: "Didn't I say that if you come to the Jiangsu ship, I will arrange a captain's position for you?" ”

"Yes." Xia Yu nodded.

"You also know that there are only three flying groups on the Jiangsu ship now, and all of them have already arranged the position of captain, so I can't change them at will." Xia Yu nodded when he heard this, indicating that he was listening, and Mu Shaoqing continued: "In a short period of time, the Jiangsu ship has no plan to increase the carrier-based fighter formation, but the helicopter formation has the intention of being the captain, but I personally think you don't want to fly a helicopter?" ”

"Yes, I'm not familiar with helicopters." Xia Yu began to sweat, could it be that there was a change in the coming days?

"Well, I knew that." Mu Shaoqing nodded with a smile, and then said, "So you are now my combat training staff officer." ”

Staff officer? Hearing Mu Shaoqing say this, Xia Yu was completely stupid. What does a staff officer do? For the pilot, the staff officer is in charge of the sky, the earth, and the air in the middle.

In particular, combat training staff officers, from formulating the training content to evaluating the training after training, the members of the crew formation, the amount of refueling and bomb loading of the aircraft, the time of take-off and the time of flying in the air, and even the altitude and flight route, and so on, are all planned and arranged by the combat staff officers on the ground. Although staff officer is a good position, for Xia Yu, if he can't fly, it is better to return to the test flight unit.