In a hangar in the Shigatse mixed base, Xia Yu was checking and debugging the airborne system, and found no problems, Xia Yu got out of the cockpit, jumped to the ground, and signaled the ground staff to close the hangar door, and when he was about to leave, Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3 appeared outside the gate.

"Hongqi 1, you've finished checking it too?" Hongqi 2 said hello to Xia Yu, looked at Xia Yu's J-20 fuselage, was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "Hongqi 1, have you ever had a crash record before?" ”

Hongqi 3 was also stunned when he heard this, and then looked under Xia Yu's J-20 cockpit.

It's no wonder that Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3 were surprised, since entering the reform and opening up, China has not had a foreign war, especially the Air Force, and has hardly experienced any real actual combat, especially the kind of life-and-death air-to-air combat, so I couldn't help but be taken aback when I suddenly saw that Xia Yu actually had a crash record. Among them, Hongqi 2's mind turned relatively fast, and he suddenly remembered the air conflict between China and Japan at sea some time ago, although he was still a little skeptical, Hongqi 2 still asked: "The air conflict with Japan some time ago, Hongqi 1, these three crash records, didn't they come from that time?" ”

The reason for using the interrogative sentence is that Hongqi 1 was obviously a pilot of the air force, and it was indeed the naval aviation unit that fought with the Japanese planes that did not belong to the same department, so there is a doubt. Xia Yu was stunned, and then felt that since they were all members of the hidden army, it shouldn't matter if they said it, so he nodded and admitted: "Well, it is indeed the crash record obtained at that time." ”

After hearing this, Hongqi 3 looked blankly, looked at Xia Yunen and said: "In this case, plus the three Su-30s you shot down last night, doesn't it mean that you are the only active ace pilot in the current air force with a real downfall record?!" ”

That's right! Hongqi 2 also reacted, the original three plus the three last night have reached the record of six downs, Xia Yu is already an elite pilot with the title of ace.

looked at Xia Yu in a daze, Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3 didn't know what to say, this was an ace pilot born in their eyes, and it was also the ace crash record obtained in the same mission as them, which was a big surprise to them, and even Xia Yu, the former naval aviation pilot, forgot to ask why he became a pilot of the Air Force.

Because of the strange reactions of the two people, Xia Yu came back to his senses. Oh, it turns out that he is already an ace? Why doesn't it feel real at all......

Although he thought so in his heart, Xia Yuke felt embarrassed to continue to accept the attention of the two people like this, so he had to wave his hand and said: "I think it's okay, because I have the opportunity to participate in the battle, so it's not surprising that there is a crash record." The current missiles are so advanced, if you seize the opportunity, everyone may become an ace pilot. ”

Xia Yu's words made Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3 full of black lines. Since entering the era of supersonic jets, the combat in the air has completely subverted the air combat method that only relied on machine guns to shoot during World War II, especially after the development of missile technology, today's air-to-air missiles, the accuracy of killing is very amazing, and under normal circumstances, few aircraft can successfully escape the attack of missiles.

The increasingly advanced missile technology has caused the survival rate of fighters to drop rapidly in the face of incoming air-to-air missiles, and even the so-called missile invincibility theory has been born. Although the military department of any country will not recognize the theory of missile invincibility, advanced missile technology has indeed become the deadliest threat to aircraft. This is also the reason why the Indian side, after knowing that the Chinese plane was locked by two air-to-air missiles, dared to announce that it had shot down the Chinese stealth fighter without wreckage. A situation like Xia Yu's escape from two air-to-air missile attacks in a row is not at all expected by India, or even military observers around the world.

Advanced missile technology has also made it impossible for ace pilots after the jet era to shoot down hundreds of planes in a single person like ace pilots in World War II. Just like the famous German ace pilot Erich Hartmann, he alone shot down 352 planes, which is equivalent to one person shooting down three divisions, which is definitely an unprecedented record of downing in the past and present, and there is no doubt that he is the first ace pilot. However, in today's era, such a record has completely lost the possibility of catching up.

The reason is very simple, the lethality of missiles is too high, so high that no pilot can guarantee that he will not be shot down or even die before he grows into an ace, and a pilot who wants to become an ace only needs to have five crash records, even so, there are still only a handful of pilots who can become aces in the era of supersonic jets.

The overall peaceful international environment also makes the number of ace pilots very rare, Xia Yu can win the title of ace without a few opportunities to participate in the battle, it is not as easy as Xia Yu himself said, there is not enough strength, even if he has the opportunity to participate in the battle, he may not be able to win the number of falls, and even if he is not shot down, it is very good.

You must know that according to the data obtained from the Red Flag military exercise, which is claimed to be the closest to actual combat, the proportion of pilots who participated in the first 10 military exercises was shot down reached more than 90 percent, and another interesting statistic is that as long as the first 10 times are not shot down, it is unlikely to be shot down in the real missions in the future.

Whether this data is true or false, it is not conclusive for the time being, but in the face of combat, experience is undoubtedly a very important survival indicator, the closer to the real battle, the more able to exercise a pilot's flight skills and teamwork awareness, which is very important in today's air combat.

Xia Yu's modesty was automatically ignored by Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3, and the two of them were even more curious about how Xia Yu shot down those three targets in the first place, and they began to ask. Consciously cultivating a tacit understanding of air combat, Xia Yu did not refuse, and the three of them stood in front of the door of the hangar and began to discuss, but at this time, a new order came down.

"Get on the plane to prepare, I'll look at the mission content first." Xia Yu issued an order, Hongqi 2 and Hongqi 3 immediately ran to their hangar, and Xia Yu got into the cockpit and opened the airborne terminal to receive the task information of the superior. As soon as the progress bar was finished, Xia Yu immediately entered his personal execution code, and then the task content was displayed on the multi-function display, Xia Yu was taken aback when he saw it.