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Before dawn, Moscow was still immersed in the deep darkness of the night.

And in Almaty, thousands of kilometers east of Moscow, the sky of the Kazakh republics is already slightly bright.

Facing the first rays of dawn in the morning, in the Soviet VVS long-range aviation training base on the outskirts of Almaty, neat huge hangars have opened their doors one after another, and the heavy fighters undergoing maintenance in the hangars glow with a soft and magnificent luster under the light of the morning sun.

"Stand upright! Turn right - turn! Run - Walk! ”

"One, two, one, one, two, one,...... One, two, three, four! ”

"One-! Two--! Three--! Four-! ”

With the sound of uniform calls, the training boots stepped out of the "click" pace on the cement road, and the pilot team of four columns slowly ran across the empty off-site road, driving away a trace of coolness unique to the early morning in the interior of Central Asia.

Jogging all the way forward, along the cement road to the base hangar and apron, in the small queue, everyone's face was full of expectation, or a little nervous; It wasn't until the pilots in groups of four came to the hangar door that they were too familiar to know anymore to say hello to the busy ground crew, and they looked up and exchanged views with each other for a short time while checking each other's preparations before takeoff.

Today, these sky warriors who have come from afar are about to embark on a thousand-mile journey home.

"Report to the political commissar, the five groups of 'Canglong' are ready, please instruct!"

The space is extremely open, and when you look up, you can only see a dim vault in a huge hangar. The four pilots who lined up in a horizontal line to salute were neatly dressed. The voice is full of energy; Meet these energetic and energetic young men. The instructor in the military uniform first raised his hand sternly to salute a military salute, and then showed an expectant smile:

"Comrades, I wish you a good luck! The motherland and the people are looking forward to your arrival. ”

"Please rest assured, the chief, promise to complete the task!"

After reporting to the political commissar stationed at the base, and continuing with the pre-flight preparations, the young pilots shook hands and hugged the busy ground crew, exchanged some postcards and small gifts, and expressed their heartfelt thanks to them in Russian, which was not very fluent. Seeing that a qiē is ready. Outside the hangar, the engine roar of a tractor can be heard climbing the tall four-wheeled boarding staircase into the front and rear cockpits, where pilots wave to the people on the ground before closing the hatch.

"Goodbye, comrades!"

"Goodbye, friends from afar! -- Brave for victory! ”

With the roar of the high-powered engines, the MAZ-537 heavy tractor in the cargo compartment was busy with ballast, towing huge fighters with fuel filling out of the warehouse and towing them to the take-off area of the wide runway. As the vehicle towed, the side-by-side wheels of the tandem landing gear ran over the huge long cement slabs, and the huge light gray fighter plane was bathed in the rising morning sun. The slender, sharpened nose is extraordinarily sharp, and the tail is as tall as a sail. The "Bayi" machine emblem on a red background and yellow edge is particularly eye-catching.

With the ignition of the power generation vehicle, the metal giant birds gradually let out a long and low roar, the rough fighter tail vent gradually glowed with crimson light, and the roar of the agitated and mixed engines stirred and mixed in all directions of the base, rushing into the ears of everyone on the side of the runway, adding a bit of moving shock to the spectacular scene of the heavy bomber formation taking off in front of him.

After several months of diligent study and hard work, these brave sky warriors are about to set off for China and begin intense combat readiness duty at the front-line bases along the southeast coast.

"The tower is called 'Canglong', the tower is called 'Canglong', and now the wind is level 3, the wind is southeast, and the visibility is good, so it is allowed to take off; repeat, the weather conditions are normal, and it is allowed to take off."

"The 'Canglong' group received, the 'Canglong' group received, over."

Pressing the standby button of the intercom, his hands skillfully flew on the control panel, and sitting in the narrow cockpit of the huge fighter, the main pilot of the "Canglong" group was quickly ready to take off, and his hands were firmly on the steering wheel. According to the requirements of the training manual, confirm that the ground crew has unlocked all aerodynamic surfaces and air intake shields, the variable sweep wing is also in the extended state, the driver contacts the other crew members on the radio, and after confirming that all the crew members are in normal condition, he releases the brakes and raises his hand to push the throttle valve forward.

With the pilot's movements, a light gray fighter in the lead of the fleet began to slide forward, and two powerful Kuznetsov NK-25 turbofan engines began to exert force, and the engine, which accelerated from the slow state, sucked in a large amount of air from the main air intake and auxiliary air intakes, and transformed into a blazing wake and shot backwards rapidly; As the roar intensified, a large, slender light gray figure galloped all the way down the runway, and then the nose of the plane was raised high, like a sharp sword pointed straight at the clear sky; As the wheels all left the ground, the stretched giant bird jumped into the blue sky with a bit of lightness, and flew towards the high sky in the east against the brilliant morning sun.

The fighters took off one after another, the engines roared incessantly, and the heavy bombers slid and lifted off in turn, and flew away from the base in formation in the air; Quickly after taking off, they climbed to an altitude of 3,000 meters, and these elegant-looking, but extremely deadly warplanes swept across the vast sky in a wide horizontal formation almost in an oblique line, and the rumbling and spectacular sight of the fighters flying across the sky made everyone in the base and nearby look a little fascinated.

The sight of a large group of planes flying from one place to another is not uncommon for people at the Almaty base; About two months ago, the brigade of heavy bombers that flew to the east in a whole regiment was already the third batch.

The Great War is in full swing, and the situation in the East is relatively calm at the moment; But under the seemingly peaceful scene, the Americans' military deployment has never stopped. In the face of the threat that emerged from the eastern coast, the brand-new strategic bombers that flew from Kazan a few months ago, as well as the Kh-22HA and Kh-15 air-launched anti-ship missiles that were matched with the airborne weapons system, became a powerful means of containing the activities of the US Navy in the Far East.

Tu-22M3, the "backfire" burning to the Far East, to build an impregnable barrier in the East!

Piloting a supersonic strategic bomber painted with the August 1st military emblem, the Sky Warriors are about to raise their sharp swords to cut off the trident and build a great wall on the west side of the vast ocean. (To be continued......)