Chapter 426: The Missing Pilot
The short burst fire of a 30-mm cannon was still fatal to the "Blackbird" in high-speed flight.
The last tentative shot actually hit, of course, there was an element of luck in it, but Long Yun's precise operation was undoubtedly the decisive factor.
Seeing that the dazzling specks in his line of sight turned into large flares with distorted routes, gradually falling and disappearing from below, he had the intention of slowing down and circling for a moment to observe the damage of the enemy planes, or to see if he wanted to replenish his guns. However, after high-intensity raid interception, the fuel stock of the MiG-25PD is already very low, and the intermittent sound of low fuel sirens prompts the pilot to immediately disengage and return.
Seeing that the fighter plane's fuel storage was only barely enough to cope with the return voyage, Long Yun had no choice but to give up his plan to track and monitor.
Anyway, seeing that the target has caught fire and fallen, it will definitely fall in the interior of Central Asia far from the border, you must know that the Soviet Union, which is full of swords and guns, is not the disintegrated Yugoslavia, let alone Somalia, and the Americans will not be able to rescue them this time The unfortunate MIA (Missing-In-
Action, missing in the mission) pilots, no matter how many more helicopter-ridden and oil-painted Delta Special Forces are dispatched.
But...... The mission is considered to have been successfully completed, and the "Blackbird" has turned into a turkey, but what happened to the mysterious guy, will he have hung up?
Thinking of his previous thinking and judgment, he felt that the mysterious figure should be a very important key to decryption, Long Yun in the cockpit raised his hand and made a head-scratching motion, of course, he couldn't catch any hair through the thermal gloves and flight helmet. Roughly recalling the attack just now, he was not sure how much damage his fatal blow had caused to the "Blackbird", and whether the pilot on the plane had successfully ejected and escaped?
Think about ejecting at 27,000 kilometers at Mach 3. This escape process must be exciting enough!
I secretly hope that the mysterious pilot will survive, so that he may be able to get some information. Long Yun, who had made visual contact with the falling target, carefully controlled the fighter to turn around and enter the return flight under the command of the ground guide.
Considering that the state of this MiG-25PD piloted is already not very good. Now, as long as he returns to the base safely, he will have time to slowly disassemble and study the mysteries of this mysterious and annoying "Blackbird"; So Long Yun reluctantly piloted the steel monster that had just flown a new speed record, but was also greatly damaged because of it, and almost used all his strength to barely fly the landline with poor handling response back to the Alarsk base.
The news that the "Blackbird" was shot down naturally arrived at the base before Long Yun, who had returned.
Although the time was late at night, many commanders and fighters of the 290th Regiment who got the news still came to the runway one after another, they first heard the roar of the approaching fighters, and then witnessed in amazement the MiG planes dragging smoke tails quietly appearing in the night, staggering to land on the runway, and then they smelled the burning smell that I don't know how to describe. Linger around the runway.
Under the light of the snowy airport searchlights, the pilots helped Long Yun out of the cockpit, and then dragged the MiG, which was full of smoke and seemed to explode at any time, back to the hangar. The hydraulic control system was almost completely extinguished, the main pressure pump was damaged, the oil pipe burst in many places, and the wing control surface of the aircraft was locked, leaving only the specially strengthened flat tail control system to work.
Seeing such a messy scene, the pilots present couldn't help but cast a complicated look of surprise and admiration at Long Yun while being amazed; On the one hand, they were convinced that the idea of the major general's ace was really feasible because of tonight's results, and on the other hand, they were really aware of the danger and difficulty of such a volley. Except for Victor in front of him, I'm afraid no one else can do it.
But no matter what. Even if the engine is scrapped and the damaged MiG-25PD body is difficult to repair for the time being, it is worth paying such a price!
Because he had just eliminated a "Blackbird", shattering the myth that the SR-71 could not be shot down.
He just completed the difficult combat mission, Long Yun, who returned to the ground, did not have much energy to express his excitement, he took off his compensatory suit, took a shower and went back to the barracks to sleep, this kind of thing of being on duty in the middle of the night really made him very sleepy, and what he needed most now was rest.
The sleeping Long Yun didn't know that before he landed, the results of tonight's battle had been confirmed by the fighters in the nearby airspace and the PVO's long-range warning radar, and then it was quickly reported.
The SR-71, which had been repeatedly attacked but never defeated by decades of travel through the vast skies of the East, was now beheaded by the brilliant Major General Viktor Rezenov, and this exciting report was immediately reported to the PVO and the Supreme Soviet Military Council, and of course to the desk desk of the KGB organization.
Yes, the thrilling combat operation, although in a way that is not very replicable, and only one invading "Blackbird" was struck, but the difference between zero and one is so worlds apart. As long as it is proved that the Soviet military forces are fully capable of shooting down the "Blackbird," the Americans will no longer dare to unscrupulously dispatch reconnaissance planes to infiltrate the Soviet airspace; The scheming, scheming Yankees have never been good at gambling and taking risks, and a ferocious blow is enough to make them completely restrained.
It was precisely because of its extraordinary significance that the news of the victory in Central Asia made both the Soviet VVS and the PVO very happy.
The Soviet Air Force, which had Viktor, the number one trump card, naturally did not care, for the Territorial Defense Force, which had been suffering from the "Blackbird" invasion, the genius ace seconded from the Air Force had indeed solved their serious trouble, and the medals that had been prepared for a long time were immediately sent to the Air Force General Headquarters for issuance, which means that the matter could be temporarily brought to an end or even a relatively successful end.
However, unlike the military department that specializes in combat and has no distractions, and coincides with the previous speculation of the head of Levsenko, a confidential phone call from the KGB to Alar the next morning made Long Yun realize that the incident about the "Blackbird" is far from over.
Long Yun, who had just received a commendation from the Territorial Defense Force Command, first accepted the identity confirmation when he picked up the phone, and then talked to the agent on the phone, and got some of the latest news that surprised him:
“…… So, the American pilot who parachuted has not been found? ”
On the phone, the KGB commissioner told Long Yun that after he hit the "Blackbird" that night, the Territorial Defense Force interceptor planes patrolling nearby had circled at medium and low altitudes, searching for the SR-71 that had caught fire and fallen, and that a fighter plane had witnessed the fall of the wreckage.
Now that they had the approximate coordinates of the crash point provided by the visual contact fighters, the ground forces quickly found the wreckage of the SR-71 fighter that was almost completely disassembled, and after preliminary identification by technicians, the front cockpit of the aircraft had ejected and no human remains were found in the wreckage for the time being.
Obviously, the American pilot who piloted the "Blackbird" was not killed when the fighter plane was shot and fell out of control, and it is likely that he also ejected and escaped.
So now the question is, where's the guy who survived? (To be continued......)