Piloting the plane to approach the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser smoothly, holding the control stick with one hand, and replaying every landing process during the simulated training in his mind, Long Yun now does not care about the losses of the US fleet hundreds of kilometers away, and he does not have much idea about the combat intentions of the Red Navy, he only wants to concentrate on one thing now, that is, to land his Su-27M2 on the deck of the 1143.6 "Varyag".

The Su-27M2 with a landing hook, fuselage, and especially a reinforced landing gear is installed, speaking of which, it is not impossible to buckle a Su-27M2K model, but the name can only be used to bluff people, Long Yun has a clear understanding of the temporarily modified M2 aircraft, and there are still some differences between this thing and the Su-27K that is specially on the ship.

If a land-based fighter wants to land on an aircraft carrier with an oblique deck and a blocking cable, not only does it require high technical requirements for the pilot, but the fighter itself is not as simple as screwing a hook.

In order to withstand the violent impact of landing at a large angle of attack -- or "controllable crash", not to mention the strengthening of aircraft landing gear and other structures, in addition to the low-speed flight performance of fighters must also be considered, in this regard, even the improved version of the Su-27M2 can not be compared with the Su-27K, the latter not only on the basis of the Su-27S adopts the three-wing surface configuration of increased lift and enhanced attitude control, but also sets up double-slit flaps on the wing, and the lift conditions in the take-off and landing phase are greatly improved compared with the S type. In order to have a lower safe approach speed in the case of a large increase in the weight of the structure.

However, even so, Long Yun was still full of confidence when he approached the "Varyag" on the vast sea from the rear. His White Twenty tank is now almost empty, and his missiles are almost completely fired. The landing weight of the entire fighter is only about 17 tons. Even if you reduce the entry speed a little more, it is safe.

The gray-and-white giant bird in the sky was gliding smoothly, and the Type 1143.6 aircraft-carrying cruiser that was breaking the waves ahead kept maintaining a high speed and was heading at full speed to the northwest, setting the conditions for Viktor Rezenov's landing.

For the take-off and landing of carrier-based fixed-wing fighters, on the one hand, we must do our best, and on the other hand, the cooperation of the carrier aircraft and ships is also very important.

In order to allow the Su-27M2, which is not the original carrier-based version, to land smoothly, the "Varyag" in the cold sea breeze has just completed a wave of fighter recovery, and now it continues to sail against the wind; Looking from the cockpit of the fighter plane piloted by Long Yun. 1143.6 The huge chimney integrated with the ship island rose white smoke, which looked really magnificent from a distance, and in this huge body of steel and iron bones, eight KVG-4 booster boilers were happily spewing steam, driving four TV-12-4 steam turbines to do work, the total power output of the four axles slightly exceeded 200,000 horsepower, and the hull with a full load displacement of more than 65,000 tons reached a maximum speed of more than 30 knots.

The speed of 30 knots is equivalent to increasing the allowable landing speed of the fighter by more than 50 km/h, and coupled with the effect of headwinds, the white No. 20 fuselage returning from combat is very light. Landing on the "Varyag" should be no problem.

In this open-sea operation, the two full-deck heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy were all on the expedition. The slightly older "Tbilisi" is still plagued by the reliability of the main engine, and the maximum speed can only hover around 22 knots, and this speed is okay to operate the Su-27K, after all, the carrier-based aircraft of the Red Navy are mainly used for fleet air defense, and the payload and fuel filling volume are not large, but it is a bit dangerous to serve the land-based fighters of the VVS number one ace.

Therefore, when drawing up the battle plan, the fleet command specially instructed that the landing of Comrade Lieutenant Admiral on the "Varyag" must be given priority, and of course there were other considerations for this order.

The 1143.6 "Varyag" was originally an improved version of the 1143.5 heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, and the two looked very similar in appearance, but the difference seems to be that the former was not equipped with the "Sky Sentinel" warning radar of the PESA system; Most people will think that "Tbilisi" and "Varyag" belong to the same type of ship, but in fact there are some differences between the two, such as the upturned section of the bow deck, the slip angle of 1143.5 is 12 degrees, and practice has proved that this angle is still a little conservative, so it was further increased to 14 degrees in 1143.6.

After this improvement, the "Varyag" has a stronger ability to lift fighters, and the heavily loaded Su-27K can also take off at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions with a runway length of 110 meters, so it is probably no problem to fly the M2 aircraft, and if Comrade Lieutenant General still needs to attack, it is of course a better choice to take off from the "Varyag".

From a distance of about ten kilometers to get closer to the mothership, the slowed down Su-27M2 took about two minutes, the sea waves in the field of vision in front of him became clearer and clearer, the tall bridge of the "Varyag" gradually approached the head-up perspective, holding the joystick tightly with one hand, Long Yun's fingers poked the landing gear retraction button, he didn't care about thinking about the next battle plan now, he just wanted to do a good job of landing on the ship this time.

Oh, of course, the so-called "unprecedented" is actually not so exaggerated.

Before jet fighters became bigger and harder to serve, the difference between land-based fighters and carrier-based aircraft was not as big as it is today - for example, the U.S. Navy, which is the old enemy of the Red Empire, has long had examples like the F-4 "Phantom", which proves that carrier-based aircraft and land-based fighters can be used in common, and if it were not for the fact that there is no catapult on 1143.5/6, then it would not be a strange thing for Su-27 fighters to go directly to ships.

Because of this, when practicing blocking landings on the simulator, although he was really a little incompetent and mishandled at the beginning and crashed many times, Long Yun was always very confident.

Because he knows that as long as there is a blockade, it is not as difficult for a land-based fighter to land on an aircraft carrier as imagined, and if the fighter itself has all the landing gear, landing hook and other configurations, even if the Su-27S can land on the ship, not to mention the facelifted M2 type, as long as you have a proper grasp of the technical essentials.

However, practicing on the simulator is one thing, and if you are not careful, you will be at risk of causing an accident if you are not careful, although it is still within the normal range of control.

If there is any accident on the aircraft carrier of the Red Navy, it is better to say that the loss of fighters will cause damage to the deck of the landing area and affect the recovery of fighters of the mother ship. Of course, this concern is actually a bit unnecessary, because the flight deck of the "Varyag" is made of high-strength armor steel with a lot of thickness, and ordinary crashes will not cause serious damage.

The control of the landline approached the rear edge of the beveled deck, and the distance from the tail line of the landing area was still a few hundred meters, Long Yun had a trace of the terrible scene of "uncontrolled crash" in his mind, he quickly abandoned distracting thoughts and warned himself that these were all illusions, and that he would only be like this after practicing more on the simulator, so he took a deep breath and pulled the lever slightly, so that the landing lights in the field of view returned to an all-green state.

Just now I saw a slowly flashing orange light, indicating that the descent track of the landline was a little low, and he had just completed a little track adjustment, but there was an anxious call on the radio:

"'Дракон', 'Дракон', don't land on the ship, now immediately level it and enter the full field flight, the observer has not found the ship hook, repeat, do not land the ship, enter the full field of flight, the observer has not found any signs of the ship hook in place!"

"- What?

'Дракон' received, uh-"

Landing on the hook, didn't find the hook?

That thing that links with the landing gear after liftoff, what, is it difficult?

The call from the "Varyag" made Long Yun, who was nervously driving the plane close to the deck, excited, although it was impossible to see the belly of the plane in the cockpit, and he couldn't confirm what was going on with the hook himself, the Su-27K of the 281st Regiment flying far away next to him was still there, he glanced left and right with a little panic, and immediately infiltrated and controlled one of the Sukhoiri pilots through guò consciousness, turned his head to look at his white No. 20, and sure enough, ......

In the field of vision of the comrades-in-arms, the gray-white M2 aircraft flying smoothly, the nose landing gear and the stout main landing gear were already in place, and the pneumatic control was also normal, and it looked like it was landing along the way, but from the side, an iron bar that should have protruded under the tail vertebrae was nowhere to be seen.

What the hell is going on?

One mind was planning to land, and now that the "Varyag" was in front of him, the landline landed on the hook but dropped the chain at the critical moment, Long Yun was really a little unbelievable, he quickly withdrew his superpower and gasped in the cockpit.

- Damn, the Landing Hook, how could this be!

Feeling that his heart was about to jump out of his throat, a blank flashed in his mind, and the pilot's basic instinct made Long Yun quickly wake up, after all, he hadn't fallen into the sea or slapped on the deck all of a sudden, so he pulled the lever with his right hand and pushed the throttle valve forward at the same time, so that the landline flew over the steel giant ship that was chopping waves, while calling "flat top" in the channel, asking about the situation of the white twenty:

"Call 'Flat Top', here is 'Дракон', - I'm pulling up after passing through, did you observe the hook?"

"'Дракон', the situation is being verified, please, please wait a moment."

On the radio, the communicator's tone was also a little strange, probably the soldier didn't expect the VVS number one ace to have an accident, and now he was anxiously waiting for the deck crew's report.

Moments later, he reported on the channel to Vice Admiral Viktor Rezenov that the crew had observed the landing hook of the White Twentie, but it was clear that it was not in place, and a black mark was found in the back of the belly of his landline, which was suspected to be a minor glitch in the hydraulic system. (To be continued......)