It's also good to relax before the group stage in the afternoon.

Since he planned to go to the viewing area to watch the "Vermilion Bird" and their exhibition match, Long Yun greeted Yang Ying and Chen Chong, and drove with Liu Wei to the viewing hall located on the side of the training center and not far from the airport runway.

As soon as they came to the door of the hall, they immediately felt a strong atmosphere of watching the battle: seeing that the huge viewing hall was already crowded at this time, and the scene was even a little noisy and noisy, Long Yun and Liu Wei were very surprised.

Now that the big screen is a live preview of the Group F group stage, is it possible that the IFT regional qualifiers have attracted so much attention?

However, after taking a closer look at the battle broadcast information displayed on the surrounding screens, Long Yun knew that most of these enthusiasts who flocked to the stadium and had already stood in their positions and waved their flags were not to watch the group stage of "Thunder" vs. "Uranus", but to watch the team exhibition match where F-14 "Tomcat" would appear.

The opponent of this friendly match, Long Yun has met before: the "Vermilion Bird" from the East China Division, that is, the F-14 twin aircraft combination that quietly landed in the twilight before.

When it comes to the F-14 "Tomcat", I have to say that the popularity is really very high.

At the Beijing Aviation Training Center, where there are many teams and models, Long Yun has seen rare models like the Su-47 and E/F-18A before: the former is a non-mainstream forward-swept wing fighter that has not been mass-produced, and the latter rarely appears on the field because of its unattractive appearance and average performance.

However, when it comes to the F-14D, this wide heavy fighter has a relatively low performance-to-price ratio and very few teams, and he has never really seen it before.

Even now, the live broadcast hall that can accommodate hundreds of people to watch the game is certainly overcrowded, and even the viewing area on the side of the off-site runway that passed by just now is already full of competitive enthusiasts and media from all walks of life; Judging from the live broadcast images on the screen, long guns, short cannons and countless binoculars are also in place, and everyone's eyes are focused on the two brightly painted heavy fighters quietly crawling at the end of the runway.

"Brother Long, let's go take a look? The group stage will start in a while, and it won't be long in coming. ”

"Okay! Actually, I'm curious too. ”

Of course, the opponents in the group stage should pay attention, and the true appearance of this "Tomcat" should not be missed!

Thinking like this, Long Yun and Liu Wei walked out of the somewhat dimly lit viewing hall, all the way through the bustling crowd in the open-air viewing area, and came to a place close to the runway.

However, looking at the surrounding posture, they can only stay here for a moment, and all the seats and places where people can stand have long been occupied by fanatical "cat fans"; Seeing the colorful T-shirts on the enthusiastic enthusiasts around him, and the colorful flags of different sizes in his hands, most of which were the images of the F-14 with volleys spreading their wings in the air, Long Yun really felt how popular this chubby variable-swept wing fighter was.

Standing about sixty or seventy meters away from the runway, you can clearly identify the painted logo on the fuselage of the "Tomcat" from a distance; Overall, the color of the fighter is a bright striped crimson with gray and white patterns and embellishment of five-pointed stars, which is probably the characteristic livery of this team called "Suzaku".

Seeing that under the full fuselage of the two F-14Ds and the pylons under the movable wing sleeves, there were AIM-54 "Immortal Bird" missiles hanging like huge crayons, Long Yun guessed that it should be the AIM-54C with a long range and no need for liquid cooling in the aircraft.

Since it is mounted in this way, the huge "Immortal Bird" missile occupies the only universal hardpoint under the wing cover, and the two "Tomcats" will not be able to carry other missiles.

This way of abandoning medium and short-range missiles and using long-range air-to-air missiles to mount the enemy not only made Long Yun feel a little surprised, but Liu Wei next to him was also very curious when he saw it.

"Brother Long, this 'Suzaku' twin planes, are they planning to fight beyond visual range throughout the whole process?"

"That's definitely the case, unless they're very partial to aerial artillery, you don't think they don't have a single combat missile."

Long Yun glanced a few times, and saw that there were only front-row pilots in the serial cockpit of the two F-14Ds, one in front and one behind, and these two fighters should have been modified.

As a twin-engine heavy interceptor for the U.S. Navy, the F-14 does not have a single-seat model, and all batches of airframes are tandem two-seaters; Among them, the pilots in the front row are responsible for piloting the fighters, and the rear row is the weapon operator who specializes in serving the AN/AWG-9 radar. The reason for this arrangement was not only to take into account the shift problem of long-distance flights, but also because the automation of the fire control system at that time was not high enough.

Later, the F-14 underwent several improvements and was also equipped with the AN/APG-71 radar, and the fire control became relatively simplified, but this tandem two-seat configuration has been retained and unchanged; Now that it is being used for competition, of course, it is necessary to make the necessary modifications so that the players in the front row can control the flight control and fire system alone.

As it stands, are the duo planning to avoid melee combat and hide in the distance and use the "Immortal" to surprise their opponents in order to win?

After watching the spot for a while, the flow of people nearby became more and more turbulent, Long Yun and Liu Wei stepped back, and watched the "Vermilion Bird" twin planes glide and accelerate away from the runway, and easily lifted off into the air with the smallest wing sweep angle.

Seeing the F-14D flying out of sight, the two people who could not find a place to watch the game at the scene left the noisy viewing area and returned to the shady viewing hall, and finally found a place to sit.

Watching the next Group F group stage and exhibition match on the big screen, and watching the broadcaster's meaning, it is obvious that fans and media here are paying more attention to the appearance of the "Tomcat", and the main display screen is the exhibition match footage and virtual scene broadcast that has already begun.

In such a live broadcast arrangement, on the big screen is the F-14D that accelerates the climb and pulls out the white fog from the body, which of course makes a large number of "cat fans" present addicted; Long Yun, who originally wanted to get familiar with his opponent, was also attracted by such a scene for a while.

Forget about the group stage between "Thunder" and "Uranus" for the time being, in fact, he is not very jealous of these two teams in his heart: not to mention the "Thunder" that is not very famous and of unknown origin, just say that the "Uranus" that was defeated in the first game turned out to be driving the Su-27SK and losing to the "Saturn" using the MiG-29 - he is very clear about the capabilities of this MiG fighter, and Long Yun thinks about it and knows that the strength of the "Uranus" combination is mostly commonplace, and this is probably not wrong.

Thinking like this, Long Yun's attention focused on the current exhibition match.

Looking at the information on the big screen, this exhibition match is a demonstration of carrier-based aircraft confrontation at the end of the Cold War, that is, Su-27K against F-14D. The classic duel between two heavy carrier-based fighters, you can imagine how exciting this scene will be!

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