Inside the hangar, which had completed electrical testing and started hanging bombs, was an aircraft with a radome painted green.

The J-8D, which has just been officially put into service at the beginning of this year.

The biggest improvement over the old model is the increased in-flight refueling capacity, and other aspects, especially the electronics, have not been updated much.

It was only in order to adapt to the domestic Thunderbolt-11 missile that a new continuous wave illuminator was replaced.

The pilot in charge of this target shooting is named Feng Lin, who has participated in almost all the test missions since the introduction of the A-bomb, and is reporting to Yang Fengfa and Guo Liqiang on the preparations before the flight.

"I still want to thank you comrades in the aerospace system, who have finally satisfied Lao Feng's thoughts for so many years."

A captain officer from the trial training base next to him said with emotion.

"Huh?"

Chang Haonan looked at the other party with a confused expression.

In these words, how can someone else want to be gone.

"Lao Feng will be grounded in two months, and he has been telling us since several years ago that he hopes to personally shoot our country's own radar bombs before the grounding."

The young captain said as he took out a cigarette, put it under his nose and sniffed it:

"As a result, this Thunderbolt 11 year after year, just hearing that there is such a thing, but there is no shadow, we all thought that he could not catch up, and the result was ...... Hey, it's really timely. ”

Before Chang Haonan could say anything more to this little brother whose hometown was obviously in Jinmen, the sound of the target shooting experiment was about to start from the loudspeaker.

"Aircraft 19 is ready to start taxiing, please evacuate the runway area with unrelated personnel."

Flight safety is no trivial matter, regardless of whether the aircraft is designed or the missiles are designed, when you arrive at the airport, you can be regarded as an irrelevant person.

Therefore, he followed the group and others to withdraw to the command center of the tower.

For Chang Haonan, it was not the first time to watch the fighter take off from this position with the best view, and the freshness at the beginning had long been lost, so his attention was quickly attracted by a huge CRT display screen in this era.

What is shown on it should be what the ground-based radar is detecting.

"The No. 19 aircraft has entered the test airspace, and the radar is starting normally!"

Inside the radio, Feng Lin's voice was unusually calm.

The tower commander is also briefing the test pilots in real time.

"The target aircraft has taken off and is expected to enter the target area in two minutes......"

"Expected to enter the target area in one minute......"

"The target aircraft has entered the target area and can start searching for the target!"

This time, the radio was silent for a moment before Feng Lin's answer came:

"The radar failed to intercept the target, please reconfirm the target position."

In a word, the hearts of everyone in the tower were raised.

The Thunderbolt 11 is semi-active radar guidance, and if the radar can't even intercept the target, there is no need for any weapon testing.

"The target is at 12 o'clock directly in front of you, at a distance of 17 km."

There was also some nervousness in the commander's voice.

Chang Haonan frowned slightly.

He probably remembered what the problem was.

It stands to reason that, after all, it is a target test of a new missile, and according to the conventional process, a mature model should be used as the carrier aircraft.

Wait until the missile is finalized, and then use a new plane to fight.

But the situation of the J-8B/D is more special.

Their seemingly huge nose was still stuffed with the ancient 208A fire control radar, and its detection ability was not much farther than the visual distance of the pilot on a clear day.

This is not the end, although the power of this radar is very low, the detection range is also stretched, but its power consumption is very high, the old model of turbojet 13 with a generator power is only a pitiful 6kw, not even enough to provide enough power for the radar and the improved continuous wave irradiator at the same time......

In short, according to the past or future experience, the maximum working distance of this combination after going to the sky is more than 10 kilometers.

Although it has barely stepped into the threshold of "over-the-horizon", it is really not of great significance in actual combat.

The Thunderbolt 8 has an extreme range of 15 km......

In short, it is a complete waste of the effective range of about 40 kilometers of the Thunderbolt 11, not to mention that it is difficult to pass even from the perspective of the test.

Because it takes a few seconds from the radar intercepting the target to launching the missile, if the interception distance is only a little more than 10 kilometers, there is a high probability that the minimum firing distance requirement in the assessment item will not be met by the time the missile is launched......

At this time, Feng Lin's report also verified Chang Haonan's guess:

"12km, radar captures the target!"

Obviously, it's not that the radar is malfunctioning, it's just that the performance is too poor.

A few seconds later, Feng Lin's voice sounded again:

"Missiles ready!"

But at this time, the target distance displayed on the big screen is only 9km.

The tower commander had no choice but to reluctantly order:

"The launch distance does not meet the test requirements, and the launch procedure is aborted!"

Missile target testing is not a one-shot deal, as long as both the missile carrier aircraft and the target aircraft have sufficient fuel capacity, they can be repeated multiple times.

However, until the target ran out of fuel and crashed, Feng Lin's No. 19 failed to complete the target lock from 15km away after three consecutive times.

……

Ten minutes later.

The No. 19 aircraft, carrying two Thunderbolt-11 missiles, landed on the runway of Dingxin Airport and was towed back to the hangar by a tractor.

The staff of the 601 Institute and the Second Electromechanical Bureau came here again, but the atmosphere at the scene became much more depressing than about an hour ago.

When Feng Lin climbed out of the cabin, even Chang Haonan, who was standing in the distance, could feel the regret in the old pilot's emotions.

Under normal circumstances, it takes several months from the failure of the target test to the identification and resolution of the problem, and then the next target test.

At that time, Feng Lin, who had reached the age, obviously no longer had the opportunity to participate in the experiment.

"Mr. Yang."

Chang Haonan squeezed through the crowd and came to Yang Fenghat, who was about to communicate with the pilot:

"The failure of this target test is obviously a problem with the aircraft, and the output power of the continuous wave irradiator is not enough, so it is impossible to intercept the target at a long enough distance."

"In that case, why don't you just let our J-8C prototype fight this bomb?"

Feng Lin, who looked gloomy, naturally brightened his eyes, if he just changed the plane and retested, it should not take him a few days, and he still had a chance to realize his wish.

Yang Fengwan just lowered his head and pondered silently.

The people on both sides of Electromechanical 2 and 607 were full of nervousness, after all, the problem was on their side.

"However, if the new machine is equipped with new ammunition, ......"

The leader of the trial training base next to him was a little hesitant, the last time they used the J-8B to test fire the Asparade, but they all missed the target with 3 shots, which has already left a psychological shadow......

Chang Haonan also knew that his proposal did look a little out of tune, so he had to find a small blackboard from the side, and repeated the analysis just now while talking.

Finally, he concluded:

"The J-8C is not only equipped with a better performance 1471G radar, but more importantly, the turbojet 14 after our improvement can drive a generator with a power of up to 18kw, and the power supply capacity of the two units with a total of 36kw is three times that of the current J-8D!"

"Sufficient power supply is also the main reason why I think the J-8C is fully capable of being a target test carrier aircraft!"

These two sentences have become the last two straws that affect decision-making.

After pondering for a moment, Yang Fenghata nodded slowly:

"Even if the worst happens, it's nothing more than another bullet festival, there's nothing to worry about!"

The "Bomb Remnant Festival" is the optimistic statement of the test base for the result of the plane landing with a bomb because it failed to complete the test.

"Let the J-8C try it."

(End of chapter)