As an unknown ordinary senior engineer in his previous life, he was able to get a big guy like Yang Wei as his deputy after only one year of restarting his life-although it was only temporary, it did make Chang Haonan feel refreshed in his heart for a long time.

Over the next month, the software part of the AMC went from idea to reality at an unprecedented rate.

And during this time, the world is also surging.

In the eastern part of Qingtang Province, 1,500 kilometers away from the capital, four white-painted J-8C fighter jets skimmed the sky over the Gobi Desert at high speed.

Captain Wang Wei, a pilot of the 25th Regiment of the 9th Division of the Naval Air Corps, was sitting in the cabin of the No. 12 plane, maintaining a formation flight with his teammates, and at the same time, he had to determine the landmark outward through the cockpit glass on both sides.

For the Chinese air force, in this era when there is no domestically produced navigation system, even if it sounds very simple to fly over a long distance, because it involves the positioning of unfamiliar airspace, it is difficult to really carry it out.

Naval aviation, which differs in mission attributes from the Air Force, is even weaker in this regard.

Not to mention anything else, Wang Wei himself has been flying in inland airspace for 7 years since he graduated from aviation school in 90.

Therefore, despite the leadership of the experienced division commander Tang Yiping, the other three pilots were inevitably a little nervous.

They flew here from Qiong Province without any landing, and the fuel volume was already tight, and there must be no mistakes in navigation and positioning.

And what is puzzling is that although there was no in-flight refueling during the whole process, all four planes were equipped with aerial refueling pipes.

This non-scalable design is simple in structure, but if you don't refuel, the drag it creates will lead to a shorter range.

Thankfully, their worst fears didn't happen, and after about 15 minutes of continuing to maintain orientation, a not-so-clear but fairly coherent voice came over the radio, indicating that the base had picked up their signal and asked them to adjust their bearing to 145 and begin to descend altitude.

"There's only one runway at the airport, so you're going to have to land in two batches."

The tower commander said in the end.

According to the 1984 Warsaw Pact Shield 84 exercise, one runway could take off 5 fighters in 72 minutes.

But this kind of high-end gameplay is not necessary in peacetime, and secondly, it is basically unimaginable for the Huaxia Air Force of this kung fu.

So Wang Wei's No. 12 and his wingman No. 13 needed to make an extra circle over the airport.

It was this lap that made him notice that in the far parking area, there were two huge transport planes slowly being pulled into the cabin.

Wang Wei, who is familiar with almost all the equipment of the Chinese and foreign air forces, quickly judged the model:

"There are two more Il-76s here?"

This airfield in the town of Chapcha in Gonghe County does not have permanent planes on weekdays, and only one of the establishments is regimental, but the actual scale is only a battalion-level station, so all the planes must have been transferred from other places.

At this moment, he suddenly had a feeling that this was by no means the "long-distance transfer flight training" that the division commander said at the training mobilization meeting before takeoff.

"Not only that, you see next to it, there are also power supply cars and air source cars parked next to the two hangars, and there must be other planes present, it seems that this battle is very big."

Zhao Yi, the pilot of the No. 13 plane, also replied.

At the end of the 90s, this was a joint exercise of multiple aircraft, which required the approval of the military region level.

Not to mention the fact that those two Il-76s definitely do not belong to naval aviation.

There are only 14 Il-76s in total, all of which belong to the 19th Division of the Air Force stationed in Hubei Province.

"So this could be an inter-service exercise......"

Wang Wei thought about it in his mind.

Then it will be even more heaven-shattering.

But for a pilot like him, it would be a good thing to have the opportunity to compete with his Air Force counterparts.

It's just not clear what these two transport planes are here for......

At this time, there was also an order from the radio to prepare for landing.

The two had no choice but to put their attention back to the cockpit, adjust the direction and attitude of the flight, and descend to the altitude to prepare for the entrance.

After a smooth and light landing, ground crew soon followed, taking away the parachutes thrown off by the two planes.

The two planes entered the taxiway and slowly drove towards the parking area not far away.

As Zhao Yi had speculated just now, from the perspective of the ground, Wang Wei also quickly saw the situation inside the other two machine sheds.

There is a strange-looking, big-nosed Y-8 and an ordinary-looking J-7 parked respectively.

Their group of 4 J-8Cs also stopped in the specified area according to ground guidance.

Four 212 jeeps followed, towing the plane into four other hangars after the pilot dismounted.

"Division Commander, let's fly 2,000 kilometers here this time, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as transfer training, right?"

Wang Wei tentatively asked Tang Yiping, who had just taken off his flying helmet.

The latter took the flight record handed over by the airport staff and prepared to sign it, then turned his head and smiled:

"Good idea, you're going to know soon, go, come with me to a meeting."

After speaking, he walked straight to a small and inconspicuous building next to him.

When passing by the two hangars where the big planes were parked halfway, Wang Wei couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and looked inside seriously.

Then he realized in an instant that there was something wrong with his judgment just now.

The aircraft had three white pods hanging from the outside of the wing, and on the left side of the tail.

Although he did not really refuel in the air, when he was in aviation school, as a top student, he once drove a training plane and a H-6 to simulate this process, and he also knew something about related equipment.

"These are two Il-78s?"

Wang Wei, who was shocked, exclaimed in an instant.

He was very sure that neither the air force nor the naval aviation in China had previously had such strategic-level equipment.

And if you take a closer look, you will find that the two planes in front of you, one is painted with the sky blue fuselage and white belly paint commonly used by the Chinese Air Force, while the other plane is still painted with a somewhat mottled Soviet Air Force paint, but the national flag on the hanging tail is painted off in a rather sloppy way.

In a flash of light, he also figured out why his four planes had to carry a device like a fuel hose that had never been used before......

This is to carry out special training.

If there is in-flight refueling, it must involve ultra-long-range flight, otherwise it is completely unnecessary.

And it is related to their 9th Division of the HNA and requires an ultra-long voyage......

It can only be related to the South China Sea.

Wang Wei's whole person instantly became excited.

(End of chapter)