"This is the data recorded on the warplane."

The technical expert stuffed the 3.5-inch floppy disk in his hand into the computer's floppy drive.

Then I clicked on a computer file.

"According to the on-board data, the fighter piloted by the footbasin pilot continued to be irradiated by the radar of an unknown fighter for thirteen minutes."

"The final radar irradiation time was at 10:25 a.m."

"After the F-16 pilot flew 25 nautical miles east from 124°33′50" east longitude and 25°54′06" north latitude, the radar irradiation disappeared."

"And in the subsequent flight, it was not seen again."

The intelligence officer gave a closer look at what they were now having.

The large war room fell into an eerie quiet atmosphere.

The sea breeze in the Ryukyu Islands is still scorching even in autumn.

Looking west from the window of the war room, you can see the calm sea.

The head of the airbase is Brigadier General Joel Carey, commander of the 18th Fighter Group.

Joel, a professional fighter pilot, stared at this strange report for a long time.

This is not the first time they have received reports of "ghost fighters".

However, it is the earliest contact report of a "ghost fighter" found.

In the past two days, their pilots have been exposed to the radar of the "ghost drone" while flying the fighter plane twice in a row.

Joel was annoyed when he first found out.

I thought it was a prank by the pilots.

But the pilots swore that it was the real thing.

And the data recorded on the fighter also corroborates their claims.

That's when Joel began to face it up.

I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

It turned out that the first contact time of the "ghost fighter" was still a week ago!

At that time, there were fighter jets who were exposed, and there were pilots who developed mental illness as a result.

Joel thought that he could enjoy himself for a while at Kadena Air Base.

After all, there are very few people in the vicinity that can threaten their existence.

Who knows, just a few months after the handover of work, such a strange thing happened.

"What do you think is going on?"

Joel thought for a moment, then turned and lit his pipe, then asked the intelligence officer beside him.

"From a technical point of view, the greatest possibility is that this is a stealth fighter."

When the intelligence officer himself said this, he was a little hesitant.

After all, in his own and Joel's cognition, there is no stealth fighter in the world that has completed service!

Even the F-22 fighter, which their Air Force has been secretly developing, has not yet completed its service.

Not to mention stealth fighters from other countries!

"Of course, it is also possible that the geomagnetic field in this area has changed inexplicably, so that the onboard equipment has failed."

This reason seems even more outrageous, after all, how could the magnetic environment of the ocean change so strangely overnight.

Still, Joel prefers to believe this seemingly outrageous explanation.

"There's some truth to what you're saying."

Taking a hard puff of his pipe, Joel said expressionlessly.

He couldn't help but believe it, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why this was the case as soon as he entered the area.

Do you want him to believe that there is a formation of stealth fighters cruising in this sea area all the time?!

It's a joke!

"Contact the Navy and ask them to send ships to probe the local magnetic field from the sea to see if there is any significant change in the local magnetic field!"

After Joel finished speaking, he looked out the window at the sea with a heavy face.

On the other side of the sea, a worrying enemy!

As an extremely important link in the first island chain, Kadena Air Base controls the airspace over a very large area.

As the supreme commander of Kadena Air Base, Joel is facing a very complicated situation.

The main threat is the kingdom to the west.

In the last few decades, the threat has not been very great.

After all, most of their fighters are still old-fashioned fighters.

More than ten years ago, during the honeymoon period between the two sides, their J-8 fighter was also transformed.

Joel was still an ordinary fighter pilot at the time, and he had been to that country together.

At that time, he had the impression that it was very backward.

However, in recent years, they have developed rapidly in the field of aviation industry.

If the "Ghost Fighters" really are their stealth fighters, then the problem is too big.

Far beyond what he could handle.

This is also an important reason why he couldn't believe it in the first place.

And inform the Navy about one of the reasons for sending specialized exploration ships.

The speed of action on the part of the Navy is not slow.

After receiving a request for coordination from Kadena Air Base.

Within three days, an ocean monitoring ship was dispatched to the target sea area to carry out reconnaissance work.

After the exploration team exhausted all the means at their disposal, they still did not find anything wrong with this area.

The news quickly reached Joel's hands through the ship's communication equipment.

Seeing that all the data showed normal data, Joel called several senior commanders in the base to his office.

"Gentlemen, this is the data we just got from the Navy."

Joel asked the intelligence officer to give the analysis of the situation in the sea to the commanders present.

Most of the people present were the commanders of the various flying squadrons.

Naturally, we know what this report represents.

"So, is there really an invisible fighter that flies and patrols the sea?"

Bill, commander of the 67th Fighter Squadron, said unceremoniously.

In fact, most of the people present thought that the magnetic field was abnormal and untenable.

But if they believe that there really is a practical stealth fighter that patrols their side every day.

It's also very hard to accept!

"Judging from the current comprehensive analysis of intelligence, this is indeed the case."

Joel said as he smoked his pipe.

"Does the intelligence officer have any clues about this stealth fighter?"

Seeing that his superiors seemed to be in a bad mood, Bill turned to the intelligence officer next to him and asked.

"There is very little information about this stealth aircraft at the moment."

The intelligence officer reports on the information he has gathered.

"Most of the information we know comes from pilots who have three contacts."

"First of all, the distance of contact between this fighter and this fighter should be more than fifty kilometers."

"Most of our fighters use Doppler pulse radar, with a maximum detection range of 160 kilometers, and even stealth fighters can be detected within 50 kilometers according to estimates."

"And the opposing fighter has always been out of the detection range of our radar."

The intelligence officer's estimates were not very accurate.

Doppler pulse radar, wanting to detect stealth fighters before 50 km is tantamount to a dream.

The J-20 was tested after the completion of its first flight.

Let a J-10, which has been replaced with an active phased array radar, search for the existence of the J-20 in the sky.

It was not until within 40 kilometers of the visual discovery that the active phased array radar found a trace of the J-20.

(The visual limit of general air combat is 20 km)

This is also an active phased array radar with better search performance.

The Doppler pulse radar they are currently equipped with is almost impossible to detect the J-20 in the sky.

"Second, the average speed of the other side must be maintained at supersonic speed."

This is actually very understandable, the F-16 is able to reach a speed close to Mach 2 with the afterburner turned on.

The fact that the opponent was able to stay locked for as long as 10 minutes proves that the opponent can at least reach the same level of speed in the acceleration state.

At this time, the intelligence officer also guessed:

"It is possible that this fighter will be able to achieve supersonic cruise."

The origin of this speculation is mainly due to the third contact.

Piloting the fighter at that time was the ace pilot of the 18th Aviation Squadron of the 12th Air Brigade.

They were flying an F-15D fighter jet.

After finding out that you were locked on by radar.

The pilot quickly accelerates and raises himself to a higher altitude.

Although in modern air combat, there is almost no such thing as grabbing altitude.

However, the ace pilot did it subconsciously.

The altitude limit of 19,000 meters was reached almost quickly.

And the speed reached Mach 2.4.

However, they still did not escape the enemy's lock-on range.

In fact, at that time, Shi Hu had been following them at a cruising speed of Mach 1.8 at 23,000 meters above their heads.

The radar range of 250 kilometers allows him not to be in such a hurry, and he can slowly hang behind them, creating huge physical and mental pressure on them.

The pilot pilots of the F-15D, after flying at a rapid pace for 12 minutes and crossing a distance of 500 kilometers.

Finally, he had no choice but to reduce his speed.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue flying at extreme speeds.

It's that the fighter is running out of fuel.

Turning on afterburner flying itself consumes more fuel than a normal cruise.

Just 12 minutes of supersonic flight, most of the fuel has been consumed.

If you continue to fly at such speeds, then the pilot can consider parachuting.

Because the remaining amount of fuel will not be enough at all for him to fly back to the airbase, and not even to the nearest land.

It's better to jump into the sea and wait for rescue.

Fortunately, Shi Hu didn't make things too difficult, and after the other side flew out of the airspace to the east, he turned off the radar lock.

"Thirdly, we suspect that the fighter came from the country to the west of us."

The intelligence officer was very cautious about this.

"Other than that, we can't think of a possible source for it."

"Is there any basis for this?"

"Don't talk nonsense without evidence!"

This time, not only Bill, but the other commanders also said seriously.

"There's some evidence."

The intelligence officer pulled out several documents.

"A paper from three years ago showed that their active phased array radar seems to have made a breakthrough, with a lot of success with second-generation gallium nitride diodes."

"This is a paper published by their Flight Design Institute five years ago, entitled, "A Study on the Starting Layout of a Small Aspect Ratio High Lift Aircraft." 》”

"Judging by this paper, they have long started high-performance stealth fighters."

There are many, many more articles on the desktop, such as "Rapid Curing Stealth Coatings Based on the Principle of Front-line Polymerization", which is used to quickly carry out the curing technology of stealth coatings on fighter jets.

These articles and materials all show the rapid breakthrough of the Dragon Kingdom in stealth fighters.

All those present have served for a long time on the side of the Air Force.

It may not be possible for you to ask them to do their research, but just reading the report is not too much of a problem.

After reading it, I realized that before I knew it, the Dragon Kingdom had developed to such an extent in terms of these technologies.

"I've never heard of this before!"

Bill quickly flipped through the papers on his desktop, somewhat incredulous.

"Loma advertises their fighter all day long, how advanced it will be, but it is always out of sight, and now let the dragon people take the lead!"

Bill, who is more impatient, said with some resentment after reading it.

Although the F-22 in Loma has completed finalized production and will soon be equipped with troops next year.

However, these flight groups stationed overseas will definitely not be the first batch to change their outfits.

This is one of the reasons why Bill is more angry.

Now they will face perhaps the most advanced stealth fighter in the world.

However, their names will not be on the list of the first batch of dress-ups.

It is to let them fight the enemy with fighter jets that cannot detect the enemy and cannot track the enemy.

Bill can imagine that if it weren't for the fact that the other side is still restrained and doesn't want to go to war.

They are more than capable of completely knocking down their fighters on the vast sea in the previous few frictions!

Jolmer stood up silently, settling in front of the massive map on the wall.

Then he made a few finger strokes on the map.

After thinking for a moment, he said:

"I'll report back to China and ask them to help gather information."

"And let them try not to put pressure on neighboring countries during this time."

"And until the investigation is clear, neither our fighter jets nor the local Self-Defense Force fighters are allowed to fly over the 125 degrees east longitude line."

The eastern part of this line should be safe for now.

Joel thought silently in his mind.

As the supreme commander of Kadena Air Base, Joel still has a very strong voice in the local Self-Defense Forces.

He said that he was not allowed to fly over this line, and the other party would definitely not fly over.

"During this time, I hope you will restrain your subordinates and not do something particularly outrageous."

When Joel said this, he gave Bill a special look.

As a foreign garrison, their local evaluation cannot be said to be good, and they can be regarded as disgusting.

Especially when it comes to the military personnel of Eagle Sauce, they are not at all bound by local laws.

This has also caused many of them to cause a lot of vicious incidents when they are stationed overseas.

Joel didn't want anything like this to happen again during this particular time.

So he directly used military orders to restrain his subordinates.

(End of chapter)