"Ghost One, on its way back."

"Estimated flight time, nine hours."

After flying around the great rivers and mountains of the motherland for most of the circle, the Ghost 1 is ready to return to the airport.

As the first test flight, it has already tested quite a few projects.

However, as a stealth bomber.

This time it wasn't tested for stealth performance.

The main consideration is from the security aspect.

Therefore, the "Ghost One" has four dragon lenses placed on the body.

The function of the Lombard lens is very simple, which is to amplify various types of electromagnetic waves.

Make it easier for others to discover it.

Otherwise, the bombers hidden in the sky will not be discovered by other flying objects at all.

There is a possibility that an aircraft accident may occur.

Of course, even in the event of an accident, it was at the ascent stage of the bomber.

Only during this stage can the bomber collide with other flying objects.

By the time the Ghost 1 flew at an altitude of more than 30,000 meters.

Rarely, no flying objects will encounter it.

In the sky above the snowy plateau, a gray-black super-large delta-wing aircraft was slowly flying by.

Although the size is several times larger than that of a conventional bomber.

But above the ground you want to see with the naked eye.

It's basically an impossible thing.

Eighty kilometers away, a bomber of eighty meters in size was seen.

It is equivalent to seeing a triangle less than a meter from a kilometer away.

And that's while ignoring atmospheric disturbances and cloud disturbances.

"Radar search is normal, no anomalous targets."

The crew members responsible for the radar system routinely report to the guide.

As a strategic bomber, the Spectre-1's radar system consists of several large active phased array radars.

Capable of non-stop scanning around the fuselage.

Among them, the direction of the nose with the farthest detection distance is able to detect 280 km!

This is almost comparable to the range of medium and large AWACS aircraft.

The search range in the tail direction is slightly shorter.

It's only about 120 kilometers.

The crew members have experienced several hours of flying and are basically accustomed to the environment of high-altitude flight.

To be honest, everyone thought it was a bit surprisingly simple.

There are no strange changes in air currents, and there are no enemies that will appear out of nowhere.

It's even simpler than flying a civil airliner.

When a civil airliner is flying, you should also be careful whether there will be bird strikes.

But they don't have to think about it at this time.

Because it is impossible for any bird to be able to fly to an altitude of 80,000 meters!

The only thing to worry about is actually a meteor.

This, when they were being trained.

The first time I heard it, I was quite surprised.

Because on weekdays, it seems that it is rare to hear of meteors hitting planes.

But after a little understanding, I found that this is a very likely thing.

The probability of meteors appearing in the atmosphere is actually very high.

It's just that most of it is burned out by friction with the atmosphere in the ionosphere.

Most of them are at the altitude at which they are flying now.

Of course, it is not without countermeasures.

Four small laser close defense systems were installed on the bomber.

High-powered lasers can be used to defend against some smaller meteors.

As for some of the larger meteorites, they can only find ways to dodge them.

In fact, as long as it is not a particularly large meteorite, the strength of the body itself can actually withstand it.

"Captain!"

"An unidentified signal plane has been spotted!"

Suddenly, the radar operator shouted.

For a moment, the entire bomber cabin was a little confused.

After all, this is just a test flight, not a border cruise.

They don't have a plan for dealing with this situation.

And now their location is close to the southwestern border.

There will be only one unknown signal source.

Ah San.

"Report distance."

The captain gave the order rather calmly.

The situation was not very clear now, and he decided to find out a little more and report back to him.

"Located to the southeast of us, 210 km away!"

Soon, the voice of the radar operator rang out again.

After a little calculation, the captain frowned.

"Isn't that outside our borders?"

"And there's a long way to go?"

Only then did the radar operators react, and their radar detection range was even large enough to detect the third brother's house on the other side of the border.

Some embarrassed said: "The first operation, I was a little excited, but I made a mistake."

The other side should still be eighty kilometers away from our border. ”

The captain looked at him helplessly and said, "After you go back, write a detailed examination." ”

It's not a heavy penalty, and it's not even quite a penalty.

After all, his reaction can't be wrong, and this situation was meant to be reported.

It's just that what he said made everyone misunderstand.

The plane, which was mistakenly believed to have unknown information, flew within the national border.

"Can you tell what kind of plane the other party is?"

The captain asked with some curiosity.

The third brother is equipped with many styles of fighters, and he wants to distinguish what model it is from the radar waves.

It's not an easy thing to do.

"It's a Su-30MKI, it should be the one they just put into service."

The radar operator said after careful identification.

The Su-30MKI can be regarded as a castrated export version of the Su-30.

At present, Da Mao is not equipped with this fighter in China.

It's not that it can't be equipped, it's actually because there is no money.

Just counting on being able to pass a little blood back and forth through Ah San.

A few years ago, they signed a contract.

The contract stipulates that A-3 will produce a total of 232 Su-30MKI fighters under a production license by introducing production lines.

This is also a more cost-effective deal for Ah San.

The Su-30MKI is a well-known twin-engine heavy fighter in the international arena anyway.

More importantly, Ah San hopes to be able to pass the experience of producing more than two hundred fighters.

to develop their own fighter production forces.

After all, their self-developed fighter plan has not yet been abandoned.

At this time, the Tejas fighter has also been carried out for decades, and it is basically still in the PPT stage.

Stan Air still hasn't given up on the plan.

Although the good deeds of later generations basically said that Ah San's Stan Aviation was a piece of.

But they're right.

Stan Aviation, which can be called a fighter destroyer.

Few of the fighters he repaired were able not to fall.

If you can produce these hundreds of twin-engine heavy fighters yourself, you will be able to learn something somewhat.

That's what the third brother thinks.

After all, in his opinion, what others can do, he can also do.

Completely without taking into account his own industrial capabilities, how bad it really is!

"Yo, that should have just finished production."

The captain also came with a little curiosity:

"Didn't they just finish the production of the first fighter last year?"

"Will this be the first or second fighter ever produced?"

Ah San's aviation ability is really not complimentary.

We provide almost a complete set of production equipment, as well as a variety of spare parts.

Almost only to do the assembly work, they still took a long time.

Only then did the production of a fighter be completed.

And even so, I almost fell on the airport runway during the test flight!

"Do you want to keep tracking?"

The radar operator raised his head and said to the captain:

"If we don't keep tracking, it'll be out of our radar field of view in about a minute."

"Report it and see what the command center has to say."

The captain didn't make his own decisions.

They are not in some isolated place now.

If you have a problem, of course, you will throw it to your superiors!

The people in the command center soon received the news.

"Track!"

The person who made the decision was still Zhang Xingyang.

After all, he was the one in charge of this test flight.

Although the old chief's qualifications are above him, he can only be regarded as a special guest.

Therefore, only Zhang Xingyang can give such an order that may affect the test flight.

No one else can take on the responsibility after that.

Orders were received from within the command center.

The strategic bomber did not hesitate and directly reversed direction.

Began to fly on this side of the border, sticking to the fighter jet of the third brother.

It's just that the distance of Ghost One is very well controlled.

The distance between the two sides has been maintained at more than 150 kilometers.

In case the other person will show up on their own.

In fact, this is also redundant.

The borders are basically located on the plateau.

It is difficult to build a large radar monitoring station.

Although they now carry the Lombard lens.

But even so, the other party can't find themselves.

Because the large radar station at the nearest third brother's house is 200 kilometers away.

"He seems to be on a transfer flight mission, flying from the western region to the east?"

The radar operator observed for a while, then thought about it and reported to the captain.

At least the people present were veteran pilots with thousands of hours of bomber flight experience.

Naturally, it is possible to understand what the radar operator means.

This means that the other party's focus area will be in the eastern region for a period of time in the future.

"So do they want us to focus on deploying manpower in the east for the next period of time?"

In the command center, the old chief repeated the news that had just been transmitted, and after finishing speaking, he fell into thought.

After tracking for more than three hundred kilometers, the other side left the radar range of the bomber.

Everyone didn't care, after all, it was just a simple companion flight.

Even the other party doesn't know.

After that, the bombers began to follow their original route and prepare to fly back to the airfield.

Because of the Su-30MKI that tracked Ah San.

The bomber approached the airfield nearly an hour later than originally planned.

I descended in height, and there was no pain for the cause.

It does not need to withstand the height of several G's.

They can land slowly.

Just to turn on the bomber's aero engine in an area with a suitable concentration of oxygen.

And turn off the rocket engine.

In less than 20 minutes, they had lowered from an altitude of 80,000 meters to an altitude of less than 5,000 meters.

The next flight process is for these thousands of flight hours.

It's as easy as coming home.

In fact, the flight time of bomber pilots is generally much less than that of fighter pilots.

Because the frequency of attendance of bombers is much lower.

If you talk about fighter pilots, you can make sorties two or three times a week.

Then bomber pilots, it is difficult to make three sorties a month,

This also results in thousands of hours of flight time, which can take more than a decade.

A huge gray-black bird flew from the distant sky.

It's like a whole large gray-black triangle.

Even if he hasn't come down on everyone's heads yet.

But everyone on the runway can feel its oppression.

This is oppression from hundreds of tons of steel!

This is the real force at the top of human industry!

Be able to use strategic weapons until the next era of war!

The screaming sound stabbed everyone's ears.

Several large engines, slowly decelerating.

The huge kinetic energy of the bomber's hundreds of tons of body will be slowly dissolved.

So that it can stay on the airport runway.

Even so, it was almost at the end of the runway before stopping!

Even on the runway, there is still the smell of the engine flame burning.

But no one cared.

Instead, they were very excited to prepare for their test flight heroes.

The escalator slowly protrudes from under the tall belly.

Through eight pairs of wheels, you can see the test pilot slowly coming down!

"You are our heroes!"

Zhang Xingyang was the first to step forward and offer everyone a bouquet of flowers.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief!"

"The test aircraft team has successfully completed the mission, please instruct!"

On behalf of all the crew members, the captain saluted Zhang Xingyang with a military salute and said in a loud voice.

Although he was wearing a helmet with a black mask, Zhang Xingyang seemed to be able to see the other party's very bright eyes.

"Your mission was a success!"

"I declare that the first test flight of Spectre-1 was a complete success!"

After Zhang Xingyang finished speaking, loud applause rang out from everyone behind him.

The captain's hands trembled as he unfastened his helmet mask.

"Dean Zhang, we have lived up to your expectations."

The captain said with his face almost covered in blood.

Zhang Xingyang was shocked, not knowing what was wrong with them.

But he reacted immediately and shouted:

"Medical team!"

"Where's the medic!"

"Come here!"

Then he turned his head and asked the remaining three to take off their flying helmets.

Only then did I find out that the situation of these people was almost identical.

All of them had blood on their faces.

Other than that, everyone's eyes were almost red.

The danger of flying at high altitude seems to be greater than I imagined.

hasn't waited for Zhang Xingyang to think about what the reason is.

Several doctors have already started first aid for several test pilots.

Fortunately, their test suits were able to show their respective vital signs.

After a simple check.

None of their symptoms were found to be particularly severe.

Capillary rupture is caused by sudden pressure changes.

There is already a surge of blood, causing red eyes.

In the big picture, basically not.

But this is also a wake-up call for everyone.

The huge acceleration is not something that a simple test flight suit can resist.

Maybe they need a better Warframe! (End of chapter)