Great Power Fighting Falcon

When I turned the corner, I looked towards the airport and saw that the gap in the clouds had disappeared, and the heavy rain might have started again. Li Zhan knew very well that he was the one who proposed the plan, and he was the one who understood the topography of Lake No. 1 best. Who else would give this task to him?

Li Zhan knew even more clearly that as long as he went to the sky, no one could help him, and the tower could not even give him effective instructions. Everything depends on him personally, like a lone warrior standing on the battle line, facing tens of millions of enemy heavy cavalry rushing towards him crazily.

The lone warrior must build the strongest embankment to block the most ferocious floods.

Continue to climb higher and higher until you reach above the clouds, enter the stratosphere of 10,000 meters, and then start cruising. The fully loaded J-8FR is no longer flexible at all. In fact, in actual use, the J-8 series fighters rarely fully load up. To be precise, all models rarely take off with fully loaded mounts.

As far as Li Zhan’s driving experience is concerned, driving a J-7 used to be like driving a small sports car with four cylinders, and driving a J-8 was like driving a six-cylinder or eight-cylinder muscle car. But now, driving a heavy-duty truck. It takes more force to turn the operating lever, and it takes more force to move the left and right rudders...

The most obvious thing is that when he turned on the afterburner for emergency takeoff, he actually did not expect that after adding more than three tons of mounts, the J-8FR would be so hard to climb, so it appeared a few meters above the runway. The phenomenon continued for hundreds of meters.

The time window is not only the take-off window of the local area, but also the flyable meteorological window of the target area. It is necessary to find a time period when the weather in the local area and the target area improves at the same time, otherwise Li Fengxiang and other meteorological experts would not wait so long.

Fang Chenghe once again reminded Li Zhan, "Yao Dong Yao, after arriving at the target airspace, you only have ten minutes at most. Remember, you only have ten minutes at most. Prepare the debrief, and I will give you the time. It's over. "

"Understood, prepare the follow-up report, you take the time."

The next step is for the tower to continuously report the position, and the ground radar to guide Li Zhan's flight. In such harsh weather conditions, it is difficult for Li Zhan to rely on radar to fly. Moreover, although the fire control radar equipped with the J-8FR has a downward-looking function in theory, its function is very limited.

The tower was very quiet, with only the sounds of Fang Chenghe and Li Zhan's conversation between Lu and Kong.

Fang Chenghe glanced at the radar screen on the left and said, "Yao Dong Yao, the target is directly in front of you. Get ready to enter the mountain. You can decide how high you go. It's over."

Li Zhan replied, "Understood, prepare to go down."

After struggling to turn the fuselage sideways, Li Zhan looked down and could only see clouds. Looking up again, what he saw was the setting sun in the west. The sunset was red on his face, like a person whose face was stained after drinking. The thick clouds are a thick wall that separates the sky from the earth. The sky is bright and blue above the clouds, and the dark sky is raging under the clouds.

When the weight is too high, it is also troublesome to reach height. When the speed is too high, the fuselage structure cannot bear it. When the speed is too low, it is easy to stall. Any pilot flying close to the maximum load capacity will fly obediently and not dare to be careless. He might fall off before reaching the target area.

Li Zhan climbed as high as a passenger plane...

"This guy is too cautious." In the tower, Zhang Wei couldn't help but said with a wry smile.

The current tower has a strong lineup. All the relevant persons in charge at Longcheng Airport are in place. Those who do not have command and control tasks are all standing or sitting at the back, ready to carry out their work according to orders at any time.

Yu Chenglin said, "It is good to be cautious. Now we are shooting at a fixed target. We can drive as steadily as possible."

"Su Liangqi should be allowed to do this. That plane is more stable." Zhang Wei sighed.

There was no preparation earlier. Now the Xixian area is suffering from the ravages of super typhoon Ma Li, and fighter planes cannot take off at all. Objectively, the Second Division has only one fighter plane that can be used to carry out this mission, which is Li Zhan's 101. J-8FR tactical reconnaissance aircraft.

The ammunition used by Li Zhan was urgently transferred from a nearby combat readiness warehouse. In order to transfer this batch of ammunition, the Second Division, Military Region, Air Force Division, Headquarters, and the highest level of leadership were all dispatched in a very short period of time. A whole set of procedures. When it comes to ammunition, there can be no mistakes. As long as one of the procedures does not meet the regulations, you will get nothing.

Who knows if you might have a fit and throw ammunition at important areas?

Joining the army requires a political review, and the closer the military service is to the center of power, the stricter the political review, because soldiers are the most violent people on the planet.

Fang Chenghe said, "The meteorological department must cheer up. There is a problem with the work on the ground. The division party committee will investigate to the end."

This is not just for people in the meteorological department, but also for people in other departments. At this moment, Li Zhan is working hard at the front. Failure to provide sufficient support on the ground will not only lead to the failure of the operation, but also put Li Zhan in danger. The meteorological department is particularly important here.

"Tower, please confirm my position with radar." Li Zhan called.

Fang Chenghe stared at the radar operator, whose hands trembled slightly, and finally took out the specific longitude and latitude data. Fang Chenghe immediately reported it to Li Zhan, and then said, "Yao Dong Yao, the location is very good, ready to enter the mountain."

"Understood, continue descending into the mountain." Li Zhan repeated the instruction.

The No. 101 J-8FR tactical reconnaissance aircraft, which was fully loaded and close to the maximum load capacity, continued to descend steadily. When it passed through the clouds, it was affected by turbulence and experienced large bumps. It drifted for a while. Fortunately, there was a surprise. We descended under the clouds without any danger.

There are benefits to being heavier, at least there is more gravity to fight against crosswinds and turbulence.

Once under the clouds, the visibility suddenly deteriorated. Li Zhan found the location of Lake No. 1 and started circling. At this time, the clouds over Lake No. 1 are relatively thin, the visibility is better, and the rainfall is much smaller. This is the window that can be exploited.

The time given by the meteorological department is accurate to the minute—ten minutes to the minute.

"Yao Dong Yao, wait a little longer, now is not the best time." Fang Chenghe received Li Fengxiang's advice and immediately instructed Li Zhan.

Li Zhan put forward a different opinion and said, "Tower, I request to enter immediately to find the target position. I can probably see the situation of Lake No. 1. If I go down a little higher, I should be able to see clearly."

His idea is simple, if you invest in finding attack points earlier, you will have more time to attack later. As confident as he is, he can't guarantee that an attack will be successful. Moreover, despite the fact that he brought three precision-guided munitions and four groups of aerial bombs, if the attack point is not selected well and hits the thick mountain, more than three tons of ammunition will not be effective at all.

The best thing to achieve is fixed-point blasting, but unfortunately there are no conditions. Compared with precise blasting operations, aerial strikes and bombings that focus on killing and destroying will not be very effective when it comes to "killing more mountains."

The time has come to test the pilot's ground attack skills, and it is an all-round test. Choose the weakest mountain, and it must be the lowest side. Use precise ammunition to continuously bombard the same point and drill through it like a steel drill.

Fang Chenghe pondered for a while and said, "Yao Dong Yao, agree to find the attack point immediately, pay attention to altitude and speed."

I never tire of emphasizing attention to altitude and speed precisely because these two points are so important when flying in the mountains.

"Understood, I'm descending." Li Zhan descended carefully. Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere was a bit dull, he joked, "What I feel now is that I'm driving a heavy truck and flying in the sky. I can't let go of my arms and legs. I might as well fly back." Here’s the J-7.”

There was a chuckle from the tower, and the solemn atmosphere dissipated a lot.

Fang Chenghe also smiled and said, "You can say anything if you don't want the engine to be scrapped."

Li Zhan continued to descend, maneuvering the heavy J-8FR to carefully pass between two towering mountain peaks and reach the sky above Lake No. 1, at a relative height of about 200 meters.

Strictly speaking, Lake No. 1 is a large pond formed by the terrain in the upper reaches of the Three Rivers. It has a large area and is formed by the erosion of the upstream water. A large amount of water from the snow-capped mountains and various tributaries accumulates here and then continues to flow eastward, just like a self-pressured reservoir with abundant water. It is usually very gentle, but it is a place that buffers the water flow, but once it exceeds the critical point, it becomes the source of disaster.

Just like a dam, in the eyes of some people, if it can stop the flood, it is a water conservancy project that benefits the country and the people. If it cannot stop the flood, it is a super bomb.