Even if the Navy had no money to buy new SAC-produced Skuas, Qi Yiming would place the order with his own money and then hand it over to the Navy. He is very confident that the country will not be in distress for too long, at most three or four years. He believes that with the comprehensive and early launch of reform and opening up, the country's financial situation will be greatly improved.
The test flights of the new aircraft are still conducted by experienced Red Alert pilots. Although the technology of the Skua fighter comes from the system, it is logically a mature model, but after all, this aircraft is assembled by Shenfei. Although it is not necessary to test the aircraft from start to finish like a newly developed aircraft, it is still necessary to conduct normal factory test flights.
After the pilot boarded the aircraft, he opened the power hatch at the tail, with the engine nozzle facing diagonally downward, and the lift engines on both sides of the inlet also opened their covers. When it was ready, the J-8V started its engine, and orange-red flames emerged from the nozzle. The fighter plane only slid about 80 meters on the ground before leaving the ground and jumping into the air.
Li Jing, the commander of Hainan Airlines, looked at it with excitement and said: "The short-range vertical take-off and landing fighter is the most suitable for our Hainan Airlines. It does not require good airport conditions, and the aircraft is easy to hide and transfer. What's more, this fighter can also be boarded on the ship. I think it can be used We won¡¯t even accept the J-10.¡±
Of course, the J-8V cannot defeat the J-10, but it has characteristics that the J-10 does not possess.
Liu Huaqing nodded and asked Qi Yiming: "Can this fighter plane take off vertically, so that it won't even be able to use the runway?"
"Yes, the J-8V's vertical take-off and landing capabilities can be said to be the best among modern fighters of this type. However, vertical take-off will also consume a lot of fuel, which will have a more obvious impact on the aircraft's combat range. However, if it is a small-scale operation, such as an operation within three to four hundred kilometers, vertical take-off is not a problem." Qi Yiming nodded and affirmed.
The J-8V being tested in the sky has already performed several maneuvers, such as climbing at a high angle of attack, rolling, diving, etc. It does not seem to be any less agile than ordinary fighters. Compared with the original J-6 and J-7 Old fighters like this are much more powerful.
When everyone at Hainan Airlines was watching the performance of the newly manufactured fighter jet with satisfaction, Qi Yiming's mobile phone rang. He took it out and saw that the indicator light was red. He quickly opened it and looked at it, and then said to his left and right: " An H-5 of the Air Force deviated from the normal training trajectory and was heading towards South Korea. "
Liu Huaqing was stunned at first, and then his face turned ugly, but fortunately, the accident was not from HNA, but from the Air Force. He immediately said to the accompanying staff officer: "Give the Air Force a call and verify the situation with them."
Before the 1990s, dramas like the PLA and Guojun happened frequently. It can even be traced back to the period of the Liberation War. Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, such incidents of aircraft uprisings were still common. Qi Yiming was not aware of this problem at first, but now he is a little scared when he thinks about it. The factor that directly prompted the defection of pilots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was that both sides had issued incentives for pilots to fly uprising. For example, the KMT side rewarded thousands of taels of gold for almost every pilot who passed. In addition, some pilots had personal quality problems, or had various conflicts with the army or family, so they gritted their teeth and defected on fighter planes.
This situation is actually very normal and not surprising at all. But for Qi Yiming, it is a particularly troublesome thing, because he has now equipped the Air Force and Hainan Airlines with a large number of advanced fighters. This time it is an H-5, which is the Soviet Il-28. It is old-fashioned. model of the aircraft, but if one day I don¡¯t know which pilot has a seizure and drives a J-10 or Flying Leopard to become an "anti-communist martyr", Qi Yiming does not believe that anyone in Taiwan can copy it. Come out, but the losses on your side are also huge.
First of all, the performance of fighter planes has been underestimated. Some important technologies may have been spread to other countries through the unsatisfactory pseudo-regime. In addition, important components such as the electromagnetic spectrum and friend-or-foe identifiers of fighter planes have been detected. It needs to be completely replaced, which is another huge loss.
Two years ago, Sun Tianqin, an Air Force test pilot, defected in a newly developed J-7II fighter, which directly resulted in the newly developed fighter being unable to enter service with the Air Force. In the end, this fighter became the J-7M and became the He became a star among a generation of foreign trade fighters. But from any perspective, such an incident would cause serious damage to the PLA.
Qi Yiming had various documents in his hand that recorded which traitor defected on a plane in which year, but he did not mention it to the Air Force specifically, or in other words, he was not aware of it at all, and the Air Force did not pay attention to such details. This time, a completely avoidable defection finally occurred.
Qi Yiming also found out through the database that the guy who defected on the plane was named Xiao Tianrun. He took off from Jiao County, Shandong, traveled to South Korea and then defected.Bay of. Fortunately, Qi Yiming had not had time to replace the Air Force with new H-6K medium-range bombers, otherwise the losses would have been huge.
Now we can only make up for it. The H-5's speed is only 900 kilometers per hour. It was originally doing flight training and flying over the sea. When it deviated from the flight path, the base system reminded Qi Yiming and retrieved it. After looking at other possibilities, it was judged that the H-5 was going to defect.
At this time, no one had the time to continue watching the J-8V test flight. All the generals and Qi Yiming's Shenfei personnel also entered Shenfei's ground tower, where a control system was also installed. There is a data link with the entire army.
Communications personnel who have entered the combat position report: "The Air Force sent news that they have scrambled two J-10 fighters and are chasing the defecting target at high speed. The Air Force has prepared anti-aircraft missile units and will shoot them down if necessary. Defection target."
Qi Yiming glanced at the map on the big screen and sighed: "If you can't catch up, at this position, even the Hongqi-9 with a range of 200 kilometers can't hit it. Now take off the interceptor plane to chase, and when you catch up, you will enter." South Korea¡¯s airspace is closed.¡±
If the defecting H-5 was discovered to be defecting as soon as it took off, the Air Force fighter jets could have intercepted it while it was dozing off. However, because it was training, the aircraft itself was flying over the sea. It wasn't until it deviated from the course that it was caught by the radar of Qi Yiming Base and it was determined that there was a problem.
Li Jing was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said: "Won't those brats from the Air Force teach their own people a lesson? Why did they raise a group of traitors?" He could indeed say this, because basically all the defectors in the history of defection were from the Air Force. Pilots, HNA not so much. However, he is also forgetful. The first person to defect after the founding of the People's Republic of China was HNA pilot Liu Chengsi. The HNA division he was in was also greatly reorganized. This may also be the reason why HNA has no defected pilots in the future.
Liu Huaqing scolded Li Jing in a low voice to stop him from talking nonsense. Some relationships are ruined just because you can't keep your mouth shut. Now there is no fundamental conflict between the Navy and the Air Force, so don't cause trouble for yourself.
When the two J-10s crossed the center line of the Yellow Sea, the H-5 had already entered South Korea's airspace and quickly made an emergency landing in a farmland. Historically, this forced landing resulted in the death of navigator Sun Wuchun, injury to Xiao Tianrun, and the death of a Korean farmer. However, this time the traitors were lucky, the forced landing was successful, and the bomber remained intact. Maybe it¡¯s because the Air Force has recently kept up with training, so the technology is familiar?
It¡¯s just that this matter is not over yet, at least it has not ended according to the original historical process.
Although the two J-10s taking off from the Air Force had already reached the top speed of Mach 2, they still could not catch up with the defecting H-5. No one expected that the Air Force commander from Jikong would actually get into a bad temper. Directly issued an order to the two J-10s: "Enter South Korea, find this defecting plane for me, and destroy it directly!"
This was definitely not a wise choice. When the J-10 arrived in South Korea, the three people on board had already climbed out of the emergency landing. Because Xiao Tianrun, Sun Wuchun and Liu Shuyi had very different opinions on the matter of defection, they even got into a fight on the farmland in South Korea.
If the two J-10 pilots knew that the person they were chasing for thousands of miles had such a moral character, I don¡¯t know how they would feel. They also did not want to enter South Korea¡¯s airspace and search for those who had made an emergency landing in such a large place. Bombers, but there are so many military orders. Even if they know that this order is quite unreliable, they have to carry it out like this.
First, a Chinese bomber entered, and then two Chinese fighter jets entered. South Korea was greatly nervous, and immediately activated the air raid warning, and also scrambled several of its own F-4 and F-5 fighter jets into the air to respond. It's just that their movements were really slow, and they couldn't even compare with the level of the PLA Air Force, which had gone through months of hard training. The two J-10s wandered around Jeollabuk-do for a while before they met their enemies.
A J-10 pilot was very nervous and asked his captain: "Captain, what should we do? The South Korean puppet troops have come out. Their number is four times ours. There are eight fighter jets in total. Should we fight or run?"
The captain was furious: "How can we revolutionary soldiers run away without even seeing the enemy's face? This is shameful. We must not retreat without completing our mission."
The wingman quickly explained: "Captain, if you want to fight, do it now. If we get within visual range, we will suffer a loss. And I believe that our J-10 is much more important than the defecting H-5. If we are surrounded, If it was shot down, the enemy would get the wreckage of our fighter plane, which would cause greater losses to our army!¡±
The captain listened to the wingman's words and immediately said: "Quickly deal with this wave, find the traitors and eliminate them immediately, and let's return!"