readx; Bi Yangtong nodded after listening to Chen Huaping's words, and said with a kind face: "Well, it's a good job!" ”

According to reason, he Bi Yang is the same lieutenant general of the Air Force, there is no need to be kind to a mere colonel, but Bi Yangtong also knows Chen Huaping's background, so he is polite to him, after all, although this Chen Huaping is now a colonel, sooner or later he will be promoted to major general or even lieutenant general, and the insurmountable threshold of colonel to major general is not a problem for people of Chen Huaping's background, as long as the time comes, he will naturally be promoted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

While these two men were talking, there were still many officers and soldiers busy in the war room, some of them were writing and drawing on the map, calculating the interception area and the specific time, and one was constantly contacting various radar stations and airports with a telephone.

In recent years, the air defense system has entered the modernization, and the technologies of radar and real-time radio communication have enabled the Shanghai Air Defense Command to command many air defense units in the entire Yangtze River Delta in real time.

At 12:15, Chen Huaping put down the phone and turned to Bi Yangtong: "The Anping radar station reported that the enemy aircraft group was found to be one hundred and fifty kilometers northeast of Shanghai, with an altitude of two thousand and a speed of three hundred. ”

Bi Yang said: "Since the enemy has been discovered, then let the fighter unit take to the air to intercept it!" ”

After Bi Yangtong gave the order, many staff officers in the war room began to calculate all kinds of data, and there were many factors to be taken into account in order to carry out interception operations, and the speed, course, and altitude of both sides needed to be calculated in detail, otherwise the interceptor fighter unit would miss the best interception time.

"Let the Twenty-Third Wing take to the air first!" Chen Huaping immediately turned to the communications non-commissioned officer and said, "Let the 22nd Wing be ready for battle again!" ”

If it is an air defense operation during the day, then it will be very simple, just dispatch a large number of fighters, but now it is night, and if you want to intercept the enemy's bomber forces at night, those daytime fighters cannot be used, and can only use night fighters or all-weather fighters.

And in the Chinese Air Force and even the Navy, the only full-time night fighter is the F6B. In the mid-thirties, with the B11 bomber about to be put into large-scale service, the Air Force put forward a long-range escort fighter design bidding, at the beginning of the major domestic aircraft manufacturers have participated in the bidding, Chuzhou Aircraft Company proposed the CZ36 design scheme, that is, the initial design scheme of the F5, but at that time China's liquid-cooled engine technology was not mature, to be applied in a short period of time is impossible, so the Air Force chose to use the twin-engine, air-cooled engine of the Han's aircraft company design scheme, thus starting the formal development and design.

However, the research and development speed of the liquid-cooled engine on the side of Chuzhou Aircraft Company is much faster than the Air Force imagined, and the F6 fighter of Han's Aircraft Company has just been finalized, and the F5 fighter of Chuzhou Aircraft Company has already completed its first flight and its surname is superior, so that the Air Force has cancelled the follow-up order after completing the purchase order of the basic type of F6, that is, F6A, and chose the F5 fighter.

Although the Air Force has paid for the initial research and development of the F6 fighter, the Han's Aircraft Company has devoted many years of hard work and a large amount of investment to the research and development of the F6 fighter, and it is expected that the number of purchases will be at least more than 1,000 aircraft. However, the Air Force only purchased a hundred of them, which brought the Hans Aircraft Company, which had great expectations for F6 fighters, to the brink of bankruptcy.

Later, in order to compete for a way out, the public relations team of Han's Aircraft Company actively lobbied the top brass of the Air Force and proposed a variant of the F6 fighter, that is, the night fighter. With the advantage of the F6 fighter being a twin-engine heavy fighter, it was used as a night fighter instead.

In this way, there was the F6B night fighter, and later the airborne radar was miniaturized and the airborne radar was installed one after another, and then the Han's Aircraft Company made persistent efforts to give full play to the modification potential of the F6 fighter, and created the F6D fighter-bomber model.

Although the F6A is not a success, the follow-up F6B and F6D have allowed Han's Aircraft Company to obtain a large number of orders from the Air Force and the Navy, among which the F6B is the only professional night fighter in the Chinese Navy and Air Force, and the sub-model F6B-2 is the earliest night fighter equipped with radar in China.

The propaganda slogan of Han's aircraft to its F6C fighter is: The sky at night belongs to F6B!

As the fifth air force of the local air defense force, it is also an air force unit equipped with the most night fighters, in addition to the F6B, the main night fighter, there is also the night model F10E of the F10 jet fighter. As for the night modification of the main fighter F7, which also belongs to the local air defense forces, it is not successful, mainly because the initial design has little potential for improving the airframe structure and does not have enough space to accommodate the radar.

Therefore, the interception plan of the Shanghai Air Defense Command is divided into two parts, the first part is to use F6B fighters with a long range and a long time to intercept, and the follow-up is to dispatch short-legged F10E fighters to intercept, the above two lines of defense are set up outside Shanghai, if the aircraft breaks through to Shanghai, then whether it is F6B or F10E must be intercepted in the air, with the cooperation of ground anti-aircraft guns and searchlights.

At the military airfield in the northern suburbs of Shanghai, which is the main airfield of the 23rd Wing, many F6B fighters on the tarmac have already begun to taxi, and after quickly taxiing on the flat grass, they will take off, and then under the guidance of the ground radar, they will form and move towards the "own aircraft group."

Night combat is a more troublesome thing, because the dark pilot can not rely on visual vision to determine the direction, can only rely on the various instruments in the cabin and the guidance of the radar guide from the rear to fight, and in the era of machine guns, air combat at night is also close combat, so after using close and radar to find the enemy aircraft, the searchlight on the aircraft will be turned on to illuminate the enemy aircraft to obtain an accurate position.

In these years, the surname of the airborne radar and the airborne fire control equipment is still very weak, and it is impossible to do the same radar locking and firing as the fighters in later generations, and now even if it is a night battle, it has to rely on visual discovery and lock on to the target, and the radar is just auxiliary equipment.

When the F6B fighters of the 23rd Wing took off one after another, a large number of F10E fighters of the 22nd Wing had also sailed out of the hangar and arrived at the cement runway, ready to take off at any time for combat.

Unlike most of China's existing military airports, the runway is made of concrete, not the usual grass or dirt runway.

This is because propeller aircraft, especially propeller fighters, have very low requirements for the runway, and the flat grass is enough to use, if you insist on using the cement runway, the cost of the airport will increase, not to mention the more important thing is that in case the airport is bombed, it is also troublesome to repair, but if it is a grass or dirt runway, it can be directly filled with mud and leveled after being bombed, and it is very simple.

But for jet planes is not good, first of all, the jet aircraft in this year is too delicate, the engine intake sucks into what sand and gravel, the engine will be scrapped immediately, and the jet take-off and landing speed is very high, when taking off, it is often necessary to taxi to a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour before taking off, and the requirements for the runway have increased a lot, after all, if you come to a little sand and gravel to make the plane bump down when taxiing quickly, an accident will happen.

The use of F10 fighters by the Chinese Air Force is usually deployed at cement runway airports, of course, this does not mean that it cannot take off and land on the grass runway, and it can also be used in an emergency, but it will not be used when it is not necessary.

A large number of F10E fighters equipped with radar, searchlights and other night combat equipment are ready to take off at any time, they do not take off in advance, as early first-generation jets, their air time is too short, it is a veritable short-legged aircraft.

The range of this F10 fighter is only 1,000 kilometers, and when performing interception operations at high speed, the range is shorter because of the increased fuel consumption.

Not only the F10 fighter has short legs, but the range of the new generation of F12 jet fighters developed by the Air Force is not long, and the range of internal fuel is only more than 1,300 kilometers, and the range of 1,800 kilometers can barely reach 1,800 kilometers with auxiliary fuel tanks, which is very short compared to the propeller aircraft of the same era, you must know that the F5 of the main propeller fighter of the Chinese Air Force has a range of up to 3,500 kilometers, and the F8G fighter of the Chinese Navy can also have a range of 2,000 kilometers.

In the absence of a major technological breakthrough, neither China nor other countries' jet fighter jets will have a large range in the next few years.

In the skies over the sea outside Shanghai, as the bomber group gradually approached, although they adopted the method of low-altitude cruising and entering, they were also successively discovered by many radars deployed in the coastal mountains, and then these radars began to guide the F6B fighters to approach and intercept.

On the one hand, the night battle that took place over the sea was far less exciting than during the day, on the one hand, it was said that "there were no night fighters to escort the escort, so there would be no entanglement between the fighters of the two sides, and the F6B fighters could attack Ben's bombers with impunity."

However, it is also limited by the influence of night, even if the F6B fighter is a professional night fighter, but it is also difficult to successfully find and attack the target, and it is said that "this bomber in order to avoid hunting, it is also a risk to reduce the altitude, because of the proximity to the sea, so that many F6B fighters do not dare to use too much speed to dive from above, so as not to accidentally hit the sea directly."

In the face of the interception of Chinese night fighters, Ben's bomber group flew at ultra-low altitude and high speed in a tight formation, and while one bomber after another was shot down, Ben's bomber group did not stop or turn, but continued to fly towards Shanghai.

Shanghai Air Defense Command!

"Now they have entered the absolute defense circle, less than fifty kilometers away from Shanghai, guide the 223 brigade to intercept!" The 223rd Group, the only F10E night fighter group in the 22nd Wing.

At one o'clock in the morning that night, many people who were close to the beach could see bursts of light coming from the sea in the distance, and there could be a dull explosion faintly, and they could also guess that it should be an air battle!

At half past one o'clock in the morning, the battle ended, and none of the bombers survived, and only seven or eight bombs were able to fly over Shanghai, and they were shot down one after another after the bombs were dropped!

However, although the results of the air defense battle were extremely brilliant, there were still some examples of bombers who broke through the interception and arrived over Shanghai and dropped bombs, thus breaking the Fifth Air Force's oath of guaranteeing Shanghai's absolute safety!