By the end of the brief operational meeting, it was eleven o'clock in the evening.

After the meeting and returned to the barracks, it was actually a thickened tent, Long Yun took a very comfortable hot shower on the shower car of the temporary base under the guidance of his new partner, and came back with a supper next to the cooking car, and after eating a little in the tent and packing his luggage, he lay down to rest.

As a volunteer pilot, I am also staying in the Air Force, although NATA is in an embarrassing situation now, the basic treatment of pilots is still quite secure - not to mention anything else, if you work in the army, you want to take a hot shower after performing tasks every day, it is a dream, as for the food, it must be a makeshift pull-down, like the meat and vegetable match on the base food truck (there is even pork!). ), the nutritional ratio is quite reasonable, and the meal is not to be considered.

Probably just came to Fort Scharcut, has not fully adapted to the new environment, tired after a day, and was released by the hot bath tired Long Yun tossed and turned in the sleeping bag, but couldn't sleep for a while, he spied a few times to know that there was no one near the tent, so he chatted with Qi Hui for a while, asked some about the general situation of the Fort Scharqat base, and what is the battle shape that NATA is facing now.

Of course, during the conversation, because he knew that Qi Hui was only a support force sent from China, and he himself did not know about the secret investigation of the "organization", Long Yun was also tight-lipped about his real purpose of coming to the Middle East.

For the search and investigation mission of the mysterious aircraft, only the Russian pilot codenamed "Sultan" in the third independent squadron knew about the situation and would also participate in the matter as the KGB of Soviet Russia, but for the sake of secrecy, Long Yun was not in a hurry to contact this person.

Dead. In the tent, I chatted with Qi Hui, who had just met. The topic of the two is in addition to the previous IFT qualifiers. Naturally, this is the war at hand. After leaving the "Thunder" team and coming to the Middle East almost a month ago, Qi Hui didn't seem to have much interest in the process of qualifying, and just asked Long Yun "What are you going to do behind 'Chenlong'", and instead discussed the battle in the Middle East sky with him seriously:

"Oh, Captain Dragon, I did observe this.

Let's not talk about the trivial details; You'll soon find out that the air battles that take place here, tsk...... It's as if it's a battle on a forgotten continent that has been disconnected from modern warfare.

Is it here? Tactics are basically not important, what matters is that you have to have skill and a little bit of luck; But even so, our next battle is not easy to fight, these Iraqis are still quite crazy to fly, I have to work hard every time I take them down, it's not that easy.

All in all, the shape of Iraq right now is not good, very bad; And I also heard the bad news that the Syrian Liberal Party in the west seems to have gotten some kind of high-end goods, my feelings. We're going to have big trouble soon. ”

It seems to be admonishing his partner, and it seems to be talking to himself, after a thoughtless sigh. The relaxed-looking young man turned out the cold light and slipped into his sleeping bag, quickly making a light and even sound of snoring. However, unlike Qi Hui, who seemed to be carefree and had a good quality of sleep, Long Yun, who was lying on the marching bed, felt the slightest chill seeping into the tent, and in the darkness, he stared directly at the roof of the tent, as if he could see through the canvas for a long time.

Like your own vague intuition, the shape of the Middle East is grim, isn't it......

The "shape shì grim" in the mouth of the partner is Long Yun, who has just come to Iraq. Soon there was a chance to feel it firsthand.

As a foreign pilot who "volunteered", he was ready for combat like other volunteers before entering Iraq, and sure enough, NATA did not have the time and conditions for the pilots to adapt to the fighter plane and conduct pre-war training, so he had to fly the fighter plane directly into the air for combat.

Of course, considering that even if they are piloting the same series of fighters, pilots and planes always have time to adapt to the run-in, early in the morning piloting the Su-27SKM fighter with red dragon-shaped livery to take off, Long Yun only followed Qi Hui's cyan painted landline to the south as a wingman to meet the enemy, and only carried out over-the-horizon operations with the support of ground command, and the fuselage and wing pylons of the two aircraft carried several R-77s, which is indeed relatively rare in the Middle East battlefield where it is emphasized to distinguish between the enemy and us to attack again.

In the skies of the Middle East, where the posture of the enemy is intertwined and the forces of all sides are constantly coming and going, the IFF is extremely important for any fighter that takes to the skies for combat, which limits the use of active radar-guided missiles to a large extent, and the parties generally approach the visual distance before fighting each other in order to avoid accidental hits.

However, for NATA, which has been battered by war, this situation has gradually changed with the official establishment of the "Iraq No-Fly Zone" hosted by ALSA: for the no-fly zone that runs through the entire territory of Iraq and is hundreds of kilometers long, ALSA has clearly declared the western section as an absolute control zone, and the eastern section is forbidden to its own fighters to enter to avoid accidental injury; So now, Long Yun and Qi Hui's Su-27SKM twin aircraft no longer need cumbersome identification of friend and foe, and the target in the southern sky can only be the enemy, of course, this sentence is also true for the aggressive FIAF fighters.

The cold night had just passed, and the next day was a sunny day with white clouds drifting away, and two slender fighters that had climbed all the way after taking off cut through the sky, leaving two light white tracks against the background of the clear blue sky.

As the fighter plane accelerated all the way up and rushed out of the thin clouds, the bright sunlight sprinkled unhindered on the backs of the smooth fighters, the red and cyan dragon pattern on the back of the two fighters, the huge letters of "NATA" were particularly eye-catching from a distance, and the gray-white missiles like long swords shone in the sunlight on the pylons, as if the entire fighter was plated with a light layer of golden yellow.

The speeding fighter planes stretched out in the sky, like eagles flying freely in the clear sky; However, the clouds of war, which were completely different from this glorious scene, had already emerged from the sky.

"Fighters 0313, 0315, pay attention to observe the enemy situation in front of you, the number of enemy planes is four to six, the altitude is 3,000, and the course is 80; Repeating, the enemy plane has an altitude of 3,000 and a course of 80, and the radar has determined that the incoming enemy is a medium-sized target, so pay attention to screening before firing to avoid accidental hits. ”

"〇 313 received, the target has been intercepted, over."

Qi Hui, who ended the call with the command station in the cockpit, poked a few times on the button next to the downward-looking display with both hands, raised his hand to adjust the goggles, quickly scanned the dashboard with his eyes, and then tilted his head to look at the red-painted Su-27SKM behind him.

Unlike when he was playing in China, after many days in the Middle East sky, Qi Hui knew very well what the logistics support situation of NATA was, and he must make sure that the various systems of the landline were operating normally before engaging the enemy; But missiles can't be tested until they are fought with real knives and guns, so he habitually clicked the trigger and swept a cannon to shoot, but Long Yun, who was following behind, was confused:

"Long plane, long plane, did you shoot just now? No enemy aircraft were spotted nearby, what happened? ”

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay; I said wingman, there is no need to call in the air here, and I built yì, it is better for you to put a shuttle to test, so as not to drop the chain at a critical moment. ”

"Oh...... Is it? ”

Driving the car to keep up with the long plane, seeing a slip of bullet shells fall from the belly of the blue No. 13 fighter and disappear into the sky below, Long Yun thought about it or gave up the attempt to open the gun, he felt that compared with the delicate missiles that were difficult to serve, the GSH-301 aircraft gun was not difficult to maintain, and the occasional jam was also easy to appear when the gun was fired when it was overloaded. Thinking of this, he set the radar to RWS mode, and turned on the Doppler filter, and soon found the incoming targets at a low altitude of 3,000 meters, and after a simple confirmation with Qi Hui in the channel, he manually marked these targets one by one as enemy planes.

The Su-27SKM that I am flying now does not know where NATA bought it from, and the onboard chain has been damaged and information sharing cannot be realized, but this is nothing for the New Party Air Force, which has a scarce number of fighters and cannot fight in formation, and the ground crew has not bothered to repair it.

A moment later, the radar ranging number jù was displayed on the screen, and Long Yun found that the distance of the incoming target in front of him at eleven o'clock was about 60 kilometers, and if the R-77 was launched at this time, it already had a theoretical killing probability; However, just like Long Yun's thoughts, Qi Hui's fluttering voice came from the radio, and his voice was still so comfortable when he used the radio without scruples in the middle middle sky with an average tactical level:

"The target is eleven o'clock, and the height is two thousand seven; It looks like there are four of them, what do you think about the 'wingman'? ”

“…… I? ”

Holding his hand steady on the joystick, Long Yun was a little speechless when he heard this, is this a combat mission, how can this guy sound like he is playing and hunting?

However, he also did some homework before setting foot in the Middle East, and he knew that the current kind of battle, where there was a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and the enemy, could not talk about any complicated tactics, but mainly relied on the personal performance of the old pilots; This is the way Nazi Germany did this in the face of the absolute superiority of the Allied forces, of course, they were finally bombed by the overwhelming Allied planes, hoping that this situation will not be repeated in Iraq:

"I'll turn around at two o'clock, try to go around the opponent's rear hemisphere, take advantage of the altitude difference to make a plunder, or just keep the track distance and meet the enemy head-on, you decide." (To be continued......)