"Ah, yes, Comrade Captain."

In the real world, Long Yun was already familiar with the MiG-31 in front of him, but he didn't mind listening to the introduction more often.

But to his surprise, Simonov's next introduction was as bland as water, obviously without any technical content, he just approached and pointed to the huge fighter plane in front of the two of them vaguely:

"Comrade Major General, now parked in the hangar is the MiG-31M, which is also the main force of the regiment to carry out interception missions. The supporting weapon system is here," after finishing the aircraft model, he walked a few steps to the bomb trailer in the hangar, and introduced the missile weapons used by the MiG machine to Long Yun:

"This is the R-33, or the legendary 'Immortal Bird', of course, that's all a rumor, and the next two," he said, pointing to the two warheads on the bomb rack with red shields on their heads, which are significantly longer than normal missiles, "an R-40R and an R-40T." Well, that's about it, do you want to take a look at the radar and fire control system components of the fighter as well? ”

"Radar and fire control ......? Okay, but—"

Seeing Long Yun standing in place in a little surprise, Simonov thought that he had said something wrong, he rubbed his hands a little stiffly, as if he didn't quite understand the meaning of the major general of the aviation in front of him.

Seeing his appearance, Long Yun also felt quite strange, and then he spied on his consciousness to know where the misunderstanding between the two people was: the captain who accompanied him did not receive an order from his superiors, who kept Cheng Dù extremely secret, and he thought that the major general in front of him was sent to inspect the work, or to investigate the unfavorable combat situation of the volley some time ago, so he spoke very cautiously - this is completely a misunderstanding!

"Ah, Comrade Simonov. I still have some knowledge of the MiG-31 and the supporting weapon system, after all, I am about to fly this fighter on a combat mission. Isn't the current task to intercept the reconnaissance aircraft of the Americans? They sent me here. That's for it. ”

"Flying a warplane? Personally...... Drive? ”

In other words, the ace major general in front of him, is he here to go into battle in person?

was a little baffled by Long Yun's words. Simonov opened his mouth in surprise, and when the regimental headquarters called and asked him to lead the way to the regimental headquarters office for the major general, he still muttered a little in his heart. This Viktor Rezenov sent from above, even at the remote Alarsk base, is a star that everyone knows and everyone knows, and everyone knows that the number one ace with an amazing record is the top fighter who pilots the Su-27, how could he come here to fly the MiG-31?

Even if he is the number one ace, he may not be able to take all models, unless he has flown the grumpy MiG-31 before, but ...... As far as he knew, it didn't seem to be much in the Air Force. Can this speculation be valid?

With a full stomach full of suspicion, Simonov led Long Yun to the office of the regiment headquarters, and after giving a military salute, he waited outside the door.

Walking into the two-story building on the side of the base, in the sunny and dry office of the regiment headquarters, Long Yun saw Mikhail Levsenko, the commander of the 290 Territorial Air Defense Regiment, as well as the deputy regiment commander and political commissar next to him, who was greeted by the lieutenant colonel political commissar at the airport last night; After a brief greeting, the regiment commander gave a brief introduction to the situation in the base, and then beckoned him to participate in the next combat discussion meeting.

Walk through the narrow corridors of the office building. When the group arrived at the poorly decorated rectangular conference room, the chairs next to the long table were already full, and it seemed that unlike the aviation regiment stationed at the front line, the 290th regiment, which was stationed in the hinterland and focused on territorial air defense, did not attack frequently. Pilots who did not have a duty mission basically came.

"First of all, I would like to introduce to you, this is Major General Viktor Rezenov, who came to assist our regiment, and of course everyone here knows our number one trump card. I don't need to introduce it too much! ”

With the words of the head of the regiment, Levsenko, there was a round of applause in the conference room. Obviously, the PVO pilots also heard about Victor's name, and some people greeted him warmly. "Hey Victor! - Our genius! ”

"Alright, alright," raising his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, Levsenko picked up the battle report on the table, "Greetings can be said later, I think we should learn from Comrade Rezenov seriously and complete our tasks more practically." -- Ilya, I have read this report at a cursory glance, and the sortie the night before yesterday did not succeed in entering the target route, have you analyzed the specific reasons? ”

"Well, I think it's a deviation from the automated guidance system; It could also be that the Americans are too cunning, and this is all possible. ”

"Really? That's not going to work. In the past, we had always emphasized the need to intercept head-on, but now it seems that "the regimental commander flipped through a few pieces of paper in his hand, took out one and carefully compared it, and asked the officer next to him to change it to a slide, "The trajectory of the 'Blackbird' is not fixed every time, and there is no pattern, well, it can be seen that it is not aimed at some target for repeated reconnaissance, but seems to have come specifically for the purpose of attacking. In this case, the role of the ground guidance station can only be to provide early warning, and it is impossible to send us exactly to the target track intersection every time, so it is necessary to think of other methods. ”

Feeling that what the regiment leader said was reasonable, the young man named Ilya nodded.

As one of the participants in the meeting, Long Yun carefully observed the slide projection on the screen from his seat, and on the map of Soviet Central Asia outlined by the zigzag border line, the route represented by the SR-71 was chaotic and dense, and indeed there was no regularity. He only glanced at it a few times and felt that what Commander Levsenko said was right, it didn't look like he was engaged in strategic reconnaissance at all, what could be worth sending SR-71 to repeatedly peep into those large areas of barren grass and Gobi and desert sand seas?

The brief summary of the operation was quickly over, and the pilots got up and left; After chatting with them at the door for a few days, Long Yun returned to the conference room and sat down. Seeing that Levsenko and the political commissar both had stern expressions, he knew that the next small-scale discussion would touch the crux of the problem, so he also sat up straight.

"Uh, Comrade Rezenov," took the Wen Jiàn clip brought by the deputy head of the regiment, and Levsenko's voice was quite low, "I don't know if you have read all the materials that were sent to you before?" ”

Noticing that Levsenko called himself "you", Long Yun thought a little awkward that his current identity was already a major general of the Air Force Aviation, in other words, the highest-ranking person in the entire Aralsk base, and he was still a little unaccustomed to this role: "Yes, I have carefully checked page by page. ”

"So, in a nutshell, what do you think about this matter?"

"My opinion?"

Facing the slightly expectant gazes of Levsenko and others, Long Yun recalled the reports and analytical materials he had read before, and there were many objective facts in them, and there were relatively few subjective arguments. The stack of materials shows that in every interception operation carried out by the Territorial Defense Force since the "Blackbird" invasion, about half of the cases in which the interceptors sent out had already discovered targets and launched missiles, but none of them hit.

"Yes, Comrade Rezenov, now this matter has become very tricky, and the attitude from above is becoming more and more severe."

Probably affected by the adverse effects of the operation, Levsenko's statement was a little slow, obviously the regiment commander's feelings were not too high, "Of course, we also know that this matter is very important, but the recent operation is really not smooth: according to the unified deployment of the PVO, there are now a total of three territorial air defense regiments, including the 290th Regiment, which are responsible for intercepting the 'Blackbird', all equipped with MiG-31 series fighters, and a total of sixty or seventy interceptors have been put into operation. In the past two or three weeks, the total number of sorties under the command of the automatic interception and guidance system has exceeded 100 and the fuel consumption is almost 1,000 tons, but nothing has been achieved.

As for why there were no missile hits? It's a bit inexplicable.

In the course of summing up the previous operations, we also received reports from some pilots that unusual electronic signals were observed behind the missiles, and the radar was also jammed, and it was speculated that the Americans may have mastered the electronic frequency of the MiG-31 weapon system and installed electronic jamming devices on the "Blackbird" -- this speculation was originally quite reasonable, but unlike the radar-guided R-33 and R-40R, several R-40Ts launched in many operations also missed the target, which is a bit bizarre. ”

"Infrared-type R-40T? ――Will this also be off target? ”

Hearing this, Long Yun, who was sitting up straight, also questioned, he knew that the surface temperature of the SR-71 in the cruising state was very high, and it was basically the most ideal infrared target. None of the infrared-guided missiles were hit without the jamming bombs being fired, and if the PVO pilots had all mistaken the missile launch conditions, there would have been some kind of ghost in it.

"Yes! So we were very confused for a while, and we also sent electronic reconnaissance planes to collect possible electronic jamming signals, and you can also take a look at the records of this, but it seems that it will not help much to solve the problem. ”

Hey, that's a bit of a sinister thing!

Hearing the introduction of the head of the group, Long Yun looked at the materials in his hand and fell into deep thought.

MiG-31 and SR-71, a pair of old enemies who have also faced each other for many years in the real world, the characteristics and parameters of the two models can be said to be relatively familiar; Although the MiG-31 with a turbofan engine installed was inferior to its predecessor MiG-25 in maximum speed and ceiling, the electronics were much better. Theoretically speaking, the MiG-31 with perfect ground guidance can pose a serious threat to the SR-71, as long as it accurately appears at the track intersection at the right time, and uses the R-33 or R-40 specially used in high-altitude rarefied atmospheric environments to attack head-on, the SR-71 with poor maneuverability is simply inhumane. (To be continued......)