"Loading and unloading electronics?"

As soon as he heard this, he became interested, and Kirilenko replied quickly:

"Not necessarily, I don't know what changes you're going to make? But Viktor, you should be aware of this, the above is now very important to you, the number one ace of the Red Air Force: the Stavropol base was originally not small, and now it has deliberately strengthened the equipment configuration and technical personnel, and the level of fighter maintenance is second to none in the Caucasus.

So I think that as long as you don't have any ideas to modify the structure of the body, everything else is pretty much the same; So, do you have a specific plan now? ”

"Ah, of course there is a plan!"

Hearing Kirilenko call himself "Viktor" quite casually, Long Yun felt that it was natural to call him like this, and the "comrade general" and "comrade major general" all day long made people feel awkward, so he walked a few steps closer to a Su-27S that was being overhauled in the hangar, and looked at the huge radome with the head of the fighter shaken up by a screw, and the exposed N001 radar inverted Cassegren antenna, and then turned back to look at Kirilenko:

"Actually, it shouldn't be that hard, Igor?

My idea is not to add any new equipment to the fighter, but on the contrary: look at the conditions of our base, can we dismantle the entire radar system of the Su-27, including the supporting heat dissipation, power supply and fire control computer, and then make a little name on the fuselage to reduce the weight of the aircraft? ”

“…… Weight loss, weight loss? ”

I originally thought that I would hear some new ideas from Rezenov, just like the jammer that designed semi-active radar-guided missiles before, but it turned out that the idea of this comrade major general was to dismantle the radar, and Kirilenko looked at Long Yun in a little stunned. He didn't know what the idea of the super ace in front of him was.

I was surprised to see the engineer in front of me. Long Yun smiled unexpectedly:

"yes. It's weight loss; The 'P-42' plane, Igor should know a thing or two. ”

……

About twenty minutes later, together with Long Yun, he walked into the reinforced hangar where two Su-27S fighters were parked, and in addition to engineer Igor Kirilyenko, the commander of the 237th regiment, Colonel Samsonov, was present.

Walking into the constant temperature and humidity hangar through the side door, and confirming that the entire blackout curtain had been drawn, Long Yun fumbled with the snow-bright mercury lamp on the roof of the hangar, squinting his eyes in place, and gradually adapting to the strong cold white light. Under the light of the snow. He squinted his eyes and walked to the red No. 17 Su-27S parked nearby, pacing in circles, while carefully looking and looking, his steps unconsciously slowed down, as if he was afraid of waking up his sleeping comrades.

Just learned some news that was deeply surprised, Long Yun was still a little unacceptable, and he was reluctant to say goodbye to the combat partner in front of him who was born and died together.

It's only been a few months, and you're going to be separated from your old partner......

Twenty minutes ago, after communicating with Kirilenko in the maintenance hangar, Long Yun proposed his own modification idea, that is, he was going to reduce the weight of his own plane like the Su-27 family's aviation record aircraft - "P-42", so as to improve the thrust-to-weight ratio of the whole aircraft, which was used to fight against the "sharks" that haunted the Black Sea.

Hear Long Yun's thoughts. Kirilenko, who came from the "pennant", also had some knowledge of the modification of the "P-42", and he probably thought about it, but felt that such a plan was a bit risky.

But at this moment. Commander Samsonov, who found out where Viktor was, came over and brought some bad news to Long Yun.

After seeing Victor, the regiment commander first told him with a stern face that in a comprehensive inspection of the state of fighters just conducted by the regiment, his red No. 17 landline, that is, the Su-27S that he took over when he first came to the 237 fighter aviation regiment, had already suffered a certain amount of structural damage due to frequent high-intensity use, although it did not affect general combat use, but the maximum overload could only be limited to 2.8G full fuel. The low level of semi-fuel 4.5G; with such a conservative overload capacity, it is barely possible to fight a dozen over-the-horizon air battles, but as the number one ace of the Red Air Force, the landline aircraft is obviously completely incompetent.

Hearing such bad news, although he also knew that the fighter plane had no life, Long Yun was surprised and also felt uncomfortable in his heart, and he suddenly remembered the Red No. 13 MiG-309 that he had piloted in the 29 front-line fighter regiment a few months ago, the MiG plane that fell on French soil.

He hadn't been shot down by the enemy since that time, but was he going to change planes again?

Just heard about the "structural damage of the Red Seventeen", which made Long Yun feel a little worried, but this was not all the bad news he got, and the head of Samsonov then raised his eyebrows and told him in a calm tone that the Red Seventeen, which was injured in the Black Sea air battle a few days ago, was another Su-27S with the number 17 of his Viktor, after a comprehensive inspection at Kherson Air Base, it was also determined that the body was damaged, although it was not scrapped directly, but it needed to be returned to the factory for repair.

The so-called "return to the factory for repair", when the war was in full swing, no one would do such a time-consuming and laborious thing, so the Kherson side gave the construction of the Red No. 17 as a spare parts supplier at their base, and the White No. 20 that Long Yun flew to Stavropol in exchange.

As soon as he heard such news, thinking that the two landlines were suddenly far away from him, Long Yun, who was standing in the reinforced hangar, looked at the red seventeenth Su-27S in the near distance and the white twenty in the distance, and to be honest, he couldn't see any difference between the two planes at all. But as a pilot, he also knew that such observations were meaningless, and how could structural damage hidden inside the fuselage that could only be detected with flaw detectors and payload analysis could be identified with a pair of naked eyes.

Alas, the Red No. 17 in front of him, the Su-27S produced by the Irkutsk Aviation Industry Complex in 1987, still had a flight life of more than 1,700 hours when it was handed over to him, but after so many intense aerial battles, repeated violent maneuvers to evade incoming missiles, and a large overload pulled to a certain number of times, the so-called hourly life is meaningless.

After walking around the huge fighter plane several times, and subconsciously pacing under the wing of the fighter, Long Yun raised his hand to touch the leading edge of the wing of the Red Seventeen with a bit of coolness, and now he only felt very sad in his heart.

The so-called "veterans don't die, they just wither", is it such a scene?

The best destination for a soldier is naturally on the battlefield, but the red No. 17 fighter in front of him did not achieve nirvana in the fierce battle in the sky where he fought bravely to kill the enemy, but because of the damage to the body, he could no longer fight with him in the blue sky.

Compared with the first fighter of his Longyun combat career, the red thirteenth MiG, which crashed in a foreign land, he didn't know which outcome was more difficult for these eagles to accept.

I don't know much about the theory of the fuselage structure of the fighter, and I don't know how long the red thirteen in front of him can persist in flying in the sky after separation, Long Yun shook his head with pursed lips, slowly climbed up the red boarding ladder erected next to the fighter plane, stepped into the familiar light blue cockpit, raised his hand to rub the dashboard and joystick that can be accurately controlled with his eyes closed, and waited on the seat for a long time with his lips slightly moving, as if he was whispering to his lover and telling a trace of apology in his heart.

yes, if it weren't for so frequent high-G maneuvers and sometimes over-limit use, why would she be like this?

But...... It's worth it after all.

After sitting in the cockpit without saying a word, Long Yun stood up and could see the other side of the landline fuselage, and the large dense small red stars on the side wall of the cockpit were too many to count at a glance; The Red Seventeen, who left the line of fire with so many crash records, even if he deducted all the other fighters he had flown in them, would have more than any other aircraft in this war.

The glorious mission of a fighter is to take to the air to shoot down enemy aircraft; Compared with the Red Seventeen, which fought with all its might and then retreated to the second line, how many fighters spent their lives in dull training, and were towed to the aircraft cemetery when their bodies were still useful, falling in dust and silent?

Wouldn't it be a hundred times more aggrieved than the ending of Red No. 17 who was happy and retired......

reluctance to rely on the partner of life and death made Long Yun sit in the cockpit for a long time; However, when he thought that the pace of war never stopped, and knew that the Red Seventeen would remain in the regiment to carry out low-intensity missions, he jumped down from his beloved landline, stood in place and thought for a moment, and then made a request to the regimental commander Samsonov, who had come with him, to apply for one or two new fighters to be used.

For Viktor Rezenov's request, the regiment had the same intention after learning that his landline was unsustainable, and the regiment commander naturally agreed very happily:

"No problem, Victor! Now that the war in the Caucasus is tight, we are a priority reinforcement unit, just like the aviation regiments in Western Europe. KNAAPO is also increasing its production capacity now, and soon the regiment will get a new batch of Su-27M, how's that, our ace killer, is there enough for two aircraft? ”

"Ah,—— of course! Thank you for the arrangement! ”

As soon as he heard the regiment commander asking himself, "Are the two planes enough?" Long Yun felt that this arrangement was very extravagant, and of course he was very content, and he replied in a loud voice. (To be continued......)