They are also weapons of war in the sky, fighters and assault aircraft, but the visual feeling is very different.

This kind of feeling can probably only be experienced by seeing it with your own eyes like now; Compared to the sleek lines and mechanical beauty of the fighter, the engine thrust of the Assault Aircraft does not care too much about the aerodynamic shape, and the lines of the fuselage look more aggressive, exuding a strong atmosphere of dominating the sky all around.

At this moment, in Long Yun's sight, it looked like it was just a lonely fighter, but compared to the fighter he was already familiar with, the body of the metal giant bird was indeed larger, and it was also more permeated with a thick murderous aura-

Is this an attack plane, an epoch-making and strongest aerial weapon, that brings people an invisible sense of oppression......

Just after seeing the true face of the assault plane, Long Yun on the off-road vehicle was still secretly sighing.

However, unlike the young man next to him who saw the true face of "Yanlong" and was excited, Lu Chunjiang, who was accustomed to seeing "Yanlong", still drove an off-road vehicle around the intersection and stopped next to a building near the runway of the base, he leaned the car on the side of the road, beckoned Long Yun to get out of the car, and then raised his finger to point to the reinforced hangar with the open gate in the distance, and waved to the young man with a relaxed expression:

"Oh, young man, I see you're curious about the situation over there!

It's nothing, I can make an exception for you to visit today, it's a little bit of preferential treatment, how about it? Such an opportunity is rarely available to ordinary people, but you must follow the command; You can't walk around by yourself, otherwise the consequences may be very severe! ”

"Ah, yes! Definitely, definitely. ”

Getting off the "Warrior" off-road vehicle and hearing what Lu Chunjiang meant, it was possible to get yourself closer to visit. Long Yun was naturally overjoyed. hurriedly responded with a stack of voices; But at the same time, he was a little confused. I was notified by the "organization" today that I was going to the air base, so I couldn't have just arranged a visit to the attack plane, right?

But in any case, the opportunity is really rare!

So he reluctantly suppressed his excitement, and walked with Lu Chunjiang to the reinforced hangar two or three hundred meters away.

While walking forward, he was concentrating on observation, Long Yun's eyes scanned the surroundings at will, and his main attention was naturally on the "Yan Dragon" that was gradually approaching and growing larger in his field of vision.

This close-up observation was different from the first time he had seen it a few minutes ago, when he was only surprised, and now he looked back and forth at the gray assault plane in front of him very carefully. The first impression that emerges is that "the assault aircraft is really huge": compared with the vague and inaccurate "35 meters in length" on the Internet page, only when you really look at it can you appreciate how long the X-8 "Yanlong" is, and in terms of the feeling of Long Yun, it is almost similar to the visual experience of a Tu-22M3 bomber.

"Hehe, young man, look at your staring at you, the model should be visible, right? -- Be careful not to approach, let alone touch, and it's okay to keep your current distance and take a turn. ”

"Okay, - this should be X-8A, 'Flame Dragon'?"

"That's right! Later, when the fighter plane takes off, you will follow me far away. I must have remembered that. ”

"-Understood!"

Hearing Lu Chunjiang, who was walking in front, say, "The fighter plane will take off in a while," he also saw that several ground crew members were busy next to the huge body of the "Yanlong" at this time. Long Yun thought to himself that today was really a burst of luck, or a little extra benefit for joining the "organization"?

It was even more rare to be able to witness the assault plane taking off at close range here, so he paid attention to keeping a distance of more than 30 meters from the "Yanlong" in front of him, and at the same time began to study this familiar but unfamiliar assault plane.

"Familiar and unfamiliar", this kind of saying is the same for many aviation and military enthusiasts.

In this era when the research of atomic hydrogen engines has made heavy breakthroughs and the assault aircraft have become a new generation of sky hegemons, fighter planes in the traditional sense have long been the main force relied on by the militaries of major countries, and have long been widely spread among the people with the development of aviation competition. Therefore, for fighters, ordinary fighters and military enthusiasts, not to mention personally piloting the fighter into the air, if you just want to feast your eyes or experience the feeling of soaring in the sky on a two-seater, it can be said that it is still very easy.

However, unlike the situation of fighter aircraft, the attack aircraft, as a new generation of main combat weapons of the Air Force, must be kept strictly secret; In addition to making some appearances on military media pages and magazines, ordinary people who want to see the real attack planes at high cost and with amazing combat power can only watch from a distance at the National Day military parade or from a distance outside the military bases.

However, even now, I don't know what the above arrangement is, since he has obtained the permission to observe the "Yanlong" with his own eyes, Long Yun naturally does not want to miss such a rare opportunity.

The so-called strangeness refers to the first time I saw it with my own eyes today; As for familiarity, it should be said that it mainly refers to the performance parameters: for the "Yanlong" in front of him, if you only talk about performance, Long Yun, as a military enthusiast and aviation competitor, is quite familiar.

Assault 8, codenamed X-8, a type of high-speed interceptor produced by Shenyang Aviation Industry Group, from the appearance alone, seems to be a bit similar to China's former main high-speed interceptor J-8, but in fact it is exactly like this; Inheriting the aerodynamic configuration that seems to be completely outdated and has its merits under the new shape, combined with the redesign of the atomic hydrogen engine and the distributed radar system, the "Yanlong" with a total length of more than 35 meters and a take-off weight of 100 tons adopts the conventional aerodynamic configuration of the nose/back air intake and the side strip to change the swept wing, which looks a bit like the sci-fi J-8I, but the actual handling performance is completely different.

As a strong attack aircraft with reinforced armor and extreme speed, the X-8 looks like a long-range bomber with a take-off weight of hundreds of tons and a fuselage size close to that of a bomber; However, with two atomic hydrogen engines with a maximum thrust of 150 tons and a propulsion power comparable to that of some launch vehicles, the "Yanlong" still has a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 3.0 for the whole aircraft, combined with excellent aerodynamic design and an auxiliary vector engine with a thrust of 60 tons at the front of the fuselage, its maneuverability can be said to be far superior to that of any traditional fighter, and it also has a maximum level flight speed of about Mach 4, that is, 4,300 kilometers per hour!

As a veritable epoch-making war weapon, it can be said that the X-8 "Yanlong" has the dual functions of high-speed interception and air superiority combat.

Of course, when it comes to burning money, Long Yun only has a vague concept, and he doesn't know much about the specific cost of the assault machine.

But in any case, the equipment and use cost of the assault aircraft is at least ten times more than the same number of fourth-generation fighters, or how can it be said that this is completely the exclusive weapon of the superpower?

At this moment, in front of Long Yun's eyes, several ground crew members were busy around the fighter, probably conducting a routine pre-flight inspection for the fighter. The scheduled flight of the "Yanlong" this time was probably for some air patrols or live-fire training missions, and it looked like an automatic bomb trailer comparable to a medium-sized truck, but it was quite small under the "Yanlong" body, and seeing that the air-to-air missiles were lifted by the bomb truck like bullets and sent into the belly magazine of the Assault Type 8, Long Yun also quickly remembered that when he was busy observing, he remembered that someone on the Internet had broken the news, saying that if it was an air superiority operation against fighters, "Yanlong" Can carry more than thirty over-the-horizon air-to-air missiles at once?

More than 30 bullets, what kind of concept is this, it's like an assault rifle with long-lasting firepower!

With unmistakable excitement and excitement, Long Yun paced and watched while talking to Colonel Lu beside him, but he didn't expect the colonel to answer seriously, after all, he wasn't sure about the information about the attack plane, which was absolutely secret, and which could be made public:

"This, Colonel Lu, it is said that our 'Yanlong' can carry thirty air-to-air missiles at a time?"

"Oh? …… Yes, hehe! ”

Hearing the young man's question, Lu Chunjiang first smiled noncommittally, and then said something unhurriedly, which was regarded as a response:

"You mean the all-built-in situation? - Hehe, maybe. But young man, I can remind you that the 'Yanlong' itself does not pursue a high degree of radar stealth, and if it is allowed to be plugged in, in fact, as long as it is paired with a missile nest, then one or two hundred is not a difficult matter.

You can't say the specific number, you can guess for yourself! Ha ha. ”

"Oh-yes, that's it! I understand. ”

While hearing the colonel's hearty laughter, Long Yun unconsciously felt a little speechless, saying that he had read a lot of various news on the Internet before, why had no one mentioned this? The load of one or two hundred bombs, this is too terrifying, think about the scene of ten thousand bullets in the sky, missiles pouring like rockets, this is simply the rhythm of the air ripper and splashing water!

Taken aback by the terrible carrying capacity of the "Yanlong", Long Yun continued to walk to the back of the fuselage, while thinking of the so-called "air arsenal aircraft" that had been laughed at by many military enthusiasts, to be honest, for strategic bombers such as Tu-160 and H-8, if they just hung up a hundred air-to-air missiles and flew into the air, it would not be a difficult task; However, it is completely different from traditional fighters, and even if the powerful "Yanlong" is hung with 100 missiles, it can still maintain the flight performance and mobility of a fighter that completely overwhelms the fighter!

The combination of firepower, maneuver and defense, like a main battle tank, is the terrible thing about the assault plane, and he now has a very intuitive and perceptual understanding. (To be continued......)