ALSA's fighter jet refitting plan naturally includes Li Gejian's Fifth Air Wing, and his partner Gao Meiyu also temporarily flew to Egypt to participate in this tight schedule.

From the third-generation aircraft to the twin-engine heavy fourth-generation aircraft, ALSA's fighter procurement plan can be described as twists and turns.

In today's era when the raider aircraft dominates and the fighter plane takes a back seat, the rise of the aviation competition industry has given military aircraft manufacturers a broader stage, and the scale of the international fighter trade has been growing steadily.

However, compared with the vigorous development of the non-governmental trading market, against this background, the international trade in military fighters, especially stealth fighters, seems to be somewhat unpopular, and "sellers are not in a hurry to sell, and buyers do not take the initiative to buy," which has almost become the norm in the fighter aircraft market in the new century.

The reason for this situation is that, on the one hand, arms dealers can make enough profits from the almost risk-free field of aviation competition, but they are not keen on selling fighter jets to sovereign countries, because the more countries that urgently need fighter jets, the more they are often potential initiators or even direct participants in regional wars. On the other hand, the appearance of assault planes has also made many countries feel pessimistic, believing that even if they spend sky-high prices to equip dozens or hundreds of advanced fighters, they will not be able to stop a wave of assault aircraft offensive by the superpowers.

In the context of this aviation field. A country that is really at war and in dire need of weapons and equipment. The difficulty of procuring fighter planes has been clearly polarized.

For the League of Arab States. It has ALSA, which has the largest equipment scale in the Middle East, and hundreds of F-15 and Su-27 series twin-engine heavy fighters are very simple, as long as they pay for any middleman, no matter what kind of improved model, it can be said that they can have as many as they want.

However, compared with the third-generation fighters, which have a huge number and are not subject to any restrictions on trade, the fourth-generation stealth fighter itself is the active equipment of the major powers, and it is more strictly controlled by the "Agreement on the Complete Aircraft and Technical Control of Stealth Fighters", and it is very difficult for ordinary countries to procure them.

Just a few months ago. The Arab League can only buy medium-sized stealth fighters such as the F-35 "Lightning" and the J-21 "Swift Dragon" for ALSA, which also have very good performance, but they are completely contrary to ALSA's tradition of using twin-engine heavy aircraft. After a long period of training and combat, the pilots have become accustomed to the ability to stay in the air for several hours and thousands of kilometers with heavy maneuvers, and if they are equipped with medium-sized stealth fighters, it can be said that there is no improvement in this regard at all, so the military has always disapproved of the introduction of medium-sized aircraft, and this matter has been shelved for a long time.

The matter has been put on hold until now, and in the face of the monstrous flames of two civil wars, the Arab League, which aims to maintain peace in the Middle East and strive for the interests of Arab countries, naturally cannot be appeased again.

And if you want to solve the Middle East problem by force. Whether it is facing the IAF equipped with F-35 fighters, or the FSA that suddenly appears a large number of "ghosts", and even considering the head-on confrontation with the old enemy ECJA. It is urgent to introduce advanced fighters to enrich ALSA.

On the one hand, there is a strong willingness to buy, and the past record is quite good, on the other hand, the air forces of several superpowers, the United States, China, and Soviet Russia, are also undergoing structural adjustments, fighter wings and fighter pilots equipped with fourth-generation aircraft are gradually downsizing and restructuring into smaller assault aircraft units, and the F-22, J-20, and MiG-44 fighters that were produced earlier are also approaching the peak point of the cost-effectiveness ratio.

As for the "Agreement on the Complete Aircraft and Technical Control of Stealth Fighters", at that time, the representatives of several major countries could have signed on it, which was supposed to block the export channels of heavy stealth aircraft, but everything in this world can be flexible, and after some official procedures, the United Nations General Assembly quickly discussed and approved another additional agreement, allowing the supply of advanced weapons to "peace defenders" such as ALSA, and "prudent use under the supervision of the UN General Assembly Observer Mission" - and then once the price is negotiated and the contract is signed, The whole ship of fourth-generation fighters has been sent to the Middle East in a steady stream, among which the F-22 "Raptor" is equipped with the ALSA fighter wing in Egypt and western Saudi Arabia, and the ALSA wing in eastern Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran is equipped with MiG-44, which has rewritten the history of zero exports like the J-20 "Weilong", which was sold to the United Nations in bulk and served as the main battle weapon of UNSA.

With regard to the export of this batch of air force main battle weapons, taking into account the combat readiness needs, the buyers' situation, and the grim reality in the Middle East, the prices offered by several major countries are very approachable, and everyone knows that the Arab League's large-scale purchase of these fighters is also for firefighting.

However, even in such a situation, of course, the seller will still have reservations, the F-22 and MiG-44 fighters sold to the Arab League are all early production batches, the radar and electronic systems have also been simplified, and these fighter models, without exception, are land-based heavy fighters.

As for the carrier-based fourth-generation aircraft placed on aircraft carriers, whether it is the Su-50/J-30 "Shenglong" or the F-34 "Silent Cat", these superpowers' long-range and close-range air weapons cannot be allowed to be exported to other countries.

For a time, the stealth fighters of the three major powers gathered in the Middle East, plus the huge aircraft carrier battle groups cruising in the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and the UNSA and ECJA that were fierce on land airfields, and the "ghost" fighter scandal that broke out at the Security Council added fuel to the fire.

The waves of war, like a dust storm in the sky, are raging and spreading across the Middle East.

He briefly reviewed the whole picture of the Middle East war situation, and also expressed a little emotion about Gao Meiyu's good luck in participating in the fighter redress, so he immediately focused his mind on the diffraction flat display in front of him and a large expanse of the vast sky.

Ah, anyway, it's only a matter of the past few days to change the costume of "Raptor"!

However, before this, Li Gejian couldn't help but think that even if he didn't have a partner to cooperate tacitly, he and his comrades-in-arms would simply complete the combat mission and kill the arrogance of the Syrian rebels.

In a sandstorm like today, there is no hope for a ground attack or anything for the time being, but the FSA is not willing to be lonely and nest in the hangar and wait for a sunny day; Compared to the sandy interior of Syria's hinterland, the skies in the north of the country are still clear and suitable for low-altitude warplanes, and government forces on the ground are fighting the rebels, with requests for air support snowflakes to the air force headquarters and FSA sorties as frequent as usual.

The Arab League is powerless for the time being in the air theater in northern Syria, but the presence of enemy planes in the "Syrian no-fly zone" is another matter, and "hit when you see it" has become the operational principle of every ALSA hired pilot.

"Attention to all aircraft, attention to all aircraft, it is expected to enter the 'Syrian no-fly zone' in 90 seconds, and now check the navigation beacons, and confirm that the number of communication links is normal, and prepare to carry out the guidance operation."

"'St. Darwin' received ,—— communication link is normal."

"'Milan' received ,—— link is normal, and the navigation error has been corrected."

Seeing that the boundary of the no-fly zone was ahead, and hearing the replies of his comrades-in-arms one by one from the earset, Li Gejian clicked on the screen to confirm that the number of links between the landline and the E-3C early warning aircraft in the rear was unobstructed, and he could receive the air situation number forwarded by him, as well as the ground threat warning information obtained by the E-8C battlefield monitoring aircraft:

"'Fire Eagle' received, and the communication link is normal."

After checking the communication links and making contact with the rear command center, the battlefield commander immediately ordered the F-15 group of the Fifth Wing to go into battle, and more than a dozen "eagles" with eye-catching paint and uniform pace adjustment moved away from each other in the sky, and two multi-plane formations that changed course entered the "Syrian no-fly zone" from different directions.

After entering the no-fly zone, the air situation information on the downward-looking display continued to be refreshed, and the ALSA fleet climbed further to an altitude of 6,000 meters, avoiding the threat of Syrian rebels surface-to-air missiles by increasing the firing range.

Originally, this could have been done by an E-8C battlefield surveillance aircraft equipped with an AN/APY-3 phased array radar, and a special aircraft nicknamed the "United Star" could guide fighters to evade missile launch positions or help them use air-to-surface munitions for active attacks. But now, the land is obscured by a sandstorm, so that the "United Star" battlefield monitoring aircraft can not snoop, ALSA pilots take evasive flights according to the intelligence, anyway, the rebels do not have S400, "Hongqi"-9C and other medium-altitude air defense missile systems in their hands, even if they have, they will not operate, as long as the flight altitude is more than 6,000 meters, in this yellow sand-filled weather, they can ignore the threat of general air defense weapons.

Entering the no-fly zone from a high altitude, Li Gejian, like his comrades-in-arms, turned on the airborne radar and scanned the airspace ahead with VS mode.

As the radar beam swept over and combined with the air situation information from the rear, the multi-function display soon showed the traces of the Syrian Liberal Party, and clusters of red dots showed that FSA fighters were moving on the edge of the no-fly zone, but all ALSA pilots knew that these targets were certainly not all. (To be continued......)