The main theme of life at Pengcheng Base is, as always, flying.
Today is the first day for Zhou Hai, who has returned to the team, to pamper his wife J-10D.
After taking off in a textbook-like manner, the J-10D's maneuverability and comprehensive flight performance dropped to a moderate level. After a short level flight to gain energy, it then raised its proud conical head and pointed straight into the sky.
Climb!
High elevation climb!
"The feeling hasn't changed, it's still so familiar, nice and comfortable."
In the teardrop-shaped glass cockpit, Zhou Hai, who was wearing a sharp eye sight, sat on the ejection seat, looking at the black sky above his head, with a smile on his face. Some stars emitting faint light were vaguely visible, and through the onboard radio Communication channel, report to the base tower: "Calling the tower, climbing, requesting to establish a route."
Half a year later, after establishing a formal relationship with his future wife, he favored the J-10D first wife again.
Not to mention, after such a long separation, there is still a feeling that is better than newlyweds.
The unfamiliar yet familiar optical joystick, cockpit, fourth-generation avionics and the sharp-eyed head sight worth two Porsche 911s have not been touched for a long time, and they feel extraordinary and somewhat inexplicably exciting.
When it comes to fighter jets, before he meets the requirements for marrying a wife and flying the J-20 Veyron, the quasi-fourth-generation J-10D Fire Dragon will always be Zhou Hai's favorite.
Only in the J-10D can Zhou Hai find the most gratifying and excellent flying experience.
It feels like I'm back, but the most important thing now is the mission.
A somewhat speechless special mission.
"The tower received, zero, permission to establish a route from Pengcheng to Wucheng base. The authorized scheduled altitude is 12,500 meters and the total route length is 2,060 kilometers. The weather at Wucheng base is clear and suitable for landing. I wish you a safe journey and a happy ice blasting activity."
In the radio communication channel, the base tower controller's prompt sound with a faint smile came out.
The destination is the Wucheng Air Force Base in the desert at the top of the northwest of the country.
"Zero received, thank you, I think this event will be enjoyable."
Feeling the excellent flight experience and excitement provided by the J-10D, after hearing the prompt from the controller, Zhou Hai responded with a touch of helplessness on his face.
have no choice.
It was indeed a bit helpless. It was still dark, so we took off on the eve of dawn. It seemed like a serious and solemn mission, but in fact, it was quite serious.
The mission that left Zhou Hai quite speechless today was divided into two parts -
During the day, the single plane made a long-distance flight, spanning a long distance of 2,060 kilometers from the Pengcheng base to Wucheng in the northwest.
In the evening, we took off from Wucheng, flew eastward on the 1,300-mile highway, and landed at night on the scheduled G7 Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway. We then mounted a genuine blockbuster, took off, and continued flying eastward to the Baocheng section of the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Accurate and high-intensity firepower strikes were carried out on the river surface covered with ice sheets due to the serious freezing flood phenomenon.
In layman's terms, the core essence of this seemingly solemn and practical mission, with its lofty content, is - ice blasting.
When he received this specific task yesterday, Zhou Hai was speechless.
Fried ice!
I, a rookie pilot, was assigned to blow up ice? !
Or the kind that drops bombs at night and accurately strikes ice jams on the river?
Well, although the content of the mission was a bit weird and absurd, which caught Zhou Hai off guard and made him a little confused, the content of the mission itself was very serious and important.
In fact, using fighter planes to blast ice is a daily activity of the Air Force every year, and it is also one of the few live-fire attack opportunities for ordinary Air Force units.
Because it is located in the north and has cold temperatures, the entire section of the Yellow River experiences freezing floods from time to time every winter and spring.
As a type of hydrological phenomenon, cold floods may seem like nothing, but the consequences are extremely serious and can turn into a disaster if you are not careful.
Because this is the Yellow River!
The world's largest above-ground river is prone to bursting and flooding.
Under the influence of low temperature, the slow-flowing river water will change its physical state and transform into the solid form of water-ice.
Once ice is generated, it will gradually gather and grow to form larger ice rows, and the ice rows will grow closer together and gradually become thick and hard ice dams that can almost cover the entire river surface.
After the ice dam is formed, it in turn creates resistance to the river water, causing the river water flow speed to further decrease, and eventually causes the water level to continue to rise until it overflows or breaks the embankment, causing a terrible natural disaster.
Only the people in the Yellow River flood zone know how terrible the dangers of the Yellow River floods are.
It can range from property loss to family destruction.
In order to ensure the safety of life and property of coastal areas and people, when the freezing flood phenomenon is serious, the Air Force will dispatch bombers to bomb key rivers that are ice-clogging and silted in early spring.
Well, yes, a real bomber unit, the protagonist of course is the H-6 with an effective bomb load of 9 tons and a service life of nearly 60 years.
Normally, three H-6H or H-6K Ares bombers carry out missions and carry out high-intensity and indiscriminate bombing.
However, since it is a live ammunition attack mission, accidents may occur.
According to Air Force historical records, during a bombing mission that year, a fugitive Class A wanted criminal was traced by the police. He wanted to fight to the death, but inexplicably broke into the section of the Yellow River that was most severely frozen during the cold season. He was also blocked by the staff. Reserve area.
Then, the Class A wanted criminal who fled to the middle of the river enjoyed a super luxurious treatment that no one else in the country had.
Three H-6Hs, an extremely luxurious bombing package, each of which is a standard 1,000 kilogram unguided heavy bomb.
In the end, there was no humiliating arrest, no court trial, no never-ending prison labor camp life, and a super luxury package turned this wanted criminal into a different kind of fireworks.
"Just think of it as experiencing a big explosion." Zhou Hai thought, laughed and shook his head, using his right hand to firmly keep the light transmission joystick backward, staring at the dark night sky above his head.
When I came into contact with this task for the first time, apart from being weird and speechless, there was no resistance or other thoughts.
Because when you receive a task, you have to execute it.
Besides, it seems like this is the first time to be a big bomb?
As the ultimate improved model that has been fully optimized, the J-10D has a maximum bomb load of up to 7.5 tons. It would be unbelievable to carry out bombing rounds with a full load of bombs.
In the teardrop-shaped glass cockpit, the encrypted radio channel that remained open became quiet, and the controller's voice was no longer heard. The only sound left was Zhou Hai's steady breathing.
"boom!"
In the still black sky, the J-10D with silver-gray paint piercing the sky like a sharp sword seemed to be wrapped in endless darkness, hidden in it and difficult to detect.
However, the weak and dazzling orange-red high-temperature tail flame at the tail end adds a sense of beauty out of thin air.
Rise high and reach the sky!
Go blow up the Yellow River!
