The fuselage floated slightly and could not maintain a stable flight state. The right wing swung up and down up to 5 degrees. This was an external symptom that the fighter was about to lose control - an unstable state.
At this moment, the Fox 2 F-35C fighter plane, dragging its mutilated body and without any identification marks, is in extremely dangerous condition.
As the right side of the fuselage was attacked by a missile from the right, causing front and rear penetrating wounds, after a 40-minute flight, the condition of the fuselage had deteriorated to its lowest level and was on the verge of crashing. Many internal pipes and circuits in the wound area were damaged. , the right aileron failed, the deformed missile in the buried magazine on the right side of the belly was in danger of exploding, and the efficiency of the light transmission control system dropped to 70%.
For Firefox, the usually nimble and agile Fox-2 F-35C fighter was now controlled like a car stuck in a muddy swamp. It had to use all its strength to control the 18-ton fighter.
Tired, painful, scary.
This is the true feeling of Firefox.
His spine was already severely injured, and after flying for a long time, his injuries also worsened. Under such circumstances, Firefox really couldn't guarantee that he could accurately hook the blocking rope.
Besides that, the thing he fears most is death.
During this journey of more than 500 kilometers, from the Yellow River waters to the waters east of the Tsushima Strait, Huohu suffered a lot. He not only had to worry about the plane crashing, but also was filled with extremely heavy psychological pressure.
Firefox could never forget how the death-like Oriental Flanker played with him, how he pushed himself to a dead end step by step, how he disintegrated his psychological defenses through a series of maneuvers, how he made himself feel The horror and horror of death.
The feeling of flying the most advanced fighter jet in the world, equipped with an electro-optical distributed aperture system and an electro-optical aiming system that other air force pilots envy, but being unable to lock the aim, is chilling.
Firefox never thought that one day he would turn his neck at a speed that could not keep up with the flying speed of the enemy plane. It was terrible, terrible.
Recalling that the Oriental Flanker used an aerial scalpel to directly hit the Fox One and seriously injured it, and finally faced his own decisive blow, using a counter-pendulum maneuver and aerial cannon to destroy the Sidewinder missile, Firefox subconsciously felt nervous. .
As a fighter genius, he knew for the first time that fighter jets could fly like this, and for the first time, he knew that damn aerial cannons could intercept missiles!
"Fox 2, Fox 2, and Huasheng Ton have been received and the emergency blocking net is being deployed. It is expected to be completed in one minute and thirty seconds. Please maintain the current landing route. Your descent speed is a bit fast and the angle is too high. "In the airborne communication channel, the voice of the aviation boss in the main flight control room immediately came out. The order to deploy the emergency blocking net has been issued, through the scanning data given by the air tactical navigation radar, and the flight information transmitted by the F-35C data link. Data, give reminders.
At this time, in the landing area of the flight deck of the USS Washington, a team of strong black ground crew members wearing work vests deployed emergency blocking nets as quickly as possible.
The Fox 2 is still twelve nautical miles away from the USS Washington. In terms of time, there is no problem in deploying an emergency blocking net, but the key is that the Fox 2's fuselage is in extremely dangerous condition at this time.
The speed of descent is too fast and the angle is too high. If you continue like this, you will not be able to land successfully.
The condition of the Fox 2's fuselage and the remaining fuel onboard were no longer enough to support a go-around and landing on the ship. In other words, the Fox 2 only had one chance to land on the ship.
If it fails, the only option is to eject to escape.
As for the situation of Fox 2, the USS Washington already knew when it flew into the carrier's release area before. Due to the penetration of the belly of the fighter plane, which caused the magazine and missile to deform, Fox 2 could only choose to land on the ship with bombs. At this moment, the situation has deteriorated again, which is extremely worrying.
On the flight deck, personnel from firefighting, medical, aviation and other departments were ready. The rescue helicopter on the starboard side of the deck also started to warm up its engine and was ready to take off for rescue at any time. The entire nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has entered the second level alert state.
"Fox No. 2 received it and is correcting it." Firefox was covered in sweat, and the salty sweat flowed through his cheeks and nose. A little of it slipped into the corners of his eyes, stinging his eyes. He quickly wiped his eyes while panting. Holding the controls with difficulty, adjust the flight angle and reduce the speed.
The speed is 200 knots, the altitude is 400 meters, and the glide angle is 1.5°.
There was a pinprick-like pain in the spine of his back, which flowed like an endless stream of water through the neurons to the brain, causing Firefox extreme pain.
But, he couldn't let go.
He had to control the fighter plane to successfully land on the ship, firstly because the fighter plane was expensive, secondly because the fighter plane had first-hand data on the close encounter with the Oriental Flanker, and thirdly, he wanted to survive.
The injury to his back made it impossible for Firefox to determine whether his spine could withstand the impact of the ejection seat after he chose to eject to escape, and whether he could remain awake during the process instead of comatose.
Although the ejection seat will automatically open the parachute, the sea below is enough to drown thousands of him who are unconscious.
If the survival probability of a ship landing is 30%, then the survival probability of ejection escape is only 5%.
Firefox continued to correct the dynamically changing flight attitude of the F-35C. However, the flight condition of the entire fighter jet continued to deteriorate irreparably. The wings swayed up and down at an increasing angle, reaching 8 degrees, and the fuselage even trembled slightly. .
Trembling.
This is not good news.
Severe tremors are likely to cause the fuselage to disintegrate in the air. The main reason for the tremors is that during the close combat with the J-15C Tiger Shark, the Fox 2 F-35C inevitably entered a large overload flight maneuver and the aircraft appeared. A decrease in overall body strength.
The effect of force is mutual. Although the F-35C produced by Luoma is a high-quality product, it is not as durable as the one designed by Sukhoi. It can withstand large overload flight maneuvers of up to 9G, which is really not what the F-35C is good at.
As time passed, the distance between the Fox 2 and the USS Huashengton became closer and closer. After the landing route was established, the Firefox established a communication connection with the LSO landing commander, and the landing commander led the fighter jets. Landing.
The last half mile.
"Fox 2, maintain the altitude, maintain the altitude, and reduce the speed. Your glide angle and glide rate are too high. Adjust immediately, quickly!" The LSO landing commander, holding the communicator in his right hand, had a serious face. As the flight squadron leader, As one of them, he could clearly see that the glide angle and glide rate of the Fox II fighter piloted by Firefox were too high.
If this continues, Fox 2 will not only be unable to land safely, but may even suffer an extremely serious collision.
In the field of vision, the outline of the black and gray F-35C became increasingly clear, and the fuselage that kept swinging up and down came into everyone's sight.
"God..." The black ground crew in charge of the emergency blocking net looked at the F-35C in the sky, made a cross with his right hand, and prayed in his heart.
In the main flight control room, the aviation boss and the small aviation boss stared straight ahead, watching Fox 2, which had serious problems with its flight attitude.
They could not order the Fox 2 to go around and could only pray that the Fox could successfully land on the aircraft carrier deck with its superb flying skills.
"I can't control the fighter plane, I can't control the fighter plane, damn, the operating system has failed, trying to restart!" In the drop-shaped glass cockpit, Firefox was trying to control the fighter plane, when a rapid and sharp alarm suddenly came from the avionics system. A message indicating that the airborne control system failed was displayed, and everyone quickly tried to use emergency methods to restart the control system and restore control of the fighter jet.
Fox 2, which was at a glide angle of 18°, sank again. The pitch angle suddenly increased, and the glide angle suddenly increased to 28 degrees. Looking from the glass cockpit, what appeared in the field of vision was not the aircraft carrier's takeoff deck and landing area. and Fresnel optical landing assist system, but the engine test bench at the rear of the aircraft carrier and the navigation trajectory composed of countless white waves.
"Beep!" A bright red color suddenly appeared on the monitor, and prompt prompts kept coming.
Firefox used an emergency method to forcefully restart the control system. However, before Firefox could react, the display screen again gave a failure prompt.
Fault!
Still a malfunction!
"Damn it, eject, Fox 2, eject quickly!" Seeing the Fox 2's glide angle increasing again, the landing commander on the aircraft carrier's self-stabilizing platform immediately issued an ejection escape order, which was extremely decisive.
"FUCK!" Firefox's eyes were blood red. He did not choose to eject to escape and restarted again. After the fighter plane had dropped seventy or eighty meters, a green prompt came out from the monitor screen and the control system was successfully restarted and restored.
Firefox did not dare to be careless, and immediately pulled back the control stick, raised the nose of the aircraft, and faced the aircraft carrier's landing deck with his skillful experience of landing on a ship.
The landing commander reacted quickly. He realized that Firefox had mastered the fighter plane again and immediately issued the order to land.
In the glass cockpit, Firefox stared at the approaching aircraft carrier deck, holding his breath and adjusting his condition.
"Beep!" Suddenly, a death alert sounded. In an instant, the optical transmission control system failed again. The F-35C, which was in a sliding landing attitude, suddenly raised its head and headed straight for the take-off area of the aircraft carrier's take-off deck.
In the take-off area, there are a row of F-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets and several F-35C fighter jets parked.
Seeing this scene and seeing Fox 2 heading towards the take-off area, everyone was shocked.
Rather than using it to welcome, it’s better to say it’s to hit!
The fighter plane lost control again. Firefox's eyes were terribly red, and he kept trying hard to recover, but these efforts were still in vain. He looked at the deck of the take-off area getting closer and closer, and could only pull up the activation device of the ejection seat.
"Bang!" In an instant, the F-35C glass cockpit cover exploded and the ejection seat ignited, applying a high overload to the Firefox and soaring into the sky.
A huge force struck, and in an instant, Firefox's consciousness fell into a fuzzy state. Before he was completely unconscious, Firefox saw the scene he least expected to see - his beloved Fox No. 2 F-35C crashed into the deck of the take-off area. After gliding for a distance at high speed, it submerged directly into the Super Hornet group in the starboard bow area.
Fortunately, it didn't hit other F-35s.
Fire Fox breathed a silent sigh of relief, and then he fell into a coma.
(End of chapter)
