Li Hai had completely forgotten that he was still just a rookie pilot. In the eyes of veteran pilots, he and his contemporaries were both new recruits whose hair had not yet fully grown.
What does that mean?
He is still a new recruit who needs at least half a year of training to be fully equipped to fly a fighter aircraft alone to perform missions. Not to mention night flights under extremely low weather conditions, even single-plane flights under good weather must be paid close attention to.
Xue Zhengrong suddenly felt unwell. Li Hai was the only pilot on the entire Forgotten Reef who could carry out reconnaissance missions. The situation forced him to go, and he would not go if he didn't!
At this point, Li Hai no longer thought about whether he could go back. In fact, he didn't have any extra energy to think about the next thing.
There is only one thing at hand - to find Nanyu No. 33076.
The appearance of a ten-meter wave is a terrible sign. There is very likely a storm forming in the east! This is not a rare phenomenon. Multiple storms attract each other in an area to form a huge typhoon, and its destructive power is extremely terrifying!
Now we not only need to consider how long Nanyu 33076 can last, but also consider the second storm that is very likely to arrive at any time!
In order to achieve the best search effect, Li Hai chose to conduct a visual search of the sea surface at as low a flying altitude as possible. He knew that at an altitude of 200 meters, the fighter plane's left red and right green navigation lights were very obvious targets. The crew would definitely be able to see it and would find a way to send a signal.
This is indeed true, but except for Wu Taizong, who was tied to a chair and was still in his original position, almost everyone on the Nanyu 33076 was injured in the violent collision, and they were all below the deck.
When Wu Taizong slowly woke up, he found that he was stuck in the chair by the collapsed equipment. His left leg was in great pain and might have been broken.
The ship had tipped over, and the cabin window on the right faced the sky. He tilted his head and looked up through the cabin window, and he could actually see the moon through an oval gap in the clouds.
The faint roar of the engine came. Wu Taizong shook his head and listened. It was the sound of the aircraft engine. Immediately afterwards, he saw a red-green light flying past the cabin window, followed by a louder engine roar.
"Old Wu?" The instructor climbed up with difficulty along the ceiling.
Wu Taizong came to his senses and said loudly, "There are planes outside! Instructor! There are planes outside! Rescue must have arrived! Instructor! Go get the flare, it's in the emergency cabinet!"
The instructor struggled to crawl toward the emergency cabinet. The hull turned ninety degrees, with the left hull facing down and the right hull facing up. The left side was the ceiling and the right side was the floor. Sea water continued to pour in, and it sank just a moment later.
Wu Taizong tried his best to push away the equipment that was pressing on his body. After enduring the severe pain and struggling to get out, he found that he could hardly use his left leg. He trudged along the passage to the cabin and shouted for everyone to abandon ship. Several injured crew members struggled out, and Wu Taizong pushed them to rescue others...
The Nanyu 33076, which was in a rollover state, was directly under the fighter jet's route, so Li Hai did not detect the ship. However, Li Hai noticed a reflected signal flashing across the airborne radar display with his peripheral vision. Li Hai was not familiar with the airborne radar used by the J-8F. Based on his previous understanding of the airborne radar used by the Haishan Eagle and J-15 fighters, he judged that the reflected signal was from the front.
So, he slowed down again and continued to search forward.
After two full minutes, nothing was found. Li Hai suddenly thought that if there was a certain delay in the detection of the airborne radar, the target might not be in front of the fighter, but might be in the rear. Considering that the flight altitude is only 200 meters, the range of the airborne radar is very short. Considering the flight speed, the target may be missed during the time when the airborne radar detects the target, reacts and then displays it on the display screen.
After understanding this, Li Hai's confidence greatly increased. He made an emergency turn and even made a subconscious roll!
When the fighter plane resumed level flight, he was shocked to find that the flying height was less than fifty meters!
A cold sweat suddenly broke out all over his body. Li Hai quickly climbed up to some altitude, silently calculated the distance between the two routes, and focused his attention on the sea about one kilometer away on the left.
In just three seconds, a severely listing ship appeared in his night vision device.
That must be Nanyu No. 33076!
At this moment, the ship suddenly raised a red flare.
"found it!"
Li Hai couldn't help shouting, and controlled the fighter plane to fly over, flying carefully around the fishing boat while carefully observing the situation of the fishing boat. The number on the side of the bow is Nanyu No. 33076. That’s right, that’s it!
But soon, Li Hai's excitement dissipated, and he found that the situation on Nanyu No. 33076 was very dangerous. Half of the hull is already underwater. Under waves after waves, Nanyu 33076 is in danger and may sink at any time.
Li Hai had no choice; he had no choice.
How he wished he was flying a helicopter at this moment instead of a fixed-wing aircraft that couldn't hover!
"You must hold on!"
After Li Hai marked the position on the navigation chart, he decisively turned due west, then gritted his teeth and turned on the afterburner, pulled up the nose of the aircraft and accelerated the climb!
He will fly back as soon as possible to report the situation of Nanyu 33076!
After receiving a report from Wangji Reef about the loss of Nanyu 33076 signal, Li Zewen, who landed on the tuna fishing boat No. 101 of the Gun Group ten minutes ago, decided to take off urgently and rush to the sea area where the incident occurred. After adding fuel, Li Zewen's crew took off with two rescuers.
At this time, Li Hai was climbing crazily to an altitude of 10,000 meters.
Xue Zhengrong did not know that Li Hai had found Nanyu No. 33076, but he knew that Li Hai was going to return. A serious question is, can Le Hai return safely without ground guidance?
Maybe you can't even find it at the airport.
This is not alarmist!
Someone once said that the J-7 and J-8 fleets without ground guidance would lose their combat capabilities. The People's Air Force used the most advanced jet fighters at the time to fight the most powerful air force in the world on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, so that the outside world exclaimed that our country had become an air force power overnight. The combat method at that time was to guide fighter planes from the ground. Without ground guidance, fighters would become short-sighted.
In the following decades, this combat method has not changed, and based on this combat method, the early models of the J-7 and J-8 series fighters developed later did not have independent detection capabilities - no Airborne radar.
Today in 2018, even for second-generation semi-fighters like the J-8F, the avionics system, especially the airborne radar, has become the focus of improvement.
The question is, can Lehi use instruments and airborne radar to find his way home?
Xue Zhengrong looked at the constantly refreshing weather data, his heart heavy...
