Building the all-weather combat capability of the 107th Brigade is the next top priority for Chen Fei and Li Yunfei.
Since the 107th Brigade will be a front-line combat force in the future, it is necessary to have all-weather combat capabilities, and there are no conditions.
The so-called all-weather means that any time and any place, whether it is day or night, whether it is sunny or rainy or snowy, as soon as the mission comes, the 107th Brigade must immediately take off to fight.
There are many conditions for an aircraft to achieve all-weather takeoff and landing flights.
First of all, airborne electronic equipment must be able to work in complex weather environments, otherwise pilots may become blind. As airborne electronic equipment becomes more and more complete, especially with various airborne radars and navigation systems with good performance, most
Both civil aircraft and military aircraft can actually take off under complex weather conditions, which means they are all-weather aircraft.
Second, if a fighter jet wants to take off in rainy weather, it must also solve the problem of water intrusion into the engine.
To be honest, the current 107 does not have all-weather combat capabilities. All other conditions are met, but it lacks pilots for all-weather flying. First of all, taking off and landing at night is a problem. Secondly, it has never done takeoff and landing in rain or snow before.
To be precise, 107 has never taken off and landed at night, but it was not night takeoff and landing under actual combat conditions. Before 107 took off and landed at night, searchlights were used to illuminate the runway. This approach was obviously inappropriate.
If you use a searchlight, don't you point out the direction of bombing and destruction to the enemy? So in this aspect, we must strengthen. After Chen Fei came to 107, there have been changes in this aspect, but it is still not enough and must be strengthened.
As for the second one, take-off and landing in rainy and snowy weather, I haven’t done much of this before. Prior to 107, safety was the priority, so bad weather conditions like that should naturally be avoided as much as possible.
But if the aircraft does not dare to take off and land in rainy or snowy weather and does not dare to take off and land in the dark at night, then the so-called all-weather combat capability is just empty talk.
However, the problem of lack of all-weather combat capability is not just a problem of 107. As of now, only about half of our country's air force has achieved all-weather combat capability.
However, almost all fighter jets of Laos and the United States have the ability to fight at night, and the strikes launched by the United States are basically carried out in the early morning. Therefore, if we do not have the ability to fight at night, once a conflict occurs, we will definitely be suppressed by our opponents.
Of course, there are also great unsafe factors in night operations. Because of poor visibility, fighter pilots are likely to crash their planes and kill people during night training. It is possible that they cannot see the runway clearly or cannot see the height of the ground.
This causes the fighter jet to lower its landing gear earlier or later during the landing process, which ultimately leads to tragedy. Therefore, only through hard training can one master the skills of taking off and landing at night. This kind of training is both dangerous and tests the pilot's psychological quality.
, so whether it can take off and land at night is an intuitive reflection of the combat effectiveness of a unit.
Therefore, this time, Chen Fei will seize this opportunity to practice hard.
The weather station was really good at predicting things. The weather changed a bit on the second day. It became gloomy on the third day. When 107 was about to start taking off and landing training, it turned out to be continuous thunderstorms and rain.
, and the wind was very strong. Under the gloomy black clouds, the expressions of several pilots of the 107th Brigade were not so good-looking, they were nervous and a little scared.
Chen Fei walked up to several pilots with a flying helmet in hand, glanced at them, and twitched the corners of his lips: "What? Are you scared?"
Those guys were originally worried and restless. Now that they were so aroused by Chen Fei, their faces suddenly turned red and they hurriedly denied: "Political commissar, how could this be? How could the soldiers of 107 be cowardly?"
Chen Fei nodded, looking very satisfied, and said with a smile: "That's right, these are my 107 soldiers. Okay, let's go to the battlefield. I will take the lead today, and I will explore it for everyone first.
Explore the path!”
When everyone heard that Chen Fei was going to be the first to fly, they felt relieved and their hearts dropped from their throats into their stomachs. The biggest reason why everyone was so worried today was that they were afraid that Chen Fei would catch them and become the first place.
If you are the first to go out, you have to have experience or not, and it doesn’t matter what you want. Also, being the first to be the one with all the attention is very stressful, so as long as you are not the first to take off, then it doesn’t matter. At worst, you just copy what others are doing.
, and the political commissar was the first to fly today, so there was no problem. Everyone's faces suddenly became relaxed, their smiles returned, and their steps were light.
Chen Fei led everyone to the hangar. The fighter jets had been started a long time ago. Chen Fei climbed into the cockpit, checked them one by one, and then gave an OK gesture to the ground staff outside. The following work
The personnel responded with a gesture, and then the boarding ladder was removed, the power was unplugged, and the hatch cover slowly lowered. Chen Fei put on the oxygen mask, exhaled deeply, and then made a final inspection of the fighter jet.
Click——
While he was doing the inspection, an electric snake appeared in the sky outside. A moment later, a deafening sound rang out, and before anyone could recover, raindrops began to fall.
It had already rained heavily before, and there was already water on the ground. Now it was raining heavily again, and soon it was all watery, and even the runway was no longer visible.
After a few beeps, the radio rang: "Dongyao, this is the tower. The thunderstorm is too heavy. Is today's training postponed? Is it over?"
The person commanding the tower today is Yang Feng, the captain of the first brigade.
He was startled by the astonishing thunderbolt just now, and instinctively wanted to cancel the training plan, but today was led by Chen Fei himself, and he did not have the guts to cancel it directly, so he could only ask pitifully.
Chen Fei took a look outside and said in a deep voice: "Proceed as planned!"
"Dongyao?"
"Execute the order!"
"Yes!" Yang Feng had no choice but to answer honestly. After a while, his voice sounded again: "Dongyao, the current wind speed is 8 meters per second."
He began to report relevant meteorological data.
After hearing this, Chen Fei released the brakes, and the J-8 slowly slid forward, first out of the hangar, and then onto the runway. After getting on the runway, Chen Fei began to accelerate, but the speed was not as fierce as usual. Slowly
promote.
boom--
Thunder exploded again, and the gloomy ground suddenly became bright and clear. Looking from the rear, it seemed that the lightning was about to hit the fighter's head. This was a huge test for people's psychology.
But Chen Fei seemed not to notice it, and just slid forward steadily.
call--
A strong wind suddenly blew up, swirling and hitting the fighter. The fighter's body seemed to tremble, and the flagpole in the distance was blown directly.
"Commissar, be careful!"
"Oops!"
On the tower, many people's hearts tightened.
But Chen Fei just flicked the operating lever, and the effect was eliminated instantly. He spoke while operating, and he explained every operation. On the tower, the pilots who heard these words hurriedly remained silent.
Keep it in mind, these are all experiences!
After taxiing for about three hundred meters, Chen Fei increased his speed again. The fighter plane finally roared. Rain covered the airport runway. The fighter jet broke through the waves and attacked. The heat wave caused by the turbofan engine blew up the rain on the runway, like a battleship in the sea.
It's like flying at high speed! The speed of the fighter plane is getting faster and faster. When the fighter plane taxied 731 meters, Chen Fei pulled the control stick, and the fighter plane roared into the sky and took off successfully.
It is still rare for fighter jets to take off in the rain in China at this time, but around 2020, it will be the norm.