You were asked to repeat your senior year of high school, and you took advantage of the opportunity

Chapter 340: 'Enemy Plane' is kilometers away
The heavy snow that fell a few days ago was heavy enough.

Even though the sun has come out today, it has started to melt.

But the earth was still white.

The two blue and white painted J-8 trainer aircraft were like two nimble swifts, flying in the sky one on the left and one on the right.

We flew about two hundred kilometers.

Liang Zhenghong's voice suddenly rang out in the communication channel, "'The Donkey of Guizhou', 'The Flying Tiger', you are less than 30 kilometers away from the enemy aircraft. The enemy aircraft is heading towards you. Pay attention and attack without asking for permission after sighting."

"'The Donkey from Guizhou' received."

"'Flying Tiger' received."
Jiang Chen and Zhang Yong responded immediately, one after the other.

The answer is finished.

Zhang Yong complained, "Damn, this is not fair."

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, "What's unfair?"

"My senior brother from the senior year is flying the J-7, which is equipped with a ranging radar on its nose, so they already know our exact location a long time ago. But we only have a flight control system, and we can only rely on visual detection to spot enemy aircraft. Now we don't even know where the enemy aircraft is. The enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. Do you think this is fair?" Zhang Yong said angrily.

But he didn't really want to complain.

Instead, I want to use this method to relieve the tension in my heart.

Yes.

The JJ-7 is equipped with an onboard radar.

However, it is not the more advanced fire control radar, but a ranging radar.

The biggest difference between fire control radar and ranging radar is that the former can not only search and detect "enemy aircraft", but also lock and assist in attack, that is, guide air-to-air missiles to attack targets.

Therefore, fighter jets equipped with fire control radar generally have the ability to fight beyond visual range.

But ranging radar is different.

It can only detect and discover targets, and has no function of assisting in attacks.

But it's pretty good.

Because there are more than ten models of "Seventh Master", the models before the J-7E do not even have a ranging radar, and like the J-8, they only have a flight control system.

Therefore, the old model of J-7 must fight with the coordination of ground radar.

Otherwise, you can only deliver food.

However, ranging radar can only detect and search for targets, and then obtain the relative distance to the target.

As for other aspects, we can only rely on ground radar assistance.

Ground search?

No!

Fire control locked?

I am sorry.

There is no such function!

It is a typical second-generation machine.

It does not have the capability of beyond visual range combat.

Among all the models of "Seventh Master", the only one that meets the requirements of 2.5-generation aircraft is the J-7G, which made its first flight after the millennium.

The J-7G is an improved version of the J-7E, with modifications mainly made in more than 30 aspects including radar, HUD and head-mounted aiming system, bringing the overall performance of the aircraft to a new level.

The J-7G is equipped with a Doppler fire control radar, which finally enables it to carry out beyond-visual-range combat and fire medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles.

However, when the J-7G made its maiden flight, the J-10 Raptor was almost ready to enter service.

Six years after the J-7G entered service (in 2012), the first stealth fighter of the University of Science and Technology of China, the J-20 Raptor, also successfully completed its maiden flight.

It's not just the J-20.
The second decade of the 21st century can be described as a decade of explosive growth for Southeast University’s aerospace industry.

Subsequent improved versions of the J-10 Raptor, including the J-11b, J-11bs, J-16, and even the J-35 and other advanced fighters have been developed and put into service.

This has enabled the strength of the Dongda Air Force to achieve a leapfrog development.

No matter how superior the J-7G's performance is, it is destined to be a failed product.

It’s not that the J-7G is bad.

But this aircraft was destined to lag behind the times after it was developed.

This cannot be blamed on the J-7G or the research and development team behind it.

If you want to blame someone, blame the fact that the University of Tokyo is developing too fast.

However, the J-7 series of fighter jets are really classic, and the East China University of Technology Air Force owes too much.

So forget about 2014.

Even ten years later, in 2024.

Some of the second-line units of the East China Air Force are still flying the "Seventh Master".

It can be said that he is getting stronger with age.

歼教-7高教机是1981年，黔州航空集团以歼-7II战斗机为原型研发的高教机，1985年7月首飞，1987年定型。

This advanced trainer aircraft is mainly used for flight training of J-7 and J-8 fighter pilots.

After the successful maiden flight of the J-7 trainer, it successfully filled the gap of Dongda University's lack of advanced trainer aircraft.

In other words, the J-7 trainer is also a typical second-generation aircraft and does not have the ability to fight beyond visual range.

So after listening to Zhang Yong's complaints, Jiang Chen immediately smiled and said, "What's unfair about this? The J-7 has a range-finding radar, but that thing doesn't have the ability to fight beyond visual range. In other words, although they can see far, they can only launch an attack when they get close to the enemy."

"Now that they are here, can we spot them?"

Range finding radar is not fire control radar.

The biggest difference is that when firing an air-to-air missile, the "enemy aircraft" must be within the effective range of the air-to-air missile, and then the missile's seeker will lock onto the "enemy aircraft".

In other words.

The fighter jet that launches the missile has no way of giving commands to the missile through instructions.

But air-to-air missiles are either optically guided or infrared guided.

Can only rely on instinct to track the target.

The effect is predictable!

In other words, it was the fate bullet that was fired.

Moreover, today's confrontation drill can only involve close-range combat, and there is no launch of air-to-air missiles.

"Having a ranging radar is already very good. If I were flying a J-J-7, I would immediately split into two after discovering the 'enemy plane' and encircle it from the front and back. Do you think two J-8s without ranging radars can defeat it?" Zhang Yong retorted immediately.

"Stop arguing~~~"

At this moment.

Liang Zhenghong's voice rang out in the communication channel, "Two 'enemy planes' are less than 20 kilometers away from you, at your three o'clock direction, and they are here to serve as a whetstone for you, not to duel with you, why are you worrying about them?"

Less than twenty kilometers?

Three o'clock?
Jiang Chen's expression instantly became solemn.

"'Flying Tiger', turn on the afterburner and climb higher to seize the commanding heights first," he said immediately.

The words are not finished yet.

Jiang Chen had already pushed the throttle lever to the bottom and increased the power at the same time.

He was seen pulling the lever back and up.

The engine of this J-8 trainer aircraft suddenly made a deafening roar.

The sound was deafening.

The nose of the plane was raised high, and the climbing angle even exceeded seventy degrees.

Continue climbing towards higher airspace.

Almost in the blink of an eye.

The speed of this J-8 trainer aircraft exceeds one thousand kilometers per hour, which is only two hundred miles away from supersonic speed.

'Flying Tiger' Zhang Yong is not to be outdone.

Following closely on Jiang Chen's right side, he was also climbing with his head raised.

Just as the plane's altitude quickly climbed to three thousand meters, Jiang Chen pushed the stick forward and lowered his head to change to level flight.

When he pushed the nose of the plane flat, he saw two small black dots in the distance, climbing towards him and rapidly closing the distance.

These two little black dots.

It should be their 'grindstone' today.

(End of this chapter)