Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 353 Practical Training
"Our regiment will return to the front-line airport at a fixed route and time, and the Second Air Regiment will be free to determine the interception method and time?" Wei Yongguo looked at the exercise order sent by the head of the First Air Division and smiled a little. He knew that this was the division commander increasing the intensity of the exercise.

If before changing his clothes, Wei Yongguo would still consider whether to argue with the leader for changes, but today, this intensity is not even enough to sprinkle water.

With the J-5A's 20-kilometer "eyes", the Second Air Regiment has no chance of launching a sneak attack!

As the second-in-command of the 5st Air Division, Liu Zhiming was of course well aware that the advantage of the J-5 fighter lies in its high altitude and high speed. It is not as good as the Mustang in terms of circling and fighting. Therefore, the combat tactics of the J- fighter are to dive at high speed, strike and run, not to entangle with the opponent, and to move away and look for new opportunities if it fails to hit the opponent.

Anyway, it is fast and the opponent generally cannot catch up, so it is easy to escape. Liu Zhiming has also flown the J-5 in actual combat, and he is really good at fighting against bombers, which can be considered a heavy defeat!
However, the J-5 also has obvious shortcomings. After all, the faster the speed, the narrower the field of view. The J-5 fighter previously only had two traditional 2mm machine guns, which resulted in a touchingly low hit rate. It can crush clumsy bombers, but to be honest, Liu Zhiming believes that the advantage is not that great when dealing with Mustang fighters.

Once it comes to low-altitude circling and dogfighting, the Mustang fighter has an even greater advantage than the J-5, so smart J-5 fighter pilots will never choose to engage in low-altitude dogfighting with the Mustang fighter opponent, but instead use the fast acceleration and abundant power at high altitudes to maneuver and attack from the tail as much as possible!
Liu Zhiming needs to be a good whetstone this time and drag his opponent into a tangle below 5000 meters.

So he took the Second Air Regiment into the air early, and ambushed in the clouds in the airspace that the First Air Regiment had to pass through on its way back to base.

Implement radio silence and wait for the arrival of the Air Force 1st Regiment. This ambush tactic has been used before against the Japanese and the rogue eagles. Although it sounds simple, it really works!

However, today, Wei Yongguo looked at the densely packed "hostile targets" on the radar and a smile appeared on his face.

"Follow Operation Plan No. 1!" Wei Yongguo gave a simple order on the public channel and then implemented radio silence for the entire regiment. Because he knew that the opponent would definitely cut into his channel to eavesdrop, and he knew the character of Sun Yongze of the Second Air Regiment too well. This guy was determined to get a few jet fighters. As long as the results of this exercise were good, he would definitely ask the leader for a squadron of jet fighters to be assigned to his regiment.

Of course, this guy never dreamed that their regiment would also be fully equipped for a facelift next, because Wei Yongguo knew very well that all the J-5s from the regiment he brought back had been returned to the factory for modification. According to this number, at least one more regiment's J-5A would be produced again soon, and these fighters would naturally be the ones that Sun Yongze's Second Regiment would have the greatest chance of receiving.

But Sun Yongze is not aware of this now, so he has to work hard to earn a chance!
For them, the requirement for victory is simple, which is to avoid the opponent's attack, no matter what method is used, and win as long as the opponent's radar is not locked on for more than 30 seconds.

Driving the best propeller fighter of the era, Sun Yongze believed that he would definitely not be targeted by the Air Force First Group.

As long as he found his opponent, Sun Yongze would blind Wei Yongguo and the others with his famous S-shaped movement. Just running away instead of trying to attack the target was too easy for them. As long as they were blindly maneuvering in the airspace of 3000 to 5000 meters, they had no idea how to maneuver next, and Wei Yongguo and the others were even less clear, so it would be even more difficult for them to lock on to him!
Although it may be a bit rogue, the rules don’t mention it, so don’t worry about it, winning is the bottom line!

ten kilometers!
Liu Zhiming and Sun Yongze were completely unaware of the advance of the First Air Regiment, and they continued to hover in the clouds, waiting for the arrival of the First Air Regiment. They occupied the entire cloud layer, and were not afraid of the First Air Regiment breaking through from high or low altitude. Such a large-scale team would definitely be seen by the fighter planes hovering at the edge of the clouds.

Now, to defeat the opponent, you still need good eyesight!

Six kilometers!
Wei Yongguo and his men from the First Air Regiment began to lock onto the most obvious and largest target that appeared on their fire control radar! In actual combat, they could launch an attack after locking onto it for 10 seconds, so the pilots of the First Air Regiment reduced their speed to about 600 kilometers per hour, chasing their targets and keeping the lock on.
However, their show today is not just that. This kind of surprise attack is just a small show.

After entering the 3-kilometer range, the pilots of the First Air Regiment began to actively avoid the large group of the Second Air Regiment in the clouds. The three groups separated, and the fighters of two of them circled outside the sight of the Second Air Regiment. The First Group took the lead in separating the formation to bypass them, enter their side and rear direction, and re-search for the target, bite their tail and start locking. Soon, the First Group completed this operation, and they circled far away to give up the attack position, and began to let the Second and Third Groups implement silent out-of-visual-range locking attacks!

Only after completing this feat did Wei Yongguo break the radio silence and begin the final stage of the close-range dogfight exercise, commanding the team to work in groups of two and use traditional tactics to attack the aircraft group of the Second Air Regiment.

At this time, Liu Zhiming and Sun Yongze finally woke up from their dream. Like frightened birds, they began high-speed and large-scale maneuvers!

If it is a visual range battle, facing such a scene, both sides will be in chaos, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves. The visibility in the clouds is also extremely low, and it is likely to be a wave battle! Under normal conditions, jet fighters may suffer a great loss in such a scene!
However, with the help of the friend-or-foe identification system and radar fire control, the pilots of the 3st Air Regiment were not panicked at all. They seized targets with no enemy or friend response, maintained a distance of about kilometers and followed the enemy's maneuvers closely!
Make it impossible for the opponent to escape from radar fire control!
After half an hour of fighting, Wei Yongguo announced that the troops would be withdrawn and returned to the base!

It was not because they wiped out all the opponents, but because the fuel level was running low. The short-legged characteristics of the tanks, which could only maneuver intensively for less than 2 hours, were quickly reflected in the battle.

If the J-5A still has shortcomings, then its short legs and short hovering time are definitely its biggest flaws at present!

However, before new turbofan engines are developed, this shortcoming of jet fighters will continue for a long time.

"What? We have been locked in at least three times?" After seeing the statistics of the post-war exercise, Chen Shusheng, Liu Zhiming, Sun Yongze and other senior executives were all stunned! "Is there something wrong with this data?"

Sun Yongze asked in disbelief.

"I locked onto seven of them!" Wei Yongguo said calmly, "We locked onto the target three kilometers away, and you didn't even know we had it locked onto you."

"The fire control radar has completely changed the air combat mode. We don't need pilots with good eyesight to lock onto the opponent. Moreover, we found the Second Air Regiment 20 kilometers away and could determine its approximate position in the air. So during the approach, we counted it as one direct lock on the target. Then we divided it into three waves of sneak attacks. The second one was to bypass the Second Air Regiment and attack from the side and rear. Basically, each squadron can lock onto at least a few aircraft at will with this kind of sneak attack, but we only counted it as one."

"In the subsequent melee after approaching the Second Air Regiment and actively exposing the target, the worst fighters in the First Air Regiment locked onto more than one target. Clouds have no effect on radars at all. Fighters without radars are like blind people. But with radars, we can easily find targets within 20 kilometers and lock and destroy them within 6 kilometers!"

Wei Yongguo slowly recounted the battle, which surprised and delighted Chen Shusheng, Liu Zhiming and Sun Yongze! They were surprised that it was true, and the propeller fighters were already counting down to their exit from history. They were delighted that such a powerful fighter was ours!
Next, when dealing with the Rogue Eagle Air Force, the J-5A will no longer be a supporting role to pick up leaky bombers, but will become the absolute main force in air combat!
After listening to Wei Yongguo's introduction, Sun Yongze's eyes turned red. He knew that in such a formal occasion, Wei Yongguo would definitely not speak nonsense.

"Commander, our regiment also wants this kind of fighter jet!" Sun Yongze stared at Chen Shusheng and said.

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