Chapter 5 Four

Fortunately, the place for flight training is at Pudong Airport.Now Shanghai has returned to the isolated island situation during World War II. The huge international airport has not had a single civilian aircraft take off or land for several days, so the army naturally confiscated it for military use.Of course, the air force is useless now. The existing combat opportunities are taken up by the Predator, and eight of them are often lost and one Predator is shot down. This figure is not dared to be reported to the public.Ground-based missiles are more reliable.It's a pity that those predators regenerate too quickly, the huge mothership of the Delta civilization is like a hive.

The dedicated passage for troops is not in the same crowded terminal hall. When I changed into my flight suit and rushed to the hangar, the instructor, Lao Lu, was leaning against a "Harrier" with his nose twisted in anger. Lao Lu has a splendid name, Lu Jinbo, who was originally a test pilot of Xi'an Aircraft Company, who was extremely technically skilled, and his subordinate was a squadron of Harriers.Originally produced in the United Kingdom and later changed to the United States, the fighter code name AV-8B was supported by the U.S. Air Force. In terms of combat effectiveness, it can only be regarded as a second-tier aircraft, but fortunately it can take off and land vertically.Today is my ninth flight training, and I always fly this kind of Harrier.

"Hurry up! If you were my subordinate, I would have kicked you out!" Lao Lu didn't have time to scold me, so he waved his hands vigorously. This "Harrier", code-named Gray Eagle One, is a rare two-seater version, with the old road ahead and me behind. "Ground console, this is Captain Gray Eagle. Gray Eagle 1 is reporting that everything is normal and the training program has started." I put on my helmet, and the voice of Old Road came from the headset. "Grey Eagle One, this is the ground console, received, the training program has started." The sky above the head suddenly fell, and the ceiling of the entire hangar was divided into two pieces from the middle.The Harrier's fuselage shook violently, and the Pegasus engine made a terrible roar in the hangar, like a wind-absorbing monster roaring, and the walls of the hangar were about to fall apart.The Harrier soared into the air, and after adjusting the direction of the jet port, it quickly entered level flight. The huge acceleration pressed me against the back of the seat. The flying style of the old road has always been so irritable.

The altimeter showed us climbing 500 meters quickly. "Now you take over the control." Old Lu's voice came. "Understood." I strengthened my hand holding the joystick, and as Lao Lu switched the control to me, the sense of strength on the joystick suddenly increased, and the Harrier was now in my hands. "Pull up slowly, we climbed 1000 meters." "Climb 1,000 meters and we will hit the bubble defense interface." I said. "rising." "clear." I'm already familiar with this plane.In fact, the aircraft is not a very complicated thing, and the electronic control system can solve most of the things.Unless you want to be a test pilot like Lao Lu, it is not difficult to master if you just pull up an airplane and then land it.

The Harrier continued to climb, sirens began to sound from the helmet, and red lights began to flash on the control screen.I know this is a warning that I am approaching the bubble defense interface, but now Lao Lu is Captain Gray Eagle, and he holds all the power. In principle, even if he wants me to crash into that interface and turn into ashes, I have to obey the order. "Enter level flight." When the sirens sounded almost in a series, Lao Lu issued an order. As soon as I pushed the stick, the upward momentum of the aircraft dropped sharply. "Turn lightly! You will stall at high speeds like this. What do you think you are driving? The thrust-to-weight ratio of this thing is only 0.78, not Su-30. If it stalls, it will not pull back!" Old Road Roar on one-on-one channels.

"clear." "Report our distance from the bubble defense interface." Lao Lu said. "150 meters, already entered the dangerous distance." I stared at the control screen, which automatically simulated the position and shape of the bubble defense. "The weather is really cloudy." Old Lu said, "This layer of defense is too low, we are like birds practicing flying in a cage." "Go back?" "No!" I froze for a moment.The power of the joystick in his hand suddenly disappeared, and Lao Lu had already switched the control back to himself.

"Console, this is Gray Eagle One, here is Gray Eagle One, execute Plan Z, execute Plan Z, please be ready to open the hole at any time, please be ready to start the hole at any time." Old Lu's voice was calm. "The console understands, Plan Z, the hole is ready to open, the reaction time is 0.3 seconds, and the opening time is 6 seconds, good luck." Before I could figure out what was going on, the Harrier had already started to rise sharply.I almost screamed out in fright, 150 meters, for a fighter plane, it climbed up in a few seconds, and above our heads is the bubble defense interface that can destroy everything! The altimeter jumped rapidly, and when I came back to my senses, we The height of the mountain has exceeded 1700 meters, and it continues to climb. "We're outside the bubble defense now!"

"Nonsense!" Lao Lu said casually. I don't know what Plan Z is, but the bubble defense opened a hole just now, and we got out of it.The dust cloud had passed and the sky was overcast, but the rain clouds were still higher and I could see everything around me clearly.Those monster-like things inside, they floated quietly around, their long tentacles fluttering, like some kind of jellyfish. My flight suit was full of cold sweat. The Harrier reversed the direction of the jet, and we hovered in midair. We are now like an aphid that has entered an ant's nest. According to the analysis of past battles, predators do not regard individual aircraft as enemies.They occasionally attack actively, but most of the time they are allowed to pass by, which is why external flights can pass.Now I just hope that Lao Lu will not act rashly, don't disturb these terrible things, and just fly back carefully.

"Old road..." I said, my voice was as if I was playing hide-and-seek. "Captain Gray Eagle reports, arrived at the predetermined location, ready to attack." "Ground console, understand." "Attack?" There was a buzzing in my head. At this moment, the plane vibrated slightly, and Lao Lu lightly pressed the cannon, firing a very light burst.I almost watched the shell go straight for the Predator directly in front of us.That thing was sleeping, and the moment the shell hit it, the entire ant nest was startled.I saw all the predators around me stretch their tentacles, as if a stinging puffer fish suddenly exploded, and then I don’t know how many predators are coming towards us in all directions!

Under the control of the old road, the Harrier tilted sharply, drawing an arc and falling sharply.The altimeter numbers are flashing rapidly. This is actually an operation that can easily cause a stall, but it is undoubtedly the evasive action that can get rid of these things the fastest at present.I was pressed tightly against the side of the seat by that acceleration, and I felt like the muscles in my face were going to be pulled apart. The predators are converging in one place, and we're nowhere near where we were. At the beginning of the war, no one believed that we could use fighter jets against this civilization that surpassed the technology of the earth by countless times, but later some facts proved that these predators were not very good at flying.Perhaps the place where they come from does not have such a density of air?Just like humans can formulate complex models to simulate airflow, but they can never understand wind like birds.

However, their instantaneous acceleration was unmatched by any fighter jet. The large group of predators almost tangled together and stopped abruptly.They suspended for a while, and then separated a small group to follow us, and the distance between us was constantly shrinking.The old road manipulated the Harrier to drop sharply, but the speed of those things falling was even more terrifying, like meteorites. "Here is Captain Gray Eagle calling the ground podium, ready to open the hole, ready to open the hole." "Ground command station, understand!" 2800...2700...2600...2500...2400... The numbers on the altimeter flashed again and again, but it was too late.The nearest predator has opened its tentacles like an ugly flower, opening its petals to swallow our plane.I looked up, and through the canopy, I saw something like a mouth wriggling inside the "stamen" of the "flower". The Harrier vibrated suddenly, this vibration was far more severe than the one when the cannon was fired, and it could be easily felt during high-speed flight.The old road turned the engine thrust to the maximum, and the sudden burst of acceleration allowed us to pass the predator.My heart almost stopped beating, and my eyes went dark for a few seconds. The last thing I saw was a lot of white smoke above the canopy, pulling out a beautiful arc, like a big net that was opened. I looked at the altimeter again, the altitude was already 1400 meters, and we entered the interior of the bubble defense. I turned on the tail monitor, and saw that the Predator, which was more than ten times the size of the Harrier, exploded simultaneously in several places. It waved its tentacles frantically and turned into a ball of flames.Was it an air-to-air missile that hit it?I haven't quite figured it out yet, examples of AA missiles taking down Predators are so rare.The burning predator lost its power to stay in the air, and fell like a bolide. It collided with the bubble defense interface... This cannot be called an impact, the moment it made contact with the bubble defense interface, it turned to ashes, its flame disappeared, and its shape was the same, just a mass of light gray matter that maintained its prey for about a second The shape of the former, and then dispersed, as if waved away by the hand of the god of death in the void. I know this interface is not a good thing, if we hit it, the result is the same. Five minutes later, the Harrier landed vertically at Pudong Airport, and I almost crawled out of the cockpit. "Aren't you scared?" Old Lu stood on the ladder and patted my shoulder hard. I noticed that his hands were also covered with sweat after taking off the gloves. "Fuck! What are you doing? I'm not a professional aircraft maker! I'm just a reserve soldier, I'm a citizen!" I gasped fiercely. Lao Lu's face froze for a moment: "What do you mean by professional aircraft? Don't tell the public about this, it's a top-secret test." "What top-secret test?" "Follow me down and have a look." I crouched under the wing, and Lao Lu showed me the pylons under the external pylons on the two wings.I was too anxious to board the plane and didn't notice this special device. Now it looks like it is divided into three terminals, as if a hardpoint has been copied into three. The terminal under the left wing is empty, and the right wing looks It was cumbersome to carry nine missiles. These missiles looked like sidewinders, but they were smaller and hung so densely together that they looked like cluster bombs. "The Cerberus pylon, something made by the British, can mount three Sidewinder missiles on each terminal. The missile has been modified on a small scale, and the wings are reinforced. You press the trigger and the electronic control device will ignite in sequence. 0.6 All three missiles can be activated within a second. They are controlled by a very complicated trajectory program, and will attack a Predator target in an enveloping manner." "Well, the bomb load has increased." I nodded. "It's not just a question of the amount of ammunition. If it is a missile, the hit rate is too low from the combat experience, and three missiles are more than 50% sure. The inference of a British institute of biological intelligence is that the intelligence of those things is actually It's not high, in other words, they put some lice on their bodies to attack us. It can't track the attack coming from multiple directions at the same time, and if three missiles come over at the same time, it will faint." Lao Lu said, "Just hit that one, I released six of them." "Got it, we got the insecticide! What's the bomb load now?" "Nine times as many as before, three sets of Cerberus hangers can be regarded as a set, nine out of three, one Harrier can carry 18 rattlesnakes." "Damn it, doesn't this look like a missile warehouse? You can kill one with 6 missiles, and you can kill three with 18 missiles." "It's not that easy. The technology is not mature. Such a dense mount is like flying with a bag of explosives on your back. Moreover, continuous excitation is also a test for your technology. If you want to use this to fight aliens, you have to practice. "Old Lu got out from under the wing. "Can this deal with a secondary mothership?" "You can try it, bang—clap! 18, all of them have passed. However, the secondary mothership is too big, and it may not be able to destroy it if all of them are released." Lao Lu shrugged, "However, if 18 Sidewinder missiles are fired, it is estimated that it will not be able to destroy it." It’s like setting off fireworks on New Year’s Day, which is very beautiful.” "It's so good, don't worry, it's all released. If the Predator comes again, I won't be dead!" "Don't you still have a 25mm Gatling cannon?" "I'll vomit you to death and use machine guns to fight aliens?" "Don't discriminate against machine guns, they're very manly. Dududu strafing and rushing over, nothing is more handsome than this, missiles are nothing, long-range missiles, you can't even see the fire, it's not your skill. "Old Lu made a gesture of holding a submachine gun with both hands. The mechanic rushed up to overhaul, and Lao Lu and I walked out of the hangar side by side. "Old Road, why did the higher-ups let us fly kites? We can't pull them out to fight." I've wanted to ask this question for a long time. "Ask your boss, I don't know, I still don't want to part with these Harriers." Lao Lu patted me on the shoulder: "The fastest one among you is that Zeng Yu, and you can still do it. If you pull it out, you can beat me. If you hadn't read too much and died of reading, you could have been like me." a wingman." I walked under the very lonely sky outside the waiting hall again.I stopped and saw through the glass that the people inside had calmed down and returned to the way I had just arrived.I actually saw that woman again, she was still sitting on her Louis.Weeden was on the phone on the suitcase, but kept crying.I think Liang Kang is not inside anymore, he has already entered the quarantine gate. I walked towards the magnetic levitation with my head down, and took out my phone from my pocket.I wrote a text message to Lin Lan and said, "Just now the flight training almost killed me." This time Lin Lan replied quickly: "Don't keep complaining, you are neither a child nor a girl." I said, "You said it so lightly, you really narrowly escaped death." Lin Lan replied: "I'm on duty, I'll tell you when I have time, take care of yourself and remember my flowers." The passageway to the magnetic levitation is spacious, and the sound of my footsteps echoes inside.I look at my phone screen and I think I'm really close to being fucked, but you say you're on duty.Maybe when you finish your shift next time, we won't talk about anything, and there will be no money or me, and nothing will be left. I bumped my head against the person in front of me, and the person said "Ouch". I raised my head and saw a pair of beautiful and flying eyes staring at me. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The girl bounced up and down, "Why is it you again?" I didn't expect to bump into Lu Yiyi here.