Great Power Fighting Falcon

Chapter 708 Three-dimensional sea and air patrols

In the thick darkness, two speedboats of more than 400 tons untied their moorings and slowly drove away from the old pier of Forgettable Reef. These are two missile speedboats equipped with double 37 naval guns and two triple-mounted C-801 anti-ship missiles. After coming down from the front-line troops, the anti-ship missile launchers were removed and the double 37 naval guns and other electronic warfare equipment were retained. , and part of it was used as an armed patrol boat for the island garrison force.

The armed patrol boat disappeared into the night, and three J-8FRs were waiting for takeoff instructions at the runway takeoff position.

Because there is no obstruction around, the unique roar of the turbojet engine seems smaller. Only by listening carefully from the tower can you distinguish the roar of the aircraft engine from the sound of the waves hitting the rocks.

Li Zhan's plane is in front, and Zhu Wei and Li Zixin are behind him, one on the left and one on the right, forming a triangle formation. The runway here is built to take off and land four-engine large passenger aircraft. The runway is very stylish, even if three J-8FRs take off side by side, there will be no problem.

While waiting for the takeoff order, Li Zhan used his flashlight to look carefully at the hand-drawn chart of the mission sea area. The sea map of the mission sea area drawn based on the latest intelligence is slightly rough but rich in information.

Although there is a regiment headquarters agency on the Forgotten Reef, the full strength of the troops here is only more than 200. Except for the officers and men of No. 100 of the guard company, the rest are agency personnel. Because of the special nature of the long-term task of guarding the island and reef, These people had little exposure to combat work, so Li Zhan and the others had to personally go into battle and draw hand-drawn charts of the mission sea area based on the latest intelligence.

"Hey, Lao Li, there are more merchant ships going south at this time. Do you think we should adjust the direction we enter?" Zhu Wei's voice came from the radio, and there was slight electromagnetic interference.

Li Zhan was also considering this issue and said, "Okay, enter in formation from south to north and confirm. After entering, I will cruise at 6,000 and you will conduct a visual search at 1,06."

"Yao Dongliang understands."

"Yao Dongsan understands."

After finalizing the final undecided details, Li Zhan turned off the flashlight and put it in his pocket and fixed it, put away the navigation chart and put it in his pocket and fixed it, waiting for instructions from the tower.

The ground command personnel in the tower belong to the Air Force. They are air traffic controllers sent by the Air Force to a certain department of China Southern Airlines and then stationed at the Forgotten Reef. The reason for such a big detour is that air traffic control personnel were actually stationed here when the Forgotten Reef entered its second generation, because a navigation station was built here to provide navigation services for our country's passing aircraft. The ground navigation system has always been under the jurisdiction of the Air Force.

Therefore, Li Zhan is not worried at all about the ability of the ground commanders. It can be said that they are very experienced. The confrontation exercises with the 117th Squadron in the past few days have proven their capabilities.

At 2:30 in the morning, the tower commander called Li Zhan, "The instructor team is ready to take off at the time and start the night air patrol. It's over."

"The instructor is ready. Please take off. It's over." Li Zhan replied.

The tower commander looked around, once again confirmed that all positions were OK, and issued the order, "Instructor, you can time the takeoff!"

"Understood!" Li Zhan pushed the throttle lever all the way.

The tail nozzles of the two turbojet engines widened, and the powerful thrust that burst out instantly made the braked fighter begin to tremble. The engine speed quickly climbed to the designated position. Li Zhan released the brakes, and the fighter began to accelerate and taxi. Equipped with a reconnaissance pod, two aircraft fire launchers, and three auxiliary fuel tanks, the heavily loaded No. 101 J-8FR has a very strong acceleration momentum. The acceleration performance of the turbojet engine is better than that of the turbofan engine.

Zhu Wei and Li Zixin followed closely and began to taxi, and the three aircraft took off in formation at the same pace. The huge roar of the turbojet engine completely drowned out the sound of the waves. Navigation lights, landing gear lights, and anti-collision lights fluttered like giant fireflies in the dark night sky.

The three dark gray J-8FRs took off in formation, thus saving the time of formation in the air. After taking off, they climbed to altitude while turning to the right at a small angle, drawing a beautiful arc.

Zhong Guobang watched the planes go away from the tarmac, feeling very excited. The Forgotten Reef has the conditions to station fighter jets and also has the ability to ensure simple stationing and training of fighter jets. However, due to various reasons, no fighter jets have actually been stationed there.

Forgotten Reef is a reef. How can there be an airport on the reef and how can it station fighter jets?

However, with the development of shipping and fishery, the vast sea area where Forgotten Reef is located is becoming increasingly unstable. With more activities, there will be more conflicts, even if some fishing boats have some incidents while fishing. Damn it, then we have to go over to Forgettable Reef to seek justice, right? There is no law enforcement force on the Forgotten Reef, and the garrison has always played a temporary guest role in law enforcement.

For example, pirates are frequently plundering on the waterways. If you send people from the mainland to seize such a long distance, by the time your people arrive, the pirates will have eaten and slept.

Therefore, the garrison troops on the Forgotten Reef can only go out to do this work.

How aggrieved Zhong Guobang is, he is as aggrieved as the South China Sea is as big as it is. The pirates were plundering on the waterway seventy or eighty nautical miles away, but they were never able to catch up with the pirates due to the lack of a suitable fast maneuvering platform.

Those are just pirates. No matter what, the island garrison is a serious standing armed force, a regular army that can be drawn out to fight at any time. Can Zhong Guobang not feel aggrieved when he can't even deal with a few groups of pirates?

Once again, the island garrison troops have always been engaged in defense, which is a very boring job and life. The opportunity to take the troops out for a walk is welcomed by everyone with both hands and is very much looked forward to. As a result, I went there with great interest but ended up with nothing. How can I not feel aggrieved?

Zhong Guobang said to Li Zhan privately, "Li Zhan, if you find pirates, as long as they are not looting, I hope you can follow them for a while and let our soldiers catch up and do some work."

"No problem, I will leave the good meat to the brothers who are guarding the islands." Li Zhan agreed.

It is impossible for fighter planes to board the ship and arrest them. It is certain that this task will be left to the garrison, but Zhong Guobang obviously does not mean this issue. Zhong Guobang knows a lot about Li Zhan. Who knows about the famous "South China Sea Mad Dog"?

If Li Zhan, the "Mad Dog of the South China Sea", had used aircraft fire attack tactics regardless, let alone boarding the ship and arresting him, he would probably only see the splash of the sinking pirate ship when the garrison's boat arrived.

So when Zhong Guobang mentioned it like this, Li Zhan was actually quite embarrassed. Of course he knew his own affairs best. The most important thing was that he really had the idea of ​​​​taking down the aircraft and fire, and it would be troublesome to capture him.

Through the analysis of past cases, most of the robberies that occurred at night were committed by West Pacific pirates. They obviously wanted to avoid conflicts with the Malacca pirates, so they deliberately avoided the Malacca pirates' customary operating time.

Two-thirds of these nighttime robberies occurred at four or five o'clock in the morning. This is the time when people are most tired. West Pacific pirates are very picky about time. After careful deployment, Li Zhan decided to dispatch at 2:30 in the morning to conduct armed patrols and searches in the waters where pirates may appear in the West Pacific.

If the West Pacific pirates came out, they must be halfway there at this moment.

In fact, Li Zhan believes that the three armed patrol boats codenamed "Red Arrow No. 1", "Red Arrow No. 2" and "Red Arrow No. 3" are most likely to discover traces of pirates in the West Pacific. After they went out, they searched eastward in a horizontal formation at a distance of twelve nautical miles.

The armed patrol boat has a sea search radar with a maximum combat range of 80 nautical miles and an effective combat range of 40 to 50 nautical miles, so the search capability at night is not weak. Don't underestimate these armed patrol boats with a displacement of only a few hundred tons. They were formerly missile boats and were once the backbone of the People's Navy's offshore defense strategy. They are equipped with a large amount of electronic equipment, especially electronic equipment for search and guidance.

In an era when the People's Navy was extremely short of large destroyers, there were two main anti-ship forces, submarines and missile boats. The main combat tactics at that time were also summarized as submarine speedboats. Only these two methods can achieve the purpose of effective anti-ship operations. .

The role of missile boats cannot be underestimated. The target target is highly concealed but has strong firepower. For example, the Red Arrow class is equipped with six C-801 anti-ship missiles, which is equivalent to half a three- to four-thousand-ton frigate. The People's Navy's love and emphasis on missile boats is reflected in the development of this kind of weapons and equipment.

No, more than a hundred Type 022 missile boats using a high-speed, wave-piercing catamaran stealth design have been launched, replacing all other types of missile boats. In the presence of signal relay aircraft, the wolf pack tactics of the Type 022 missile boat are capable of launching a saturation missile attack on a large task force.

There is no radio equipment on the dark gray J-8FR that can communicate with the Red Arrow speedboat detachment. Normal communication needs to be relayed through the tower, but the communication efficiency is very low. At Li Zhan's suggestion, the two parties used satellite phones as the Tools for communication.

The execution was a non-military operation, and the use of satellite phones for communication was in compliance with the requirements, as were some of the non-military operations Li Zhan had performed before. When he was working in Beiku, he often flew with a satellite phone because some contacts could not be made through onboard communication equipment.

Later, after the first phase of the Beiku Intelligence Interaction Center was completed, the communication network was gradually integrated and a flat command communication network was formed, which solved the problem of communication transfer and improved the efficiency of communication.

At present, this work of the Navy is also proceeding at a rapid pace.

After climbing to a sea altitude of 6,000 meters, Li Zhan turned on the airborne radar and used the Doppler radar with limited ground-to-sea search capabilities to search the vast frontal sea area. After a wave of scanning, more than a dozen targets appeared. Unfortunately, the radar system did not have intelligent analysis capabilities. Li Zhan could only rely on his own experience to distinguish which ones were merchant ships and which ones might be pirate ships.

Li Zhan can remember the radar reflection signal characteristics of most merchant ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons. Why people are excellent is because they have indeed put in a lot of hard work.

Zhu Wei and Li Zixin descended to an altitude of 1,600 meters as planned, and mainly conducted searches visually. At this altitude, it is easier to see the lights on the sea, and they are under the clouds, without any cloud obstruction. Sight distance is relatively good.