Chapter 854 Ghost Operation (Second update, please subscribe)
Air Force Kuching Base.
The night falls, and the sky is covered by a dark blue curtain, dotted with sparse stars.
At the airport, a black plane parked silently on the runway, its silhouette looming in the night, like a sleeping giant.
Although this aircraft does not look big, its wingspan is more than thirty meters.
Under the light photos, ground crews were busy, either refueling the aircraft or performing final inspections on the aircraft.
Two years ago, at Li Yi'an's request, Nanyang Aviation Industries began to develop a new high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, develop high-altitude reconnaissance forces, and detect the enemy's military deployment as early as possible in order to seek strategic preemption.
The engineers took a jet glider as the design prototype and used large wingspan wings. It took two years to design a new high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Its flight altitude can reach 25,000 meters, which is enough to avoid interceptions by various anti-aircraft guns and fighter jets currently deployed in the Soviet Union; its mission radius is 3,200 kilometers.
The first secret test flight was completed in February this year, directly breaking the world record of 22,707 meters ceiling held by the British. Originally, according to the plan, the aircraft would continue to conduct test flights, but a sudden mission made it enter ahead of schedule. Actual combat.
“...as long as you keep it at 20,000 meters, no weapon can threaten your safety.”
In the mission room, Cheng Li introduced the mission to the pilot in front of him. Although the plane took off from a military airport, the plane belonged to the Secret Intelligence Agency. As an intelligence officer of the Intelligence Bureau, Cheng Li was responsible for implementing this mission, including recruiting pilot.
Since the mission of flying over the enemy's airspace is extremely dangerous, the Secret Intelligence Service not only requires that no Chinese logos or corporate logos should appear on the aircraft to avoid revealing the ownership of the aircraft. It was even decided to hire some foreign pilots to fly these missions. In this way, even if it is shot down over the enemy's sky, Nanyang can completely blame Nanyang - the plane is not from Nanyang, and the pilot is also not from Nanyang. In this case, it has nothing to do with Nanyang.
And there are indeed suitable pilots in Nanyang - Black Knight Company employs more than 500 Japanese pilots, all of whom have very rich air combat experience. Although some of them have settled in Mindanao or Surabaya and been naturalized, the company still employs a number of excellent pilots.
Nobuo Fujita is one of them. As a naval pilot, like many others, he was unemployed after the war. In order to make a living, he joined the Black Knight Company and became a company pilot. What he is most proud of in his life is He once flew a Zero water reconnaissance aircraft carried by a submarine and bombed the mainland of the United States. Although the incendiary bombs thrown in the forest had no effect, he was the first person to bomb the mainland of the United States.
“Sir, can you take clear photos from an altitude of 20,000 meters?”
Nobuo Fujita asked.
“You don’t have to worry about this. Zeiss has developed the most advanced high-resolution camera for the Phantom. The aircraft is equipped with 8 fully automatic cameras for photo reconnaissance. The film is 3.5 kilometers long and can record 200 4,000 photos were taken of scenery within a kilometer wide range. The photography of this camera is very high-definition, and the activities of ground personnel can be clearly displayed at an altitude of 20,000 meters."
"Ghosts. " is the code name given to this high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft by the military, and the camera it uses is the pride of Carl Zeiss in Yongning. In the past few years, thanks to the technical personnel recruited from Germany, Yongning The quality of Zeiss' products is not only not inferior to that of Zeiss from Germany and Germany, but has even surpassed them in some aspects, such as fully automatic cameras for military photographic reconnaissance. Unlike Zeiss from Germany and Germany, it has basically stopped research and development. In the past ten years, Carl Zeiss of Yongning has continued to conduct research in this area, and his technology has not only shown no faults, but has also been further developed.
“It is indeed a product of Carl Zeiss!”
Nobuo Fujita was amazed and analyzed the details of the mission with the intelligence officer. It was not until about three o’clock in the morning that he was on the ground With the help of the personnel, we put on the pressurized suit, which is somewhat similar to the space suits of later generations. After putting on the pressurized suit, not only eating and drinking became a big problem. Even along with "convenience", it is necessary to insert a catheter to urinate.
At 3:20 in the morning, Nobuo Fujita, who was neatly dressed, was lifted into a wheelchair by the ground staff. He then arrived by car next to the "Ghost" high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and then boarded the plane with the help of the ground staff. After inspecting the aircraft, Just started the engine, and with the roar of the engine, at 3:30, following the signal from the tower, the "ghost" flew into the air like a sharp arrow piercing the sky.
According to the established route, it will fly to Pattani and then conduct reconnaissance all the way north. The ghost reconnaissance aircraft with large wings took a long time to climb to an altitude of 20,000 meters. It took almost an hour. When flying over Yongping Island, also known as Natuna Island, Fujita saw that the flight altitude had finally passed. 20,000 meters.
"Okay, just keep it at this altitude!"
Fujita then drove the "Ghost" all the way north, and finally entered the sky above Pattani at 5:13 .
At the same time, the operator of the Siam Coast Defense Radar Station, which was just built with Soviet aid two years ago, also discovered a special signal in the air. He looked at the signal that appeared on the radar screen with some surprise.< br>
"Platoon leader, an unidentified flight signal was detected on the radar."
"Unidentified signal? What signal?"
"Platoon leader, this signal is a bit strange."
" Why is it weird? "
Before the platoon leader on duty came over, the height-finding radar operator who was lying on the observation window of the radar screen frowned when he saw the screen.
"The altitude is out, its flying altitude is above 20,000 meters!" "What? 20,000 meters? How is this possible!"
The platoon leader stared at the radar screen and asked.
“Is the height correct?”
Although we know that this height is unlikely to be an airplane, the sudden appearance of a signal will not deceive others.
"Could it be that the Soviet advisers mentioned high-altitude spy balloons?"
The reason why he asked this was because when the Soviet advisers trained them, they mentioned the high-altitude reconnaissance balloons of the United States. Their declared purpose was Conduct scientific research. However, after careful selection, five high-altitude spy balloon launch sites were established in Scotland, Norway, West Germany and Türkiye.
After the spy balloon is launched from these places, it will fly from west to east over the Soviet Union and Tangshan with the help of the stratospheric winter jet stream to take pictures. The balloon will also carry other spy equipment, and will finally fly over the Pacific Ocean. Recycle.
Even the big brother of the Soviet Union has absolutely nothing to do about those high-altitude balloons. Many times I can only watch those high-altitude reconnaissance balloons flying over my head.
Today is the first time they have encountered such a high-altitude target.
"The spy balloon flies at a higher altitude, and the speed is not so fast. The signal moves very fast, its speed is more than 600 kilometers per hour, and its signal is very clear. If it is a reconnaissance balloon, usually the radar is What cannot be discovered, consultant Ivan mentioned, is that balloons can usually only be discovered visually.”
Indeed, they are often powerless against spy balloons, not just because of their flight altitude. Above 20,000 meters, the more important reason is that because of the backwardness of radar detection technology, it is basically difficult to detect when flying over their heads.
But today's situation is different. The signal is very strong, it must be an airplane.
But as far as they knew, no plane had ever flown so high.
“Comrade Webmaster, I think the situation here should be reported to the headquarters immediately.”
"It should be reported to the headquarters."
The director of the radar station turned around and asked.
“Has Big Brother’s technical advisor returned?”
The answer is no. Big Brother's consultant is definitely not at the radar station at this time, and must be living in the expert building in the city now.
The director of the radar station thought for a moment and said.
"Report it truthfully."
While speaking, he stared at the radar screen again, looking at the fast-moving light spots on it. I muttered in my heart.
“Is there really an airplane that can fly that high?”
At the same time, Nobuo Fujita, who was at an altitude of 20,000 meters, had discovered that he was exposed through a radar warning aircraft.
But he wasn't too worried. After all, the flight altitude of this plane was here.
"No plane can fly so high, as long as the altitude is stable."
Nobuo Fujita thought so in his heart, he navigated through the map, determined the position and flew towards the target.
"Songkhla Base... is here!"
(End of this chapter)