Chapter 563 Responses from all parties

The Air Force thought the idea seemed great, but they were not deeply impressed. What they needed was better rescue pilots.

However, the chief engineer of the Defense Work Committee's eyes lit up.

My head itches, and it feels like something is about to grow out.

After much deliberation, the Air Force felt that Gao Zhendong's suggestion was a good one. If someone was responsible for the rescue, someone else had to be responsible for the cover. Otherwise, it would be like adding fuel to the fire. Maybe the people would not be rescued, and the search and rescue helicopter would also crash.

"Well, this is a good idea. Come on, let's discuss it and hand it over to the Northeast Helicopter Factory together."

Just do it, strike while the iron is hot!
So Gao Zhendong started the fire, and the experts at the meeting added fuel to the fire, and soon this armed type was finalized. It can carry 7 people, and the standard external attachments are two 12.7mm machine gun pods and two multiple rocket launchers.

After this matter was settled, Gao Zhendong put forward his final suggestion on the organization of the search and rescue force.

"If the search and rescue mission is carried out in a high-risk area, we can consider mobilizing Il-10 and other close-range support attack aircraft to participate in the search and rescue."

The matter of converting the Il-28 into an attack aircraft has not been finalized yet, so Gao Zhendong used the Il-10 as an example. Anyway, no specific model is being targeted here, as long as it is an attack aircraft that can undertake close support missions, it will be fine.

In fact, this configuration is the youth version of the standard search and rescue configuration of the Citigroup in the future.

It's just that at that time, their equipment was better. The search and rescue operations were done with Black Hawks or CH-53s, the attack helicopters were AH-1s or Apaches, and the fixed-wing aircraft flying in the sky were A-10s.

They may even mobilize air superiority fighters in the combat airspace for cover, such as the F-15. But this is far-fetched, and Gao Zhendong did not specifically mention it.

Gao Zhendong had to copy the good stuff from the Citigroup guys, so he felt no psychological pressure at all and was even secretly happy about it.

When the Air Force heard this suggestion, they thought it was a good one as it would ensure the safety of search and rescue operations to the greatest extent possible.

The next thing is the most important thing in the search and rescue system - the regulations of the system.

However, this is very specific and involves many details, which is not an issue that should be resolved in this meeting. Search and rescue is already off topic, and to formulate a search and rescue system is like a line of egrets flying farther and farther into the sky.

Therefore, Gao Zhendong only proposed the suggestion of establishing a system. After everyone discussed the basic structure of the system, they did not go any further. The subsequent matters were resolved by the comrades in the Air Force themselves. Only then did they know how to implement this system.

The meeting of this day was dominated by the issue of search and rescue, but in a broad sense, this is indeed an integral part of the Air Force system and cannot be considered completely off topic.

Moreover, because of the sudden incident of our brave and fearless heroes exchanging one for one with the enemy plane, it seems natural to insert this slightly obscure topic.

As it was almost dinner time, the comrades from the Defense Working Committee and the Air Force were very satisfied. Based on the results of this day, it could be said that they had completely made up for the missing link and filled the gap in the Air Force's combat system.

"Let's stop here today. This meeting has to be held tomorrow. I will not be satisfied if I don't hear Comrade Gao Zhendong's final statement." The leader of the Defense Work Committee laughed.

Everyone laughed. Although they were tired, they were very happy.

A productive meeting and a meeting full of nonsense feel two different things.

Although we lost a plane, the pilot was fine, so we are happy and optimistic about this matter.

However, on the day when Gao Zhendong and his team were setting up the search and rescue system, another U-2 was shot down. Because the time was too short and the limited information was spread through various channels, it caused different reactions.

The first to know was naturally the other side. There was no other reason: the time had come, but the U-2 had not arrived.

This made the people at the Black Rat Squadron base immediately aware of this problem.

Oh my god! The U-24000 flying at 2 km/h was also shot down!

Although they did not know the process of the shooting down, their judgment of the shooting down altitude was based on their understanding of the pilot.

There was no way Major Fang would lower the flight altitude. In fact, the fact that the plane did not reach 27000 was already the result of Major Fang's strict execution of orders.

As for the possibility that the pilot surrendered by flying the plane, there is no such possibility. Major Fang's wife and children are still here, so he dare not do that.

This judgment made them feel like they had lost their parents. Looking at their superior who was still waiting at the base, the captain of the Black Rat Squadron said softly, "Sir, it's been two hours since the scheduled time, and there's no radar signal. It looks like we can't come back."

"Do you think it's possible that Major Fang was intercepted and chose another route on his own?"

I just bought a plane on credit, and before I’ve even paid back the money (hai), the plane is gone.

This made the superior subconsciously unwilling to believe that the plane had been shot down again, and he intended to grasp a life-saving straw from a technical point of view. The squadron leader shook his head: "Sir, at this time, even if the plane is flying normally, it will run out of fuel and will fall down anyway."

"Was it shot down by a missile?" This is the last hope. As long as it was shot down by a missile, the initiative is essentially still in our hands.

The squadron leader did not continue to attack his boss. He would not be able to get a plane in a short time anyway, so he might as well leave him some hope. If he said too much, his boss might make things difficult for him.

"We can't rule out this possibility. Although we already know the current positions of all known SA-2s on the other side, maybe they bought a new batch."

In his heart, there was something he couldn't quite say - maybe they made new ones themselves, which would be more cruel to them than buying new ones.

"Yes, yes, that's right. That should be it." The boss, who got the agreement, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Sir, it's getting late. You should rest. The enemy will always release battle reports, whether they are shot down or our people fall down on their own. They will not lie about this."

The Citigroup bosses also found out about this incident very quickly. They did not take the loss of the plane seriously because it was not their plane and the people involved were not their own.

They were just amazed at the rapid rise of that Eastern country. If they had relied on willpower to fight before, now their technology was also developing rapidly.

Maybe it is still lagging behind overall, but at least some of the items are changing visibly.

Anti-ship missiles and air-to-air missiles, judging from their actual combat performance, even the weapons in our own hands may not be able to match them. Of course, the former is an exception. Iron bomb anti-ship is the right choice.

As for the latter, although nothing is known about its performance, it at least shows an extremely high hit rate against low-mobility targets.

What’s even worse is that although the Langley Center cannot obtain intelligence from the Eastern countries, it can obtain intelligence from the Russians.

The performance of the Russians' AA-2 infrared combat air-to-air missile has surpassed their own AIM-9B. The most incredible thing is that the reason for this surpassing is that the Russians obtained technical support from that country!
This information immediately made the Citigroup guy feel absurd, as if the sun rises from the west. Has this world become so strange?
This time, they shot down a U-24000 flying at an altitude of 2 meters, which made the Citigroup guys feel very nervous.

Especially in the intelligence, the possibility that it was shot down by a fighter jet cannot be ruled out.

The Citigroup guys also had no doubt about the shooting down altitude of 24000. This altitude might rise, but it could not fall.

After taking inventory of his own arsenal, the Citigroup man found that it would be difficult for him to do the same thing with fighter jets.

How exactly did they do it?
This means that there is a possibility that we will no longer be able to quickly and conveniently obtain intelligence about that country, and the huge unknown will undoubtedly bring enormous pressure.

Especially this huge unknown, considering that I had just been beaten up ten years ago.

Maybe it's time to do something around them. It's not enough to just stay isolated overseas.

The advantage of being isolated overseas is safety, but the disadvantage is that the other party is equally safe. This is especially true after that country used two anti-ship missiles to force its enemy back nearly 100 kilometers from the sea.

Compared to them, the Russians received the news a little later, but the information was much more detailed. This was something we proactively reported.

This notification includes a simple combat process.

"Hurrah! Linochka, our southern Davaris are still so brave and fearless!"

We do not hide the fact that we lost a fighter in the attempt to shoot down the U-2, operating under extreme conditions.

This situation is the country's problem for failing to provide better equipment, but it is not the fighter pilot's problem. He is a brave and fearless hero who did his best.

"This is incredible. Perhaps this kind of battle example is difficult to replicate." Linochka was very objective.

"Yes, perhaps this kind of battle example is difficult to replicate, but I am sure that after this news spreads, there will be no more Citigroup planes in the southern sky in the short term. The Citigroup dare not!" The minister was more objective.

"Fortunately, we don't need to take such a big risk. We have better planes." Linochka was full of pride. Although the MiG-19 in the South was better than our MiG-19, they only had the MiG-19 for the time being.

"Yes, we have better planes, but we don't have better results. Do you think I should be proud or depressed?"

Compared with the frequency of U-2's activities, the number of them shot down is not large. In Gao Zhendong's previous life, a total of 7 of these things were shot down, 5 of which were shot down by us, and the other two were shot down by the Russians and the other by the Cigar Country. All of them were the results of the S-75 and its imitations.

It can be seen that the U-2 was very difficult to deal with for the fighter jets at that time.

"This is not all bad news. The Citigroup people will link the capabilities of our southern comrades with ours, and perhaps their activities against us will become less frequent." Linochka has a unique perspective on the issue.

(End of this chapter)