My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1197 - 1093: Strength Just Doesn’t Allow It!
Hoo~whoosh~
The fighter jet rolled out of the hangar, glided onto the runway, and suddenly took off with afterburners blazing.
The engine’s tail nozzle spewed out a blazing blue flame.
Two jets took off, shooting straight into the sky.
"716, 717, climb to ten thousand, maintain heading 135!"
"716 received, climbing to ten thousand, heading 135."
"717..."
The two fighter jets ascended rapidly and completed their turns at top speed.
This Air Force Base is responsible for air defense in the southwest direction.
At all times, two fully fueled fighter jets equipped with live ammunition are on standby duty in the hangar.
Normally, pilots wait in the rest room next to the hangar, ready to board the jet and take off quickly upon receiving orders.
Of course.
During major holidays and special periods, pilots might even sit inside the cockpit.
If the security situation around is grave, they might even take off with live ammo to patrol the skies, ready to intercept enemy aircraft.
Today is no ordinary day.
The situation is quite special.
The distant early warning radar station detected suspected Stealth Fighters refueling in the air, and then the direction they headed was unknown.
Subsequently, various radar systems were activated in an attempt to track the Stealth Fighters.
As a result...
Only the newly developed, most advanced, but still in testing Over-the-horizon Ground Wave Radar managed to make a discovery.
Whether there is a problem with the radar is unknown for now, but to be on the safe side, dispatching two fighter jets for visual confirmation is not unreasonable.
After all, with Graphene Composite Batteries largely in use, the increasing popularity of electric vehicles has led to falling fuel prices, and hence the cost of aviation fuel has also dropped.
So the emergency takeoff of two fighter jets, costing only hundreds of thousands per flying hour, may seem expensive but is much cheaper than before.
Moreover, if they can discover and expel foreign Stealth Fighters, then this flight mission would be well worth it.
Only...
The Over-the-horizon Ground Wave Radar is after all a new piece of equipment recently developed.
With brand-new technical principles and new electronic equipment, many features are still not quite perfected.
Unlike those well-established phased array radars, which can perform large-scale scans while continuously tracking and locking on to multiple targets, providing approximate characteristics, flight altitude, speed, and course of the targets...
But the Over-the-horizon Ground Wave Radar is not yet mature; it can only monitor a specific area without large-scale scanning, and although it can track multiple targets, the data might be inaccurate.
After all, it operates by vibrating high-frequency radio waves back and forth, unlike traditional radars that emit electromagnetic waves and reflect off targets, so the reliability of detected data isn’t high enough.
And now...
The target data reported to the two fighter pilots only had a general direction and distance.
Flying altitude...
Don’t know!
Sometimes it seemed like twenty thousand meters, other times it seemed just a few thousand.
The new radar is somewhat unreliable, so after the pilots flew out more than a hundred kilometers, they switched on the onboard phased array radar.
The fighter jets, unimpeded by Earth’s curvature in flight, have a better ’sight’ for reconnaissance.
And the mature performance of the onboard phased array radar can detect large flight targets up to four or five hundred kilometers away, such as airliners and freighters, as well as third- and second-generation fighter jets over a distance of a hundred kilometers.
Of course.
To detect fourth-generation Stealth Fighters is somewhat beyond its capability.
The radar was switched on, scanning continuously for several minutes, but still nothing suspicious was detected.
"716 reporting, no suspicious targets found!"
"717 also has no discoveries!"
The two fighter jets, widening their distance, found nothing after continuous searching and scanning.
But the problem is...
The Over-the-horizon Ground Wave Radar still sporadically detected two targets, moving at very high speed. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"The distance is already very close to you, nearing the border line, flying at two Mach, altitude might be twenty thousand meters, climb to seventeen thousand and visually observe!"
Upon receiving the orders, the two fighter jets immediately engaged afterburners to climb.
After all, they are third-generation light air defense fighters, with a maximum flight altitude of eighteen thousand meters.
Ascending further, the engines would stall due to insufficient air intake and lack of oxygen.
Even just reaching seventeen thousand meters required both pilots to wear oxygen masks and protective flight g-suits.
Only...
More than ten seconds later, the two fighter jets had climbed to seventeen thousand meters.
The onboard phased array radar still had not detected any high-altitude, high-speed flying objects.
It could detect some flying objects, but they were all moving at slow speeds, less than one Mach, and were all transmitting transponder signals, clearly commercial flights.
Where was the target supposedly flying at twice the speed of sound?
Even if the phased array radar showed no response, the optical and infrared heat sensing systems should, right?
If there truly were Stealth Fighters capable of flying at two Mach, even if they were invisible to radar and could shield their engines against infrared detection through technical means...
But their high-altitude, high-speed flight, with friction-generated heat, and the high-temperature high-pressure exhaust gas from the engines, would leave some infrared radiation features, even in the particularly cold twenty thousand meters altitude.
Yet...
Neither the onboard radar nor the optical infrared sensed anything.
But military orders are absolute!
The two fighter pilots simply proceeded with visual reconnaissance.
At an altitude of seventeen thousand meters, there was no cloud cover to obstruct their vision.
Looking up at the sky revealed a dazzling blue, and they could see the arc of the horizon in the distance.
Clusters of white clouds were scattered at lower altitudes.
