Chapter 325 Two days later, another round of live ammunition shooting

Two days later.

The sun has not yet risen above the horizon.

On the airport apron, seven J-8 trainer aircraft had already been towed out by tractors.

Under the guidance of their instructors, the trainees of the maintenance squadron are methodically conducting the final inspection, refueling and maintenance of these J-8 trainer aircraft.

A J-8 crash occurred just a few days ago.

Although the preliminary investigation by the investigation team found that the main cause of the crash of the J-8 trainer aircraft was lightning strike.

However, the lightning strike on the plane is itself an accident of unshirkable responsibility.

Because airplanes are equipped with lightning protection devices.

Now the plane was struck by lightning.

What about the lightning protection devices on the aircraft?
The dog is gone?
Today, the "Team" will conduct live-fire shooting training that is more complicated than the balloon target shooting in the past few days.

Therefore, the maintenance squadron had no choice but to be cautious.

The flight briefing room next to the apron.

The seven members of the 'Team' have also arrived.

Instructors Liang Zhenghong, Liu Yun, Cheng Zhizhao and others also arrived at the flight briefing room early.

So the duty room is not big.

Now it seems a bit crowded.

"Today's live-fire shooting training is mainly divided into two items. In the morning, we will shoot at three-leaf targets, and in the afternoon, we will shoot at rockets." Liang Zhenghong stood in front of a whiteboard, facing the seven team members, and said with a serious face.

After listening to Liang Zhenghong's words.

The seven team members, including Jiang Chen, showed a hint of excitement on their faces.

They are all energetic guys.

Moreover, people in their twenties are the time when adrenaline is secreted the most.

So I am most eager to fight with live ammunition.

It doesn't matter where the live ammunition is fired.

As long as you can shoot it out, it's fine.

"Don't be too happy too soon. As I said before, you are still 'selected players' and not official members of the 'team', so cheer up and perform well when you get to heaven."

"Especially some team members. I won't name them, but you all know who I'm talking about. If they do anything weird again, just pack up and get out." Liang Zhenghong said in a deep voice.

Jiang Chen raised his eyes and looked at the other people.

These people all look at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses.

Sit upright.

Just like six good babies.

Huh?
Isn't he a good boy?

What kind of trouble have these people gotten themselves into again?

How could it make Lao Liang so angry?

After spending these two days together, Jiang Chen was still not very familiar with them.

Uh!
To say that they are not very familiar with each other is somewhat exaggerated.

It should be 'completely uncooked'.

Because he felt that these people had formed a small group and were excluding him intentionally or unintentionally.

Jiang Chen didn't care.

Just exclude them.

Although he is quite socially successful, he is well aware of one truth, which is 'Don't force your way into a circle that's not yours'.

Anyway, they are not from the same class.

It's just a temporary team formed to play a game.

After the game.

Isn't it just that everyone goes back to their own homes and finds their own mothers?

Liang Zhenghong scolded him a few more times.

Only then did he begin to talk about today's 'live-fire shooting' training content.

In the morning we shot at the 'three-leaf target'.

The three-leaf target is a very old-fashioned target.

Even older than the balloon target.

After all, the balloon target at least has a GPS positioning device.

But the three-leaf target has nothing.

Air target shooting training is the most common training method used by air forces around the world to improve their combat effectiveness and accumulate practical experience, so air forces around the world attach great importance to air target shooting training.

What is an empty target? It is a target in the air.

The empty targets of the Dongda Air Force mainly include bag-shaped targets, flag-shaped targets and three-leaf targets.

Because the three-leaf target is extremely stable and has relatively little air resistance during flight, it is used/hit most frequently.

But the empty target itself has no power.

It is also impossible to inject a certain amount of hydrogen into it like a balloon target to make it float in the air.

Therefore, no matter whether it is a bag-shaped target, a flag-shaped target or a three-leaf target, it needs to be towed by an aircraft before it can go into the sky.

But if the empty target is dragged into the sky by an airplane, then wouldn’t the airplane dragging the empty target also be in certain danger?

What if other planes mistake it for an empty target and shoot it down?
Therefore, if the troops are conducting live-fire training and shooting at empty targets, knowing how to fly a plane towing the empty targets is a technical job.

There are also strict disciplinary requirements for trainees.

If the trainees are still a group of students.

Then the requirements are more stringent.

The weather is very good today.

Although it is winter.

But the sky is still clear.

Even when the sun shines on my body, it still feels cold and there is no heat at all.

However, this kind of weather is most suitable for flight training.

Inside the flight briefing room.

Liang Zhenghong still looked serious.

He tapped the whiteboard with a marker and continued, "The empty target we shot at this morning was a three-leaf target. The three-leaf target has no power of its own and needs to be towed by a plane to get into the air."

“So there is a certain risk when shooting at a three-leaf target.”

"Your instructor has probably told you the tricks of shooting at three-leaf targets more than once during this period, but I want to repeat it again now."

"It's not that I like to be long-winded."

"It's a matter of safety, so we can't be careless."

In the duty room.

No one raised any objection, and no one even dared to show the slightest impatience.

Because what Liang Zhenghong said is very right.

This is a matter of safety, so don’t be careless!
The three-leaf target was towed into the sky by an airplane.

The steel wire rope used to drag the target is usually about three hundred meters long.

In other words, the distance between the target towing aircraft and the target is also about three hundred meters.

Don't think that three hundred meters is a long distance.

The range of fighter aircraft cannons is usually around several thousand meters.

Just three hundred meters.

Well within effective range.

Therefore, even if the target-towing aircraft is 300 meters away from the target, it is still within the effective range of the training aircraft.

So how do we avoid accidentally hitting the target-towing aircraft?

Currently.

Live-fire target practice training by air force aircraft of various countries generally adopts two attack methods: straight line and curved line.

Among them, straight-line attacks are more dangerous and difficult.

Therefore, curve attack is widely used.

The so-called curved attack means that the entry angle of the attacking aircraft (that is, the angle between the longitudinal axis of the attacking aircraft and the longitudinal axis of the target) should be between sixteen and twenty degrees.

In this way, the attack envelope of the aircraft gun can perfectly avoid the target towing aircraft.

It is precisely because of the high degree of difficulty and high risk.

Therefore, the performance requirements for shooting at empty targets are relatively low.

In general.

A training aircraft carries 300 rounds of ammunition.

A pass is achieved if more than ten shots are hit.

Twenty rounds is good.

Thirty rounds for excellent.

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ps: The content of this chapter has been slightly adjusted, because the previous chapter has been blocked for a whole day, and I have revised it several times but it is still not passed. I have no choice but to delete most of the content. However, in order to make the previous chapter read more coherent, I moved part of the content of this chapter to the previous chapter, and then added another thousand words to this chapter. Oh, it’s so tiring!

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