Updated: 2012-09-09

Fortunately, more than 20 minutes later, the three fighter jets arrived smoothly at the target airspace prompted by the ground monitoring system one by one. During the period when Cheng Chong entered and attacked, the target flew more than a hundred kilometers southward, and was about to fly out of the effective monitoring range of the ground monitoring station.

Because the target position information provided by the ground monitoring station is now getting more and more jumping, Cheng Chongjin and others have received relevant technical training and know that this is about to reach the maximum range of the ground monitoring station. The Global Hawk Communication signal received is relatively weak, and the accuracy of signal strength measurement is getting lower and lower.

"Hunter 2, Hunter 3, we don't have much time left." Cheng Chongjin looked at the beating position information from the monitoring indicator, looked at the trajectory and position characteristics of the target's movement. He quickly predicted the area in his head to move the next step, and finally chose to continue to move south and gave decisive orders.

"We continued to go south at full speed. I flew along the territorial sea line. Hunter 2 was responsible for 50 kilometers left and Hunter 3 was responsible for 50 kilometers right. We first searched south for 100 kilometers south and then saw if we found it."

"Yes! Hunter No. 2 (No. 3) understands!" Li Dashan and Tong Fangyong answered in unison.

Although they have now entered the ground monitoring station to discover the target airspace of the Global Hawk, since the effective range of the aerial monitoring system is far inferior to that of the ground station, it is unlikely that the aircraft will install a full-angle ground satellite pot like the ground station to receive information in a short time.

Judging from the area of ​​the aerial signal receiving system, it is less than one-third of the ground system, and it is not possible to perform multi-direction automatic adjustment. In this way, the aerial monitoring system receives much fewer signals than the ground system, and its effective range is at most one-third of the ground station, which is considered good.

Therefore, in places beyond the reach of ground stations, their aerial monitoring system was not moving at all, proving that it had not entered the effective monitoring area.

Seeing that the target was about to slip away, Cheng Chongjin and others were anxious. Now they can only find a direction based on their experience to continue flying, hoping to keep up with the target before the ground monitoring system completely fails.

Judging from the flight trajectory of the target for more than 100 kilometers, Cheng Chongjin basically went south along our coastline within about 100 kilometers of airspace above the territorial sea airspace. Therefore, Cheng Chongjin chose to chase southward.

Two minutes later, the ground monitoring station completely lost its trace of the target, and Cheng Chongjin and others also found nothing. The aerial monitoring systems on the three fighter jets remained quiet, indicating that they still did not enter the effective range of the system.

"Hunter One, Hunter Two now completely lost the location information of the ground station!"

"Hunter One and Hunter Three also lost the location information of the ground station!"

After listening to the report from his subordinates, Cheng Chongjin's sweat suddenly rolled down from his forehead. He finally found the target, but he could not have lost all traces so quickly. Although they had tried their best, it would be embarrassing if they really lost the target.

For their squadron, such an opportunity is definitely the last chance, and the base will definitely not give them the mission again next time.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin clenched his fists and would not fail! Cheng Chongjin secretly made up his mind.

He focused on reexamining the target's trajectory for a period of time, and at the same time, his mind quickly flashed through his own military deployment target in the next area. According to his understanding, more than 100 kilometers southwards, he would approach a famous controversial island. The military has several important tactical missile bases on the west side of the island.

Then the next area is a series of military hot spots where two sides confront each other, with various military targets everywhere. Here, there are always hot spots for opponents to reconnaise. Perhaps the goal of this Global Hawk is to detect these hot spots.

This consideration based on the opponent's purpose cannot be said to be without any risk, but it is the most likely situation that Cheng Chongjin can guess under the current circumstances. He doesn't have much time to waste it anymore. After losing the target information, the target may be constantly moving away every minute and every second, so it will become increasingly difficult for them to bite the target.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin made up his mind to grit his teeth and ordered to the phone: "Hunter No. 3, immediately go straight to the east longitude at full speed, and search over north latitude **, and search for Hunter No. 2 and I continued to search along the coastline."

If the guess is accurate, the Hunter 3 aircraft sent by Cheng Chongjin will arrive at the target airspace in advance in front of the Global Hawk. In addition, Cheng Chongjin and Hunter 2 search forward, it is equivalent to searching the two, three hundred kilometers of airspace network. If the Global Hawk is really as Cheng Chongjin expected, it will be difficult for him to escape this huge search network.

"Hunter No. 3 understands!" Tong Fangyong also knew that the situation was urgent now. This time he did not bite the target before the ground surveillance failed, so he could only gamble. He could only believe the captain's intuition to gamble this. So after receiving the order, he adjusted the direction without hesitation, and accelerated to the highest speed and rushed to the target airspace.

Cheng Chongjin and Hunter 2 aircraft searched for cruising speed along a range of about 50 kilometers above the coastline's territorial waters.

Time passed minute by minute, but Cheng Chongjin's search for more than 20 minutes still had no results, and the monitoring system still had no response.

"Damn it, where is this damn guy hiding?" Li Dashan was a little troubled by the solemn atmosphere and couldn't help but say, "It's no reason that he just disappeared silently? Could it be that he had gone back and we missed it?"

Going back? Cheng Chongjin's heart moved. Although this possibility is extremely small, if his three fighter jets were discovered by his opponent during the tracking just now, then for safety reasons, the personnel operating Global Hawks would have a complete chance of choosing to avoid these three fighter jets from China.

After all, for head-on combat, no matter how old the J-7 model is, it is much stronger than the Global Hawk's combat capability.

Global Hawk can conduct large-scale radar searches and discover in advance that it is not difficult to enter several of their old fighter jets without stealth. Moreover, three are flying in groups, and the target is even more conspicuous. Therefore, the operators of Global Hawk will maneuver and see if these Chinese planes passed by unconsciously coincidental or came with purpose.

If so, now everyone is overjoyed.

"Hunter 2, let's scatter and turn 50 kilometers eastward and turn north to search." Thinking of this, Cheng Chongjin was shocked. Now it seems that the possibility is really great. Cheng Chongjin took a few breaths and then decisively went down to his life.

"Hunter 3, after arriving in the target airspace, control the speed and search northward about 50 kilometers outside the coastline!"
Chapter completed!