Chapter 274: Surprised? Unexpected?
Jimmy is a colonel pilot belonging to an aviation brigade at a coastal base in the Eagle Country. His main task is to fly F35 fighter jets to cruise and defend the west coast.
He had served in the aviation brigade for a long time and had logged more than a thousand hours of safe combat flight. Although he was not as good as George, the ace pilot in the team, he was definitely an elite pilot.
During his years of service, Jimmy has seen countless unique terrains, overcome all kinds of severe weather conditions, and performed countless combat flight missions. He is familiar with the airspace of the entire West Coast.
But Jimmy, an elite pilot, seemed particularly confused that day.
Originally, today was a sunny holiday, but after the first-level alarm sounded in the base, Jimmy said goodbye to his wonderful vacation and hurriedly boarded the plane with several other colleagues who were full of complaints.
Jimmy then received an interception mission secretly issued by the Pentagon headquarters.
The mission was so confidential that not only was it the first time Jimmy had encountered it since his service, but even the content described in the mission was unheard of.
"Intercepting an unidentified manned aircraft suspected to be made by the Flower Growers in the airspace of the West Coast?"
"WTF?"
"Are you sure this mission was not wrong?"
"Since when have foreign manned aircraft been able to so brazenly intrude into our Eagle Country's airspace?" As a fighter pilot who guards homeland security, after seeing the details of this mission, Jimmy first showed a black question mark, and then became excited.
As the only superpower on this blue planet, the Eagle Country’s air force combat capability is undoubtedly No. 1.
Even Eagle Country pilots like Jimmy, who have been dominating the field for many years, have a bad habit in their bones, that is, arrogance.
However, they do have the capital to be arrogant, because due to the performance gap between the F22 and the F35, few other countries on the blue planet have the ability to confront them in the air.
What Jimmy had not expected was that the secrecy of this secret interception mission would be so high that even the coastal base command directly under him had no right to inquire about the content of the mission.
Even the F35 he was flying had an independent data link installed. During the mission, he could only report to his immediate superior. If he leaked a word to the outside world, he would be immediately sent to a military court.
After seeing such a scene, Jimmy fantasized in his heart that he felt that he was destined to participate in a great action that would be recorded in history today. He would intercept and shoot down an unidentified manned aircraft of the Flower Growers in the airspace of his own country. Once it was exposed, he would definitely be treated as a superstar and a combat hero.
Unfortunately, Jimmy only guessed the beginning but did not expect the end.
Because from the very beginning of the mission, when he came face to face with the humanoid aircraft, Jimmy sensed something was wrong.
The first was the abnormality of the infrared heat source displayed on the instrument panel. The heat radiation emitted by the humanoid aircraft was like a blazing fireball, occupying most of the interface of the airborne radar. Even the most advanced fire control radar could not capture and lock it for a while.
Secondly, according to the report on the speed radar, the target's flying speed exceeded Mach 4.5.
This insane speed is more than three times that of the F35 fighter jet he is driving. This is no longer just a crushing victory, but an essential speed gap!
If they were unable to intercept and shoot down the enemy head-on, the fate that awaited their team would be that the enemy would turn their planes around and then shoot them down one by one like hunting turkeys.
"Damn data command center! They didn't even remind us of such important intelligence information in time! When this mission is over, those fat office nerds will be sent to the gallows!" Jimmy and several team members cursed loudly in the communication channel.
Sure enough, the situation was just as Jimmy had expected. After the first round of interception attacks failed, the ace pilot George in the team was the first to explode along with his plane, turning into a fireball in the air.
Seeing this, Jimmy subconsciously pulled the joystick and pulled the high-speed flying aircraft vertically to escape from this combat airspace.
Unexpectedly, not long after taking off, Jimmy heard his wingman's reminder: "Jimmy! He's on your back!"
"On your back?"
Jimmy listened to the reminder in the communication channel and looked back suddenly. He found that there was a living person lying less than one meter behind his cockpit!
The visual impact instantly caused Jimmy's brain to crash, and his mind went blank!
You know, just now during the emergency ascent, Jimmy felt an unusual vibration from the fuselage. He thought that this F35 fighter jet, which incorporated the most advanced technology of the Eagle Country, broke through the sound barrier during the climb, causing the vibration of the fuselage. He never thought that the culprit was actually the target flying object!
What’s even more terrifying is that the target flying object is actually a human wearing a pitch-black metallic combat uniform and a helmet on his head!
"Did I meet Iron Man?"
"Or the captain of Eagle Country?" Jimmy opened his mouth wide, feeling that he was about to collapse emotionally.
You know, at this moment they are at an altitude of 3,000 meters above the ground, and their F35 is still performing difficult climbing maneuvers.
Jimmy couldn't imagine how this man was hanging on the back of the aircraft, and he didn't dare to think about it, because just a few seconds ago, one of his colleagues had been blown to pieces by the air-to-air missile he launched.
The pilots of the other seven F35s, including him, became like frightened birds.
As for the air pressure leak alarm that sounded in the cabin, it reminded him that he was not dreaming. The F35 he was flying was indeed attacked from the outside, not hit any birds.
Seeing that the foreign pilot was looking back at him, Chen Jue had an idea at this moment. With the explosive strength of his fingers, he drilled through the sheet metal on the back of the fuselage with several "dong", "dong" and "dong" sounds. Relying on the dug hole, he climbed to the cabin little by little like climbing stairs.
Then he reached out and knocked on the translucent cabin cover made entirely of high-strength plexiglass, and shouted to the confused driver inside in half-toned English: "Hello! Is the oil OK?"
It felt like it was saying to the fighter pilot inside: "Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"
After being frightened and ridiculed in such a way, Jimmy's last psychological defense line finally collapsed. He pulled the escape ring under the seat, and with a bang, the engine cover automatically exploded. He himself was sitting in the escape seat and ejected. While flying out, Jimmy was still shouting, "Devil! He is a devil!" He was completely in a state of collapse.
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Seeing the foreign pilot abandon the plane and escape so decisively, Chen Jue was stunned at first, then looked around at the F35s that were like frightened birds, and complained: "Boring!"
Then he climbed into the cockpit that had lost the protection of the canopy, and began to change the direction by holding the control stick, driving the out-of-control F35 to fly due west.
The reason for seizing this fighter plane was also out of consideration for the consumption of the internal energy. After flying for hundreds of kilometers, the internal energy reserves in Chen Jue's body were decreasing rapidly, and 20% of the reserves had been consumed so far.
If he continued to waste energy like this, he might not even be able to reach home, and the internal energy in his body would be drained dry.
Therefore, after performing difficult juggling moves in the air and seizing the F35, Chen Jue pulled the joystick all the way and ran westward.
I had previously been trained at the base on how to fly an airplane, and had also touched a fighter jet simulation cabin, so I was not unfamiliar with using them.
However, without the protection of a canopy above his head, Chen Jue had to bend over and rely on the sense of direction provided by his [manas] to fly the F35 blindly.
As for the pilots of the other F35s, after seeing Jimmy eject successfully, they turned around and chased him, and reported to their superiors on the communication channel: "Sir, there is an emergency! Wingman No. 6 is suspected to have been captured by the target! The pilot has escaped and is currently flying at full speed towards the west coast!"
As for why they did not decisively launch air-to-air missiles, it was because these F35s were equipped with friend-or-foe identification systems. Before entering the simulated confrontation stage, the fighter's fire control radar was unable to aim and lock onto its own aircraft.
"What did you say?"
"captive?"
"The enemy captured one of our F35s in close-range dogfight?"
"Are you sure you're not talking in your sleep?"
"How did he do it?" In a combat command room in the Pentagon, several generals with stars on their shoulders were stunned when they heard the news, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
Due to the lack of on-site video footage, these bigwigs from the Eagle Country's Ministry of Defense could only make a preliminary analysis and judgement on the progress of the interception mission through the electronic information data sent back by the fighter jets.
Even they could not have imagined that after encountering the unidentified humanoid flying vehicle, one of the eight F35 fighter jets, which were known as the most advanced generation on Blue Planet, was shot down in just a few seconds, and now another one was captured by the enemy.
If the technical engineers at Lockheed, the company that manufactures the F35, knew this news, they would probably be so scared that they would pee their pants on the spot.
You have to know that this is an F35 Thunder fighter worth 250 million green coins, not a rubbish model aircraft worth a few thousand yuan!
If such absurd news were to be exposed, wouldn't the Eagle Country's allies who had purchased hundreds of aircraft from Lockheed immediately come to request returns?
Moreover, they lost two aircraft at once, and on their own territory. Such a slap in the face instantly made the officers in the command room blush and jump up in anger: "Quick! Contact the combat data department and cut off control of the captured aircraft!"
"Stop it in mid-air!"
Orders were continuously issued. Chen Jue, who was driving the F35 and whistling "If we don't have guns or cannons, the enemy will build them for us", suddenly felt that he had lost control of the fighter.
Not only did the engine stop working, but the flight direction also suddenly changed from a horizontal state to a dive.
"Shutdown?" Seeing that all the instruments in front of him were out of power, Chen Jue leaned out from the uncovered cabin and took a look at his position. He found that just a few minutes after flying blindly, the fighter plane had arrived at a busy harbor area.
This is a naval and air force base on the west coast of Eagle Country. Various warships docked at the dock and fighter planes parked on the runway can be seen everywhere.
But now, this originally peaceful base is sounding shrill air defense alarms everywhere, and the fighter planes on the runway are making emergency take-off movements.
As for the warships in the port, alarm bells were also sounding. Anti-aircraft guns began to roar and fire, shooting at Chen Jue's out-of-control F35.
At the same time, several Patriot air defense missiles were launched and locked onto the captured F35 fighter.
Seeing this, Chen Jue had no time to think. He jumped instinctively and kicked the cabin hard, causing the stalled and dived F35 to accelerate its fall. At the same time, he ejected himself in the air, flying in a wing suit, constantly using his internal energy to fine-tune his flight trajectory in the air, avoiding the barrage of rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns.
By the time the F35 turned into a fireball and countless fragments were scattered under the attack of the missile, Chen Jue had already dived into the sea water of the port outside the base with a high-speed dive.
The six F35s that followed closely behind and were being toyed with by Chen Jue began to circle over the port like headless flies.
"Sir, the target dives into the water!"
"Heat source signal lost!"
"The airborne radar lost the target!"
