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"All high-altitude reconnaissance missions are urine bag trips," Major General Jacob Smart of the U.S. Air Force said disapprovingly, "If you have the opportunity, you can also experience the feeling of riding an RB-57D or U-2, and you will definitely live forever memorable."
Mills: "In the past, it took 7 hours to reconnaissance in Northeast China, and it took 9 hours to reconnaissance Baotou. Probably the capacity of the urine bag should be higher."
Smart: "What's there to scout in that arid city between the Gobi and the steppe?"
"The Northwest is China's biggest secret," Mills said. "The CIA is very convinced that China has launched a nuclear program. Their nuclear plants are distributed in Baotou and several Northwest cities west of Baotou."
"Is the Soviet Union aiding China in building an atomic bomb?"
Mills: "Exactly. It was because the Soviet Union dismantled a gas diffusion plant and transported it eastward that our intelligence system was convinced that China had launched a nuclear weapons development program. In fact, we got the information relatively late, when the Chinese were in When they build a gas diffusion plant, they have completed at least one reactor, a uranium oxide and uranium hexafluoride processing plant."
"This is really bad news."
During the Korean War, Smart was still a brigadier general and served as the captain of the wing in Alaska, but he knew the powerlessness and embarrassment of the U.S. Air Force in the middle and late stages of the Korean War.
"Mr. Mills, if the reconnaissance results indeed prove that China is designing and manufacturing atomic bombs, then should the U.S. Air Force attack and wipe out these nuclear plants?" Smart asked again.
Mills: "I don't know, General. I'm not Eisenhower, only he can give orders like that."
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Subei.
RB-57D maintained an altitude of 20500 to 21000 meters, first flew about 1000 kilometers over the sea, then entered the mainland from northern Jiangsu, avoided Lianyungang, passed between Jinan and Zhengzhou, and flew northwest.
"Dude, check the radar warning and jammers again," Patterson said to the deputy.
"...works fine. Would you like some music, Captain?"
"No. Turn on radio monitor," Patterson said.
Hunter: "Hey, neither of us understand Chinese, what's so good about Chinese radio stations on the ground?"
Patterson: "I didn't let you enjoy the show, I put the monitor broadcast to keep you on your toes. You must always remember that we are flying over the enemy's country, there are countless anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft missiles, fighter jets, and thousands of angry people on the ground. soldier."
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Beijing.
"It's really good! This national air defense information system has been established. As long as you stop here, the air situation of the whole country will be the same as before your eyes!"
Liu Yelou, commander of the Air Force and general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, stood with his hands on his hips at the National Air Defense Command, looking at the national map with small light spots on the wall.
...this is not an LCD video wall.
It is a large specially-made map. Luminous lines are buried in the search radius of the fixed warning radar and the air routes connecting the cities. In addition, the trajectory of the unknown intruder aircraft is displayed on the map in the form of light point projection.
"The flying altitude is about 1000 meters. It is definitely RB-57D," said a staff officer. It is judged that it is going to the northwest, and it is likely to be Baotou."
Liu Yelou: "It's a pity! The previous two invasions failed to catch it. Tingfa, this time we placed an extra battalion of Hongqi-3. How sure are we of catching RB-57D?"
Zhang Tingfa: "Our defensive front is too big, the coastline is not easy to block, and the land area in the northwest is large. With one more battalion, the probability of interception will increase from 35% to 39%."
Liu Yelou stopped talking, and walked back and forth in front of the map wall twice, looking at the long coastline from north to south.
"I still have to have an interceptor. When will the Soviet comrades be able to produce a [-]-meter aircraft?"
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Passing between Jinan and Zhengzhou, bypassing the southern part of Taiyuan, and making a slight turn, the course of RB-57 is facing Baotou.Before arriving in Taiyuan, the two put some biscuits and chocolates into their mouths, then opened the bottle in the supercharged flight suit, and took a dip.
"Hunter, the construction site captured by the 310 camera last time, it is said that the intelligence department has analyzed the results, and it is a large steel plant under construction." Patterson said to Hunter.
"Oh, very good,
In this way, we can more accurately grasp the world steel futures market. "
Patterson: "The head of the CIA firmly believes that there are two to three nuclear plants under construction near that Chinese city, so we need to do a detailed reconnaissance of that area. If the photos taken this time still do not find the nuclear plant, then The U.S. Air Force will conduct reconnaissance for the third time and the fourth time."
Hunter: "Boss, we can't see the Yellow River anymore, there are grasslands below."
Patterson first confirmed the direction, and then checked the map: "Ordos."
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Beijing.
"Lvliang radar station, the target is 75 kilometers away, keep moving away." "The target of Luliang radar station has disappeared."
"The Yulin radar station detected an air target."
"Commander Liu, according to the heading of the American aircraft, they are likely to crash into the combat range of the 2nd Battalion!" Zhang Tingfa pointed to a coordinate on the map, "Zhasak's [-]st Ground-Air Brigade [-]nd Battalion!"
The light spot on the map wall turned a large radius from the south to the southwest of Taiyuan City, and then maintained a direct flight with a heading slightly west of the true north.Below its flight path, there is a set of anti-aircraft missile systems in working condition.
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Over Zhasak Town, Ordos.
亨特从来没觉得RB-57D的侦察飞行有什么危险。这可是能飞到7万英尺（21300米）的怪物，只有传说中的U-2飞行高度能超过它，苏联最厉害的战斗机飞行高度只有16000米。
From 1953 to 1956, the reconnaissance of China was completed by RB-57 and RB-57F. Even this kind of reconnaissance aircraft flying at an altitude of 18200 meters basically had no trouble entering and leaving China, except for one aircraft in Nagoya A nearby breakdown crashed and nothing else was lost.
The nervous captain Patterson has a serious face, as if there are traps everywhere when flying in the sky.
"Is the radar siren still working?" Patterson asked Hunter for the third time.
Hunter: "It should be normal. Let me check it... yes... it is indeed normal, boss, it is screaming..."
Two kilometers outside Zasak Town, the Second Battalion of the Air Force's Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade was transferred here 10 days ago.
In April and May, the grasslands are warm in spring and flowers are blooming. Dozens of heavy trucks and trailers of the Second Battalion are distributed in a circle with a diameter of several hundred meters. .The search radar and the tracking radar are arranged in a hexagonal formation, and they are usually quiet. Today, when the headquarters gave an order, the search radar suddenly rotated. Within 3 minutes, the two tracking radars also raised their heads to face somewhere in the sky.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the herdsmen grazing on the grassland suddenly saw fireworks rising in the distance, and then three "big rockets" flew up one after another at two-second intervals, dragging their long flame tails, and quickly flew into the sky.
……
The plane is exposed to continuous wave radiation!This means that a missile attack is coming!
Patterson steadied his heartbeat and steered the plane.At an altitude of 57 meters, RB-[-]D was as clumsy as a pig with Parkinson's. It was impossible to avoid missiles by turning. He turned the plane to return early. There was no need to continue this reconnaissance mission.
Since it was flying near the limit altitude, the plane turned around and the altitude was swishing down. In a blink of an eye, it dropped from 21000 meters to 20200 meters, and then fell below 2 meters.
"Jamming machine! Activate! Activate!"
Without Patterson yelling, Hunter has already let the jammer emit a signal.
The first missile was still aimed at the RB-57D, and the two could only watch helplessly as the missile approached obliquely from below and flew about 100 meters obliquely above the plane before the warhead exploded.As if hearing a series of "puff puff puff puff" sounds, the right wing was smashed into a sieve by shrapnel, and the plane shook rapidly.
The second missile was more accurate than the first one. After the warhead exploded, the right wing of the RB-57D was folded 90 degrees from the middle. Obviously, the load-bearing structure of the wing was cut off by a large fragment of the missile warhead. .As the right wing broke off, the RB-57D fell rapidly, tilted to the right, and rolled in the sky.