Chapter 618 Soft Kill Self-Defense Countermeasure System (SKSPCS)

While the three of them were chatting, all the equipment brought along with the transport plane had been unloaded and loaded onto the truck.

The plane did not stay too long. After changing direction on the taxiway, it quickly returned to the runway to prepare for takeoff and return.

Lingshui Airport does not have the ability to support the IL-76, and it cannot even refuel.

Fortunately, the improved version has a long enough range and has enough remaining fuel to fly back to the Yiling base in Hubei Province.

This is also the significance of long-distance transfer flight training.

If you are just wandering around your home base, even if the flight time is long enough, it is difficult to feel the tension of facing unfamiliar airspace and unfamiliar ground crews.

Many problems do not manifest themselves at ordinary times and only appear under such circumstances.

As for the technicians from the 14th Institute of Electrical Engineering, they naturally got on the bus and went to the arranged accommodation, and prepared to conduct final debugging and inspection before hanging up the pod later.

"By the way, two comrades."

Tang Yiping, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around slightly:

"How about I gather together the pilots in the regiment who can fly the J-8C this afternoon? Can you guys decide on the candidates?"

"If possible, we can also fly a few more sorties to let more comrades become familiar with the flight characteristics after mounting the equipment."

Obviously, he had tasted the sweetness last time and wanted to prepare in advance.

What if another opportunity similar to Operation Embankment comes along?

However, Xu Yang, who was behind him, waved his hand and said he didn’t need it:

"Commander Tang is better at this matter. We trust the judgment of professionals. Moreover, the J-8C is also a new model and should be in similar condition. You can make the decision."

For her, choosing a pilot doesn't really mean much.

Because there really are no difficult operations.

Moreover, as someone who has never even been in the cockpit of an airplane, she has no way of judging someone's professional level.

As for familiarizing yourself with flying characteristics...

In fact, there is no possibility of mass production of this equipment in a short time.

Only one fixed ground-based jammer and one mobile jamming pod are available.

If Chang Haonan hadn't insisted on completing the follow-up maneuver interference test, she might not even have made this trip.

No, I should say definitely not.

Sitting in the back seat of the Cheetah off-road vehicle, Xu Yang half-leaned against the window and exhaled a long breath of distress.

How could she, a lazy person who was just squatting in the laboratory doing theoretical research, unknowingly become a field engineer traveling all over China for field tests?

Simply outrageous.

"If I decide...then what is the general process of our test? Can you tell me?"

Tang Yiping didn't show any pretense and took out a notebook directly from his pocket.

Xu Yang briefly recalled the details that were finalized with the leaders of the Electronic Technology Group and the Naval Equipment Department before departure:

"The surface ship force will cooperate with us and launch six modified Eagle 6A target missiles from a frigate to simulate cruise missiles launched by ships or submarines."

"The only thing that needs attention during the entire test process is that the range of the target missile is only 75 kilometers, and the entire flight time does not exceed 4 minutes. Therefore, the effective interception window is only about two and a half minutes, and the pilot needs to seize the opportunity in time."

"But on the other hand, this means that the area of ​​the experimental airspace is relatively small, and there is almost no concern about searching for targets."

"Oh, yes, in addition to a jammer carrying a pod, we also need an auxiliary aircraft to accompany the target missile. It is best to be a two-seater, so that the pilot can concentrate on flying at ultra-low altitude and it will not be so dangerous. "

Tang Yiping, who was in the front, wrote quickly and quickly wrote down these contents, and the expression on his face became relaxed:

"There is no problem with the two-seat aircraft. Although the main equipment of the 25th Regiment is J-8, there are also a few J-6s used for adaptive training of new pilots. If that doesn't work, our division has another one equipped with J-7s. Tuan, you can transfer it from over there and use it."

In principle, after he was promoted to deputy commander of the South China Sea Fleet Air Force, he could no longer be considered a member of the 9th Division. However, in reality, after his promotion, leaders would definitely use this term when referring to the old army:

"In addition, this training method is basically the same as what we tested at the beginning of last year, in which the J-8C used the PL-11 to intercept low-altitude cruise missiles, and there will be no technical problems."

"It's just... this Eagle Strike 8A is an anti-ship missile with inertial guidance and terminal radar guidance. We used missiles to directly intercept it before, so it doesn't matter the guidance method, but this time since we are testing the GPS jamming effect, then..."

In fact, China's first set of satellite navigation systems, Beidou Generation 1, is still under preparation. Except for some handheld GPS positioning terminals purchased by some commanders and soldiers through different channels, there are no decent satellite positioning equipment at all. .

"Commander Tang, there is no need to worry about this."

The person who replied was Guo Lin, who had never spoken just now:

"Our 14th Institute of Electrical Engineering has removed the warheads of those target missiles and replaced them with simple guidance modules based on civilian GPS positioning systems. Although they are not very good in terms of accuracy and obstacle avoidance logic, they are just used as target missiles. , is enough."

Last time, they had verified the effectiveness of this set of jamming equipment for interfering with the military GPS navigation system at the university campus. Therefore, the focus of this round of testing is the effect of directional interference against multiple targets, and whether the jamming equipment itself is in motion. It can still function as usual.

Therefore, it is not a big problem to replace the interfered target with the civilian version this time.

Of course, the main problem is that there is really no other accurate P-code receiver available...

"In that case..."

Tang Yiping put the pen back into his pocket and looked at the notebook in his hand for a while:

"Then let me fly the test machine myself!"

……

three days later.

Also at Lingshui Airport.

A J-81091C fighter jet numbered 8 was parked at the end of the runway. Tang Yiping, wearing orange flying gear, was conducting final inspections before takeoff.

The pod, which looks similar to the auxiliary fuel tank, is currently hanging on the center pylon of the aircraft's belly.

If placed on an old aircraft, if a brand new ammunition or equipment wants to be put on the aircraft, especially for complex equipment such as pods, it may even require extensive modifications to the carrier aircraft itself.

But after the emergence of the data bus system, as long as the new weapon is compatible with the bus, it can be used with only a few software-level modifications.

In the past three days, apart from waiting for the frigate to complete preparations and go to sea, I have been debugging the avionics level functions.

After confirming that there was no problem with the status of the aircraft itself, Tang Yiping lowered his head and selected rack No. 4 on the multi-function display at the lower left of the control panel in front of him.

In the weapon control system, this thing is named Soft-killing Self Protection Countermeasure System.

Soft-kill self-defense countermeasure system.

SKSPCS.

The Chinese military rarely refers to a piece of equipment in such an obscure way, preferring simple and crude naming strategies such as "Konggan 100".

In addition, Tang Yiping's English level was relatively average, so it took him a lot of effort to remember the official name of this thing.

Even the technicians at the 14th Institute of Electrical Engineering directly call it a GPS jamming pod.

In fact, this name was given by Chang Haonan when the project was first established.

Of course it is not to imitate the habits of NATO.

Instead, it is emphasized that it is not a "weapon", but a protective device purely used for self-defense and countermeasures.

In this way, when it is put into overseas use in the future, whether it is domestic or international, the obstacles faced will be much smaller.

In accordance with the requirements of the mission briefing before boarding the plane, Tang Yiping adjusted the working mode of the equipment to "3".

This interference mode will focus on the GPS altitude signal in an area, inducing the guided weapon to misjudge its own altitude, thereby detonating or crashing in advance.

After everything was completed, Tang Yiping slowly pushed the throttle lever forward from the idle position.

"Tower, Unit 01 is ready and ready to take off."