Great Power Long Sky

After the investigation team brought back to the capital the deceleration maneuver created by Li Lu, along with related video footage and flight data, the next day, a legendary figure from the Air Force arrived at the East China Sea airfield, personally leading a tactical research team.

This legendary figure was Commander Lin Tianhu.

He was instrumental in introducing the Su-27, and he dealt with the Russians over a drink.

In recent years, Commander Lin Tianhu has gradually stepped down to the second line. With the external environment changing drastically, the Air Force needs him to continue to contribute his remaining energy, so he chose to study tactics and methods.

After watching Li Lu's deceleration maneuver, Lin Tianhu's first reaction was the same as Xu Hailiang's—it resembled the Cobra maneuver, yet it was quite different.

Judging from the maneuvers and the flight trajectory, it is more complex than the Cobra maneuver.

The Su-27 was the first aircraft to perform the Cobra maneuver; no aircraft had performed this maneuver before. After analyzing the Cobra maneuver, many aviation experts generally believed that, apart from the Su-7, only the F-16 could perform this maneuver, but the F-16 never attempted it.

General Lin Tianhu was a general who fought his way up from the top. He had always paid close attention to the development of foreign air force equipment and air combat tactics, and had an extremely keen sense of new changes in these fields.

After analyzing Li Lu's deceleration maneuver, he strongly felt that this could be a new move with great tactical significance.

How does a large swept-wing fighter like the J-6 perform this maneuver?

With these questions in mind, Lin Tianhu, along with several tactical experts, arrived at the Donghai airfield aboard a Tu-154 of the 24th Division.

In the minds of young pilots like Li Lu, Lin Tianhu is undoubtedly one of the leaders who has made the greatest contributions to the Air Force in recent years.

When the Su-27 was introduced, Li Lu's generation was in their school years. By the time they received the first batch of Su-27s, they had finished their flight school studies and were assigned to the military.

Previously, Li Lu's biggest concern was that the mid-air disintegration incident would affect the training plan of the tactical test group, but now this concern has been resolved by Commander Lin Tianhu.

Lin Tianhu spent a week at the East China Sea airfield, thoroughly learning about the "Yellow Dog Peeing" maneuver and the tactical test group's air combat training that eliminated altitude differences. He also held several discussion meetings with pilots like Li Lu before returning to Beijing with firsthand information.

All J-6 fighters of the 7th Air Regiment have completed inspection and testing, and routine flight training has resumed.

Li Lu was avoiding Gu Ya.

After the establishment of the psychological counseling room, Gu Ya finally got an opportunity to provide psychological counseling and research to pilots who had experienced air accidents. Li Lu was the first case.

To be fair, psychological counseling for pilots is extremely important. Airplanes are cutting-edge technological equipment, but also equipment with a very high risk factor.

Even without ammunition, a fighter jet is itself a huge bomb when flying at high speed.

If a pilot is mentally unhealthy, the consequences could be dire.

It is even more detrimental to ensuring and improving combat effectiveness.

However, this thing is a new thing in the current People's Air Force. In everyone's traditional view, it is necessary to see a psychologist and receive psychological counseling and treatment, which means that there is a psychological problem.

Even if there is a real problem and it is cured, it will still be a psychological burden for everyone, and become a problem again.

In this field, people's minds are not yet open.

Li Lu was the same, but he firmly believed that his mind was not affected by the mid-air disintegration incident. Under these circumstances, the political department repeatedly notified him to go to Gu Ya for counseling, but he always found various excuses to avoid it.

Gu Ya had no choice. Training was the top priority for the military, and she couldn't put the cart before the horse. She could only proceed slowly, starting by giving the pilots theoretical lessons and letting them understand what psychological counseling was, and so on.

Time flies, and the Spring Festival of 1996 is almost here.