145: What is the maximum speed of the Suzaku 7th generation fighter? Mach 16?

Listening to the discussions around them, many veteran ground crew members frowned deeply, staring intently at the back of the Zhuque VII fighter and saying, “If it’s arranged like this, how fast would this fighter jet need to be? After all, the purpose of using a fully metal-covered cockpit is for reinforcement.”

“Generally speaking, only when a glass canopy cannot withstand that kind of rapid pressure would they consider using this kind of all-metal cockpit canopy, right?”

Rumble...

Although he could see the ground crew members excitedly chatting in the distance, Yang Boyu didn't pay much attention to them.

Looking at the cockpit “floating” in mid-air and the aircraft's outline that could be seen or not seen at will, Yang Boyu’s pupils contracted sharply.

As a test pilot, Yang Boyu had extensive flight experience, having flown all of Dragon Country’s fighter jets.

He knew very well that among Dragon Country’s fighter jets, apart from the Qingluan and the swift, the others were just second and third-generation aircraft.

Their cockpits were very classic.

Especially those second-generation aircraft, they didn't even have LCD touch screen displays; pilots could only calculate data themselves through a dense array of instruments.

And even the Qingluan and the swift had already achieved this level of transparent fuselage, allowing pilots to easily see their six o'clock blind spot.

But they still weren't as perfect as the Suzaku.

The Suzaku had such an expansive field of view.

If he didn't look at the cockpit and instruments around him, Yang Boyu even felt like he was soaring freely in mid-air!

“Can you hear me, Brother Yang?”

Suddenly!

As Lin Qi’s voice came through, Yang Boyu, piloting the Zhuque VII fighter and closely following the qingluan vi fighter, immediately came to his senses and responded, “I can hear you.”

“Good!” Lin Qi nodded, holding the communicator in one hand while standing next to the monitoring equipment, and holding the test sheet for this maiden flight project in his other hand, saying, “I won’t go into the other test items; the main thing is the space test above the stratosphere.”

“At that time, your flight suit will be rapidly injected with composite liquid. You must not panic, and definitely do not try to resist it.”

“As long as you hold on for three to five seconds, you’ll be able to completely adapt to the feeling of being immersed in liquid, and after that, you’ll be piloting the fighter jet bravely into space!”

Although Yang Boyu had been training for several days now, those were all just ground tests after all.

Who knew if Yang Boyu would subconsciously choose to resist the composite liquid due to nervousness in a high-altitude, high-speed environment, ultimately leading to unconsciousness or other issues.

It’s important to know that if such a situation occurred, the suzaku fighter wouldn't matter, because the onboard intelligent system would quickly take over.

It would control the fighter jet to gradually fly back to the ground.

But for a person in such a high-altitude, high-speed environment, immersed in composite liquid, who knew if other symptoms besides unconsciousness might arise?

What if he developed a permanent illness and could no longer fly?

That would be no laughing matter!

“Understood!” Yang Boyu’s voice was calm.

As a special-grade test pilot, one of the less than fifty “pandas” among Dragon Country’s pilots, Yang Boyu was well aware of the effects and sensation of being immersed in composite liquid.

He also understood very well why Lin Qi was repeatedly reminding him at this moment.

While feeling moved, Yang Boyu faithfully carried out his duties, saying, “Suzaku requests to establish communication with Qingluan.”

“Request approved.” Lin Qi agreed without hesitation, and at the same time took the binoculars handed to him by Fang Yingxuan, looking at the fighter jets on the distant runway.

“Qingluan, this is Suzaku, please respond if you receive.” As the communication request was approved, the Suzaku’s onboard intelligent system quickly helped connect to the Qingluan Fighter Jet.

At this moment, Tian Hao, the pilot of the Qingluan Fighter Jet, was waiting for the Suzaku’s communication request. Now, hearing Yang Boyu’s voice, Tian Hao immediately said, “Suzaku, this is Qingluan, I have received the message, voice is clear, status is good. I will be your wingman next, observing your posture and situation at close range in the air.”

“Understood!” Yang Boyu responded simply.

Then he reported to the tower: “Tower, this is Suzaku, we have reached the takeoff point, fighter jet status is good, ready for takeoff at any time.”

Tower: “You may take off.”

“Understood, you may take off!” As the tower commander’s voice came through, Yang Boyu immediately confirmed the takeoff command with Tian Hao through the unified combat channel.

The next moment.

With Suzaku as the primary and Qingluan as the secondary, Suzaku in the front left and Qingluan in the rear right, the two tailless aerial behemoths pushed their throttle valves.

“Rumble...”

Deafening roars, like giant beasts, sounded behind the two fighter jets, and then, the two fighter jets quickly taxied forward.

50 meters, 100 meters, 150 meters...

Before the ground crew members with binoculars in the distance could react, the Zhuque VII fighter, having only taxied 180 meters, slowly lifted its nose.

Immediately, under the astonished gaze of Tian Hao, the pilot of the qingluan vi fighter behind it, the Zhuque VII fighter soared into the high sky at a 50-degree angle!

Indeed, such an angle was certainly not the limit angle of attack for the Zhuque VII fighter, but this was, after all, its maiden flight, and such an angle was already very steep.

185 meters, 190 meters, 195 meters...

The qingluan vi fighter only barely lifted its nose off the ground after taxiing a full 198 meters.

Seeing the Suzaku already at 6,000 meters altitude and still climbing, Tian Hao quickly increased the throttle with his left hand.

“Rumble...”

In an instant, accompanied by the engine roar, this modified Qingluan shot into the sky at a terrifying eighty-eight-degree angle!

From a mere thirty or forty meters above the ground, it instantly reached an altitude of over three thousand meters!

“Excellent, excellent!”

Commander Fang clicked his tongue repeatedly.

As an old pilot who had flown the MG15 in the Korean Peninsula, engaging in dogfights with the combined Air Force of seventeen nations, including Eagle Country, and ultimately survived, Commander Fang knew very well that not to mention the MG15 fighter jets of that era, even the most advanced S-27 third-generation aircraft in the current Dragon Country Air Force, apart from the swift...

could simply not perform such a “dry land pull-up”.

Nor could they achieve such terrifying vertical acceleration!

“Before there was Suzaku, I thought Qingluan was the most formidable fighter jet in the world. I never expected that now, when compared to Suzaku...”

Commander Fang said with a smile, “I, this old man, was indeed ignorant back then!”

“Commander Fang, it’s not just you; we were also ignorant!” The two technical military officers beside him clicked their tongues and said, “Although the two fighter jets took off one after another, with a slight time difference, this small difference in time could lead to such a huge disparity?”

“It shows that Suzaku’s power system is already about two to three times that of Qingluan.”

“I can’t even imagine how many Mach Suzaku can reach at full speed?”

“Not much.” Lin Qi shrugged and said calmly, “All told, it’s probably a little over Mach 16.”

Everyone: “What?!”