Later, Berenko repeatedly applied to be a test pilot of gromov Flight Test Academy, but none of them were approved. So he started drinking, fighting and contradicting his boss. On one occasion, he was as drunk as a fiddler and exposed all the disadvantages inside the base in front of the director of the base center.
Finally, the leader suspected that he was mentally ill, but the doctors in the mental hospital thought he was thinking normally. Since then, Berenko has been transferred to Djevka, Qiu Fu, near kamchatka peninsula, to take charge of the national air defense work, as the acting deputy district head.
Berenko felt that there was no future, so he wanted to fly abroad to sell the secret of his advanced fighter MiG -25P and make a lot of money. At the same time, it also retaliated against the Soviet Union and dealt a heavy blow to its national defense system.
MIG -25P interceptor was the best heavy interceptor in the world at that time, and the CIA only got sporadic information about it. When talking about this kind of aircraft, the US Secretary of Defense said: "It may cause fundamental changes in western weapons and equipment and strategy." Berenko believes that the United States will quite welcome his "gift". So, belenko began to estimate the shortest route to the Japanese airport at that time, and wrote an English note with the help of a dictionary: "Please tell the US troops stationed in Japan what happened, protect the plane, and don't allow anyone to get close ..."
1976 September 6 12: 50, Berenko took off in MIG -25. After hovering for a while, we turned to the southeast of Hokkaido, Japan. On the way, Berenko lowered the flying altitude from 8000m to1000m to avoid being detected by Soviet and Japanese radars. Then, he pressed the alarm switch and sent out a distress signal; A few seconds later, he turned off the switch again, trying to make the ground radar station mistakenly think that the plane had crashed. He also turned off the airborne radar and other electronic instruments to keep the plane radio silent.
Thirty minutes later, Berenko entered Japan's "air defense identification circle", and the Japanese Self-Defense Force sent two batches of F-4EJ "Ghost" fighters to intercept, but they were all thrown away. At this time, however, belenko was in a bad situation, because the plane was running out of gas. At this time, he saw the Hakodate civil airport in Japan.
But when the plane tried to land, a Boeing 727 had just taken off. In order to avoid collision, Berenko made a sharp turn and landed on the ground, rushing to the runway at a speed of 360 kilometers per hour. The plane rushed out of the runway under the action of great inertia, drew a deep ditch mark on the lawn and stopped in front of the power tower overhead. Berenko tore off the oxygen mask, climbed from the cockpit to the wing, pulled out the TT-33 pistol and fired several shots into the air. A quarter of an hour later, officials from the Special Intelligence Service of the Japanese Defense Agency came to contact them. They thought Berenko had deviated from the course, but Berenko flatly claimed that he planned to fly to Japan and asked the Japanese side to arrange for him to meet with the American representative immediately and seek political asylum. Berenko's defection brought great losses to the Soviet Union. American and Japanese experts dismantled MIG-25P one by one to understand its internal technical secrets. Although they returned the plane to the Soviet Union, this incident forced the fighters of the Soviet land air defense forces to replace the IFF system, and dozens of commanders and responsible persons were dismissed. On the other hand, Berenko won a prize from the Central Intelligence Agency and lived incognito on a farm in the United States. It is said that he was occasionally invited by the US Air Force to help guide tactical movements, and once fell in love with a Spanish girl, but soon broke up, which made Berenko very excited.
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