On August 6th, 1958, the ground-to-air missile unit of China Air Force was formally established. The unit has only four battalions, equipped with Soviet-made "1059" surface-to-air missiles. This is the earliest missile used in China, and it is also the earliest missile seen by engineers and technicians in China. At that time, according to the relevant agreement between China and the Soviet Union, five missile systems and 62 missiles were introduced. After the launch of these missiles, there are two main purposes. One is to use them as samples for anatomy study of researchers in China. Another is to equip the newly established ground-to-air missile force. These two personnel have made brilliant achievements in the research and use of missiles. On this basis, the former developed a completely localized surface-to-air missile; The latter, through their own hard study and training, successively laid down the high-altitude planes of the Kuomintang army and the American army. Missile is not only a new weapon, but also a high-tech for China officers and men. For China, an army with low educational level and backward technology, it is really a big problem to master missile launching and using technology. When the ground-to-air missile unit of China Air Force was just established, instructors from the former Soviet Union provided guidance and training assistance. However, before the military training, Sino-Soviet relations broke down, and the Soviet Union unilaterally tore up the contract and flatly withdrew the experts. The instructors who helped with the training also took all the information away according to the instructions of their superiors. China's officers and men were left with unknown and unknown missile systems and black missiles. China people tighten their belts and buy these devices at high prices. At that time, a missile was worth hundreds of thousands, and a launching system was worth millions. This is a high-tech weapon integrating electronic technology, rocket propulsion technology, material mechanics and engineering mechanics. You can't disassemble it casually, and you can't test it like shooting with bullets. What shall we do? Without the guidance of foreigners, can the officers and men in China "fiddle" with these modern equipment? China's officers and men made a positive answer.

After the withdrawal of Soviet experts, the officers and men of the missile battalion immediately collected and sorted out their own notes, and based on everyone's memories, sorted out as many materials as possible about what the Soviets had taught. It is on this basis that they compile their own teaching materials and training plans. Training can't just be an armchair strategist. Without any instruments and training equipment, they use wooden boards, scrap iron and so on. Self-made models of missile body, warhead, engine and thrust chamber. While studying according to the handouts written by myself, I also practice with these rough and primitive training equipment. After several months' efforts, this newly formed unit finally mastered the launching technology of surface-to-air missiles.

The quality of military training depends on actual combat, and whether the newly established missile force is useful depends on whether it can destroy enemy planes with high technical performance. When our army was equipped with surface-to-air missiles, the situation in the Taiwan Province Strait was very tense. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet entered the Taiwan Province Strait and stationed a large number of troops in Taiwan Province Province. The PLA shelled Kinmen Island. Chiang Kai-shek clamored for a counterattack against the mainland. At that time, with the support of the United States, the Kuomintang frequently dispatched high-altitude reconnaissance planes to the mainland with high-performance aircraft. Especially after the United States provided Chiang Kai-shek with RB-57D large-scale long-range high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane, the reconnaissance operation of the Kuomintang Air Force became more rampant. First, I scouted in Jiangnan, and then I went to the north of the Yellow River. This kind of plane really gives China Air Force a headache. Its flying height is more than 20,000 meters, which can't be hit by the anti-aircraft guns of the PLA Air Force, and fighters can't fly at such a height. Seeing that the mainland air force could do nothing about the plane, the Kuomintang air force had the confidence. Expand the scope of reconnaissance to Beijing.

According to the change of the enemy's situation, the commander of the PLA Air Force flatly issued an order that the fighter plane would withdraw from the airspace and the missile unit would be responsible for destroying the enemy reconnaissance plane. This is a test for the missile forces and China soldiers. The missile force participated in actual combat for the first time, and it was also the first time to attack a high-altitude reconnaissance plane with this type of missile. 1959101at 7: 00 a.m. on October 7, the missile unit was informed of the enemy's situation. A Kuomintang RB-57D high-altitude reconnaissance plane took off from Taoyuan Airport in Taiwan Province Province, entered the mainland air force control area, and continued to fly northward. 10 or so, enter Jiangsu area, and scout north along Jinpu Road. The air force missile unit deployed in Tongxian County, Beijing immediately entered the state of combat surveillance. The pilot of the enemy plane was really courageous, flying over Tianjin and pushing Beijing. Flying to the suburbs of Beijing, the missile unit locked the target through the radar command system and immediately fired three missiles, of which 1 hit the target. The Kuomintang reconnaissance plane was shot down by missiles in a cornfield on the outskirts of Beijing.

This victory greatly encouraged China to develop its own missiles. This is a great blow to the Kuomintang army.

In the 1960s, the United States developed a U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane, equipped with electronic jamming equipment and early warning system, which can avoid radar tracking. After Chiang Kai-shek got this kind of plane, he began to conduct aerial reconnaissance on the mainland. After several failures, the air force missile force finally summed up the tactics of attacking enemy planes. Since then, they have shot down four American U-2 reconnaissance planes and 1 unmanned reconnaissance planes.

The brilliant achievements of the newly formed missile force fully reflect the power of this new type of equipment and provide favorable support for the development of missiles.