The 101st Air Assault Brigade fired the first counterattack.

At the beginning of the counterattack, the brigade was still more than 100 kilometers away from the rear, and hundreds of officers and soldiers carrying out the assault mission were waiting for the order to set off.

The first one to be involved in the battle was the Air Force Tactical Aviation Force.

A total of 20 "Occurrence-9B" from a brigade.

In fact, this is also the first batch of "Occurrence-9B" obtained by the Imperial Air Force.

It has been mentioned before that during the design stage, the Imperial Air Force did not require the "Ocamp-9" to have all-weather combat capabilities, especially the night combat capabilities. Therefore, in order to reduce the difficulty of development and to keep the price within a range that is easier for the Air Force to accept, complex electronic equipment was not installed during the design, making the "Ocamp-9A" an attack aircraft that can basically only move during the day.

The result was that after the "Ocamp-9A" was officially launched, the Imperial Air Force discovered that even simple attack aircraft must have all-weather combat capabilities. To be precise, it must be equipped with advanced sighting equipment so that the attacking function can use air-to-ground missiles and laser-guided bombs and other precise ammunitions.

After the "Occurrence-9A" was officially launched, the Air Force launched the "Occurrence-9B" development project.

Strictly speaking, it is actually improvement.

However, the development and production of "Observation-9B" were not going smoothly.

What I want to say is also affected by the "Attack-9A".

Because of the serious lack of powerful attack aircraft mainly based on anti-tanks, there is indeed a need for this aspect, the "October-9A" was favored by the Imperial Air Force after it was put into production. In just a few years, nearly a thousand aircraft were ordered in three batches, and their production was ranked 155 years after the New Calendar.

When the "Occasion-9B" was finalized, about 500 "Occasion-9A" were not produced.

Affected by this, the two houses of discussion felt that the Air Force did not need so many attack aircraft and had never been willing to approve the "Occurrence-9B" procurement plan.

Fortunately, the Air Force found a solution.

According to the contract signed by the Imperial Air Force and the aviation company, the 482 "Occurrence-9A" that have been ordered, but have not been produced have been upgraded to Type B, and the Air Force will make up for the price difference when receiving it. The key is that the 476 "Occurrence-9A" that have been delivered will be gradually improved to Type B.

The first thing to deliver is not the newly produced "attack-9B", but the "attack-9B" improved from Type A.

At the beginning of the year, the Imperial Air Force received 60 "Occurrence-9Bs".

In fact, these "attack-9B" were originally "attack-9AP" produced for Pakistan Railway.

Because we also have to face severe defensive pressure, that is, the armored troops of the Vanluo Kingdom are five times that of Pakistan Tie. However, the third generation of main battle tanks exceeded 3,000, while the total number of Pakistan Tie's tanks was not 1,500. Therefore, after the "Occurrence-9A", Pakistan Tie took the lead in proposing a procurement intention.

The "Ocamp-9AP" sold to Pakistan is the "Ocamp-9A" of the Imperial Air Force. It only changed the operating system using Branven based on the actual situation of Pakistani Tie, and adjusted the readings of the dashboard to ensure that Pakistani pilots who do not know how to speak Liang Xia can also control this attack aircraft.

Although Pakistan is a die-hard ally of the Empire, many senior officers have studied in the Empire, but they have been colonized by the Kingdom of Bran for nearly two hundred years, and many things cannot be changed in just a few decades. Besides, attack aircraft pilots have not had a high status in the Pakistani Air Force and are not considered elites at all.

As for other aspects, there is almost no difference between "attack-9AP" and "attack-9A".

When this batch of "Occurrence-9AP" was produced, "Occurrence-9B" had passed the final test, and the Imperial Air Force was actively seeking procurement funds.

The result is that the Pakistan Railway Air Force requires improvements to the "Occurrence-9AP" according to the "Occurrence-9B" standard and is willing to bear the corresponding expenses.

At that time, the two houses of discussion had not approved the transformation and upgrading plan of "Observation-9A", and the "Observation-9A" had been suspended. The aircraft manufacturer would definitely not stop the production line. After all, hundreds of technical workers on a production line had to work, so they could only use the Bazil Railway project to respond to emergency projects.

That's why this group of "Observation-9AP" was the first to undergo transformation.

It was during this period that the Posa Bay War broke out.

Because of fear of a global war, the Imperial Air Force asked the aircraft manufacturer to temporarily hold off the delivery of these attack aircraft and prepare to change it to an air force type.

It's not complicated either. It mainly replaces the control panel and replaces the operating system using Liang Xia's text.

It is precisely this that the Imperial Air Force can obtain these "offensive-9Bs" immediately after the war begins.

Because it only increases all-weather combat capability and there is no big change in other aspects, the pilot does not need to undergo additional training.

As for the flight skills required for all-weather combat, it is not a big problem.

The attack aircraft pilot, also from the Imperial Air Force's Flight Academy, mastered all-weather flight skills when flying advanced trainers.

If you want to say, the ability of the attack aircraft pilot is similar to that of the fighter pilot.

According to the Imperial Air Force standards, the best pilots are mainly assigned to tactical aviation, and the pilots choose the type of aircraft to fly by themselves. Although most pilots will give priority to fighter jets, there will still be some excellent pilots who choose attack aircraft.

In tactical aviation, attack aircraft and fighter aircraft belong to the "A" category positions and enjoy the highest treatment.

The key is that the popularity of attack aircraft is definitely above bombers.

The reason is also very simple. The flight service time of the attack aircraft is about 2 hours, rarely more than 5 hours, and the bomber is often more than 10 hours.

Even if a pilot with good energy is flying for 10 hours in a row, it will be very hard.

What's more, except for the slightly wider cockpit of the bomber, the bomber is not much better than the attack aircraft.

It is because of the hard working conditions that the Imperial Air Force had to issue extremely high allowances and provide very tempting benefits to retain pilots. To be precise, it is competing with civil aviation companies and doing its best to extend the service time for pilots who have spent a lot of money to train.

Before the war broke out, the average service time of Imperial Air Force pilots before retirement was as high as 13 years, the world's largest.

Even so, a large number of pilots are lost every year.

If it weren't for the world's largest and most complete pilot training system, I'm afraid the problem of insufficient pilots would have been exposed long ago.

In any case, the arrival of the "Occurrence-9B" has greatly improved the strike capabilities of the tactical aviation force.

However, "attack-9B" is not all.

Along with the "Occurrence-9B", there are two brand new "Finger-10A" joint command aircraft.

These are two new aircraft that were shipped last month.

If you want to say, "Finger-10A" is the key.

According to the Imperial Air Force's evaluation, "Finger-10A" is not only a force multiplier, but also an advanced weapon to change the appearance of war.

On the other side of Posa Bay, "Finger-10A" has proved its great value.

Only in August, the Imperial Air Force's "War-16A" fleet destroyed more than a dozen Iraqi ballistic missile launchers under the guidance of the "Finger-10A".

In addition, under the command of "Finger-10A", several beautiful large-scale aerial strikes were launched.

For example, on August 11, the "Fing-10A" operating in the northern airspace of Saudi Arabia discovered a team of Iraqi armored troops moving towards the border. Then they called for the strike force in the rear and guided the multi-purpose fighter of the Air Force. It took only about half an hour to destroy the armored force with more than 100 tanks, directly shattering the Iraqi army's idea of ​​launching a counterattack.

Then on August 23, the "Finger-10A" commanded the "War-16A" aircraft group and bombed an Iraqi army trying to evacuate from Kuwait. During the bombing that lasted for half a day, the entire highway turned into a sea of ​​fire and destroyed the elite unit with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

The number one value of "Finger-10A" is to greatly improve the strike efficiency of tactical aviation.

But there are still some doubts.

When the "Fing-10A" entered the battle in the Posa Bay, the Iraqi Air Force had been defeated, and the Imperial Air Force firmly controlled air supremacy. Therefore, the "Fing-10A" could patrol in frontier airspace close to the battlefield, thereby obtaining a detection distance of more than 150 kilometers.

Obviously, when facing enemies with powerful air defense systems, "Finger-10A" may not be able to be deployed in front.

Xiluosha has a powerful air defense system. The range of its S-300 air defense missile exceeds 100 kilometers, and the latest model may reach 200 kilometers.

If so, the position of "finger-10A" must be retreated, and the effective detection distance will be greatly shortened.

If you want to monitor the battlefield, you can only allow the "Finger-10A" to be deployed in front, and there are many unknown and uncontrollable risks.

In terms of value, "Finger-10A" is still above "Finger-8C".

With its performance in the Posa Bay War, it must be a thorn in the enemy's eyes and a thorn in the flesh. If you go to the battlefield, you will easily be attacked by the enemy.

If a large number of fighter jets are used to cover the "Finger-10A", it would be a bit unworthy of the loss.

In short, "Finger-10A" is more like a weapon used to deal with weak enemies, and may not perform well in a full-scale war.

According to this view, the Air Force should pay more attention to small support aircraft and rely on battlefields such as "Occurrence-2EG" to observe aircraft to guide air strike operations.

This is also the key to the Air Force's failure to retire the "Occurrence-2EG".

Of course, whether "Finger-10A" can adapt to high-intensity wars still needs to be proven through actual combat.

It is precisely this that the Air Force sent the two "Finger-10A" that had just been received to be responsible for guiding and commanding the "Occurrence-9B" aircraft group to launch an attack.

However, the Air Force also sent a large number of electronic reconnaissance aircraft and electronic attack aircraft.

That's right, it's the "Occasion-8FZ" electronic attack aircraft that shined in the Posa Bay War.

According to the Air Force arrangement, when the "Occurrence-9B" aircraft group launched an attack and the "Finger-10A" advanced about 100 kilometers behind the front line, there were two teams of "Occurrence-8FZ" in each of the four main counterattack directions, and four of one team performed electromagnetic suppression missions at the forefront.

As for the other team, stand by in the rear to ensure that they can go forward at any time to deal with emergencies.

If you want to say it, it is definitely a big deal.

There are not a total of 100 "Ocamp-8FZs" in total, and more than 30 are on the Posar Bay side. The necessary forces must be retained in other strategic directions. Therefore, the Imperial Air Force can invest at most 40 "Ocamp-8FZs" on the northwest battlefield, and this time it used 32.

In fact, the Imperial Air Force has discovered that electronic attack aircraft are seriously insufficient and is starting to solve this problem.

Last month, the Imperial Air Force issued only one purchase order, which was to transform 120 sealed "Observation-8" into electronic attack aircraft.

The key is to improve according to the latest standards.

This is related to the future development plan of "Observation-8FZ".

As early as a few years ago, the Imperial Air Force proposed to develop an electronic attack aircraft to replace the "Observation-8FZ", but it has always been just hope.

The reason is very simple. The number of equipment of this special aircraft will not be too large, with only more than 100 aircraft all over the sky. If you want to develop a platform specifically, the price will definitely be ridiculously high. You should know that other tactical aircraft, even the smallest number of heavy carrier-based fighters, have more than 600 aircraft.

Relatively speaking, it is obviously more appropriate to transform existing combat aircraft.

Of course, the Air Force and the Navy have always done this.

The Air Force uses the "Occurrence-8" transformation, while the Navy uses the "Occurrence-5" transformation.

The main reason for choosing an attack aircraft is that in addition to the electronic attack aircraft not pursuing maneuverability, it is also because the heavy attack aircraft has a larger internal space.

As for the defects of the attack aircraft, such as slow flight speed, it is actually not a big problem.
To be continued...