After several rounds of strikes, all the bombs mounted on the F-4C fighter jets have been dropped.
Then they pointed out a few insignificant targets at low altitude to the two idle and boring Su-37s at high altitude, and asked them to throw all the laser-guided bombs on the fighter planes over the targets' heads, so they didn't return empty-handed.
The ground troops informed Wang Yu that under successive attacks, the defense force of the air pirate base had been defeated. The next step was their work. After all, it was impossible for air strikes to completely kill all the enemies, so they still needed the next step.
Work hard.
Regarding things like air pirates, the empire's attitude has always been to kill them all - you must know that the empire has many interests along the coast of the mainland, so if the routes in the central part of the continent are not disturbed by air pirates, then a large number of transport planes and convoys can be transported through the central part of the continent.
Instead of taking the South China Sea or the North Sea route, it saves time and speeds up the pace of transportation. The profit that can be saved every year will be a terrifying amount.
Therefore, when the empire faces air pirates, it has always been able to completely annihilate them.
In other words, after this ground force enters the airfield that has been turned into ruins, there will be no prisoners.
What they have to do is to burn the remaining items in the base and wait for the evacuation helicopter to arrive.
However, these things have nothing to do with the flying troops in the air. After dropping all the bombs, the air troops entered the last stage of the mission-return.
Wang Yu notified the Polaris Squadron to assemble while adjusting the direction of the fighter plane.
"The mission was successfully completed. Fortunately, this mission is simple. Even this F-4C can handle it easily." Wang Yu commented while letting the fighter maintain a stable speed and climb rate.
"But this is probably the only chance for this F-4C to actually fight." Liu Lingxin said with a smile, "The next time we come back, it will be a brand new fighter."
"A brand new fighter plane..." Wang Yu complained for some reason, "Speaking of which, I have already crashed two fighter planes, so when you talk about new aircraft, you always give me the illusion that I am going to crash this one too...
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"But don't..." Liu Lingxin was startled, "One time is enough for being shot down. Readers will get impatient if you play it a few more times."
Wang Yu subconsciously glanced at the fighter's pylon display - although it is not as smart as the third-generation aircraft, it can still show how many weapons are on the pylon through the light, so the remaining armament of the fighter is clear at a glance.
At this time, the F-4C was already in an unloaded state. There were only two infrared combat bombs left in the semi-buried pylons under the wings. This was also all the weapons on the entire aircraft.
There are only thirty groups of thermal bombs and chaff each.
Wang Yu was suddenly stunned. Why did he suddenly start counting the remaining ammunition? This was not a good sign.
Is it possible that I have already acquiesced to the full-fledged setting that "there will always be something unexpected at the end of a seemingly sure-fire actual combat mission"?
Isn't this good? It's just an air pirate base destroyed. How could there be any surprises?
On this continent, air pirates are an existence that everyone can punish. Even mercenary groups or warlords will not have a good opinion of these remnants of the former "Tavos National Alliance".
He subconsciously looked at the surrounding sky through the transparent canopy.
Obviously, there should be nothing to care about, except for the few white lines that can be seen at the end of the vision...
Wait, white line?!
I don’t know which chapter should have mentioned it before. The contrails formed by this kind of aircraft due to the temperature in the high altitude are like a white line on the sky. It depends on the local humidity and air pressure, but it usually appears in the seventh month.
More than one thousand meters.
"Eileen, can you see what's over there?" He raised a hand and pointed through the canopy in the direction of the vague white line.
Irene shook her head, it was obviously beyond her sight range.
Wang Yu didn't find it strange. After all, the white line was probably still far away from his side. He could only see its existence from a long distance because its target was relatively large, so Irene's vision
It’s normal if the distance is not reached.
You must know that the air at high altitudes is very clean and thin, with high visibility, and because the sky at high altitudes appears dark blue, a white line looks very eye-catching against this background.
"No. 2, look at our three o'clock direction."
Wang Yu then said to Luo Yu that they were higher than him at this time, so maybe they could see the scene more clearly.
"We have noticed it." Luo Yu replied, "Our pilot did not give an observation report, but it is indeed an aircraft. It is estimated that the distance between it and us is more than thirty kilometers, and it is flying south.
Our distance will be close to within sight range after a while."
"Is there a threat?"
"Not sure." Luo Yu hesitated, "Our early warning aircraft did not report any situation."
Wang Yu frowned and said to Luo Yu: "It is not normal for a plane to appear here. Contact the early warning aircraft to confirm the situation."
Luo Yu agreed and fell silent, switching channels to contact the early warning aircraft.
"Do you think this plane is not simple?" Liu Lingxin asked curiously.
"Perhaps my nerves are a little nervous." Wang Yu sighed, "But there are no civil aviation routes in this place, and it is relatively rare to encounter an aircraft that can fly so high. In addition, we have just completed an actual combat mission.
, so I think it’s better to have everything insured.”
Liu Lingxin smiled: "We'd better pray that the other party doesn't threaten us. After all, we only have two missiles, which are used for close combat."
"You are right, but..."
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Before Wang Yu finished speaking, Luo Yu contacted him again.
"The early warning aircraft confirmed that the enemy was not a threat." She said simply. "The early warning aircraft said that it was a transport plane flying from the northwest. It belonged to a city-state that was negotiating with the empire. They had already reported this flight." "One?" Wang Yu seemed to want to know more details, "Aren't there any escort planes?"
"No, it's just this transport plane. After all, not every transport plane has a special escort like the Imperial Air Force."
"Why didn't our mission briefing say that there would be a transport aircraft near the mission airspace?"
The straight-line distance between this transport plane and the combat area is less than 50 kilometers. This is obviously an abnormal distance. After all, any missile pulled over may pose a threat to it.
So Wang Yu still feels strange.
Luo Yu seemed to have considered this: "I also asked this question. The early warning aircraft said that the original route of the transport plane was further to the west, but it seemed that there was severe high-altitude turbulence to the west and thunderstorms to the south.
So I took it upon myself to adjust the distance to the east by about fifty kilometers, and it happened to pass near us."
"Making your own decision?"
"Yes, we only learned about the situation after the AWACS got in touch with them." Luo Yu said, "But the AWACS has also confirmed that what they said is true. There are indeed severe weather conditions in the south of their original route, and they are very dangerous to us.
It is not surprising that the military operations carried out in this airspace are not known. The empire has always regarded this kind of mission to eliminate air pirates as a small task. It only needs to ensure that the nearby airspace is cleared when the mission starts, so there is no
I thought that there was no interference between the original route and the mission area, and the transport opportunity temporarily changed the route and broke into the mission area."
Although Wang Yu still had some doubts in his heart, since the early warning aircraft confirmed that the other party only had one transport plane, he also felt that he might be worrying in vain: "In short, it has nothing to do with us, right?"
"Well, if we follow the route, we will be within the visual range of the aircraft girl in a few minutes. Just let the aircraft girl confirm again. Anyway, you can continue to climb to 10,000 meters. We will re-form and return.
Base."
Wang Yu agreed and continued to let the fighter plane climb.
Soon, the F-4C fighter jets reached the same altitude as the Su-37, and the three fighter jets formed a triangular formation and flew towards the south.