The members of Polaris Squadron have gotten enough rest, but they are in the embarrassing situation of having no aircraft.
Wang Yu's F-4C can be repaired, but there are no conditions at the oasis base, so it must be sent back to China for repair; Luo Yu's Su-37 was declared scrapped on the spot because the repair cost was too high.
Therefore, only Murong Lan in the squadron still has the ability to take off and carry out missions - although her Su-37 was damaged in the previous battle, the problem was not serious. The damaged parts were all replaceable spare parts, so during the battle
Soon after, it was repaired, and the maintenance team and ground crew even replaced some old parts in the fighter plane.
Therefore, in order not to waste combat power, Murong Lan was temporarily assigned to other squadrons by the Oasis Base for daily training tasks.
Wang Yu and Luo Yu were quietly waiting for their new plane.
After the last attack, the base cooperated with the domestic investigation team to launch an intensive investigation on these four YF-23 enemy aircraft. Wang Yu and the others were invited to undergo several investigations, or were asked several times -
These intelligence officers don't care whether you are a friendly person or a meritorious ace. As long as you are useful to their investigation, they will ask you questions without any hesitation until they are sure that you will tell them everything you know.
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But we can't blame them. Those YF-23s that crashed left no survivors. They didn't consider parachuting at all when they were shot down. The flight recorders recovered from those crashed YF-23s are still there.
During the analysis process, the investigation team made no intelligence progress at all for a while. The only thing they did during this period was probably to sort out the incident from the members of the rescued transport plane, and by the way, they identified the Polaris Squadron.
What a correct decision we made in this attack...
The transport plane was considered non-threatening when the YF-23 fleet launched its attack. There were several enemy personnel on the transport plane at first, but soon after they determined that the battle had begun and the transport plane had to stay away from the combat airspace, they ordered the transport crew
Lower the flight altitude, and then they all use the prepared parachutes to parachute away.
Subsequently, the transport plane landed at the oasis base at the request of the empire and underwent inspection.
The final conclusion was that they had nothing to do with this matter.
Shortly after the transport plane took off, the enemy who had hid in the cargo hold took control of the entire plane and then asked the crew to act according to the orders - whether it was temporarily adjusting the route or using the radio to inform false information, they were all forced to do so.
Fortunately, the pilot of the transport plane had an idea and used sunlight and a mirror to transmit a distress signal without the hijackers' knowledge. This allowed the Polaris Squadron to prepare for the battle.
As a result, the investigation reached a deadlock - the investigation team originally wanted to use the staff of the airport where the transport plane took off to start, but after spending more than half a week conducting overt and covert inspections, there was no harvest. It seems that the enemy was well prepared and did not leave any traces. p>
So they could only wait for the recorder of the downed yf-23 to be cracked.
Their investigation has reached a deadlock, but what should be done at the Oasis Base has not been left at all.
Shortly after the battle, the base's staff prepared a report to be submitted to the domestic General Staff. Because the matter was so serious, it required Lieutenant General Deng's personal signature before it could be reported. After carefully reading the report, the Lieutenant General personally
Added his personal praise for Polaris Squadron at the end of the content.
This praise is probably "In this emergency, the members of the Polaris Squadron showed excellent qualities of calmness and calmness. They used excellent air combat skills to defeat the strong with the weak and the many with the few, and strive to ensure the safety of the irrelevant people.
The empire's property will not be lost..." and the like, anyway, what stands out is one content - such an excellent squadron as Polaris, it is unreasonable to bury them.
And I don’t know whether it was his praise that played a role or the conclusion reached by the Imperial General Staff after carefully analyzing the combat process. Soon, a notice was sent from China to give the Polaris Squadron a collective award and officially confirm the title of "Ace Squadron".
All were awarded second-class merit, and pilot Wang Yu, who used a second-generation aircraft to perform defiant maneuvers to kill enemy aircraft, was directly promoted to the rank of major, and weapons control officer Liu Lingxin was promoted to the rank of captain.
But Wang Yu doesn't really care about his military rank. He cares more about his new fighter.
Since his fighter plane was damaged again and the ground crew was helpless, Wang Yu was "grounded" for a time. He thought that although his skills were good, it was a waste of fighter planes. If a new plane arrived, it would definitely be more stable.<
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The empire naturally knew that it was impossible to let an ace squadron just idle like this. Considering that neither of the two pilots were fuel-efficient, the Imperial Arms Department quickly reached some ulterior agreement with the Oasis Base and informed them
The specific date for the two pilots Wang Yu and Luo Yu to return to China to receive the new fighters.
This surprised them. According to the usual practice, the armament department should transport the new fighters directly to the oasis base through transport planes, and let the pilots return to the country to receive them at the corresponding location. This is a relatively rare example.
Shortly after Luo Yu recovered from his injury, the date came to receive the fighter jet.
So, Wang Yu, Luo Yu and Liu Lingxin took the base's transport plane back to the country.
The place where they landed was a military base in the middle of the empire. Wang Yu and the others originally thought they were going to receive new fighters at this base, but they did not expect that after landing, the personnel of the military base put them on another plane...
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And this plane flew directly to the vicinity of the imperial capital.
But this is not the place where the fighter planes are to be received.
Then, they got into a military vehicle at this base near the capital and trekked all the way to a large-scale factory area located on the plains.
"'Empire United' Industries?"
Liu Lingxin looked at the name on the factory building in confusion.
Wang Yu knew something about this factory. He explained: "Imperial United Aviation Industries is a military industry giant that integrates R&D, design, and manufacturing. Its industrial design covers everything from ordinary armaments to space probes. Of course,
, this company also has its influence in the civilian field, and many current long-distance passenger aircraft are produced by this company."
"It seems that the higher-ups have some special ideas for bringing us here." Luo Yu said with a smile after listening to Wang Yu's explanation.
Although Wang Yu understood what she meant, he still matched her words and said, "How do you say this?"
"If you just want to replenish the original fighter planes for us, why let us come to this place?" Luo Yu quickly explained what he meant: "It seems that it is because of our outstanding performance that he wants us to come here."
Receive some newly produced fighters - in other words, new fighters that have just come off the production line and are improved based on the current fighters in service."
"But even if it is a new fighter, there is no need to bring us to this factory area." Liu Lingxin looked at the scenery outside: "I saw the road sign just now, we are going to the 'R&D Zone'."