As the battle progressed, the situation went from bad to worse.
The two Imperial fighter planes tried their best to ensure a safe distance between them and the drone - but it was obvious that their attempts could only delay the approach of the drone.
Therefore, after shooting down four drones one after another, the two imperial fighter planes were approached by the drones and dragged into the fight.
There is no doubt that once you enter the fight, it will be the home field of the drone.
To use an inappropriate metaphor, the existence of two Imperial helicopters stirred up a hornet's nest, and these drones swarmed out like wasps from a hornet's nest, and then surrounded the nearest target - which was two Imperial fighter planes.
——Launch an attack.
The stings on these "wasps" should not be underestimated.
Due to the size of the drones, they cannot carry large missiles, so they only use short-range combat bombs.
Although these missiles cannot play a big role in long-distance air combat, they can use their strong and effective guidance capabilities in the power section to pose a serious threat to the enemy in close-range air combat.
These QAAM combat bombs can even draw an arc of more than 90 degrees within its power range after launch to attack the target, and then bite the enemy until it can no longer track or hit.
So when the drone swarm entangled two fighter planes, they immediately launched a series of attacks.
The dim sky at dusk was temporarily lit up by the tail flame of the missile launch.
Now the problem has become very difficult. The two fighter planes must expend huge amounts of energy to barely get rid of these following missiles.
In the successive attacks of drones, it is obviously not a rational thing to consume a large amount of energy. It will not only increase the possibility of being hit, but also reduce the possibility of being able to fight back.
The two imperial pilots naturally understood this clearly.
If this continues, they will all be shot down in no more than three rounds.
So in the midst of lightning and flint, one of the fighter planes suddenly made a fierce high-G maneuver, turned and rushed towards the drone group - the few remaining missiles and cannons were all fired at this moment.
However, it is obvious that the counterattack of this fighter plane was not planned for a long time, but was very sudden - the pilot did not choose the target to attack, as if he was simply aiming at all the missiles at the drone group.
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"Quickly go! Keep holding on and wait for your teammates to arrive!"
the pilot shouted on the channel.
The fighter plane's sudden extreme counterattack and full firepower attracted the attention of all the drones. The drones immediately judged it as the highest priority target, so while avoiding the incoming missiles and cannons, they launched
counterattacked.
For a while, he even ignored the existence of another fighter plane.
And because teammates took the initiative to attract the attention of the drone, the fighter plane had a certain amount of time to replenish its energy and stay away from the battlefield.
The pilot subconsciously wanted to follow his teammates and rush towards the drone to launch a desperate counterattack - but he knew in his heart that his teammates chose to take the initiative and make sacrifices in order to allow him to continue to delay time and wait for friendly forces to arrive.
At this time, he has to follow the instructions of his teammates, instead of learning from his teammates to launch attacks, which will not help.
While gritting his teeth tightly, he pushed the throttle lever to the extreme position.
At this time, it was no longer possible to care whether the fighter's engine would be damaged due to this extremely long period of afterburning.
And just as his speed gradually increased, he heard an explosion from behind.
Using the rearview mirror, he saw friendly fighter planes being hit by several missiles.
He suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.
But then he noticed a parachute floating in the sky, which made him feel a little more comfortable. It seemed that his teammate had successfully parachuted.
So now you need to concentrate and continue to delay.
But at this time, he no longer had to wait too long, as reinforcements from the empire quickly arrived at the scene.
Ten fighters arrived in one go, and facing the remaining drones, they basically evened out their numerical advantage.
Therefore, after a short battle, all the drones were shot down, and the empire only paid the price of one fighter plane.
Then, the next step is to calculate the general ledger.
These drones caused a total loss of five fighter jets to the empire, so it was naturally impossible for the empire to let the freighter carrying the drones serve as the mothership leave.
Among the fighter planes that came for reinforcements, one was quite special. It carried an anti-ship weapon—an anti-ship missile that could penetrate at supersonic speeds and defend against low-altitude sea-skimming attacks.
The fighter plane carrying anti-ship missiles locked onto the fast-moving freighter. After the pilot confirmed the attack permission, he pressed the launch button and launched the missile towards the target.
A slender anti-ship missile fell freely for a moment after detaching from its pylon. Then the engine ignited and climbed to speed in an instant, trailing a faint trail and heading towards the target at high speed.
After the Imperial fighter planes present waited for a moment, a dazzling flash of light suddenly erupted in the direction of the freighter on the sea.
The anti-ship missile accurately hit the freighter from the side. The powerful explosion power formed an obvious diffusion shock wave on the sea. The entire freighter was also penetrated laterally by the explosion, and even appeared on the other side of the freighter.
Traces of shrapnel shot out along with the firelight.
This kind of anti-ship missile is usually used to target warships, but now it is decisively used to attack cargo ships. It is obviously overpowered - but there is no way. Among the fighters currently on standby in the air, only this one can perform the mission of attacking ships.
Letting some fighters with low-power weapons take off from the dome base is obviously not worth the gain.
As the missile exploded, the cargo ship full of containers was immediately torn in two by the force of the explosion. A large amount of cold water poured in from the "section" of the ship's hull, and soon reached the point where the remaining hull could no longer maintain buoyancy.
, began to sink into the sea water.
"I just hope the empire's salvage team can find some useful clues."
I don’t know which pilot muttered like this: "Who allowed this thing to be so unbeaten? We originally wanted to leave him with a whole body."
Someone complained directly: "You can pull me down. When the anti-ship missiles are launched, you are the one who shouts the loudest."
These fighter planes searched the area and after confirming that no fish had slipped through the net, they gathered together and returned to the base. The remaining tasks, including the rescue of survivors on the freighter and the identification of key evidence, would be taken care of by the arriving Imperial destroyers.
In short, this storm is over for now.
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"...Based on the confessions of the survivors on the sunken freighter and some key information we obtained from the sea, we can confirm that the owner of this freighter is indeed a militant organization in Asia, and they are indeed like us
As expected, I have special thoughts about Stonehenge.”
The highest-ranking officer in the Empire Dome Base, an old man with the rank of general, summoned all the officers above the school level in the base for a meeting. The content of the meeting was naturally to report new information about the enemy.
He briefly introduced the current situation, and then cleared his throat: "The empire's diplomatic department has begun to question Asia, but everyone knows that this Asia radical organization has mastered a large amount of military resources in Asia. Obviously
, the current Asia government is unable to control them.
"Simply put, we cannot pin our hopes of avoiding conflict until the meteorite arrives on diplomatic efforts - air force, navy and army, please be prepared, this will be a war with Stonehenge at its core.
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The general finished his summary and then gave time to everyone. Next, the head of the empire's military intelligence department will take over from him to answer questions from each service.
"Any news on drones?"
A general from the Air Force asked first.
This guy looked very unhappy, because not long ago, five Air Force fighter planes were shot down, three pilots died, and one pilot was slightly injured, and the culprits were those drones.
Therefore, in order to avoid similar things from happening in the future, the officer must ask clearly about the situation of the drone.
"The weapons used by the Aisians are indeed drones. To be precise, they are drones with certain intelligence. They are not controlled by personnel and can be set for different types of tasks. The drone group will judge the battlefield situation and complete the presets on its own.
task.
"According to the confession of an Asia military officer we captured, their military research department has invested a lot of money and time in this field, and has now achieved certain results.
"The intelligent systems of these drones come from Asia's heavy investment in the field of artificial intelligence. According to the prisoner's explanation, the training samples used to train drones to fly, fight and perform various tasks come from the Asia Air Force.
Many ace pilots fly special test machines and complete various training simulations. Then the data collected on the test machines are used to train the AI of these drones.
"These drones can be launched using a launcher, or they can be carried into the sky by a dedicated aircraft and then released. Each drone can carry three small short-range air-to-air combat missiles specially developed by Asia or one air-to-air missile.
Although ground-attack missiles carry only a small amount of ammunition per aircraft, due to the large number of drones, once they are dispatched in groups, they will pose a great threat.
"As we speculated, the endurance of UAVs is not long, so once a UAV is discovered, their mother aircraft or mothership must be nearby - an additional addition here, the UAV mothership we destroyed today
The ship is actually just one of Asia’s many motherships.”
"The UAVs our troops encountered today have the military codename MQ-101. There is currently no possible information about other types of UAVs."
The intelligence personnel in charge of the report reported to everyone all the information they knew about the drone in one report, along with a presentation document.
The air force officer nodded and remained silent, probably starting to think about how to deal with this new threat - after all, the empire did not focus on technology, and the drones were all manually operated.
Unexpectedly, the people of Asia made big news without saying anything. They really made a fortune in silence.
Wang Yu, who was also a school-level officer or above, was also present at this meeting. He began to use the limited information released by the intelligence department to judge what kind of attack method should be used more efficiently when he encountered a drone.
He also has a copied battle report here from a pilot who has fought with a drone.
A drone.
Wang Yu couldn't help but secretly sigh. Today's technology is really developing too fast. The flight combat technology of drones is no less than that of an ordinary pilot.
But be aware that even an ordinary pilot needs several years of training, but drones...
According to people in the intelligence department, as long as drones have enough computing power, they can use the flight data of ace pilots as samples to train an AI with combat skills far superior to ordinary pilots.
All that needs to be done is to import a set of data into the bodies of those drones.
Maybe one day when technology develops, ace pilots like me who have experienced many battles will be replaced by an ordinary drone.
The future...
The battlefield of the future must be a battlefield where no one fights.
However, the coffin sellers do not want more deaths, and people like Wang Yu who serve in the army also do not want more wars.
He couldn't help but begin to imagine that in the future, when drones gradually replaced human soldiers, where would the traditional military go?
Perhaps through this meteorite attack, mankind will begin to turn its attention to space?
Wang Yu thinks that if this is the case, then he can try to become an astronaut or something. After all, the vast sea of stars and the sky in the atmosphere are not the same.
Wang Yu feels that flying into space in his lifetime is obviously a dream worth pursuing.
But for now, it’s better to concentrate on the meeting.
Wang Yu retracted his distracted attention and began to follow the progress of the meeting - no matter what the future holds, at least this war is in front of everyone. If they do not get through this war smoothly, then there is no need for them to talk about the future.
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The meeting continued, and the next topic was the response strategies of various military services against Asia.
Since the hostile party is the militant organization of Asia, rather than the country of Asia, things have become more troublesome.
The Empire cannot declare war on an organization.
Therefore, even if this time has been confirmed to be a firefight between the two sides, the empire cannot immediately launch an attack on Asia on this basis.
To be precise, due to the imminent fall of the meteorite, most of the empire's armies must be prepared to deal with the chaos after the disaster. The current empire does not have the ability to launch an attack on Asia.
Therefore, apart from sanctions and other measures, the empire can still only wait for Asia's splinter group to take their next step.