The dome base is a large air force base in the conventional sense. The base has design standards that are sufficient for parking, taxiing, and taking off and landing heavy bombers and transport aircraft. The base tower also has unusual ground taxiing, takeoff, and landing capabilities for a large number of aircraft.
command and dispatch capabilities.
To put it simply, the design of the dome base is very complete, even if it is the most ordinary taxiway. In fact, the design standards of these main taxiways for the taxiing of heavy bombers and other large aircraft and their own flatness also make it suitable for emergency use.
In some cases, it can be used as a runway.
Thanks to the excellent basic conditions of the dome base and considering the emergencies that the dome base may face, the Imperial Air Force stationed at the dome base has a mature emergency takeoff mechanism.
When every pilot comes to the dome base, he must train this emergency takeoff mechanism. Let it be engraved in his mind. In case of a real emergency on a certain day, everyone can immediately follow the instructions.
Scheduling and execution of tasks at the base.
This emergency takeoff mechanism is roughly like this - the entire base is divided into different takeoff areas, and the fighters on the apron corresponding to the takeoff area will take off nearby in that area.
As for the take-off location, it can be an open parking screen, a straight taxiway, or a runway divided into several sections.
Generally speaking, a runway will be divided into two sections and divided into two different take-off areas. This is used to allow two groups of fighters to take off at the same time using this runway.
When the emergency takeoff mechanism is activated, the two large runways owned by the dome base can be treated as four runways.
Not to mention those taxiways that can also be used as runways.
In this way, the unique emergency takeoff mechanism of the dome base can maximize the use of the runway, taxiway and even the apron space of the entire base. Compared with the traditional takeoff process, where fighter jets line up at the end of the runway waiting to take off,
The emergency takeoff mechanism can send the largest number of fighter planes into the sky in the shortest time.
It's like the PVE server in a certain air combat game. To save trouble, everyone didn't want to taxi to the runway, so they took off head-on on the taxiway - it was identified as playing DCS.
Although this kind of take-off mechanism sounds very dangerous. Everyone takes off in different places. Aren't they afraid of being hit in the air? But in fact, if all pilots strictly follow the scheduling form, the emergency take-off process will look very different.
It looks messy but is actually very orderly.
Aircraft in different takeoff areas have different safety altitudes, and these different safety altitudes divide the top of the dome base into several altitude levels.
And if you study the routes of aircraft during emergency takeoff, you will find that although there are many taking off at the same time, the flight paths of these aircraft belonging to different takeoff areas do not intersect at all - you only need to strictly follow the dispatch instructions to fly, then
It can plunge into the vast sky immediately after taking off and avoid collision with friendly forces.
The entire base can have more than ten fighter jets taking off at the same time, which is naturally much faster than two or three fighter jets taking off at a time.
The more fighters take to the sky in a shorter period of time, the greater the possibility that someone will gain control of the air.
Polaris Squadron was the first to take to the skies.
They began to hover over the dome base at the prescribed altitude, waiting for subsequent teammates to arrive and complete the formation - under normal circumstances, whoever takes off early should rush to the predetermined combat airspace first. After all,
It's to save time.
However, when the dome base adopts the emergency take-off mechanism, everyone can take off in a very short time. Therefore, if you prepare the battle formation between squadrons or groups in advance and then rush to the target airspace, you can better utilize your aerial skills.
The combat capability of the troops.
So when Wang Yu was circling and waiting at high altitude, what he saw was that many fighter planes were leaving the dome base one after another, and the scene was spectacular.
"It's like poking a beehive," he said.
After hovering over the base for about four or five minutes, all the pilots from the 4th Independent Flying Group had assembled.
Last time, four fighter planes of the Sea Wolf Squadron crashed due to a sneak attack by Asia's drones. Later, the Imperial Air Force redeployed a squadron of four planes from the mainland to make up for the shortage of pilots in the Fourth Independent Group after the withdrawal of the Sea Wolf Squadron.
Question - There are currently four squadrons in the 4th Flying Group. In addition to the Polaris Squadron, there are also three four-aircraft squadrons named Stinger, Needle and Vanguard.
Wang Yu didn't want to complain too much about the names of these three squadrons.
Naming your squadron after MANPADS is a great way to live up to your expectations. You won't have to worry about floods destroying the Dragon King Temple one day.
Maybe this is done for good luck?
In short, these three squadrons quickly merged with the Polaris Squadron flying at the front, forming a huge loose formation of fifteen aircraft - enough distance was opened between the fighter planes, and after climbing to an altitude of 10,000 meters, a formation was formed.
The fifteen trailing clouds across the sky look quite impressive.
The Fourth Independent Flying Group will be on its own. They were assigned by their superiors to head to the airspace northeast of Stonehenge, to merge with a squadron currently patrolling that airspace and prepare for battle - but Asia's main attack direction is not here.
, so only the Fourth Independent Battalion is responsible for defending this airspace.
But this does not mean that the enemy forces here are easy to deal with. Although it is not the main attack direction, there are still a large number of enemy fighters - the so-called not the main attack direction is just because the Aisians have not invested as many troops here as the main attack direction.
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According to the data link, the Aisians have invested a reinforced flying brigade here. According to signal analysis, the empire has learned the specific model of the Aisiya air force here - a total of twenty F-35C fighters are flying at
The five squadrons were divided into groups, keeping a certain distance between each other, and attacked in large numbers.
F-35C is a general-purpose aircrew mounted on Asia's new generation naval aircraft carrier battle group. Most of Asia's elite naval aviation units have already switched to this fighter aircraft. Although there are still some Asia's naval aviation units who are "obsessed".
For strange reasons such as "proficiency" and "sexual fetishes", we continue to use F-14D, F-18E/F and other models, but after all, there are only a few people who think this way.
When most pilots can change their equipment, they will still accept fighters with more advanced avionics systems and flight control performance.
Even for an ace like Wang Yu, when he could switch to the X-02S, he would immediately give up the F-15E he had flown earlier.
It's useless, in short - these twenty incoming fighter planes of the Asiatics, although not in the main direction of attack, are still a force that cannot be underestimated.
As for Wang Yu's Fourth Flying Group, the types of aircraft are relatively mixed. The Polaris Squadron has three fighters of three models. The Vanguard Squadron is from the Navy. Their fighters are four ashore carrier-based aircraft, model FC.
-31; the Needle Squadron and the Stinger Squadron are from the Air Force, and their aircraft models are Mig-35 and F-22 respectively - a squadron has six different types of fighters, even among the squadrons at the dome base.
Very explosive.
Since both sides were more or less invisible, the combat efficiency at long distances was not high. Therefore, Wang Yu directly issued an order to quickly join up with his teammates on the front line and enter into close combat with the enemy as soon as possible.
Perhaps it is safer to engage in long-distance battles with the enemy. After all, the two sides fire mid-range radar missiles at each other dozens of nautical miles away, and then avoid each other. It is very harmonious. When both sides have large numbers, fighting to the end of the world may not be effective.
The battle losses came - but Wang Yu had his own considerations.
He always felt that the Aisians would be hiding something behind their backs.
To put it simply, despite the menacing attack of Asia's fighter jets, in fact they have a very single type of troops, as if they are simply here to seize air supremacy - but in fact, even if you just look at the power in the air, a battle against
The invasion of Stonehenge requires the close cooperation of multiple types of aircraft. It needs to have front-line air control aircraft, it needs to have aircraft that can suppress air defense radars, it needs to have aircraft that can enter the field and lick the ground... rather than simply being controlled.
An empty model is enough.
Therefore, Wang Yu does not think that Asia's big fanfare is just to fight with the imperial air force outside the surface-to-air missile air defense zone of Stonehenge. They must have other hidden intentions.
Obviously, the superiors also had the same suspicion.
Therefore, when giving an emergency briefing to all pilots taking off from the dome base, one of the key points in the order they issued was to shoot down all the invading fighter jets in Asia as soon as possible and prepare to face other challenges.
These challenges may refer to other attack types of Asia that have not yet been discovered, drone groups that Asia may send, and even other arms such as the Asia navy.
Therefore, under this general premise, choosing to actively close the distance with the enemy aircraft, although it increases a lot of risks, can actually greatly speed up the pace of the battle, shorten the battle process as much as possible, and prepare for other subsequent battles.
Of course, there is an additional small reason, and that is that the main combat weapon on Wang Yu's fighter plane-the small airborne electromagnetic gun, is mainly used to suppress the force of hitting wherever you point it in close combat.
Although it has a certain ability to attack beyond visual range, the attack effect on long-distance targets is actually not as optimistic as imagined.
When attacking at a long distance, any small factor may affect the accuracy of the attack. The missile can use its own power and guidance performance to make up for the impact of these factors, but unguided attacks like electromagnetic artillery shells are different.
However, at long distances, deviations caused by airflow, humidity and even strange forces are difficult to predict and compensate for.
Therefore, when attacking from a long distance, even if the aim is accurate, the cannonball may not hit the target point when it flies over.
After the fighters of the Fourth Independent Group flew for several minutes, Wang Yu received a communication from the fighter squadron in the northeastern airspace.
The captain of that squadron informed the Aisians that the fighter group had officially crossed the boundary line of the air defense identification zone, and that they were ready to switch to the attack. He also stated that their squadron had also been locked by the Aisians' fire control radar.
Wang Yu told them to act cautiously for the time being, because they only have the strength of one squadron, so this is not the time to show off as a hero. The only thing they need to do now is to delay the enemy, and in the process, preserve their own strength.
Prioritize, wait for the large army led by you to join them, and then fight to the death with the enemy.
To use a common saying, let this squadron survive.
Facing the twenty fighters of the Asiatics, it is naturally the easiest thing for a squadron to go up and die. Under the threat of the enemy, it is possible to delay the enemy's attack as much as possible while holding on to oneself. In fact,
It is also the part that most tests pilot skills.
At the same time, Wang Yu led the pilots of the entire Fourth Independent Group to increase their flight speed and strive to reach the front line as soon as possible.
And on the entire eastern air defense line of Stonehenge, this kind of thing keeps happening.
In order to win this air interception battle, the empire dispatched all the early warning aircraft in the dome base to provide information support for the battlefield. When the fighter jets rushed to the front line, three large early warning aircraft took off and rushed to the corresponding airspace respectively. There was only a small amount of escort.
Under the circumstances, provide the required intelligence resources for the three battlefields.
Coupled with the ground radar that the Empire has around Stonehenge, the Empire can have relatively complete battlefield transparency - on the battlefield situation display of Wang Yu's fighter planes, you can see the logos representing enemy aircraft and their movements, which is very important to many.
It is obviously very beneficial for the battle that will begin soon.
But Wang Yun looked at his electronic warfare interface again and found that his fighter planes were also being scanned by the Aisian radar. Therefore, the transparency of the battlefield may be two-way and fair to everyone.
On the front line, the friendly squadron had fired the first wave of missiles at each other with the invading Aisian fleet, but neither achieved any effective results. The Aisians took this opportunity to close the distance between the two sides.
This is not a good start. If the distance is any closer, the Aisians will be able to use their overwhelming numerical superiority to directly crush this imperial flying squadron that they think dares to "use a mantis as a chariot".
Wang Yu judged the situation on the front line through the constantly updated posture changes of both sides on the battlefield situation map, and at the same time silently deduced the possible development of the battle situation in his mind - as an ace pilot, these basic skills are necessary.
They were already rushing to the front line as quickly as possible, but there were still a few minutes before they actually arrived at the front line to join the battle.
For air combat, a few minutes can decide a lot.
Wang Yu only hopes that this squadron can persist a little longer.