The red dots representing enemy aircraft on the Imperial fighter aircraft situation map completely disappeared, leaving only the green marks representing friendly IFF signals.
All Asia's fighter planes were shot down. At the beginning of the attack, none of the twenty F-35C fighters were spared.
Since they came from afar to launch the attack, they were far away from the homeland or the base from which they took off, and had no access to supplies or support. Therefore, when the battle situation turned to a disadvantage, they did not even have a chance to retreat.
All they can do is fight until the last missile.
Then he was shot down by the Imperial Air Force. Either he died in the sea with the fighter planes, or he parachuted and waited for the Empire's subsequent troops to capture him.
The skydiving pilots of Asia were relatively lucky. Although they lost the battle, lost their fighter planes, and were about to become prisoners in a prisoner of war camp, at least they survived.
Perhaps in some cases, there are some things that are more important than simply saving one's own life, but for these ordinary pilots, there is no difference between "the Empire captures them" and "let them die on the battlefield"
To put it simply, it does not reach the level of sacrificing one's life for righteousness.
For them, surviving in this tragic conflict is the most important thing - they will still have the day to return to their hometown and see their parents, wives and children, but those who died in the sea with the fighter planes have already
There is no such chance.
For Asia, this air battle was a tragic failure.
But for the empire, it was the first victory in this large-scale conflict with Asia's radical organization.
Thanks to the excellent command of Polaris Squadron and its devastating offensive, the Empire only paid a small price and left these invading Aisians on the sea around Stonehenge forever.
If you look carefully, you can see several strange flashing spots on the sparkling sea. These are the flickering of the wreckage of fighter planes floating on the sea, which undulates with the waves and constantly changes angles to reflect the sunlight.
The sky is vast and inclusive. The smoke produced by the fighter plane being hit and exploded is nothing compared to the vast sky. Those ugly black "stains" dissipated in a short time.
Even though there had just been a large air battle involving nearly forty fighter planes, the sky at this time was still clear and bright.
In the extremely blue sky, only the messy white trail clouds formed when the Imperial fighter planes that had just finished fighting in various areas merged.
"Fourth Brigade, all targets in this area have been confirmed to have been shot down."
The communication from the early warning aircraft announced to everyone this good news worthy of applause: "Based on the coordinated early warning, we can confirm that there are no more invading enemy aircraft in the Northeast Air Defense Identification Zone of Stonehenge. Your mission is completed."
I don’t know which squadron leader sighed: “To be honest, when I heard that Aisia’s public troops were coming with great force, I panicked a little, but I didn’t expect that we would kill them all so quickly - thanks to the big army.
team leader."
"Well, thanks to the captain."
Other squadron members echoed in the channel.
Wang Yu and the others have long been accustomed to the feeling of "following the North Star will lead to victory."
In other words, for these elites who "winner is within reach", so-called vanity is not their pursuit.
Their thinking is actually very simple, that is, they can end the conflict in the sky as quickly as possible by relying on their own abilities.
War weapons like fighter planes should dance with doves of peace in the blue sky, instead of fighting each other and filling the sky with ugly traces of smoke.
But no one is stupid. Wang Yu and the others also know very well that they cannot restore peace to the sky just by relying on fantasy. They still have to rely on fighting to achieve this goal - by accelerating the war that destroys peace.
, in exchange for peace, this may sound ironic, but it is also the only thing they, the frontline combatants, can do.
"It seems that you are in a good mood." The intelligence officer of the early warning aircraft said with a smile: "And you are still in good spirits. I think you can fight again."
The originally lively channel suddenly became quiet.
"Didn't you say there are no enemy planes?" someone muttered.
"There are indeed no enemy aircraft in the Northeast Air Defense Identification Zone." Someone complained: "If you don't believe me, you can look at the situation map."
"Well, the northeastern airspace faces Asia with the smallest number of troops, and you are also the first to engage the enemy, so you are the first to deal with all the enemies, which is what the command headquarters expected." The intelligence officer of the early warning aircraft coughed lightly:
"But in the east identification area and the southeast identification area, Asia has invested a lot of troops."
"So do you need us to provide support?" Wang Yu understood that it was his captain who came forward to ask at this time - this was obviously a temporary new task added to his brigade by his superiors, so it was most appropriate for him to ask.
"Yes, the problem in the eastern airspace is more serious."
The early warning aircraft began to explain the current battle situation to the pilots of the Fourth Group in a concise and concise manner: "Asia dispatched a large number of fighters - you may think that the twenty fighters they sent to the northeast are many, but it turns out that here
The attack was just a decoy to provide cover for their main attack direction. In the eastern airspace, they invested the air power of more than 40 fighter planes, and all of them were third-and-a-half-generation fighters."
"More than forty..." Wang Yu was a little stunned.
Twenty and forty fighter planes are two completely different concepts - although the latter is only twice the number of the former, once put into the same airspace, the latter can exert several times the deterrence of the former.
Moreover, the battle in the Northeast airspace for a long time seemed to be very lively. Both sides only invested a total of forty fighter planes, not to mention that the fighting situation was not like forty fighter planes mixed together and fighting randomly.
In the previous battle, Wang Yu's strategy of letting the other two squadrons hold back Asia's flanking forces was equivalent to dividing three air combat areas. Each combat area was separated by more than ten nautical miles. This distance can be said to be close or far.
It's not that far away, anyway, it's just to the extent that the fighter teams in each combat area have no time to help the friendly forces in other areas fight before they can deal with their own opponents.
So instead of saying it was a big battle of forty fighter planes, it was better to say it was three related but not many battles with about ten fighter planes each.
"Yes, we have also organized the same number of fighter planes to respond - basically all the teams in the dome base have been evacuated, and you must know that so many fighter planes are within the small range of the eastern airspace."
The pilots present all had a certain understanding of the air combat situation, so as soon as the AWACS intelligence officer finished speaking, everyone thought about what kind of bad scene the eastern theater was at this time...
According to the AWACS intelligence officer, a melee involving nearly 90 fighter jets from both sides is currently taking place in the eastern air defense identification zone.
And if the scope of the air combat extends from the center of the battlefield, it is only a circular area with a radius of nearly ten nautical miles - what kind of concept is this? Even the two teams with the furthest distance between the air combat areas are only less than twenty nautical miles.
distance.
This is not an era in the early days when aircraft could be made of wood and hundreds of fighter planes fought in a dogfight at a time, but an era when jet fighters cost more than 10 million to engage in supersonic combat and fire missiles at each other. Under normal circumstances, each side invested seven dollars.
An eight-jet attack was already a large-scale air battle. A brawl like this involving a total of ninety jets from both sides was truly unheard of.
This may be the largest aerial war in recorded history.
I don't know how the situation turned out like this.
Wang Yu asked this question, and the early warning aircraft quickly gave an answer.
Originally, the forty fighters from Asia launched attacks in batches, attacking the empire's eastern air defense identification zone from three directions - and at that time, the empire only had one squadron of troops in this airspace, including those approaching nearby.
The other supporting squadron only had two squadrons, with a total of less than ten fighter planes.
The Aisians decided to fight quickly, and as the main attack direction, they naturally had to shoulder the task of quickly tearing apart the empire's air defense, so all their fighter planes set the empire's squadron as the first target.
As a result, the squadron suffered heavy losses.
This imperial squadron was not as lucky as the Mistral Squadron in the northeast. They faced Asia's main attack from three directions.
Therefore, they did not even play a role in delaying the enemy. In the blink of an eye, a squadron of five aircraft was shot down three, and even the squadron leader was unfortunately killed.
If the Imperial squadron hadn't arrived immediately for timely support, and faced an enemy nearly ten times their size but still joined the battlefield without hesitation, desperately saving the two fighter planes of that squadron, then this would have been
The first Imperial squadron to be attacked may even be wiped out.
But the cost of the rescue was that they also fell into a battle with Asia's air power. In this battle facing several times the enemy, they could not retreat at all, because retreating easily meant handing over their lives to the enemy.
So while they were requesting follow-up support in the channel, they were holding on to desperate thoughts to delay the pace of the Aisiya fighter group - and the empire naturally did not want to see the frontal battlefield being pierced by Aisiya's three-blade ax.
So immediately mobilize all nearby patrolling fighter planes and the emergency fighter planes behind to join the battle.
Thanks to the heroic fighting spirit of the Imperial squadron that interfered with Asia's progress, they constantly pulled and moved their positions, and at the high cost of several aircraft crashing, Asia's attack was slowed down for a moment, which gave it time for the recent Imperial fighter jets to arrive on-site for support—
-Facing the menacing main force of Asia, the Imperial support troops did not wait at the edge for the opportunity for other friendly forces to join forces. They could only join the battle immediately after arriving at the scene.
But it is obvious that the empire has become a fuel tactic in this way, or that the empire has no good way. It can only continue to delay the Aisians before the balance of strength is evened out, to prevent the latter from threatening them.
Stonehenge.
And the Aisians naturally knew that they could not let the Imperial Air Force delay for its subsequent reinforcements to continue to approach, so the formations originally guarding the flanks of the Aisians also joined the battlefield.
They gathered together and joined forces with the original main force of the battle, hoping to shoot down all the Imperial fighter planes currently on the scene and then move forward quickly.
For a time, the numerical advantage put the Imperial fighter planes in trouble.
But the situation did not get worse - the elite team standby system that the dome base had always maintained played a key role at this time.
He not only allowed Wang Yu and his Polar Stars to quickly rush to the northeast airspace, but also allowed some Gensokyo squadron pilots to immediately take off to support the battle in the eastern airspace. Therefore, not long after the melee between Asia's large force and the small Imperial Air Force force began, there were
Two squadrons from Gensokyo base rushed to the battlefield.
These two squadrons rescued an Imperial squadron that was about to reach its end. After helping it retreat, they relied on their superb level and command ability to integrate the Imperial fighters in the melee and stabilize the Imperial Air Force in the east.
The formation in the war zone - but since the scene was already very chaotic, the addition of two squadrons did not have the effect of cutting through the mess quickly, so they could only get entangled in the mess - began to join the melee.
In this kind of melee where the two sides come together, individual strength is not so obvious. Therefore, even the squadron in Gensokyo can only fight steadily and cannot open up the situation between the two sides in a short period of time.
The Aisians found that they could not take another step towards Stonehenge without dealing with the Empire's air power, so they stopped and started fighting. Under the leadership of two Gensokyo squadrons, the Empire's fighter planes and follow-up troops arrived.
The reinforcements also began to fight head-on with the enemy.
As the backup forces from both sides gradually arrived and immediately joined the battlefield, the eastern airspace, which was originally an offensive and defensive area, formed a close-range air battle with a scale of hundreds of aircraft.
Missiles are not smart, and even the most elite pilots must maintain the highest level of vigilance at all times, because a missile from nowhere may appear at any time, posing a sufficient threat.
This is a large-scale melee, and it is also one of the most dangerous forms of air combat.
Being caught in this kind of battle means that the air battle will not end for a while.
Both sides loudly called for support from follow-up troops on the communication channel.
In the initial melee, you can actually see different combat areas, that is, different small battlefields under a large battlefield. However, as the two sides fight in a melee on the battlefield, the battles in these small areas gradually merge together.
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No one has the ability to end the battle with a final word, so the air battle will naturally gradually enter a fierce stage.
Therefore, this is why the Fourth Group, which has just solved the battle in the northeastern airspace, has been given the task of reinforcing the eastern airspace. The addition of a group can bring new changes to the current stalemate in the battle.