If it weren't for needing to conserve energy for the afternoon's combat, loading ammunition onto fighter jets would be quite interesting.
Of course, this excludes royalty and nobility like Hamandan, whose yachts are equipped with missiles; such things are commonplace.
Other ships might have some guns and ammunition, and the missile defense systems they could afford were mostly designed for soft-kill purposes.
Hard kill involves pyrotechnics, which is very sensitive for wealthy people who are rich but not powerful.
So Old Ha slept until late morning before taking the shuttle boat to the St. Paul for lunch.
Today is his last day as the interim captain. He plans to leave after watching the excitement of the 8 vs. 30 group-buying air combat project. He won't be attending the museum's opening ceremony tomorrow either.
"Lieutenant Sherlock, you must tell me as soon as our F-14 Tomcat fighters enter service."
Inside the Chinese restaurant on the St. Paul, Lao Ha, who had just picked up his chopsticks to eat Kung Pao Chicken, repeatedly gave Xia Yu instructions across the table.
Although it's a secondhand cat seeking re-employment, he still wants to be the first to try his luck.
"No problem, it will be at most a little over a year. I guarantee with my reputation that Your Highness will be the number one customer by then."
If I hadn't entered the PMC industry, becoming a Schumacher-like racing driver in the paddock wouldn't have been so bad.
What do you mean by starting training in go-karting? We're geniuses! We can fly fighter jets in the sky and F1 cars on the ground. When we're in perfect harmony with our cars, we're champions in every race. We're unbeatable, beating up the tough guys and kicking the ugly Pan.
"Strange, why are there no people on these fighter jets?"
All 15 people in the cabin were in place, waiting for him alone.
But you can buy the exhilarating feeling of unleashing a berserk attack, venting your frustrations, and releasing the suppressed destructive urges within you.
“I’m going back this afternoon, so you don’t need to see me off. I’m saying goodbye in advance. Also, come visit me in Abu Dhabi when you have time, and I’ll treat you to the F1 Grand Prix.”
Technicians who had completed the final debugging work operated 30 Old Fish Nest aircraft with different payloads to drive out of the hangar and strolled like elephants on the taxiway.
"That's easy. If I'm free next November, I'll definitely keep the appointment."
Not to mention maintaining just one aircraft, you could easily amass a squadron of four or five planes (Afica formation), much like collecting supercars.
However, more than a race car driver, he is a businessman at heart. Driving for others is not as good as driving for yourself. Xia Yu can also do some car sales and rental business on the side now!
After filling his stomach and shaking hands with Lao Ha to say goodbye, Xia Yu changed into his anti-gravity uniform and returned to the operations duty room.
The anti-ship and anti-aircraft package alone cost Haman Dan $7 million. In addition to her daily expenses on the St. Paul and her time-limited visits to the tank museum ashore, the total exceeded $50 million, making her a VIP member.
The passengers in economy class started chatting, but a target drone costing 2 million was simply unaffordable for them.
Even the ordinary rich guys in business class ahead of them don't have that kind of money. The cost of missiles and target drones is enough to buy a Bugatti Chiron. Their budget for this trip is only five or six hundred thousand.
Now, Focus Fire Defense is here, offering you the choice between American Gatling guns and the classic Soviet GSH-301, complete with a free, decommissioned gun barrel.
When they saw the promotional video released by Jihuo Defense, many people knew they had to come. At a price of less than 500,000, you won't lose out or be cheated.
Unfortunately, this doesn't hold much appeal for the old man who can readily operate F-16F and Mirage 2000-9. He is interested in owning an F-14, but it's not for sale by Focus Fire Defense.
This scene attracted the attention of all the passengers on a passenger plane that had just landed.
Fortunately, the war was quelled, and thanks to the concentrated fire defense efforts, the tourism market in Konluga was vigorously developed, and Busa's fiscal revenue entered a period of stable growth.
After all, 50 million is only one-tenth to one-tenth of one's total net worth, and the entire consumption cycle is about five to ten years.
Well, it's all because of poverty. Only when the economy develops can we afford to buy all kinds of fighter jets and maintain an air force with a certain size and combat capability.
But for a billionaire with a net worth of tens of billions, this amount of money is just the annual maintenance cost of two yachts.
The MiG-21 is a bit old, but if you include the 8 newly delivered K-8 trainers and a total of 4 CH-4s, the size of the National Air Force is not comparable to the number of target drones consumed by an aircraft carrier museum at one time.
If you can afford to maintain a yacht, you can certainly maintain a fighter jet. Rockets and machine gun bullets aren't expensive. As long as you don't overproduce missiles, even with the added costs of fuel and labor, the cost is still cheaper than a yacht.
Otherwise, in terms of both quantity and quality, they wouldn't even be able to catch up with a single PMC company.
The truly wealthy don't have such worries. It's just a few tens of millions a year. If one car isn't enough to enjoy, they can just buy another and maintain it.
As the true protagonist, the alarm won't sound unless Xia Yu arrives, but we can't keep the airport waiting too long, since two waves of 30 target drones need to be launched!
So there are still more options to go abroad. But while you can shoot at the 30mm cannon of a BMP-2 in Oslo and experience soaring through the sky in a MiG-29, it's still hard to combine the two and enjoy the thrill of bombarding the enemy.
Dubai doesn't have Formula 1; Abu Dhabi is the largest and richest emirate in the UAE.
Playing with cannons became a better option, but the US has stricter regulations in this area. The only range that can fire M61 Vulcan Gatling guns is Battlefield Vegas Armory Rental Company.
Even without factoring in currency devaluation, the cost of maintaining the ship for 10 years is enough to build another Octopus ship. No wonder some wealthy people who force their way onto the market can't afford to maintain the ship and have to rely on leasing it out to recoup their losses.
This number is also 10 times that of the initial v and 5 times that of the high v.
This is one of the reasons why most people enjoy playing with guns. The problem is that as the caliber gets larger and the guns are upgraded from semi-automatic to fully automatic (shooting range rentals and auctions of guns from 86 years ago), the enjoyment that firearms can provide is getting lower and lower.
To boost consumption, Xia Yu has established VIP tiers.
"Of course there's no one on the target drones anymore. These were modified for rich people to use for target practice; we can't afford them."
Xia Yuxian agreed.
With further development of its domestic mineral resources, Xia Yu believes that Busa will one day become as wealthy as Niriliya, able to afford VT-4 and FC-1 tanks, instead of relying on second-hand tanks and trainer aircraft as substitutes, as it does now.
He and the old US Navy followed up with a reply that the project would be delivered by the end of the year, but as the second phase of the third phase of the project, it may not be officially open to the public for another 20 years.
Xia Yu once asked Paul how much it would cost to maintain the Octopus, and was told that the weekly bill was $384,000, which is $20 million a year.
Customers like Hamish can be promoted to basic VIP in one go, and to advanced VIP in two go, but it is very difficult to become a super VIP.
If you equip the F-4J with four Suu-23/A cannon pods like the F-4D, and it fires 4,800 rounds of ammunition in one go, it would only cost $480,000.
Xia Yu readily agreed.
During this period, there will likely be a small-scale internal trial operation, open to super VIP customers with cumulative personal spending of over $50 million.
This amount of money is too much for air-to-air or air-to-sea communication, but it's no problem for air-to-ground communication.
However, compared to its extreme lightweight design, the M61A1 Vulcan cannon, which was designed to be used as a consumable, has a combined service life of 100,000 rounds for its six barrels.
Based on a single pod carrying 1200 rounds of ammunition, it would take 84 emptying operations to scrap one machine gun. Even if the museum is full of secondhand items, it would still be very difficult for tourists to win such a harmlessly treated machine gun artifact.
However, customers who can afford to fly business class still have some financial means. If they can't afford the plane, buying a gondola to take home as a decoration is not a problem.
Jim, young but already balding, disembarked first. As an elite from Wall Street, he longed to shoot down these target drones just like those big shots.
Jim's current income level can only support him to have a good time with the machine gun, but that also helps him release the pressure he's been accumulating.
"Buzzing"
The roar of the engines made Jim stop in his tracks, and he saw two MiG-21s taking off side by side on the runway.
"Dulu dulu"
The piercing alarm sounded throughout all the compartments of the St. Paul, and the M.S.-CSF DRRV-23B air search radar on the bridge successfully acquired a target 200 kilometers away.
"Targets have been deployed, radar confirmed, first wave consists of 12 aircraft!"
Xia Yu relayed this intelligence to everyone and formally issued the combat order.
"The Phantom Squadron will take off to intercept first, and we will wait for the second wave."
These 12 target drones were purchased by four wealthy individuals who chose the F-4K and F-4J. Because of their large fuel capacity, Xia Yu arranged for the Ghost Squadron to launch the first round of attacks.
"Yes, sir!"
A total of 8 people left the operations duty room and rushed toward the flight deck.
Four fully fueled and fully armed old Phantoms had already been transported up by elevator, and they quickly boarded after only a brief combat check.
"boom"
The steam catapult used steel cables to propel the F-4J forward, accelerating it. The rising flame deflector directed the heat from the tail nozzle into the sky, completing a clean and efficient catapult launch.
The second, third, and fourth Phantoms followed closely behind, and this scene was filmed in its entirety by the two Super Etendards that took off first.
Because they cannot carry passengers, these two planes are designed for miscellaneous tasks, such as flight performances at fixed times, or as filming equipment when there are large group orders.
Drones can also take pictures, but their flight speed is too slow to keep up with the target. It would be better to have fighter jets carry specialized aerial photography pods.
And so, one Super Étendard followed the Phantom Squadron, which had formed a diamond formation, while another circled in the sky, waiting for the Red Fulcrum Squadron to take off and launch an attack.
However, the elevators are still loading goods one by one, and we have to wait for the fire to be completed before we can take the next step.
The target drone remote control terminal displays 12 targets on a large screen.
On the small screens in front of each person were images transmitted back from their respective MiG-21s.
These old fish nests didn't have a single air-to-air missile on them. Apart from the S-13 and S-24 rockets used as atmosphere support, the only thing that could truly threaten the Richman's fleet was the GSh-23 23mm twin-barreled cannon with 200 rounds of ammunition.
The problem is that poor offensive capabilities do not necessarily mean poor self-defense capabilities.
Before converting them into unmanned target drones, Xia Yu disregarded military ethics and upgraded them with four BVP-30-26M chaff/infrared decoy launchers.
Under a dense barrage of 120 chaff and infrared flares, at least half of the customer's radar-guided medium-range missiles and infrared air-to-air missiles can be consumed.
That's how the turnover went up. Boss Huang is a professional at doing business. If the target drone loses its pilot, you have to make up for it elsewhere.
Without intense confrontation, you can't attract repeat customers. For example, less than 10 minutes after takeoff, the target aircraft group, which had circled around for a long time, suddenly ran into the radar detection range of the Phantom Squadron.
The MiG-29UBK has undergone a complete upgrade in electronic technology, while the F-4K and F-4J still use the original old radar.
The F-4J's AN/APG-59, as one of the earlier pulse-Doppler radars, has a range of up to 65 kilometers against small targets. The original AN/AVG-8 helmet-mounted sight allows the AIM-9 missile seeker to follow the pilot's line of sight.
This is quite useful in close-quarters combat; the pilot trained two wealthy individuals on how to use it yesterday.
Of course, in actual combat, you can lock on if you can, but if you can't lock on, you can manually lock on after the nose of the aircraft is aligned with the enemy aircraft. This will increase the fun of the confrontation and achieve the goal.
"Squad Leader Andy, we've locked onto the target. They haven't spotted us yet. The A3I mount is ready."
The temporary squadron commander was Andy, a long-time client of Hamish. He chose the F-4J and also purchased four target drones, equipped with four AIM-7P missiles and four AIM-9S missiles, thus taking on this important responsibility with absolute strength.
"Then what are we waiting for? Attack!"
After Andy announced the attack order in the internal channel, he pressed the missile launch button.
"call out"
An AIM-7P missile was launched from one of the four semi-recessed pylons symmetrically positioned on the underside of the F-4J, and then fired, propelling the aircraft toward the oncoming target.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
The other three Old Ghosts also fired three Sparrows.
"Enemy missiles, enemy missiles"
The ground target drone control terminal quickly relayed the alarm from the radar warning receiver. The technicians calmly pulled up the locked MiG-21 and then fired chaff flares at a frequency of 2, 4, and 8 rounds.
This time, it's not the old version of the sparrow that can only be caught because it flies high over Hanoi and has little noise.
Aside from its shorter range, the AIM-7P can fly at Mach 4, just like the AIM-120 series. It looks far away, but it can actually arrive in the blink of an eye.
"Boom boom boom boom"
The four locked-on MiG-21s unleashed chaff without restraint, and the dense jamming cloud successfully intercepted all the missiles.
"One more round! B3II and A3II launchers are ready. Two rounds to be fired, 10 seconds apart!"
The pilot in the back seat continued to provide strategies.
The dense jamming strategy of the target drones is indeed useful, but 120 slots can only hold 90 chaff countermeasures, and more than half of them were destroyed in just one round of defense.
Now, with two shots fired at intervals, the opponent has absolutely no chance of defending against it.
"call out"
"call out"
Andy fired the second shot without hesitation, and after silently counting to 10, fired the third shot.
"Puff puff puff puff"
"Boom boom boom"
Just as the MiG-21 successfully intercepted the second AIM-7P, it was immediately caught off guard by the third Sparrow missile, whose continuous-drive warhead twisted like an open eight-pointed halos.
On the screen connected to the control terminal, four of the twelve cursors disappeared instantly.
"We hit it! We hit it!"
Inside the F-4J's cabin, Andy shouted excitedly.
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