Chapter 121 Military Preparations and Defense Under Control (Please Subscribe!)
Three aircraft? Can you tell the model number?
Xia Yu was not surprised, but asked for specific information.
Judging by the timing, the other party was expected to arrive in the next couple of days, and he returned right on time.
"They are Super Etendards, all three of them."
Kuhn's tone was very certain.
Although it wasn't very clear due to distance and visibility, the three fighter jets were the same model.
The Mirage F1 and Mirage III, both equipped with the white top hat, are about the same size, but the Mirage F1 is the only Mirage fighter that does not use a delta wing layout, making it easy to distinguish.
"This is an entire Flag Squadron, and we cannot rule out the possibility that the Mirage Squadron may also participate in the operation."
Three Super Flags and a white top hat were already quite a gesture, but Xia Yu still preferred to prepare for the worst.
"The results should be out in the next day or two at most. Keep a close eye on them."
"yes!"
After hanging up the phone, Bogo Village came into view, with the restaurant's lights on.
"gentlemen!"
Upon seeing that it was Xia Yu, Old Duoma, who was on night patrol, came over.
"Have you noticed anything unusual at night lately?"
Xia Yu picked up the bag from the passenger seat, took out a pair of Lefumen cigarettes he bought in England, and threw them to Old Tomma along with the car keys.
Since Domi became the company driver, he has taught his dad how to drive.
Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can't be driven, but Old Doma is responsible for "valet parking" for pickup trucks and light armored vehicles.
"Thank you, boss. There were no incidents during the night. As you instructed, we have increased the frequency of night patrols."
Old Dorma took the cigarette, his face beaming with joy.
It has to be the boss, someone who knows he likes this kind of thing.
A pack of Lefumen, costing only a few dozen pounds, isn't particularly expensive, but it was brought back from thousands of kilometers away using several tons of jet fuel.
Old Dorma didn't know these things, but he could imagine them.
"It should be within the next few days. Keep a close eye on them and make sure they don't break into the village."
Xia Yu repeatedly gave instructions.
Once the fighter jets arrive at the forward base, the special operations team tasked with reconnaissance will soon be deployed to the vicinity of Bogo village.
He did the same thing, sending both the numbers team and the mole car team to Giban.
Once the fighter jets take off and the battle begins, we'll raid their base.
"Sir, please rest assured, as long as there is smoke, Old Doma will never doze off."
Old Dorma, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, certainly had a convincing presence.
"I'm leaving, you go and do your thing."
Xia Yu walked quickly toward the restaurant, where a late-night snack awaited him.
*Smack!*
Kuhn swatted a mosquito the size of a thumb.
Even after spraying mosquito repellent, the mosquitoes don't bite, but the buzzing around my ears is still unpleasant.
That's how it is when you're on field duty; it gets better when you take a break, switch shifts, and get back in the car.
The pilots of the White Top Hats Étendard Squadron, who had just fallen asleep on their creaking cots at the outpost, were unaware that the personnel in the concentrated fire defense were watching their every move from outside.
With so few people, shouldn't they all stay at headquarters and wait to be bombed?
No way!
The firefighting force mobilized almost its entire strength, while Xia Yu, who remained in Boge Village, was an army in himself.
It's a pity we didn't get to see the Flag Company get beaten up; Kuhn felt it was a huge loss.
Having served as an armored grenadier for over a decade, he genuinely had no idea how the air force operated.
Although his father took a picture with him and a MiG-29 when he was a child, who remembers those things when they are 40 years old!
Why did the boss buy a Harrier? Kuhn doesn't really like British planes.
If you can't buy anything, how about one of their Tornado fighter jets, given the MiG-29s they used to operate?
The cross-disciplinary situation is like this: Panavia Aircraft Company, which produces the Tornado, is a joint venture between England, Italy, and Japan. The old Tornado has one-third British blood, so it is not purely of Japanese descent.
In fact, Xia Yu had considered it.
He said he would be happy to go to Shat if it weren't for the fact that this fighter jet (air defense version) requires at least 760 meters of runway.
We don't understand the world of the super-rich. Britain once exported 24 AdV Tornado anti-aircraft interceptor aircraft to Sutter, but they were scrapped and thrown into the desert to eat sand after only a few years of use.
Back then, they sold for 80 million dollars apiece; you could only say they were rich and could do whatever they wanted.
Xia Yu used to collect scrap metal. He could just pick any aircraft, refurbish it, and maybe even print out a European-style medium-range missile, sending flashes across the sky.
In an exercise in the 1990s, the Tornado, carrying skyflash, used its data link and radar detection range advantage to defeat an F-4F carrying an AIM-120b medium-range missile.
Different combinations of fighter jets and missiles will result in different combat capabilities.
Xia Yu wanted to try them all. European and American printers could be printed directly, and Russian printers weren't expensive, but Chinese printers would require support from his family.
Well, these days, having elderly parents to rely on is a blessing.
The system's logistical support is limited, and Xia Yu desperately needs some high-quality supplies to maintain the technological gap between him and his opponents.
This is also the foundation of concentrated fire defense: why fight to the death when you can overwhelm the enemy?
After finishing her late-night snack, Xia Yu returned to her room and took a shower to wash away the fatigue of traveling over ten thousand miles that day.
Go to sleep, he has a whole host of things to do tomorrow!
Xia Yu woke up just in time for lunch, and after filling his stomach, he drove to the port.
In order to reduce the defensive vulnerabilities of Bogo Village, Xia Yu plans to make use of the captured Sparrowhawk A.
It just so happens that he is also familiar with this kind of long-endurance drone and knows exactly how to use it.
From the offensive to the capture, and then to the trip to Europe and back, Xia Yu was never free.
Now, with the final calm before the battle, we finally have some time to spare.
Of course, we'll also make a few minor improvements to the sea harrier.
In the era of second-generation fighter jets, many countries were influenced by the idea of prioritizing missiles over aircraft and removed the cannons from their fighter jets.
Back then, the accuracy of close-range bullets was generally not high, and it was easy to fire two shots and miss with neither.
Another round, and the rack was completely emptied, leaving it toothless like a tiger.
After paying a heavy price, third- and fourth-generation fighter jets were reinstalled with their cannons.
Removing the cannons from both sides of the Harrier in Xiayu gives it two more hardpoints, but missiles are expensive, and for some jobs, it's more cost-effective to use cannons.
He didn't like the original British Ardennes cannons, which didn't have much more ammunition than the German-made German cannons.
The 25mm GAU-12/U-shaped 5-barrel Gatling gun on the old AV8b would be a better choice.
In the movie "True Lies," the director was lazy (or perhaps to pass censorship) and used machine guns to simulate the shooting in the building, completely failing to capture the sound and light effects that an aircraft cannon should have.
Unfortunately, Xia Yu discovered after checking the information that because of its high rate of fire, the ammunition box and feeding mechanism require a dedicated mounting point.
It's not worth it. With only one hardpoint left on the fuselage, he should just stick with the single-barrel cannon!
The options include the old friend Rh202, and the ultra-lightweight contender, the Russian GSH-301-1.
Okay, Xia Yu chooses Mauser bK27.
The GSh-301-1 is a good gun, but unfortunately its ammunition is too poor. Even with their latest M929 small steel needle, when firing at a 60° target at a distance of 1000 meters, the penetration depth is only greater than 50mm.
This is similar to the dm63 data used by Rh202, not to mention that in most cases, older missiles with even worse performance are used.
A good cannon needs good ammunition, and for the 30x165mm caliber, the best ammunition is…
Sigh, I still have to find a way to rely on my parents!
Even without a breakthrough, German products remain strong, which is why he chose the Mauser BK27.
After signing for the two containers, Xia Yu returned to the warehouse.
Open one of them, and you'll find various disassembled parts inside.
Yes, it's a genuine salvaged part.
The bK27 rotary cannon from a late-model Tornado fighter, along with a matching laser sight.
Xia Yu's Harrier doesn't have a laser sight (the AV8b does), so it can't use laser-guided bombs or coordinate with the cannon for aiming, and its accuracy is naturally not very good.
Fortunately, the system has a modification function, allowing parts to be removed from other fighter jets and installed on the Sea Harrier.
Damn white top hat. If they hadn't forced him into this situation, he could have easily gone to Sutter instead and saved those seventy or eighty thousand dollars to buy something else.
[Found 1 flying vehicle and 2 usable modification parts; can be modified]
"Modify!"
After incorporating the cannon and laser sight into the system, Xia Yu immediately selected to modify it, and a progress bar popped up.
[Estimated remaining work hours for modification: 10.5]
Modification takes longer than maintenance because it requires a systematic solution, rather than simply copying existing solutions.
However, with only a little over 10 hours remaining, the white-hatted man wouldn't have had enough time to launch an attack, leaving him with plenty of time.
Xia Yu opened the second container, and the first thing that caught his eye was a 57mm cannon barrel.
More than a month has passed since he captured the PT-76M amphibious light tank, and the most important modification parts have finally arrived.
Once the white top hat issue was resolved, Xia Yu officially began modifying his PT-76-57.
Now?
Go to the corner of the warehouse and collect dust with the pt-76m!
After confirming that nothing was missing, he boarded the control launch vehicle, a Renault chassis of the Sparrowhawk A, and drove away from the port.
Because the car had some off-road capability, and taking advantage of the relatively good roads during the dry season, Xia Yu returned to the village from the test track.
He parked next to the parking lot and sat directly in the control panel located in the passenger seat.
The Sparrowhawk A also has a backup control system that can be installed inside tents and buildings.
They were dismantled together from the base and brought back, where Xia Yu temporarily set them up in a well-equipped parking lot.
"Buzz~~"
The engine of the Sparrowhawk A was ignited, and the propeller at the tail began to rotate.
"Whoosh~~"
The accumulator launcher is like a large slingshot, launching the drone into the air.
Soon, the image was transmitted back to the control station. The image quality wasn't very sharp, but it was still clear enough, after all, it was a product from the early 2000s.
Continue to control Sparrowhawk A to ascend to an altitude of 3,500 meters, and begin circling around Bogo Village.
Xia Yu switched between multiple modes during this process, and it can be seen that the thermal imaging effect is quite good.
After all, this was a subject where the Germans excelled. He lowered his altitude and scanned the nearby rainforest, but he didn't find any unusual targets.
They haven't arrived yet!
Indeed, no. A reconnaissance team in white top hats landed on the runway of Giban Airport with the company's only C160 transport plane.
This transport aircraft was jointly developed by Germany and France. It uses two Rolls-Royce Tyne Rty.20 Mark 22 turboprop engines and is smaller than the four-engine C130. It can carry a maximum of 16 tons of cargo.
The white-hatted plane was dispatched not only with this reconnaissance team but also with a large quantity of aerial bombs.
The majority of these are 250 kg bombs, with the remainder being a special model, which is also the company's last remaining stock – the Beluga bLG66 general-purpose cluster bomb.
The United Nations advocated for a ban on cluster bombs many years ago, and more than 100 countries signed the agreement, including the United States.
Before the contract took effect, the white top hats bought up this batch of inventory and have been using it piecemeal until now.
Although this bomb weighs only about 300 kg, it is filled with 150 small anti-personnel and anti-armor submunitions.
The armored forces of Jihuo Defense are supposed to be pretty awesome, right? Throw them all down here and see if you can even wear them.
Xia Yu said, "I'm so scared!"
He acknowledged the call from Kuhn.
The planes arrived first, then the ammunition was delivered; the process was incredibly slow.
Along with the ammunition came a reconnaissance and combat team of fewer than 10 people, whom Xia Yu would see by tomorrow at the latest.
The advantage of striking first has become apparent; the opponent's every move is under their watchful eyes.
Because of the information asymmetry, Xia Yu blocked the news. The White Hats were unaware that their employee, Maxim, was still alive and had confessed everything, whether he should or shouldn't have.
Actually, it doesn't matter if he doesn't reveal it; he'll always find his way to this outpost, just not as easily as he does now.
"James, you'd better leave now. We'll attack no later than the day after tomorrow."
The base leader spoke to the squad leader.
Another Mirage F1 is arriving tomorrow; they need to confirm that the damn concentrated fire defenses are in the village.
That's a clever plan. Setting up the company in a local village makes infiltration and reconnaissance extremely difficult.
The other side bribed all the villagers, making it difficult for them to infiltrate the village undercover, even if they formed a reconnaissance team with African American employees.
They see all Black people as looking the same, but people don't have face blindness when it comes to their own people.
We could only confirm it by using high technology on the outskirts of the village.
"No problem, that's exactly what we came here for."
James did not shirk his responsibility and led his team onto the transport truck bound for Konluga.
Helicopters are faster, but they have more people and more equipment, so driving would be more convenient.
It would have been easy to send them into the sky with a missile, but Xia Yu didn't do so in order not to alert them.
They aided and abetted the wicked; when the time comes, we'll kill them first as a sacrifice to the flag.
As dusk approached, Sparrowhawk A, which was running low on fuel, deployed its parachute.
This is a general solution for land-based UAVs. Ship-based UAVs can either be made smaller and retrieved by hooking the wings, or made larger so that they can take off and land like carrier-based aircraft.
Using parachutes would likely result in the loss of every aircraft that flies.
With the help of the machine, Xia Yu reinstalled the Sparrowhawk A onto the launch pad, and he planned to try again tomorrow.
The next morning, the sea harrier had completed its modifications.
After moving the Mi-24V out, the vacated hangar is just the right size to accommodate a Sea Harrier.
It seems we'll have to build a larger hangar to accommodate his collecting obsession.
If Xia Yu feels that the above-ground hangar is too conspicuous, he can build the hangar underground and use elevators to transport the fighter jets.
Combining the previously mentioned solution of installing second-hand steam catapults to save runway length, this resulted in the construction of a land-based aircraft carrier made of reinforced concrete.
With this in mind, Xia Yu's penchant for shelters was thoroughly satisfied.
Then no one will be able to take the title of "Bunker Boy" from him.
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