Chapter 524: Air Command Aircraft
"Brain, the key to victory?"
Lieutenant General Alondo looked at the head of the Airborne Forces in front of him in surprise, and the head of the Airborne Forces at this time smiled more and more kindly, stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky, as if in order to confirm the hint of the head of the Airborne Forces, there was a sudden unclear roar in the sky.
Lieutenant General Alondo hurriedly put his hands on the pergola and looked into the sky, only to see a small upper monoplane quickly pass overhead, turn half a circle in the sky, and then aim at an open grass field less than 500 meters long not far away, lower the landing gear and begin to descend slowly.
"With such a short distance, you can take off and land?" asked Lieutenant General Alondo, a little worried.
"The last batch of this aircraft participated in the disaster relief operation in southern Tibet in April, when the Dornier-228 in New Delhi did not do what our Y-6 did, and there were a lot of media reports in Britain, France and Germany at that time, so you must have paid attention to it. "The head of the Airborne Forces looked at the slowly descending plane, as if he saw his own child, and his eyes were full of pride.
Lieutenant General Alondo bowed slightly, the floods that occurred on the border between Tibet and New Delhi in April did become the focus of international attention for some time, but then for some reason it came to an abrupt end, and the common narrative was that the disaster relief situation in both countries was not optimistic, so they acted in unison and blocked the news.
Because it didn't have much to do with Thailand, Lieutenant General Alondo didn't pay much attention to it, but when he saw the single-engine turboprop plane with a very modern sense that had come to a steady stop on a meadow of more than 100 meters today, he knew that the facts were very different from what was reported by Western media.
But that's all, the reason is very simple, he hasn't figured out what kind of medicine is being sold in the gourd of the head of the Airborne Forces until now, it's just a small plane, what's the big deal?
"Do you want to go over and take a look, it's a real air command plane. ”
Lieutenant General Adlon, who didn't feel anything at all, didn't react when he heard the previous words of the head of the airborne troops, but when he heard the words of the air command plane, his eyes suddenly widened, and he finally understood why Shinano had clearly found the signal source of the other party's headquarters, but he couldn't catch it, but he didn't expect that the command post of the Chinese troops was neither fixed in one place nor placed on a mobile vehicle, but was placed on an air platform.
How does this make Shinano's 6th Special Operations Battalion of the Royal Thai Army fight?
Thinking of this, Alondo looked at the plane in the distance again, and it was a little different, as long as people with some military common sense knew that the weight of the air command aircraft was incredible.
The E-4B modified by the United States using the Boeing 747 and the Soviet Union using the Il-86 are both regarded as the technological crystallization of the command systems of the two countries, because these two aircraft are responsible for the command and coordination capabilities of the two superpowers after the outbreak of nuclear war.
In addition to these two big guys at the bottom of the box, the United States and the Soviet Union also have different air command planes, but most of these things exist in the form of reconnaissance planes or transport planes, which are not only highly secret, but also not allowed to be sold for export.
Therefore, not to mention small countries such as Thailand, which can only be arrogant in Southeast Asia, even those regional powers in Europe cannot get it.
Because of this, when Lieutenant General Alondo learned from the head of the Airborne Forces that the plane in the distance was actually an air command plane, Mr. Lieutenant General, who had figured out the cause and effect, immediately became eager.
Because he heard the implicit meaning from the words of the head of the airborne troops, that is, as long as the Thai side needs it, the Chinese side can provide the same type of equipment.
Is there a demand in Thailand?
It's just too much!
You must know that except for a few core cities, most of Thailand is rural and tropical rainforest, especially the Thai-Cambodian border, which is completely covered by jungles.
In the past few years, the Thai Army has suffered a lot in this regard, because no matter how covert it is, it is difficult to escape the eyes of the Vietnamese army.
There is no way, people are old fritters who have been fighting with the US imperialists in the Indochina Peninsula for more than ten years, and Thailand has not learned the essence of even half of the US army, and the Vietnamese army who is good at infiltration is naturally looking for a quasi-one.
The Thai Army, which suffered heavy losses, thought of many ways, such as moving the command post to the UH-1 helicopter, but after trying it, it was found that the helicopter had a short endurance, not to mention the short endurance, and the internal noise was very loud, so there was no way to conduct command at all.
Later, it was thought of retrofitting it with a small fixed-wing aircraft, and for this purpose, a SCHOTT 330 small transport aircraft with a take-off weight of 10 tons was introduced from the United Kingdom.
As a result, after the arrival of the goods, it was found that the goods were not only slow, the ceiling was low, the take-off and landing performance was also very general, and the more important thing was that the maintenance was not cheap, not to mention the modification, the price of the donkey rolled up, so the two imported from Thailand were decisively abandoned.
So the matter dragged on until today, when the head of the Airborne Forces introduced to him the air command plane modified from the Y-6, and Lieutenant General Alondo finally saw some hope.
Of course, some people may be worried that Thailand has set up its headquarters on the plane, what if the Vietnamese army pulls in anti-aircraft fire to beat it down!
This cannot be ruled out, but Thailand is not afraid.
The reason is very simple, every year Thailand gets military aid from the United States is not dry, so many F-5E are in good condition, plus the pilots are all trained by the United States, and the tactical literacy is top in Southeast Asian countries.
Therefore, once Thailand has an air command aircraft, the corresponding escort will naturally have to keep up.
What's more, even if the Vietnamese army really wants to pull over the anti-aircraft firepower, they are still more than willing to do it, and it must be clear that the Vietnamese army is still fighting with China on the northern front, and the devastating offensive at the end of the 70s has smashed open the gate of the Vietnamese capital, and the troops are almost at the gate of the city.
The shadow area in the hearts of the Vietnamese army is called a large one, so although it has maintained a garrison in Cambodia over the years, similar air forces, air defense forces, and even some elite ground forces are actually deployed in the capital area to the north of Vietnam.
It is precisely because of this that it is too high to expect the Vietnamese army to deploy large-scale air defense weapons on the Thai-Cambodian border, after all, the Vietnamese army has been fighting more and more poor in recent years, and it is simply unable to support two-front operations, so it is considered a ceiling to be able to build some anti-aircraft machine guns on the Thai side.
All in all, in short, if you can really get an air command aircraft from China, it will really be a force multiplier for the Thai Army, and with that kind of lightweight rotorcraft, you can completely copy me to hit you as I want, but you don't even have a chance to fight back, so you can only stupidly let me beat you hard.
It feels ...... Don't be too cool!