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Missiles fired by the U.S. Air Force and the Combined Air Force passed through the air, and the beautiful weapons of war like works of art rushed towards the target with terrible killing intent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the over-the-horizon strikes of the two sides, the US military aircraft group, which is assisted by airborne early warning planes and electronic warfare planes, occupies a certain advantage in some respects, and this is the real gap in the level of comprehensive combat strength between the two sides, which cannot be recovered by manpower and morale at all.

It was a good day over the Persian Gulf, but under the sunlight, the chaff jamming bombs fired by the fighters of both sides filled the entire sky extremely quickly, and it seemed that in an instant, the entire sky was obscured by something.

The reflected chaff flew in the air, emitting a dazzling glow, and the sound was like an explosion from the sky and the brightest fireworks of the century.

At a distance of 15 kilometers to 40 kilometers, the warplanes of both sides vividly interpreted what is meant by 'over-the-horizon strikes' in modern air combat.

However, in the eyes of many people, having mastered the superiority of electronic information technology, the US aircraft group will certainly be ahead in the range of over-the-horizon strikes in this air battle, and this is also the case. When the smoke cleared in the air, and the planes of both sides spotted the opponent's group hidden in the clouds. The size of the joint air force fleet is a tenth smaller.

In the 10 minutes between the two planes entering the missile range and the time they saw them enter the aerial dogfight, the ratio of losses between the two sides was 2:11. The United States exchanged the loss of 1 F-15 and 1 F-18 for the loss of 11 fighters of the United Air Force.

If this continues, the outcome of the joint air force's defeat is already predictable.

But whether it is the US commander, the Joint Air Force, or the surrounding onlookers, they all have the same understanding of this decisive air battle, that is, the decisive battle has just begun!

Yes, the real decisive battle has just begun, and although the American aircraft fleet has achieved superiority, many are still optimistic about the United Air Force, because everyone knows that the real trump card of the United Air Force has not yet been revealed.

…… A yellow-and-green train rumbles out of the railway station inside the Baidoa Aviation Industrial Park. Around the train station, there was a heavily armed soldier with an indifferent face.

What is on the train in such a well-defended place?

The train left Baidoa late at night, heading southeast, and if anyone looked closely, the boxes hanging on the suspected freight train were specially modified.

When the train entered the railway station inside the industrial park in the town of Badada, a large group of people who had been waiting for a long time used the train, cranes and various loading and unloading vehicles to rush back and forth, and soon all the goods on the train were secretly transported to a factory on the northern outskirts of the industrial park.

When Li Mo arrived here in a military helicopter, everything seemed to be ready.

Looking at the wing-shaped black plane in the factory, Li Mo felt infinite pride and excitement in his heart.

This is a real space fighter, and it is also a new aircraft developed by the 'space fighter' development team after the transition model of the 'Condor' fighter.

Compared with the 'Condor' fighter, this wing-like aircraft is larger, especially the two swept wings, which appear very slender.

By Li Mo's side, Major General Hussein, Chief of the General Staff, was also dumbfounded when he saw this bizarre plane.

"This is the new plane? How about three spouts? ”

The tail of the new aircraft can clearly see three vents, instead of one or two vents in the normal aircraft, one of which is the tail of the aircraft, as in the normal single-engine aircraft, and the other two engine vents are deployed in the middle of the swept wing. But unlike the engines on the wings of ordinary civil airliners, the two engine vents on the wings of the new fighter look smaller than the one at the tail.

Xu Dong, head of the 'Space Fighter' development team, explained with a smile when he heard this, "Chief of Staff, the engines of this new fighter are not three, but four. ”

Originally, the three spouts were already surprising, but Xu Dong's words surprised Li Mo and the others. Four-engine fighter? Super heavy fighter? But Li Mo and Hussein both looked at it carefully for a while, but they didn't find where the other engine vent was.

Xu Dong led everyone to the bottom of the belly of the plane, and a person who looked like a pilot entered the cockpit, and soon Li Mo and the others found out where the other engine vent was, just below the belly. However, it used to be like a built-in magazine, which shrank and could not be seen from the outside.

"What's the use of this engine?" As soon as Li Mo wanted to ask a question, Major General Hussein preemptively asked first.

As if answering Hussein's words, there was a slight noise behind several people, and as soon as Li Mo and the others turned around, they looked at the swept wings of the plane in amazement.

In the center of the wing engine near the fuselage, the wing has now been twisted, just like the dynamic canards and variable tail on modern airplanes, with the half of the engine twisted 90 degrees on the outside of the wing, and now the two vents that should have been facing backwards are facing the ground downward.

Li Mo looked at the vent under the belly of the plane again, and a scene suddenly burst out of his mind for some reason. It seemed to be a movie I've seen before or something, and it has a UFO flying saucer that spews high-velocity gas or energy downwards during vertical takeoff, giving the plane an upward lift.

VTOL!

A true sci-fi version of a vertical take-off and landing fighter.

This is not only Hussein, but also Li Modu feels very incredible. Could it be that the scientific research strength of Xingchen Group has reached such a point?

"The two commanders must have guessed that the TK21 fighter is a kind of vertical take-off and landing fighter." Xu Dong smiled lightly when he saw the faces of the two of them.

"So this kind of plane can take off and land on a ship?" Hussein asked with some excitement. Vertical take-off and landing, for many countries, is undoubtedly a shortcut to become an aircraft carrier country, but modern vertical take-off and landing technology is not perfect, although there is a British "Harrier" fighter in front, but for the modern main fighter, the surname of the "Harrier" fighter is really not very good. But Hussein understands that even if the surname of this big guy can be counted, he still doesn't understand, but it is not comparable to the outdated goods of the 'Harrier' type. And with VTOL fighters, it seems simple to have an alternative aircraft carrier fleet.

Xu Dong shook his head slightly and said, "Let's not say whether we need an aircraft carrier, if we do, it is impossible to have an aircraft carrier with a simple modification, the TK21 fighter uses not a conventional jet engine, but a nuclear-powered engine, and the jet is not high-temperature and high-speed gas, but a stream of high-energy particles, and the temperature can reach more than 3000 degrees in an instant, and the average deck can not withstand this temperature." What's more, with the range of the TK21 fighter, we simply do not need a carrier like an aircraft carrier to complete the task of long-range delivery of fighters. ”

Hussein also patted his head and felt a little embarrassed, not to mention this new fighter, it is a 'Condor' fighter, which can fly around the earth's equator without any assistance, so the aircraft carrier is a waste for Somalia at all.

Li Mo looked at the huge fighter plane above his head, and his mood was a little complicated, because he just felt, does such an aircraft have a role in modern air combat?

"Commander, it's almost time now, I see if it's a flight test?" Xu Dong didn't know that his boss's mind was changing, and he was still happy about his results.

"Well...... Let's get started. ”

Li Mo restrained his chaotic thoughts, walked to the side of the fighter and nodded.

Dragged by a trailer, the behemoth, which weighed more than 100 tons, slowly moved towards the place where the eye was shining.

No one could have known that here, an unprecedented test flight was about to take place. Although there are not many foreigners in the vicinity of the industrial park in Batada, it is a protected area with heavy internal defense, so there is no need to worry about the leakage of news.

It was not Karim's guy who carried out the test flight this time, but another pilot, Li Mo had some impressions of this person, and he was also a member of the sixth-level pilots of the Strategic Air Force, and he had also received Li Mo's spiritual development, otherwise ordinary pilots would not have been able to complete this unprecedented test flight with a great test of physiology.

In the factory, I feel that the TK21 aircraft is very large, but outside, compared with the surrounding environment, the visual impact is more obvious.

Like a moving steel castle, TK21 enters a purpose-built open space on the campus.

There have been many cordons around it, but there is no good way to solve the problem of satellites overhead that may be monitoring the place at all times.

However, this situation will soon be over, Xu Dong looked at the TK21 fighter in the center of the field and was doing the final self-inspection, and thought silently in his heart.

After everything was ready, Li Mo, as the chief officer, gave the order for a test flight.

Everyone saw that another vent under the belly of the TK21 fighter was released like a landing gear, and the outer half of the swept wing was slowly twisting until all three vents were facing the ground.

When the take-off order reached the test pilot, everyone felt a shock on the ground, and three vents under the plane simultaneously sprayed a stream of red-hot particles with a light blue tinge to white.

After a slight shock of the huge fuselage, it slowly rose vertically into the air, just like the flying saucer in the movie screen, after rising to thousands of meters in the air, the two wing engines at the rear end of the aircraft returned to normal, and the one under the belly continued to provide upward thrust, and the aircraft did not need to pull up the nose, just like the 'bell maneuver' of the Soviet-made fighter in turn, the tail did not move, and the nose of the aircraft went from level flight to vertical upward, and in the process, the engine vent under the belly was gradually retracted.

When the nose of the fighter is completely vertical, the upward thrust of the three nozzles in the tail pushes the aircraft into the air.

(To be continued)