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As the world's most advanced unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the Global Hawk has a range of nearly 30,000 kilometers and patrols 1,500 kilometers away from its base for 72 hours. The millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radar, infrared detector and visible light camera carried by the vehicle have a search range of up to 150 kilometers; Reconnaissance information is transmitted to the ground control station through a high-speed data link, allowing rear commanders to obtain battlefield information in a timely manner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When fighting the Taliban, the RQ-4 Global Hawk was followed by several MQ-9 Predator drones with air-to-surface missiles and laser-guided bombs. When the Global Hawk spotted a suspicious target, the ground commander asked the Predator to launch missiles or drop bombs.

As for accidental damage and accidental bombing, it is nothing at all in Afghanistan.

In several "decapitation operations", the number of civilians killed by US drones far exceeded that of Taliban militants.

Also suffering from this is the mainland special forces.

Since the U.S. military has used the "Global Hawk" and "Predator" on a large scale on the battlefield in Afghanistan, the risk of mainland special forces entering and leaving Afghanistan has increased several times. Although there are no complete statistics, those killed and injured by US drones must have accounted for more than half of the total number of casualties.

In particular, in the past two years, after the completion of the second "Predator" squadron, the number of unmanned attack aircraft deployed in Afghanistan for a long time has doubled, and the sortie rate of unmanned attack aircraft has reached 40 sorties per day, covering almost the entire Afghanistan, posing a mortal threat to the mainland special forces carrying out secret missions.

Fortunately, the Predator's reconnaissance capabilities are much inferior to those of the Global Hawk.

Although the U.S. military is armed with 60 Global Hawks, only 12 are deployed in Afghanistan, an average of only four per day. After the start of Operation "Scavenger", at least three Global Hawks will be needed to support the ground forces, and only one will be able to be deployed in other directions.

Without the support of the "Global Hawk", the short-sighted "Predator" can hardly pose a threat to people on the ground.

Liu Wei and the others stayed in the cave for three hours before the alarm sounded again and the green indicator light lit up.

This is a security signal from the KJ-2000 that the threat has been lifted.

At this time, the Global Hawk, which had reached the western end of the Wakhan Corridor, had already turned around and was flying southwest about 50 kilometers above the Afghan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

This "Global Hawk" must have come to search for continental special forces.

Although the mainland did not participate in the war in Afghanistan and refused to provide any support to the coalition forces, from the day the US military entered Afghanistan, the footprints of the mainland special forces were left on the battlefield. For more than a decade after that, whenever the coalition forces launched a large-scale military operation in Afghanistan, mainland special forces would rush to join in the fun.

Instead of participating in battles, it gathers tactical intelligence, as well as some high-value items.

For example, a few days after the start of the war, three BGM-109 Block 4 Tomahawk cruise missiles of the US military malfunctioned and crashed in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. The US military immediately sent special forces, and only two wreckage of Tomahawks were found. A few years later, the mainland army was equipped with a strategic cruise missile with a maximum range of 1,500 kilometers and a shape very similar to the "Tomahawk," and Pakistan also successfully developed a strategic cruise missile with a maximum range of 750 kilometers.

Another example is that in the raid in Pakistan a few years ago, the Navy SEALs who killed the "terrorist tycoon" lost a RAH-66 "Comanche" helicopter gunship in the operation, and when the US special forces arrived at the crash site, some key parts of the helicopter were missing, and a year later, the mainland developed a WZ-10 gunship that was similar to the "Comanche."

As for the legendary RQ-3 "Dark Star" stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that was taken to Afghanistan for experiments by the US military, and as a result, its whereabouts are unknown, and even the US military refuses to admit it. In recent years, the rapid progress of the mainland in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as the in-depth research on stealth aircraft, may also be related to this.

In many cases, the U.S. military even regards the mainland special forces as its number one opponent.

After the start of Operation "Scavenger", the US military stepped up patrols in the border areas of Afghanistan and dispatched the "Global Hawk" to search for mainland special forces, which is not a strange thing.

It's just that there are several passages for mainland special forces to enter Afghanistan, and they are mainly concentrated on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The Wakhan corridor is too narrow and there are no roads, and it takes at least a week to march on foot into the heart of Afghanistan, so the U.S. military has focused on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.

For this reason, the Global Hawk circled the western end of the Wakhan Corridor for only three hours before turning south.

After packing up, Liu Wei and the others continued on the road.

The marching speed is still sixteen kilometers per hour, four times the walking speed of ordinary people, and one-third higher than the foot march speed of special forces.

What's more, Liu Wei can move forward at this speed for a day and a night.

Even K1 members, known for their endurance, can only march at a maximum of eight kilometers per hour for a day and night on a plateau with an average altitude of more than three thousand meters.

Even at this rate, it would take Liu Wei and the others thirty-six hours to get out of the Wakhan Corridor.

Although the Wakhan Corridor is about 300 kilometers long from east to west, the roads in the valley are very rough, and the actual march distance is about 600 kilometers.

If the "Global Eagle" turned back, Liu Wei and the others would have to stay in the valley for a while longer.

Fortunately, the cruising speed of the "Global Hawk" is not fast, and it is more than 400 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 20,000 meters. A round trip along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border takes almost eight hours. The drone will then fly to southwestern Afghanistan and patrol the Iran-Afghanistan border for several hours before returning the same route.

Approximately twenty-four hours later, the Global Hawk returned to the western end of the Wakhan Corridor.

At this time, Liu Wei and his men were still about 100 kilometers away from the town of Zebak, which had a road to the heart of Afghanistan, and the distance of the march was 170 kilometers.

Once there, even if you leave the Wakhan Corridor.

The road ahead is still difficult, but it's much better than marching on foot.

Because it is already close to the hinterland of Afghanistan, when choosing a marching route, Mobei Wolf always chooses some trails that are closer to the hiding place.

Less than five minutes after receiving the alarm, Liu Wei and the others hid.

The constant march consumes a lot of energy and takes time to replenish energy. When the "Global Eagle" was hovering at an altitude of more than 100 kilometers away, Liu Wei and the others set up a stove in the cave. Military rations can be eaten cold, but if possible, it is better to heat them and eat them.

You know, the temperature outside is around minus 10 degrees Celsius now, and the heat is dissipating very quickly.

Even in terms of taste, the heated ration tastes much better.

This time, the Global Hawk circled over the western end of the Wakhan Corridor for eight hours before turning back at dawn.

Although the Global Hawk has a maximum range of 72 hours, this can severely wear down the engine, reduce the service life of the powertrain, and increase maintenance costs.

Three years ago, during the encirclement and suppression operation codenamed "Rhine Valley", a "Global Hawk" crashed during a reconnaissance mission due to long-term high-intensity use. Since then, the US military has limited the patrol time of the "Global Hawk" to 48 hours.

In terms of time, it is time for this "Global Hawk" to return.

After the "Global Eagle" flew away, Mobei Wolf did not rush to let everyone go.

The U.S. military has enough "Global Hawks" to maintain 24-hour uninterrupted patrols, and the latter "Global Hawks" have already taken off and will arrive soon before the previous "Global Hawks" return home.

Sure enough, only fifteen minutes later, the alarm went off again.

Fortunately, the Global Hawk did not stay long at the western end of the Wakhan Corridor, circled a few times and then turned southwest to follow the route of the previous Global Hawk to patrol the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Waiting until the "Global Eagle" flew away and the alarm was lifted, Liu Wei and the others left the cave.

By this time, the sky had already brightened.

The group did not waste any more time, and Liu Wei also increased the marching speed to 20 kilometers per hour, leading the FOS "special forces" to make the final sprint.

A nine-hour sprint!

At this speed, there is no challenge to Liu Wei. In the test, Liu Wei ran at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour while carrying a weight of 100 kilograms, and insisted on it for 24 hours. For the other "strong men", the problem was not very big, because Liu Wei was able to continue marching at this speed for a day and a night while carrying a weight of 50 kilograms before the retransformation.

It's just that for a few female warriors, marching at high speed is a big problem.

The "difference between men and women" in FOS transformation is reflected. Although in terms of reaction speed, agility, etc., the female surname fos warrior is no worse than the male surname, especially in agility, it is more prominent than the male surname, but in terms of strength, endurance, etc., the female surname fos warrior is far inferior to the male surname.

The reason is simple: physical disparity.

Bao Liuqing is a little better, she is 1.75 meters tall, and her weight before the transformation was 57 kilograms, even compared with ordinary male surnames, she is not short. In addition, she was originally the only female member in K1 history who completed all the training subjects, and she was not much worse than the male surname member in all aspects, and her foundation was very solid.

The five people including Kotone Takeuchi are not so ideal.

They were already relatively short, weighing less than forty-five kilograms, and even if they had undergone FOS modifications, they were definitely not strength and endurance fighters.

Although Liu Wei shared the weight of 10 kilograms for each of them before leaving, after three hours of marching, they fell behind. As a last resort, Liu Wei could only ask Mobei Wolf and Zhou Yulong to share five kilograms of weight each for them, reducing their marching weight to thirty kilograms.

At this time, the weight on Liu Wei's body was a full hundred kilograms!

After another three hours, seeing that Takeuchi Qinyin and the others really couldn't walk, and the Mobei Wolf and Zhou Yulong, whose weight had increased to seventy-five kilograms, also looked a little tired, and Liu Wei had to ask the troops to stop.

There are only the last sixty kilometers left, and you have to wait until after dark to get into Zebak anyway, so there is no need to rush.

(To be continued)