Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Air Battle (1)
It took the African People's Army less than three days to cover 60 per cent of the land in Salaam and Iringa provinces. Of course, during this period, the British Navy did not believe in evil and repeatedly shelled areas controlled by the African People's Army (APA) near the coastline, but was retaliated by the AFP Air Force, losing 3 frigates, 2 destroyers and 1 cruiser. The French Navy was so frightened that it no longer dared to fight near the coastline of the Madagascar People's Army.
After the African People's Army Air Force dispatched fighter jets and bombers, the British sailors of the African Fleet of the British Royal Navy felt the most. They learned that the African People's Army was owned by the Air Force when they were bombed and machine-gunned by the African People's Army Air Force, and they certainly could not tell what the types of aircraft equipped by the African People's Army Air Force were like.
So up to now, the world still thinks that the African People's Army has fighter jets and bombers is just a joke, and even if there is, it is some old aircraft captured by the African People's Army, and the pilots are basically gone, so they have not considered the ability of the African Air Force to fight, and it is even more impossible to know that Li Junhao has a large number of advanced modern aircraft in his hands, and outsiders do not know that the Air Force of the African People's Army has not only been equipped with special equipment for air combat. A fighter with nose shots and a large bomber with bombing.
However, this erroneous perception was quickly overturned by the dispatch of the African People's Army Air Force, because the bombing of the British Royal Navy by the African People's Army Air Force was exposed, although they knew that the African People's Army had an air force, but the British still believed that the planes equipped by the African People's Army were basically captured British old aircraft, and those pilots were some rookies who were not trained to fly by British flights, and they were basically equal to zero in air combat.
So soon the British made a decision to send their own planes to find the African People's Army Air Force airfield to destroy them, for which the British urgently mobilized 45 fighters to carry out the retaliation mission, Fighter 1 fighters: Captain: 8. 35 meters, wingspan: 9. 80 meters, power: one 840 hp "Bristol" engine, maximum speed: 395 km, weapons: four 7. 62mm machine gun. The Gladiator I is a biplane fighter.
Dozens of British Air Force Fighter 1 planes took off from Mbeya and flew all the way east, and soon crossed the British-controlled area to the airspace over the area controlled by the African People's Army, and the arrival of these dozens of British planes did not attract the attention of the people in the African People's Army base areas, because the planes of the African People's Army Air Force as long as it is not rain or strong winds and other bad weather, they will basically take off during the day for training, and they will also train fighters and bombers, although the African People's Army Air Force base is located on the outskirts of Morogoro City, It is a long distance from the residential area of Morogoro City, but the people in the city can still often see the planes flying overhead, and they still feel new at first, and their curiosity will be gone over time, after all, those planes will fly very high even when they pass over the residential areas of Morogoro City, and the people on the ground can only see things like big kites, and they can't see clearly at all, and their necks are tired after looking up for a long time, so they don't look at it anymore.
However, the people did not pay too much attention, but many African People's Army soldiers, especially officers who knew a little about aircraft, and a few soldiers looked up at the dozens of British Air Force planes in the sky, and still saw the strangeness of these two planes at a glance, that is, the appearance of these dozen fighters is different from the various aircraft equipped by the National Army. The wings are also very straight, but the dozens of Gladiator planes overhead now are two-winged, and the wings are also very different from the wings of the aircraft equipped with their own.
When the officers found out that it was a biplane fighter equipped by the British Army Air Force, but after the dozen or so fighters in the sky lowered their altitude in order to obtain more intuitive and detailed information, finally an African People's Army Army officer on the ground looked through a telescope and saw the British Army Air Force logo painted on the fuselage of the aircraft, and they were even more shocked when they saw this symbol.
One of the colonel's officers changed his face when he found out, and he quickly reported the situation to his superiors by wired phone, and the news quickly reached the First Command, where several senior officers of the African People's Army quickly connected to the air base on the outskirts of Morogoro.
At the same time as the aviation base was notified, the command of the African People's Army (AFA) quickly received telephone calls from the various air defense units inside and outside the city, informing them to immediately prepare for air defense operations. Not only was the air defense army stationed in Morogoro informed, but also the garrison of Morogoro was notified to prepare for air defense operations, and the police in Morogoro were directly ordered to be ready to evacuate the people at any time.
The African People's Army's own air force is now developing very rapidly, and it also attaches great importance to the air defense of field troops and the air defense of cities, and based on the technical level of the Red Alert Base Arsenal, it has developed a variety of antiaircraft artillery and antiaircraft machine guns specifically for air defense, and of course the British Air Force has a first-hand experience of the air defense weapons of the air defense units of the African People's Army. Therefore, it is basically not touching their brows, and basically adopts a bypass policy for important urban areas. In general, the bombing of the African People's Army's transport units and road sabotage operations is basically not carried out. Therefore, it was the presence of the Harmony Air Defense Force that saved the cities controlled by the African People's Army from being bombed. The anomaly was not provoked by the African People's Army Air Force.
When Hu Guang in the base learned that a British plane had arrived over Morogoro City, he immediately climbed up, and then immediately ordered a squadron of Flying Tiger fighters and a squadron of Intruder fighters to take off urgently to intercept them.
Forty Flying Tiger fighters and Intruder fighters soon rose into the air one after another, quickly climbed and headed towards the sky above Morogoro City, but a few minutes later, Cyril, the fighter commander who led the team, saw dozens of small black dots in the distant sky.
Immediately, Cyril piloted his beloved Flying Tiger fighter with dozens of Flying Tiger fighters and Intruder fighters. Towards the group of planes of the British. This was the beginning of the first air battle of the African People's Army.