In the cafeteria of the First Air Division, all the officers and men were eating quietly, and Li Lan was no exception.

Unlike the soldiers around him, Li Lan never stopped asking Smith during the meal. Kay is in the current state of some air forces.

"In addition to the training aircraft for training and the types of aircraft used to train potential pilots, our Air Force currently has about 80 transport aircraft, and the number of large transport planes jointly developed and produced by us and China also exceeds the Il-76 purchased from Russia. In terms of fighters, the commanders have never stopped producing fighters over the years, and the size of the air force has also maintained a steady growth, and now the land-based air force has an integrated air force division and six air wings, with 550 combat planes and more than 100 other types of aircraft. Among them, the proportion of advanced sixth-generation fighters is only 20%......"

A brief introduction gave Li Lan a basic assessment of the current combat effectiveness of the Air Force. If we include the number of fighters of the independent air force units and naval aviation units of the military region, there is now a trend of 900 combat fixed-wing aircraft in the Red Guard Corps.

This has a lot to do with the fact that over the years, Li Lan has been increasing the number of tank factories, when the high-level authority was just reached, at that time, one Intruder could be produced every day, and one Black Hawk fighter could be produced in a little more than thirty hours, and now the Black Hawk fighter can reach more than one per day. The Air Force is also the branch of the armed forces that Li Lan wants to expand the most, and the result is that the strength of the Air Force can increase by one wing every two months. The speed of expansion. It's amazing.

However, Li Lan never had the intention of stopping at such a huge number of air forces, because the enemy in front of him was too powerful, and the number of fourth-generation combat planes owned by the entire NATO had long ago exceeded 3,000, and the United States alone in particular had an incomparably huge number.

Therefore, it took four or five years to build this air force. There really is no superiority in power over NATO.

"Are all the new weapons in place?" Li Lan asked.

"So far, it's all done. The Avangard Armed Fighter Aircraft has formed a brigade with six Vanguard Armed Fighter Aircraft that can directly participate in combat missions. In terms of bombers, in addition to the establishment of the Lightning Supersonic Bomber Wing, we have also formed a strategic support group composed of six fully stealthy century bombers. The formation of a drone unit has also been completed. In addition to the land-based wing of the Sky Knight UAV. We have also formed a wing of self-detonating drones. In terms of the sixth generation stealth fighter. The fifth-generation stealth fighters of the three types of Apollo, Black Hawk, and Intruder have also completed their respective ......"

"The efficiency is good, I have already ordered the military factory to stop work on the production of fourth-generation fighters. After the production of the last batch of fourth-generation fighters is completed, all production lines will be stopped, all fifth-generation fighters will be produced, and the development and evaluation of the sixth-generation fighters will begin. We have a large number of fifth-generation fighters, so you should focus your work on the coordination between the various types of fifth-generation fighters, and strive to give full play to the due combat effectiveness of each model. In this way, we will be able to effectively strive for air supremacy in the face of a complicated air enemy situation in the future. Li Lan commanded.

"Please rest assured that the commander has already started this work and will definitely come up with a satisfactory answer." Smith. Kai nodded.

"Training and drills are to be carried out, and in the next war, the Air Force will also fight beautifully." Li Lan instructed again, and then asked, "Are the subjects ready?" ”

See Li Lan get to the point, Smith. Kai immediately put down the chopsticks in his hand and said, "All the subjects are ready, and as soon as the break after lunch is over, it will begin." ”

"Very well, I'll be here to follow you all the time." Li Lan nodded.

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After lunch, during the half-hour break, Li Lan sat on the lawn next to the airport, chatted with all the pilots, and finally took a group photo.

After resting, Li Lan stood quietly on the lawn, looking at the ground crews who had begun to get busy, the planes lined up neatly, the car ladders began to lean on the planes, the mechanics and engineers began to make final preparations for the flight, the ground crews began to pull out the ammunition from the underground ammunition depot, and dozens of suspended carriages drove out of the underground passage, which were filled with neat ammunition and missiles, and under the drive of the trailers, they headed towards the runway where the planes were to fly.

The intense loading work began, and at the position of the eight lightning supersonic bombers, 500 kilograms of aerial ground-penetrating bombs were hoisted by the cranes into closed magazines, and more than a dozen truckloads of bombs were quickly loaded, and soon more than a dozen trucks came over, and the eight bombers were filled.

After the eight lightning bombers were loaded, the two Century bombers next to them were still loaded, and in terms of bomb load, the Century bombers were obviously 45 tons higher than the lightning bombers. Of course, the bomber of the century itself is much bigger than lightning in size.

Next to it, eight Sky Knight drones have long been loaded with missiles, and under each wing, two quadruple missile launchers are loaded with missiles with laser shields open, and one Sky Knight drone can carry sixteen medium-sized ground-to-ground laser-guided missiles.

At the same time, the pilots and bomber crews who had changed into aviation suits began to line up in front of the aircraft, asking the mechanics about the inspection of the aircraft and the situation of the electronic instruments on the aircraft.

After they began to board the plane, Li Lan was taking a jeep at the airport and came to the air force headquarters.

After taking the elevator, the guards entered some passwords, opened the inner elevator behind the elevator, and descended directly to 120 meters underground, which is the base camp of the air force headquarters.

In the huge underground space, rows of neat electronic instruments are placed around, and hundreds of staff members sit in front of the computer, with headphones and quickly typing on the keyboard.

A corner of the space is divided into small independent areas. Now there is a corner of a small part of the electronic equipment has been opened, the display wall composed of two or five twenty-one-inch liquid crystal displays, below is a keyboard with many complex symbols, and there is a thing like a fighter joystick on the side.

After entering the underground space, Li Lan walked directly to this area, in the first row, eight of the twelve seats were already sitting on it, and the five monitors in front of each seat had also been turned on, and one of these people was Alena.

This is the area of drone operations under the airbase. Each seat represents a drone. An operation key and a joystick, and the five displays display the nose, tail, and lower camera of the fuselage, the number of radars, and the number of wireless operation signals.

At this point, all the monitors are turned on, and the three displays have already appeared in the airport screen. Li Lan, who came over, did not speak. Quietly watching these preoccupied drone operators.

Ready-to-use drones. Under the operation of these people, they took the lead in taxiing to the take-off runway, and soon the tower sent a signal that it could take off. One by one, the drones began to glide down the air.

The camera under the drone's fuselage soon appeared a vast sea, and even the boat could be seen sailing over the pulled white water belt.

At the airport, after the drones all took off, eight Lightning supersonic fighters also came to the take-off line and rose into the air in turn, and finally two century bombers.

"All the planes took off." Smith. Kai walked behind Li Lan and whispered.

Li Lan nodded, didn't say anything, time passed like this, and ten minutes later, the blue sea water under the drone camera had disappeared, replaced by a dry yellow Gobi land, and then gradually flew over some towns, at this time the eight drones also seemed to have dispersed, flying in different directions.

"An active radar signal was detected, coordinates 211, UAV altitude 12, course 52, distance 270 km." Alena, who was concentrating on operating the drone, suddenly spoke up.

"Leave it alone, keep going, and in three minutes each drone will launch missiles at the same time." One of the colonels, who was in charge of the command of the drone, immediately replied.

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Then each drone pilot detected the radar signal separately, got the same reply, waited for the time, and launched an attack at the same time.

Three minutes passed quickly, and the colonel, who had gathered all the news, ordered: "No. 1 and No. 7 bombs, anti-radiation missiles, lock on to the radar radiation source, and attack at the same time in ten seconds." ”

The drone pilots quickly selected the missiles on the keyboard, activated the lock target, and ten seconds later, the two missiles on the drone screen broke away from the pylons and flew towards the clouds.

The tense countdown began, and on the radar simulation screen, two flashing missile targets began to approach the target red dot, and the drone also continued to fly towards the red dot.

A minute later, the missile reached its target, and the drone's high-definition camera caught the faint glow of the ground in the distance.

"Hit the target."

On the radar display, there is also a hint of successful hitting the target, as for whether the target is destroyed, this needs to be seen after getting closer. This reminder is also only to tell them that the missile did not deviate and exploded in the target area.

"The drones began to perform follow-up tasks, and after destroying all targets, they immediately returned home, maintaining an altitude of more than 10, and paying attention to anti-aircraft artillery fire and missiles."

"Yes."

The eight drones quickly went their separate ways, maintaining their course according to the first target position on the number of drones, and carrying out missile strikes along the way, until all the missiles on the drones were fired, and then they began to return home.

Later, Li Lan, who was looking at the entire process of grounding, nodded with satisfaction, and muttered alone: "Sky Knight, it really didn't disappoint me, it's worth it!" ”

Sky Knight UAV: Air Force combat UAV, production price - 1.2 million base funds, construction time - three days.

Description: This is a heavyweight model belonging to the sky battlefield, with an ultra-long communication distance, able to maintain a cruising state for a long time, not only able to perform ground and sea attack missions, a drone with a vector thrust engine, but also a good air fighting knight, is a real sky pride. It has a certain stealth shape and stealth coating, which can conceal most of the wavelength of the radar. If necessary, it can also turn itself into a death blade and stab itself at enemies, crushing itself to take suicidal attacks.

Armament: four quadruple missile pylons, three high-precision cameras, miniaturized phased array radar, an operating system integrated into the base system, and an electronic warfare information network......

Special note: The UAV itself has a very advanced self-cāo action, can be operated manually and accurately, and can also use the task system to allow the UAV to take the way of self-flight and attack, a qiē only needs a command command, with a certain intelligence of the UAV's own system, fully capable of complex attack tasks on land, sea and air, and can even be carried out in the aircraft carrier in automatic take-off and landing. The drone also has an advanced identification system of friend or foe, and the drone is connected to the number of bases at all times, which can distinguish any aircraft of our side, including civilian facilities and civilian aircraft.

Jianyì: It is the most loyal warrior, but its steel body has the potential to be a hero.

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A simple table xiàn, enough to see a lot of problems, first of all, stealth, although it is an external pylon, but under the detection of the enemy's radar, it can still hide the traces, and this alone can be praised.

Another point is the fluency of the attack, from the time the pilot gives the command to launch the missile here, to the official launch of the missile by the drone, almost zero delay has been achieved, which is extremely precious for a drone.

The aircraft carrier Bagua City, which is under construction, will also be equipped with this drone in the future, and will also be used as the main combat force, and the combat effectiveness of the Sky Knight is very crucial.

Now, the manually operated drone has not disappointed Li Lan, so even if the Sky Knight who performs the mission autonomously does not achieve the expected effect, it will not affect the number of equipment of this aircraft in the Red Police Corps.

And this is also a good start, because there is not only one drone, there is also a small self-detonating drone, and a professional reconnaissance drone, the watch of the Sky Knight, which has a promoting effect on the production of these two drones.

The same is true for the army, in the army equipment of the third generation of Red Alert weapons, there are also some automated ground combat platforms, so that the cold machine can replace manpower, in this process Li Lan has always had zài concerns in his heart, and now the sky knight's watch has made him have a lot less of this concern, and in the future, it may really be possible to realize unmanned remote control war scenes.

However, this road still needs a period of practice and exploration, and Li Lan also understands that in many cases, the machine cannot replace the position of a person on the battlefield, for the simple reason that on the battlefield, the combatants will think independently, but the machine will not. (To be continued......)