Colonel Li Fansheng looked at the three words "Lan Fen" in the standard Lishu font on the fuselage of "Qiu Long", as if he had seen that flower-like smile.

For herself, she paid without regrets; As a military wife, while working diligently in reclamation, she also contributed more to the empire's Zhongxing Road and the dream of a great country.

"Military merit medals, there are half of mine, and half of yours." Touching his chest, the pilot's uniform did not have the many military merit medals that Colonel Li Fansheng had received, "Wife, this time, I want to bring back a golden dragon for you." ”

- The Golden Dragon Medal, the highest medal of honor for the soldiers of the Empire, and the recipient of each Golden Dragon Medal will be personally received by His Majesty Xià and awarded to him by His Majesty. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Supreme High Command awarded a total of 42 Golden Dragon Medals, all of whom were awarded peerless meritorious service in the War of Founding of the People's Republic of China and foreign wars.

After the "Sky Thunder" plan was drastically revised, the focus of the air raid was changed from two places to one location at Oak Ridge. On the surface, Oak Ridge is only 700 kilometers from Houston and can be carried out by faster fighters. However, from the occasional casual conversation of Admiral Long Xiaotian, Li Fansheng felt that the Royal Air Force Command was still inclined to dispatch H-41B Qilong stealth bombers flying at higher altitudes.

The "Qiulong" flying wing bomber has become the most advanced bomber in the world since its birth. 0。 The high subsonic flight speed of Mach 9 and the practical ceiling of 15,000 kilometers enable the "Qiulong" to easily break through and shuttle freely even in the areas that the enemy's air force is on key defense. The RAF's strategic bombing of the West Coast of the United States is widely recognized as the primary reason for the easy landing of Allied forces on Mexico and the West Coast. The H-41A "Qiu Long" flying wing bomber was one of the biggest contributors, and the US fighters at that time, including the F-107 triangular javelin, had no good way to deal with the "Qiu Long" that came and went. During the strategic bombing that lasted for more than a year, the Royal Air Force's strategic bombing unit even set a record for the smallest casualties of only six "Dragons" shot down.

After the United States, Germany, and other military powers, including the Empire, have successively developed supersonic interceptors, the unscrupulous bombing of the "Qiulong" has been limited to a certain extent. The F-12 Blackbird, equipped with the AIM-47A Falcon air-to-air missile, can intercept the "Dragon" at high speed after being spotted by long-range radar. This is also one of the reasons why the Reich stopped its strategic bombing of the West Coast of the United States for some time before the implementation of the "Hou Xi" plan. Another reason is the appearance of the US Hawker (Hawk) air defense system and the German Waterfall surface-to-air missile, which makes high-altitude bombing in the theater extremely dangerous.

In order to cope with the rapid development of air defense forces in other countries, the scientists of the war room at the main base of Queens came up with a "high-grade diamond" plan soon after. That is, on the basis of the H-41A, the stealth performance of the "Qiulong" flying-wing bomber will be enhanced, so that it can avoid the detection of anti-aircraft radar and "sneak" into the enemy's depth.

"Since you can't be an invincible general and take the rank of general among a million enemy troops, then become a ghostly assassin and unknowingly carry out decapitation operations."

Zhong Yi praised the "high-grade diamond" program, and the proposal of the stealth bomber project is definitely of epoch-making strategic significance. However, the proposal of the plan does not mean that the empire now has the corresponding scientific and technological capabilities, even if there is an invincible cheat like a base, there are still many difficulties and obstacles in developing an advanced equipment that is ahead of the times.

Suitable stealth materials, as well as the H-41's redesign after material and layout changes, as well as new power requirements, etc., although the "Advanced Diamond" scheme continues to use the code name of the "Dragon" bomber, but the H-41B is definitely a new flying wing bomber.

One of the most important changes is that most of the surface of the dragon is covered with a special elastic material that maintains a uniform electrical conductivity to reduce the reflection of radar waves from joints or seams. In some parts that cannot rely on the appearance for stealth, such as the air intake of the engine, etc., it is also necessary to coat the radar absorbing material to reduce the reflective surface of the radar as much as possible.

After the Qiulong H-41B stealth strategic flying-wing bomber was recognized by the base and the icon was lit up, Zhong Yi canceled the manufacturing order of other models in the base's aircraft factory and went all out to produce the H-41B, although the cost of the stealth "Qiulong" was ten times that of the H-41A; Although the construction time was as high as a week, almost the same as the time to build a marshal-class aircraft carrier, Zhong Yi still ordered ten in one go.

Ten bombers, it doesn't change much in a big war of this magnitude, but that's just dropping conventional bombs.

If conventional bombs are replaced with nuclear bombs, then even if only one bomber breaks through the enemy's core area, the consequences will be absolutely fatal. No one knows the power of the atomic bomb better than Zhong Yi, not even Albert Einstein, who proposed the theory of relativity, or Groves, the overseer of the "Manhattan Project".

The effect of the H-41B test flight can only be considered passing, at an altitude of 15,000 kilometers with 0. The high subsonic speed penetration of Mach 9 can indeed disappear on the display of many anti-aircraft radars. However, in the face of anti-stealth radars with different frequency band combinations, the stealth performance of the H-41B is quite limited.

Although the expected stealth performance is a little unsatisfactory, Zhong Yi said that he understands. As the world's first truly stealthy bomber, the second-generation Qiulong is still a transitional model. Time is of the essence, and the Empire is unlikely to have more time to systematize and slowly develop advanced weapons. During the war, as long as you can use it! As for the pursuit of perfection like the later American imperialist B-2 "Phantom", first, the current avionics technology is not comparable with later generations, and second, there is really no need, and the war is fought on a large scale. It was very expensive but could only be produced in small quantities, and could not have much influence on the final course of the war.

At least now, in the era when the bayonets on both sides are red, the deterrent things of Shenma are really limited. It's already hit this part.,If there's any trick, just use it.,It's better not to take out the trick to scare people.。

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Li Fansheng's hunch was quite accurate. After re-determining the target of the "Sky Thunder" plan to a location in Oak Ridge, whether it was the expert group headed by Long Xiaotian or Marshal Yun Jiu, the head of the Royal Air Force, everyone gradually preferred to use the H-41B Qiulong hidden bomber to carry out air raids.

With the determination of the day of the air armistice on July 12, the combat plan of the "Tianlei" plan was finally determined by Zhong Yi.

General Long Xiaotian presided over the formulation of the new "Heavenly Thunder" plan. That is, on the day of the air armistice, fighter planes will take off and patrol in many places, but all of them will abide by the agreement between the two sides and will not launch attacks on any US military targets. The U.S. military created a kind of allied warplanes that were only using the day of the air armistice to conduct large-scale aerial reconnaissance and provide intelligence for future ground operations.

In this way, it will be possible to confuse the US air defense forces to the greatest extent. The focus will be on the Greater Salt Lake region and the Dallas area, which is also the area where the two militaries are about to engage in battle, and undoubtedly the area where the air defense and air strike forces of the two sides are highly concentrated. To draw everyone's attention to these two areas, the Royal Air Force will dispatch 24 "Spinosaurus" early warning planes and 116 "Little Hunter" and "Little Raptor" electronic reconnaissance planes on the day of the air armistice, and as many as 200 fighters of various types will take turns to patrol and be on alert at all times. Among them, four "Raptor" fighters of the 22nd Special Service Squadron will form a patrol group with a "Spinosaurus" early warning aircraft. In fact, they are the record of the "Sky Thunder" plan, and one of the four "Raptors" will not carry a fire phoenix air-to-air missile, but will carry a "naughty baby" with the number 0005.

The task of the 22nd Special Service Squadron's Raptors is to forcibly penetrate the defenses once the Dragon's stealth wing-wing bombers carrying out air raid missions are intercepted, and take the three "Raptor" fighters carrying the Fire Phoenix-8 air-to-air missiles as the lead, covering another "Raptor" carrying the No. 0005 naughty "Raptor" to break through to Tennessee at high speed and nukely explode Oak Ridge.

Taking off from the Ellington Field Airport in Houston, the straight-line distance from Oak Ridge is only 732 kilometers, and the "Raptors" at full speed only need more than 20 minutes to get in place, not to mention the cover of the "Air Armistice Day", the actual breakthrough distance that the "Raptors" need to complete is only about 500 kilometers.

Of course, this is only a backup plan, and it will only be activated when the "Blue Fen" piloted by Colonel Levan Son is intercepted by US defense forces and Air Force fighters.

Under normal circumstances, even if there is a "day of armistice in the air", there are hundreds of Royal Air Force fighters feints to cover, and the most important thing is the incredible stealth ability of the H-41B in this era, and it is unknown whether the US military can find the "Lanfen" before the "Blue Fen" drops the "little naughty" numbered 0004.

The No. 5 "little naughty" in the "Raptors" formation is most likely to be thrown to another American city after the Oak Ridge nuclear explosion according to the arrangement in the first plan. At this point, the Air Force panel gave three built-ups, namely New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, and Memphis on the banks of the Mississippi River.

As for Dallas, which has the largest number of US troops stationed in the country, and is also the most convenient, considering the proximity to the Allied forces on the front line, in order to prevent nuclear radiation from harming its own people, it is no longer within the scope.

Among the three alternative cities, the experts did not clearly define the order, that is, if the "Lanfen" nuclear bombing of Oak Ridge was successful, the second city that would taste the taste of nuclear attack was completely decided by the two pilots of the Raptor fighter.

"As long as you don't land back at the base with the nuclear bomb, I don't care where you throw the 'little guy', just find a place with a lot of people and throw it away." Admiral Long Xiaotian only focused on Oak Ridge, and it was completely irresponsible to the spare No. 5 "little naughty".

As for the casualties that may have caused more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of casualties after the explosion of the "little naughty" explosion, Admiral Long said: In this era of war, where are there no dead? In the months-long battle for Phoenix, both the U.S. and Allied forces suffered more than 200,000 casualties. "As long as it's not our Han, the Americans...... Dead point is dead point! ”