In the initial stage of the war, it started with the two sides firing missiles at each other, although the range of the shipborne missiles on both sides is as long as tens of thousands of kilometers, but in the Minovsky particle environment, the low hit rate of long-range missiles makes people question the value of their existence, which is completely an act of luck, if it hits, it would be good, or even launch it quickly, so as not to increase the weight or cause martyrdom when the battleship is damaged, such an idea is the reason why the warring sides launch missiles.

Maybe maybe even a kind of courtesy to shoot a missile as a sign of respect.

Of course, neither Zeon's 145 missile nor the Federation Salamis-class six-pack missile achieved any results except to add some fire to the background of the battle.

Under this futile attack, the distance between the Zeon and the Federation fleet gradually approached 1,000 kilometers.

Then came the second round, which was also the beginning of the official engagement.

On the Zeon side, the combat strength is nine MS squads, Aina Sakhalin, which is part of the Field Technical Test Unit, and Lear Wolfgang Alkestein as the commander, for a total of 29 MSs.

On the federal side, two squadrons of 24 FF-S3 space fighters took off from the Columbus-class escort aircraft carrier.

Victory and defeat were decided almost instantaneously.

Because there is no high-performance radar and other electronic equipment, the battle between MS and space fighters is extremely dependent on personal reconnaissance capabilities, and although they are equipped with high-performance optical observation equipment that was not available in the Western era, and a friend or foe identification system that can identify enemy units through optical images, it is still a very important ability for the pilot to be keenly aware of his target in the indistinguishable space.

That's why the so-called new human has such a big advantage in the cosmic battle, and others also need to observe various images and data to judge the location of the enemy army, he just needs to be like a magic stick 'Is there there!' 'Intuition can grasp the enemy's movements.

If you want to say that this is the most important bug ability of the new humans against the old humans, you will always take the lead and will definitely attack before the enemy.

Straight to the point.

This is also one of the important advantages of the MS, compared to the space fighter that can only fly in a straight line, it is easy to predict and follow the trajectory of the movement, and the MS can maneuver through the AMBAC maneuver to move in any direction around the body is more likely to get out of the enemy's field of vision.

Not only is it an advantage in judging the enemy's movements, but another advantage is that the MS can attack more consistently than the fighters.

This is because the weapons of the fighter are mainly equipped on the predecessor peninsula, and after an attack misses, it must quickly break away and attack again after turning, that is to say, during the period of detachment - re-attack, the fighter does not have the ability to attack, this phenomenon also occurred in the era of aerial artillery dog fights between fighters in the old Western calendar, which is the so-called attack window period.

In the same case, MS only needs to use the AMBAC maneuver to turn around and attack again.

The advantages of this aspect mean that unless you are an extremely good fighter pilot, in space, the fighter has no ability to compete with the MS.

This battle is no exception, it must be noted that compared to the Zeon pilots who have little actual combat experience, the pilots of the Fourth Mobile Fleet who have been chasing and killing the pirate ships flooding the Mars-Jupiter route all year round are undoubtedly better, if the two sides have the same advantage in weapons, these 24 pilots can completely torture and kill the pilots of the special forces, even if Lear is there, Lear does not have the ability to fight 24 times the enemy in space.

However, because of the inferiority of weapons and equipment, although the future potential of these is unknown, they are all the first-class and ace federal pilots in the federal army at this moment, and they are tragically tortured and killed.

That's right, it's torture.

At the beginning of the battle, the pilots of the Federation did not pay attention to it, in fact, these cosmic wind chasers simply looked down on Zeon's bulky MS, thinking that they were just large targets, and only stupid people who drove engineering machines would drive stupid big ones, of course, this is also related to the overall atmosphere of the Federation Space Force, the Federation has not received the relevant situation of the Zeon Army MS, but whether it is the carrier-based aircraft faction or the large ship giant artillery faction, they all look down on Zeon who promotes MS, Thinking that the development of this unscientific humanoid weapon is a manifestation of the fact that Zeon has not yet figured out the situation, it is extended to the front-line officers and soldiers below, and there are few people who understand MS.

However, in fact, the development of humanoid weapons began very early in the Federation Army, and the earliest achievement was the RX-75 steel tank, but it has not been taken seriously, and the MS faction can only be regarded as a heresy of the Federation carrier-based aircraft faction, and the carrier-based aircraft faction is a defeated subordinate of the big ship and giant artillery faction, so naturally the MS faction has no say at all.

The very few sensible people in the Federal Army have implemented Plan V after learning of the Zeon Army's MS plan, and the progress has been extremely slow under the interference of both sides, more than ten years have passed since the initial model mass production of the RX-75 steel tank, until now the Federal Army has only one trial production of the RX-77 steel cannon that can be regarded as MS, but the brief exchange of fire with the Zeon Army MS that occurred on the lunar surface of the rainy sea, and the defeated RX-77 was also regarded as waste.

As a result, the complete failure of the RX-75 and RX-77 models made the MS faction unable to produce results not recognized and funded, which in turn led to the development of the MS even more slowly.

Seeing that if the Federation Army wins this war easily, the MS faction will be completely wiped out.

The whole Federation thinks this way, and naturally they don't need to expect the pilots to pay much attention to the MS, on the contrary, before the battle, they also thought it was very funny that they wanted to annihilate their fleet with 3 cruisers and some iron man toys.

Their own lack of attention, coupled with the disadvantage of the airframe, made the proud and complacent ace pilots of the Federal Army experience a miserable defeat.

At a distance of about 50 kilometers, the FF-S3 fighter launched the missile, at this distance, the missile had a certain accuracy, and after launching the missile, the FF-S3 fighter quickly closed the distance and tried to attack with the four 25mm cannons carried by the fighter.

However, to their surprise, Zagu, who looked bulky, evaded it with a maneuvering speed that was in no way inferior to that of a fighter jet!

With the light signal of the yellow-painted Zagu, the Zagu began to dodge on their own, and the experienced Federation pilots could feel that the opponent was obviously a rookie, and in the process of dodging, there was more than one overmaneuver, resulting in an unbalanced posture of the aircraft, and even two airframes maneuvered towards the same position and collided.

However, despite these oolong incidents, the Zeon MS unit was able to dodge the most threatening missile attack, and the ensuing 25mm cannon, not to mention the MS shield that had just been attached, would not be easily blown up even if it was the body's own defensive capabilities.

Realizing that they might be underestimating their opponents, the Federation Flying Team took the right approach, and they immediately began to speed up, trying to quickly disengage to dodge the incoming attack.

However, they completely miscalculated the speed of the turn of the MS troops! Before the FF-S3 fighter could increase to cruising speed, Zaku, who had already turned around, held a shield in one hand and stuck the Zagu machine gun in the groove in the shield with the other and began to shoot.

True, the MMP-78 machine gun was originally designed not to fight fighters, but to destroy the external equipment of the Federation warships, and as a 120mm caliber weapon, in order to reduce recoil to prevent the MS from rolling over in space due to recoil, it used low muzzle velocity and low rate of fire, which meant that it was not a very suitable anti-aircraft weapon.

However, due to the carelessness of the Federal Flying Team, this first round of attacks still achieved 7 results, of which 3 were achieved by Makoto Matsunaga, Jonny Layden, and Anabel Cardo, whose accurate and composed shooting allowed the Zagu machine gun, which was not very good, to exert its full ability, while the other three results were caused by the random fire of other soldiers, and it is not certain whose results it was.

And there is another result that was not achieved by the Zagu machine gun, but by the incredibly fast yellow mech.

Its strange trajectory and shocking acceleration made its victims be cut under the horse before they could react, as if they appeared suddenly, Zagu Thunderlight appeared next to the victim, and used a thermal weapon like an axe to cut it open like a fish, and the pilot inside was cut into two pieces along with the fighter, but the wound lost its moisture in an instant due to the high heat of the thermal axe, and the whole person was split into two like a Lego brick man.

It even looks a little ridiculous.

In just one battle, the Federation Flying Team lost nearly a third of its combat strength, and the surviving Federation pilots realized their mistakes, and cold sweat immediately poured out, and the wet vests were sandwiched in the non-absorbent flight suits.

Captain Francis Gabrisky (Note 1) of the 4th Mobile Fleet realized that he could not continue like this, and that he had to make some changes in his tactics, otherwise they would only lose more men in the next engagement if they used this kind of dense flying queue again.

So he turned on the light signal, Tactic D (Disperse)!

With his signal, fighting spirit and technical and tactical level surpassed that of the Zeon pilots, the Federation pilots quickly understood and faithfully carried out the flight captain's order, the same order to disperse, these Federation pilots did not have the panic of the Zeon Army dispersed, they calmly judged the position between the friendly forces, and did not look for a random direction, but scattered like exploding fireworks.

Francis Gabreski noticed the immaturity of the Zeon pilot, so he adopted a formation that was difficult to concentrate firepower, but could attack from multiple angles, making up for the lack of attack angles of FF-S3 to the greatest extent, and at the same time filling the gap in the attack window with wave attacks.

The rookie of the Zeon Army, I am afraid that I will fall into a panic when faced with an attack from which I don't know what angle it will come, and the Zeon MS team, which cannot maintain the formation in a panic, will be bitten off by the federal flying team that constantly attacks the wolves!

In the midst of defeat and chaos, in the face of a brand-new enemy, he can quickly summarize the most suitable tactics, Francis Gabreski is worthy of being the Earth Federation's premier ace pilot and fighter tactician, and the Fourth Mobile Fleet Flying Team is also worthy of being the most elite and ace-concentrated elite flying team of the Federation Army!

If such a force were to drive the MS one day, I am afraid that these 24 people (including the dead) would be able to match the MS of the Zeon Army several times as much.

When they finished turning and were back in attack, they attacked again like wolves coming from all directions.

The second engagement is about to begin.

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Note 1: Francis Gabrisky, based on the American ace pilot of World War II Francis Gabrisky, was the ace of the Western Front and achieved 31 verifiable crash records in the battle with the Luftwaffe.

After World War II, he was promoted to colonel and served in the Korean War as a wing commander of the 51st Flying Wing of the U.S. Army, flying the F-86 Sabre E (Sabre Daylight) and achieving a record of 6.5 kills against the Soviet Mig-15bis (MiG-15bis).