The silent asteroid swarm occupies a vast space of almost a lightsecond, like a dangerous reef group in space.

When the mineral deposits were exhausted and the people were evacuated from here, the asteroid was not as wide as it is now, and it took a long time before it slowly spread to its current range.

The largest asteroid has a diameter of more than a dozen kilometers, much larger than a giant whale ship, and the smaller one is only the size of a fist. Dozens of warships hid in it, like throwing a handful of sand in the water.

The location here has just crossed the orbit of Saturn, although there are not many asteroid groups, but after crossing the orbit of Saturn, the farther away from the sun, the more small celestial bodies float in the universe, so this group of asteroids in front of the position is not very inconspicuous.

In the core area of the asteroid group, an F-440 fighter followed the faint navigation light and slowly flew above the recovery area.

The recovery area is actually specially divided for the location of the recovery of fighters, usually the rectangular fighters separated by lights on the surface of the battleship, as long as they fly within the upper range of the rectangle, they are counted as entering the recovery area.

"Tower, tower, artilleryman has completed the training mission, and asked to recover the fighter civilians." The tired Ye Fei felt dizzy, as if he had been filled with lead.

His state should be described as top-heavy, but this is space, and there is no gravity at all, which is really weird.

"Tower received, please turn off the engine."

"The engine is off." After answering this sentence, the recovery area under the fighter suddenly opened, and a slender mechanical arm stretched out from the overturned battleship's armor and gently embedded it in the back of the fighter.

The slender robotic arm easily catches the fighter, adjusts the position and direction of the fighter, and drags the fighter into the battleship without any error.

As the fighter was recovered, the armor turned out was closed again, and the lights marking the recovery area quietly went out.

In standard gravity, a finger-thick robotic arm has absolutely no chance of lifting a heavy fighter, but in weightless space, heavier items than the F-440 are no problem.

At this time, the battleship was surrounded by more than a dozen large and small asteroids, and the stars were surrounded in the middle like the moon, only exposing the corner of the battleship's belly for fighter take-off and landing, and it was this slender and inconspicuous mechanical arm that fixed the position of the asteroid around the battleship.

The only thing to note is that the battleship cannot accelerate suddenly, once the acceleration exceeds the design value, the mechanical arm with limited strength will definitely break and is not negotiable.

This is also the reason why the engine of the fighter must be turned off before it can be recovered.

If the engine remains started, I am afraid that any small control mistake will cause the fighter to break the robotic arm.

A broken mechanical arm is nothing, and it's okay that the fighter didn't take it back into the battleship, at most, the fighter flew out with the broken mechanical arm.

But if the fighter plane has already been included in the battleship...... No one knows what the runaway fighter will collide with, and if it crashes into the tarmac and destroys ten or eight fighters at once, the captain will have to steal the joy for ten days and half a month.

When Ye Fei felt a slight shock of the fighter, he understood that the fighter had entered the recovery process, and the slight tension immediately disappeared without a trace, and the whole person breathed a big sigh of relief.

Brainwave piloting a fighter plane is not as easy as imagined.

It's very simple to think about, but if you want the fighter to act completely according to the pilot's will, the simpler the thinking, the better, and when you control it, you don't think of the right in your head, and the fighter flies to the right, but you want to imagine yourself rolling or somersault to the right side, and the fighter will spin sideways as you wish - due to the inertia during flight, as long as the initial command does not make mistakes, the subsequent actions do not feel that it is impossible to roll.

The previous training time was limited, the flight time would not exceed half an hour each time on the plane, and the load on the brain was minimal. However, since the fleet hid in the asteroid swarm, the pilots were suddenly required to fly at extreme endurance, in other words, they kept flying until they could no longer bear it.

Extreme flight is not to toss the pilot, but to grasp the pilot's first-hand information, to have a more detailed understanding of each person's ability, is a direct reference for assigning tasks, so every pilot will stick to as much time as possible.

Although Ye Fei tried his best to insist, after two and a half hours of continuous flight, there were more and more chaotic thoughts in his mind, and he could no longer concentrate, and his mistakes in maneuvering also increased, so he had to give up the idea of continuing to persevere.

Two and a half hours is already a rare achievement among the students in the same period, which means that Ye Fei's safe driving time is about two hours.

Of course, these two hours refer to the high-intensity combat time, and when flying, the instructions required are relatively simple, and they can be completed without consuming too many brain cells.

The fighter was dragged into a deep recovery well by a robotic arm, and layers of armor were closed on top of Ye Fei's head until another robotic arm changed hands and hoisted the fighter into the parking bay.

This is where the aircraft will unload their weapons and ammunition before being transported back to the launch bay in preparation for launch.

Just when the robotic arm was about to take off the missile mounted under the belly, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the entire flight area, and several robotic arms quickly retracted, and the main robotic arm embedded in the fighter sent the fighter back to the launch position at the fastest speed, sitting on the launch position with its butt down like a rocket to be launched.

Another robotic arm quickly refuels the fighter.

One by one, the pilots who heard the sirens pulled the fast-moving handrails on the cabin arms to the launch area, and got into their respective cars as fast as they could.

When all the pilots entered the aircraft, the launch area was automatically closed and the only air was evacuated.

Then the launch port opened, and the bottom of the fighter plane directly below the launch port flicked slightly, and the fighter plane went straight into the vertical silo as if it had a second kick under the butt.

Until this time, the engines of the fighters still did not start, and until the moment the fighters left the battleship, the pilots would start the engines and fly to the target under the guidance of the tower.

Ye Fei's drowsy brain cleared up when the alarm sounded, and he immediately connected to the tower: "Tower, tower, artillery, ask to take off." ”

"Artilleryman, your current state is not suitable for the mission, request for dismissal." Pilots who have just completed training, and they are still in extreme flight training, are in the worst condition, and sending such pilots out of the country is not only dangerous to the pilot, but also may even affect other people.

"I'm in good shape!" As soon as Ye Fei's heart moved, the battle armor immediately injected a needle into his body, and the problem of distraction in his mind was immediately greatly alleviated.

Ye Fei was injected with an injection to relieve fatigue, similar to the stimulants of the old days, and the combat armor of the commando team had this function, in order to relieve the fatigue of the fighters at the necessary moments, and did not want the fighters to die in vain because of fatigue.

The pilot's flight armor does not have this function, and the pilots are very expensive, and it is impossible for the pilots to fatigue the pilot.

The tower found that Ye Fei's physiological curve suddenly stabilized, and he was stunned for a moment before he understood what was going on, and suddenly shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Why are you suffering?" "Although it is not a pure stimulant, but this kind of injection, there are still certain side effects on the body, serious and even cause nervous system dysfunction, once a fighter was overly excited after the injection, and could not sleep for three consecutive days.

"Everyone is leaving, I can't stay on the battleship alone, can I?" Ye Fei's reason is very sufficient.

There are several sirens for battleships, and now they are fighting alarms, not training alarms. Usually train five people and six, today is going to be a real coward, where will you get the face to get along with everyone in the future?

The friendship between comrades-in-arms is a good result of enduring hardships and hardships together on the training ground, but it is also the result of being born and dying together on the battlefield.

The commander in the tower sighed in his heart and understood Ye Fei's thoughts: "Are you sure your state is okay?" ”

"I'm sure." Ye Fei's answer was categorical, "Great, I'll fly with the fly-by-wire system for a while." ”

"Okay, agree to lift-off, be careful."

"Thank you."

As he spoke, the neatly arranged fighters in the launch area were like bullets in magazines, moving one after another to the bottom of the launch port, and then shooting out of the battleship one after another, with an average of one fighter taking off every three seconds.

The Giant Whale-class battleship is not an aerospace carrier, and its aircraft carrying capacity is limited, so this time it is considered to be fully loaded, and each battleship can only carry one aviation regiment, that is, thirty-six fighters.

In a few words, the fighters had all taken off. Because Ye Fei's fighter plane has just been recovered, it is now ranked last in the list.

The fighter plane was aiming at the launch port, and suddenly Ye Fei's back felt a strong push back, and the neat silo wall quickly retreated, and suddenly, the fighter had already flown into the infinite universe again.

At the same time as the fighter ejected, Ye Fei switched the control mode to the fly-by-wire mode. With a swing of the joystick, the fighter joined the flight formation waiting not far from the battleship.

"Hehe, let me say it, this kid is definitely not willing to be lonely." Jiang Yufei's smug voice came from the earphones.

"Fuck off, you live in a room with him, can you still understand him?" I don't know who replied.

"Alright, shut up." The commander in the tower cut into the communication, "Order the air team, immediately assemble in the airspace of the G17, ready to fight at any time, but before receiving the order, it is not allowed to act without authorization, and set off!" ”

Upon arrival at the asteroid group, the fleet divides and numbers the entire asteroid group into separate airspace, which will serve as a simplification of command in the upcoming battle.

The formation of thirty-six fighters immediately accelerated, and while flying, the formation was adjusted, and it was redivided into a triangular formation of six fighters, and it quickly advanced towards the airspace of G17.

At the same time, other warships hidden in different parts of the asteroid group also released their own carrier-based aircraft groups, each flying to a different assembly area.

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Only three thousand yards, chest tightness, must rest, dare not yard again.