Chapter 1433: Air Command Rescue
Thousands of people were on the line, and it was a great challenge for the rescue forces to evacuate all of them to a safe area within two hours.
All the helicopters that could be collected were gathered by Li Mu. If the direction of the third wave cannot be changed, the abandoned elementary school where the Joint Disaster Response Command is located will also be flooded. The Joint Disaster Response Command has developed a preparedness plan and has set up a temporary resettlement area on the highest stretch of land two kilometres from the abandoned primary school.
If the third wave of the flood cannot be stopped, even the people in the resettlement area around the abandoned primary school will have to be moved.
If the direction of the third wave of the flood peak can be changed, all these pressures will disappear, and at the current level of discharge, the water level in Xihe County will soon fall instead of continuing to rise.
According to the current trend, it is not impossible for Xihe County to disappear entirely!
The pressure was concentrated on the 8th Division of the HNA Army, on the rescue force in the flood discharge area led by Li Mu himself, and in the final analysis, on Li Mu - the precision strike guidance of the 8th Division of the HNA needed the guidance of his Haite team members.
All commercial and private helicopters in the Lunan area have received requisition notices, and the various managed aviation service companies have prepared for takeoff as soon as possible, and all pilots have received urgent notices to join the ranks of rescue forces.
As a last resort, Li Mu will not request such a partial national defense mobilization order. There's nothing more handy than being used in an active-duty force. However, although the Army Aviation and the Hainan Airlines have increased the purchase of helicopters in recent years, they are still far from enough, and even in just a few months when Li Mu served as deputy director of the Equipment R&D and Procurement Committee, he signed and approved the purchase of 50 helicopters, but the helicopter units in the southern Lunan region are still insufficient.
And it takes time to transfer troops from other regions, and the transfer of helicopters is not an easy matter, and all aspects of support must be in place, otherwise it will be useless for the planes to arrive.
Every disaster relief reminds every Chinese person of a cruel fact - our helicopters are too good, not only because there are too few models, but also because the number is far from enough!
After the country gradually liberalized the management of low-altitude airspace, more and more people began to test the water of low-altitude aviation services. Since the Air Force and Civil Aviation approved the drone express service of a certain east, it marks that drone logistics has begun to enter the stage of large-scale application.
However, the required procedures are still complex, and the UAV route applied by a certain east is fixed, and the flight information of each flight is all fixed, such as the take-off time of a certain flight, the course of the route, and when the time of some nodes is passed, everything must be carried out in strict accordance with the flight plan.
As everyone knows, the management of all airspace within the national border belongs to the Air Force, and in order to support local economic development, the Air Force has continuously handed over the management of some busy airspace to civil aviation, so that the airspace for the training of the Air Force's flight units has been greatly compressed in some airspace with dense air routes such as East China.
It was not easy to organize a large-scale military exercise, but as a result, there was a lot of opposition in the local area -- flights at airports in more than a dozen cities were delayed or canceled on a large scale.
In supporting local economic construction, the troops have made far more sacrifices than ordinary people can imagine, and in many places where people cannot see them, the sacrifices made by the troops are enormous.
Under the unified command of the Air Traffic Control Center of the Joint Disaster Relief Command, more than 30 local commercial and self-used helicopters of various types began to assemble at the field disaster relief airport. Under the influence of the core idea of "emergency rescue," those pilots such as retired pilots of the Air Force who were hired by local bosses with high salaries, and ordinary people who took flight exams to obtain pilot licenses joined the disaster relief forces with enthusiasm in piloting various types of helicopters.
The office of the board of directors of Continental Holding Group issued a state of emergency order, clearly requiring all subsidiaries to fully participate in flood relief work. All 21 helicopters of the group's airline services company have been cancelled for future flight service and are all engaged in rescue work.
At the same time, Continental Holding Group urgently hired more than 500 taels of various trucks from the surrounding areas and urgently purchased more than 10,000 tons of relief materials, officially launching the plan to support the disaster area. In addition, all the heavy-duty trucks under the Continental Holding Group have cancelled their original engineering transportation tasks, loaded large rocks and transported them to the front line of flood control according to the order of the Joint Disaster Relief Command, and have made a plan to use heavy-duty trucks to fill the gap at any time.
Continental Holding Group is supporting flood fighting and rescue at all costs.
In the dark night, Li Mu's command-type Z-20 utility helicopter led the first batch of rescue troops composed of Mi-171, Z-20, Z-8 and Z-9 transport models to the flood discharge area.
The Z-20 with a 1600 kilowatt engine has a flight load capacity that surpasses that of the latest American Black Hawk model, so that the helicopter can have a variety of variants, and the command type can carry more command and communication equipment.
In the order of near first and then farther, Li Mu ordered the flight rescue force to start rescuing from the village closest to the mountain pass.
With a good night vision helmet, the pilots found a good landing ground, first used the zipline to drop the special forces to reconnoiter the ground situation, and the naval special forces quickly marked the take-off and landing areas with luminous objects, and drew a single take-off and landing area that met the standards on the ground using luminous objects.
The two Mi-171s landed first, and the technical soldiers quickly lowered the various equipment needed in the field emergency take-off and landing area, mainly lighting equipment and light guidance equipment. These portable equipment can establish a helicopter with take-off and landing and basic support for any type of helicopter in a suitable place in the field in a very short time, which can ensure the orderly take-off and landing activities.
Under the guidance of ground guides, all the helicopters of the first batch landed. Those who land in advance immediately turn off their engines and then gather together under the traction of a small tractor. And so on, and put down a dozen transport helicopters.
The officers and men of the Marine Corps Special Operations Regiment have quickly entered the village under the leadership of the commander, and began to organize the masses to move to the field take-off and landing field, and then quickly boarded the plane, and took off when the crew was full.
With such a compact solution, flying at night is inherently dangerous, and the air flow in the flood area is not stable, which can lead to collisions.
The failure of the Americans' Blu-ray plan against the hostage crisis at the embassy in Iran is closely related to the environment of Operation Dark. There was too much uncertainty about the helicopter supply fields set up at night, coupled with the fact that they were attacked by wind and sand, the Blue Light program failed, and the Americans suffered heavy losses.
The plan adopted by Li Mu at this time is unimaginable, and it has a lot in common with the hostage rescue plan, the action steps are compact, the time node requirements are strict, and the battlefield environment is similar......
The command-type Z-20 utility helicopter has been circling and flying in the specified airspace, and Li Mu has mastered the implementation of each sub-operation through the advanced joint command and control system, down to the real-time flight status of each flight sortie.
In addition to Wang Guoqing and Su Xiaobing, there are also three technical staff officers to assist Li Mu's command, which is the basic configuration of a standard front-line air command.
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