After the artillery battle.

More than five hours have passed.

The Tianzhu army was full of mourning, and the twenty-one big pits were in a mess.

Inside the base of the river valley.

The Brontosaurus No. 1 has quietly returned to the base's submerged port, and a large number of technicians are inspecting the hull and gun chamber of the Brontosaurus No. 1.

Gu Li looked at the reconnaissance report in his hand, and was not too surprised by the results of the Thunder Dragon One, but he still reminded:

"The movement speed of the Thunder Dragon One is still too slow, and once the enemy finds out its situation, it will definitely use a saturation strike."

Alexei, the designer of the Thunder Dragon One, said with a smile: "General Gu Li don't worry, this is only the first version, and I will upgrade the Thunder Dragon 1 next." ”

"Upcycling? The speed of the ground effect ship is almost at the limit, right? Gu Li asked curiously.

"Yes, even if our engine power is relatively sufficient, the speed of the Thunder Dragon 1 has reached the limit, and 480 kilometers per hour is its ultimate speed."

"So how do you increase your speed?"

"It is not to increase the speed, but to reduce the size, to build a batch of self-propelled artillery ground effect ships of 150 mm caliber, with the advantage of our materials, the weight can be compressed to about 80 tons, the flight altitude can be maintained at about 15 meters, and the flight speed can reach 650 kilometers per hour."

Hehe, why are your Maozi's brains so big, Gu Li complained secretly.

Alexey continued: "The improved version of the Brontosaurus ground effect ship can be used as a ground strike group, and it can be hidden underwater, even if the opponent has artillery radar, it will take a few minutes to launch rocket artillery and missile encirclement after locking. ”

"And the modified Thunderdragon ground effect ship can quickly fly away from the place with one shot, and at a speed of 650 kilometers per hour, it can move more than ten kilometers in two or three minutes, plus the ultra-low-altitude flight radar cannot be locked, and the survival rate of the battlefield will rise sharply."

Gu Li thought to himself, fortunately, the production cost of many materials in Homo sapiens is very low, otherwise according to the crazy design of your gang of big heads, the ordinary forces would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

A gunboat like the Brontosaurus No. 1 has various stealth designs, and can even be covered with an optical camouflage layer so that satellites can't see it.

After the use of extended-range shells, even 150 mm caliber shells can reach a range of 60~70 km.

Of course, the Brontosaurus Ground Effect Ship can not only be used as a self-propelled gun, but can also be transformed into a carrier platform for rocket artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and missiles.

The main reason why missile vehicles are not used is that the speed of the vehicles is too slow, and in the face of modern artillery radars and early warning aircraft, the survival rate on the battlefield is too low.

Moreover, in the area under the control of the Assam Division, there are only a few roads, the targets are too obvious, and the road conditions are still very poor.

Therefore, some of the bases before the Assam division were thinking about how to solve this problem.

Alexei, who came from Lucia, had worked at the Caspian Shipyard before, and he had seen the Caspian Sea Monster, a large ground effect ship, so he proposed a ground effect ship plan.

Brontosaurus No. 1 is one of his experiments.

Thanks to the abundant technical reserves of Homo sapiens, Alexei's Brontosaurus ground effect ship went very smoothly.

For example, the problems of low-altitude flight control, ground obstacle avoidance, mountainous terrain, high energy consumption of engines, and structural strength of hulls have all been solved.

This thing is a sharp weapon for the Assam Branch, which does not intend to live on the ground, has relatively complex terrain, and has a poor road foundation.

After all, this new type of ground effect ship can not need roads, and the mooring site does not need to be too demanding, and the water surface, swamp, grassland, and farmland can be moored.

Moreover, it can be used as a platform for a variety of weapons, moving faster than helicopter gunships, and can fly at ultra-low altitudes.

Unless the Tianzhu people use early warning aircraft to hover around 24 hours a day, there is really no way to take the Thunder Dragon ground effect ship.

Coulee even considered customizing a batch of Brontosaurus ground effect ships as transport ships, which could quickly move field troops.

A question suddenly came to his mind: "Engineer Alexey, what is the range of the Thunder Dragon Ground Effect Ship?" ”

Alexei thought for a while: "The Brontosaurus No. 1 is about 5,000 kilometers, and the improved version of the Brontosaurus ground effect ship is about 2,000 kilometers." ”

"2000 km? Enough, if it is transformed into a troop carrier, it can carry about 30 people! ”

Alexei raised his eyebrows: "Troop carriers? If you remove the heavy equipment and switch to a 30mm cannon, you can really take 30 heavily armed soldiers. ”

"Then what if you use Brontolong One as a base?"

"Brontosaurus One? That could transport 200 heavily armed soldiers. ”

Gu Li touched the stubble on his chin: "Can you let the ground effect ship attack in flight?" ”

"Huh? General Gulee thinks the same way I do, and I'm going to work on this puzzle next. Alexey said happily.

The reason why the self-propelled guns of the ground effect ship had to stop firing was because of the recoil; Rocket artillery and missiles, etc., are due to the sudden reduction in weight, which is easy to cause flight control.

In fact, with Homo sapiens' biochips and smart technology, it is still possible to improve this aspect of the problem.

The two talked for more than half an hour, and finally Guli agreed to apply for special resources for Alexei's Thunder Dragon ground effect ship project.

Guli has planned to apply to the branch to manufacture 200~300 small Brontosaurus ground effect ships and 50 large Brontosaurus ground effect ships.

As for the manufacturing base, it certainly cannot be placed in the Siliguri corridor, or even in the Darjeeling area.

Only in the more closed Zhu domain and Manipur are suitable for the manufacturing base of ground effect ships.

After watching the performance battle of Thunder Dragon One.

Gu Li said goodbye to the base chief python and engineer Alexei, and secretly went to the Darjeeling base with his subordinates.

In the past few days, the Assam Division and Tianzhu have not been calm, but have been maintaining battles, especially in air combat, which are basically fought every day.

However, in the air battle, it was basically the Assam division that had the advantage.

The main thing is the superiority of the magnetic field radar, as well as the harassment of swarms of UAVs.

Even if it is a Phantom fighter, in the face of hundreds of drones, it will not be able to get any benefits.

It was the second half of the night after the artillery battle.

The retaliation of the Tianzhu Air Force came.

Three Mirage fighters, plus five MiG-25s pulled out of the mothballed warehouse, quickly approached the Siliguri corridor.

At the very moment when these planes took off.

The magnetic field radar at the Darjeeling base immediately locked on to the location of the aircraft.

Then three small airfields hidden in the mountains quickly opened the gates, and 60 fixed-wing drones equipped with rocket engines quickly took off.

This is not so much an airplane, but a cruise missile.

The drone flying close to the ground was not detected by the radar of the Tianzhu Air Force at all.

At the moment when the planes of the two sides met over the city of Siliguri, the drone showed a hideous face.

The rocket engine exploded in full force in an instant, and the speed soared to Mach 2.5 at once.

A Mirage fighter didn't have time to react, and was hit by three drones from three sides.

"Damn!" The pilot pressed the cannon button in horror, and the cannon opened fire fiercely on the drone rushing forward.

However, he was too naïve.

The drone exploded directly on its own, and a large number of steel needles were sprayed in all directions like scattered flowers of a goddess.

Desperate pilots can only pull the ejection seat.

It's just that his body was pierced by several steel needles, and the severe pain made him directly unconscious, and then smashed to the ground.

Other planes hurriedly pulled up, during which two more MiG-25s were spelled out by more than a dozen UAVs.

The two sides fought for more than ten minutes, and in the end only two MiG-25s and two Mirage fighters retreated safely.

In the face of this kind of drone raid, the Tianzhu Air Force is very weak, mainly because the UAV is not afraid of death at all, low-cost UAVs and expensive fighters fight hard, even if it is 10 for 1, the fighter side is at a loss.

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