8:20 a.m., Pokhara Air Base.

At this time, there was a squadron of FC-16 "Tiger Eagle Eagle" fighters performing a warning mission over the airport, and at a height of 20,000 meters, it was an "Observer" early warning airship.

The airport's tarmac was already full of planes ready to take off, and the first row ready to take off was the BC-2 SAINT ANGELO medium bomber, which is also the largest bomber in service with the Nepal Air Force. This export model is a multi-role heavy fighter-bomber, which can be used to drop rocket-boosted torpedoes against ships, can also be mounted on gliding bombs or cluster bombs to the ground, and can also be equipped with radar for use as a night fighter.

It should be mentioned that since July 1935, when the last J-3 "Wood Owl" dive attack aircraft (prototype Stukka) was retired from the Armenian Air Force, the Navy and Air Force of the People's Revolutionary Union had completely abolished the dive bomber system, and there were no full-time torpedo planes.

If the navy and air force of the People's Revolutionary Union countries want to carry out ship bombing missions, they will use remote control bombs or heavy remote control rockets from a distance, and if they are afraid of interference, there are also wire-controlled modules to choose from. Even if you want to carry out lightning strikes, the airdropped sound-guided torpedo can be attached to the glide kit, there are remote control and uncontrolled options, and it can be thrown from a very high and long distance, without the need to fly low and get close to the enemy ship like a traditional torpedo machine. In short, the new tactic is to never get close to enemy ships.

BC-2 is also out of this tactical idea of the development of export models, this product produced by Shangfei is a typical twin-engine heavy fighter, the appearance is decent, conventional layout, twin-engine straight low-wing configuration, relatively close to the later Argentine Pukara attack aircraft, but the fuselage is larger and fatter, and it is a two-seater side by side, which can basically be regarded as a modified version of the "Pukara".

Of course, its engine is much more powerful than that of the "Pucara", which uses the Turbomeca-Asta XVIG turboprop engine, with a single power of only 978 shaft horsepower. The BC-2 uses the WJ-2B turboprop engine, which has a power of 2,200 kW (2,950 hp) each!

"SAINT ANGELO" has a strong fuselage and wings, an empty weight of 8 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 19 tons, and is fixed with a 30 mm cannon in the nose, two 20 mm cannons in the wing roots, and a 20 mm cannon in the tail. The nose of the aircraft is equipped with an air refueling pipe, and a parabolic antenna radar is installed in the nose of the night combat type. It can carry up to 7 tons of weapons, and its bomb bay and numerous hardpoints can carry up to 7 tons of weapons to fly 3,000 kilometers, or the entire load is used to carry fuel and external fuel tanks to fly up to 6,400 kilometers.

In interception missions or night combat anti-aircraft configurations, with a take-off weight of 14 tons, its high-altitude level flight speed can exceed 740 kilometers per hour, which is already faster than most piston single-engine fighters, and the action is quite flexible, if it is completely worthy of the foundation of fighter-bombers, this is due to the two turboprop engines with a total output of 6,000 horsepower. This is an example of a miracle that can be performed vigorously.

Like the FAC-1 type "Bomb Falcon", this medium bomber was characterized by its inexpensiveness. The internal price of the standard version of the People's Revolution League is only 280,000 units, according to European and American standards, this is already a heavy bomber, and the bomb load of the Yankees' B-19 (not the original time and space) is about the same as it, but the unit price is equivalent to 660,000 Chinese yuan. This is the cost reduction brought about by technological advancement.

Although Nepal's current economic level is far higher than that before the revolution, it is still only a small country, and it cannot compare with Japan, Turkey, Belarus, Chile, and Persia in the People's Revolutionary Union, and they cannot jet all their fighter planes. Therefore, turboprop aircraft have become their best choice, anyway, attack aircraft and bombers do not have high speed requirements, as long as there are jet fighters to seize air supremacy.

Moreover, Nepal's imaginary enemy is the Indian countries in the south, and these countries do not even have jet types except for one Judea, such as their biggest imaginary enemy, Marat, whose homes are all piston electric fans, and most of them are old goods eliminated by opium cattle. What kind of fire-breathing, hurricanes, mosquitoes and the like, these goods can't even catch up with the bombardment of "SAINT ANGELO", and they can't win. Not to mention putting it right with a professional fighter like the "Tiger Head Sea Eagle".

It is important to know that the efficiency and performance of a piston engine is far inferior to that of a turboprop engine, and the weight of a piston engine may be as much as two or even three times that of a turboprop under the same power conditions. For example, the 2,500 horsepower twin wasp engine used in the original American P-47 fighter weighed more than 1 ton, and the 1,400 horsepower Merlin engine used in the P-51 weighed 760 kilograms. The 2,200 kW (2,950 hp) WJ-2B turboprop weighed only 400 kg.

Coupled with the extensive use of new materials such as iron-aluminum alloy, magnesium-sodium alloy and foam metal, the weight of Chinese aircraft has been greatly reduced, but the structure and pylon-bearing capacity are rising, coupled with excellent aerodynamic design. Under the condition of the same power of the engine, both range, speed and payload capacity have increased significantly.

Another key advantage of turboprop aircraft over piston aircraft is the cost of use, piston engines need to use high-octane aviation gasoline, while turboprop engines only need to use aviation kerosene. Aviation gasoline is difficult to refine, and the price is about three times that of aviation kerosene, so the cost of using turboprop engines is much lower than that of piston types.

Of course, Nepal's air force does not need to think about anti-ship, at least not yet, their aircraft are all ground attacks.

"Buzzing ......" In the roar of the engines, one BC-2 "SAINT ANGELO" after another took off.

"50, 2 brigades......" Captain Sharma counted the Angelos that took off.

"It's our turn, ready to take off......" At this time, the voice of the captain came from the headphones.

Sharma is playing with an apple in his hand. The apple is encapsulated in a transparent plastic coat that looks like a handicraft, which is also a preservation method invented by the Chinese logistics department, a plastic box filled with nitrogen, which can be used to preserve the apple for more than a year. Sharma took Apple's plastic coat apart, took a bite, and put it in the glove compartment next to it, where he would take another bite after takeoff, then before and after landing, which was their Third Wing's approach. They firmly believe that doing so will bring them good luck.

In terms of how to eat apples, almost every wing has its own set, some wings eat all before getting on the plane, some eat half on the ground, and then eat half in the sky, and there are too many tricks to count. As for the ingredients, there are even more, and the flying wings on the Belarusian side have the habit of sprinkling salt or eating them with vodka. On the Afghan side, it's served with milk. Anyway, the matter of "eating apples" has developed to the point that Lin Shenhe, the initiator, is completely unrecognizable.

The lights on the conning tower were lit, and the ground crew raised a small flag that said "it can take off".

The four-bladed propeller of the "Buzz ......" rotated rapidly, Sharma pulled the lever, released the brakes, and the FAC-1 "Bomb Falcon" drove lightly towards the runway. After adjusting its direction slightly, the Bomb Falcon began to accelerate, and after sliding to a distance of more than 600 meters, the fully loaded fighter plane left the ground.

More and more fighters took off, and the SAINT ANGELO that took off in front had already completed the formation and flew south. Twenty minutes later, 80 Bomb Falcon of 2 brigades also completed the aerial grouping, following behind the SAINT ANGELO.

At the same time, warplanes are taking off from more than a dozen military airfields in Nepal. These warplanes continued to converge, eventually forming two huge air clusters.

By 9 o'clock, more than 600 fighters of the Nepal Air Force had gathered into two air strike groups, east and west, and had already crossed the border.

The Marat government had already informed the troops to prepare after receiving the ultimatum, and now that so many planes were coming, their radars had already detected them. In recent years, radar is not unusual, almost all countries have it, and it is nothing more than a matter of performance. The radar of the Marat army is naturally British, and although the radar given to them by the British is old, such a large group of aircraft can still be detected.

Such a large fleet of aircraft frightened the bigwigs of Marat, although they had long known that this neighbor with a bad relationship had been vigorously developing the Air Force, but it was one thing to know it, and it was another thing to see the other party pull out all their belongings.

"Damn, those Nepalese buns have so many planes!" said Marat Air Force Commander Yadav. "That's more than our planes!"

The Marat Air Force is already slightly inferior to Nepal, and now it is divided into several factions in internal strife, and Yadav has less than 200 planes in his hands, how to do it?

It has also been Nepal's policy to vigorously develop the air force, because their numbers are far inferior to those of the imaginary enemy Marat, and the terrain is complex, and if Nepal is to maintain a sufficient army, the numbers are too large for Nepal. Therefore, they vigorously developed the air force, the air force is almost not limited by the terrain, the mobility is much stronger than the army, and if there is a problem, it can rush to support as soon as possible. Nepal's current army building ideology is to focus on the air force, and the army is only defensive.

Yadav hastened to order all fighters to take off to meet the enemy, and the Marat Air Force hastened to take off its own fighters.

For a time, several airports in Marat were busy with the rhythm of chaos peculiar to Indians. Spitfires and Hurricanes took off one after another, mixed with a small number of vampire fighters.

At 9:20 a.m., both groups spotted each other.

"Hmph, a bunch of obsolete goods!" said the commander of the Nepalese Air Force, who was personally sitting on the AWACS plane and commanding, disdainfully: "Half of the Steller's Sea Eagle will be divided to deal with them, and the rest of the fleet will continue to advance according to the plan!"