The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

Chapter 482 Multiple Defenses, Sun and Moon in the Sky (4k)

While Zhao Qing was thinking about something, under the dark sky, the Typhoon fighter formation dispersed quietly like silent hunters. Then, the belly of each fighter suddenly lit up, and one after another, flames broke free from their restraints and cut through the silent sky.

These are AIM-54 "Phoenix" long-range air-to-air missiles. They are like silver ghosts, roaring with death, rushing towards Zhao Qing who is floating in the air far away.

The missile clusters were flying like fireflies in the sky, and their tail flames turned the sky into a fiery red.

They drew fiery red arcs in the night sky, like blooming fireworks, beautiful and deadly, constantly interweaving and entangled with each other in the air, as if weaving a web of death.

The center of the net is exactly where Zhao Qing is.

However, just as the net was about to tighten and swallow her, something strange happened. On the radar screen, Zhao Qing's figure suddenly disappeared, as if blending into the darkness.

As the lock boxes on the main screen flashed and prompted, the commander of the fighter formation anxiously adjusted the radar detection system and requested data support from the ground base, trying to re-lock the target, but all efforts seemed in vain.

As one of the most powerful heavy air-to-air missiles in service, they were originally designed through precise calculations and trajectory adjustments, with the intention of passing through a spherical area with a radius of less than ten meters in half a second at a maximum speed of Mach 4.5, completing an extremely sophisticated encirclement.

This is a perfect attack formation that can concentrate the power of all missiles in a short period of time and achieve the most deadly blow to high-intensity individual units. According to the assessment of relevant personnel of the Temple, it can at least pose a considerable threat to Zhao Qing.

But at this moment, the "Phoenixes" suddenly lost their target and could only continue flying by inertia, but could not find the enemy that should be destroyed.

In order not to waste firepower, some missiles were forcibly detonated and exploded in the air, forming huge fireballs. The fireballs spread rapidly, igniting the surrounding air, as if the entire sky was burning.

The ring-shaped steel rods that burst out drew dazzling rays of light in the night sky, and their killing radius was about 15 meters. These steel rods connected by chains overlapped to form rapidly expanding concentric circles, covering everything around them.

The 60kg warhead of each missile is equivalent to the power of 10 152mm grenades, which is enough to tear apart or even cut a large bomber into pieces. With the superposition of multiple missiles, the power can obviously rise to a new level.

However, all these attacks failed. Zhao Qing's figure had already disappeared in the night sky, as if he had never appeared. The explosion of the missiles continued to spread and echo, forming a series of deafening roars.

The other part of the missiles that were converted into armor-piercing warheads did not explode because they did not have a large-scale killing effect, and fell obliquely into the distance. Their tail flames drew long arcs in the night sky, and disappeared into the darkness with endless regret and unwillingness.

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Almost at the same time, a wave of energy slowly spread out, like ink smudges on rice paper. Zhao Qing looked calm and his figure reappeared thousands of meters away.

It turned out that she had deliberately kept a trick up her sleeve. She carefully sensed and observed the main band ranges of the enemy aircraft and missile fire control radars, then made subtle adjustments to the aura field around her, officially entering a low-speed "invisible" state, and also created a fake target on the spot to act as bait.

The reason why it is mentioned as "slow speed" is because it is difficult to achieve both stealth and high speed for a flying unit. The higher the speed, the more difficult it is to be "stealth". After all, the shock waves and heat generated by supersonic movement are quite conspicuous in the infrared band.

Basically, when the critical speed of the thermal barrier appears, which is generally above Mach 2.5 to 3, it is no longer possible to achieve the "invisibility" effect. Even if Zhao Qing's area is very small, it is difficult to overcome this.

However, considering that the friction of the Gangqi field is extremely small, it can be cooled by icy true qi, and that "invisibility" is relative, the limitations are not obvious. In theory, it can be maintained by increasing consumption, but in most cases, the gain outweighs the loss, and there is no need to do so.

After all, with her own vision, if there is no obstruction, it is enough to observe the whereabouts of enemy aircraft with the naked eye from hundreds of kilometers away, without the need for radar at all. The stealth of several generations of aircraft is completely ineffective. Assuming that the enemy is also an opponent of the same level, then "stealth" is basically difficult to be effective.

If you are dealing with a low-level target, there is no need to rush. Just fight at a normal pace.

Zhao Qingling was seen flying in the air, with the cold wind from high altitude brushing the corners of her clothes. She stretched out her ten fingers and plucked the strings as if plucking the silk strings in the air, playing an invisible song. Every tiny movement pulled the sword-shield-shaped dragon scales that were accelerating more than ten kilometers away.

Each of them is shield-shaped, with patterns like tree rings, and the front is as sharp as a sword, emitting a faint cold light. They shuttle through the air at high speed, piercing through the air obstacles and rushing towards the circling Typhoon fighter.

Under her precise control, the flight trajectory of each dragon scale presented a beautiful geometric pattern that was much more complex than that of the phoenix, as if drawing a series of mysterious runes in the sky, and moving faster and faster, completing another grand encirclement.

It is like hundreds of miniature missiles that are constantly accelerating at the end, reflecting the true meaning of simulating all things and evolving all phenomena. Due to the natural energy absorption of dragon scales, the frictional heat generation effect is relatively weak. In addition, its size is only equivalent to a 12.7mm bullet, making it quite concealed.

Those fighter planes did not detect the enemy. Although they made a series of evasive and defensive moves vigilantly because of the Phoenix's shooting into the air, with Zhao Qing's vision, he could easily see through the pattern of their actions and thus could more accurately predict and lock on the changing positions of each target.

Until the dragon scales penetrated within a distance of two or three thousand meters, hundreds of light spots suddenly appeared on the radar screens of the fleet. The alarm sounded sharp and piercing, making people's heart palpitate, echoing in the ears of every fighter pilot, like the call of the god of death.

The squadron leader was extremely shocked, with a gleam of disbelief in his eyes. He widened his eyes, almost suspecting that the scene before him was caused by a malfunction of the radar system.

How could there be so many missiles? Each Typhoon was targeted by more than ten missiles? This is simply unbelievable!

However, the reality was cruelly placed before him. Hundreds of dragon-scale flying swords filled with true energy were like dense arrows, pointing directly at the heart of the fleet.

At this critical moment, the squadron leader knew that it was too late for the fleet to make any effective evasive action and could only launch air-to-air defense missiles urgently. He decisively pressed the launch button, and dozens of flying saucer-shaped missiles were immediately fired.

This is the Pye Wacket missile developed by the U.S. Army for the XB-1957 Valkyrie supersonic bomber between 1961 and 70. It uses a double-convex lens-shaped flying saucer aerodynamic shape. After the project was cancelled, it was studied by a secret organization. It uses six solid-fuel rocket engines for attitude control and propulsion, has the best aerodynamic characteristics at extremely high angles of attack, and theoretically has an ideal mass distribution, which gives the missile excellent terminal agility and can be launched from an aircraft in any direction.

In the M Army's original conception, the missile was expected to be able to reach a speed of Mach 7, withstand an acceleration of 60g-250g, receive terminal guidance in the air, and turn in any direction. After more than 50 years of technological progress, its various indicators have been improved by at least %.

Of course, this was achieved at the expense of a significant range, and the cost was also extremely high. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to have such a huge gap with other air-to-air missiles of the same era.

Today, the outrageous data of 12 Mach and 360g overload make this lens-shaped air-to-air defense missile a magic weapon for penetrating hypersonic targets. Although the amount of explosives is not large, it is not a problem to blow away the attacking dragon scales and cut off Zhao Qing's remote control.

But the only trouble was that they were facing a saturation attack from hundreds of dragon scales, while their own numbers were quite limited - at least in the extremely short period of time after they reacted, they were unable to launch a second round of Pye Wackets and could only cover the air defense of part of the area.

The missiles streaked across the night sky like meteors, rapidly flying towards the approaching light spots. They burst into dazzling sparks in the air and successfully intercepted some of the dragon scale flying swords, but more dragon scales passed through this line of defense like ghosts and continued to rush towards the group of fighter planes.

Seeing that the fleet was about to fall into despair, the squadron leader made a difficult decision - to sacrifice the pawns to save the king. He planned to let several Typhoon fighters block the fleet, and the B52 arsenal aircraft in the middle would launch a new "Nuclear Falcon" missile in an attempt to destroy the remaining Flying Swords.

The so-called "Nuclear Falcon" refers to the AIM-26A "Nuclear Falcon" air-to-air missile, whose warhead is a W54 nuclear warhead with an equivalent of 250 tons of TNT and a range of only 8 kilometers.

This low-power nuclear missile explodes at high altitude and will not kill the people below. It seems quite safe, but after all, it has a power thousands of times that of a conventional air-to-air missile, which is enough for fighter jets to easily kill opponents across generations and even destroy large fleets of aircraft.

It was originally one of the trump cards used by this army to deal with Zhao Qing, but in such an urgent moment when the whole army was about to be wiped out in an instant, it was naturally launched. In order to avoid being damaged and ineffective by the dragon scales in advance, it exploded on the spot after flying only two or three hundred meters.

The blazing nuclear fireball expanded instantly, like a blooming red flower, dyeing the surrounding sky crimson. The fireball engulfed the nearest Typhoon fighter, completely vaporizing it without leaving any trace.

The pilots who witnessed this scene were instantly blinded by the strong light, and their eyes were all white and they could not see anything clearly. Under the huge amount of heat radiation, the aluminum alloy skin of the fighter planes a little further away quickly caught fire and burned, and the fuel tanks also exploded due to the high temperature.

The shock wave spread in all directions at an alarming speed, and the raging wind blew the Typhoon fighters to the point of being on the verge of collapse. The rising heat convection gradually formed a huge mushroom cloud, which was like a huge black monster, swallowing up everything around it.

The electromagnetic pulse released by the nuclear explosion caused the radar systems of the fighter groups to fail and communications to be interrupted. The groups lost contact with each other and became isolated and helpless. The originally tight formation became fragmented in an instant, and the fighters flew around in the air like headless flies.

Some of them fell into a tailspin and stalled in the chaos, while others were hit by the shattered remains of the dragon scales. Their fuselages were severely damaged and they were swaying in the air, emitting thick smoke and struggling to maintain flight. Only a few of them were still capable of fighting.

To make matters worse for the squadron, a large number of F-15s fully loaded with weapons had already entered the battlefield from another direction dozens of kilometers away. Following several rounds of AIM-120 salvos, they dispersed and circled around, encircling the rear of the formation.

Perhaps under the cover of residual electromagnetic interference, most of these missiles could not hit the target accurately and the hit rate was greatly reduced, but a group of heavy fighters that were unharmed were facing a group of chaotic and commandless medium fighters. Even if the latter's equipment seemed to be more advanced, they were undoubtedly at a great disadvantage and could not do anything.

Nuclear air-to-air missiles? Really that crazy? Bombing their own people so decisively, did they undergo some kind of brain control surgery?
Seeing this scene, Zhao Qing was slightly startled. The hundreds of silver dragon scales circling around him also floated up and down. Just as he was preparing for another round of volleys, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared in the sky. The moon was as bright as silver, more than ten times brighter than usual.

This is not a natural scene, but the secret party mobilized Russia's "Flag-3" artificial moon. The huge reflecting mirror of this space satellite accurately projected a huge light spot with a diameter of 4000 meters into the area where the typhoon group is located.

It is like a bright light, illuminating the night sky after the nuclear fireball has gone out, exposing everything in the darkness.

Under this strong light, the enemy aircraft's position is exposed and it loses its concealment, becoming an excellent target for interception and attack by our side.

At the same time, it also greatly enhances the situational awareness of our own pilots, allowing them to observe the situation on the battlefield more clearly and improve combat efficiency.

Especially in the current airspace environment with a lot of radar noise, both sides have basically lost their ability to fight beyond visual range and can only rely on the hybrids' vision of up to 6.0 to engage in traditional and fierce air combat and dogfights.

At this moment, the appearance of the "Flag-3" artificial moon is like specifically "eliminating the fog of battlefield", and its advantages are self-evident.

Knowing that the situation had reached a critical moment, several Typhoon fighters showed amazing tacit understanding without any command. They cooperated spontaneously and tightly surrounded the B-52 bomber in the center, providing it with solid protection.

The latter's bomb bay was opened to its maximum, but it did not drop bombs or launch missiles. Instead, a six or seven meter long dragon quickly emerged, covered with dark green scales, with a knight dressed as a pilot sitting on its back.

He waved the scepter in his hand vigorously, chanted dragon words, and released the Eye of the Wind King, which quickly generated small tornadoes in the nearby airspace. They swirled around the B-52 and Typhoon fighters and provided additional power to the fleet of his own aircraft passing nearby.

Then, the knight controlled the airflow and took out a rusty bronze bell from the bomb bay. The bell was the size of a basketball and was obviously an ancient Chinese artifact. He swung his scepter and hit the bell heavily. The rust on the bronze faded away immediately, and a strong elemental turbulence was stirred up.

Just as the missiles equipped by the fleet hide the Pye Wacket, the team's trump card is obviously not only the "Nuclear Falcon", but also the Dragon Knight and the bronze bell that is completely out of place in style - an ancient and powerful alchemical artifact found by the Temple from China.

For dragons or dragon riders, most modern weapons are merely auxiliary. Only the most powerful alchemical weapons can truly influence the outcome of a life-and-death battle.

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