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Chapter 238 Brother, your drone smells so good
Lubion 5, Midcontinent.

113 degrees east longitude, 22 degrees north latitude, 18000 meters in the air.

A drone with a wingspan of 40 meters and a fused wing-body layout is flying across the sky in a stable and elegant manner.

It has omnidirectional broadband stealth capabilities, and it seems to be an uninhabited land in the sky above this continent.

But even so, before approaching an area marked red on the navigation map, this stealth reconnaissance drone began to slightly adjust its attitude and turn, and did not directly conduct the penetrating reconnaissance it is best at.

Judging from the route, it almost slides along the edge of the red-marked area.

Its wingtips pulled out two undetectable vortices, and the fuselage tilted slightly to the left, exposing the low-visibility painted 'belly'.

The optical/infrared composite reconnaissance unit hidden in the optical window on the belly of the aircraft immediately began regular photography work.

At the same time, the electronic intelligence reconnaissance system (ELINT) installed in the aircraft was also activated and began to detect whether there were suspicious electromagnetic signals within the range.

Whenever ELINT collects suspicious radio frequency signals from the ground, the Ground Moving Target Detection (GMTI) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) also start operating to see if there are suspicious units in the target area.

Not far from the holographic projection platform, a group of people wearing various combat uniforms and regular uniforms were looking forward to this place like a pack of hyenas.

"To be honest, I never thought I would see a group of hyenas in the terminal. I originally thought they only existed on Blue Star and were extinct long ago."

The remnants of the planetary defense force and the liaison officers from various companies who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed over as if they saw the canteen opening.

In the terminal building that has been arranged as a field command post, Amber and a group of staff members are in front of a huge holographic projection platform, watching the intelligence sent back in advance by the drone after entering the safe airspace.

When it finally drew a huge arc in the air and completed a 180-degree turn, flying towards the rear airport, the onboard computer also began to organize the just detected information to facilitate subsequent preliminary analysis by intelligence personnel and combat staff. .

Since the instruction received by the airborne AI before takeoff was to conduct a forward reconnaissance to 'ensure its own absolute safety', the airborne AI ultimately adopted a conservative strategy.

Soon, with the help of Lilith, Amber and her staff compiled the data returned by the RQ220 'Observer' stealth drone and formed a piece of useful intelligence.

The Atlas staff around him couldn't help lowering their voices and laughing when they heard this.

Seeing these liaison officers who were "hungry" and "waiting for food" in front of them, Amber "tsk" angrily, and then used the terminal's "face-to-face group sending" function to send out the information.

Under the fully automatic control of the onboard AI, the 'Big Bat' accurately stopped at the berth, turned off the engine, and was quickly towed into the hangar by a tractor.

Half an hour later, the huge 'Bat' landed at a civilian airport, which is also where the First Battle Group Joint Command Center is located.

Several ground crew members wearing combat uniforms and with Atlas armbands on their right arms immediately gathered around with various instruments and ground pipelines and began to perform post-landing maintenance.

During this period, the stealth 'Big Bat' successively discovered several very suspicious targets.

This scene looked like there was an invisible force field in front of Amber.

However, after the judgment of the airborne AI, it was believed that it might be a false target specially set up to lure the drone to perform more accurate active detection.

If there weren't several heavily armed Roma infantry standing in front of them, staring at them with murderous eyes, these 'hyenas' might have pounced on them long ago.

After he straightened his back and stretched, he sent a signal over the internal communication channel, and the Roma infantrymen in the distance immediately retreated to both sides.

It only recorded the approximate coordinates of the suspicious target, but did not turn on the radar for a more detailed search.

During the entire process, the stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft remained silent and did not make any contact with the operator behind it. Instead, it flew along the predetermined route under the control of the onboard navigation AI.

When they were about to rush to Amber's side, they all remembered the scene where the twenty or so of them were all knocked down by Amber's psychic shock last time, so they immediately stopped.

Amber stared at the holographic projection platform in front of her and said in a teasing tone.

Although all coalition units have popularized military networks and data links, they are all developed based on the federal 'Link77' data link and command and control system.

However, various companies still have many differences in system details and interface rules. Some companies' API interface rules are extremely complicated, which makes the technical officers of each company miserable.

Therefore, even if the network is completed, the troops between various companies can only complete basic communications and on-site coordinated command operations.

Things like intelligence, information distribution, and sharing of map and terrain data are temporarily out of the question.

These relatively important information cannot be shared casually by 'creating a group'.

Therefore, things like sharing intelligence can only be distributed after face-to-face identification of respective keys.

"Did you receive everything?"

"Received! Received! Thank you, Boss Ray Bill!"

"Fortunately, I have you!"

"Boss Ray Bill, your drone is really delicious!"

The liaison officers who received the document were all smiling and nodded and bowed to Amber and the staff beside him.

Although the on-site commanders of their respective companies currently seem to look down on Atlas.

But as the people who have had the most contact with Atlas in the past few days, these liaison officers have a different view of Atlas than their superiors.

Not only the company's top leaders went directly to the front line to fight with their combatants. Moreover, Atlas' combat troops are the most prepared among all coalition forces in terms of combat preparation.

Although there is a lack of support and support troops, in other aspects-especially in terms of tactical reconnaissance, it can almost be said that the coalition forces are defeated.

In the past few days when the coalition forces were preparing for the offensive, the large-scale reconnaissance on the frontier was almost entirely accomplished with the help of two Atlas RQ220 'Observer' stealth drones flying in high-intensity shifts.
The cause of this incident must start after the coalition command headquarters held its first combat meeting.

At that time, the top leaders of the coalition believed that all their own satellites were in orbit. Although the number was not as high as before, there were still satellites in the sky anyway.

Therefore, the coalition command quickly mobilized two reconnaissance satellites to conduct reconnaissance on the offensive direction of the first battle group.

As a result, when the high-resolution radar images generated by the synthetic aperture radar on the reconnaissance satellite were transmitted back, the coalition commanders were dumbfounded.

The Imperial remnants obviously knew that the coalition would conduct reconnaissance via satellite.

After using a professional orbital surveillance vehicle to find out the approximate overhead time of the coalition reconnaissance satellite, they used ground electronic warfare jamming equipment to interfere with the satellite's synthetic aperture radar.

The results are naturally very effective.

After all, although synthetic aperture radar can produce high-resolution radar imaging comparable to optical satellite reconnaissance, it is still essentially a radar.

This also leads to the fact that as long as the jammer is powerful enough, synthetic aperture radar will be blinded in space.

Although this method of interference also let the coalition forces know that there must be imperial troops in this disturbed area.

However, without knowing their quantity, organization, or specific location, it is impossible to conduct an orbital strike.

This is a material world, and orbital strikes are not 'magic' that can fall down by pressing a button with your finger.

As long as there is no combat control team coming forward to provide close guidance.

Without even relatively accurate coordinates, it would be useless if you ask the orbital attack ship to lower its orbit to attack.

Moreover, such a large area is obviously not within the range that the eight orbital attack ships in orbit can 'cleanse'.

Of course, throwing a few thermonuclear weapons would definitely solve the problem.

But any normal person would not do this.

Then, in Amber's opinion, the senior coalition forces, who had been fooled by the security war, came up with a 'genius' idea.

When this idea is converted into instructions, it is officially executed on the first day.

Two high-speed manned reconnaissance aircraft, one of the few remaining on this planet, took off from the airport early in the morning and never came back.

In their last communications before losing contact, they all reported being detected by ground radar, and then being illuminated by high-energy lasers while cruising at supersonic speeds.

This high-speed two-seater manned reconnaissance aircraft can fly through a war zone for forced reconnaissance at a speed of Mach 5. There are only three squadrons deployed on this planet.

Usually, it is mainly used to quickly reach the abnormal area and conduct close-range investigation when emergencies occur.

Although in normal times, they are invincible when facing mobs or armed rebellions on the planet.

Many times, people on the ground can only hear the blast that breaks the sound barrier, and can't even see the shadow of these high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.

It's a pity that the opponent has now become the regular army of the empire.

'Everyone is equal before the speed of light'.

In this era of directed energy weapons flying all over the sky, the survival rate of air units in the atmosphere is somewhat unsightly.

After losing valuable reconnaissance aircraft and pilots, the coalition command also gave up its plan to continue sending high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.

Instead, high-altitude, low-speed, long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance aircraft were dispatched many times for reconnaissance.

But basically it's all about meat buns beating dogs - there is no return.

High-energy lasers and HCP's charged particle cannon can be said to be able to hit such high-altitude and slow-moving targets.

Moreover, the remnants of the Empire on Rubion 5 are obviously well prepared in this regard. They have done a good job in air surveillance, and high-altitude drones without stealth capabilities can be easily discovered.

Although there are quite a few drones from various companies and garrison forces on the coalition side, it is still a bit overwhelming to be photographed like mosquitoes every day.

Seeing that each company's inventory of reconnaissance drones has basically bottomed out, the coalition command no longer dares to send out drones to kill people.

But we are about to prepare for a full-scale attack, and it is impossible not to conduct combat reconnaissance. We cannot let the troops stare at the "fog of war" ahead and force the attack.
It was at this time that Amber and Atlas stepped forward with RQ220.

Because Amber has always been a person who pays attention to "being prepared", and has always paid attention to this aspect after suffering the disadvantage of insufficient investigation methods on the Robert 4.

So this time when I brought my troops to Lubion 5, I specially brought two ordered stealth drones.

The purpose is to find ways to maintain frontline reconnaissance under high-risk and high-pressure situations.

(End of this chapter)