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Gang Bian said: "Old Dou, now we have two routes to choose from. The first one is to start from Tucson, head east, cross the Caribbean Sea, cross the Atlantic Ocean, and finally reach the east coast of Africa. This route is a straight line. The distance is 8000 nautical miles, and if converted into kilometers, it is about 52 kilometers. Only a strategic bomber like the B-[-] can barely reach it at one time. For us, it is the closest route. The only problem is this This route will pass through the continental United States and northern Africa, and it will definitely be intercepted by the air forces of the United States and its allies along the way."

Chen Xin frowned: "What about the second line?"

"The route was much simpler on the second day. After we took off from the Monson base, we flew southeast across the South Pacific, Australia and the Indian Ocean. The United States has limited power in the southern hemisphere, so Australia can pose some threats to us. Others Neither the Japanese base nor Diego Garcia can reach us. The biggest difficulty of this route is the distance. The range is [-] kilometers, and there is no supply along the way. In any case, we must have a sufficient number of aerial tankers. .”

Chen Xin nodded. The distance is the biggest problem. The flight distance of fighter jets is only three to four thousand kilometers. If there are not enough bases for this kind of intercontinental flight, the only way to do so is to refuel in the air.Chen Xin thought about it for a moment, and said, "Give up on the second route. It is simply unrealistic for fighter jets to fly [-] kilometers at a time. Even a long-distance flight of [-] kilometers is enough for us to have a headache."

Such a long-distance raid has only been done by the United Kingdom in history.

During the Falklands War in the spring of 1982.The British Ministry of Defense proposed a package of combat plans, the craziest of which is to use the Royal Air Force's "Vulcan b2" to take off from Ascension Air Force Base, bomb the military airport in Port Stanley across a straight-line distance of 6300 kilometers, and then fly 6300 kilometers back. .

To say that it is crazy does not only refer to this unprecedented expedition of 12600 kilometers, but also refers to some insurmountable difficulties in engineering technology.

At that time, the Vulcan medium bomber of the British Air Force, which had been included in the NATO combat system, had the primary mission of carrying out nuclear attack missions in Europe. Under this guiding ideology, aerial refueling technology was generally considered redundant.

Once the combat plan was put forward, it meant that the "Vulcan" of the Royal Air Force was required to fly 6300 kilometers under aerial refueling, and of course it had to fly the same distance back the same way.

For the Vulcan bomber, which has a combat radius of only 2700 kilometers, this is completely rushing the ducks to the shelves.

In order to meet the ultra-long bombing distance, in "Operation Black Hart".The RAF had to employ an extremely complex aerial refueling process.The "Victor" air tanker they equipped not only had to refuel the "Vulcan".It is also necessary to refuel for other "Victors". This alley-oop must ensure that one "Victor" meets the "Vulcan" at the designated navigation point and refuels for the last time before the "Vulcan" attacks.

After the "Vulcan" attacked, it was supported by 4 "Victors" tankers (another theory is 3 "Victors" and 1 "Hunter") to ensure the fuel for its return flight.

Although this alley-oop expedition has achieved very limited results.But I have to admire the courage of the Royal Air Force pilots and the ability of the engineers.

compared to the British Air Force.This operation planned by Chen Xin also has to consider aviation fuel reserves and interception problems encountered along the way.

Chen Xin thought for a while and said, "How many fighter jets meet our requirements?"

钢镚道：“根据我们潜伏在图森市的机器人发回的情报。目前戴维斯.蒙森空军基地中结构大致完好的第三代战斗机一共有300多架，其中f-14战斗机184架，早期的f-15战斗机65架。f-16战斗机83架。此外，他们还拥有kc-10空中加油机13架，kc-135空中加油机7架。”…

Naturally, Chen Xin didn't like second-generation machines like f4 and f5, but he was a little surprised by the number of third-generation machines.

You must know that even a second-rate military power like Israel and Japan has a combined number of three-generation fighter jets of about [-]. If this air force can be brought to Africa, Somalia will become one of the air powers in North Africa and the Middle East.

What's more, Chen Xin's favorite f-14 is among these third-generation aircraft.

Although the f-14 has been replaced by the f-18e/f super hornet, a new generation of carrier-based fighter of the U.S. Navy, due to the aging of the airframe structure, high maintenance costs, and poor combat effectiveness, no one can deny that this fighter The classic design and its powerful combat capability.

Especially its high-speed interception capability, and the long-range interception capability of the 'Phoenix' missile against enemy bombers are not available in the Hornet.

Although the thrust of the early engine was insufficient, it is still the air superiority fighter with the strongest air combat capability among variable-wing fighters (whether it is facing the former Soviet Union's Su-22, MiG-23 or the European Tornado fighter), it is facing its brother F15 Not at all down.

Chen Xin frowned and said: "The number of fighter jets is enough, but the number of air tankers is still a bit small. So many planes are dispatched at one time, and the interception of the United States and its allies must also be considered. How many of them can reach Moga smoothly in the end?" Disha, I have to say something more."

With flashing electronic eyes, Gang Zhu said, "Old Dou, this is easy to handle. There are still many scrapped C-5 Galaxy and C-130 transport aircraft in the aircraft cemetery. I can convert them into aerial refueling aircraft. In addition, the aircraft graveyard There are still a considerable number of Boeing airliners on the ground, although they have already been scrapped, but it is not a big problem to convert them into tankers. The big deal is to abandon these bulky tankers when encountering interception."

Chen Xin nodded and said, "That's a good idea. Oh, by the way, Gangbi, it's not a problem to control these planes."

The steel hammer chuckled twice and said, "It depends on Wall-E's ability."

"Wali?"

As soon as Wali heard that he was mentioned, he immediately raised his head, looked at Chen Xin with two huge electronic eyes, and said, "Master, don't worry, for the past few months, Boss Steel and I have been writing a reproducible artificial intelligence software. Although that software is not as good as mine in terms of IQ and EQ, it is out of the mentally handicapped category and has a good self-learning ability. In the past week, I have stuffed the aviation technology theory and air force tactics textbooks that have been developed in the human world for more than 100 years. I gave it to it, and now it has almost absorbed it, and then just copy and transplant it to the central computer of the aircraft. Let alone hundreds of aircraft, I can control even hundreds of thousands of aircraft.”