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Of course, this does not mean that this fighter plane is invulnerable - except for the red wings, other parts of the fighter plane are as fragile as ordinary aircraft. (It only takes a genius 3 seconds to memorize it.) If the control is not good and other parts of the fighter plane hit the flying dragon, then even if it does not turn into a ball of fire on the spot, it is likely to crash directly due to damage to the aircraft body. In other words, those who can play this kind of "air blade" must be legendary ace pilots like pixy.
From this perspective, Pixy¡¯s stunt essentially exposed a problem of the EPLA aviation force at this time (it was not an independent air force at the time) - a serious lack of suitable weapons. Air-to-air missiles like aim-120d and aim-9x, which were originally used to deal with fighter jets on earth, all use "soft" fragmentation warheads.
Such a warhead is very suitable for dealing with fighters. In theory, there is no problem in dealing with the relatively fragile dragons and griffins. However, to deal with the most threatening flying dragon, the lethality of this fragmentation warhead is completely insufficient. Therefore, the technical improvement of active air-to-air missiles has become the top priority for the current EPLA aviation force.
The currently available method is to change the warhead of the missile from a fragmentation type to a high-explosive type - more than 20 kilograms of t?n?t**, even if it cannot kill the flying dragon, it is enough to seriously injure it and force it to withdraw from the battle. . Of course, the later EPLA used the improved and famous aim-54 "Phoenix" air-to-air missile - such a missile can kill the flying dragon with one hit as long as it hits one.
Of course, the most important thing right now is to rescue the city of Cassandra, which is still burning.
Previously, Jiang Yucheng had rejected the proposal of the Jin Jiala trio to use new fireworks, and instead used the traditional magic fireworks most commonly used in Emerald festival celebrations. Now it seems that this order has had an unexpected effect¡ª¡ª
Since these "cold light magic fireworks" are actually based on ice magic, when faced with dragon fires that are difficult to put out directly with water, water magic must be used. These pre-reserved magic fireworks were unexpectedly used as fire extinguishing agents by the EPLA troops responsible for putting out the fire. Used it - and the results were fantastic.
In fact, epla¡¯s General Equipment Department was even inspired by this and specially developed an ice-based magic fire extinguishing agent, which was equipped for epla¡¯s main battle tanks and armored vehicles. In the protracted war that followed, this fire extinguishing agent saved countless EPLA armored soldiers. Of course, these are all things for later.
According to Jiang Yucheng's arrangement, the Miracle Compound was used as a temporary air raid shelter. During the air raid, the EPLA Army's air defense soldiers sacrificed their lives in exchange for allowing the residents of Cassandra to enter the Miracle Compound. hospital, time to hide from the god of death in the sky.
Since the Miracle Compound actually has a "subway" that can connect to the outside of the city, although her area is not very large, it still accommodates almost half of the residents of Cassandra - after all, the goal of the Imperial Royal Air Force is only to attract The nobles came out to fight, and the serfs and yeomans who left the city were of no value to them.
During this period, the so-called "devil tribe" who originally lived in the Miracle Compound, under the leadership of Black Cat and General Quasimodo, served as air defense volunteers in the compound, guiding the crowds to evacuate, and preparing for the evacuation of the entire city's residents. , made significant contributions.
Later, Jiang Yucheng, in the name of the chief of staff of the EPLA armed forces, awarded the "Cassandra Outstanding Contribution" gold medal to all the minority groups in the Miracle Compound who participated in the rescue. At the same time, after this incident, the prejudice that the majority of Cassandra citizens had against these "demon races" due to the empire's long-term propaganda disappeared like ice in the sun. ¡ª¡ªThis has invisibly relieved a lot of pressure on the propaganda department of Cassandra's new government (actually the demilitarized EPLA political department)
"it's all me"
Seeing that most of the prosperous and rich Cassandra was turned into ruins during the air raids, and seeing the hometown where she was born and raised turned into this tragic scene, Aria couldn't help but burst into tears.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Yucheng said nothing, but silently took the girl into his arms.
Aria lay in Jiang Yucheng¡¯s arms and cried loudly
"I will not avenge this revenge." Looking at the sky in the distance, Jiang Yucheng gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, "I swear not to be a human being!!!"
This time, the large-scale air raid on Cassandra by the Imperial Royal Air Force Sword Dragon Knights happened to occur on the last day of August, so it was called the "831" tragedy.
In this air strike, the dragon fire breathed out by the Imperial Dragon killed nearly 40,000 people and burned nearly 33 square kilometers - about a quarter of Cassandra's central business district was burned to the ground. , nearly 100,000 buildings were burned down, and more than 100,000 people were made homeless.
Due to his failure to protect the airspace of Emera, Shota Xiao, who was later appointed as the commander of Emera People's Liberation Army Air Force (eplaaf), has always been brooding about this - his emotions also affected everyone in eplaaf. officers and soldiers. Since then, eplaaf has regarded the Royal Air Force Dragon Force of the Osa Empire as its undying enemy.
Later, eplaaf Strategic Aviation Command obtained the first batch of truly intercontinental strategic bombing capabilities.
After the -52h "Stratofortress" strategic bomber, the first bombing target was the Rezas Peninsula, also known as "Dragon Island" and known as the "Cradle of the Dragon Knight". After paying the price of losing dozens of strategic bombers and hundreds of pilots killed, eplaaf finally leveled the entire peninsula and uprooted the Imperial Royal Air Force without using strategic nuclear warheads.
Of course, in Jiang Yucheng's view, these dragon knights who have nothing in their minds except the illusory "honor" are purely a group of second-raters - in fact, this air raid cannot be regarded as a strategic bombing in the true sense.
The reason is simple: various strategically important factories, mainly located on the outskirts of Cassandra, did not suffer much damage in the air raids. Therefore, Jiang Yucheng's original arms expansion plan will not be greatly affected by this air raid.
And, although the Duke Cassandra's Palace was almost completely destroyed, the underground vault was intact - the wealth accumulated by the Watson family over the past hundred years was still there. Although post-disaster reconstruction work requires a huge amount of money, the Watson family's strong foundation can still sustain it - after all, the monthly income from tea sales in enemy-occupied areas can already support an entire family. The main force is the army.
In fact, from a certain perspective, Jiang Yucheng had to thank this air raid - there were 55 flying dragons in total. Except for three that escaped, the rest were all shot down by Red Baron, Little Shota and Pixy. As a high-value unit, each flying dragon can provide 10,000 energy points. The total of 55 flying dragons is 550,000 points! Coupled with the income provided by the original mines, the current points are enough for Jiang Yucheng to unlock the first-level technology tree and activate the army's advanced weapons.
However, Jiang Yucheng did not choose to directly open the advanced army technology tree - because the adjutant of Onion Lady told him that he can now choose the same level technology tree: the same dividing line of 450,000 points, Jiang Yucheng can choose to continue to upgrade in place, Open the advanced technology tree of the Army, or you can choose to upgrade in parallel to open the primary technology tree of the Air Force.
For Jiang Yucheng, this "Air Force Junior Technology Tree" is no different from the rain in a long drought - the Air Force's junior technology tree includes various junior trainers using turboprop engines, turbojet or turbofan engines Advanced trainer aircraft - both trainer aircraft can mount a variety of ground attack weapons including JDAM.
Both aircraft can be used to train pilots and perform close air support missions - and due to their excellent low-speed performance, their combat effectiveness when performing cas missions is even better than multi-role fighters such as the F-15e , it is really a constant choice for home use.
In addition to these two types of aircraft, the Air Force's primary technology tree also includes the two weapons that Jiang Yucheng needs most now - large early warning radars and large theater air defense missiles.
The most critical reason why the Imperial Flying Dragon is able to wreak havoc in the sky of Cassandra is that EPLA's anti-aircraft weapons are too weak, and there is a lack of anti-aircraft weapons that can make the final decision and pose a threat to the flying dragon. Now, after unlocking the Air Force's primary technology tree, epla can deploy long-range and powerful long-range area air defense missiles around Cassandra to effectively protect Cassandra's sky.
Considering the need for future naval construction, Jiang Yucheng chose the United States in terms of theater air defense missiles
IM-161 "Standard-3" anti-aircraft missile. This type of air defense missile used to build the US anti-missile system can be used on land and sea, and has a range of up to 500km against high-altitude targets. The most critical thing is that, as a ballistic missile interceptor, it is a typical KKV (kinetic energy interceptor) bomb.
In other words, when it hits the target, it does not detonate when approaching the target like an ordinary air-to-air missile and use fragments to kill the target (because fragments are not effective against ballistic missiles), but kills with kinetic energy. , destroying the target by direct impact. Obviously, Feilong simply cannot withstand the impact of a kinetic energy warhead reaching the speed of m7.0. As long as one anti-aircraft missile battalion is deployed, it is enough to protect the entire Cassandra.