bestfiction Chapter 238 Brother, your drone smells so good
Chapter 238 Brother, your drone smells so good
Rubion V, Central Continent.
113 degrees east longitude, 22 degrees north latitude, 18,000 meters in the sky.
A drone with a wingspan of 40 meters and a wing-body fusion layout is crossing the sky in a stable and elegant posture.
With omnidirectional broadband stealth capability, it is like entering an unmanned area in the sky above this continent.
But even so, before approaching a red area on the navigation map, this stealth reconnaissance drone began to slightly adjust its attitude and turn, and did not directly carry out its best penetrating reconnaissance.
From the route, it almost slid along the edge of the red area.
Its wingtips pulled out two barely detectable vortices, and the fuselage tilted slightly to the left, revealing the "belly" with low-visibility paint.
The optical/infrared composite reconnaissance unit hidden in the optical window on the belly immediately began routine photography.
At the same time, the electronic intelligence reconnaissance system (ELINT) carried in the aircraft was also activated to start detecting whether there were any suspicious electromagnetic signals within the range.
Whenever ELINT collects suspicious radio frequency signals from the ground, the ground moving target detection function (GMTI) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) also start to operate to see if there are any suspicious units in the target area.
During this period, the stealth "big bat" discovered several very suspicious targets one after another.
But after the judgment of the onboard AI, it was considered that they might be false targets set up specifically to lure drones for more accurate active detection.
Because the instructions received by the onboard AI before takeoff were to conduct a frontier reconnaissance to "ensure its own absolute safety", the onboard AI finally adopted a conservative strategy.
It only recorded the approximate coordinates of the suspicious target and did not turn on the radar for a more detailed search.
During this whole process, the stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft remained silent and did not make any contact with the operator behind. Instead, it flew according to the predetermined route under the control of the onboard navigation AI.
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 information just detected, so that intelligence personnel and combat staff could conduct preliminary analysis later.
Half an hour later, the huge 'bat' landed at a civilian airport, where the joint command center of the first battle group is located.
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.
Several ground crew members wearing combat uniforms and Atlas armbands on their right arms immediately surrounded it with various instruments and ground pipelines, and began to carry out post-landing maintenance.
In the terminal that has been arranged as a battlefield command post, Amber and a group of staff officers are in front of a huge holographic projection platform, watching the intelligence sent back by the drone in advance after entering the safe airspace.
Not far from the holographic projection platform, a group of people wearing various combat uniforms and casual clothes are looking forward to this side like a group of hyenas.
If they hadn't been blocked by several fully armed Roma infantrymen in front of them, staring at them with murderous eyes, these 'hyenas' might have pounced on them long ago.
"To be honest, I never thought I would see a group of hyenas in the terminal. I thought they only existed on the Blue Planet and had long been extinct."
Amber stared at the holographic projection platform in front of him and said in a teasing tone.
The Atlas staff officers around him couldn't help but laugh in a low voice when they heard this.
Soon, with the assistance of Lilith, Amber and the staff officers sorted out the data sent back by the RQ220 'Observer' stealth drone and formed a useful intelligence.
After he straightened his back and stretched, he sent a signal in the internal communication channel, and the Roma infantry in the distance immediately retreated to both sides.
The remnants of the planetary garrison and the liaison officers of various companies who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed over as if they saw the cafeteria open.
When they were about to rush to Amber, they all remembered the scene where more than 20 of them were knocked down by Amber's psychic impact last time, so they stopped immediately.
This scene looked like there was an invisible force field in front of Amber.
Looking at these "hungry" and "crying" liaison officers in front of her, Amber "tutted" unhappily, and then used the "face-to-face group" function of the terminal to send out the intelligence.
Although the military network and data link have been popularized in all units of the coalition forces, and they are all developed based on the federal "Link77" data link and command and control system.
However, there are still many differences in the details and interface rules of the systems of various companies. The API interface rules of some companies are particularly complex, which makes the technical officers of each company miserable.
So even if the network is completed, the troops between the companies can only complete basic communications and on-site coordinated command and operation.
For example, intelligence, information distribution, map and terrain data sharing, etc., cannot be done for the time being.
These more important intelligence cannot be shared carelessly by "building a group".
So things like sharing intelligence can only be distributed after face-to-face identification of each other's keys.
"Have you received it?"
"Received! Received! Thank you, Boss Rebill!"
"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 to attack, the large-scale reconnaissance on the frontier was almost entirely accomplished by 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 top brass of the coalition, 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 cannot 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 aerial 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 "hand-held" to hit such high-altitude and slow-moving targets.
Moreover, the Imperial remnants aboard 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 "preparation", and has always paid attention to this aspect after suffering the disadvantage of insufficient investigation methods on the Robert 4.
So when I brought my troops to Rubion 5 this time, I specially brought two ordered stealth drones.
The purpose is to find ways to maintain frontier reconnaissance under high-risk and high-pressure situations.