Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1795 1796 Intercepting the White Swan

The air defense sirens echoed over the airport, and the Dorne fighter pilots, who had been unemployed for many days, ran towards the fighter planes parked in the hangar with a bit of unfamiliarity.

It has been a while since they took off and intercepted enemy planes like this, or most of them have never had any decent combat experience.

Many of Dorne's pilots have combat experience, but most of these pilots are concentrated in three places: the capital, the coast, and the elves.

The Dorne pilots deployed in the capital are naturally the most powerful, and they are also the best equipped, generally equipped with jet fighters such as the Sabre.

Similarly, the Dorne fighter units assembled in the territory of the elves are all elite troops selected from thousands of miles away, and they often fight with the Air Force of the Tang Empire. As long as they survive, they can accumulate rich experience in escape and parachuting.

There is no need to say much about Dorne's coastal areas. Being deployed on the seashore, they will naturally encounter air raids by the Tang Navy. They will have some actual combat experience to a certain extent. Even avoiding bombing is an experience, isn't it?

As for the air force pilots deployed in the southeast of Dorne, they have little chance of actual combat. Moreover, the Dorne fighters deployed in this direction are actually old antiques that have not been replaced in time.

More than two-thirds of these aircraft are propeller-driven fighters, which were mass-produced in such large quantities that they have not yet been completely phased out.

The maximum flying speed of such aircraft is basically only 500 to 600 kilometers. It is simply a pipe dream to want to catch up with supersonic strategic bombers like the White Swan.

With the clumsy climbing speed of these planes, by the time they climbed to the altitude where the white swans were active, the daylilies would have been cold. Moreover, they had no ability to climb to the altitude that the white swans could fly, and their engines could not work at that altitude.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the military airports built in the heart of the Dorne Empire had very few aircraft that could be deployed to intercept the White Swans, and there were only a few aircraft that could be deployed.

But the superiors gave orders that those who needed to be intercepted had to be dispatched, so many airports sounded the air defense alarm and dispatched the best fighters they could find.

Some airports took off ME-262 fighters, while others took off some F-86 Sabres. Some of these aircraft were produced by Dorne using the elves' export technology, while others were produced using technology licenses purchased from Cyric.

The ME-262 fighter jets provided by the elves were of outdated technology, so the Dorne Empire imported them as ground attack aircraft and then deployed them in the mainland to make up the numbers. Their air combat performance was relatively average.

Of course, it couldn't catch up with the White Swan, and it was even difficult for it to fly to the altitude where the White Swan was. At the same time, due to its range, the airspace area that the ME-262 fighter could be responsible for intercepting was pitifully small.

The same goes for the Sabre fighter. Its range is sufficient, but it cannot catch up or fly high, which is very difficult.

"The target altitude is 13000 meters? Are you kidding me?" The fighter pilot, who was putting on his flight cap and goggles, stared at the commander who sent him to the plane. The commander looked away embarrassedly and explained, "The mission is difficult and requires great courage on your part."

To intercept such a target, it really takes extraordinary courage: first, you have to fly the plane to the nearby airspace, then calculate the lead time and start climbing desperately. After climbing to that altitude, the plane basically loses power and maneuverability, so it can only do simple dives.

Then they find the target to be intercepted, seize the position and use the only short attack window to fire at the target, and then let the plane fall as if it has lost power, descend to a height of several thousand meters to let the engine work again and regain control of the plane...

During this process, your aircraft may lose control at any time, so even using an advanced F-22 to hit a stray balloon at a higher altitude is a very dangerous interception mission.

"You are crazy...that thing's flying speed exceeds the speed of sound!" Although he had never seen a white swan, the pilot who had just received the take-off mission had still seen the mission briefing.

  That's right, he should at least know what he is going to intercept before he can take off, right? But the reality is cruel, the thing he is going to intercept is now flying at an altitude of 13000 meters, far exceeding the speed of sound!

The damn first-generation Sabre fighter he was flying had a maximum altitude of about 13000 meters, and at that altitude it was no different from a brick.

Therefore, he only had one chance, to "ram" the target head-on from the front and below, aim and fire at the opponent before he lost speed, and then fall back to normal altitude to restore the engine to normal working condition...

If you want to know whether it is possible to succeed, theoretically on paper, it is a little possible. But if you want to know the probability of success, it is almost infinitely close to zero.

The unfortunate pilot wanted to curse. It would be fine if he was an ace pilot with top-notch experience and skills, but he was just a rookie with no more than 300 hours of flying time a year!

  He was a rookie who had never participated in a drill! He was a rookie who had never seen an enemy plane! He was a rookie who had never violated the rules and flew the plane to an altitude of 13000 meters!

"I can't help it. I know what you're thinking. I also know that this is beyond the capabilities of our base." The commander helplessly comforted his most experienced rookie: "But you are my most powerful pilot. You can do it! You can do it! You are the best!"

"Of course, I don't necessarily ask you to shoot down the target. Just do your best... Do you understand what I mean?" The officer gave the other man a look that said "you know what I mean."

The pilot understood what his superior meant: he should do his best: if there is a chance, then he will be rewarded for his achievements and get promoted. If there is no chance, then he will not make any achievements but just fly the plane back safely and honestly...

"I understand." The pilot got into the cabin, the ground crew helped to close the cabin cover, and then a group of people evacuated the Sabre fighter that was about to take off urgently.

With the roar of the engines, two Sabre fighters rushed out of the runway one after the other and sped away towards the blue sky in the distance.

The same thing happened at three military airports along the way. Two Type 262 fighter-attack aircraft and eight Sabre fighters took off one after another, ordered to intercept five enemy aircraft that invaded Dorne.