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Chapter 1196 Hawkeye-1 (something happened, 3 chapters today)

The Citigroup members, holding their breath, decided to make more thorough preparations for this operation in addition to normal military operations. Naturally, they were unable to launch a low-altitude penetration attack from the western mountainous area again at the first opportunity.

Apart from anything else, when the size of the fleet participating in the attack increases, it will not be easy to find pilots with low-altitude penetration capabilities.

The Americans do have a lot of pilots, but it is impossible to deploy them all to Jiaozhi. Even if the fighting here is fierce, Europe cannot be neglected for defense.

Therefore, in the days before New Year's Day, apart from the normal fighting, there was an illusion that everything was normal between Citibank and Jiaozhi. However, all parties knew that this normality would not last long.

December 12, at the seaplane base in Haijiao City, Tianya Island.

"Hey, squad leader, am I seeing things? Didn't that Sharphead just fly away? How come there's another one?"

Looking at the plane on the water in the distance, a soldier who had just changed shifts on duty began to doubt his memory and eyes. There were many seaplanes here, but there was only one that looked like this.

Hey, why is the nose of this plane so pointed?
"Pointed-headed fish" is the name given to the Be-6 radar verification aircraft by the comrades in charge of guarding the base. No matter how rustic the name is, the main point is that it is vivid, easy to understand and has distinctive characteristics.

Because of its size, the ordinary Be-6 patrol aircraft is called "Fathead Fish", and this Be-6 with a pointed head is naturally called Pointed-head Fish.

"This is another one that just arrived. They said they want to do experiments with the two of them together." The squad leader smiled. At this moment, he felt a little proud.

"Hey, there is such a thing. It seems that we are getting better and better." The soldier touched his head and laughed. Having dealt with high-tech equipment such as seaplanes for a long time, they knew one thing very well.

——The weirder it looks, the faster you kill enemies.

The more strange planes there are, the better.

"No, that's right. Stop talking nonsense. I'm going to look for it at the next sentry post. You stay tuned."

The squad leader walked cheerfully to the next sentry post, and the soldier stood at attention and said, "Yes!"

The voice is loud and the bearing is majestic.

The crew of this "Pointed Fish" was currently briefing the mission with relevant comrades at the base.

"...Do you understand the patrol routes?"

"I understand! It's quite simple. Although the mission will last for a long time, the patrol area is almost fixed each time." As an experienced pilot, the captain of the patrol plane understood the mission very quickly.

"Your call sign is Hawkeye 2. This time, you will be accompanied by our own electronic and radar personnel instead of those from the Radar Institute."

As we all know, the best eyes in the sky are the eyes of the eagle. The meaning of this call sign is self-evident.

Considering that although all preparations had been made, this was after all an overseas mission and still involved a certain degree of danger, although the comrades at the Radar Institute strongly requested to participate in the mission, they were firmly rejected by their superiors.

Why are you following along to cause trouble? Hurry up and take the test data back to the unit to prepare for the finalization work. This kind of dangerous mission is the job of the soldiers, you just need to do your own job well.

The captain of Hawkeye 2 nodded: "I understand. After the painting is completed, we will first fly a flight nearby with these comrades to run in the operation."

Several small boats have gathered around Hawkeye 2 on the water, processing and painting the emblems, numbers, etc. on the nose, fuselage, tail, etc.

"You may have to work hard during the initial period because you only have two aircraft of the same type. In order to ensure surveillance of the target area as much as possible, you may have to overcome some difficulties first." said the comrade in charge of task briefing.

The captain of Hawkeye 2 nodded and said, "We will ensure that the mission is completed. However, the comrades on the ground crew and maintenance staff may have to work hard for a while."

Given the current technical status of the aircraft, there is a lot of maintenance work to be done every time it returns from a flight.

"Haha, don't worry about that, comrades on the ground staff. We have more people than you and change shifts more frequently than you, so you are the ones who work hard." The comrade in charge of work briefing said with a smile.

At this moment, in the Hawkeye 2 aircraft on the water, several ground crew members were installing an additional equipment.

"The triangulation signal is connected normally..."

"Radio altimeter access normal..."

"Barometric altimeter access is normal..."

"Data synchronization records are normal..."

"The rough height difference calculation is normal..."

Due to the current limited technical conditions, our comrades can only modify something like this for the time being.

...In Jiaozhi, there was almost no obstacle to our aircraft using its airspace for experiments, but another thing was a little different.

"We cannot accept their communication equipment and operators, let alone accept their commands."

"Comrade, the northern comrades are sincerely helping us, and it was because of the command of the northern comrades that we were able to drive away the Gallic invaders."

"No, at that time they were just giving advice. The real command and operations were done by our own people."

"Then you can think that this time, they are just giving us suggestions." A northern Jiaozhi man insisted.

On December 12, 30 planes took off almost simultaneously from multiple airports near the north of South Jiaozhi. They formed a formation in the air, flew westward into the neighboring country west of Jiaozhi, then turned north and flew forward in a mighty manner.

116 aircraft. Not to mention in the 60s, even in the 21st century, few countries could organize such a large fleet. Of course, the organization here refers to unified action and command. It is not difficult to just take off a hundred aircraft.

However...it seems that even in the 21st century, there are not many countries that can have 100 combat aircraft.

In any case, this number is almost the limit of a unified action that can be effectively organized at present. In this regard, Citigroup is still at the forefront of the world.

The commander of the Citigroup Air Force stationed in Jiaozhi looked at the gradually disappearing light on the radar and clenched his fists: "Operation Log Rolling has officially begun! This time, we must make the monkeys in the north feel fear!"

In his heart, the ones in the south are actually monkeys as well, but he just doesn't like to say it out loud.

Among the 116 aircraft they took off was an AWACS aircraft.

In the 60s and 70s, the most famous early warning aircraft of the United States should be the E-2 "Hawkeye" and the E-3 "Sentry". However, these two things were not needed at that time. The E-3 was not launched until more than ten years later, and the E-2 used by the Navy would not be delivered to the US Navy until more than a month later.

This gives us some clues as to why Citigroup’s navy is nicknamed “first-class people”.

But this does not mean that they do not have early warning aircraft now. The first-class SF-1 can detect targets the size of air fighters at a distance of more than 150 kilometers. It will not be of much use if it stays in Nanjiaozhi, but it can play a role if it follows the group of aircraft.

As the fleet moved forward, the SF-1 began to break away from the formation. It could no longer move forward. It was undoubtedly extremely stupid for the early warning aircraft to take the lead.

"Log 1, our aircraft is about to leave the formation. We are here to provide you with early warning and command support." The early warning aircraft reported to the formation command.

"Roger, good luck, Hawkeye-1!" replied Rolling Log No. 1.

Coincidentally, the call sign of this SF-1 is also Hawkeye.

The huge formation continued to advance in the air, while Hawkeye-1 was loitering at a suitable distance. It was a legitimate early warning aircraft with a rotating radar.

Soon, the SF-1 discovered problems.

"Sir, targets have been spotted in the sky over North Jiaozhi, a large, low-speed target, and two small, high-speed targets roaming nearby." Hawkeye-1's radar operations officer reported to the onboard intelligence chief.

"Distance, direction!" The intelligence chief of SF-1 did not feel anything wrong with this. In a war, it was perfectly normal to have similar targets flying over it.

The radar operator looked at the screen and read out the enemy's distance and direction to the intelligence chief.

"Don't worry about it. These planes are in an area that we prohibit entry into." The intelligence chief said.

"But sir, can we send the escort fighters of the formation to shoot him down?" asked the air dispatcher.

This is the airspace of North Jiaozhi. Theoretically, if the two sides are at war, any attack can be dealt with by the officials in Citibank.

"Shut Fu**er Up! Are you crazy?"

The intelligence chief thought the air dispatcher was really crazy. That was an area with strict entry orders. Northern Jiaozhi was a small matter. The key was that that direction was only more than 100 kilometers away from the Eastern border. Who knew what would happen?
Moreover, even if you launch an attack, you can't spare much manpower to carry out the task of shooting down or expelling the enemy given the limited number of escort missions in the formation. The big target is easy to deal with, but the two high-speed small targets are obviously not easy to deal with.

This configuration of one large and two small ones also means that the enemy is always exuding a dangerous aura. Maybe when our fighter planes rush over, they will find that there are still a lot of planes behind them.

Don't create unnecessary trouble, just complete the mission, the intelligence chief knows this very well.

Hearing the intelligence chief's rebuke, the dispatcher argued: "But sir, what if the other party's identity is the same as ours? Then our fleet will be in danger."

If the other party is also an early warning aircraft, it means that this covert raid has failed.

The intelligence chief shook his head and said, "Young man, you have to understand one thing. First, they don't have early warning aircraft. But intelligence shows that the people of North Jiaozhi have never obtained such equipment, not even the people in the East."

In the intelligence chief's mind, there were only two possibilities for that large, slow-speed target: either the people on board were important, or the cargo on board was important, so there were escort fighters.

As for the possibility that the other party is also an early warning aircraft, it is impossible! Absolutely impossible!
(End of this chapter)