My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1196 - 1092: Reaper Approaching? Emergency Takeoff!
"Rest assured! We will complete the mission!!"
Padding Shayol, full of energy and barely able to hide his joy.
He sharply snapped up the phone, immediately turned his head, and looked at the operations staff.
"What are you waiting for? Order the 277th Flight Squadron to proceed with the Vulture Fighters as planned!"
"Additionally, in case of an unexpected malfunction preventing mission completion, the fighter jets must self-destruct, they must not fall into enemy hands intact!"
After speaking in one breath, Shayol could hardly suppress his excitement, clenching his fists and raising his head high.
This is a moment with epoch-making significance!
This is very likely a historic event that could change history!
This operation is of great significance.
And all Shayol could do now was to wait.
After all, the Vulture Fighters are too advanced, so advanced that even our various radars are helpless against them.
If they cannot be detected, how can they be tracked?
As for using satellites for surveillance... that’s even more wishful thinking.
For Vulture Fighters, with a cruising speed of two Mach, satellites simply cannot detect them.
And to keep it confidential, Vulture Fighters generally do not communicate actively to avoid detection through electromagnetic signal leakage.
So...
Shayol currently neither knows where the Vulture Fighters have flown nor their flight status.
He could only estimate based on time.
The time of issuing the orders was almost when their mid-air refueling was completed.
Inside Barling Base, it is now 4:11 AM.
Due to the time difference, it’s already bright at the target location - 8:11 AM.
Based on the flying speed of the Vulture Fighters, the position estimation shows they are still over a thousand kilometers away from the target.
Considering that after crossing the border, to avoid detection, they will reduce speed and altitude for ultra-low altitude penetration.
The time they reach the target to execute a surgical precision airstrike is around 9 AM.
The airstrike uses precision-guided bunker-busting missiles, deployed and immediately return home.
A little over half an hour to escape the airspace, and an hour to reach the predetermined mid-air refueling area.
After refueling, they fly back at high supersonic speed.
By then, it would barely be dawn at Diego Garcia base.
After calculating, Padding Shayol set an alarm for 5 AM and then left the office.
For the sake of convincing the big boss and to hold firm against the opposition...
He had been holding back from visiting the restroom, constantly maintaining his spirits.
Now he doesn’t need to worry about anything else but to wait for the Vulture Fighters to send back news, and finally has time to properly use the restroom for a while.
He even has spare time to take a bath, have a hearty breakfast early, and await the good news of Wu Jie’s sudden death and the mission’s success.
Thinking of Wu Jie, that calamitous troublemaker, his whole family being precisely guided by the missiles, blasted dead in the early morning...
And imagining the explosive power of heavy missiles, capable of easily collapsing a building, naturally disintegrating people instantaneously...
Shayol felt increasingly excited the more he thought about it.
It seemed as if the gloom of the failed Baldet campaign was swept away.
With a victor’s smile, Shayol strode out of the office energetically.
...
Five thousand kilometers to the east.
In the midst of dense mountain forests.
The morning sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the forest, casting sparse golden rays.
Following the winding forest combat road that wraps around the mountain, reaching the mountaintop, one could see a huge sphere.
At first glance, it looked like a giant camouflaged green egg, abruptly standing on top of this summit.
The spherical body is merely a protective cover.
The real core is the remote early warning radar inside the sphere.
This radar operates around the clock, undertaking long-range early warning tasks within a range of five thousand kilometers.
Widely monitoring aerospace activity, such as which airplanes are flying and how.
Or monitoring within the range, which country is launching missiles or rockets.
Since it’s a time of peace and there’s no warfare, the task of this radar station is relatively straightforward.
Most of the time, it is monitoring international passenger and cargo planes flying in and out of the country’s airspace.
Watching these airplanes, whether they fly according to regulations, designated air routes, and altitudes specified.
Even if there’s a deviation, it’s the airline’s ATC air traffic controllers who first intervene to inquire about the reasons.
If there is no response and no legitimate reason, and someone enters the airspace unauthorized or approaches a restricted flying zone, then the radar station will urgently report, allowing the nearest Air Force Base to quickly dispatch fighter jets to take off for monitoring and expelling.
However, such situations seldom occur as reputable commercial airlines’ jet airliners or cargo planes cost hundreds of millions each.
Whether purchased or leased, these aircraft are meant to make money. Who would deviate from the command and fly randomly after having a full meal?
In a year, it may happen once or twice and it’s only because some excessively domineering countries send electronic reconnaissance aircraft loitering near the airspace, always looking like they are about to intrude.
In order to ensure airspace security and to avoid detection of electronic intelligence by the adversary, fighter jets are urgently dispatched to escort and monitor the movements of the other party, always ready to expel them across the border or even shoot them down if necessary.
But in peacetime, people are more conservative and would not easily cross the border.
Everyone just shouts, takes pictures, and follows international conventions following the standard procedures.
If there were a real battle, who would send a conspicuously large and obvious electronic reconnaissance aircraft to roam alone? Is it an invitation to get attacked?
Today seems just like any other day.
On the radar interface, there are numerous bright spots.
But no manual inspection is needed, as the computer will automatically recognize that these are all commercial airliners flying according to the stipulated routes.
As national strength grows and the people’s pockets become wealthier,
more and more people choose to travel by plane, and taking international flights for business, study, or tourism has become almost the only choice for many.
The booming aviation industry keeps the radar interface and air traffic control system interface busy with lots of golden little airplane cursors moving, displaying their registration numbers.
Some are flying into the country, some are heading abroad, looking no different from usual.
However...
Experienced radar operators will particularly pay attention to military activities of some countries outside the continent.
Especially the movements of their military aircraft.
More than an hour ago, radar operators detected that three large aircraft took off from the Star Federation’s Dakar Base located within the Xiang Jia Continent. According to the radar signal characteristics, they can be confirmed as three large aerial refueling tankers.
After taking off, they flew southeast for about four hundred kilometers, then began to circle and hover. After about ten minutes of maintaining the same direction and speed, they began to return.
The computer automatically plotted their flight trajectories, and preliminary judgment was that they headed to the sea to perform an aerial refueling mission, as this flight pattern was quite obvious.
Only...
In previous aerial refueling exercises, the refueled aircraft could be detected with varying RCS values (Radar Cross Section).
But this time...
The aircraft being refueled showed no radar reflective characteristics at all, clearly indicating they were Stealth Fighters.
Although there are still over a thousand kilometers from the national border, and the opponent is practicing aerial refueling in the airspace above International Waters, which is not a violation of international law, nor does it pose a military threat to anyone.
But these are Stealth Fighters!
The appearance of their Stealth Fighters, the strength of their stealth capabilities, and what type of radar is needed to detect them...
If these tasks are not well-managed normally, wouldn’t it be disastrous to be ambushed and destroyed by an opponent during a conflict, without even knowing where the enemy is?
Therefore.
The radar operator rapidly reported according to the regulations and categorized this event as a top-level combat situation report.
All this radar station could do was report, and there was nothing else that could be done.
The three large aerial refueling tankers were returning, and the refueled Stealth Fighters could not be detected from a distance.
This radar station’s long-range warning radar is only responsible for broad-area air situation surveillance and is always operational.
The working frequency and operational modes of the radar are definitely well-known, as it is mostly used for civil purposes during peacetime, so why would someone intentionally interfere?
However...
Even though this radar station could not do anything, it did not mean other military radars would miss such a great opportunity.
With Stealth Fighters making a rare appearance, various types of radars naturally hurried to boot up and search to see if they could locate them.
Quick boot-ups and short duration runs minimize the risk of exposing radar characteristics.
It’s like suddenly hearing about a beauty appearing on a busy street and quickly taking a glance.
If you see her, it’s a feast for the eyes; if you don’t, there’s no loss.
However...
The air defense warning radar of a certain Air Force Base was turned on, and it’s a fairly advanced radar in active service with respectable air detection capabilities, but it found nothing.
A large land-based phased array radar located in a remote mountainous area, used mainly for ultra-long-range precision detection and monitoring potential enemy missile activities, also found nothing.Additionally, several other active radar models also reported no findings... perhaps the Stealth Fighters that completed the aerial refueling had already flown elsewhere.
As Star Federation fighters often undertake long-distance training, aerial refueling, and overseas garrison training, it is likely this was routine training.
Yet unexpectedly...
A certain type of Over-the-horizon Ground Wave Radar, still in testing and yet to be officially employed, suddenly reported detecting two unidentified signals fast approaching.
This is a globally unique radar utilizing the diffraction principle of high-frequency waves, and its performance is quite advanced, but it is still in testing phase.
Is it an equipment malfunction, or indeed a Stealth Fighter intrusion?
Better safe than sorry.
Two combat-ready fighter jets immediately took off urgently...
