radicalducati Chapter 144 Suppression and Consumption
Chapter 144 Suppression and Consumption
Chapter 145 Suppression and Consumption
At this moment, three Cormorant drones emerging from behind the mountain were climbing at a steep angle.
By the time they were exposed to the enemy's view, they had already climbed to an altitude of 2 kilometers.
Just as the enemy units were preparing to turn their firepower to engage in anti-aircraft fire, the aerial smoke screen system launcher, positioned behind the mountain, fired a series of smoke grenades toward the mountaintop.
The sudden smoke screen successfully blocked the enemy units' view of the three Cormorant drones that were preparing to drop bombs.
As the drone climbed to an altitude of 2500 meters, the bottom hatch slowly opened, revealing 30 anti-tank loitering munitions mounted inside the fuselage.
[Altitude: 2500 meters, bombing altitude reached, racks unlocked.]
As the onboard computer issued the command, the drone's six fans ran at full speed, providing sufficient initial velocity for the loitering munition that was about to detach from its pylons.
During the deployment of the loitering munition, the drone maintained an elevation angle of 60 degrees, and the deployed munition followed a perfect parabola in the air.
After deployment, the three drones slowly lowered their pitch angle, and the two propellers on the wings gradually stopped spinning. The flight control system adjusted the four ducted fans on both sides of the aircraft to transition the aircraft from a climbing state to a hovering state.
When the three drones stabilized, the propeller on one side of the wing began to rotate slowly, causing the drones to turn around on the spot.
After the nose of the aircraft pointed in the direction from which the drone had come, the four ducted fans, which were perpendicular to the ground, tilted slightly, propelling the drone toward the naval base.
Meanwhile, 90 loitering anti-tank munitions had broken through the smoke and reappeared in the enemy battle group's field of vision, but at this time, these loitering munitions were only 600 meters high.
After a few seconds of flight, all 90 loitering munitions struck enemy units in the valley.
After this round of attacks, all enemy units closest to the unmanned combat units were paralyzed, and their attack routes and speeds were also affected.
As the enemy forces opened fire on the unmanned combat unit's position once again, two Shadow II large loitering munitions appeared behind the southern mountainside.
Ten seconds later, the two loitering munitions left the cover of the mountain one after the other and began to dive from a height of 150 meters.
Although the enemy units located on the northern mountain reacted quickly and successfully shot down the loitering munitions positioned in front as decoys.
However, the smoke from the explosion briefly obscured the enemy's vision, allowing the second loitering munition to successfully crash into the hillside on the north side of the mountain.
When the fuse of the Shadow II loitering munition is activated, the 7 kg of high explosive loaded inside is detonated, and the blast wave generated by the explosion affects the movement of enemy units on this front to some extent.
However, thanks to their superior coordination, these enemy units unleashed tremendous firepower in a short period of time, suppressing the unmanned combat group and successfully adjusting their formation.
As they adjusted their formation and reduced their firepower, all the unmanned combat units located at the bottom of the valley's first and second lines of defense launched a fierce attack on the enemy individuals within the valley.
However, the trade-off was that the three airdropped unmanned combat groups had reduced firepower suppression against individual enemy units on the northern mountainside.
In order to relieve the pressure on the assault team at the bottom of the valley, the enemy units on the northern mountain abandoned their air defense and instead began to use all their firepower to suppress the unmanned combat units of the first and second lines of defense at the bottom of the valley.
At this moment, 400 kilometers away at the naval base, Lorraine looked at the battle report transmitted back by the airborne command aircraft and lifted the transparent protective cover on the missile activation button.
Lorraine clenched her left fist and pressed it against the metal panel below the button, while her thumb hovered about one centimeter above the button.
His right hand controlled the mouse, selecting the two Changkong-25 hypersonic anti-ship missiles that had been activated and had enemy target information entered, and choosing these two missiles as the first batch to be launched.
After Lorraine selected the missiles, two dark windows appeared on a rock-covered area on the side of a small hill north of the naval base, revealing two anti-ship missiles poised for launch.
Looking at the battle report transmitted from the command aircraft, Lorraine, seeing the heavily damaged unmanned combat group, ordered drones fully loaded with ammunition to be airdropped from 5...
The group took off from its position.
This time, Lorraine set the bombing height at 300 meters and required the Cormorant drone to complete the bombing mission under the cover of the mountain.
As the radio communication was transmitted again, the large entity located on the north side of the battlefield slightly raised its head, as if to confirm the source of the radio communication.
One minute later, two Cormorant drones, which took off from behind the No. 5 airdrop site, reached a speed of 300 kilometers per hour at a low altitude of 100 meters.
When it was only 1000 meters away from the mountain, the thrust of the two ducted fans at the front of the Cormorant UAV began to increase, causing the pitch angle of the fuselage to gradually rise.
The drone got closer and closer to the mountain, and its altitude also increased.
When the drone reached an altitude of 300 meters, it was only 200 meters away from the mountain.
Then, under the cover of the mountain, it released all 30 loitering munitions from its cabin.
With the help of airborne command aircraft, they can confirm their targets through the data link of the unmanned combat swarm on the battlefield even before they identify individual enemy units.
At this moment, the large enemy unit on the north side of the battlefield also discovered the increasingly complex radio environment. Just as it was about to issue an order, the 30 loitering munitions had already crossed the mountain and appeared above the battlefield.
Sensing something was amiss, the large enemy unit began moving towards the valley, while its two small-caliber electromagnetic cannons on its back started firing at the air.
This sudden air strike, due to the influence of the large enemy units, failed to kill any individual enemy.
Upon detecting the anomaly on the battlefield, the command aircraft in the air transmitted images of the scene to the naval base command center via a communications relay drone.
Upon receiving the message, Lorraine remotely activated three fully loaded drones that were waiting behind five bombing positions via radio, and sent the previous bombing path to the drones.
He then ordered five airdrop teams to the blocking positions, preparing them to be deployed as reserves to the main battlefield.
Just as he was about to continue issuing orders, he saw on the large screen the time required for the Changkong-25 hypersonic anti-ship missile to strike the target, as well as the countdown for the swarm of drones to complete the strike by dropping loitering munitions.