On the morning of the 4th local time, at Honu Island, Wallace Air Force Base northwest of Zhenbao Port.

It is said to be an air base, but the garrison is the Imperial Navy Aviation. The base originally belonged to the Newland Federation and was a regular base built by the Newland Army Air Force during the war. It was expanded after the war and was given its current name in memory of former President Wallace.

Shortly after the war, the Newland Federation rented the base to the Imperial Air Force, which had just become an independent army, for a price of 1 gold yuan per year. The first lease was 99 years. However, it was not until the end of the Bosnian War that the Empire entered a strategic contraction stage that the Air Force handed over the base to the Navy, and it has been used by the Navy since then.

Because it is on Honu Island, not far from Zhenbao Port, the base mainly serves carrier-based aviation.

When the Fourth Fleet's aircraft carrier returns to Zhenbao Port, the carrier-based aviation will be transferred to the base and undergo daily training here.

In addition, shore-based aviation troops will also be deployed here.

Although the Imperial Navy abandoned the shore-based aviation force according to the agreement when the Imperial Air Force was established, more than 10 years later, the Imperial authorities followed the development of the times and re-established the navy's shore-based aviation force, and limited the scope of its mission.

Simply put, the naval shore-based aviation force is aimed at maritime operations and is equipped with large aircraft that cannot be deployed on aircraft carriers, such as anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Now, the Imperial Navy's shore-based aviation company has more than 1,000 anti-submarine patrol aircraft and more than 500 maritime patrol aircraft, and a guard unit equipped with hundreds of helicopters and specializes in search and rescue missions. According to the size of the aircraft fleet, it exceeds the air force of all countries except the three superhegemony.

The key is that this is a powerful offensive force.

Although according to the agreement reached with the Air Force, the naval shore-based aviation forces are not allowed to equip attack platforms such as bombers, it does not restrict anti-submarine patrol aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft from carrying attack weapons, and these two ocean-oriented patrol aircraft must carry combat weapons.

The Imperial Navy exploited this loophole.

To this day, the Imperial Navy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft can not only carry anti-submarine torpedoes, anti-ship missiles and other sea-to-sea weapons, but also hang air-to-ground missiles to strike sea and ground targets. The reason given by the Imperial Navy is that it is more appropriate to strike enemies on the island during landing operations, and to perform escort missions in peacetime to deal with pirate speedboats, it is more appropriate to use light air-to-ground missiles.

In fact, anti-submarine patrol aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft can be equipped with and used air-launched cruise missiles with a slight improvement. The Imperial Navy's large anti-submarine patrol aircraft has created a record of 12 heavy anti-ship missiles, and it is naturally no problem to mount 12 air-launched cruise missiles with a weight of about the same weight.

That's why the Imperial Navy has always used shore-based aviation forces as a "strategic force".

In the past few years, the Imperial Navy invested heavily in expanding the scale of the base.

Now, in addition to being able to accommodate three wings of carrier-based aircraft, Wallace Base can also deploy up to 200 anti-submarine patrol aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft.

In addition, there are 3 airports available on Honu Island, namely the International Airport in Honu City, and 2 civil airports that usually only serve small sightseeing planes.

There are 8 military airports and 14 civil airports throughout the Hovay Islands.

During the war, a total of thousands of combat aircraft could be deployed.

However, on Hono Island, it mainly relies on Wallace Air Force Base.

Because Honu Island is the most densely populated island in the Hovay Islands and its area is not very large, after the war, the empire gradually reduced its garrison on Honu Island and transferred important military bases to other islands. In addition to saving expenses, it was also of great help to confidentiality work.

In addition, military bases deployed in staging have stronger defense.

Zhu Tingxuan's troops were previously deployed on an island west of Honu Island, and the 41st special fleet moved here after going to sea.

There is no way to do this, after all, Wallace Base can only deploy up to 3 wings of carrier-based aircraft.

It is not that there is no place to deploy more carrier-based aircraft, but that logistics support cannot keep up, that is, the base can only provide maintenance services for more than 200 carrier-based aircraft.

After coming to Wallace Base, Zhu Tingxuan and the others entered the highest state of combat readiness.

Although the Republic of Newland has not participated in the war, the global war has begun. The battle on the mainland battlefield has already entered a white-hot stage. The peace on the east-west side will not last long. Maybe when Newland bombers will appear over Honu Island.

Zhu Tingxuan and his team's mission is to fly the "War-9B" to patrol 1,000 kilometers away from the east, and after discovering enemy planes, they intercepted them with long-range air-to-air missiles.

Of course, it is mainly aimed at bombers.

That's why the deployed to Wallace Base are actually 6 fighter brigades in the three carrier-based aviation corps, the main force is 60 "War-9B" of three brigades. As for the 72 "War-12A/B" of the other brigades, they are only responsible for airport air defense.

The vacant location is used to deploy Air Force support aircraft, such as "Finger-8C" and "Oil-29A".

In fact, this is also the reason why the "War-9B" performs air defense interception missions, that is, only the "War-9B" is equipped with a data link, which can cooperate with the Air Force's early warning aircraft. The early "War-9A" needed to be upgraded, while the "War-12A/B" equipped for the second-line wing are all cheap attack types. Compared with the complete type with air combat capabilities, the biggest difference is that it lacks the data link necessary to perform interception tasks.

As for the attack aircraft in the wing, they were all left behind.

The distance between Honu Island and the west coast of Newland is more than 5,000 kilometers. Not to mention carrier-based attack aircraft, even bombers need tanker support after full load.

Just like the previous few days, Zhu Tingxuan went to have breakfast before dawn, and then went to the Aviation Operations Center to attend a morning meeting to learn about the mission arrangements for that day.

Or combat readiness patrol mission.

Simply put, it is to hang up two large sub-fuel tanks, carry 6 KK-9Es and 2 KK-10Ls, fly about 1,000 kilometers east of Honu Island, and perform a two-hour patrol mission. If necessary, conduct a second air refueling and extend the patrol time by 4 hours.

The key is that there is an early warning machine to assist throughout the process.

In fact, when Zhu Tingxuan and his team participated in the morning meeting, the Air Force's "Finger-8C" had already taken off, and the "Oil-29A" was also preparing for the dispatch.

To obtain 2 hours of patrol time, "War-9B" requires aerial refueling before reaching the patrol airspace.

As for returning, there is nothing to worry about.

Because it is landing at the airport, the descent speed during landing can be appropriately reduced, so even if it is full of ammunition, there is no problem of being overweight.

Besides, even if you want to land on the aircraft carrier, you can release some of the fuel in advance.

What needs to be cared about by pilots such as Zhu Tingxuan is actually the principle of war.

At the morning meeting, the rotation team leader emphasized one thing: the Kingdom of Van Rou has participated in the war and has not declared it. The Republic of Newland is very likely to participate in the war in these days.

As expected, the first one to be killed was the Newland Air Force's strategic bomber.

To this end, we must maintain a high level of vigilance to ensure that after receiving combat instructions issued by early warning aircraft, we can immediately go forward and intercept incoming enemy aircraft.

In addition, early warning aircraft must be protected.

That's why the patrol deployment changed that day.

The three brigades were still dispatched in turn, but after arriving at the patrol airspace, a squadron had to be left to patrol within the fan-shaped airspace 180 degrees east of the early warning aircraft, and went forward 150 kilometers to 200 kilometers to ensure that the early warning aircraft could be provided with cover after the battle.

To put it bluntly, the Newland Air Force is likely to send fighter jets to raid for a long distance!

In theory, the F-15 fighter of the Newland Air Force only needs to carry three secondary fuel tanks and perform three air refueling, and it can fly 5,000 kilometers with the bomber. If the Newland Air Force dispatches early warning aircraft and electronic fighter jets, it can support fighters to attack the Imperial Air Force's early warning aircraft.

Obviously, the Newland Air Force does not lack refueling aircraft. Its KC-10 is a 250-ton refueling aircraft equivalent to the "Oil-20A". It can carry up to 160 tons of fuel, which is almost twice that of a 150-ton refueling aircraft like the "Oil-29A". After flying 4,000 kilometers, it can also provide 80 tons of fuel for combat aircraft. In theory, one KC-10 can support 8 heavy fighters of the F-15A level.

Just a raid on the Imperial Air Force's early warning aircraft, four F-15As are enough.

From another perspective, if the Imperial Air Force launches a long-distance raid, such as launching bombers to attack military bases on the west coast of Newland, fighter jets will definitely be arranged to carry out raid missions. The focus of attack is Newland early warning aircraft, clearing obstacles for the bomber group.

If you want to say it, this is also the key reason why both the Imperial Air Force and the Newland Air Force prefer heavy fighter jets.

Although it is impossible to keep it absolutely confidential by mobilizing a large number of bombers, fighter jets, tankers and early warning aircraft to perform assault missions, it is impossible to keep it absolutely confidential, but the organization will reveal its intentions in the early stage, but when making the introduction, the rotating wing captain did not give a positive statement.

The reason is that the Empire's reconnaissance satellite system has been in a state of paralysis.

Although in September, the spaceflight affiliated with the Air Force carried out dozens of re-network launches and transported dozens of small reconnaissance satellites to low-Earth orbit, almost all of these satellites targeted huge lands, and only a few were deployed in orbits that monitor the Beigu Continent.

The result is that the reconnaissance reports provided by the reconnaissance satellite have a time difference of up to 12 hours.

In addition, the information provided by these small reconnaissance satellites may not be trustworthy.

It is not difficult to master the satellite trajectory, that is, the operating rules. There are three deep space radars in the Republic of Newland that are specifically used to monitor satellites.

In this way, when Newland's army is deploying, it will avoid the imperial reconnaissance satellites.

As long as the 12-hour time difference is fully utilized, such as allowing the bomber to land and refuel at the airport on the West Coast, it can launch a surprise attack.

With the organizational capabilities of the Newland Air Force, there will be no big challenge to invest 5000 bombers to launch an assault.

This is the key to the forward interception.

If all of them are B-52s, using air-launched cruise missiles with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, theoretically they can project 6,000 cruise missiles in a wave of attacks.

Intercept 6,000 cruise missiles?

Even if all the Imperial Air Force air defense systems are deployed in the Hovay Islands, it will not be possible!

Honu Island only has three long-range air defense missile battalions, three full-scale "Arrower" air defense systems, and one Marine Corps field air defense battalion, 12 DK-7E short-range air defense systems and 12 FP-95 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. This battalion mainly provides close-range cover for the Air Force's air defense systems.

In theory, it can intercept dozens of targets at most at the same time.

Of course, the Newland Air Force may not necessarily use 6,000 cruise missiles to strike military facilities on Honu Island.

It can be seen that the key is to shoot down the bomber before it can be projected on it.

To this end, early warning aircraft need to be deployed in front.

Under normal circumstances, "Finger-8C" achieves a large target of hundreds of square meters for RCSs such as B-52, and the detection distance can reach 650 kilometers.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the AGM-86C air-launched cruise missile mounted by the B-52 has a maximum range of 1,500 kilometers. Even if some redundancy is needed to be left for the planning of the attack route, the B-52 can still project missiles about 1,200 kilometers east of the Hovayi Islands.

This is also the reason why fighter planes need to go 1,000 kilometers in front.

The early warning aircraft is deployed 150 kilometers behind the fighter jet, and the detection range can reach 1500 kilometers east of Honu Island. After discovering the incoming bomber, it can provide 20 minutes of interception time for the forward fighter jets. The "War-9B" takes 200 kilometers ahead to intercept enemy aircraft, which only takes 10 minutes at most.

As for enemy planes launching missiles immediately after being intercepted, fighter planes can also be converted into intercepted cruise missiles.

There is no problem with the tactical arrangement, and the rotating wing captain also emphasized one thing.

Last month, three Niz-class super aircraft carriers of the Newland Navy's Eastward Fleet left the Diego Military Port and have not been exposed to their whereabouts so far.

According to more credible speculation, the 51st Special Mixed Fleet of the Newland Navy is still near its homeland.

Before this, the Imperial Navy had three large attack submarines expelled when they tried to approach the Diego military port, so there is reason to believe that the 51st Special Mixed Fleet was outside the Diego military port and was covered by the Coast Guard and shore-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Leaving to the port is just to avoid sudden blows.

After all, after the outbreak of the global war, the Imperial Army is also likely to fight undeclaredly and eliminate the number one enemy by launching a sudden attack.

If the Air Force bomber performs a raid mission, the warship parked in the port is the target.

However, the rotating wing captain did not mention another threat.

The Newland Navy's Xiluoyang Fleet, which left in August, also has unknown whereabouts!

In theory, this special mixed fleet with two large Newland-class aircraft carriers can reach any sea area in the East Viagra by walking through the Wangxi Canal in September.

If the 41st Special Mixed Fleet has entered the East Ocean, the Newland Navy will have 5 aircraft carriers available here.

These five aircraft carriers can carry nearly 500 carrier-based aircraft!

Placed anywhere, this is an attack force that no one dares to underestimate.

Of course, the rotating wing captain also mentioned that the possibility of the Newland Fleet moving forward to the waters near the Hovay Islands is not high. After all, in front of the powerful shore-based aviation forces, the carrier-based aviation forces have almost no chance of winning. Judging from the combat deployment, the Newland Fleet is likely to be the second echelon.

When the raid was successful, the defense system of the Hovayi Islands was destroyed and the absolute air supremacy was obtained. The aircraft carrier battle group then covered the landing fleet and launched an attack.

Don't forget that the number one purpose of the Republic of Newland is to recapture the empire-controlled Hovay Islands.

After listening to the morning report, at 6:3 in the morning, Zhu Tingxuan and his partner got into the cockpit of the fighter plane.
Chapter completed!