The standard transport capacity of the Manniu transport aircraft in paratrooper mode is 24 people, and the standard transport capacity in transition mode is 28 people.
The thirty Bulls at the hub airport can transport one battalion and one company per mission, along with 135 tons of additional equipment and ammunition.
The engine currently equipped by Manniu has been adjusted from the earlier version. It is being replaced with the same engine as the Tornado III water-cooled single-engine version. The total output of the dual engines is 2160 kilowatts. Under the current air pressure conditions, it is 3000 meters above the surface of the floating island. The speed can reach 420 kilometers per hour.
Some still use old engines, and the maximum speed when fully loaded is only 380 kilometers.
Returning empty during transportation can be faster.
The air traffic control part directly uses Tornado III light signals for air control, which is more efficient.
The actual round trip time in the air is 80 to 90 minutes, and the landing of the last aircraft in the fleet will be delayed by up to 20 minutes.
Ground support is more troublesome. There is a shortage of people at the airport opposite, so the soldiers can only do it themselves.
It will take time to prepare and refuel before returning to the hub airport.
All in all, it takes about five hours to go back and forth.
The three pilots of a Manniu took turns taking turns on board throughout the entire flight, barely able to operate 24 hours a day in a short period of time.
24 hours is also the time for a regiment to complete the transition, and this part of the time needs to be fought for by the combat troops of the 12th and 13th regiments.
The demons don't have "air defense balloons" in the east section, so we still have an advantage in aerial combat, but we still bully the little demons into not flying high enough.
But this time the number of demons was really too much, and they seemed to be planning to march regardless of casualties.
The Air Force carried out two rounds of strikes near the natural chasm in the north of the East Plate, neither stopping the forward march nor cutting off the team.
The Thirteenth Regiment, which was closer to the scene, promptly adjusted its play style, reducing the proportion of magic weapons and installing more heavy bombs.
The heavy bomb of the Air Force had an armor-piercing damage range of 2,000 square meters when it hit the Fourth Army of Fatel. The current version can hit an armor-less little devil with a damage range of close to 7,000 square meters. Of course, this calculation There will also be many fish that slip through the net, after all, the number of fragments is not unlimited.
This trick works.
After all, the little devils are not undead creatures, nor are they considered a serious army. They are just forced to act by the high-level demons. As long as the death efficiency is higher than the harm caused to them by the high-level demons, they will try their best to escape.
And when the forward explodes, the little devil behind will follow the line.
When the 12th regiment returned to the battlefield again, the captains of each fleet directly coordinated with signals to change the main target to the high-level demons chasing the little devils...anything that didn't look like the little devils.
In this way, the forward of the demon army was finally blocked about 70 kilometers north of the scheduled combat point.
The escaped little devil still needs to be searched and killed, so we won’t care about it for now.
The air force is very strong, but due to some shortcomings in air combat, it can never be the end of the war. The real bloodbath depends on the ground forces.
The next task of the air force is to control the movement speed and direction of the demon army so that they can accurately land on the preset ground battlefield.
The specific method is to attack the demon groups that deviate from the preset route head-on, and only harass those who stay on the preset route.
Little devils can fly, and they fly very slowly, but they have no magic power and rely solely on their appendages to fly. Their aerodynamic appearance does not have the advantages of birds, their kinetic energy is not linear, and they consume a lot of energy. They have to be carried around by the air force for a few times. Resting on the ground for a long time.
The demons are not useless. After being beaten for a long time, a big guy suddenly emerged from the demon cluster.
A floating tentacle monster over twenty meters long.
Such a big guy can't hide in a cluster, so he must have been summoned.
And this thing truly suppresses the air force's combat power - it has a longer range!
The overall idea of the Royal Air Force is to use magic's disadvantage in range to suppress it. The range of all airborne weapons is more than 800 meters. The effective killing range of live ammunition can exceed three kilometers, and the effective damage ability to shields is also maintained at 1,000 meters. meters and above.
This was the first time I encountered an enemy with a longer range on the battlefield.
The floating tentacle monster uses some kind of laser-like magic. In short, it is not the magic itself that increases the range, but the effect of the light itself.
Wang Qi, who came from the industrial world, didn't even make a laser himself, so the magic was easily realized.
...It shouldn’t be particularly easy, otherwise it wouldn’t have appeared until now.
Three aircraft were lost on the spot, and several more were damaged during the retreat, forcing them to make a forced landing at the airport on the target battlefield.
There is a monster that can use laser, which is not a small problem, but it is still within the controllable range.
Because we soon learned from the pilots and observers of the injured aircraft that the effective damage distance of this thing to the aircraft was just over three thousand meters, and no matter how far it was, it would not cause the light beam to explode at the impact point.
According to the understanding of the laser system, within more than three thousand meters, its light beam will instantly heat the material to a gaseous state. Beyond this distance, energy will be lost due to atmospheric scattering and other reasons, and it can only melt the metal skin. .
In the melting stage, the characteristic of the laser is that it needs to be continuously pointed to complete the penetrating action. But the aircraft itself has flight vibrations, let alone a summoned object. Even if a supercomputer is used, as long as the status of each air particle cannot be monitored, it is impossible to continuously aim at the same point, even if the spot is relatively large. It's also easy to maneuver past sustained damage.
In short, the laser killing range of the floating tentacles is not infinite, and the visual observation limit of the Air Force is about thirty kilometers, so as long as you know this thing, you can avoid continuous losses.
As for whether the demons will gather all their troops near the tentacle monsters...the military is still eager for them to do this.
If you know yourself and your enemy, you will never be in danger. It is obvious that the demons do not understand the Kingdom's garrison thoroughly enough.
Soon they moved in the direction the army expected, which was to use the tentacle monsters as a security center to advance.
In a world where unlimited electricity does not work, there is a time limit for information transmission. By the time the military headquarters received the news and secret weapons arrived at the scene, the demon army forwards had already picked up the first group.
Fortunately, Tuan Tuan got the news in advance and temporarily piled some soil in front of the preset position to support the laser.
In addition, the range of some weapons of the ground forces is longer than that of the air force.
Such as the Styx mortar for anti-magic.
Although mortars have few opportunities to be used, their development has never stopped under Wang Qi's urging.
Existing mortars have a range of up to 5.5 kilometers, and they are good at attacking over mountains, but lasers cannot.
When the secret weapon arrived, the tentacle monster had transformed into an anti-missile machine and was fighting against the non-stop Styx bombs.
It is also understandable, because the plane is cruising not far away, and once it is hit by the Styx bomb, it will only die.
As for how it knew that the Styx shells were a threat to it, it was probably because the demons were controlling it. Otherwise, with its range and size advantages, it would still be a floating object and there would be no reason to be in the same group as the little demons.
In short, in order to avoid being shot by this thing with lasers, the group kept the Styx shells flying in the air. The demons obviously realized that the opposite side was an old opponent and did not want to charge directly, so that the two sides did not even enter the gun range.
The secret weapon that the military had not used until this moment was the bull bombing type.
