Chapter 349: Chapter 181: Frequent Deadly Moves_3
Chapter 349: Chapter 181: Frequent Deadly Moves_3
In the sky, the situation reversed, as AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles, like scattered flowers from the heavens, began to chase after the US Forces’ F-15s. The pilots of these F-15 Fighters were aware of the prowess of the mysterious fighter before the task, so they never got close to the drone, instead choosing to strike from 75 kilometers away and quickly retreat. Little did they know that their attacks would fail and that they would be caught by high-speed pursuit, with their turn to be chased by the enemy’s missiles.
The US Forces had studied the capabilities of this mysterious F-15 as well as the previous Predator Drones and made a very terrifying discovery. Once a target was locked by the missiles of the mysterious F-15, there was no escaping it; no matter the method used, the target was ultimately hit by the enemy’s missiles. The only way to preserve one’s life was to eject and parachute before the missile hit.
Thus, the US Air Force F-15 pilots knew this method, and after their Fighter Jets had tried every trick in the book to shake off the pursuing AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles to no avail, they didn’t hesitate to choose escape by ejector. The unmanned planes in the sky were then hit by missiles, resulting in fierce explosions.
Below the thunderclouds, such fiery bursts bloomed twenty times over. That is to say, with just one attack, the drone caused the US side to lose twenty fighter jets, the largest loss for the US Forces since World War II, severely weakening the US Air Force’s presence in Europe.
In the US Forces’ combat plan, the fighters encircling the perimeter were meant to execute a disruption strategy, distracting the drone’s attention with their maneuvers. Then, at the critical moment, they would call for ground-based anti-aircraft artillery to launch a widespread attack, aiming to take down the drone with ground fire. Therefore, their true killing move was not the Air-to-Air Missiles launched by the F-15s but the ground-based anti-aircraft artillery in the Paris downtown.
However, the US Forces miscalculated, not expecting the drone to charge into the Paris downtown and fly between skyscrapers with extraordinary skill, which caused the AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles, initially meant only to distract, to hit these buildings and inflict substantial damage on Paris.
It was precisely because of the accidental harm in Paris that the French commander, who was working with the US Forces, realized the danger of allowing the drone to remain in the city area. Making a rapid change in plans, they abandoned the use of naval cannon fire to attack the drone, allowing it to leave the downtown area. With no ground threat remaining, the drone concentrated its full power on the feigning F-15 squadron and simultaneously fired 20 missiles, shooting them down.
The emergence of this unexpected situation created a massive gap in the supposedly foolproof US encirclement plan, a gap that Yan Fei exploited with a super counter-kill, causing heavy losses to the US side.
The drone demonstrated its terrifying combat capabilities, shocking all observers. It then quickly turned to fly westward to break through the surrounding ring of fighter jets and return to the ocean where it would submerge to the sea bed, concealing itself and escaping danger.
As the drone approached the western encirclement, it found the last ten fighter jets there continuing to fire missiles at the drone until they had exhausted all their ammunition before quickly retreating.
This time, free from the interference of ground-based artillery, the drone neatly used a 30-millimeter naval cannon to shoot down all incoming missiles. Then, its Air-to-Air Missiles, launched almost simultaneously with those of the fighter jets, caught up to the ten fighter jets ahead, and with Quantum Radar’s lock-on, they had no escape and were all shot down by the drone. But the pilots of these fighter jets all chose to parachute to safety before the Air-to-Air Missiles hit them.