Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 639: The “new” aircraft
Chapter 740 "New" Aircraft
Charlie is a pilot of the Royal Air Force of England. After the disaster, he and his flying regiment were transferred to an air force base in the south of France because England abandoned the homeland to ensure the survival of the people. This stationed down.
There is also a French flying regiment stationed with them, which makes this air force base, which is not too big, a bit crowded and cramped.
But this is only temporary. When the alien invasion began, the two flying regiments stationed here and their aircraft were quickly exhausted.
A flying regiment usually has about 24 fighter jets, 50-80 pilots, a number of reserve pilots and about 200 ground crew.
In the modern warfare mode, the two flying groups are quite a powerful force, but in the face of overwhelming alien creatures and harsh weather conditions, these two flying groups and the fighters they equip cannot Not to mention the role they should play, the loss is also quite fast.
This also led to the fact that one month after the war with alien creatures, in the air force base where Charlie was located, the two flying regiments combined with almost two hundred pilots, only half of them were left, and more than fifty fighter jets were lost. , only seven or eight planes that were repaired because of damaged engines or missing parts survived.
Not only that, but the ground crew also suffered a certain loss. Although the loss was not large, it still made the morale of the entire air force base quite low.
Although the statement of the first-class Air Force, the second-class Navy, and the Army's third-class is just a joke, it can indeed reflect the difference between the three from the side. Among the high-tech arms, only the army is very common.
Especially for the English, the Army is the only force in the three armies that does not have a royal title.
In the past, Charlie was very proud of his status as an elite RAF pilot.
But now, the army, which has always been despised by them, is fighting desperately on the front line to withstand the attack of alien creatures, but these air forces can only squat in the air force base, which not only stimulates their self-esteem, but also aggravates it. The morale of these Air Force pilots was low.
The massive loss of aircraft not only made them unable to fight, but also made them idle now. After all, with such a low morale and the loss of aircraft, everyone has no intention of training at all. Most people just gather in the dormitory every day. Play cards and fights to pass the boring time.
If it weren't for the shortage of supplies, it would be difficult for even pilots like them to buy alcohol. Charlie believes that there must be a lot of drunks in the base.
Charlie himself is fairly self-disciplined, perhaps the result of being strictly required by his father since he was a child. Charlie still more or less retains the temperament and self-discipline of the British gentlemen back then, and is not as degenerate as other teammates.
But even so, Charlie feels that he can only do this, after all, the whole base is like this now, and there is nothing he can do.
Even the base officers are too lazy to restrain these pilots, and even the daily training has become indulgent.
This made Charlie, who still insisted on exercising his physical fitness as much as possible every day, to maintain his own state, feeling very helpless.
With a helpless mood, he ordered a lunch in the cafeteria, and then Charlie sat down at a table and ate his own lunch.
Because of the shortage of materials and the need to supply the front line first, the base where the supply of materials was reasonably guaranteed is now gradually in a state of shortage. The lunch has dropped from the original bread, sausages and vegetables to almost only now. Level of potatoes and carrots.
Even a large part of these potatoes and carrots was grown by the base itself, which emptied an underground hangar that had no planes, and then built a greenhouse.
Charlie didn't feel that he had anything to complain about. He had to fight to get enough food. Now that there are no planes, these pilots are useless.
Just after resigning his fate like this, Charlie still felt a little unwilling. He really hoped that a new plane could be obtained from above, and he could also drive the plane back to the battlefield to fight those alien monsters. I feel like I'm not wasting my life.
In fact, Charlie is now reporting and applying to be transferred to the front line. Even if he is just operating machine guns in the trenches, Charlie feels that it is better than sitting in the base and doing nothing.
But obviously, Charlie's superiors don't want to waste valuable pilots in the trenches ahead. Even if they have nothing to do and no new planes for them, they are still valuable pilots and can't be wasted like this.
As Charlie was eating potatoes and thinking about how to convince his superiors to transfer him to the front line, a pilot with a French logo rushed towards him and shouted: "Hey! Charlie! Great news! We have a new plane!"
"New plane? What new plane?" Charlie still wasn't sure about the situation, so he quickly grabbed the French pilot and asked him, "Renault, make it clear, what's going on?"
Reynolds, who was held by Charlie, was very emotional~IndoMTL.com~ danced at Charlie to vent his emotions: "New fighter! Charlie! New fighters are brought in! 20 Sea Harriers sealed during the Cold War. And 18 Mirage F1s! We have planes! We can fly again!"
The French pilot Renault is a friend Charlie has only met since he came to this base. He is usually very enthusiastic. Obviously, there are planes that can fly again, which is a very exciting thing for him.
However, Charlie was not only surprised, but also puzzled and puzzled. He asked Renault: "Sea Harrier and Phantom F1? Airplanes during the Cold War? Where did they find these antiques? And these old antiques have been out of production for many years? Are there still repair parts?"
These Cold War-era aircraft belong to the outdated third-generation aircraft. Compared with the current mainstream fourth-generation aircraft, and even the fifth-generation aircraft that Yanguo, Lucia and the Federation have already started service, they are undoubtedly backward and will be eliminated. .
But this does not mean that these planes cannot be used. After all, they were the main models of the year. Many planes that were in service at the end of the Cold War have only been sealed for more than 20 years. They are still enough to fight alien creatures.
Even in a sense, these third-generation machines are better than the fourth-generation machines for fighting alien creatures.
(end of this chapter)