Chapter 1510: The U.S. Navy’s Rescue Countermeasures

On the NATO Indian Ocean Fleet command ship LaSalle, NATO Indian Ocean Fleet Commander Admiral Gertney, with a face full of anger, roared at the command staff and others:

"We have 500 satellites in the sky, and there are a large number of island surveillance forces on the sea. The communication system connects the east and west sides of the Indian Ocean, but now we have lost contact with our own oil machine. I don't know why. Could it be that God sent three Has the tanker completely disappeared..."

The angry roar fully demonstrated Gertney's heart at this moment. The Central Command was completely taken away on Diego Garcia Island. He is the supreme commander of the entire fleet at this moment. With the consent of the Pentagon.

When the Lightning fleet just sent back the news, he already felt that this war would inevitably be reversed in his own hands, and he would also become a famous general in the history of the US military, successfully saving a modern war that was about to fail.

Regrettably, the previous departure and attack were relatively smooth, and the Iraqi-Syrian Federation fleet was successfully attacked, successfully causing the opponent to lose most of its combat effectiveness.

For an air assault, it can be said to be a success from the action to the result.

But who would have thought that an accident would happen to the tanker that was originally only the last support. The three most advanced tankers that were heading to the scheduled location to meet up with the Lightning fleet suddenly lost contact with the headquarters, and even the satellites could not receive it. Signal to three tankers.

It's like marrying a daughter-in-law. You pay the dowry, and when you get married, you meet the relatives and start off. When you come back, you find that your home is gone.

At this moment, all the Lightning fighter jets have insufficient fuel left to fly back, and there is even a distance of more than a thousand kilometers.

It is extremely far away from the east and west coasts of the Indian Ocean, and Diego Garcia Island has also been controlled by the Iraqi-Syrian Federation.

Once these Lightning fleets cannot be refueled in the air, then these Lightning fighters will all fall into the Indian Ocean due to exhaustion of fuel.

What could be more tragic in this world than this ending? If it is said that all these Lightning fighter jets were shot down in combat, then there is nothing to say. After all, the Iraqi-Syrian Federation has shot down two hundred stealth fighter jets, and these few are not bad. .

But if it was because of the fuel tanker, it would be the biggest joke of the century if it fell into the sea because of exhausted fuel.

Who doesn't know that the global security system of the US military is the most advanced in the world, and military bases around the world have never seen such a moth.

How can this make Gertney accept such a result,

Not only him, but also the Pentagon cannot accept this fact. By then, the angry taxpayers may also prevent the entire military from stepping down.

"General, instead of thinking about how to pursue the tanker, we should immediately find a way to bring the Lightning Fighter back." A staff officer beside Gertney reminded him in a low voice.

"I don't need you to say, let the nearest tanker rush over there immediately, take off the partner tanker immediately, and provide them with aerial refueling before the Lightning fleet's fuel is exhausted." Gertney said.

The order was passed on, but everyone knew that doing so could not completely restore these lightning fighters.

In the vast Indian Ocean, not the Pacific Ocean, there is no place for these Lightning fighter jets to make an emergency landing.

And even if it is the nearest tanker, it cannot reach the side of the Lightning fleet before the Lightning fleet runs out of fuel.

The only way now is to let other Lightning fighters hang on the refueling pod with external hardpoints, act as partner tankers, and fly towards the Lightning fleet at the highest speed along the way.

On the aircraft carrier, there are also tankers, but after the tankers converted from the A6 attack aircraft have been retired one after another, only the partner tankers are left.

For most of the current aircraft carriers of the US military, the partner tanker is a fighter jet hung in the refueling pod, which can meet the refueling needs of at most two tactical combat aircraft and extend the combat radius.

This kind of refueling needs, in fact, the U.S. military has not used it in many places for more than 70 years since World War II. After all, military bases around the world are enough to support the combat needs of U.S. fighter jets around the world.

It's just that this time it was completely an unexpected variable. It is not even clear how the three tankers lost contact at the current position.

On the deck of the Ford aircraft carrier, the ground crew was busy. In order to reduce the load, all the weapons on the Lightning fighter could only be removed, and then refueling pods were installed on the external hardpoints of the wings.

The whole process was very fast. The Lightning fighter, which had just finished installing the refueling pod, immediately went to the ejection runway to prepare for takeoff.

In order to bring back all the fighters of the Lightning fleet, at least twelve Lightning fighters equipped with refueling pods must be dispatched.

And in order to ensure that I can fly to the Lightning fleet at the fastest speed, I have to unload all the weapons and equipment, not only have to fill up all the fuel tanks, but also add an external auxiliary fuel tank.

Otherwise, even if they can refuel the Lightning fleet at a supersonic cruise or a flight speed approaching the sonic limit, they will not have any fuel to return.

After all, the flight range of a fighter jet is normally the flight range under the calculation of economic efficiency. If the whole flight is in a high-speed flight state and the fuel consumption increases, it will not be able to fly within the normal flight radius.

The Lightning fleet is still 2,000 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier battle group, and he can only continue to fly for 500 kilometers. In terms of time, he can last for more than an hour.

Therefore, the partner tanker that takes off needs to be able to fly at least 1,500 kilometers, and then come back with refueling.

The efficiency of Ford's electromagnetic ejection and the efficiency of replacing missiles have set a new record. Everyone is very anxious, and everyone wants to let the Lightning fleet go home. This kind of anxiety makes everyone have no time to talk. Let the partner tanker take off as early as possible.

Soon, twelve Lightning refueling planes successfully took off, quickly climbed to the limit, and immediately broke through the speed of sound. The thin air at high altitudes reduced the resistance of the fighter jets, which facilitated the reduction of fuel consumption along the way.

The Lightning refueling fleet that set off did not know it. When they started to contact the Lightning fleet, the communication was immediately captured. Even the early warning aircraft used as a relay communication were all exposed to the Super MiG's electronic warfare system.

Cai Ruichen, on the other hand, likes the way the enemy just sees hope, and then immediately faces the hope of being shattered.

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