Chapter 238 Brother, Your Drone Smells so Good

Rubyon V, Central Continent.

113 degrees east longitude, 22 degrees north latitude, 18,000 meters in the sky.

A drone with a wingspan of 40 meters and a wing-body fusion layout is crossing the sky in a stable and elegant posture.

With omnidirectional broadband stealth capability, it is like entering an unmanned area in the sky above this continent.

But even so, before approaching a red area on the navigation map, this stealth reconnaissance drone began to slightly adjust its attitude and turn, and did not directly carry out its best penetrating reconnaissance.

From the route, it almost slid along the edge of the red area.

Its wingtips pulled out two barely detectable vortices, and the fuselage tilted slightly to the left, revealing the "belly" with low-visibility paint.

The optical/infrared composite reconnaissance unit hidden in the optical window on the belly immediately began routine photography.

At the same time, the electronic intelligence reconnaissance system (ELINT) carried in the aircraft was also activated to start detecting whether there were any suspicious electromagnetic signals within the range.

Whenever ELINT collects suspicious radio frequency signals from the ground, the ground moving target detection function (GMTI) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) also start to operate to see if there are any suspicious units in the target area.

During this period, the stealth "big bat" discovered several very suspicious targets one after another.

But after the judgment of the onboard AI, it was considered that they might be false targets set up specifically to lure drones for more accurate active detection.

Because the instructions received by the onboard AI before takeoff were to conduct a frontier reconnaissance to "ensure its own absolute safety", the onboard AI finally adopted a conservative strategy.

It only recorded the approximate coordinates of the suspicious target and did not turn on the radar for a more detailed search.

During this whole process, the stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft remained silent and did not make any contact with the operator behind. Instead, it flew according to the predetermined route under the control of the onboard navigation AI.

When it finally drew a huge arc in the air and completed a 180-degree turn, flying towards the rear airport, the onboard computer also began to organize the information just detected, so that intelligence personnel and combat staff could conduct preliminary analysis later.

Half an hour later, the huge 'bat' landed at a civilian airport, where the joint command center of the first battle group is located.

Under the fully automatic control of the onboard AI, the 'big bat' accurately stopped at the berth, turned off the engine, and was quickly towed into the hangar by a tractor.

Several ground crew members wearing combat uniforms and Atlas armbands on their right arms immediately surrounded it with various instruments and ground pipelines, and began to carry out post-landing maintenance.

In the terminal that has been arranged as a battlefield command post, Amber and a group of staff officers are in front of a huge holographic projection platform, watching the intelligence sent back by the drone in advance after entering the safe airspace.

Not far from the holographic projection platform, a group of people wearing various combat uniforms and casual clothes are looking forward to this side like a group of hyenas.

If they hadn't been blocked by several fully armed Roma infantrymen in front of them, staring at them with murderous eyes, these 'hyenas' might have pounced on them long ago.

"To be honest, I never thought I would see a group of hyenas in the terminal. I thought they only existed on the Blue Planet and had long been extinct."

Amber stared at the holographic projection platform in front of him and said in a teasing tone.

The Atlas staff officers around him couldn't help but laugh in a low voice when they heard this.

Soon, with the help of Lilith, Amber and the staff officers sorted out the data sent back by the RQ220 'Observer' stealth drone and formed a useful intelligence.

After he straightened his back and stretched, he sent a signal in the internal communication channel, and the Roma infantry in the distance immediately retreated to both sides.

The remnants of the planetary garrison and the liaison officers of various companies who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed over as if they saw the cafeteria open.

When they were about to rush to Amber, they all remembered the scene where more than 20 of them were knocked down by Amber's psychic impact last time, so they stopped immediately.

This scene looked like there was an invisible force field in front of Amber.

Looking at these "hungry" and "crying" liaison officers in front of her, Amber "tsk"ed unhappily, and then used the "face-to-face group" function of the terminal to send out the intelligence.

Although the military network and data link have been popularized in all units of the coalition forces, and they are all developed based on the federal "Link77" data link and command and control system.

However, there are still many differences in the details and interface rules of the systems of various companies. The API interface rules of some companies are particularly complex, which makes the technical officers of each company miserable.

So even if the network is completed, the troops between the companies can only complete basic communications and on-site coordinated command and operation.

For example, intelligence, information distribution, map and terrain data sharing, etc., cannot be done for the time being.

These more important intelligence cannot be shared carelessly by "building a group".

So things like sharing intelligence can only be distributed after face-to-face identification of each other's keys.

"Have you received it?"

"Received! Received! Thank you, Boss Rebill!"

"Thank goodness you're here!"

"Boss Rebir, your drone is really good!"

The liaison officers who received the documents were all smiling and bowing to Amber and the staff beside him.

Although the on-site commanders of their respective companies seem to look down on Atlas at present.

But as the people who have the most contact with Atlas in the past few days, these liaison officers have different views on Atlas from their superiors.

Not only did the company's top leaders go directly to the front line and fight with their fighters.

And Atlas's combat troops are also the most substantial among all the coalition forces in terms of combat preparation.

Although there is a lack of support and guarantee troops, in other aspects, especially in tactical reconnaissance, it can almost be said that the coalition forces are beaten.

In the days when the coalition forces were preparing for the attack, the large-scale reconnaissance on the front line was almost entirely done by Atlas's two RQ220 'Observer' stealth drones, which flew in shifts at high intensity.

The cause of this matter has to start from the first combat meeting held by the coalition headquarters.

At that time, the top leaders of the coalition believed that all the satellites in orbit were their own. Although the number was not as large as before, there were still satellites in the sky anyway.

So the coalition command quickly mobilized two reconnaissance satellites to conduct reconnaissance on the attack direction of the first battle group.

As a result, when the synthetic aperture radar on the reconnaissance satellite generated high-resolution radar images and sent them back, the coalition commanders were dumbfounded.

The imperial remnants obviously knew that the coalition would conduct reconnaissance through satellites.

After using professional orbital monitoring vehicles to find out the approximate time of the coalition reconnaissance satellite's passing, they used ground electronic warfare jamming equipment to interfere with the satellite's synthetic aperture radar.

The result was naturally very effective.

After all, although the synthetic aperture radar can generate high-resolution radar imaging comparable to optical satellite reconnaissance, it is still a radar in essence.

This also means that as long as the power of the jammer is large and strong enough, the synthetic aperture radar will be blinded in space.

Although this interference method also lets the coalition know that there must be imperial troops in the interfered area.

But without knowing their number, organization, and specific location, it is impossible to carry out orbital strikes.

This is a material world, and orbital strikes are not "magic" that can be launched by just moving your fingers and pressing a button.

It's fine if there is no forward combat control team to provide close-range guidance.

Without even a relatively accurate coordinate, it would be useless to ask the orbital attack ship to lower its orbit to attack.

Moreover, such a large area is obviously not within the range of the eight orbital attack ships in orbit to "clean the ground".

Of course, throwing a few thermonuclear weapons will definitely solve the problem.

But any normal person would not do this.

Then, in Amber's opinion, the top leaders of the coalition, who had been fooled by the security war, came up with a "genius" idea.

When this idea was transformed into an order and officially implemented on the first day.

Two high-speed manned reconnaissance aircraft that took off from the airport early in the morning, which were the few remaining on this planet, never returned.

In their last communications before losing contact, they all reported that they were discovered by ground radar and then irradiated by high-energy lasers during supersonic cruising.

This high-speed two-seat manned reconnaissance aircraft can forcibly reconnaissance through the war zone at a speed of Mach 5. There are only three squadrons deployed on this planet.

Usually, it can quickly reach the abnormal area and conduct close-range reconnaissance when an emergency occurs.

Although on weekdays, they are invincible when facing mobs or armed rebellions on the planet.

Many times, people on the ground can only hear the explosion of breaking the sound barrier at most, and can't even see the shadow of these high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.

Unfortunately, the opponent has now become the regular army of the empire.

'Everyone is equal in front of the speed of light'.

In this era of directed energy weapons flying all over the sky, the survival rate of air units in the atmosphere is a bit bad.

After losing precious reconnaissance aircraft and pilots, the coalition command also gave up the plan to continue to send high-speed reconnaissance aircraft.

Instead, it sent high-altitude, low-speed, long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance aircraft for reconnaissance many times.

But basically it was a meat bun hitting a dog - there was no return.

High-energy lasers and HCP's charged particle cannons can hit such high-altitude slow targets.

Moreover, the imperial remnants on Rubion V were obviously well prepared in this regard, and the air surveillance was very good. High-altitude drones without stealth performance were easily discovered.

Although the drones of various companies and garrison troops on the coalition side were not few, it was still a bit unbearable to be shot down like mosquitoes every day.

Seeing that the inventory of reconnaissance drones of various companies was basically at the bottom, the coalition headquarters did not dare to send drones to send heads.

But it was about to prepare for an all-out attack, and it was impossible not to conduct combat reconnaissance. It was impossible to let the troops stare at the "fog of war" in front and force it.

It was at this time that Amber and Atlas stood up with RQ220.

Because Amber has always been a person who pays attention to "being prepared for any eventuality". After suffering from insufficient reconnaissance means on Robert IV, he has always paid attention to this aspect.

So when I brought the troops to Rubion V this time, I brought two ordered stealth drones.

The purpose was to find a way to maintain reconnaissance on the front line in high-risk and high-pressure situations.