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The air force of the Overlord is undoubtedly one of the strongest air forces in the world!
Located in the Middle East, the Overlord has a low economic level, infertile land, and a small population, but its technology is very advanced, its industrial level is very advanced, and its military strength is not only the strongest in the Middle East, but also outstanding in the world. In the Middle East, it has no rivals. In modern warfare, seizing air supremacy is often the first step to seize the initiative, so the Overlord attaches great importance to the development of the Air Force. Although the number of air forces is small and the scale of the Air Force is not too large, its combat strength is strong and is not inferior to others in the world.
There is a reason for the high degree of militarization of the Overlord. In the Middle East, due to religious differences and territorial disputes, the Overlord often conflicts with neighboring countries. In this environment, the Overlord can only rely on the development of a strong military force to ensure its own safety. Since 1948, the Overlord Air Force has participated in battles many times. In the first war, it was because the Little Overlord Air Force suppressed the Egyptian Air Force's reconnaissance aircraft that it seized the initiative and successfully won air superiority. During the subsequent wars, the Little Overlord Air Force also demonstrated strong combat strength. The Air Force did not disappoint and can be said to be an ever-victorious force.
After that, the Little Overlord maintained the strength of the strongest air force in the Middle East for a long time. It was equipped with more than 700 aircraft of various types, including 343 fighters of 3 models, including 83 F15 fighters organized into 3 squadrons, 224 F16 fighters organized into 10 squadrons, and 36 F35 fighters organized into 3 squadrons. It is worth mentioning that the Little Overlord is the first country to use the F35 other than the United States, and it is also the first country to use the F35 in actual combat, so in summary.
Just looking at the equipment on paper, the Little Overlord Air Force is definitely the best in the Middle East, completely crushing any other country's air force, even if you look at the world, it is also among the best.
Looking at the training level of its pilots, the average annual flight time of its fighter pilots exceeds 200 hours, which is also the highest level in the world. In addition, due to the long-term military confrontation with neighboring countries, its air force has extremely rich combat experience and brilliant combat records. In the "Six-Day War", the Little Overlord Air Force raided the Egyptian Air Force Base in the Sinai Peninsula at the beginning of the war, and destroyed all 500 Egyptian aircraft with overwhelming force, directly locking the victory. In the "Babylon Operation", 6 F15s and 8 F16s of the Little Overlord Air Force raided the Iraqi capital Baghdad and destroyed the nuclear reactor costing $400 million. In the 1982 Bekaa Valley air battle, it crushed the Syrian Air Force. It is said that its F15 and F16 shot down more than 80 Syrian fighters without any damage.
It can be said that compared with the Little Overlord Army being beaten dizzy in the "Aqsa Flood" operation, the Little Overlord Air Force has always maintained a good level of preparation and extremely high technical and tactical qualities.
In modern warfare, it can be said that air supremacy determines the outcome of a war. Whether it is the army or the navy, if there is no air supremacy, it is basically a sitting duck.
Without air supremacy, the enemy cannot be threatened. So what are the advantages of air supremacy? First of all, the territory and territorial waters are not subject to enemy air attacks, because the enemy is no longer able to launch an attack. Then, the enemy's territory can be exposed to our air attack, which can directly and territorially strike the enemy's resistance, because the enemy can no longer move in the air. In addition, it can protect the country's land, naval bases, and transportation lines, and threaten these aspects of the enemy.
In addition, it can prevent the enemy from supporting the army and navy from the air, and at the same time ensure air support for our army and navy. The party with air supremacy can prevent the enemy from rebuilding its air power because it can destroy material resources and manufacturing sites. For example, in the Gulf War, the United States went to war with Iraq from afar. In fact, Iraq had advantages. Even if the United States' military strength was strong enough, it was not familiar with Iraq. Therefore, Iraq had certain advantages, but it still lost in the end. That was because the United States had air supremacy.
Xiaobawang has a small population and a narrow territory. To be honest, if you really want to build an invincible army, the hardware conditions are no problem... Just spend money, buy whatever is advanced, and let the Americans help with training, there is no problem at all.
But the army needs a base, and the population of Xiaobawang limits the size of the army. The standing army of 168,000 people can quickly increase the reserve to 408,000 people to bring the total number of armed forces to 576,000. In fact, this is also the limit. After all, you can't pull all the men in the country to the battlefield. If you don't mind this situation on the battlefield, 10 million people are enough to pull out 2.5-3 million troops. However, in this case, the efficiency of your country's factories will be in a very terrible inefficiency, and a large number of uneven soldiers will also increase the training time. Similarly, the reduction in the efficiency of a large number of factories will lead to insufficient supply of weapons, and the tactics of one person for one machine and one machine for one ship in the later period of Neon will continue to be staged. The whole country is left with only the elderly and children. Women are assigned to various positions in the name of the country, and their energy is squeezed 24 hours a day just to exchange for pitiful rations. The running state machine is like a man-eating beast, constantly chewing the blood of every citizen.
Therefore, the development of the army is foreseeable, and there will be no greater breakthrough. Unless it reaches the point of national extinction, the army can only be like this.
So the development of the air force became the focus of Xiaobawang!
However, thanks to its excellent scientific research capabilities and its special relationship with the United States, Xiaobawang has done very well in this regard.
Xiaobawang's air force can definitely be called one of the strongest in the world!
There is no doubt about this!
Xiaobawang is very confident in its air force!
So they sent their own air force to hunt that monster!
I saw several black spots crossing the sky above the azure sky, very fast!
In just a blink of an eye, those black spots became bigger.
It is the F-35, which is now the fifth-generation (domestic standard fourth-generation) multi-purpose stealth fighter that the US military and its allies are equipping in large quantities. Whether it is really powerful or not, the public seems to have mixed opinions, and pilots may have more say. The US "Signal Daily" website once published an article summarizing the "9 major advantages" of the F-35 from the perspective of 31 interviewed pilots.
At that time, a total of 174 US military pilots received flight training for Lockheed Martin's F-35A Lightning II fighter jet. John Venable, a senior defense policy researcher at the Heritage Foundation, used his "connections" in the US Air Force for 25 years to interview 31 of them. These people had never flown a fifth-generation aircraft before, and had flown fighters such as F-15C, F-15E, F-16C and A-10.
A former F-15C flight instructor said that in a simulated air battle, he flew the F-35A against his original "Eagle" fighter, which was almost like turning on the "invincible" mode. Although the F-35A still had limitations in response and maneuverability at the time, almost every pilot interviewed wanted to choose the F-35A instead of the fighter they had flown before in most air combat scenarios.
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Although it was ridiculed as "fat electricity" by military fans because of its fat fuselage, the maneuverability of the F-35A exceeded the pilots' imagination. A former F-16C fighter pilot said that the current maneuverability of the F-35A is limited to a certain overload G value. If the restrictions are released, its maneuverability will be further improved. Its rudder-assisted turning ability is incredible, providing a constant 28-degree turn per second. The pilot graduated from the Air Force weapons training course, which is equivalent to the Navy's "TOP GUN". In the air-to-ground scenario, the F-35 impressed the pilots even more.
Three flight instructors who flew the F-16CJ (the Wild Weasel modification of the F-16) said that when simulating attacks on enemy surface-to-air missile positions, one F-35A can detect and attack these surface-to-air missile positions faster and more effectively than three F-16CJs. This is entirely due to its stealth and situational awareness advantages, especially the onboard AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare system, which can lock the location of enemy surface-to-air missile radars 200 kilometers away. The F-35 uses the APG-81 multi-function active phased array (AESA) airborne fire control radar, which can not only complete air-to-air and air-to-ground combat searches, but also has strong electronic warfare capabilities. The interviewed pilots said that the APG-81 can effectively "turn off" enemy aircraft and ground radars in electronic countermeasure mode. At the same time, the aircraft is invisible, and the enemy cannot figure out where this electronic attack comes from. The F-35 is designed to focus on ground attack. In close air support (CAS) operations, it also has advantages over the A-10, which the US Air Force cannot do without.
A former A-10 flight instructor said that the F-35A's EOTS advanced electro-optical targeting system can detect and lock targets farther and more accurately in low-threat CAS operations. At the same time, in high-threat airspace, the F-35 is almost the only choice, and the US Marine Corps' F-35B recently participated in CAS operations in Afghanistan.
The maintainability of stealth fighters has attracted much attention, which is related to the aircraft's serviceability and dispatch rate. A U.S. military pilot said that it is "common practice" for the F-35A to conduct multiple combat and training flights every day. The stealth coating on the F-35 greatly reduces the maintainability requirements, which is much better than the F-117, B-2, and F-22.
The F-35's cockpit avionics, through a large, split-screen panoramic multi-function display (MFDS), advanced helmet-mounted displays, voice control and other technologies, greatly reduce the burden on pilots, especially in air-to-ground combat, no longer requiring a two-person crew like the F-15E, but pilots reported that the F-35's MFDS multi-function display needs to be further optimized, and many pilots complained that the same threat would appear repeatedly on the situational awareness screen.
Generally speaking, stealth fighters are extremely expensive. Since the F-35 was developed by the United States with the help of more than 10 allies, it has almost monopolized the fifth-generation aircraft market in the West, with a total order of more than 3,200 aircraft. The annual batch production is now close to 100 aircraft, which greatly spreads the unit research and development costs. Therefore, the unit price of the F-35A has now dropped to 100 million US dollars, which is even cheaper than the Typhoon, Rafale and F-15E. This is why more and more US allies choose it.
And Xiaobawang is the first country to equip the F35, except for the United States.
And the F35 equipped by Xiaobawang is different from the F35 that will be equipped by other US allies. The most special thing about it is that it is equipped with a system with special performance of Xiaobawang. One of the most critical technologies is that the F-35I is equipped with Xiaobawang's domestic C4I system. This system can ensure that the F-35I fighter of Xiaobawang Air Force is networked with other fighters of Xiaobawang Air Force, but it does not interact with the computer system of F-35. The whole system sends data to other military equipment of Xiaobawang, especially nearby fighters, through locally made data links to help them detect, prioritize and attack enemy targets.
This technology is crucial for Xiaobawang, which is facing "missile threats" at any time.
In terms of airborne weapons, Xiaobawang F-35I fighters are also equipped with advanced domestic ammunition, including SPICE "Seasoning"-1000/2000 smart guided bombs.
The "Seasoning"-1000/2000 smart guided bomb, produced by Rafael, has performance comparable to the US JDAM joint direct attack munition. Among them, the "Seasoning"-1000 can fix the satellite and optoelectronic knowledge system on an unguided MK83454 kg bomb through additional components, and it can not only attack the target based on GPS, but also has a manual "man-in-the-loop" (the operator still has a second or uninterrupted instruction correction after the first instruction operation) guidance option to manually place the bomb on the target, or abort the attack when necessary. At the same time, because the guided bomb adopts a foldable straight wing design, its range is up to 100 kilometers, and its performance is very good.
The F-35I fighter is also equipped with the latest Python "Strange Snake"-5 short-range air-to-air missile. This type of air-to-air missile is equipped with optoelectronic and image infrared seekers, which can scan enemy aircraft in the target area and then lock them for terminal pursuit. The missile has a range of 20 kilometers. In order to increase the range, Xiaobawang has made technical improvements to the latest short-range air-to-air missile "Python"-5, and installed a new fuel tank in its body, which increases its combat radius by 3hon. The "Python"-5 missile also has all-directional attack capabilities (including backwards).
The F-35I will also carry the "Icebreaker" missile developed by Rafael. It is reported that the missile has a range of 300 kilometers and is an upgraded version of the "Destroyer" cruise missile. This type of missile can carry a 250-kilogram penetrating, blasting or killing warhead. It is worth noting that the missile's onboard electronic equipment is equipped with advanced infrared sensors, which can analyze and match terrain photos based on a large database to determine its own attack direction, and can also autonomously determine the attack target based on the "brain" when necessary. It can be said that the "Icebreaker" missile has a strong autonomous attack capability and anti-electronic interference capability as well as super high damage capability.
In addition, in order to expand the combat radius of the F-35 and deter potential or existing enemies, preparations have been made to add external fuel tanks to it. Although this action makes the F-35 stealth fighter unworthy of its name, it is indeed very practical in the face of the situation faced by the Little Overlord.