Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

The first is to take off.

In order to allow the air combat drone to quickly reach the flight speed and meet the enemy air combat unit in time, Lu Yuan simply made a special electromagnetic catapult for the drone launch vehicle.

When in use, the launch vehicle only needs to be like a ballistic missile launch vehicle, by supporting the launching frame with a catapult to a suitable position, then the electromagnetic catapult can be activated and the drone carried on it can be quickly launched.

Moreover, this launcher is very versatile and can be quickly switched from five degrees to seventy-five degrees in elevation. It can adapt to most special terrain launches, even on hillsides or in rainforests with relatively prosperous vegetation. Send the drone easily.

The launch problem is solved with a catapult, and the corresponding landing recovery also has a similar setting.

Generally speaking, air combat drones require a high flying speed, even when returning to the launch vehicle for replenishment, the speed is much faster than the reconnaissance type.

If it is a carrier-based fighter, the speed when returning to the deck and landing can still be 200 kilometers per hour.

For landing at this speed, the required runway is obviously not what the UAV launch vehicle can provide. Unless the launch vehicle is made into a train or a land carrier.

But if you want to keep this speed down, the requirements for the drone's aero engine will be too high.

As mentioned earlier, Lu Yuan's involvement in this field is still quite limited.

So what to do with this problem? Is it possible that an engineering vehicle needs to be used to find a place to build an airstrip when landing?

Well, this is also a way to solve the problem, but it is really not a good solution. It can be used as a backup emergency plan, but it is a bit unprofessional when used as a conventional method.

What is the good way that Lu Yuan wants? Can it be done?

Well, if it was in the past, or in other planes, it's hard to say.

But now, especially in this plane, Lu Yuan has a simple alternative.

Using the light analysis engine of the Swallow’s baby tyrant Mark Rabbit flying motorcycle, adding a set of levitation equipment to the air combat drone, plus the electromagnet recovery manipulator on the launch vehicle, the problem is completely solved~

Simply put, when the air combat drone flies back to the area near the launch vehicle, it can reduce the output of the aero engine, relying solely on the levitation ability of the optical analysis engine, and slowly glide through the last section of the distance relying on the previous inertia.

When the speed drops to within 100 kilometers per hour, the drone will fly to the recovery robotic arm with electromagnet function on the launch vehicle.

Because the speed is slow enough, the special parts reserved on the belly of the drone can be captured by the magnetic field generated by the electromagnet, and then the recovery can be completed.

If the speed of the drone is not reduced enough during recovery, the launch vehicle can also be in the same direction as the drone, and the relative speed can be reduced to the recoverable threshold, and the recovery task can be completed in most cases.

However, in this way, in addition to the need to install another set of engines on the air combat drone, a large enough iron structure power supply magnet must be left for adsorption, which will naturally cause a substantial drop in the bomb load.

However, this issue, which is extremely important to air combat aircraft in modern warfare, does not matter to Lu Yuan.

First of all, although fighters in modern air combat, like most other armed vehicles, are essentially firepower delivery platforms, the firepower used in modern air combat increasingly relies on air-to-air missiles with high intelligence and accuracy beyond the visual range.

If, just if, if the US card finally cannot allow another civil war due to the fire and water of the two huge forces, then the two factions of fighters in the air battle for air supremacy will almost always be completed before the pilot observes the opponent's aircraft with naked eyes. Warring.

Take the U.S. Air Force’s latest core air-to-air missile AIM-120C-7 on the Los Santos timeline as an example. It has a flying speed of Mach 4, a minimum attack range of 5 kilometers, and a maximum attack range of 100 kilometers.

After deducting the moisture in these parameters, which are mainly used to deceive people and deceive military expenditures, in real combat, the attack range of this missile can also reach at least 20 kilometers.

In other words, this kind of missile can hit a low-level launch, and when it is launched, the relative distance between enemy and our fighters can also be 20 kilometers away.

In fact, because the plane is also in motion, its actual flight distance will not be this number. The higher or lower depends on the posture at the time.

Keke, what does it mean to enter higher? Don't understand~

In short, because air combat fighters have already fired air-to-air missiles at the enemy at a relative distance of 20 kilometers, or even 30 to 40 kilometers away, air combat in modern warfare, at least between first-class air forces, hardly meets each other.

As a result, the decisive factor in air combat began to gradually assign some weight to the air-to-air missiles from the performance of the fighter aircraft during World War II.

So, this leads to the previous question. For modern air combat, enough missiles mean lethality.

If our fighter plane has insufficient ammunition and the missile strikes the enemy one step at a time, then we can only choose to escape.

Well, it should be called retreat.

What to fight close-range dogfights, etc., can only appear in extreme situations when the enemy also lights up the missiles, and there is no teammate, and the brain is not easy to use.

The translation is basically impossible.

Therefore, in modern air combat, being able to carry one more air-to-air missile is sometimes the starting point of a victory. Therefore, the amount of ammunition, or the ability to mount it, is also very important.

So why does it matter to Lu Yuan?

The most important point is that although the target enemy of Luyuan's air combat drone is also the air force, it is not an enemy fighter plane, but a pterodactyl.

Unless Ascharotar also installs over-the-horizon air-to-air missiles for their pterodactyl units, Lu Yuan does not need to care too much about the missile's load.

After all, the original intention of modern warfare air-to-air missiles is to deal with aviation vehicles that are also manufactured by this generation of humans.

The warhead of the air-to-air missile is actually very small, the charge is not much, and the power is not high. Because with the strength of contemporary human aircraft, it only needs a relatively small amount of charge and a small warhead to be scrapped.

Therefore, for air-to-air missiles, range and hit rate are far more important than power.

But with such a small charge, it is enough to attack artificial aircraft, but it is not necessarily to attack the pterodactyl units that have been strengthened by biomodulation technology.

At the very least, it greatly increases the probability of not dying after being injured.

If the enemy's counterattack ability cannot be paralyzed in time, then this hit is not much different from no hit.

Therefore, compared with air-to-air missiles, Luyuan's weapons carried by UAVs mainly strengthen the power, rather than the range and accuracy.

As for what kind of weapon, additional technology is required, in fact, the technology is also readily available, that is, after entering the time cycle, Lu Yuan has been used as the strongest weapon, the pod electromagnetic gun of the Dragon UAV.