Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

Fortunately, this little battle didn't really fight in the end, or it didn't last long.

Although this is in the intermittent period, after all, the war is on the whole, which is too inappropriate.

What's more, the golden eagle Icarus has begun to appear frequently again recently, indicating that Cassandra of Los Santos is always paying attention to this side.

But the most important thing was that Eliza, who was in command of the support tank, came over to help Lu Yuan clear the siege.

Lu Yuan's command vehicle and logistics units are normally organized with Eliza's support convoy.

Of course, there is another important reason. After a series of battles, the fuel consumption of Rosecuff’s aerial combat drone is approaching a critical point. Although it can continue to fly for a long time, if it is involved in fierce aerial combat again, It may not last long.

As I said before, these air combat drones of Lu Yuan are based on his dragon drone as the prototype and technology source, and are developed in-depth.

But that is mainly in terms of structural materials, flight control, avionics and so on.

As for the aero engine, the most used of these UAVs is the weakened version of F16, which is the F110-GE-1XX series engine used by the Tiansha fighters.

The command planes used the same model on Luyuan’s F-15C, F100-PW-220E.

Of course, in order to adapt to the new body, these engines have also been appropriately adjusted.

As for the aerodynamic shape, although they were first born out of the Dragon UAV, they have been improved many times, borrowing and absorbing some of the characteristics of the MQ-9 Reaper, X-47B and even X-45, so in the end, they have something to do with everyone. Like, but not all like.

After all, the large aspect ratio aerodynamic layout of the MQ-9, which is similar to the Global Hawk or U2, and the flying wing layout of the X45 and X47, which resemble the B2 stealth bomber, are quite different. They are completely two ways.

In the end, this thing didn't look very similar to anyone, but it was 60 to 70% similar to a large unmanned combat aircraft named Dark Sword, a concept aircraft that China made its debut in 2006.

Probably on that basis, the stealth performance is reduced, and the maneuverability at low and medium speeds is increased.

In terms of performance, the speed of these air combat drones is a compromise.

It is neither less than five hundred kilometers per hour like the MQ-9, nor the highest ten to twenty times the speed of sound that the X-45 wants to achieve.

In a compromise, the cruising speed is similar to that of the X-47B, at 0.9 Mahya speed. But after opening the afterburner, it can easily break through the speed of sound and fly at a maximum speed of Mach 2 for at least half an hour.

Of course, fuel consumption will increase sharply after using an afterburner, so after high-speed combat, you need to replenish fuel in time.

In addition, because the air combat drone does not need to carry missiles or bombs, its attack weapon is a set of low-weight coil electromagnetic guns and about 300 tungsten-cored arrow-type armor-piercing projectiles, so most of the internal volume and load capacity are both Distributed to the fuel tank.

Even so, in the previous battles, the three squadrons of Rosecuff's fighters were not lightly consumed.

Hearing the spoiler of Eliza who came to the door, Swallow wanted to fight hard at first, but when she heard Rosecuff’s team channel said that she would instruct the fighter planes to switch back to replenish fuel, Swallow immediately threw down the road where she was almost violent. Yuan, while roaring, ran towards his fighter jet launch vehicle.

After all, the Swallow’s aerial combat drone looks exactly the same as Rosecuff.

Because the ground crew who maintains the fighter aircraft are robots rather than humans, there is no need to paint more conspicuous digital symbols on the outside of the aircraft in order to make humans look eye-catching.

Therefore, when Rosecuff's second aviation group returns to refuel, the swallow's first group can completely replace the former and perform air alert missions.

Seeing the swallow who hurriedly ran over and just tore his jacket to pieces, then flew away in a hurry, what could Lu Yuan do besides a wry smile?

Could it be that he dared to take advantage of the absence of the swallow, and what happened to Eliza, who was looking at her upper body muscles while shining his eyes and biting her lip?

That is absolutely impossible.

In Yanzi's words, if he dares, she will pay him 20 injections.

What does the treatment needle do? Of course it is healing. To cure a spongy body injury that she broke...

Then why do you need to lose so many 20 stitches?

Cough, make up your brain...

As a result, I don't know when Eliza also knew what the Yanzi had said, and actually came to tease someone when she got the chance.

As it is now.

And someone had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and send a **** to the unscrupulous girl opposite, and it was time to go back to the room and change clothes.

At this time, it was the 359th day that Lu Yuan came to this era. The time was based on the time zone of the future Maihekou City on the Mesa Plateau. It is now about 9:15 in the morning.

The tactical data link of each unit uniformly records the time as: "359:09:15:xx"

More than three hours have passed since this battle started.

The fire ignited by napalm bombs released by the first wave of rockets had covered nearly one-third of the isthmus grassland at this time.

Starting at the intersection of the north and east slopes of the East Madre Mountains, one hundred kilometers eastward, and then southward along the trend of the mountain range and turning to the southeast halfway, the narrow and long area of ​​nearly 400 kilometers was covered by the fire at this time.

Of course, the fire is the strongest, and the fire line is closest to the east, which is near the open-air barbecue box three days ago, which is 100 kilometers south of the junction of the north **** and the east slope.

The fire over there started three days ago, and it hasn't stopped until now. The front of the line of fire has advanced eastward for more than two hundred kilometers.

Since the southernmost line of fire is the farthest from the incendiary bombing center, its coverage is not large, and it burns to more than ten kilometers.

While the pasture vegetation in this area was swept away by the flames, the lizardmen army ambushing here naturally fleeed to death.

With the IQ of the lizardman soldiers, the intelligence of using moist vegetation such as banana leaves to extinguish fires is still there, but that method is no problem to deal with general fires. Dealing with napalm would really "add fuel to the fire."

In addition to the failure of the previous battle, after the two high-end hussars were completely wiped out, the commander of the Lizardmen Legion was disconnected from the front line, so the Lizardmen soldiers who fled to the periphery did not know that the periphery was ignited. The pastures can be extinguished, or let them continue to burn.

As a result, the fire became bigger and bigger, and the lizardmen army retreated further and further back.

It wasn't until the lizardmen legions that were supposed to be ambushing at the foothills of the East Madre Mountains retreated to the vicinity of the observation platform where the commanders were located.

Until then, the Lizardmen Legion commanded by Loki clones once again stabilized their heels, and after a simple assembly, they launched a counter-charge to the Luyuan ground forces that were invading the grassland from near the mountains.

In fact, Lu Yuan was a little hesitant about whether to take the opportunity to invade the Yucatan grassland (referring to the grassland area east of the East Madre Mountains, which is not exactly the same as the Yucatan Peninsula).

Although it was a surprise to beat the opposing commander into a state of shaking and chaos through the previous battle, Lu Yuan knew that the main force of the opposing ground troops was not damaged.

In other words, once a frontal conflict occurs in the flat landform of the grassland, the Lizardmen Legion still occupies an absolute advantage in numbers.

Moreover, those giant beasts and heavy armored units composed of Ankylosaurus, Triceratops and even Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as long-range artillery units that set up trebuchets on the backs of Diplodocus and Thunder Dragon, still pose a huge threat to Luyuan's ground troops.