At an altitude of 320 kilometers.
An aerospaceplane that was twice the size of Starlight slowly retracted its magazine and cruised steadily at the edge of the atmosphere.
"This is Kun Peng, all on-board weapons have been launched."
"This is the ground command center. The target has been confirmed. The ground battlefield will be taken over by friendly forces, please return immediately."
"Roger that."
Four huge ion thruster engines created a long and narrow blue arc in the deep air. Propelled by high-temperature plasma, this giant bird named "Kun Peng" began to return to the ground.
The battlefield intelligence had been taken over by military observation satellites, which provided information services for friendly forces on the ground. The coordinates of enemy units and the battle path processed by the Star Voyage One quantum computer were sent to the attack drone terminals on the ground.
On the other hand, at the aerospace force command center in Jinling.
Li Gaoliang stood next to a large screen. He pointed at various parameters and marks on the screen and introduced to Lu Zhou … Or rather, showed off their modern battlefield command system.
"Through the images of the battlefield captured by satellites, processed by supercomputers, and drawn in real time, we will be able to establish a three-dimensional, digitized model of the battlefield and make the best use of every combat unit and every available resource in the field.
"Just like what you can see now, the red marks are the B Army, and the green marks are the A Army … which is our friendly forces. Of course, the equipment of the Somali forces is too outdated, and they don't trust us that much, so we can't command them. "
Lu Zhou: "What about the ones with crosses?"
Li Gaoliang: "The targets that have been killed or destroyed."
Lu Zhou looked at the red dots that turned into gray crosses one after another. He went silent for a while and sighed softly.
"At this point in the war, it's like a computer game."
"It's much simpler than a computer game." Li Gaoliang smirked and said, "Computer games need to consider balance, but this game doesn't. Before the attack drones were delivered, our aerospace strategic bombers had already delivered 11.6 tons of ammunition to the battlefield, which basically destroyed their defense facilities. If they were more tenacious … "
Lu Zhou: "Send out the orbital airborne brigade?"
Li Gaoliang shook his head and said, "Of course we'll repeat the previous steps."
Lu Zhou: "…"
Yes.
Based on this method of fighting, there was basically no army that could withstand it, right?
Of course, although this sentence sounded easy, in reality, it was not easy at all.
Rather than saying that this was a competition of military technology, it would be better to say that it was a test of comprehensive aerospace strength.
Only the Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study could send weapons to high and low orbits at a very low cost, complete a reliable cruise, and even drop a bomb.
For most countries on Earth, they might not even have the ability to launch satellites independently, let alone send weapons to such a high orbit.
Lu Zhou looked at the red dots that were constantly disappearing and shrinking on the screen. He suddenly had a strange idea.
If aliens attacked Earth, would they feel the same way?
They would move the starship closer to the edge of the atmosphere and throw bombs down like dumplings. When the bombs were about to explode, they would throw in a bunch of AI soldiers or clone soldiers.
"… Speaking of which, I didn't expect you to build an aerospace strategic bomber."
Li Gaoliang smiled awkwardly and said, "Thanks to your fusion battery and electric thruster engine, they were officially put into service at the beginning of this year."
"Is it useful?"
"Of course it's useful."
Lu Zhou nodded, but he had a complicated feeling in his heart.
Even though he knew that war was one of the elements of civilization, he didn't really want his technology to be used on the battlefield.
However, from another perspective, any kind of prosperity required the necessary force to protect it. As long as their existence defended peace and allowed the world to develop in a better direction, it didn't seem like a bad thing, right?
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou's mind was no longer entangled with these minor issues. He was completely relaxed.
"But even though the weapons are getting better and better, there will be a lot of trouble later on." Li Gaoliang looked at the battle on the screen and said, "We will use diplomatic channels to recover the drone hives, as well as those drones damaged in the battle … Even if it's just parts, we have to find them using the Big Dipper positioning system.
"Other than that, there will also be a series of problems such as the promised post-war reconstruction. We can't be like the Americans, leaving behind a pile of mess, patting their butts and walking away. In short, war is always the last resort. Unless we have no choice, we don't want to use it. "
"Does this count as well?"
"Of course." Li Gaoliang looked at Lu Zhou and grinned. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Someone dares to touch our Professor Lu. If we don't teach them a lesson, there will be a lot of trouble."
…
Ethiopian border.
An officer in a US military uniform held binoculars in his hand and looked at the flashing flames on the distant foothills.
After a while, he squeezed out a "sh * t" from the corner of his mouth, which was cracked by the wind, and put away the binoculars in his hand.
Under the sweeping of the drone swarm, the military and stragglers hiding in the dangerous places didn't have much room to fight back. The entire battle was basically a one-sided massacre.
This was probably the first time artificial intelligence had been used on a ground battlefield on such a large scale.
Even though the Pentagon had tested similar equipment in the past, the relevant research so far was still in the laboratory stage. At least, he hadn't heard of any particularly significant progress.
But now, he didn't expect their technology to be this advanced.
Even he, who was standing next to the Hummer, couldn't think of a good way to deal with these locust-like monsters, let alone these militants who had never seen the world.
Standing next to him was the Ethiopian officer who accompanied him to the border to observe. He also had a binoculars in his hand, and the look of shock on his face hadn't changed since ten minutes ago.
"… I still don't understand."
The US military officer glanced at him.
"Don't understand what?"
"Let's not talk about their drones. Their air strikes … Where did they come from? "When the Ethiopian officer said this, he couldn't help but have a trace of fear written on his face." We only saw a few bomb-like things on our radar, and we didn't see any planes at all. "
"It's not just you." The US military officer had a self-deprecating smile on his face as he said, "We didn't see anything on our radar either."
The expression on the Ethiopian officer's face changed slightly.
He originally thought it was because the radar on his side was too backward. He didn't expect that the US military base stationed in his territory also didn't detect the signal of planes flying over this airspace.
"Could it be … that they have developed a stealth aircraft that can ignore all radars?"
If this is the case, doesn't this mean that China's planes can come and go freely in the air defense identification zones of various countries?
This is terrifying …
The US military officer shook his head and spoke.
"It's impossible for an aircraft to completely disappear from the radar. Even the most advanced materials will definitely leave traces on our phased array radar."
"Then why?"
"Think about it from another perspective, maybe they didn't enter our air defense identification zone at all."
"How is that possible?"
"Nothing is impossible. The most advanced aircraft can only fly up to an altitude of 20 kilometers above sea level, and the maximum airspace altitude of each country is only about 110 kilometers. Above this limit, the radar is meaningless. Even if it can be seen, no anti-aircraft missiles can hit it."
"You mean …"
"… I'm just guessing, I don't have any evidence." The US military officer looked up at the dusky sky. His eyebrows were squeezed together with a touch of sadness.
"But from a logical point of view, since they can throw people down from high orbit intact, there is no reason why they can't throw something else."
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