Flying at night, and flying in the wasteland without any light as a reference.
This also required special technology.
Of course, this technology was simpler than finding General Thello.
Of the three Nighthawk aircraft, two of them headed straight for the Wukavu area according to inertial navigation. The other flew towards the outskirts of the Anute Special District according to the information provided by General Maups.
When General Thello sent his subordinates to the surroundings of the Anute Special District to block traffic, General Maups had already received the news from the patrols.
According to the intelligence, General Thello's thousands of subordinates were divided into six teams and stationed on all the main routes to the outside.
Logically speaking, the dispersion of the personnel gave General Maups an excellent opportunity to break through them one by one.
However, General Maups maintained great restraint and only allowed the patrols to keep an eye on their movements nearby.
A Nighthawk aircraft with all external navigation lights turned off quickly flew to one of the teams stationed on the main road.
The Anute Special District was only five to six hundred kilometers away from the capital city, for the Nighthawk aircraft that could reach 750 kilometers per hour. Taking off from the back of the rainforest, it would take less than half an hour to reach the airspace above General Thello's subordinates.
According to strict tests, the noise generated by the Nighthawk aircraft during the hovering phase could spread down to 1,433 meters if it was quiet at night.
Beyond this distance, there was no possibility of being heard by human ears.
Therefore, the Nighthawk aircraft hovered 1,500 meters above the ground.
The electronic positioning showed that they had reached the predetermined target, and the two Master Metal Experts sitting in the aircraft silently activated the infrared optical pod below.
The dark world turned gray.
Under the gray, the different infrared radiation between different objects clearly outlined their respective outlines. From the cars made of metal to the trees made of carbohydrates.
The more than two hundred humans on the main road, whose radiation intensity was far greater than that of non-living objects, were clearly visible.
In fact, even without turning on the equipment, traces of this group could be found. Because they used more than a dozen pickup trucks to block the main road and used multiple searchlights to light up the front vision.
However, under the infrared observation equipment, the Master Metal Experts could accurately find their command vehicle based on the distribution of the personnel below.
The modern era was the information age.
No matter how poor the two hundred or so soldiers driving the pickup trucks were, they were not so poor that they could not afford the radio stations used for communication between the convoy and the military frequency hopping radio stations used to communicate with the headquarters.
In fact, most of the 200 soldiers below had a cell phone in their pockets.
Of course, there was no cell phone signal here.
Therefore, in order to find General Selo, who was hiding somewhere in the Wukavu Region, there was no need to go the extra step of arranging intelligence personnel in advance or tracking General Selo's movements in real time.
In front of absolute technology, General Thero's outdated communication system would only become transparent.
A moment later, the Master Metal Expert marked a jeep with an electronic target on the infrared optical observation display.
"Lock onto the communications vehicle."
"Begin analyzing the radio waves."
As he spoke, the radio detection equipment under the Nighthawk started working.
The mirror-like receiver was aimed downward. Immediately, all the radio waves in the team below, including the mobile phones, were collected back.
Different wavelengths naturally meant different communication distances.
From the ultra-short wave, to the mid-short wave, and then to the long wave. With the help of the radio, humans could easily complete ultra-long-distance communication from one end of the Earth to the other.
Of course, the communications vehicle below definitely could not be loaded with high-power communications equipment, but with a military communications equipment with an effective range of 500 kilometers, there was definitely no problem.
This kind of communications equipment could work at any time as long as there was electricity. General Selo and the two hundred or so soldiers were guarding the enemy's main traffic route, so it was impossible for them to ignore and refuse to contact.
A few minutes later, the radio detection equipment detected three different types of communications equipment.
The most in number was between 1.8 and 2.6 GHz.
This was the working frequency of the cell phone, and there were nearly two hundred of them.
There were also seventeen short-wave, which were the short-range radio stations on the vehicle.
The last one was a short-wave radio with 5 power, but according to the encryption method, this should be the radio station used for mutual communication between their teams.
In other words, there should be a radio station with a higher encryption method in the convoy below for direct communication with the headquarters. However, it was not making a call at the moment, so it could not capture radio waves.
The Master Metal Expert did not have that much time to wait.
The way he got the radio station to start working immediately was very simple. Through the satellite phone, he directly asked Maups to direct the patrols stationed nearby to fire a few shots at them and make some noise.
Perhaps because the distance was a bit far, the patrols were afraid that the noise would not be loud enough, so they simply fired an RPG in this direction.
"Whoosh ~"
The RPG slanted and whistled past the top of the pickup below without any accuracy to speak of.
But its effect was achieved. This whistling RPG naturally caused the soldiers below to panic and enter a state of combat readiness.
While they fired randomly in the direction of the attackers, they also began to activate the military frequency hopping radio to urgently contact the headquarters.
The special encrypted band was captured by the detection equipment above the moment it was sent out.
Of course ~
The Master Metal Expert did not do any deciphering work. He had no interest in the content. He just packaged the intercepted radio signature and sent it to the other two "wingmen" who were flying quickly to the Wukavu area.
This radio signature was automatically downloaded to the identification equipment of the two aircraft. Dozens of seconds later, the two Nighthawks captured an encrypted response signal similar to this signature.
This was General Thero's command center, communicating with the team that had just been shocked by the RPG.
Sure enough, as the two encrypted signals continued to communicate, the team below quickly responded and fired back two RPGs that also had no accuracy.
...
Then, the elimination operation had begun.
The other two Nighthawks immediately turned their thrusters to the maximum power and rushed toward the Wukavu area with a roar.
They quickly reached the center of the Wukavu area, but they did not slow down.
More than forty minutes later, they passed through the Wukavu area and flew to the sky above the capital city that bordered them.
At the same time, on the electronic navigation map of the Nighthawks, the positions of the three aircraft had already formed a triangle on the map. The Wukavu area just happened to be surrounded by the three aircraft.
The radio detection equipment on the three aircraft was synchronously connected to the phase rangefinder.
The speed of radio transmission was as fast as the speed of light.
No matter how fast the speed of light was, it could not be faster than the reaction speed of highly sensitive electronic components made by humans. Even civilian laser rangefinders could calculate the distance a laser beam traveled based on the time difference between its emission and reception.
Then, under the condition that they obtained its radio signature, the three Nighthawks simultaneously located a signal source in the Wukavu area.
Wouldn't that be more stable than pinching a snail with three fingers?
This was also why, regardless of whether it was during World War II or modern day, the formal military operations of large countries strictly observed radio silence before operations.
This was because as long as the opponent had advanced passive radio detection equipment, they would be able to locate the opponent's position.
Once the position was located, it would not take more than a few minutes for the opponent to be covered in carpet fire.
Time passed bit by bit. The three Nighthawks were also rapidly shortening the distance between them in the same direction.
As the distance shortened, the location of the red mark that represented the signal source on the detection equipment's screen became clearer and clearer.
In the end, the three Nighthawks stopped at the edge of a remote city.
Below them was a factory building with a square wall. Under the infrared observation equipment, they could clearly see that there were no less than twenty sentries moving about all around the factory.
This factory should have been abandoned because the yard was already covered in weeds.
The infrared observation equipment could not see through the concrete building and observe the infrared signature inside.
Therefore, there was no way to determine how many people were in the factory building in the middle, and there was no way to determine whether General Thero was hiding inside.
However, the possibility of him not being there was very small.
This was because if a supreme commander could not even grasp the movements of the soldiers under his command, then how could he still be called a commander?
Even if there was someone else commanding the soldiers under his command, the factory below that was continuously sending out encrypted radio signals would definitely be General Thero's core command center. The people inside would definitely be able to communicate directly with General Thero.
With a way to communicate, it would be equivalent to knowing General Thero's position.
Therefore, after locking onto the position, one of the three Nighthawks followed the infrared observation equipment's guidance and successfully landed in an uninhabited wilderness more than two thousand meters away from the factory.
The cabin door opened, and two Master Metal Specialists wearing Ghost Armor walked out of the cockpit.
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