Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

Chapter 740 “New” Aircraft

Charlie was a pilot of the Royal English Air Force. After the disaster struck, because of the English strategy of abandoning the homeland to protect the survival of the nationals, he and his flying regiment were transferred to an air base in the southwestern region of France, where they were stationed. .

There is also a French flying group stationed with them, which makes this air force base, which is not too big, seem a bit crowded and cramped.

But this was only temporary. When the alien invasion began, the two flying groups stationed here and their planes were quickly exhausted.

A flying regiment usually has about 24 fighter jets, 50-80 pilots, a varying number of reserve pilots, and a ground crew of about 200 people.

In the modern warfare mode, the two flight regiments are quite powerful, but in the face of overwhelming alien creatures and harsh weather conditions, the two flight regiments and the fighters they are equipped with cannot play them well. Not to mention the effect, the loss is also quite fast.

This also led to the fact that a month after the war with alien creatures, in the air base where Charlie was located, the two flight regiments added up to nearly two hundred pilots and only half were left, and more than fifty fighters were lost, and only left. The next seven or eight planes survived because of damaged engines or missing parts for maintenance.

Not only that, the ground crew also has a certain loss. Although the loss is not large, it still makes the morale of the entire air base quite low.

Although the first class of the Air Force, the second class of the Navy, and the third class of the Army are just a joke, this can indeed reflect the difference between the three from the side. After all, the air force pilots are the most expensive and the navy is also a high-tech arm. , Only the Army is very ordinary.

Especially for the English, the Army is the only unit of the English Armed Forces that does not have a royal title.

In the past, Charlie was very proud of being an elite RAF pilot.

But now, the army, which they always look down on, is fighting desperately on the front line to withstand the attack of alien creatures, but their air forces can only squat in the air base. This not only stimulates their self-esteem, but also undoubtedly aggravates these air forces. The morale of the pilots is low.

The large amount of plane losses not only prevented them from playing, but also made them idle now. After all, with such a low morale, coupled with the loss of planes, everyone has no intention of training. Most people just gather in the dormitory every day to play cards and play cards. Fight and pass the boring time.

If it were not for the current shortage of supplies, it would be difficult for pilots like them to buy alcohol. Charlie believed that there would be many drunks in the base.

Charlie himself is still self-disciplined, perhaps the result of being strictly required by his father since childhood. Charlie still retains the temperament and self-discipline of the British gentlemen back then, and is not as depraved as other teammates.

But even so, Charlie felt that he could only do this. After all, the entire base was like this now, and he had nothing to do.

Even the officers at the base do not bother to restrain these pilots, and even their daily training has become indulgent.

This makes Charlie feel very helpless, who still insists on exercising his physical fitness as much as possible every day and maintaining his own state.

With a helpless mood, he ordered a lunch in the cafeteria, and then Charlie sat at a table and ate his own lunch.

Because of the shortage of materials and the need to supply the front line first, the base where the supply of materials was still guaranteed is now gradually falling into a state of shortage. Lunch has dropped from the original level of bread, sausage and vegetables to almost only potatoes and carrots. s level.

Even a large part of these potatoes and carrots were grown by the base emptied an underground hangar that had no planes, and then built a greenhouse.

Charlie didn’t think he had any complaints about this. You can only get enough to eat in battle. Now there are no planes, and their pilots are useless. The poorer treatment is not a big deal.

Just after recognizing his fate like this, Charlie still felt a little unwilling. He really hoped that a new plane could be obtained from above, and he could drive the plane back to the battlefield to fight those alien monsters, so that he felt that he did not have it. Waste of life.

In fact, Charlie is now reporting and applying to be transferred to the front line. Even if he is only shooting with a machine gun in the trenches, Charlie feels that it is better than staying in the base and doing nothing.

Obviously, Charlie’s superiors didn’t want to send precious pilots to the trenches ahead to waste them. Even if they have nothing to do now and no new planes for them, they are still precious pilots and cannot be so wasted.

While Charlie was eating potatoes and thinking about how to convince his superiors to transfer himself to the front line, a pilot with the French logo rushed towards him and shouted: “Hey! Charlie! Good! News! We have a new plane!”

“New aircraft? What new aircraft?” Charlie still hadn’t figured out the situation, so he quickly grabbed the French pilot and asked him: “Renault, let’s be clear, what’s the matter?”

Renault, who was pulled by Charlie, was very excited. UU reading www.uukanshu.com vented his emotions at Charlie: “New fighter! Charlie! New fighters were brought up on it! 20 Sea Harriers sealed during the Cold War. And 18 Phantom F1s! We have a plane! We can fly again!”

This French pilot, Renault, was a friend Charlie only met after he came to this base. He is usually very enthusiastic. Obviously, there is a plane to fly again. This is a very exciting thing for him.

However, Charlie was surprised, but also puzzled and puzzled. He wanted Renault to ask: “Sea Harrier and Phantom F1? Airplanes from the Cold War? Where did they turn these old antiques out? And these old antiques? Has it been discontinued for many years? There are still repaired parts?”

These Cold War aircraft belong to the outdated third-generation aircraft. Compared with the current mainstream fourth-generation aircraft, and even the fifth-generation aircraft that Yan Country, Lucia, and the Federation have begun to serve, they are undoubtedly backward and will be eliminated.

But this does not mean that these aircraft cannot be used. After all, they were also the main models of the year. Many aircraft that were in service at the end of the Cold War have been sealed up for more than 20 years, and they are still sufficient to fight alien creatures.

Even in a sense, the third-generation machines used to fight alien creatures are better than the fourth-generation machines.

(End of this chapter)