。 In a sense, Pei Chengyi only guessed half right. It was not Duchway who commanded the RAF, but the US National Security Adviser, who provided the RAF with "advice" as a fairly well-developed long-range bomber in accordance with the agreement reached between the US President and the British Prime Minister on a hotline. As early as a few years ago, when the US Air Force began to purchase 4 concave units in large quantities, according to the Air Force of the Republic, it provided an extremely valuable reference, thereby greatly reducing the time required to formulate regular combat plans and improving the combat efficiency of the armed forces. Dudgway offered the Royal Air Force a similar combat tactic. Of course, before handing over to the British, Duchway perfected the details of the battle plan in accordance with his knowledge of the conflict situation in the troops. Two main issues were emphasized, one is that it is very likely that General Pei Chengyi will command the Afghan army to fight, and the other is to kill the Clippers at all costs.

From this, it can be seen that Mu Chengyi's judgment is not wrong.

Duchway has no choice, or the Royal Air Force has no choice.

If the Clippers return to Rio Gallegos, unless the British authorities decide to spread the war to Argentina and give the Republic a reason to send troops to the war, thus triggering a world war, they will have to wait patiently for a few days until the fleet reaches the Falklands again. Because the secondary delivery of the fleet must have been reinforcements, and mainly heavy equipment and ammunition, it was only necessary to destroy the fleet before it reached the Falklands or unloaded, otherwise the Royal Marines on the island would be unlucky. With only thugs and heavy fighters and no supporting forces, it is almost impossible to intercept the Clippers at sea. Because the Afghan army is still attacking the port, and it is likely that the offensive will be intensified in the next two days, trying to control some of the port's docks so that the fleet can enter the port to unload, so if the fleet arrives again, even if it can sink the speedboat, it may not be able to destroy the heavy equipment and ammunition carried.

There was no other way but to do it before the fleet left the Falklands.

If it were chosen by the Royal Air Force, it would definitely have been done in the first half of the night.

The problem is that the choice is not in the hands of the Royal Air Force.

After handing over the battle plan to the British, Dudgway called Admiral Thomas, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force, as an old friend, and told the British veteran who had fought side by side with him on the battlefield that he should not attack in the middle of the night, but should choose to attack before dawn. In order to convince Thomas, Duchway mentioned that not only is Pei Chengyi directing the operation, but the Argentine Air Force has obtained dozens of passive detection systems that can be installed on fighter jets, and it is likely that it has a small old and improved fighter with performance comparable to the 4 Hollows. Choosing to strike before dawn minimizes the likelihood of interception. Of course, Duchway did not forget the most important point, that is, the difference between blowing up and sinking a speedboat and sinking an old speedboat is not very large, and it will force the Argentine authorities to think twice before sending the clipper fleet again, so as to buy the British a few days. In fact, all the British needed was a few days.

According to the situation on the battlefield, even if the Clippers were fighting the goods, they left the port on the afternoon of the 2nd. They returned to the Falklands again on the morning of the 3rd, and delivered the heavy equipment to the landing troops on the afternoon of the 3rd, and the Royal Marines held out for the most days. Surrendered on the afternoon of the 4th. Ironically. The task force will arrive in the early morning to the Falklands capable of sending combat aircraft, and by the afternoon at the latest, it will be able to provide air support to the Royal Marines on the island. That is, the British army needed not a few days, but a day. As long as we can find a way to get the Afghan convoy to arrive on the Falklands a day late, the results will be very different.

In Duchway's words, just one yacht can blow up the Argentine authorities.

When the time comes, even if Pei Chengyi knows very well how precious time is, the Argentine authorities will not be clear, and thus miss the best opportunity to capture the Falklands in the quarrel.

With Dudgway's name outside, coupled with the personal relationship between the two, Thomas naturally would not object.

As for what to do, there is no need for Duchway to worry about it. In any case, the Royal Air Force has a great reputation, and in addition to the lack of hands-on guidance, Duchway has already provided the help he can, and if the Royal Air Force still can't do it, I'm afraid Admiral Thomas will take the blame and resign.

According to the arrangement of the Royal Air Force, the main force of the bombing operation was the mouth-to-mouth fight

Of course, the sortie was certainly not only a mouth-frame heavy fighter.

Because it only needs to deal with many old speedboats, each of them only carries 2 "class whirlwind high-pitched multi-purpose anti-ship missiles, which are actually air-to-surface missiles, that is, they can carry different seekers according to the needs of the task to attack ground targets of various natures, but because of the high cost, they are rarely used to deal with small targets, mainly used to deal with warships and strategic targets, in a sense, the "class whirlwind" is not a solid anti-ship missile, but a multi-purpose missile developed by several European countries such as Britain in order to reduce the number of countries. Every 2 fighters deal with 2 or 3 targets in a cross-attack manner. In order to increase the range, Ye did not use the empty ammunition pylons to carry ammunition, but prepared a large internal auxiliary fuel tank in the bomb bay on the left side The internal auxiliary fuel tank first appeared on the Luo series fighters, mainly to increase the fuel load without destroying the stealth, so as to carry only tender interceptor missiles and 2 combat missiles. In this way, with large drop tanks, the fleet can refuel in the air for the first time about 3 hours after takeoff, which is about a kilometer from the Falklands, and then choose a more circuitous route to avoid the anti-aircraft fighters northeast of the Falklands and enter from the southeast or northwest. Because the Argentine mainland is west of the Falklands, the Argentine fighter planes that bombed the Falklands will return from the north of the Falklands, so the group of planes will enter from the southeast of the Falklands and fire missiles about 3 kilometers from Port Stanley. After reflecting the missiles, the group will turn back to home, and the missiles will actively look for the target to be attacked according to the target information that has already been entered. If all goes well, the group will rejoin the tanker group about 2 hours after completing the attack, that is, about a kilometer from the Falklands, and after a second refueling, return to Ascension Island at the mouth point.

In order to cooperate with the Chin aircraft group, the Royal Air Force had to mobilize at least two batches of a total of eight tankers. Because the first batch of 4 tankers will not refuel the fighters until after the flying blade kilometer, they have to prepare to operate the tankers again and provide fuel for the first batch of 4 tankers when they return, otherwise the Dart tankers will not want to return to Ascension Island. In other words, the Royal Air Force will have to use hitters to pick up large tankers. Fortunately, the tanker had already arrived on Ascension Island.

Refueling is not a big problem, there is not much difficulty.

The biggest problem for the whole attack operation is how to find the target and lock the target.

Before attacking, the information provided by the Royal Marine Scouts on the island can be used to have the missiles remember the signal signatures of all the boats and determine the order of attack for the missiles. Because it is equipped with the most advanced neural network computer, the "Class Whirlwind" is very intelligent, and it does not need much help from the carrier aircraft when attacking the target. The question is, as missiles. Before the attack, exact information about the target is definitely needed. To put it simply, if the speedboat has left the range of the missile, no matter how advanced the missile is, it will be in vain.

To this end, the Royal Air Force has come up with many methods, such as asking the Royal Marines on the island to assist.

The problem is that it is not only the British Royal Marines who operate on the island, but also the Royal Marines. Those infantry units of the Argentine Army are not to be worried, otherwise the Royal Marines would not have been able to hold out until now. What really terrified the Royal Marines was the mercenaries. In the battles of the old days, at least the officers and soldiers of the Royal Marines became mercenary snipers. In order to find out the situation at the Cobalt Anchorage, the Royal Marines sent seven reconnaissance detachments out. Moreover, they were all the best reconnaissance units, but as a result, only the thug reconnaissance detachment completed the task, half of it to be precise, and the other six and a half reconnaissance detachments all went and did not return. What made the Royal Marines even more disgraced was that not only did they not capture a mercenary, but they did not even face the mercenary. In the words of a captured Royal Marine officer, it was not the tanks and heavy artillery that defeated the Royal Marines, but the elusive mercenaries, especially the snipers who never let their guns empty. Decades later, the Republic lifted the ban on relevant materials, and in the Huaan Army, in addition to the boss of the special forces directly under the General Staff, there are also retired special forces, 8 "quasi-special forces" who did not pass the admission exam, and an ace scout whose combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of special forces. Although the Republic did not disclose the details of these people, nor did it announce the results of their battles, it is certain that the number of special forces and quasi-special forces was enough to turn the small area of Puerto Argentina into a grave for the Royal Marines.

The Royal Marines can't be relied on, so they can only rely on themselves.

To this end, the Royal Air Force not only sent two long-range patrol aircraft, but also sent an airborne charging aircraft that is undergoing finalization tests.

Charging airplanes are nothing new, the Republic was engaged in this long before the thugs got drunk.

In fact, it has long been predicted that with the rapid development of aviation power technology, after the efficiency of the electric propulsion device exceeds the fuel propulsion device, the charging aircraft will replace the tanker, and the progress of aviation technology is very fast, especially the rise of a large number of civil aviation projects, which puts forward higher requirements for the flight time of the aircraft, so not only the air force of the world's major powers attaches great importance to the exhibition of the charging machine, but also many private enterprises also attach great importance to the exhibition in this field.

For example, the Republic's "Rising Sun Tourism Company" has proposed an unbelievable tourism project, building a large airplane to fly westward at the same degree as the earth's autobiography, so as to always be in a certain period of time, such as early in the morning, to provide travelers with a special life experience of days to dozens of days. In order to achieve this plan, in addition to the need for a large aircraft that is fast enough at seven degrees if the route is chosen on the equator. The flight degree of Qiu must not be less than that of an hourly thug-type controllable fusion reactor. However, because of the high technical requirements of small controllable fusion reactors and the fact that they are military secrets in various countries, the possibility of civilian use is not large.

Of course, the military use of electric aircraft is much wider.

The most famous is definitely the Republic's "electric motor group" with large transport aircraft such as thugs and ganjiu, and in addition to fighters and bombers with very high requirements for the degree, the Republic Air Force was the first to realize electrification. And it can be predicted that it will not be long before the Air Force of the Republic will be fully electrified.

There is no doubt that the Royal Air Force, which prides itself on being the number one in Europe, will not be left behind.

Like the Republic Air Force, the Royal Air Force first promoted electric aircraft in support aviation. Because Britain is not a world power, there is no need to project troops to the world, and there is no potential threat in the surrounding area, and there is no need to send tens of thousands of combat troops to a nearby country, so the scale of the Royal Air Force's support aviation is not large, and the only old transport planes are also aided by the United States. Comparatively, the Royal Air Force's maritime patrol tasks are heavier. Because the United Kingdom has adopted a dual system, that is, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy are both exhibiting maritime patrol aircraft, of which the Royal Navy is mainly responsible for maritime patrol tasks related to the fleet, while the Royal Air Force undertakes independent maritime patrol tasks, so the Royal Air Force attaches more importance to long-range patrol aircraft, and it needs to have a range of thousands of kilometers and be able to reach the fighter aircraft.

There is no doubt that on large aircraft, the advantages of electric propulsion are the most obvious.

According to the results of the Republic's research in the field of civil aviation, even if only a 6-level composite battery is used, the performance of electric aircraft is better than that of traditional aircraft.

In the year of the blade, with the introduction of the 8-level composite battery to the market, the 6-level composite battery is not a rare commodity.

It is precisely for this reason that the Royal Air Force began to develop electric patrol aircraft in Tian, and finalized and purchased them in the year of Lishi, and had already been put into service before the Falklands conflict broke out. Unfortunately, the charging aircraft, which is also a supporting project in cooperation with the United States to develop a large electric transport aircraft, was not successfully developed, and only one prototype was tested at the Royal Air Force Base in Belize until the outbreak of war. Unfortunately, the main test work of this sample aircraft, that is, the test work related to flight safety, has been completed, only the test work on charging efficiency has not been completed. That is, if necessary, it is quite possible to participate in combat operations.

The two long-range patrol aircraft have only one mission, which is to act as a messenger between the Royal Marines and the Royal Marines.

According to the arrangement of the Royal Air Force, the long-range patrol aircraft will be the first to contact the Royal Marines, confirm that the speedboat is still at the cobalt anchorage, and then contact the Royal Air Force on Ascension Island, and then provide guidance to the group of sisters-in-law, and wait until the heart has completed the attack, and then contact the Royal Marines on the island to confirm the bombing results.

That is, 2 long-range patrol aircraft played the role of AWACS and command aircraft.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that the Royal Air Force failed to make a move on the Moonblade Day.

If you want to play the role of an early warning aircraft in a cameo role, even if you don't need to be equipped with a long-range radar, you need to add a lot of electronic equipment.

Because the modification could not be completed before April Day, the RAF did not act after receiving the news of the arrival of the Clippers in the Falklands, and waited until the United States issued a warning before starting the operation.

In any case, for this operation, the Royal Air Force went to great lengths.

The problem is that it's not about giving in as much as you get in return.

In fact, from the very beginning, part of the officers of the Royal Air Force opposed the bombing of the Clippers. Although the main opponents are some young officers, they put forward a very key reason, that is, after the bombing of the air control center in Port Stanley, the Royal Air Force's long-range strike capability has no secret to speak of, since the Clippers are related to whether the Afghan army can succeed in the Falkland Islands, then the Afghan army will definitely protect the Clippers at all costs, and take precautions against forces that can threaten the Clippers. Attacking the Argentine Clippers in the absence of escort forces, electronic support, reconnaissance forces, fighters with only muzzles that could not carry much anti-aircraft ammunition was tantamount to death.

The young officer's fears were not unreasonable, but the RAF generals could not fail to understand this.

It is clear that Pei Chengyi's judgment is not wrong, and the Royal Air Force has no choice.

Born in the early morning of the day of the Moon, this battle was not destined to be earth-shattering, but it was destined to have a decisive impact on the Falklands conflict.

Later, almost everyone admitted that it was this air battle that made the Second Falklands War a no-brainer.