Chapter 237

And now, in top-tier fighter jet air combat, the dogfighting mode has been completely abandoned.

Basically, whoever possesses more advanced radar, better stealth capabilities, and longer-range missile launch capabilities,

holds the decisive advantage.

What is even more laughable is that although the Typhoon fighter can reach a maximum speed of 2 Mach,

its actual service ceiling is only 16,765 meters.

Compared to the F-22, which can climb to 20,000 meters,

they are simply little brothers.

Yet, knowing all this, the John Bull soldiers still had to obey orders and sortie.

They rushed into the sky without even having time to write last wills.

The outcome was naturally obvious.

These twenty fighter jets played absolutely no role on the battlefield;

they were locked onto by the radar of PL-21 air-to-air missiles before they could do anything.

However, in the eyes of those surviving naval soldiers, these aircraft turned into bursts of fireworks.

From start to finish, the radars on these planes never detected the enemy aircraft.

If the air battle over Syria that day unveiled the prologue of modern air combat,

then this scene right now

truly made every nation understand that only fifth-generation fighters can engage other fifth-generation fighters.

Even fourth-and-a-half generation fighters hold no advantage whatsoever.

Watching this shocking scene via the live broadcast, President Xiao Ao in the White House finally felt it firsthand:

the helplessness and despair experienced by the F-18 pilots during the Syria air battle that day.

He has now decided to restart the F-22 production line and carry out a comprehensive overhaul of the F-22,

transforming it into a beyond-visual-range fighter comparable to the J-20 in various performance metrics.

Taking out the fighter jets was merely an appetizer.

Twenty minutes after the battle began, once the John Bull air defense firepower was basically silenced,

some survivors finally saw what was attacking them:

a massive formation of fighter jets.

What was even more horrifying was that all these fighters were heavy stealth aircraft.

The entire radar system of John Bull currently had nearly zero detection capability against such aircraft.

Whether millimeter-wave or decimeter-wave radar, it was extremely difficult to detect stealth fighters with a head-on RCS value of 0.01 square meters.

However, the most despairing sight came soon after, as they watched colossal behemoths tear through the sky.

Immediately, those behemoths began opening their weapon bays.

Instantly, rows of pitch-black missiles fell from above like rain.

Seeing this scene, the surviving naval soldiers were completely terrified into stupor.

Some even forgot to flee for their lives.

The B-2 heavy stealth bomber is the world's only stealth bomber.

Its payload capacity reaches as high as 22 tons,

and this heavily modified B-2S version boasts a maximum payload of up to 32 tons.

These bombers were equipped differently depending on their missions, carrying various types of ammunition.

At maximum, they could carry sixteen B-83 nuclear bombs and sixteen MK84 conventional bombs, with a cruise speed of 0.8 Mach, a service ceiling of 19,240 meters, a range of 11,675 kilometers, and a range exceeding 18,500 kilometers after one mid-air refueling.

The Block 20 variant could carry up to sixteen B-61 nuclear bombs, possessed the capability to carry stand-off land-attack missiles, could also carry thirty-six cluster bombs and sixteen GPS-guided bombs, and featured certain automated mission-completion capabilities.

Among them, two aircraft carried one hundred MK80 bombs.

Another two carried thirty-six cluster bombs and sixteen guided-assist bombs.

Finally, the last two carried sixteen MK84 conventional bombs and thirty-six M117 bombs.

When so many bombs fell upon the John Bull naval base like a rain of projectiles,

the entire base, including the sea surface, was instantly engulfed in explosions so dense they were unimaginable.

Many naval soldiers fleeing for their lives were swallowed by the pursuing flames in an instant.

As for the ships in the base,

under the bombardment of such heavy bombs, there was no possibility of survival; they sank one after another.

Of course, the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, which received special attention,

under the combined assault of J-20s, F-22s, and B-2 bombers, lasted less than twenty seconds

before emitting the sound of tearing steel and rapidly sinking.

As the audience in Longguo watched this scene through the live streaming platform,

the people of John Bull were naturally furious to the point of bursting eyeballs; they hated the attackers immensely, and many watched in disbelief as their newly built

aircraft carrier, which had only just completed its maiden sea trial, sank just like that.

At this moment, many John Bull people, alongside their anger, wore dazed expressions.

They could not believe this was real.

Moreover, it was not just the aircraft carrier; the entire Portsmouth Harbor base, under the attack of the B-2 bombers, looked as if it had been plowed over by bombs.

Not only were all surface vessels wiped out, but the entire base also turned into ruins in an instant.

This is the terrifying power of heavy bombers.

For a moment, as the whole world watched this scene via the live broadcast, everything fell silent.

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Many people were seeing for the first time what it truly looked like when an aircraft carrier sank.

That steel behemoth was slowly swallowed by the seawater, bit by bit.

The sheer shock of it was something no special effects in a Hollywood movie could ever compare to.

Watching the aircraft carrier's hull fracture under the bombardment of countless missiles and bombs, as massive amounts of seawater rushed in,

and finally seeing the HMS Queen Elizabeth sink.

The entire world fell into complete silence.

At this moment, the French Prime Minister, whose domestic situation was in total chaos, stood stunned for a moment before murmuring:

"It seems we need to reconsider our relationship with Dragon Country!"

The German Chancellor stated:

"It is time to pay another visit to China!"

Meanwhile, back home, due to an eight-hour time difference,

it was currently 3 AM in Dragon Country.

Yet even at this hour, people who had already gone to sleep were waking up one by one.

The lights in countless households, which had already been extinguished, began to flicker on again, one after another.

Many ordinary people, even if they stayed awake all night and faced scolding from their bosses tomorrow,

were determined to watch this live broadcast.

Because for many people in Dragon Country, the official live stream on the DWS platform was exactly what they had been anticipating.

They enjoyed the DWS platform's tough stance toward foreign nations and loved watching them drag the dignity of certain countries through the mud.

Moreover, whenever an official live broadcast appeared, it absolutely signaled a major event affecting the world.

Naturally, the people of Dragon Country wanted to know what the content of this particular broadcast was.

As a result, many witnessed the combined combat power of the J-20 fighter group and the F-22 fighter group working in coordination.

They saw how the terrifying B-2 bombers leveled the Portsmouth Harbor base to the ground.

They might not have known initially what kind of base this was, but with a quick search on Baidu,

most people in Dragon Country learned that this base was John Bull's largest naval port.

It housed more than sixty percent of their warships.

This even included John Bull's sole aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

This carrier had originally been scheduled to depart at 10 AM that morning heading for the Red Sea.