Chapter 1039: P·B's Fighter Pilot
When the Cartel Group's guerrillas began landing upstream and downstream, Boss Joe had no time to focus on external issues...
About 2500 people arrived!
Boss Joe really didn't expect the Cartel Group to be so determined!
The people who came are genuine regular troops, and they carried various heavy weapons by ship.
Once P.B's air force is held up, these people can use ships to maneuver weapons like 120mm mortars within a range of 5 kilometers and launch bombardments on Boss Joe's camp.
Two Winged Dragon drones, rotating in shifts, have already started to feel the pressure.
Joe Ga remained relatively calm because he was always waiting, waiting for the T1s on the perimeter to provide accurate information.
The atmosphere in the camp was still good; in the face of harassment from mercenaries who cared more about money than life, the Anteater played a huge role.
These Xiao Hei quickly adapted and found the fighting techniques of the Amazon Rainforest.
With the 'Rhino' leading the team, they launched a series of killing sprees around, and in just 4 days, the area within one kilometer of the camp saw no mercenary activity.
They were also waiting for the main force of the Cartel Group to enter, then try to fish in troubled waters.
As long as they take out Boss Joe, they can truly achieve financial freedom.
This is an allure that most people can't resist!
Unfortunately, these people never imagined that Boss Joe's fighter squadron had already arrived...
Manaus Military Base...
'Three Yellow Chickens' counted the aerial bombs and Hellfires transported all the way from Sangha Town...
After carefully verifying the count, the slightly plump 'Three Yellow Chickens' looked in astonishment at the group of pilots led by 'Cobra', who had rushed to support from far away...
Two old men plus twelve Seville pilots, and eighteen P.B's Xiao Hei apprentices.
This time even China's commissioned pilots came, and each person had to train an apprentice.
Super Albatross and Griffin-1 can be said to be P.B's foundational strength.
A bunch of jet fighter pilots, in order to fly more advanced fighters in the future, put all their effort into training pilots for P.B.
These P.B'S Xiao Hei will be future primary propeller fighter pilots for P.B.
After fighting here, they will go to the French Air Force Base in Djibouti to gather, where they will receive training while waiting for combat opportunities!
Boss Joe has always been indifferent to integrated reconnaissance and strike drones, not because these drones are not advanced enough, nor because he can't afford them, but because the payload of these drones is really insufficient.
The Winged Dragon can carry 8 Blue Arrow 7, with extremely high targeting accuracy, but honestly, the power of Blue Arrow 7 is far inferior to aerial bombs.
Now Boss Joe has already prohibited the use of Blue Arrow 7 for attacking people, only allowing them for bombing ships.
Some say drones have changed the mode of modern warfare, and there's truth to that, but for a private military contracting company, without detailed battlefield intelligence support, the efficiency of drone bombing is really low.
Besides, Boss Joe's Blue Arrow 7 were partially sponsored by 'Mother', averaging about 15,000 each. If priced at the market rate of 40,000 US Dollar each...
Over the past 10 days, the Winged Dragon has consumed 16 Blue Arrow 7 daily, costing 640,000 US Dollar a day.
They spent 6.4 million US Dollar in 10 days, but honestly, the enemies killed weren't worth that much!
This is just simple firepower consumption. Including internal material and personnel movements for P.B, as well as the personnel and munitions costs of the resort and camp, Boss Joe has spent approximately 30 million US Dollar in the past 10 days!
Modern warfare focuses on consumption!
Who has lower military costs? Who has abundant resources? It determines who will be exhausted first!
Military cost has become a real headache for Boss Joe!
Regularization is extremely costly!
The intensity of war rising also leads to a geometric increase in military costs!
If not for P.B's low labor costs of the Xiao Hei, and the low intensity of wars in Africa, P.B's ledger would not be readable!
Drones are good, but really not suitable for P.B, the cost-effectiveness ratio of strikes is too low!
Boss Joe has sponsorship and can afford it, but money is not blown by the wind; money should be spent where it is due, and savings should be made wherever possible...
With camp safety basically ensured, changing attack modes not only saves money but also expands the scope and intensity of attacks.
A 250-kilogram aerial bomb costs less than 2,000 US Dollar per unit, plus the 1,500 US Dollar value of the Pathfinder System makes it only 3,500.
The cost of cluster bombs can't be calculated because those are Boss Joe's private stock.
Moreover, the wide-ranging lethality of cluster bombs averaged over each life is cheaper than missiles like Blue Arrow.
The Super Albatross can carry four in a single trip, and the Griffin-1, with a greater take-off weight, can carry six.
Besides aerial bombs, the fighters can also be equipped with several Hellfires, coupled with the built-in machine guns, the firepower is overwhelming for jungle guerrillas.
'Three Yellow Chickens' could understand Boss Joe's perspective, but he still felt that having so many pilots come all at once was a bit exaggerated.
The female pilots sent by the feminist leaders were immediately excluded by 'Cobra'.
P.B's family pilots took them up to shoot enough promotional photos, and those good-looking female pilots were all sent to the bench.
A total of four Super Albatross aircraft, four Griffin-1 aircraft...
'Cobra' plans to pair them up in teams, and have pilots carry bombs on three shifts, letting the plane rest while people don't, for intense bombing around Joe Ga's rainforest.
This is a huge test for the ground crew's capabilities!
This time the maintenance team sent by the Brazilian Aeronautical Industry Group and Belgrade Group will face enormous pressure.
Because the all-around high-intensity competition will determine who is currently the best propeller fighter on the market, and the loser might lose tens of millions in annual profits.
'Three Yellow Chickens' doesn't understand why 'Cobra' raises the intensity to such a high level?
Watching a group of P.B.'s own ground crew arm two Super Albatross and two Griffin-1...
'Three Yellow Chickens' walked to 'Cobra', hesitated, and said: "400 aerial bombs, 100 cluster bombs, and 120 Super Pressure Hellfire bombs have all been set.
Are you really planning to drop these bombs into the jungle on three shifts a day?
There is risk in having aircraft execute such high-intensity tasks..."
'Cobra' glanced at a few passing pilots, shook his head indifferently and said, "Pilots should stay in the sky, no other place offers these pilots and trainees a chance to experience such high-intensity action.
We have to seize every opportunity!
Yemen cannot simply rely on jet fighters; Griffin-1 will be the main attack and cover force.
The base organization there has advanced anti-aircraft weapons, and we must let the pilots feel the pressure early and learn to handle various aerial emergencies."
'Three Yellow Chickens' listened, shook his head in awe, and sympathetically glanced at a few pilots from back home...
With this high-intensity bombing, it's a wonder if the planes don't have problems!
'Cobra' seems to want to train these pilots fiercely while the planes aren't his own...
Pilots who have had a smooth ride all their lives can't fight hard battles; experiencing certain things once can benefit them for a lifetime.
The price of jet fighters is too high to take risks, but propeller fighters are different.
Even some issues can fly, and in the worst case, a crash isn't upsetting, as long as people can eject and escape.
'Three Yellow Chickens' vaguely feels that 'Cobra' quite enjoys watching those pilots crash planes...
In this old man's eyes, fighter pilots who haven't crashed a plane are like babes!
Glaring at this crazy old man, 'Three Yellow Chickens' moves aside and pulls a few of his entrusted pilots, endlessly advising them not to be too reckless...
However, when 'Archerfish' walked over with a large duty roster, 'Three Yellow Chickens' found that his advice was falling on deaf ears...
The entrusted pilots from back home are waiting for this kind of opportunity!
Real combat, real combat, real combat...
While squeezing the potential of the fighter planes, the pilots' potential is also being squeezed!
With increased combat intensity, psychological resilience will naturally improve too!
Getting through it means becoming top-notch experts!
'Cobra' and 'Archerfish' are both old-fashioned pilots; 'Archerfish' was even once the head coach of the Warrior Flight Demonstration Team, he knows too well how to stimulate a pilot's potential.
Routine training cannot make ordinary people into excellent fighter pilots, especially those rookie Xiao Hei from P.B.
Only in high-intensity and high-pressure environments can powerful psychologically resilient experts be nurtured.
The safety of the Super Albatross and Griffin-1 is excellent, very suitable for such tasks!
'Three Yellow Chickens' watches the first batch of pilots board the planes, then soon two Super Albatross and two Griffin-1 take off, sighs helplessly, presses the radio and says: "This is Manaus Base, the first batch of fighters are airborne with bombs...
The second batch of four will take off in two hours...
Take it easy!"
Soon, Antal's cold voice comes through the communicator...
"The command post has received; the strike will begin in two hours!"
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'Night Tiger' in the depths of the rainforest received the news...
Captain 'Monkey' rubs his nose, stands up from the waist-high grass, and whispers into the microphone: "'Grasshopper', send the enemy coordinates to the command post, everyone follows me to flank one kilometer to observe the Cartel's riverside camp from a height.
Be careful, these guerrillas are tricky, don't lose face from home..."
The Deputy Captain 'Black Panther', like a magic trick, 'grew' out from a big tree...
He deftly jumps down from the tree branch, holds the gun and walks to 'Monkey', grins and says: "Damn, it's finally here!
How many planes this time?"
'Monkey', while turning to advance, says: "Four, but 'Ferryman' also needs bombing...
We only have 10 aerial bombs available, the enemy numbers are many, after bombing is the real fight..."