Changkong Fighter

Chapter 291 Hawaiian Defense Line

After hanging up the phone with his mother, Liu Jun looked up at the sky over Guam. It was a clear and pleasant day. Across the Western Pacific, on the Hawaiian Islands, the largest foothold of the United States in the Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. Air Force and Navy are facing the most severe test in the history of the United States. As the most forward base of the United States in the Western Pacific, the loss of this base would have catastrophic consequences, with the homeland facing the impact of extraterrestrial civilizations!

Inside Honolulu Airport, this former civilian airport has been completely transformed into a military facility. The entire Hawaiian Republic has also cut off civilian air routes and begun to fortify and militarize the area. The United States wants to turn it into an unsinkable aircraft carrier to serve as the front line against extraterrestrial civilizations.

At Honolulu Airport, F-16s and F-15s are undergoing maintenance in the preparation area, ready to take off at any time. Ground crews are constantly loading munitions onto the aircraft, which are taking off and landing at high intensity on the runway to counter the Type 3 group that is approaching the Hawaiian Islands.

On other islands, Patriot air defense systems, along with Standard missiles, are deployed near the coastline to intercept extraterrestrial spacecraft at long range, working in conjunction with the massive U.S. Navy to defend Hawaii.

However, although the US Navy is large in size, its warships are generally old models from the last century. They are fine when they are showing off at sea, but once they start high-intensity use, many problems are exposed - logistics and maintenance cannot keep up!

If repairs are not up to par, it means the system is unstable and the availability rate is reduced. Especially when saturation interception is required, it can cause the warship to lose power, leaving it stranded and requiring it to be towed back to port by barge.

However, the real danger is not to the Navy, but to the U.S. Navy and Air Force, who are on the front line facing the aliens!
"MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!"

The pilot of an F-16 whose fuel tank was ignited by a laser beam shouted loudly into the communication channel, but his shouts were useless due to the interference from the alien civilization. Neither cutting off the fuel line nor tightening the throttle valve could stop the fire from spreading on the F-16.

As the aircraft went out of control, the pilot had no choice but to eject. He was relatively lucky; many pilots, when faced with alien civilizations, completely lost their chance to escape and perished along with their aircraft.

Various types of missiles were fired at the alien clusters approaching the Hawaiian Islands. Even after the guidance heads were replaced in an emergency, and the optical decoys could be ignored, the large swarms of Type 1 missiles were still overwhelming the U.S. Air Force.

Missiles are being consumed too quickly, and while the cost of Type 1 missiles is unknown, it is certainly lower than the cost of American missiles. If we were to ask who would be the happiest in this conflict between humans and aliens, it would undoubtedly be the American military-industrial complex, which would be making a fortune.

After repelling an attack by the alien civilization, the fighter jets that launched air-to-air missiles returned to the Hawaiian Islands. Of the squadron of fighter jets that were dispatched, only 8 remained when they returned, 4 of which were shot down by the alien civilization.

Inside the command post in Hawaii, the lieutenant general, his face grim, stared at the battle damage report. On average, four pilots were lost every day. Over such a long period, nearly 1400 Navy and Air Force pilots had been killed on the front lines. This had forced the United States to consider whether to use something as extreme as nuclear weapons on the front lines to defend against enemy attacks.

"Tell those congressmen, we need supplies! We need weapons! We need pilots! We need everything!"

The lieutenant general banged on the table as he spoke.

These are 1400 pilots, not 1400 ordinary soldiers!

If it weren't for the United States' strong foundation, a normal small country would have collapsed! But even so, it still makes the US tremble with pain.

"Where are our drones? Where is our NGAD project? Where are our F-47s?!" NGAD is the sixth-generation fighter jet being developed by the U.S. Air Force. The program originated from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's "Air Dominance Initiative" research in 2014, but now it's 2026 and there's still no sign of it.

The lieutenant general grew increasingly angry as he spoke. Across the ocean, Tokyo University had already deployed drones to the front lines. Those black Dark Sword drones were gradually replacing manned aircraft, engaging in close-quarters dogfights with the alien civilization's attack cluster. Even if there were losses, they would only be some financial losses, which could be easily rebuilt. However, their PowerPoint presentations, aside from securing funding from Congress, did nothing to help the war effort.

Even if we conduct urgent research now, the entire process of project initiation, organization, and wind tunnel testing will take at least 20 years, or 10 years in wartime. The next generation of fighter jets simply won't be ready in time!
"General, the logistics department says they are doing their best."

The adjutant standing to the side didn't know what to say. The main problem was that their production capacity simply couldn't meet the current consumption. With the Pacific Ocean cut off, trade between the East and West became long and distant, and costs increased significantly. Meanwhile, domestic inventory was almost depleted, and even the items from the aircraft graveyard had been taken out.

It is said that he is already preparing to take out the F-14s from storage and use them. At this point, he can't even imagine what it would be like if the F-86 Sabre series were to enter the battlefield again in the future. It's too hellish.

"Let our all-powerful president immediately come up with a solution!"

The lieutenant general had no other choice but to shift the pressure to his superiors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who knew better than anyone what the entire West Coast of the United States would face if Hawaii fell.

Meanwhile, in the Oval Office of the White House, the President of the United States was also smashing everything he could.

Although I knew my country was already in ruins, I never imagined it could be this bad in the face of war.

"Have we not found those traitors yet?!"

The existence of those traitors directly caused the University of Tokyo's attitude to become delicate, leading to the rejection of all joint operations in the Pacific and a more conservative approach to the originally planned support strategy, leaving the Americans with no way to express their grievances.

If they condemn it, and the University of Tokyo exposes the matter, they will be the ones who suffer. They can only deal with the traitors within their own ranks first.

"I'm sorry, Mr. President, the FBI is working hard to find leads, but it has been too long, and we are also assessing the reliability of other agencies."

Once a chain of suspicion is established, it is very difficult to eradicate, as they are unaware of the extent to which they have been infiltrated.

"We must restore industry!"

The US president said helplessly, "Lockheed Martin's production lines are almost smoking, but production capacity still can't keep up with the demand at the front."

This kind of protracted war is the ultimate test of a country's comprehensive strength, and even the United States has to admit that Tokyo University is superior to it in this respect.

(End of this chapter)