Changkong Fighter

Chapter 298 Australia's Actions

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After reaching the altitude required by the commander, Liu Jun leveled the fighter jet and flew at that altitude. For the Air Force, altitude is like a series of "airways," and even a three-dimensional series of airways.

After stabilizing at an altitude of 15000 meters and adjusting the throttle to cruise speed, Liu Jun scanned the surrounding sky. The air pressure was different from usual, indicating that a cyclone was forming. In addition to understanding their own fighter jets, pilots also need to understand the weather, as the weather has a significant impact on fighter jets.

"Will a typhoon form?" Liu Jun frowned slightly. He had never flown in extremely harsh conditions before, and fighter jets were strictly prohibited from taking off under severe weather conditions.

Looking at the data link, his fighter jet, lacking radar, relied entirely on the Dongda system for long-range target acquisition, consisting of the KJ-3000, WZ-9, and AF-7 search systems.

200 kilometers ahead of Liu Jun, the KJ-3000, which took off from Guam, was scanning the surrounding airspace with its dual-array radar. As the most advanced early warning aircraft of Tokyo University, its effective scanning range is nearly a thousand kilometers, even when facing alien civilizations.

In front of Tianyan-3, near New Guinea, there are also forward-deployed WZ-3 drones as a salient, serving as early warning while also acting as "cannon fodder." If any of these drones loses contact, it is highly likely that enemies will appear in that area.

A low-cost early warning method is always much better than manual investigation.

"Reporting to the commander, Wuzhen Guai and Wuzhen 9 have reached their designated positions and have not detected any Type 3 clusters in the area."

Listening to the radar officer's report, the commander checked the airspace around New Guinea, which served as a barrier in front of Australia, facing the attack of an alien civilization. Above New Guinea was Guam.

"I remember that New Guinea voluntarily leased one of our ports through diplomatic channels?" the commander asked in a low voice while looking at the map.

“I mentioned it during my visit at the end of last year, but it was rejected by my superiors.”

Upon hearing this, the commander roughly understood what was going on. The location of New Guinea was not of great value to Dongda University. It was quite far from Dongda University and its infrastructure was very poor. Dongda University's main mission was to protect its homeland from attacks by alien civilizations. Therefore, it could only politely decline New Guinea's "invitation" and offered to sell some weapons and equipment to them.

New Guinea is simply too poor to sell a wide variety of weapons and equipment, mostly outdated anti-aircraft guns and man-portable air defense systems. Advanced weapons and equipment are prioritized for other countries that need them more.

That's how the world works. Only with sufficient military strength can one better protect oneself. Even the University of Tokyo has its limits; protecting the first and second island chains is already its limit.

"Any movement from Australia?" the commander continued to ask.

New Guinea serves as a buffer for Australia, and Australia must take action against it; otherwise, if New Guinea is breached, it will affect its homeland.
"Troops are being amassed to defend the eastern coast, but two frigates have been dispatched to support New Guinea."

Australia has such a large land area but a relatively small population, so naturally they concentrate their main military forces in major populous cities. "Australia" is also a vague term; in the past, when their military strength was insufficient, they would boast in front of the East Coast, but now, facing a formidable enemy, they're panicking.

However, the basic principle of mutual dependence remains clear, and to some extent, for the sake of saving face, support will be provided to New Guinea.

"Has the Ministry of Foreign Affairs found our compatriots yet?"

"Yes, we will try our best to bring our compatriots stranded in Australia home within the window of opportunity."

Internationally, it's generally known where the safest places in the world are. Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese are returning to Southeast University, while foreigners are trying every means to enter the university. Some foreigners are even actively trying to seduce Southeast University students to gain indirect access to China. During the conversation, the KJ-3000 radar detected several radar reflectors, which were identified by the IFF as Southeast University's Y-20A transport aircraft – the "Fat Girl" (a nickname for a Y-20A aircraft).

Six Y-20A transport aircraft are flying over the Arafura Sea toward the Australian mainland to bring some compatriots home.

"Haven't found a Type 3 cluster yet?"

"Commander, due to weather conditions, our satellites are affected, and the search is unstable."

"Keep searching. Based on their flight paths, they should be near Kavion," the commander said, looking at the map.

This is also why alien spacecraft are difficult to defend against; if optical stealth isn't noticed, they can really slip out of the warning zone undetected.

"Understood, expand the search area."

The command was issued by Sky Eye 3. Upon receiving the order, the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft expanded its search range to prepare to find the hidden Type 3.

Meanwhile, in the waters near Kavín and Rabaul, New Guinea patrol boats are patrolling the sea.

However, as a patrol boat, the radar on board is still an old-fashioned mechanical scanning radar, and the search range is extremely small, even unusually small, making it impossible to monitor a large area. Even the weapons on board are 12.7mm heavy machine guns.

After all, the patrol boat's mission is only to combat smuggling, not to intercept alien spacecraft. The only reason they still have the courage to face aliens is because there are two general-purpose missile frigates from Australia next to the patrol boat.

Both of these general-purpose missile frigates are relatively old Australian vessels, with outdated anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles. Rather than being used to support New Guinea, they are more likely intended to appease New Guinea and provide them with psychological comfort.

"Is there anything wrong with the radar?" the captain, dressed in naval uniform, asked.

"Sir! Radar and communications are all normal!"

Having fought for so long, even if Australia hasn't directly fought against extraterrestrial civilizations, it has come into contact with alien spacecraft to some extent while helping the United States, and has some understanding of their characteristics.

Even if they cannot see it, they can still detect its approximate location by jamming radar and communications, and then launch anti-radiation guided missiles in that direction. Whether the target is destroyed or intercepted by the enemy is beyond their control.

"Sir, are we really going to help them?" the first mate asked in a low voice, looking at the small patrol boat in the distance.

"Of course, that's at least what they say."

The captain said in a deep voice, but the implication made the first mate breathe a sigh of relief. He didn't want to die here for someone he had no connection with. Since the superior thought so too, it meant that they could slip away and choose to leave when they encountered danger.

As for what happens to New Guinea, what does that have to do with them?
(End of this chapter)