The Rise Of Australasia-Chapter 1164 - 875: A Neat Aerial Battle

To prevent the Island Nation Air Force from causing trouble during their own air raids, these Australian airplanes were constantly searching for the location of the military airfields of the Island Nation as soon as they initiated the air raid.

The good news was that, like the Island Nation, the Ryukyu Islands were overall quite long and narrow, which significantly reduced the difficulty of locating enemy military airfields.

But the bad news was that before the Australasian Air Force could find the location of the Island Nation's airfields, a continuous stream of Islander airplanes began taking off to obstruct the Australasian Air Force.

"Squadrons 1, 2, and 3 eliminate the enemy, squadrons 4 and 5 quickly determine the location of the enemy's airfields. After we locate their airfields, squadrons 4, 5, and 6 protect the bombers and directly destroy their airfields," the commander on the Australasian side immediately ordered.

"Damn, so many airplanes!" On the Island Nation's side, they naturally also spotted the hundreds of Australasian airplanes in the sky. The overwhelming number wasn't good news for them.

"Hold them off. Even if we die, we must take an Australasian with us," there was madness flickering in the eyes of the Islander pilots who did not fear death too much.

"Damn it, have these Islanders gone mad?" The Australasians naturally also noticed the Islanders' crazy actions.

Because they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, the Island Nation Air Force would be quickly eliminated by the Australasian Air Force if they fought a normal aerial battle.

Therefore, the Islanders' goal from the start wasn't to fight the aerial battle but to directly look for opportunities to trade one-for-one with the Australasian Air Force.

It should be noted that many of the Island Nation's airplanes were of wood and metal construction, making them very cheap to produce.

If they could trade such an airplane for one of Australasia's expensive all-metal airplanes, it would definitely be a victory.

But obviously, the Australasian side wouldn't give the Islanders that opportunity.

Although surprised at the Islanders' mad determination to fearlessly face death, talking back, were the Australasian pilots afraid of death?

On the contrary, the Australasian pilots also did not fear death and were willing to die for their country.

This was different from the Islanders' brainwashed zealotry. Australasian soldiers were willing to give everything for their country because they believed and clearly understood that their sacrifices wouldn't be in vain, they would undoubtedly be respected by Arthur and their country.

Whether it was the country's pension policy or the various treatments regarding the families of the sacrificed soldiers formulated by Arthur, all made it clear to these Australasian soldiers that even if they perished for their country, their families' lives would be secured.

"Missiles ready, attack the enemy indiscriminately!"

With that command, the Australasian airplanes began launching missiles one after another.

Each airplane carried a different number of missiles, and combined, there were even more than a thousand missiles.

Even with a 10% hit rate, a thousand missiles would be enough to take down over a hundred enemy airplanes.

Moreover, the enemy only had a few dozen airplanes, and it might only take half of those missiles to eliminate all the enemies.

Of course, Australasia would not be so wasteful. Though missiles could effectively deal with enemy airplanes, in the case of a large superiority in the air, it would be somewhat wasteful to spend missiles on the Island Nation's airplanes.

These missiles could cause more casualties and aid the combat plan more if they were to bomb the enemy's ground targets.

That's why the number of missiles launched by Australasia was only over two hundred, and the fighters and bombers in the rear did not take any action at all.

Over two hundred missiles rapidly chased the Island Nation's airplanes, and the white smoke from their burning created white streaks due to the high speed.

"Damn it!" muttered the Islander pilot at the very front, quickly maneuvering his airplane to evade.

Since the last failed attack on Australasia, the news that Australasia possessed a weapon capable of precisely striking airplanes had spread throughout the Island Nation.

Although the Islanders did not see clearly what that weapon was due to the darkness, they remembered the white smoke and the long, narrow shape associated with it.

But how could the speed of these Island Nation airplanes compare to that of a missile?

If it were the most advanced Australasian airplanes, perhaps they could evade these missiles at extreme speeds.

However, without advanced jet engines or data about the missiles, it was difficult for the Islander airplanes to evade them.

Boom! Boom, boom!

With explosions after explosions, many unfortunate Island Nation airplanes were hit, lighting up in a flash of exploding red, falling straight down in pieces of varying sizes.

Gulp!

The surviving Island Nation pilots swallowed hard, terrified and unable to believe what they had just gone through.

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It's worth noting that they were far from the Australasian airplanes, and with the weapons on the Island Nation airplanes, there was practically no threat to the Australasians.

But the fact that Australasian airplanes could inflict such damage from such a far distance, and it was the kind of damage that ensured a crash, represented a disparity as vast as the sky itself.

What was even more fatal was that, in the last round of bombing, almost half of the Island Nation airplanes had crashed. The Island Nation airplanes still circling in the sky numbered less than 20, facing about ten times as many Australasian airplanes, making the idea of continuing to exchange one for one laughably unrealistic.

"Scatter and escape to Kagoshima Airport, they have strong anti-aircraft weapons there. The Australasians wouldn't dare to go," seeing that the Air Force had completely lost all hope, the Commander hurriedly ordered.

This wasn't about him being afraid to die. For the Island Nation with its weak industry and economy, avoiding unnecessary damage to airplanes was most important.

This also necessitated mentioning the terrible relationship between the Island Nation's army and navy.

For other countries, the Air Force was an emerging military branch, an important military force capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the army and navy.

But for the Island Nation, with a huge discord between the army and the Air Force, the newly formed Air Force was clearly not strong enough to become a new branch of the military.

This consequently led to the Island Nation's Air Force being split into two factions, namely the Army Air Corps and the Navy Air Corps.

Because of the conflict between the army and navy, there were also great contradictions between the Army Air Corps and the Navy Air Corps.

In other words, the Island Nation's Air Force was split into two parts, and the relationship between them was not good, making cooperation very difficult.

The current force of the Island Nation's Air Force belonged to the Army Air Corps, and their target for seeking support was naturally Kagoshima's Army Air Corps.

Upon receiving orders, the more than ten remaining Island Nation airplanes attempted to scatter and escape.

But they clearly overlooked one problem, which was the overwhelming speed of the Australasian airplanes.

The Island Nation airplanes' top speed was only 470 kilometers per hour, while the top speed of the Australasian airplanes had reached 675 kilometers per hour, a vast gap.

While it might seem to be only a difference of 200 kilometers per hour, not even 1.5 times the speed of the Island Nation airplanes.

The issue was that this 1.5 times difference, in terms of the Island Nation's airplane development, might represent several generations of airplanes, at least ten years' worth of technological gap.

Given the large barrier of jet engine technology, without the help of Germany and Italy, even if the current Island Nation was given ten years, their airplane development might not be able to catch up with Australasia's present capabilities.

Moreover, what if the Islanders do catch up?

Their industry and economy had already determined that they couldn't keep up with the industrial production of more powerful countries.

Even with military industry production and technology on par with Australasia, if Australasia produced military equipment without regard to anything else, Islanders would still not be able to match them in terms of the number of airplanes.

The outcome of this aerial battle was already clear.

The remaining dozen or so airplanes, when faced with the pursuit of Australasian airplanes, obviously had no power to fight back.

The vast speed disparity made their attacks appear weak and ineffective.

What made these Island Nation pilots feel even more hopeless was that in testing, their fighter aircraft's machine guns could easily damage their own nation's airplanes.

After all, no matter how sturdy wood is, it is ultimately the weaker side when facing the barrage of machine-gun fire.

But the problem was that the Australasian airplanes were not made of wood.

Unlike the Island Nation's superficial iron-clad wooden structure, Australasian airplanes were all-metal and even had steel plating added to more vulnerable areas for protection.

This led to the machine-gun fire from the Islanders causing ostensibly only psychological damage when hitting an Australasian airplane—after all, many Australasian pilots would be distressed, as they wouldn't want to see their beloved airplanes damaged.

An Island Nation airplane luckily hit an Australasian airplane's engine, causing engine failure, and forced the pilot to eject.

But it was clear the Island Nation airplane had no chance to cause further damage to the pilot because it faced more Australasian airplanes hunting it down and was quickly shot down and crashed.

To protect the ejected Australasian pilot, the Australasian side even deployed two fighter aircraft for search and rescue.

The good news was that, after the Island Nation's Air Force was completely annihilated, the safety of that pilot was secured.

The Australasian Air Force wouldn't give the Island Nation airplanes another chance to take off.

After locating the direction of the Island Nation's airport, bombers were dispatched to carry out substantial bombings, and they destroyed the airport's radar and command center.

Subsequently, the Australasian Air Force successively visited harbors, coastline radar stations, and Naha, the largest urban city in the Ryukyu Islands, and finally bombed the Islanders' defense installations on the coastline of the Ryukyu Islands.

The Air Force also specifically searched for all radar installations throughout the Ryukyu Islands, to prevent being detected by the Islanders' radar during the upcoming airborne operations.