Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1143 1144 Great development of civil aviation

 In fact, when modern aviation was born, airplane meals were still very rich and delicious. This is really not a boast, but a fact. And not just the in-flight meals, but all the supporting services are very high-end.

In an era when air tickets were very expensive, every airline stewardess would be carefully selected, and their quality was no less than that of some current traffic stars. Each one is gentle and sexy, ensuring that the scenery that passengers see on the plane is absolutely eye-catching.

In addition, the supporting facilities at the airport were definitely better than those at the train station at that time, and the ticket buyers were all former stewardesses who had taken a back seat.

The food on the plane is even more exaggerated. Many people may not have imagined that smoking was allowed on the plane back then, and champagne, red wine, beer and even Maotai were also provided on the plane! right! You heard it right! Moutai!

Flight meals on each route include lobster, sashimi, snails, steak...some even exaggerate, including appetizers and desserts. No kidding, a lot of the food is even fresh. In order to ensure the quality of passengers' meals, the plane even has to stop at the airport to ensure the stability of passengers' meals.

　　Yes, in that era, eating on the plane was indeed a kind of enjoyment. Now the airline's ordering service was not exclusive to VIP first class in that era, but belonged to everyone who flew on the plane!

The problem is that later, in order to cut costs, airlines cut off additional services, the easiest part to cut. Now, taking a plane has become no different from taking a train.

 In fact, due to cost reductions, civilians have become able to fly. When discounted, airplane tickets are comparable to train tickets. This is why more and more modern people choose to travel by plane.

 Now, in an era when a plane costs more than 20 million gold coins, the service of the plane must be in place. Tang's jetliners were really too expensive, so expensive that ordinary people would definitely not be able to afford them.

Since ordinary people definitely can’t afford a flight ticket, it’s better to make the flight ticket more expensive. This can improve service quality and make actual consumer groups feel that they are worth their money.

No one would have thought that a civilian airliner could compete with a warship in terms of price. But in fact, when these reporters saw the plane, their first reaction was "not expensive"!

Yes, this aircraft is really beautiful. It has a milky white fuselage with two huge jet engines, swept wings and a row of round windows... It is like a swan spreading its wings in front of people at a glance. In front of it, it held its head noblely.

 It was so much bigger than the Type 47 aircraft that it required a special gangway. After its hugeness was displayed in front of everyone, the reporters even forgot to lift the cameras in their hands.

When people walked into the interior of this aircraft, they realized how advanced this thing was: it had an independent kitchen, equipped with 5 well-trained flight attendants to provide full service, and every seat was so spacious that it was almost impossible to sit on it. It’s just a treat!

 Compared to enduring several hours in a fuselage that even leaked air and had loud engines, the journey on this aircraft was undoubtedly blissful and full of novelty.

 Plus, it’s fast! Riding it can shorten a whole day's journey into one morning! It can fly at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, a height that most current fighter jets cannot easily control.

 The brand-new aircraft is equipped with advanced search radar, altitude radar to ensure flight height safety, and advanced radio navigation equipment, which can achieve "autonomous flight" in a certain sense.

 Its technology is so advanced that it is completely different from the previous 47-type passenger aircraft that looked very cheap and was not a product of the same era.

 That’s right, they are indeed not products of the same era! The brand-new aircraft is actually Boeing's most successful project, the "737" narrow-body passenger aircraft. It has been more mature and safer than other companies' products since its birth.

The Boeing airliner back then was so powerful that until the birth of Airbus, it had almost no rivals!

It is a pity that in order to compete with Airbus, Boeing followed the old path of McDonnell Douglas and began to save costs and transform mature airframe designs. Finally, it transformed the safe and mature 737 passenger aircraft into a "suicide aircraft" with a plummeting safety performance.

 But this does not mean that there is something wrong with the early models of the 737 passenger aircraft. In fact, the early models of the 737 are still very safe and very classic passenger aircraft.

How to use a seemingly ordinary plane crash to promote its products? Datang Group seems to be very professional in this regard.

 Airlines using brand-new aircraft will have priority in obtaining industry quality standards issued by the Civil Aviation Division of Datang Group and will receive safety certifications.

 Only such companies are eligible to maintain routes to the Datang Empire Airport: In other words, within the next three years, only jet airliners will be allowed to operate within the Datang Empire.

 Because if you don’t actively purchase advanced and safe new passenger aircraft, you will be irresponsible for the safety of passengers! Irresponsible companies are not qualified to operate within the Tang Empire.

 You can say that this is hegemony and unreasonable, but this is the standard within what is feasible! Without the safety qualification certification issued by Datang Group, you are not a recognized company in the industry!

 First-class companies set standards! Unfortunately, the standards of almost all industries are set by Datang Group. Tang Mo is the industry standard. Only companies with his approval can continue to survive in a certain industry.

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On the new island, the bulldozers have not yet left. On a launch site that has just been built, five Scud missile launch vehicles are erecting the missiles on their backs. Although it is planned to transport 200 Scud missiles to the new island to participate in the war, you can't wait until all the missiles are in place before launching them, right?

 In fact, after 10 missiles and 5 launch vehicles were landed, the Tang Empire had already begun to prepare to use these missiles to attack the capital of the Mirage Kingdom.

“Coordinates confirmed!” Frankly speaking, the Scud missiles of this era are still very troublesome to use. The Tang Empire had no intention of wasting any more time on such backward missile models, so its investment was very limited.

 After determining the coordinates of the missile in a complicated and tedious manner, the missile soldiers wearing gas masks began to fill the missile with liquid fuel.

The weather is very hot now, and wearing biochemical protective clothing and gas masks is quite uncomfortable. But there is no other way. The work of refueling is full of dangers. Biochemical protective suits are the last layer of protection for these soldiers.

 The Scuds that arrived first were equipped with cloud burst warheads, which are so powerful that they are called the mother of bombs.

 Before the atomic bomb was born, it was probably the most powerful bomb. Five missiles loaded with such warheads are almost ready for launch at this moment.

 A few hours later, Feng Kezhi received a report that the missiles were ready. He issued the attack order. The five Scud missiles almost ejected their tail flames at the same time, left the missile launch vehicle, and flew toward the sea level.

Soon, the warning radar on the main island of Mirage discovered these extremely fast targets: because the speed of these targets was too fast, their orbits had never appeared before.

It is very easy for radar to detect such high-altitude projectile targets, but it is not known what the mirage can do.

The Zero fighter unit, which had been trying to intercept the Tang Army's jet bombers, did receive the notice, but before they could fly near the mirage, they were told that the operation was cancelled.

Because the mirages have all been hit by missiles, the mirage country already knows what the gadgets that need to be intercepted are. So they no longer needed the Zero fighter to intercept, so the operation was canceled directly.

Five powerful cloud bombs fell in the mirage city, completely damaging the buildings just by the impact. The exploding warhead blew away the entire block, and those civilian buildings that did not look strong were turned into ruins in the shock.

The most unlucky thing was the residence of Mirage Navy Admiral Mirage Haiping: it was directly hit by a cloud bomb, and Mirage Haiping's whole family died in the explosion.

Mirage Haiping did not go home these days because he had to hold meetings in the base camp and deploy suicide speedboats in the headquarters, so he escaped.

 But besides him, his old mother also had a wife and a concubine. Seven or eight children were buried under the rubble. They were no longer breathing when they were found.

 Later that day, the second batch of Scud missiles struck, and Mirage seemed to be undefended at all, and was once again wiped out by five cloud bombs.

The huge explosion caused the earth to shake. Even in the underground bunker, the Mirage Emperor and his ministers could still truly feel the powerful power of the new bomb.

As the prime minister, Mirage Dabo urged the Mirage Emperor to move the headquarters to a more secluded suburb, away from the big goal of Mirage Capital.

 For safety reasons, both Mirage Haiping and Mirage Wuk supported this suggestion. But the Mirage Emperor was still very hesitant: once he left, the morale of the army and the people would be completely ruined.

䱱 said that your king ran away, what about the princess and the royal family? Should you follow or stay? If we follow... what about the families of the ministers?

 In fact, if it were put in the past, taking them all away would actually be nothing, it would just be more troublesome. But now the problem is not that simple: the Datang Air Force has been conducting investigations, and the escape of the family and their families cannot be hidden from the other party. Wouldn't that in turn expose themselves?

 Fortunately, in the evening, the expected third round of attacks did not arrive, which saved the Mirage Emperor from having to worry about whether he should run away.

However, the news on the radio that Datang Group was committed to the development of civilian technology and did not want the technology to be used in the military field first made the mirage king break his guard.

 He threw the radio and cursed loudly, until he almost lost all strength before he stopped.

 (End of this chapter)