Chapter 86: A-300 Rocket Launcher, Anchored Elements


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Altitude: Over 20,000 meters.


    At this point, it was time to kick things into high gear. Tang Rui narrowed his eyes and pushed the throttle forward with his left hand. He pushed the throttle all the way in, and in an instant, the drone’s engines unleashed a mighty surge of power.


    Mach 1.5.


    Mach 2.2.


    Mach 3.1.


    Mach 4.


    Once the speed reached Mach 4, the air entering the intake had reached the engine’s required supercharging speed.


    The outer bypass doors swung open, and the supercharger turbine ceased spinning. The engine transitioned from subsonic to supersonicbustion, and the eleration continued.


    Mach 4.5.


    Mach 5.2.


    Mach 6.


    As both drones reached a speed of Mach 6, the difference in engines became apparent. The one with system-enhanced control continued to elerate aggressively, while the other,cking the enhancement, began to lose eleration, albeit still gaining speed, but not as rapidly.


    Tang Rui nced at the data on his screen and promptly severed the dual-drone synchronization system. He maintained the ascent and eleration of the drone with system-enhanced control, while the other drone, after reaching Mach 6.5, maintained that speed and headed toward its destination.


    At an altitude of 45,000 meters, the air had be exceedingly thin. However, the drone continued to elerate, reaching an impressive speed of Mach 7.2.


    It was at this moment that the air ahead of the drone seemed to form an imprable wall. The shockwave body structure yed a pivotal role here. High-pressure air flowed beneath the drone’s nose, creating turbulent shockwaves in the intake, causing the air entering the intake to exceed the speed of sound.


    In that very instant, the supercharger, high-speed turbine, and low-speed turbine within the engine came to a halt. Supersonic airflow rushed directly into thebustion chamber, propelling the expanding mes out of the tail nozzle.


    Boom!


    Instantly, two 7-8 meter-long mes trailed from the tail, signaling the ignition of the hypersonicbustion mode.


    The drone went wild with eleration once more.


    Mach 7.5.


    Mach 8.1.


    Mach 8.8.


    elerate! elerate! elerate!


    Through the synthetic aperture radar, Tang Rui, looking downward, could now see the curvature of the Earth. Thanks to the drone’s speed, he could actually witness the Earth’s slow rotation, a truly marvelous sensation. However, it wasn’t the time for sightseeing. He cast a nce at the instrument data.


    The drone’s speed had now reached a staggering Mach 9.6.


    Upon reaching this threshold, Tang Rui dared not push it further. Should the drone’s speed surpass Mach 10, it would enter the ckout zone, which was not a heat shield. Once within the ckout zone, all electronic signals would be severed. Tang Rui couldn’t be certain whether the system-enhancedmunication capabilities would bypass the ckout zone. If not, he would lose contact with the drone, which would be problematic. So, caution was the better part of valor.


    The current speed was more than sufficient.


    Twenty minutester, Tang Rui began a gradual descent in both flight speed and altitude. He activated the electro-optical system, and instantly, the ground situation appeared before him. The screen was dotted with red indicators.


    He started searching for tanks, focusing his targeting efforts on them.


    The red indicators diminished in number.


    Tang Rui then shifted his gaze to the city blocks. He pinpointed the tank closest to where Feng Yuanxing was located.


    “Boss, the tanks have arrived, and 1 can already hear the gunshots from Houthi soldiers. When I die, please help bring my ashes back to my country,” Feng Yuanxing began writing farewell messages once again.


    “Old Feng, immediately take control of the vehicle tform at the entrance of the underground parking lot andunch the cruise missiles. After youunch them, you don’t have to worry about anything else—just do it quickly.”


    Upon receiving Tang Rui’s message, Feng Yuanxing hesitated for a moment. Could cruise missiles really take out tanks? He doubted it. Five kilograms of explosives wouldn’t even dent a tank’s external armor; at best, it would create some smoke, which would bepletely ineffective.


    But after some contemtion, Feng Yuanxing decided to follow Tang Rui’s instructions. He hoped that byplying with the boss’s orders, he would receive somepensation for his family.


    Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…


    Under Feng Yuanxing’s control, the cruise missiles wereunched.


    “Celia, open the back door and take control of the cruise missile’s control system.”


    “Okay.”


    The cruise missile, under Tang Rui’s control, rapidly departed from the underground parking lot. This situation also caught the attention of the Houthi armed soldiers about a hundred meters away.


    The tank immediately elerated toward the underground parking lot.


    Tang Rui observed this and pressed the button to open the missile bay. A precise surface-to-surface missile wasunched.


    The missile bay closed a secondter.


    The radar signal shed and disappeared again.


    A few secondster.


    The missile hit the tank with precision, wiping out the tank and the surrounding Houthi militia. Within a hundred meters, windows shattered simultaneously.


    Feng Yuanxing, hidden underground, felt his head buzzing from the explosion.


    “Old Feng, I’ve taken care of the tank. Now, lead those soldiers to bring ail the vehicle tforms up to the surface andunch all the cruise missiles.”


    “Boss, they won’te out.”


    “Thenunch them from the exit of the underground parking lot.”


    “They agree to that.”


    Tang Rui had Celia take control of all theunched cruise missiles and started scanning the ground. First, he eliminated the Houthis inside the city, and then the ones outside.


    With the drone’s scanning capabilities, no one could hide, even if they were in rooms or underground bunkers. Nothing could escape its surveince.


    “Annihtion mode, first group, go.”


    Under the guidance of the drone’s data link, 36 cruise missiles rapidly approached the enemy.


    As a series of explosions resounded, 213 enemies within the city were eliminated.


    At this point, there were only 39 enemies left in the city, but they were spread out, so the first wave of strikes didn’t target them.


    With continuousunches of cruise missiles, the number of missiles in the city’s airspace grew.


    Tang Rui allocated more than twenty cruise missiles to take care of the remaining 39 enemies before starting to scan and eliminate targets outside the city.


    “Boss, all the cruise missiles have beenunched.”


    “Understood. Rx, all the enemies within the city have been taken care of.”


    After sending the message, Tang Rui didn’t pay any more attention to it. He picked up a satellite phone and called Prince Salim.


    “Prince Salim, are you ready on your end?”


    “Everything is prepared. Theunch preheating isplete, but we don’t know the target’s location.”


    “Activate the BeiDou navigation, open the data interface, and leave the rest to me.”


    “Alright, my friend.”


    Prince Salim responded without hesitation, much like a coal mine boss. For professional matters, leave them to the professionals and don’t interfere. Just focus on the results.


    After opening the data interface of the


    A-300 rocketuncher, Tang Rui connected to its internal system through the integratedbatmand tform of his country.


    Don’t ask how he connected. When it came to military equipment, if you bought weapons from someone, you couldn’t expect to use those weapons against the seller. If you did, you wouldn’t even be able tounch missiles or start aircraft..”