Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 163 - 58: The Phantom in the Nuclear Arsenal

Chapter 163: Chapter 58: The Phantom in the Nuclear Arsenal

A complete military airport generally possesses small-scale but fully functional underground facilities.

In addition to underground hangars, or aircraft shelters, these facilities also include ammunition depots, logistics maintenance workshops, power and energy, communication network rooms, personnel shelters, command and control centers, and various other functional areas.

However, these underground facilities are not interconnected, especially after the domestic airport fortification construction reform began, the status of caves and tunnels further declined, gradually withdrawing from the historical stage.

However, this Air Force 10th Division Airport is an exception.

This airport itself is the station for bomber divisions, which need to maintain nuclear deterrence capabilities, so from the very beginning of its design and construction, an extremely large underground facility was gradually built here.

Such underground facilities ensured that the Air Force 10th Division became an important component of the triad nuclear strike forces, and at the same time, brought new hope to Chen Jian’s team centuries later.

After climbing through the gap in the distorted entrance gate, Chen Jian exclaimed with admiration:

"...Blast-resistant reinforced doors with stepping stone style, low-angle runways, electromagnetic catapult rails... damn, what kind of underground aircraft carrier is this?"

"This entire section of the passage is an emergency take-off runway, with the ground made entirely of magnetic resistance high-toughness steel—just like what’s used on aircraft carriers."

"Tsk, in twenty years, have we developed to this extent?"

"...It might not have been developed twenty years later."

He Shuo shook his head and replied:

"We never came to this airport back then, who knows what it looked like underground."

"The secrecy level of this thing is on par with the big black fish, it’s normal to hide some stuff."

"That’s true."

Chen Jian turned on his tactical flashlight and led the team deeper into the passage.

The air gradually became stale, but because the underground facilities were not completely sealed, breathing was still possible.

However, precisely because of this, the condition of the entire underground facility was somewhat pessimistic.

Rust marks everywhere indicated the state of the internal equipment, and when the group reached the end of the passage and saw the peculiarly shaped fighter jet, even the Holy Blood members who knew nothing about this weapon couldn’t help but sigh regretfully.

"This thing’s broken too....."

Zeng Yi stepped forward and touched the giant landing gear, then asked:

"Is this also a fighter jet? Is it the air combat fighter you mentioned?"

Chen Jian shook his head and replied:

"It’s a fighter jet, but whether it’s an air superiority fighter, I really can’t say..."

While speaking, he circled around to the rear of the jet, pointed at the engine nozzles, and said to Lei Jie and the others who followed:

"A three-engine jet, not a model we’re familiar with. From the nozzle structure, the middle one looks like a variable cycle engine."

"The ones on both sides should be dual-mode engines? Looking at the length of the engine compartments, they’re worlds apart from the aircraft of our era."

"What’s the model of this thing? JH-26?"

"Give me a break, the size of the JH-26 is probably less than half of this thing, maybe it’s the H-20K."

Shen Yue interjected.

"....That would very much fit our military’s design... But to be fair, is this a space-faring aircraft?"

Lei Jie curiously asked.

"Most likely it’s a space-faring aircraft, but who knows what this thing was meant to fight... aliens?"

"Who knows."

Lei Jie answered while circling around the unidentified large aircraft model, then remarked with a bit of regret:

"There’s basically nothing good left; the atmospheric conditions in the passage are even worse than outside, with more severe rust and corrosion."

"The best-preserved part is the canopy glass, but we have no use for that..."

"Who said it’s useless?"

Chen Jian smiled mysteriously, then said:

"Did you forget we still owe Li Shi something?"

Hearing this, Li Shi, who was nearby, looked at Chen Jian in a daze and asked, puzzled:

"Huh?"

"What thing?"

"...Your shield."

Chen Jian pointed to the massive canopy above their heads and explained:

"This thing isn’t ordinary glass, it’s not even glass in the usual sense."

"Normally, the canopy of a fighter jet is made from pressed laminated composite materials; the cost is incredibly high, and the quality is also astonishingly good."

"According to national standards, the strength of a piece of glass is higher than that of ordinary steel plates."

"And this aircraft in front of us is clearly a hypersonic fighter jet, possibly even a space-faring machine, which means the material strength of its transparent canopy is even higher."

"While it might not withstand a missile, it will surely hold up against the backward weapons of the Mechanical God Sect."

"True."

Lei Jie nodded in agreement but then added somewhat humorously:

"The person who designed this thing could never have imagined that, in the future, someone would dismantle its canopy and use it as a shield, right?"

"How do you think they would feel if they knew?"

"Don’t know."

Chen Jian shook his head and replied:

"But if it were me, I might actually be quite pleased."

"After all, for human civilization to reach this point, something that was supposed to be useless can still be put to good use and continue to serve its purpose."

"...That’s true. But hopefully, we can find something more useful."

After confirming that no more useful components could be dismantled from this possible space-faring fighter aircraft, the team left the passage and continued deeper underground.