"It was a few hard numbers that prompted me to introduce low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude parachute training in First Battalion!" At Xing Xiangtian's prompting, Zhang Tie rose to his feet and solemnly laid out his thoughts before the battalion commanders and Xing Xiangtian, without concealing anything.
"In the first aerial battle against the Devil Race, 57 percent of Great Xia's fallen air cavalrymen were killed by Winged Devils in the sky after their aircraft were damaged and they parachuted out. That figure—57 percent—accounts for more than half of all fallen air cavalrymen in Great Xia..."
"On the battlefield, 96 percent of aerial engagements between air cavalrymen and Winged Devils take place at altitudes between three and seven thousand meters. At such heights, even if they parachute out, an air cavalryman remains airborne for at least fifty seconds from the moment he is ejected from his seat until he reaches the ground. The vast majority remain in the air for over two minutes. Yet one minute after parachuting, more than 90 percent of air cavalrymen are killed by Winged Devils. That one minute after a high-altitude jump is a true time of death for every air cavalryman. During that span, parachuting air cavalrymen are nothing but targets for Winged Devils in the sky, with no way to respond..."
"Reducing the time air cavalrymen spend airborne after parachuting means reducing the time left for Winged Devils to attack them. Our aircraft fly faster than Winged Devils. Even aircraft damaged by Winged Devils in aerial combat, though no longer capable of normal control or flight, still fall at tremendous speed. That makes pursuit extremely difficult for Winged Devils—it is nearly impossible for them to catch up at once!"
"Therefore, once an aircraft is damaged, as long as the air cavalrymen aboard can grasp the