A pilot who has flown a B52 strategic bomber for many years could not be wrong in his judgment, and Mike also knew that in the event of a possible collision, bomber groups generally did not take the initiative to evade it.

It is more troublesome for the group to act collectively, so as not to avoid this and not collide with the other party, but to have problems in their own formation.

“... Because we are business aircraft, we flew at an altitude of 12,600 meters just now, which has avoided the airspace of the flight altitude of most commercial flights, and even those transport planes flying in the Gulf area will not fly so high, just in the altitude range that B52 usually flies......"

The general cruising altitude of Boeing 767 is more than 13,100 meters, and the flight altitude of business aircraft is generally higher than that of ordinary commercial flights, such as Zhang Nan's Gulfstream 4, the cruising altitude often exceeds 15,000 meters, and there is no worry about colliding with ordinary commercial flights.

And Mr. Mike didn't finish speaking, and he spoke again when he was right, "Boss, I left the army relatively early, but I also know that all strategic bombers of our air force should actually be equipped with anti-collision systems, which are common to civil aviation."

This system will be turned on during training and field transfer in peacetime, and TCAS will still be turned on even if the Air Force is a large-scale transport transfer during this time.

If it is not turned on, it will only be a situation, carrying out a real combat strategic bombing mission. ”

Mike didn't know that the boss already knew that the war would start in the next ten hours, and these words were all judged by his own experience.

The boss is a U.S. citizen, with a big business and a lot of secrets, but he doesn't do anything to harm U.S. interests. As a well-paid employee, knowing the news of this war is also one of the opportunities for the boss to make a lot of money, and he thinks that he has to do his duty as a good employee.

Carry out strategic bombing missions, bomb where?

Iraq!

It will be, and it can only be, Iraq!

Hearing this, Xiang Weirong on the side said: "Mike, can you calculate the route and time?"

Mike nodded, "Yes, Mr. Xiang."

If I need to, I can calculate now that the error is up to one hour. ”

"That's it. The earth is round, and it would be better to have a point in time. ”

The earth is round, and the time difference is 24 hours, so if there is a buffer time of two or three hours, Nicole's side may rely on speculation to make hundreds of millions of dollars more profits, such a business is done!

Today's Zhang Nan is no longer a little butterfly, but a big crocodile, or a dragon with wings, and the reaction caused by this wing will be much greater than the consequences caused by that small butterfly.

Not to mention that he didn't remember the exact time point of the multinational air raid on Iraq in the Gulf War, and even if he remembered, he couldn't count it at this point, and he might be affected by himself.

Not to mention the fact that those C141s have participated in the strategic transportation of the US military, these are all factors that may affect the time of the outbreak of war.

Hearing the boss's words, Mike didn't sit down, but turned around and walked in the direction of the cab, probably to get the aeronautical chart.

The Boeing 767 is advanced, and this ultra-luxury custom model is not only advanced, but also has a lot of military equipment, even infrared warning devices and infrared jamming eggs, but it is still equipped with basic aeronautical charts.

No matter how advanced you are, you can't be 100% sure that those electronic systems are foolproof, and sometimes the old methods are the most reliable.

After a while, Mike returned with an aeronautical chart book and pen and paper.

He began to measure and calculate on the small bar on one side, and after a while, Mike raised his head and said: "If the strategic bombing starts from the mainland, the route of the bomber will generally not change greatly in the country and the Atlantic, and this is a comprehensive consideration of various factors such as residual fuel and bomb load.

Looking at it this way, those seven bombers should have taken off from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and I guess they would attack Iraq with air-to-surface cruise missiles......"

Seven, identified on the radar.

“... It is unlikely that it will enter Iraq and carry out horizontal bombing, which is too risky, and the radar reflection area of the B52 guy is so large that it cannot even cover up the electronic interference, and if it goes near the sky over Baghdad, it is basically equivalent to suicide.

In this way, no matter what kind of cruise missile the bomber used, if the target was an important strategic target in Baghdad, the attack would break out between 2:30 and 3:30 in the morning of the 17th, Baghdad time.

According to the usual virtues of the generals in the command, there is the greatest possibility that a cruise missile will hit the Iraqi presidential palace at three o'clock in the morning!"

How does Mike calculate Zhang Nan can guess seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, or eight, and it seems to be about the same in retrospect, the air attack of the Gulf War broke out in the middle of the night or in the second half of the night, and I saw it on CCTV the next day: The night sky of Baghdad, which was originally dark, was almost illuminated by the tracer bullets of anti-aircraft guns.

Western armies always like to use some letters to determine the time point, for example, the Normandy landing is called D-Day, and the time when the air attack in the Gulf War begins is based on "H time": this Zhang Nan remembers that it seems to be based on Greenwich Mean Time.

As for that time point as the benchmark, Zhang Nan guessed that nine times out of ten it was the zero point on the 17th, so that the troops could act in a coordinated manner.

This would have Mike calculating the attack time of the B52s, and the extremely expensive cruise missiles should be responsible for the first wave of the attack, plus the stealth fighters whose secrets are too good to die: the cruise missiles carried by the seven bombers that almost crashed would be part of the first attack wave nine times out of ten.

Mike calculated that he was right: it would be midnight on the Iraqi side, and the Multinational Force's air vigilance and control system aircraft and combat air patrol planes would continue their missions on the Saudi-Iranian border as usual.

At the airfields where the multinational forces are stationed, a large number of planes from various countries and services are ready to go, waiting for the order to leave.

Closer to H o'clock, these hundreds of tactical combat aircraft will be assembled behind the daily patrol planes and outside the effective range of the early warning radars in Iraq and Jordan.

Why avoid Jordan?

Because this will make relations between Jordan and Iraq good!

Jordan is a very special country in the Middle East, it has always been an important ally and trading partner of Iraq, and the two countries are inseparable by blood: the founder of the Faisal dynasty of Iraq and the former king of Jordan, Abdullah I, are brothers.

Sixty per cent of Jordan's entrepot trade at the port of Aqaba, Jordan's only outlet to the sea, comes from Iraq.

Almost all of Jordan's energy is provided by Iraq at a half-free discounted price.

At the very beginning of the Gulf War, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Jordan was somewhat on the side of Iraq, and only kept a certain distance from Iraq after being sanctioned by the United States.

Some time ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan repeatedly stressed that the US military will never be allowed to launch an attack on Iraq from Jordanian territory.

Tonight, the multinational force assembled a huge formation consisting of 160 air tankers, hundreds of warplanes, and a large number of reconnaissance and surveillance planes, just waiting for the arrival of H o'clock. The first batch of combat aircraft ready to enter Iraqi airspace are 30 F-117A stealth fighters, which are now highly secret.

When these planes take off and assemble, they need to be effectively detected by early warning radars in Iraq and Jordan, otherwise no one can guarantee that Saddam Hussein will not immediately know that he is about to be bombed.

After listening to Mike's words, Zhang Nan said with a smile: "Interesting, we will know the time of the start of the attack before Saddam, if this will give him a call, do you think he will give me a few tons of gold?"

The guys laughed, even Mike: everyone could tell the boss was joking.

Call Saddam?

Zhang Nan could get his satellite phone number, and if he had wanted it a few months ago, it would have been stored in his communication book a long time ago.

But......

"Still don't call him, I can earn more with this time. ”

As he spoke, he grabbed his satellite phone from Randy and called Nicole.

"My dear, there is a good chance that the multinational force will launch an airstrike in the early morning of the 17th Iraqi time, and you see who else can be pitted... Yes, just a few hours later..."