Shortly after the meeting of the Jewish financial-military-industrial interest group on Long Island Island in New York, the "New York Times" under his control suddenly broke the shocking news that the F-117 "Nighthawk" stealth attack plane, which had been in service for nearly seven years and claimed to be able to break through any air defense system in the world, was about to formally withdraw from active service in the US military. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as this news came out, it was like pouring a scoop of boiling oil on a hot pot, pushing the international public opinion, which had already been noisy because of the "stealth door," to an unprecedented peak, and for a time, the world's major media rushed to reprint it, and countless opinions surged up, instantly overshadowing the public opinion on the victory in the Gulf War and the accidental death of the new US Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Donald Horner, and became the hottest news focus at the moment.

It's just that in this way, the U.S. Department of Defense has become the most exposed government department in the United States, and countless long guns and short guns are squatting at the exits of the Pentagon every day, and the nerve-sensitive reporters do not let go of everyone who enters and exits the Pentagon, even the most ordinary security uncles and cleaning aunts, they have to find ways to interrogate them, and as for those Department of Defense officials who can access the role layer, they are even more focused on guarding, as long as they have the opportunity, they will jump out and ask loudly:

"Will the F-117 really be retired?"

No matter how they explain that they really don't know the inside story, those media reporters don't know what the wrong medicine is, and they just don't believe the so-called "I don't know the inside story" and "no comment" and other crown words, which really make the defense department officials who have poured out their hearts and lungs crazy.

The reporters of the major media are also about to go crazy, because just when they are slackening, a certain column in the New York Times will publish several interviews with anonymous people, which can be said to be clear about the causes and consequences of the F-117's preparation for retirement.

Why was the "New York Times" able to find first-hand information and thus boost the readership and brand value of senior readers, but it couldn't? Therefore, the controllers of the major media directly spoke, no matter what method they used, they also wanted to get the first-hand news of the F-117's retirement.

Not to mention ordinary officials of the Department of Defense, even Admiral Paul Jones, acting chief of staff of the Air Force, who is in charge of the US Air Force, is at a loss, because even he, the first person in the US Air Force, does not know how the F-117 was inexplicably retired.

So much so that at several regular news conferences, the veteran general, who was nearly 60 years old, patted his chest in front of nearly 100 reporters with his usual uprightness and promised that even if he himself retired, the F-117 would not be retired.........

"By doing this, you are not only destroying the U.S. Air Force, but also destroying this country!"

In the secret room on the east side of the fourth floor of the Pentagon, Admiral Jones's angry roar shook the whole room.

But in fact, the reporters who were entering the venue didn't know anything about it, and in the well-soundproofed room, except for Admiral Jones, the expressions of the other people were unusually calm, as if Jones's roar was not aimed at them, which made Jones even more angry, his temples were crawling with earthworm-like veins, and his gray hair stood on end:

"The F-117 is the only one in the hands of the US Air Force that can freely enter and exit other countries to carry out volley attacks without being detected, and even if it was shot down in the Gulf War, it cannot be killed with a stick, after all, it still has a considerable role for the US Air Force.......

"General Jones, if you have any comments, you can write a memo and present it to President Bush and Congress, and I think they'll take it seriously, but ....... Now, it's going to be officially announced!"

McCain, chairman of the Senate Defense Committee of the Congress, who was standing in front of Admiral Jones, did not give Admiral Jones a chance to continue speaking, and said in a cold voice with his eyes glaring at him:

"You've got fifteen minutes left, and I don't want anything to go wrong!"

"Mr. Senator, are you really a citizen of the United States of America?"

Hearing Jones suddenly ask such a clueless sentence, McCain couldn't help but pause, and then listened to his chest~~ He nodded proudly:

"There is no more patriotic citizen than I am. ”

"Patriotic?citizen?" Jones couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and then continued without irony: "If people like you can be called patriots and citizens, then the United States is really about to be doomed!"

McCain listened to Jones's obviously insulting words, his vicious eyes narrowed slightly, and he coldly threatened: "It's not that I haven't given you a chance, but you don't know how to grasp it, in this case, it is okay, from next year, the Air Force funding will be reduced by 5% every year......."

"You ......."

Jones is going crazy, but he knows that McCain can be said to be a man of his word in the preparation of the defense budget, saying that the Air Force will be cut by 5% of military spending, which is definitely not a joke, because no matter how tough Jones is, he does not dare to say a word more, you must know that for a certain piece of equipment,

And if the military spending is cut, it is not only McCain who is offended, but also the group of air force officers and soldiers who are waiting to eat under his command will also become Jones's enemies, so the commanders of all branches of the US military take military spending very seriously in any case, let alone cut it by 5%, even if it is cut by 0.1%, it will be scolded by the people below, and even if it is retired from active service, it will be hated, which is even more terrible than nailing it to the pillar of historical shame.

Not only that, but Jones was also very responsible, and because of this, after learning that Congress and the administration intended to retire the F-117 from active service, Admiral Jones vehemently opposed the motion out of consideration for the combat effectiveness of the US Air Force. The retirement of 117 was a political decision, not a military one, but Admiral Jones remained unmoved, and his opposition grew louder and louder.

However, just when everyone was helpless against Jones's stinky and hard stone, McCain, who was more stinky and harder than him, adhered to the will of Richard Morgan and stood up to Jones, and McCain's method was crude and simple, that is, to use the defense budgeting power in his hands to directly destroy the foundation on which Jones relied in the military circles, because he knew very well that no general in the army was willing to nail himself to the pillar of shame in history........

Seeing that Admiral Jones, who had spoken fiercely before, was silent with an ugly face, McCain couldn't help but smile: "It's still what I said before, either go up and announce the results, or submit your resignation report and leave with dignity!"

The corners of Jones' mouth twitched when he heard this, shook his head helplessly, and said dejectedly: "Is there a difference?"

Jones is right, the two conditions offered by McCain are actually the same, no matter what Jones does, he can't escape the end of resignation and retirement, no way, who made him pat his chest and talk so full before? Such a rhythm of slapping in the face, even if Jones is thick-skinned, he can't bear it, McCain naturally knows this, so he nodded with a smile:

"If you insist on a difference, maybe one is embarrassed, and the other is decent!"

"Then I'll choose the decent one!"

Admiral Jones sighed, then grabbed his military hat casually, buckled it on his head, pushed open the door gloomily, and walked away without looking back, McCain looked at Jones, who was obviously depressed, Chang Chang breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his head to look at the spokesman of the Department of Defense who looked panicked, stretched out his hand and patted the man's shoulder:

"Don't be nervous, go up and do a good job!"

"Yes...... Yes........"

You must know that just now, he saw with his own eyes that this bigwig forced a general to resign in disgrace, so he did not dare to slack off, so he immediately picked up the press release that McCain gave him, and became familiar with it at a glance........

"According to Congress's defense budget reduction plan for the next fiscal year, the F-117 'Nighthawk' stealth fighter has been included in the reduction list due to the high maintenance cost........

"The Ministry of Defense and the Air Force plan to retire all the F-117s belonging to the US military in the next five years.......

"As for the saved military spending, it will be used for the YF-23 project ........"

"At the same time, Congress is studying the launch of a new stealth fighter project to create a stealth ground fighter similar to the F-15E to carry out F-117-like air strike missions........

Facing the camera, the spokesman of the US Department of Defense did not have the restraint and trepidation in the background, but used his usual calm posture to read the press release in his hand word for word........

The stunned images at the US Department of Defense's regular press conference were quickly transmitted to the world through satellite broadcasts, and one of the radio waves was directly reflected in the satellite broadcast receiver of the Northeast Heavy Industry Group in Shencheng, China, and then converted into a television signal and transmitted to the office downstairs through a closed-circuit wire.

Lu Jiadong, who was sitting in the office, holding the freshly brewed tea in his hand, looked at the live broadcast of the US Department of Defense press conference on color TV, and his face was not half stunned, but smiled meaningfully and muttered:

"What a strong man with a broken wrist ........"