"Yes," came out of Clinton and Leslie. To Aspin's surprise, Cage actually had a third option for them to choose.

God forbid! It's really this great! President Clinton and Leslie, who were already a little desperate. Defense Minister Aspine was overjoyed: as long as these sensitive military equipment can not be proliferated, in the face of the current alternative balance of power, even Cage put forward some slightly excessive conditions.

More people's thoughts are: what are the conditions, you can say it quickly! Hurry up and send these plague gods away, so let's close the door and live in peace!

"The third option is for us to rent your four heavy transport planes to pick us up," Cage said, "but as a ransom for the more than 1,500 captives, the ownership of these four transport planes will go to us." How about this proposal? ”

At present, the ex-factory unit price of the latest C-17 "Globemaster III" long-range strategic heavy transport plane is $220 million, and the ex-factory unit price of the C-5 "Galaxy" long-range strategic heavy transport plane is even higher than this figure. Converted into the head of every American soldier, the ransom paid by the Americans would amount to almost $650,000.

650,000 US dollars, although the ransom amount of many kidnapping cases is higher than this amount, and it is not much to put on one person's head alone, but when it comes together, it is enough for the US government to have a headache.

President Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leslie. Mr. Aspin glanced at each other: Compared with the top-level sensitive and sophisticated military equipment such as fighter planes and airborne early warning planes, although strategic transport planes are also punctual equipment that is highly controlled by the US military, their sensitivity is much lower, and although the four transport planes are military transport planes, even if they want to be converted into other purposes -- unless they are converted into civilian passenger planes, but it is quite uneconomical -- the electronic equipment they need can only be purchased from the United States. Even if these guys drive these four transport planes back, they will only use them as large transport planes at most, and they will have to risk being discovered by themselves at any time!

Even these daring thugs want to sell these three heavy strategic transport planes on the international arms black market, and those countries that can afford them and are ready to copy them. It is not so easy to imitate it: a large transport aircraft with a take-off weight of more than 100 tons is far from being comparable to that of an ordinary medium-sized transport aircraft, not only in terms of the design of the fuselage, but also in the degree of modernization of a country's basic heavy processing industry and its ability in cutting-edge ultra-high-precision machining. Countries that currently have the ability to replicate these aircraft do not have the industrial capacity to do so.

Even the various synthetic materials used in the aircraft are very difficult, not to mention the high-powered turbofan engines that represent the core of the most cutting-edge technology of the heavy strategic transport aircraft! This is a problem that China, which has the ability to imitate, has not been able to solve so far.

It is not possible to solve the problem of the engine, even if all the equipment on the plane is manufactured. It was just an unpowered ground display aircraft.

It can be said that if a country's comprehensive industrial capacity is not developed to a considerable level, even if there is a heavy strategic transport plane placed in front of them, they will not be able to imitate it, and even if they work hard, at best, they will be able to make an imitation of a medium-sized transport aircraft!

Although the loss of three heavy strategic transport aircraft is very distressing, in comparison, Clinton and Leslie. Aspin would rather lose three transport planes than lose one airborne AWACS aircraft or dozens of main fighters of the US Navy in active service! This way the risk of technology proliferation is much smaller! At the very least, the risk of proliferation of the delicate electronic devices above that are more easily imitated is almost non-existent.

But can it be replaced by a C-130 "Hercules" tactical transport plane? Leslie. Aspin suddenly had an idea: didn't these bastards want to use the transport plane to send themselves back? There is no need to use a super-large military transport plane such as the C-5 "Galaxy," and the personnel capacity and flight range of a tactical transport plane such as the C-130 "Hercules" can also meet their needs.

The most important point. Compared with the C-5 "Galaxy" super-large strategic transport plane, the C-130 "Hercules" transport plane is in service in many countries in the world, and its technical difficulty is not very great; even among the countries in the world that can produce their own aircraft, many countries have similar technology, and even China's performance of the tactical transport aircraft in the Eighth Army's Y-130 is not much worse than that of the C-130 "Hercules" transport plane.

Compared with the C-5 "Galaxy" super-large strategic transport plane, which is of great significance to any country, if these bastards agree to use it. In the case of the C-130 "Hercules" transport plane, the risk of its own technology diffusion has been minimized!

Of course, this kind of neutral transport plane is also cheap, and the price of a single C-130 "Hercules" transport plane is only about $40 million! If Cage agrees to the offer. How many dollars will you pay less for this?

"Can you change the type of aircraft you need to a C-130 transport aircraft?" Leslie. Asping asked Cage, feeling quite unconfident: Now that the four heavy strategic transport planes are still in the hands of the other party, they insist on not giving them, and they don't seem to have anything to do.

"Oh," Cage's voice still sounded so gentle, "Mr. Minister. Are you still going to give us a C-130 transport plane for free? ”

It sounds like it's a discussion, but it's actually telling these two: I'm going to decide on those four planes! If you want to give us another C-130 "Hercules" transport plane, we will not object to it.

"Let's do what Mr. said before!" Clinton and Leslie. Aspin glanced at each other helplessly, and nodded with a wry smile: I wanted to mitigate the loss, but I didn't expect these guys to seize the opportunity to bite again.

Think about it, how can you spit out the meat in your mouth easily?

Turning his head to look at the speaker sitting on the side, the speaker had to nod helplessly, the situation is stronger than people, now these four planes are in their hands, even if they don't give it, what else can we do?

"OK," Clinton and Leslie heard . Aspin agreed with his approach, and Cage nodded, "Well, tonight there will be a C-5 'Galaxy' transport plane to land at your Saudi Arabian air base, and our companions on the USS Roosevelt will fly thirty-five fighter jets there, and then these companions will leave with us on the transport plane, and you can also receive some of the fighters there." ”

After a pause, he added, "Don't take any chances, believe me, even if all the people in our team board the transport plane, it's not something you can attack." ”

This is exactly what Clinton and Leslie said. In Aspin's heart, the two of them originally thought that when these people left the aircraft carrier and were about to leave by transport plane, it was the time when their protective force was the weakest, and if they could intercept this group of lawless thugs at this time, it would not be a good way. But hearing Cage say that, Clinton and Leslie. Asping already knew in his heart that the emotional family had thought of this a long time ago and had been prepared for a long time.

"No problem!" The two glanced at each other, and had to throw away the last bit of luck in their hearts, "We will arrange this immediately!" You are guaranteed to land safely at Dhahran Air Base at night. ”

Cage didn't think about asking the United States to come with a C-130 transport plane, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up: There is no need for that, maybe there will be a chance to peel off the skin of the Americans in the future, and if the Americans feel too much pain, it will be unpleasant!

As happened last time, at half past six in the evening, all the radars and satellites did not work again for no reason, or the radars and satellites were working normally, but they could not find any targets at all, as if suddenly there were no antennas.

Fortunately, in addition to this, the means of communication are quite normal. It gave a little more face than last time, and it didn't interfere with the communication between the bases, and the good news also made poor Clinton and Leslie. Aspin breathed a sigh of relief: Hurry up and send these plague gods away!

At eight o'clock in the evening, a behemoth appeared in the sky above the US Air Force base in Saudi Arabia, Dhahran Air Base, and even in the night sky, the lights of the airport reflected the shadow of the plane in the sky.

The radio at the airport had already been informed, the runway had been cleaned up, and not a single fighter plane had taken off from the entire huge air base, just waiting for the landing of this behemoth.

Seeing this huge thing dragging its extremely heavy body, but landing on the runway as if it was as light as a swallow, the command staff of Dhahran Air Base couldn't help but sigh wonderfully: Which guy flew this plane? At this level of landing, it would take at least more than a thousand take-offs and landings to be able to do it, right? I really don't know how these guys practiced.

The plane taxied straight to the gas station next to the runway: there was not much fuel on board. Last time, I flew to the base with so many things, and I flew back again with that fuel, think about how much fuel there can be?

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