In front of Alice. RonaldSugar knows who it's up against, even if it's the world's most famous arms company: Northrop. The CEO of Grumman Company, but he didn't dare to have the slightest arrogance and pride, and when he saw Alice take the initiative to stretch out his hand to him, he couldn't help but be a little flattered, "Miss Alice, it's really a blessing." ”

The first thing he reached out when shaking hands was a gift to the other person, but RonaldSugar didn't feel humiliated at all, instead, he felt only honor, surprise, and unbelievable happiness - although Alice Group would be Northrop. Grumman's rivals, but this does not in any way prevent Ronald Sugar from respecting and adoring Alice herself, knowing that, in the eyes of Westerners, a person who can become Northrop is a competitor. The opponent of Grumman Company was originally a thing that countless people yearn for and worship, and if it can suppress Northrop in a short period of time. On the other hand, Grumman is not simply worshipped.

When it comes to several major arms contractors in the United States, many people are interested in General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed. Those who are more familiar with Martin and these major arms contractors will know Hughes Helicopter Company, Rockwell Company, Fairchild Company, Bell Helicopter Company, and even General Electric Company and Pratt, two of the world's three major aviation power companies. Whitney & Company. But said Northrop. Grumman, I'm afraid there aren't many people who know about this company.

But just because you don't know this company doesn't mean it's not strong, on the contrary, this relatively low-key company is a monster so powerful that people feel powerless and hopeless: the world's third-largest defense supplier and the world's largest manufacturer of radar and warships, with annual revenues of more than $30 billion! The vast majority of the highest-tech military weapons used by the U.S. military are from Northrop. Grumman.

Count the products of this company and you will be shocked! This is because there are B-2 stealth strategic bombers, E-2 "Hawkeye" series early warning planes, E-8A joint early warning planes, the next generation of early warning planes that the US military is fully developing: the E-10 early warning plane, the EA-6 "Prowler" series of electronic warfare planes, the main tanker aircraft of the US military: the KC-130 tanker plane, the X-47 unmanned fighter under development, the "Global Hawk" unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and the "Fire Scout" unmanned helicopter, which are about to enter service. The symbol and defender of US global hegemony: the "Nimitz-class" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the ocean superpower, the CVN-21 future aircraft carrier that the US Navy is fully developing, and which can be put into construction as soon as it is approved by Congress. "Burke" refers to the "Zumwalt-class" stealth missile destroyer of the Aegis destroyer, the "Virginia-class" nuclear attack submarine, the "Advanced Seal Delivery System", the "Hornet-class" amphibious assault ship, the LHA-6 future amphibious assault ship, the "San Anthony-class" amphibious dock transport ship, the US Coast Guard's national maritime security patrol ship, and the "Eilat-class" frigate......

The product line covers from the sky to the ocean hidden. When you see this series of weapons that any one of them can bring out, it will make countless countries around the world feel terrified. You also think that Northrop is capable of creating so many elite weapons. Is Grumman an unknown person?

"I didn't expect that, Northrop. The people from Grumman are also here, and it seems that everyone is paying attention to today's events. Zhang Lan muttered.

"It's not just Northrop. The guys from Grumman came, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed. Martin & Co., Pratt. The Whitney Company and even the people from Raytheon are here," Jill whispered in Zhang Lan's ear, "These guys don't seem to look at us very well now." ”…,

"Unhappy? It's right if they're not happy, but if they're happy, I'm not happy in my heart. Zhang Lan cocked her chin slightly, "Let's snatch food from their mouths, and no one will be happy if it is." ”

"Hehe......" Jill smiled softly and didn't speak, but this girl agrees with Zhang Lan's words, but bullying you? I'm just bullying you, what can you do? A lot of words have the ability, you bully me back.

However, Zhang Lan's arrogant attitude naturally made those guys who didn't look at him very happy in the first place, but now they don't look at him very well.

This kid...... A guy who stepped on super big shit and walked away with big shit luck.

Looking at Zhang Lan who was walking behind Alice and beside Jill, these guys who knew Zhang Lan's identity looked at Zhang Lan with naked envy and jealousy! If Lao Tzu has such good luck, Lao Tzu is guaranteed to do much better than this little bastard!

A bunch of guys who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour! This is what Zhang Lan and Jill said about these guys. But fortunately, the two of them still knew how to save some face for these guys, and they didn't throw these words in their faces.

After a secret exchange of words and swords, several people finally sat down.

"Miss Alice, may I ask you, are you ready over there?" Paul. Wilforditz asked Alice cautiously.

No wonder he is so careful, although he is the chief strategist of the US Deputy Secretary of Defense and the current President George W. Bush, but when facing these US arms dealers, he also seriously feels that he lacks confidence. President? It's just a tool they choose to flaunt themselves and fool the common people.

Alice didn't speak, just nodded slightly to Jill.

"Let's get started." Pulling out a small, delicate mobile phone from his bag, Jill said into it.

At the same time, somewhere southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, a house in an underground base was filled with all kinds of huge instruments with LED indicators of various colors, and outside the computer room separated by huge transparent glass, there were 30 American officers with the lowest rank of captain on their shoulders, sitting neatly in front of the computer, closely monitoring the data analysis on the instruments.

A guy with the rank of colonel on his shoulder opened his mouth to the mid-level officers sitting in front of him in front of the dense giant computers, "Start analyzing the data, make sure you find out where the call is received." ”

"Report sir, the phone has an anti-tracking mode applied, and we can't track it." After a flash of light, a major shouted in disbelief.

"How is that possible? Our equipment here is state-of-the-art. The colonel said incredulously.

"But...... Look, sir. "The major stuck to his point of view.

"Huh?" When he saw the data displayed on the screen in front of the major, the colonel's eyes instantly widened, and his mouth opened like a hippopotamus yawning!

Want to track my phone? A disdainful smile appeared on Jill's face: Although the technical level of your equipment here is indeed very advanced. But I'm sorry, you obviously overestimate your abilities.

The U.S. military, which has even mobilized the entire U.S. radar system, is ready to transmit the details of the Alice Group's fighter plane found by any U.S. military equipment in the world through the data link system to the center of the U.S. military: the Pentagon.

At this moment, in a monitoring center of the US Department of Defense, a lieutenant colonel pointed to the rapidly moving dot that had just appeared on his screen and screamed to a major general next to him, "Sir, the 'Pave Claw' radar at our Guam base has found the target, and the target is flying at a very fast speed, exceeding Mach 1, and is rapidly accelerating. ”…,

"Very well, where did the plane take off from," the major general nodded, glared at the rare and strange lieutenant colonel, and stretched out his head to look at the screen in front of the lieutenant colonel, but immediately, the major general's eyes instantly widened like bells, and then immediately there was a problem with the vocal cords, "Ocean? Oh...... Belch...... Damn it...... How could it have come from the ocean? ”

I don't know when, Rumsfeld was already standing behind the major general, and at this moment, looking at the fast-moving dot displayed on the radar display and the location of the dot on the map. The mouth has opened into an O-shape.

Now both of them understand why this lieutenant colonel is so rare and strange...... Isn't it rare and strange after seeing it yourself?

"Dust 52, here is a vacuum cleaner, connected to the civil aviation system, connected to the military system." I don't know when, Jill took out a headset and hung it on his ear, and ordered the reconnaissance plane that was also connected to the Alice Group on the radar display of the tower.

"Vacuum cleaner, dust 52 understand." After a short pause, the reconnaissance plane, codenamed "Dust 52", returned.

In a few moments, on the radar display screen of the civil aviation system in the tower and on the display screen temporarily arranged by the US Department of Defense in the tower, a small dot representing this ultra-high-altitude and high-speed manned reconnaissance plane appeared.

This small dot, codenamed "Dust 52.", keeps accelerating. Connected to the computer with the radar display, the speed of this small dot movement was quickly calculated: Mach 1.5, Mach 1.7, Mach 2.0......

"Dust 52, report your flight altitude." looked at Lockheed, whose face was already not very cool. The representative of Martin Company glanced at the corners of Jill's lips and said.

"Report the vacuum cleaner, now our plane flies at an altitude of 48,000 meters." After a slight delay, a voice came from the speaker of the device in front of everyone.

When this voice sounded, Lockheed Brown, which developed the SR-71 "Blackbird" supersonic high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, was in charge of the SR-71 "Blackbird" supersonic high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The face of the representative of Martin's company became more and more ugly.

"Report to the chief, the flight altitude of the Dust 52 is 48000 meters." At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense and the system operator inside the mysterious underground military base southeast of Las Vegas reported to their superiors at the same time.

"Sizzle~48000 meters!?" Hearing this terrifying flight altitude, the soldiers began to gasp with toothache at the same time, "Damn, it's true!" ”

With a "click", Rumsfeld, who had been standing behind, was crushed by him when he heard the report of the flight altitude.

"Good, keep it up. When you are 100 kilometers away from the coastline, contact the Los Angeles Civil Aviation Tower, and at the same time pay attention to the communication of other aircraft in the air and the flight control center of the tower. Jill said.

"Yes, contact the Los Angeles Civil Aviation Tower when you are 100 kilometers away from the coastline, and at the same time pay attention to the communication between other aircraft in the air and the flight control center of the tower, and repeat the confirmation." Dust 52 repeated Jill's order.

"Confirm." Jill nodded.

At this moment, compared with the leisurely Zhang Lan and others, the Los Angeles Civil Aviation Tower Aircraft Flight Control Center is busy to death, although they can't really control the dust 52, but the dust 52 that has been connected to the civil aviation system has always been monitored on the radar of the civil aviation control center, at the same time, one by one the requests to read their flight speed continue to enter Zhang Lan's ears, so that Zhang Lan keeps feeling the penetration rate of private jets in the United States:

"Center, I'm Cessna 1007," a pilot flying a Cessna (a small civilian propeller aircraft) made a request to the tower, "Ground speed readings are required, over." ”

"Verse 90." The tower replied.

"Center, I'm Cessna Beach 204 and need ground speed readings. over。 There was a moment of silence, and a twin-engine Beechcraft (a propeller civilian aircraft, slightly larger) similarly demanded that the tower read its ground speed. …,

"120 knots." The tower replied.

This is the pilot of an F-15 "Eagle" fighter that is on a territorial patrol mission and is connected to a civil aviation channel, probably because the patrol flight is boring, and he even asks the tower to read his flight speed because he is idle. The proud voice of the F-18 pilot came into Zhang Lan's ears, "Oh, center, Topol 03 needs to be read out at ground speed, over." ”

Depend on! This guy is really an idle egg! Zhang Lan was speechless for a while: What are you doing with a fighter jet to mix with the people's civil aviation system! If such a thing happened in China, the pilot would definitely be vigorously criticized by the superior leaders for "having an improper attitude and low consciousness."

But in the United States, it seems that such a thing is not surprising. Because after a short silence, the tower actually replied to the F-15 "Eagle" fighter that was carrying out the land patrol mission, "The ground speed is 525 knots, and the Topol 03." ”

There was another brief silence.

At this moment, a familiar click of a radio switch came from the headset in Zhang Lan's ear, and at this moment, Zhang Lan felt that he loved the bastard Red Spider to death.

"Center, I'm Dust 52," when there were still 100 kilometers to the U.S. coastline, the reconnaissance plane codenamed "Dust 52" began to call the tower, "Ground speed readings are needed, over." ”

After a much longer than usual silence: the tower responded, "Dust 52, my reading here is, uh...... Section 3724.8?! God, is this damn computer broken? ”。 (1916.2 m/s, Mach 5.5, while the limit of the world's third-generation fighters represented by the F-15 "Eagle" fighter is mostly about Mach 2.) ）

After going back this time, one thing that Zhang Lan remembers very clearly is that there were no more ground speed reading requests on that channel that day, and what Zhang Lan remembers very clearly is the incredulous screams of the tower staff who have been cold and emotionless at that time, Zhang Lan firmly believes that if this staff member exercises well, it is estimated that it will not take a few years for the world's three major tenors to become the world's four major tenors.

After entering the airspace of the United States, according to the requirements of the United States airspace management, the dust 52 will descend to the airspace of 18,000 meters, that is, 60,000 feet of altitude for flight.

"Tower Dispatch Center, Dust 52 Requests Airspace Use Rights at 60,000 Feet Height, Over." Exiting the channel that was teased by himself just now, the red spider who entered the dispatch channel said to the tower shamelessly.

It's about 18,000 meters, which is the ceiling of most fighters, and civilian aircraft are basically useless, but for this reconnaissance aircraft of the Alice Group, which can climb up to 55,000 meters, that is, the Red Spider...... Zhang Lan pursed her lips, her eyes widened, and she couldn't help but laugh to see what the tower would say.

There was silence for a moment, and the poor tower dispatcher's voice was heard with a slight surprise and mockery: "Oh, Dust 52, can you tell me how you plan to climb to that height?" ”

After a moment of silence, the damned Red Spider replied, "Center, we don't plan to climb to that height. We're going to descend to that height, over. ”

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In an instant, Zhang Lan and Jill laughed at the same time!

"Vacuum cleaner, dust 52 has completed the scheduled target task, is it possible to send back the data?" As the faces of the fellows behind them turned red and white, a voice came from the loudspeaker in front of them that embarrassed them.

Although it is said that according to the regulations, all actions must be expressed in coded language, but this time the situation is more special, and there is nothing to express in plain language.

"Dust 52, backhaul." Jill said.

"Dust 52 received, return ...... After the data was returned, Dust 52 began to return home. ”

"This ...... This...... How is this possible? "When he saw the information received from the reconnaissance plane on the computer screen in front of Jill, Paul . . . Wilford's eyes widened instantly, "This...... This...... Isn't it an aerial photo of Area 51? ”……，