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Norris himself offered to take advantage of the attackers' evacuation to launch an attack, and although the generals were not satisfied, they finally agreed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When it comes to the details, how to track and monitor the evacuated attackers becomes a top priority.

Norris has made it clear that he cannot let an attacker go, and that he will use the evacuated attackers to find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and that he will also want to catch the attackers.

This arduous task fell to the military.

In response to the President's request, Admiral Robert's staff proposed several options.

The first is to install tracking and positioning equipment on the transport aircraft to monitor the whereabouts of the transport aircraft in real time. It's just that this proposal was immediately vetoed by Admiral Robert, because the attackers would certainly search the transport plane and find tracking and positioning devices. Even if the attackers don't tear up the protocol, they can compromise the tracking and location device.

The second is to dispatch early warning planes to monitor and track transport planes with radar. This proposal was quickly rejected, because the attackers were likely to have radio detection equipment, and perhaps they also had the operating frequency of the search radar of the US AWACS aircraft, so they could find that they were being tracked and monitored.

Finally, it was proposed to dispatch reconnaissance planes and use passive detection equipment such as photoelectric cameras to track and monitor transport planes.

After in-depth discussions, Admiral Robert finally adopted this suggestion and decided to use unmanned reconnaissance aircraft instead of manned ones.

The reason is simple, the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is more stealthy and not easily detected by the attacker on the transport aircraft.

The problem is that unmanned reconnaissance aircraft fly much slower than transport planes and cannot keep up with them, so Admiral Robert had to mobilize more unmanned reconnaissance planes and deploy a reconnaissance and surveillance network over the Atlantic Ocean near New York, following the routes where transport planes may fly.

To ensure that nothing went wrong, Admiral Robert also mobilized two carrier battle groups.

If the long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance plane loses its hand, it will dispatch the reconnaissance plane on the aircraft carrier, carry a photoelectric pod, and continue to track the transport plane at a high altitude.

That alone does not satisfy Robert completely.

Although in the US military's equipment sequence, there are two types of transport aircraft that can meet the requirements of the attackers, that is, the maximum range is more than 12,000 kilometers, but the number of C-5 "Galaxy" transport planes that are too old is not large, and it is too huge, and the C-17 is more suitable.

Compared to the C-5, the C-17 is much more advanced.

As a large transport aircraft capable of carrying 70 tons of cargo and flying tens of thousands of kilometers, the C-17 also has the superior take-off and landing capabilities that only tactical transport aircraft such as the C-130 have, that is, it can take off on an improvised runway of less than 1,000 meters, or land on a sandy runway of more than 1,000 meters.

With such excellent take-off and landing capabilities, the C-17 can land at most airports in the world.

Monitoring all airfields capable of landing C-17s is difficult, but not impossible.

The second thing Admiral Rogbot did was to contact the CIA and the NSA, mobilize all intelligence forces, and closely monitor all airports within the range of the transport plane.

The main means of surveillance is not agents, but reconnaissance satellites.

There are more than 100 reconnaissance satellites controlled by the NSA and the Pentagon, of which about 30 percent are photographic reconnaissance satellites. After Admiral Robert issued the order, the NSA and the Pentagon drew up a joint plan to rationally mobilize the reconnaissance satellites and adjust the operational orbits of the reconnaissance satellites.

This alone can monitor more than 80% of airports within the range of transport aircraft.

The remaining 20 percent of the airports were sent to the scene by CIA agents.

Because of the abundance of time, including the 10 or so hours required for the transport planes to fly, the CIA has enough time to send spies to airfields that are outside the range of reconnaissance satellites.

After these arrangements were made, the staff officers under Admiral Robert also adjusted the battle plan.

Compared to the previous battle plan, the new battle plan is much simpler and much smaller. If the vast majority of the attackers could be allowed to leave Manhattan, the U.S. military would not need to commit the main force at all. In Robot's opinion, against a small number of attackers, one special forces unit is enough.

It's just that judging from the difficulty of the operation, it will definitely increase unabated.

Once the evacuation operation begins, the attackers who remain behind will certainly be vigilant and ready to detonate nuclear warheads at any time. Launching an attack in such a situation, without a sudden surname, is bound to encounter a lot of unexpected situations. More importantly, the attackers who remained lost hope of survival, and in addition to desperately resisting the US military, they would do everything they could to cause damage and inflict heavy losses on the United States.

Here's the point, and Robert also has a headache.

Although the location of the nuclear warheads has been roughly determined and can be destroyed by precision bombing, it is not certain whether the attackers had other weapons of mass destruction.

Thankfully, this possibility is being ruled out.

After determining that the attackers possessed nuclear warheads, Robert used the emergency mechanism to bring in a technical unit dedicated to detecting nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Using sensors carried by reconnaissance aircraft, the unit collected air data in the Manhattan area. After a thorough analysis, the possibility that the attackers possessed chemical weapons was largely ruled out. Monitoring of river water, as well as other technical means, has largely ruled out the possibility that the attackers possessed biological weapons.

However, this exclusionary search method still did not reassure Robert.

Through the Department of Defense's Computing Center, using the clues already in his possession, Robert had technicians conduct a comprehensive analysis of the possible surnames of the attackers who possessed chemical and biological weapons.

As a result, the attacker is no more likely to have than 1 in 10,000 biological weapons.

This result was supported by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

According to the information provided by the CIA, there have been no anomalies in the biological and chemical weapons in the range of the US military, and no countries that have or are able to manufacture biological and chemical weapons have violated international treaties in the past six months. As for the transportation of chemical and biological weapons into the United States, it is even more difficult.

You know, biological and chemical weapons are more cumbersome and dangerous to transport than nuclear warheads.

The problem is that even if the attackers don't have chemical or biological weapons, they are capable of inflicting unbearable casualties. For example, explosives are installed in skyscrapers and detonated when the U.S. military attacks. Because all the civilians trapped on the island are concentrated in the buildings, the resulting casualties will be unimaginable.

Robert had no illusions that the attackers had enough time to plant tens of thousands of bombs in Manhattan.

As for the ** needed for these bombs, it won't go anywhere.

In the hands of an experienced blasting expert, it only takes a few hundred kilograms** to turn a skyscraper like the Empire State Building into rubble in a matter of moments.

In the operation to blow up bridges and tunnels, the attackers have proven that they have enough explosives experts.

In addition to destroying the nuclear warheads placed on the top floor of the Empire State Building as soon as the operation began, it was also necessary to prevent the attackers from detonating the nuclear warheads planted in the building.

Compared to destroying a nuclear warhead, the latter is much more difficult.

Although some staff officers proposed to use the method of dealing with the IDE, that is, to prevent the bomb from detonating through electromagnetic interference, this method is not foolproof, because the attacker must have known that the United States has special equipment to deal with roadside bombs, so he will not use the wireless detonation method.

Against wired bombs, electromagnetic interference simply does not work.

Robert had to find another way, and it didn't take long for him.

By analyzing the footage taken by the reconnaissance plane, the US military was basically certain that after the capture of Manhattan, the attackers did not lay the line on a large scale.

That is, if the attackers intended to detonate the bomb by wire, they could only use a civilian cable network.

In this way, there is a way to prevent the attacker from detonating the bomb, at least to prevent the attacker from detonating the entire bomb.

The solution is simple: bomb all the cable contacts on the island.

Although there are very high requirements for the accuracy of bombing, and some cable contacts are still underground, and ground-penetrating bombs need to be used, the US military does not lack similar means and has sufficiently advanced ammunition.

In order to reduce collateral damage, Robert took the advice of his staff and used small-diameter bombs.

Because it is necessary to bomb thousands of cable contacts at the same time, if tactical fighters are dispatched, dozens of them will need to be used even if the bombing hit rate is calculated according to 100 percent, so when arranging the bombing force, Robert decided to use B-2 strategic bombers, only four bombers are needed to complete the bombing mission.

When it comes to specific tactical arrangements, there is no need for Robert to worry about it.

After working out the preparations before the entry, it was the turn to send ground troops to the island.

Because most of the attackers would leave New York on transport planes before the U.S. military attacked, Robert decided to send in special forces instead of the army's armored forces. The offensive was dominated by air entry, that is, the special forces took helicopters and after entering Manhattan, they first occupied the high ground.

The problem is that for this tactic to work, the remaining attackers have to be brought together.

If the range of engagement is not controlled, the casualties will be very heavy. What's more, after the U.S. military launches an offensive, there is a high probability that the attackers who remain will blend in with civilians.

Thinking about it, Robert didn't think of an effective way either.

In the end, he had to turn to Norris for help, hoping that the president would send an envoy to contact the attackers again before the offensive began.

By this time, Cologne had returned to New York and was coordinating efforts to prepare for the arrival of the transport plane at LaGuardia Airport.

When he received a call from the president, he was startled, but immediately understood.

In doing so, Robert did nothing more than let him be used as a decoy to pave the way for the offense. Even if they can take out the remaining attackers without any problems, it is difficult for those who go to negotiate to be spared.

This is not to negotiate, but to create opportunities for assault operations with life.

Cologne was very atmospheric, and what made him even more atmospheric was that the president actually took Robert's advice.

But Cologne had no choice, because he was the only presidential envoy qualified to negotiate face-to-face with the attackers, and the intention would be too obvious if it were someone else.

(To be continued)