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The ability of the E-3A to search for low-altitude and low-speed targets is really not very good, otherwise the US Air Force would not have upgraded to the E-3C. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to find the transport plane, the E-3A, patrolling over the Gulf of Mexico, had to fly 200 kilometers west, and was unable to spot the DHC-3 heading north from the east side of the Gulf. Even so, during the search, the E-3A adjusts the radar's search mode, focuses the beam in a specific direction, enhances the detection of low-altitude targets, and manually analyzes the radar reflection signal by the air controller.

It took a lot of effort for the E-3A's radar to intercept the target when the G222 flew to the Jesús Maria waterway and temporarily left the land.

Here, it's only 150 kilometers from the U.S.-Mexico border.

At the maximum low-altitude flight speed of the G222, it will enter US airspace in another twenty minutes.

There is no doubt that it must have been a transport plane carrying drugs.

The air controller immediately sent the target information to the Air China National Guard, and the two F-16A fighters, which had been lifted into the air and were on standby, turned to the target.

Fifteen minutes later, when the G222 was forty kilometers away from US airspace, the F-16A's fire control radar spotted the target.

Because it was still in Mexican airspace, the F-16A did not launch an interceptor missile. Besides, this is a law enforcement operation, not a combat operation, and the Air Chinese National Guard cannot shoot down a civilian aircraft without warning.

When the G222 entered US airspace, the F-16A, which was on standby at an altitude of three thousand meters, immediately swooped down.

Although the G222's low-altitude and low-speed surname is very good, it is impossible to get rid of the interceptor fighter when it comes to intercept two F-16A.

Speeding up the escape is even more impossible.

Instead of slowing down, G222 accelerated, as the drop site was not far ahead.

As the G222 raised its flight altitude to 500 meters, the F-16A flew over and flew side by side with the G222, and the pilot on the fighter issued a warning through an international communication channel, telling the G222 to follow the fighter to the nearest U.S. military base, and finally played sign language to let it follow the flight.

G222 did not follow the flight, because the airdrop site was not on the side of the US military base, and the direction was completely different.

To get rid of the F-16A, the G222 began to slow down.

Compared to propeller transport aircraft, jet fighters have a much greater minimum speed, and in order to avoid stalling, the F-16A cannot slow down and can only follow in turns.

Two minutes later, with warnings to no avail, the F-16A's wingman fired a barrage of machine shells in front of the G222.

The pilots of the G222 knew perfectly well that this was the last warning before an attack was carried out.

In this case, the F-16A does not need to use air-to-air missiles at all, and a 20-millimeter cannon can knock down a papier-mâché transport aircraft.

It's just that it's also very close to the airdrop site.

Seeing two F-16As skimming from the side, accelerating to steer and preparing to go around to the rear to attack, the G222's pilot pushed the throttle stick all the way to the end while opening the rear hatch of the transport plane.

The two crew members in charge of the airdrop did not dare to slack off and pushed the pallet containing the drugs to the hatch.

The F-16A is very maneuverable, and it does not need to carry auxiliary fuel tanks to carry interception missions in the country, and quickly goes around the back of the butt of the transport aircraft.

When they saw the fighter and were about to fire, the two crew members couldn't take care of it so much and began to airdrop the pallets.

The pilot on the fighter plane also saw this scene and was even more convinced that it was a transport plane carrying drugs, and after consulting the air traffic controller on the AWACS aircraft, he locked on the transport plane.

Flames erupted from the machine guns, and twenty-millimeter shells swept across the entire cabin.

After the long plane finished attacking, the wingman followed up and knocked out the left engine of the transport plane with a machine gun.

In the cabin, two crew members had only time to push out five pallets before they were torn to pieces by shells, and four pallets remained on the transport plane.

For this transport plane, which has only two engines, losing one engine will definitely crash.

What's worse is that there are still four tons of cargo in the cargo hold, and even if the pilot exerts his strength to eat, he will not be able to pull the transport plane up with one engine.

By the time the two fighters turned back, the G222 had plunged headlong into the swamps of South Texas.

Because it is a low-altitude airdrop, it only takes two minutes for the pallet to land.

Seeing the hovercraft that appeared in the swamp, the two pilots did not attack. This is the United States, and even if the pilots believe they are drug dealers, they have no right to attack.

Receiving a message from the fighter pilot, air controllers immediately contacted nearby state police and federal agents.

If necessary, the Texas National Guard can also be mobilized.

Because the E-3A lacked the ability to detect ground vehicles, in the military, this task was carried out by the E-8 and RQ-4, so after writing down the large location where the transport plane fell, the E-3A turned to return home.

By this time, the two F-16A fighters had already flown away.

On the ground, Harris witnessed the entire process of the downing of the transport plane.

Because he knew the U.S. military so well that police, federal agents, and even the National Guard were coming, Harris didn't have time to observe a moment of silence for the four men who were killed, and he didn't have time to think about anything else. All he had to do was to find the five pallets that had been dropped as soon as possible and get out of here as soon as possible.

There was a GPS locator on the pallet, and it didn't take much effort for Harris's men to scoop the pallet out of the swamp.

The choice of airdrop here is also mainly due to the fact that the pallet is too heavy, and if it falls on a relatively hard ground, I am afraid that the packaged drugs will be scattered.

Falling into the swamp, there is no such problem.

Picking up the last pallet, Harris retreated with his men.

He did not go to the crash site, first, the transport plane fell more than ten kilometers away, and second, when it fell, the cargo in the cargo hold must have been scattered, perhaps it had been burned by fire.

There's no reason to risk it.

Because Harris moved so quickly, by the time the first federal agents arrived by helicopter, the hovercraft he was on was already dozens of kilometers away.

After loading the cargo onto the truck, Harris had his men blow up the hovercraft.

On the way back, Harris had to sigh that the advanced equipment of the US military is indeed a big trouble, otherwise those Latin American drug lords would not have built submarines.

Harris didn't expect that it was Liu Wei who provided information to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Although he later learned from Rickel that the Drug Enforcement Administration had received a tip, he did not expect Liu Wei, because the Drug Enforcement Administration had many informants, and most of them were Mexicans, so it was not strange to obtain information.

On his return to Los Angeles, DEA agents found the downed G222 transport plane.

Because the transport plane was carrying fuel back to Mexico, the fuel tank was damaged after the crash, and the leaked aviation fuel was ignited by the flames on the engine, so when the DEA agents arrived, the fire had already engulfed the entire transport plane. After the fire was extinguished, the residue was extracted for testing, and it was finally determined that the transporter was loaded with marijuana.

There are quite a few of them, at least several tons.

The question is, isn't it too extravagant to transport cheap marijuana in a tactical transport plane?

Narco-lords are not so wealthy, and most of the expensive heroin that used to be flown in the air.

It immediately occurred to the DEA agents that the things dropped before the transport plane was shot down must be heroin, at least part of it.

Hours later, state police spotted the blown hovercraft outside Kingsville.

By testing the residue on the hovercraft, DEA agents preliminarily concluded that this was the hovercraft that the fighter pilot had seen and that it had carried heroin.

How much cargo can an M10 hovercraft carry?

Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration immediately accessed the relevant information. This hovercraft developed and produced by the British ABS company for Sri Lanka can carry up to ten tons of cargo!

Based on the type of transport aircraft and the remaining cargo in the hold, the Drug Enforcement Administration immediately concluded that the hovercraft had transported five tons of drugs.

That's amazing!

Before dawn, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a wanted warrant and, in accordance with federal law, mobilized the Texas State Police to conduct a comprehensive search for trucks capable of carrying the drugs.

Unfortunately, Harris had left Texas and entered New Mexico before the manhunt began.

Harris knew the U.S. federal agencies so well that when he arrived in New Mexico, he had his men load drugs onto the helicopter that came to pick them up.

As a result, even if the Drug Enforcement Administration expands the scope of the search, it will not be able to catch up with the escaped drug dealers.

Meanwhile, a business jet carrying two tons of methamphetamine has taken off from Tallahassee, Florida, and will arrive in Reno six hours later.

Liu Wei didn't care about the actions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, whether Harris could escape, and the result was the same.

He had to do something more important: find another drug chemistry expert.

Pure methamphetamine was shipped from Cuba, and although Hebberlin provided the technology to dilute cocaine and mix methamphetamine, few of Liu Wei's men knew chemistry.

Besides, it's better to find an outsider to do such a thing.

On the list provided by Long Minjiang, there are not many people who can do this kind of thing, but most of them are not to Liu Wei's appetite. It's not that their technology is not good, but these guys are either too ambitious, or difficult to tame, or not very reliable, and do not have the "talent" of a second Heblin.

In order to find the right "talent", Liu Wei asked Long Minjiang to provide a more detailed information.

"How's this guy?" Kotone Takeuchi picked up a file and handed it to Liu Wei.

"Isaac, Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT?" Liu Wei immediately tightened his brows. I have been in the United States for a while, and I was arranging business administration training some time ago, so Liu Wei has some understanding of American universities and knows that MIT is one of the best universities in the United States.

People who come out of that school definitely don't have to worry about finding a job.

"Look at the back, this guy is a 'talent'."

Liu Wei glanced at Takeuchi's Qinyin, and then laughed.

The tone of Takeuchi is a bit inexplicable. "What are you laughing at? I'm not kidding, he ......"

"You're the talent, they're just the tools." Liu Wei flipped to the second page of the file and quickly read it, "Okay, it's just a guy, but I have to find a way to get him out." ”

"We have to let him know that we will save him."

Liu Wei nodded, and then pondered.

(To be continued)