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A few hours passed, and the F-22J still did not fly back, and the Yankees were completely dead. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

During this time, based on the target information intercepted by the E-3C and the statements between Kino and the rescued pilot, the staff of NORAD basically concluded that by the end of the air battle, the fuel left for the "defected" F-22J would not exceed a quarter of the fuel on board.

By this standard, the remaining flight range of the F-22J will not exceed eight hundred kilometers.

This has also become a key search area for NORAD.

The staff officers, accustomed to calculating the range with the supersonic cruising speed of the F-22A, overlooked the fact that flying at lower subsonic speeds, the F-22J could have a slightly longer range.

As a result, NORAD did not include Cedros Island when it identified the key search area.

More seriously, the staff of NORAD believes that the F-22J is unlikely to return to the North American continent and that it is very likely that it will make a forced landing in a certain sea area, and the pilot will be picked up by a ship.

Although the F-22J was basically scrapped after falling into the sea, the defecting pilots certainly did not look for a short-term vision.

Affected by this, the US military focused on taking care of passing ships in this area.

Because the air combat area is at the intersection of the three routes from the west coast of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, the Far East and Australia, hundreds of ships pass by every day. If you count the fishing boats that are not restricted by routes, you have to add dozens more. It is not difficult to track and monitor so many ships, but it is difficult to search them one by one.

No matter how good the United States is, it does not have the right to search the ships of other countries on the high seas.

Besides, NORAD is not a law enforcement agency either.

When it comes to boarding and inspection, you can only ask the FBI for help.

For those foreign ships, especially those of some large countries, only CIA spies can be used to go to the destination of these ships.

After the CIA participated in the investigation, the first thing they had to find out was who "stole" the fighter.

If it is the intelligence agencies of other countries, it will certainly benefit from it. Nothing good will be done by any intelligence agency.

All twelve F-22Js were destroyed, and only one barely made it back.

If the United States is only losing face, then what it has lost is real benefits.

Although according to the contract, this batch of fighters took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, arrived over Iwo Jima, and rendezvoused with the fighters sent by the Yumoto Air Force before they were officially delivered, and before that, the United States would undertake the relevant transportation work, and the final losses would also be borne by the insurance company, but due to this impact, Ikawa Kojiro would certainly not be able to show the people the strong combat effectiveness of the Yumoto army, and the second batch of 12 F-22Js would not be delivered until half a year at the earliest.

The international reputation of this book will inevitably suffer a heavy blow!

Only four countries can benefit from this: Russia, the mainland, North Korea and South Korea.

It can be ruled out that North Korea's intelligence agencies are responsible. Although North Korean spies are not afraid of death, North Korea does not have such powerful pilots, let alone master the flight technology of the F-22J. Besides, there is a high probability that the fighters will be sabotaged before takeoff, and if they were North Korean spies, they would definitely be blown up at the base, rather than fighting an air battle after liftoff.

The remaining three countries are all possible, because these three countries do not have a good relationship with the book.

When the New People's Party formed by Igawa Kojiro participated in the election campaign, the Russian president made a very tough speech, and then strengthened the combat strength of the Far Eastern Military District, and even sent four additional Tu-160 bombers capable of carrying strategic nuclear weapons to the Far East.

After the start of the election, Russia's Far Eastern Military District held a large-scale military exercise in the North Kuril Islands north of the four northern islands, focusing on testing the combat capability of sea and air supremacy, and Tu-160 bombers also destroyed a scrapped warship with heavy anti-ship missiles.

During this period, the strategic bombers and strategic reconnaissance planes of the Russian Air Force never stopped harassing the Russian Air Force. In the most dangerous time, a Tu-95, under the cover of two Su-35s, approached Hokkaido from the Pacific Ocean and was intercepted by four F-15Js of the Saiben Air Force, and almost misfired.

After Ikawa Kojiro came to power, the voice of the country calling for the recovery of the four northern islands became louder.

From a political point of view, Russia will certainly not return the four northern islands, and will not even return the smaller Shikotan and Hamai islands to the city as promised. Because the four northern islands are not included in the "US-called Mutual Security Treaty," the only way to recover these islands is to take military action, and to challenge Russia alone without the support of the United States.

In the short term, it is said that Ben does not have the military strength to do so.

Although it has a clear advantage over Russia's Far Eastern Military District's conventional military strength, Russia is a nuclear power and has a vast territory, which has no nuclear weapons and a very narrow territory. If it really starts, the chances of winning are not great, and he will even suffer a fiasco.

For this reason, it is said that it is necessary to increase its military strength, and even to possess nuclear weapons.

The purchase of the F-22J will inevitably increase the conventional military strength of the F-22J and seriously weaken Russia's strategic strike force in the Far East.

By obstructing the acquisition of new fighter planes, Russia will certainly gain a lot of benefits.

Like Russia, South Korea has a territorial dispute with Dokdo (called Takeshima).

Although after World War II, the U.S. military transferred jurisdiction over Dokdo to South Korea, formally acknowledging South Korea's sovereignty over the island, but on more important issues, the United States favored Tsushima Island in the Korean Strait.

Historically, Tsushima Island once belonged to the Lee dynasty on the Korean Peninsula and was later occupied by the Tsushima Dynasty.

After World War II, South Korea once demanded jurisdiction over the Falklands. Unfortunately, the Korean War that broke out immediately made South Korea miss this opportunity.

In the territorial dispute between the United States and South Korea, the United States is obviously biased towards the original situation.

Compared to Tsushima, Dokdo is nothing at all.

With the purchase of the F-22J from the United States, South Korea immediately made a similar request, and even suspended the purchase of the F-15K and waited for the United States to sell the F-22K.

The policy of expanding surnames advocated by Ikawa Kojiro has made South Korea feel like a man.

Get rid of those fighters, and South Korea can also benefit from it.

As for the mainland, not to mention, in addition to the territorial and territorial disputes with the mainland, there are many contradictions, because the western Pacific region cannot accommodate two big countries.

The CIA has long had reliable intelligence, and the Continental has made a major breakthrough in the fourth-generation high-thrust military engine, and the J-20 is about to gain the ideal power. Although after replacing the engine, it is necessary to redesign the rear fuselage of the J-20, and the aerodynamic design made before due to the lack of engine thrust must be improved to improve the comprehensive ability of the fighter, especially the stealth capability, but the overall design of the J-20 has long been completed, and small changes can be made in the development process of the new engine, and all the improvements before mass production can be completed within five years.

Because the development plan of the T-50 has been delayed again and again, the J-20 is likely to become the second real fourth-generation heavy air superiority fighter after the F-22.

The problem is that, in any case, the J-20 will not be mass-produced until five years later.

According to the normal situation, three years after mass production, combat effectiveness can be formed.

If nothing else, Ben will be able to acquire enough F-22Js within three years to gain absolute air superiority and overwhelm the mainland in the East China Sea.

For this reason, the mainland has enough reasons to block the acquisition of the F-22J.

Even if this is done, it is still impossible to avoid the F-22J entering service before the J-20, but as long as it drags on for a year or two, the mainland's posture in the confrontation in the East China Sea can change.

Relatively speaking, the mainland has benefited no less than Russia and South Korea.

Suffice it to say, all three countries have motives.

Which country did it?

The CIA did not jump to conclusions, but contacted the Ministry of National Defense to obtain the personal information of the "defected" pilot and conducted a comprehensive analysis.

The conclusion was made: this guy has no reason to defect at all!

His father is a retired officer of the Air Self-Defense Force, his mother is a housewife, his two younger brothers are serving in the army, and he has a young and beautiful fiancée.

People with this kind of family background have no possible surname to defect at all.

If it's not a defection, what is it?

While the C.I.A. was investigating, the F.B.I. received a very important piece of information from Kino that Uesugi had not returned to the base for lodging two nights before his defection and that he had met a foreign-American outside.

This was a very important clue, and the FBI immediately launched an investigation.

Unfortunately, by the time they found the woman's home, the landlord had disappeared, the house had been cleaned, and there was a pungent smell of disinfectant in the room.

After questioning the surrounding residents, the FBI got another clue.

The night before the incident, there had been a suspected kidnapping outside the apartment, and it was most likely an adult male surnamed Dongfang who was kidnapped.

Because the street lights were too dim and most of the residents were having dinner at the time, the witnesses could not see it very clearly.

Following this clue, the FBI found Uesugi's body.

Not on the side of the road, but in the morgue of the police station.

Because no ID was found on Uesugi and all the valuables were taken, the police took it as a robbery.

If it hadn't been for the search for the abducted Asian man, the FBI wouldn't have been able to grasp this clue.

At this point, it is enough to conclude that it was not Uesugi himself who was piloting the fighter, but another person.

The problem becomes more complicated by this time.

The guy who "stole" the F-22J must know how to the F-22J, and he is familiar with the F-22J's surname, otherwise it would be impossible to fly the fighter to make so many difficult maneuvers.

Are there many pilots who can fly the F-22J and complete melee air combat?

The answer is clearly no, basically all American pilots.

The FBI began investigating active U.S. military pilots, particularly fighter pilots trained to fly F-22A.

As a result, this clue was quickly broken, because these pilots were all in the country and were somewhere else at the time of the incident, and it was impossible for them to fly the F-22J.

The three reserve pilots of the Air Force are also on the ground, and there is no possibility of becoming replacements.

It must be a pilot from another country, and a pilot who at least knows how to the F-22J.

For the CIA, this is an even more important clue!

(To be continued)