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With the release of the Pentagon's "Blue Book of National Defense", making major adjustments to its armament buildup over the next five years, the world knows that the United States is preparing for the next war.

In this "Blue Book of National Defense," the Pentagon emphasizes the ability of the U.S. military to fight regular warfare.

According to the plan, in the next five years, the US Air Force will purchase an additional 184 F-22A, and increase the planned production of F-35A from 240 to 460 to replace the F-16C/D of all main squadrons. The U.S. military will also spend $25 billion to develop a new heavy multirole fighter to replace the F-15E, which is about to reach service life. Because the Navy also needs a heavy carrier-based fighter that is better than the F/A-18E/F, the project will work with the Navy to emphasize both ground strike capabilities and air supremacy capabilities.

The most notable is the B-X program, a new strategic bomber that replaces the B-52 and B-1B. Because the investment in the development of new strategic bombers is too huge, and the output of bombers is not too large, let alone the joint development of multinational countries like the F-35, the Air Force hopes to improve the B-2A and improve the combat capability of the existing bombers.

What can really improve the combat effectiveness of the US Air Force in the short term is the K-X project that has been finalized. Although the plan submitted by Airbus has more development potential, Boeing promised to provide 150 767 passenger aircraft in the form of lend-lease, which greatly reduced the initial procurement cost and was finally approved by the Ministry of Defense. If all goes well, the first batch of KC-767s will replace the twenty-four most aging KC-135s in a year's time.

If the US Air Force is ambitious, the US Navy is very pragmatic.

Of all the new equipment projects, there are no other ship development projects except to speed up the construction of the two "Ford" class aircraft carriers under construction and officially start the construction of the third one. What can really be regarded as a new project is the F-X heavy fighter in cooperation with the Air Force.

Although the Navy already has an F/A-18E/F, this fighter is not backward, at least more advanced than the third-generation fighters of most countries, and even the third-generation and a half-generation fighters like the Su-35, and the multi-mission capability is very prominent, but as a fighter improved on the basis of attack aircraft, it is not suitable for performing fleet air defense tasks, especially its excessively slow flight speed, which limits its performance in air defense interceptions.

As for the F-35C, it is even more incapable of meeting the requirements of the Navy.

Compared to the Air Force's F-35A and Marine Corps' F-35B, the F-35C has a lot of changes, with a focus on improving endurance and bomb load. Although according to the requirements of the Navy, the F-35C's air combat capability is significantly stronger than that of the F-35B, and the time for carrying out patrol missions is much better than that of the F-35A, as a medium multi-role fighter, the F-35C's air combat capabilities are not even comparable to the F/A-18E/F.

In the face of a weak country with little air power, the US Navy has nothing to worry about.

However, in the face of countries that are powerful and capable of posing a threat to the US fleet, the US Navy must consider the threat from the air.

A heavy carrier-based fighter with advanced surnames has become an inevitable choice.

It's just that in terms of development methods, the US Navy is not willing to pick the cold rice of the Air Force. You must know that the Air Force already has the F-22A, and there is no longer a need for a fighter that focuses on air supremacy tasks, but a heavy attack aircraft that can replace the F-15E with a combat radius of more than 1,500 kilometers. The difference in emphasis on surnames makes it difficult for the Air Force's heavy multirole fighters to meet the Navy's operational needs.

It is a pity that so many projects were launched at once, and the military expenditure was seriously overspent, and the Navy had to compromise with money.

According to the Navy's vision, if you want to do the most with the least investment, the easiest way is to develop a carrier-based version based on the F-22A. It's just that the F-22A is not perfect, and in some respects it cannot meet the requirements of the Navy, such as the fact that the bomb bay is too narrow to accommodate long-range interceptor missiles. If a suitable fighter was needed, the Navy could only start from scratch and develop a completely new one.

Without money, even the best ideas can't become reality.

The end result was a compromise between the Navy and the Air Force. The Navy accepted improvements on the basis of the F-22A, and the Air Force abandoned part of the multi-purpose caster energy indicators. In this way, the F-X project has become an in-depth development project of the F-22A, which not only uses existing technology to make large-scale improvements to the F-22A, but also improves its comprehensive combat capability, and makes it capable of taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.

Compared with the Navy and Air Force, the Army does not have many new projects, and attaches more importance to the use of existing resources to enhance the combat capability of the troops.

Among the new equipment of the US Army, the M1A3, which has been secretly developed for many years, is the most eye-catching.

The new tank was an improved version of the M1A2 with a focus on increased firepower and protection, with a 140-millimeter tank gun for the first time, as well as the latest depleted uranium alloy armor. As for the specific surname, the Pentagon and the U.S. Army have revealed very limited information, and they can only be sure that the M1A3 is definitely more powerful than any tank in service with the U.S. military, and even more powerful than any tank in the world that has been in service or will be in service.

Of course, the focus of the US Army's reform is still on the establishment of troops.

Light units suitable for dealing with small groups of enemies will be gradually withdrawn and replaced with heavy units. According to the US military plan, in the next five years, at least two more armored divisions, three mechanized infantry divisions, and three infantry divisions that are biased towards armored forces will be formed on the existing basis, the number of heavy divisions will be increased from the current four to 12, and the number of main battle tanks will be increased from the current 3,700 to 7,800.

As long as this plan is successfully completed, the US military will have the largest and most combat-ready armored forces in the world.

It must be admitted that the US military is very ambitious, but whether these plans can be turned into reality is not in the hands of the military, but in the hands of members of Congress.

If all the items in the "National Defense Blue Book" are implemented, the United States will spend about $7.8 trillion in the next five years, of which $2.65 trillion will be spent on the development and procurement of new equipment, an increase of 78 percent and 169 percent respectively over the past five years.

Can the U.S. federal political axe get that much money?

The answer is obvious: without more money, this is just an ambitious plan that will never become a reality.

During the deliberations of the National Assembly, the most discussed thing was not which project should be developed and which project should be cut, but what method should be used to obtain sufficient funding.

Tax increases won't help much.

For the U.S. economy, which is still suffering from the financial turmoil, increasing taxes will only cause more businesses to close, cause more people to lose their jobs, affect the domestic market, and ultimately lead to a smaller tax source. If he offends certain interest groups, the president will be doomed.

The savings help is also very limited.

In the financial crisis that has lasted for several years, the federal government in the United States, and even the local government axe, have tried every means to reduce unnecessary expenses, and even drastically reduce the staff of the political axe. In some places, such as California, there are already many civil servants who have not been paid for months in a row. Continuing to lay off workers will only increase unemployment and lead to social unrest, which will not help expand the income of the political axe.

All that's left is to print more money.

Obviously, this is not a good approach.

Before the attack on Manhattan, the Federal Reserve Bank turned on the money printing press and put dollars into the market, and the impact on the US economy was not very large, after all, the US dollar is the global currency, and the capital that overflows from the US market will automatically pour into more profitable countries, such as the mainland.

The problem now is that the status of the dollar has been greatly reduced, and no country wants to hold more dollars.

If the U.S. continues to issue banknotes, resulting in a significant reduction in the U.S. ability to repay, countries that hold large amounts of dollar assets will not continue to increase their holdings, but will reduce their holdings. As a result, a large amount of dollars has returned from overseas, causing bad inflation in the United States.

First of all, the unlucky people must be the American people.

As the purchasing power of the dollar decreases, the income of the American people shrinks in disguise, and the purchasing power of the American market decreases, and the financial crisis will inevitably turn into an economic crisis.

When the economic crisis comes, what will be the result, anyone can imagine.

The problem is that the United States has no choice but to continue issuing banknotes.

Because the Federal Reserve Bank, that is, the central bank of the United States, is privately owned, the only way for the US federal political axe to get money is to issue Treasury bonds, and the Federal Reserve Bank will buy Treasury bonds and hand over the money to the federal political axe in disguise. In the end, it is repaid by the federal government with tax revenues and other revenues.

This brings us to a new problem, which is that the US Congress must raise the national debt ceiling before the federal government can issue more national debt.

When it comes to Congress, the problem becomes even more complicated.

In order to raise the ceiling of the national debt, Cronin went to Congress twice in three days, and successively delivered a state of the nation speech in the House of Representatives and the Senate, calling on members of Congress to vote in favor and pass relevant bills as soon as possible, so that the federal political axe can obtain sufficient funds to complete social reconstruction and military reconstruction.

At the same time, well-known figures in American society began to move around, lobbying members of Congress.

The situation is not getting better, after all, it is impossible for every one of the hundreds of parliamentarians to believe that only war can solve the problem, and not all of them think that only by issuing more national bonds can the country get out of the predicament. Even those lawmakers who support raising the national debt ceiling know that raising the national debt ceiling will only push the United States into a corner if the federal government does not come up with a repayment plan that can be realistically enforced.

At this time, Liu Wei received a call from Li Tingxuan.

Because it was inconvenient for Li Tingxuan to come to the United States, Liu Wei had to take the business plane again and go to his "homeland" in the South Pacific to meet Li Tingxuan after a long-distance flight of more than 20 hours.

(To be continued)