Chapter Seventy-Seven: Chain Reaction
Before Eiichi Iwasaki woke up from the anesthesia, he said that the authorities had fried the pot.
Naoto Kanno is attending a cabinet finance meeting to discuss the budget for the next fiscal year. After being called out by the secretary, Naoto Kanno immediately terminated the meeting, leaving the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, the Chief Cabinet Secretary and other important cabinet members behind, while all the others returned home.
At this time, the base guards of the Air Self-Defense Force had taken control of the scene.
It was also this guard unit that was the first to arrive.
It can be said that the scene was miserable. In addition to locating two security personnel hired by Loma, the guards also found a large number of fragments of F-35B fighter jets at the scene.
Before intelligence agency agents arrived, the guards found Ichiro Amano, as well as Arakawa, who had been charred to charcoal.
Based on the clues provided by Ichiro Amano and the video data retrieved from the factory's surveillance system, the intelligence agency immediately named Kawasaki Okami as the top suspect.
The question is, would Kawasaki Oka do such a thing?
When Oki Rongya arrived at the scene, the agents had collected enough evidence and even made a DNA comparison of some of the hairs extracted from the scene to confirm that Kawasaki Okami had indeed visited.
Ichiro Amano can lie, the video data may be wrong, but can the DNA be wrong?
It is also possible that the suspect deliberately stayed at the scene to mislead investigators.
It's just that no matter how smart Damu Ronggu is, he will not think of those Hong Kong people who are under the close surveillance of Rina Tanaka.
The investigation was swift and soon found through financial institutions, and shortly before the incident, Kawasaki Oka had remitted a huge sum of $1.46 billion to an overseas account. Follow-up was unfounded, as the account registered with a bank in Timor-Leste was closed upon receipt of the remittances. It is said that Ben has not signed a financial supervision agreement with Timor-Leste and does not have the authority to provide assistance to Timor-Leste.
As a last resort, the Intelligence Headquarters had no choice but to contact the CIA, and the US intelligence agencies would come forward to investigate.
Subsequently, the Intelligence Headquarters found out that in the past day, Kawasaki Okamoto's subordinates had withdrawn $40 million in cash from dozens of accounts several times!
What does this guy want to do, defect?
If this is the case, Kawasaki Oka is a spy for another country.
The question is, Kawasaki Okami is the chairman of the Kawasaki Foundation, and he has been in the world for decades, and almost everyone knows about it, how can he be a spy from another country?
Even if it is, it's someone else impersonating!
Oki Rongya immediately asked his subordinates to contact the Kawasaki family, hoping to find Kawasaki Okami. Unfortunately, shortly before the incident, Kawasaki Oka Sheng left with his secretary and several subordinates.
Coupled with the clues collected at the scene, Oki Ronggu had to believe that Kawasaki Okami was a spy from another country.
Perhaps, the one who came to the Ministry of Aviation Affairs to blow up the hangar, steal the engines, and kill the guards and security personnel was not the real Kawasaki Okasaki, or that the real Kawasaki Okami was killed a long time ago, and it has been someone else who impersonated him, otherwise these things cannot be explained.
When Oki Ronggu was sorting out his thoughts, the person in charge of Loma Company and the person in charge of the CIA Tokyo branch arrived at the scene.
After the investigation by Loma technicians, it was confirmed that the F-135-800 engine equipped for the F-35B, together with the lift fan, and some related equipment had disappeared.
The purpose of the suspects is clear: to steal the F-135-800 engine!
It's worth it!
The person in charge of the CIA's Tokyo branch immediately proposed to cordon off the surrounding area, expand the cordon from 20 kilometers to 50 kilometers, set up checkpoints, closely check passing vehicles, especially those trucks that can carry large equipment, and temporarily detain all suspicious persons.
Da Mu Ronggu dared to hesitate, and immediately ordered his subordinates to do the same.
The question is, does it work?
The suspect fled in a stolen Humvee military vehicle, and it had been almost three hours since the incident, and as long as the suspect had not made a mistake in his head, he would have fled hundreds of kilometers away.
Subsequently, Damu Ronggu also asked his subordinates to strengthen the investigation of airports and ports.
In any case, it is certainly not easy to send a two-ton engine out of the book, and if you don't take the empty route, you have to take the sea route.
Da Mu Ronggu guessed correctly, but he ignored a question, that is, the person who had the ability to steal the engine didn't have the ability to send the engine out of the book?
Since it was a covert operation planned by the intelligence agencies of another country, it was natural that it had been prepared for a long time, and it would definitely not make low-level mistakes.
By this time, Zhou Yulong's speedboat had sailed nearly 50 nautical miles on the sea south of Honshu and docked on a freighter from Tokyo bound for Manila.
Of course, the final destination of this freighter is not Manila.
After receiving Zhou Yulong, the freighter continued southward, and after crossing the Bass Strait, it joined the battleships that had come to meet it, and then sailed to Guangzhou. Li Tingxuan is still in Hong Kong and will leave for Guangzhou a day later to meet the freighter.
In order to insure the period, Li Tingxuan also asked Wang Xueming to arrange an attack nuclear submarine to escort the freighter.
In the event of trouble, such as the United States and the United States dispatching warships to intercept and inspect them, the freighter will transfer the key parts of the engine to the submarine and lose the minor parts.
No matter how good the United States is compared to Ben, it is impossible for the United States to openly intercept an attacking nuclear submarine!
By the time the Intelligence Headquarters and the CIA realized that the engine had been sent out, it was already a day later, and the freighter entered the Bass Strait to meet the battleship.
On this day, the only thing that Damu Ronggu gained was to get the results of the CIA's investigation.
The secret account did receive a huge remittance of $1.46 billion, but the money was immediately transferred and the account was subsequently closed. The C.I.A. was unable to trace the flow of funds, but it was found that the account was registered by a military intelligence agent who had long been on the C.I.A.A.'s blacklist.
Based on this, the CIA believes that either Kawasaki Oka was an agent of the Military Intelligence Service or was used by the Military Intelligence Service.
The result is all the same, it must have been the Military Intelligence Directorate that stole the F-135-800 engines!
The goal is clear, but the problem is that even the CIA can't produce evidence.
After receiving the remittances, the spy not only cancelled his account, but also left Timor-Leste with an unknown whereabouts.
Although the CIA has activated the entire intelligence network in Southeast Asia to find this person, according to past experience, the spy must have returned home by flight after completing the mission. By the time the CIA first checked, maybe the flight he took had already arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport.
With the capabilities of the Military Intelligence Directorate, hiding a spy is simply pediatric.
Even if you don't have to hide, you will let this person have plastic surgery, live in a remote city for a year and a half, and then re-emerge and continue to carry out espionage missions.
In any case, this clue is broken.
Even if it was certain that the spies of the Military Intelligence Agency had stolen the engine, there was no evidence that neither the CIA nor the Intelligence Headquarters could blame the Military Intelligence Agency.
The news was fed back to Langley's headquarters, and Turner's anger was understandable.
Although Loma's external display activities have nothing to do with the CIA, are business and approved by the White House and Congress, such an important military technology falling into the hands of potential adversaries is definitely related to the CIA.
Not to mention that Turner can't sit still, even the president of the United States can't sit still.
You know, the J-20 of the mainland has already made its first flight!
Although the mainland has always claimed that it can make the J-20 form combat effectiveness within five to eight years, ahead of Russia, and become the second country in the world to develop and produce the fourth-generation heavy air superiority fighter, the CIA has long obtained information that the development of the J-20 is not optimistic, and it is impossible to officially enter service in 2020 as claimed by the mainland, and it will not be possible to form combat effectiveness until 2024 at the earliest.
Among the many factors restricting the J-20's service, the power system is the biggest bottleneck.
It can be said that in the military aviation system, power equipment is the most critical and the most difficult to develop, and it is also the number one factor restricting military aircraft.
Because it has the best military high-thrust engine, when designing the F-22A and F-35, Loma can do whatever it wants, and try to pursue a balanced surname, without having to make trade-offs in design, highlighting a certain surname and weakening other combat capabilities.
With the exception of the United States, no country has such capabilities.
This is true for Russia, and even more so for the continent!
It is not difficult to get the J-20 to fly into the sky, but it is definitely not easy to make this fighter capable of fighting the F-22A.
The key is to have a fourth-generation high-thrust military engine that can be compared to the F-119.
The F-135 is a derivative of the F-119, mainly to improve the channel ratio, by increasing the air flow, increasing the thrust of the engine, and enhancing the surname of the engine, so as to adapt to the single-engine formulation of the F-35.
Let the mainland get an F-135, let alone five to eight years, at most three years, you can imitate an engine with a comparable surname.
Even if the "knock-off" is not as good as the "original", but compared with the Al-31 engine that has been thoroughly eaten by the mainland, the F-135 is not a little bit more advanced, and the imitation will not be much worse, and the thrust-to-weight ratio will definitely exceed 9, or even close to 10, and it has the basic surname of the fourth-generation high-thrust military engine.
With this as the heart, the J-20 will be the only advanced fighter capable of fighting the F-22A.
For the United States, it is undoubtedly a disaster.
This time has also cast a shadow on the relationship between the United States and China.
There are two sides to a coin, and everything is good or bad.
After receiving the report from the CIA's Tokyo branch and the intelligence headquarters' fact sheet, not to mention Turner's doubts, even the president felt that the matter was very strange.
How can a celebrity who controls the seventh largest consortium and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars be a spy in another country!?
If this is the case, does the CIA have to be suspicious of the rich like Gates, Warren Buffett, and Zuckerberg?
As the saying goes, no profit can't be early.
Although getting the F-135 can quickly raise the mainland's air power to a new level, there is no need for the Military Intelligence Bureau to do it so explicitly. Compared to a complete F-135-800 engine, more than a billion dollars is a bird, so it is not cost-effective to show the horse's feet.
Besides, the assets of the Kawasaki consortium under Kawasaki Okami's management are trillions, which is obviously a premeditated action, and he must be prepared to take away more than one billion US dollars.
In the final analysis, it is not the victim, but the beneficiary.
If that engine cannot be recovered, the air superiority established by the United States with the F-22A will be wiped out in a few years, the advanced surname of the F-22A will also be tested, and as the vital interests of many allies are threatened, the US Congress will inevitably lift the ban and put the F-22A on the list for sale.
The first to buy the F-22A was definitely the Ben.
Don't forget, the first to buy the F-15 and the production license was also the same one.
In order to get a satisfactory fighter, would he have secretly put the United States along?
(To be continued)