PS: Gorgeous! Yesterday, many people left messages, saying that they wanted to see the majestic appearance of the Apocalypse Tank. Gorgeous can only say that there will be many opportunities in the future.

I will send 4,000 words first, and I will try my best to send two more chapters of 6,000 words today.

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At the foot of the Surud Mountains, the Snake Valley, once avoided by Somalis, is now home to the base's Satellite Launch Center.

The two satellite assembly factories hidden deep in the mountains have been in a state of high tension and busyness since the outbreak of the war.

At this moment, after finishing the meeting with Zeng Zhihua, Li Lan took a special car to the satellite launch center.

All this busyness is aimed at carrying out the anti-deterrence plan formulated by Li Lan, and the most important part of counter-deterrence is intercontinental missiles. It is important to make it clear that Somalia has the capability to deliver intercontinental strikes.

Deterrence does not lie in truth and falsehood, but in speculation between what the outside world has and what it does not, and the unknown often arouses the vigilance of the outside world.

Intercontinental launch vehicles, Li Lan doesn't have that thing, nuclear bombs, he naturally doesn't have either. But this does not prevent him from releasing smoke bombs, combining fiction and reality, as long as it can be understood by the outside world. Fake can also be made real. And the starting point of all this is to bet on the United States that it really has a nuclear bomb, and to let the United States see that it has the ability to send a nuclear bomb to the United States.

If he can't be deceived, then Li Lan really needs China to provide a nuclear umbrella, and maybe by then, it will be too late. So, it's a big gamble, and the risk means a huge benefit.

If you let the outside world know about it, and there is a 30% chance that he has a nuclear bomb, it will make a lot of money. Contrarily. This would immediately lead to an even more powerful nuclear retaliation by the United States.

As for whether a new crisis will arise because of nuclear weapons, Li Lan is confident. Somalia is not Iran, the war has already been fought. Europe and the United States have also seen the results, at most they will only carry out an economic blockade, and a new military crisis will gradually disappear. In the future, at most, they will just talk to each other. However, these are all based on the fact that the war can end as Li Lan envisions.

Iran's nuclear development began in 1957. At that time, Iran's Pahlavi dynasty was an important strategic barrier for the United States and the West to contain the southward advance of the former Soviet Union in the Gulf region, so Iran's nuclear plan was supported by Western countries. In the 60s of the last century, the United States supplied Iran with a number of small nuclear facilities. The so-called Iranian nuclear issue arose in the 80s of the last century due to the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Since then, the United States has pursued a policy of containment against Iran, and since the end of the Iran-Iraq war, the United States has repeatedly accused Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons under the cover of peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Iran's nuclear issue turned into a nuclear crisis in the wake of 9/11, after which Bush named Iran one of the three "axis of evil" in his State of the Union address. Iran may be "only 1 to 3 years away from building a nuclear weapon", so Tehran's nuclear capabilities have become a "heart disease" for the top level of the White House.

Since then, the United States has continuously increased political and military pressure on Iran. Regardless of the outcome of this year's U.S. presidential election, the U.S. is unlikely to sit idly by and watch the Iranians master nuclear weapons technology. At the same time, in the face of pressure from the United States, Iran has also accelerated the development of its own military self-defense capabilities. As a result, the already existing nuclear problem has intensified, and eventually turned into a nuclear crisis.

Somalia was the first to break out into war. And the fighting is already very lively, and the nuclear weapons that Li Lan intends to show are extremely sudden, and there is no time to brew the so-called nuclear crisis. As long as there are people in the outside world who believe that Somalia really has nuclear weapons, then the Somali nuclear issue, which is a fait accompli, will evolve into a nuclear weapon like North Korea's.

Of course. All this is Li Lan fighting high altitudes, and the base has no way to produce nuclear bombs now. Inside the operations lab, until now. Li Lan has not yet found a single physicist, and he has no clue about his own research on nuclear weapons.

Fortunately, he also has something that is very easy to bluff, and that is the launch vehicle in the spy satellite unit. This is a three-stage solid-fuel propulsion rocket, enough to send an object with a mass of six tons to the earth's high-altitude orbit, if the satellite compartment is modified, it will be changed to look like a ballistic missile cabin, and then the launch data and the trajectory of the simulated warhead will be reset, and after entering the atmosphere, the simulated warhead in the satellite compartment will be completed and then anti-atmosphere. As a result, a deterrent ICBM appeared. According to the range of the launch vehicle, the range of these simulated warheads can reach more than 13,000 kilometers after being counter-atmospheric.

If the direction of the satellite is to the west, although there is a drag pulling force of the earth, which will severely limit the flight speed and fuel consumption of the rocket, the range will not be reduced much, because the earth is rotating to the east.

According to the calculations of the scientists at the base, if this launch vehicle really carries a warhead, it will be enough to attack the entire land of the east coast of the United States, and it can penetrate thousands of kilometers into the territory of the United States. If launched eastward, it can completely reach the waters of Guam in the Pacific Ocean and 6 to 700 kilometers to the east.

In other words, whether it is launched to the east or west, according to the capabilities of the launch vehicle, it can completely deter the entire Indian Ocean, most of the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the entire western Pacific Ocean. If it is to the northeast, Russia's Siberia and even the United States' Alaska are within the range of the attack. (The earth is round, don't take a flat map and a ruler to measure!) ）

The range that can be hit covers 65% of the earth's land, and unfortunately, a large number of US military bases and the US mainland are within this range. If it's a real nuclear bomb, that's cool, it's just ......

It is also possible to use this carrier rocket to drop some conventional warheads, but this kind of long-range strike weapon, which is extremely easy to cause misunderstanding, regardless of whether there is a nuclear bomb in it, is too easy to cause a nuclear counterattack once the judgment is wrong.

Therefore, Li Lan did not plan to install some conventional warheads on this carrier rocket to hit the US mainland. Rather, it is very "peaceful" to install some experimental warheads, which can be used for experimental research and can also achieve the purpose of deterrence.

Originally, Li Lan also had a very good method, that is, to use attack nuclear submarines to go around the United States to flex his muscles, but at present there are only three nuclear submarines. It is also the only three submarines, and it is already somewhat reluctant to protect the two-carrier battle group. This is simply not the right time to go on an adventure. And this practice also requires a long period of preparation. After all, from Somalia to the Atlantic, you have to go around the Cape of Good Hope, the whole journey is more than 10,000 nautical miles, and the time of the trip is a problem. If it really departs from Somalia to the Atlantic Ocean by submarine, it is estimated that the war is over.

In the two launch vehicle production and satellite assembly factories located in the belly of the mountain, Li Lan's arrival was like a drop of water melting into the sea, and it did not cause any waves. Every engineer and scientist is busy with the work at hand, and after seeing Li Lan, it is only a simple salute. I continued to get busy.

Changing a launch vehicle into a ballistic missile is not something that can be done in a moment. For these scientists and engineers in the factory, the order given by Li Lan is not a simple modification work, but a series of basic modifications, and then ensure that every system on the launch vehicle can be perfectly integrated after modification. If this project had been simple, India's missile family would not have been so decadent.

For seven days, scientists and engineers have at least four days to work on modifications to the system. The flight trajectory of the launch vehicle and the simulated missile in the satellite compartment should form a high tacit understanding, when the fuel of the three solid propulsion units is exhausted, when the missile compartment is separated from the last stage of the thruster. The missile bay is opened, and the simulated bombs inside must be activated at the same time.

After completing the first part of the mission, start from three days ago. The main focus is on the post-emitter detection of the simulated bomb and the inspection of the connection with the satellite.

Today, when all six mock bombs have been built. This decent ICBM has begun to be assembled in the last trim.

After Li Lan walked in. With the joint efforts of scientists and engineers, a complete missile was lying flat on the giant rail car, with a large number of wires attached to the missile, connected to the computer next to it, and many scientists in white coats were rapidly typing on the keyboard on the computer.

They were focused, even if they approached Li Lan behind them, they didn't notice it. Li Lan didn't bother them, but stood behind these people, looking at their computers, the data testing was being carried out.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. At this moment, Li Lan is more like a person watching the excitement, because he can't understand what these constantly beating numbers on the computer represent, and he is also confused about what kind of information the whole row of pictures on the screen are like plugs connected to sockets.

Li Lan is used to not understanding these professional software or scientific research data, and he doesn't need to understand everything in detail, grasping the results is what he should do. Otherwise, under a national system, there are thousands of knowledge involved, and he is not a god, so it is impossible to dabble in all of them.

However, seeing the various prompts on the computer monitor, he at least understood that the test results were not bad.

"Commander, you're here."

A greeting from behind broke the peace here, not only Li Lan turned his head, but the scientists in front of him in front of the computer also turned around one after another, and after seeing Li Lan, they were about to get up and salute, at this time, Li Lan waved his hand in time to stop: "Concentrate on your work, don't care about me as a layman." ”

Hearing Li Lan's words, these scientists turned their attention back to the computer screen, and their fingers continued to tap on the keyboard.

Li Lan smiled slightly, as if he was very satisfied with the concentration of these people, and turned to look at the person behind him, the smile on his face became even stronger. In his eyes, a man with a full beard, a pair of heavy glasses on the bridge of his nose, the beard and beard had covered most of the skin on his face, and his face was dirty everywhere. The white coat on his body was also covered with various stains.

Seeing that Li Lan was staring at him, the person who came seemed a little embarrassed, scratched his hair with the same dirty hands, and said with an embarrassed expression: "I knew that Commander Lu Dao would come over now, so I would take a time to comb it well, this is really rude." ”

Seeing the other party's movements, a row of black lines suddenly flashed on Li Lan's head, and when he heard his words again, he suddenly felt funny in his heart, and said: "You don't have to go to special combing, you don't have to pay attention to any appearance when you see me, and you're not an outsider anyway." ”

Hearing Li Lan's words, the corners of the visitor's mouth suddenly cracked, and two rows of neat and white teeth were exposed in the thick beard, which formed a huge contrast with the dirt on his body. This person's name is Mei Dang, who has a very high status in Li Lan's heart, and is currently the leader of science and technology in the satellite center, except for liking to brush his teeth, he has always been lazy about taking care of other places on his body. Especially when he devotes himself to work, Li Lan will not be surprised if he does not take a bath for a year.

Maydang: Level 3 Elite Scientist......

Competency: Advanced Aerospace Research Competency......

Special Ability: Scientific Mastery. (Book friends make a cameo!) ）

"How's the preparation now?" Li Lan continued to ask.

"The assembly has been completed, the system is being tested at its worst, and as long as the test results go well, the fuel can be injected now and the launch will be on time tomorrow." Madang replied immediately.

Li Lan nodded, glanced at the nearly thirty-meter-long big guy behind him, and said, "This matter must be successful at one time, and there must be no mistakes." ”

Although the big guy next to him is not lethal, the core of deterrence is the result of tomorrow's launch, and if it can achieve the expected distance and capability, then the United States will feel the danger. If it can't be done accurately, or if the desired effect is not achieved, then the result is very difficult to say.

"Rest assured that we will carry out the strictest checks to ensure that we do not fail in our mission." Meidang also understands the importance of this matter, so naturally he does not dare to be sloppy.

"That's good." Li Lan didn't say anything more, he didn't want to put too much pressure on these people, as their commander, he had to withstand their gratuitous respect and dedication, and the pressure from the outside world must be borne by him.

And this war, even in the face of the United States, the huge pressure is no less than the overwhelming Mount Tai, conventional war is one aspect, and the deterrence of nuclear weapons is also another. In the war, in order to avoid his own defeat and to prevent the United States from turning back, he has always sought a middle balance.

Only by mastering the balance point of the war is to prepare for the end of the battlefield war. This is the most helpless choice, and it is also the choice that Li Lan can only make now. Regardless of the outcome of the war, it cannot continue. This is not only related to the future development of the base, but also related to the final direction of this war. Because once the United States cannot continue to withstand the war, the probability of the United States going to the extreme is too high, and now it is planning to use tactical nuclear bombs, and it is guaranteed that in the future, strategic nuclear bombs will come. (To be continued......)