During this time, Eisenhower was indeed trying to mend their relationship with Europe, in addition to continuing to show the strength of the United States to save popularity, the banknotes were also constantly snowflakes outward, causing a lot of scolding at home. In addition, there are a large number of garrisons in Waguo, Goryeo, Annam and other places, and the pure face competition between the Ming and Soviet countries in terms of armaments, all of which are dragging down the continuous decline of the national strength of the United States.

In particular, the economy has also continued to shrink under the impact of the recovery of the Ming Dynasty and Western Europe, especially West Germany.

The former firmly occupies the commanding heights of technology, and the gap between the two sides is still widening, and the strong basic industrial heritage of the latter is also bursting out with amazing power, tearing the economic map of the United States like two hungry wolves.

In the past five or six years, the growth rate of GDP in the United States is less than one percent, the inflation rate is more than three percent, and the per capita GDP has been surpassed by the Ming Dynasty for the first time, which has reached 2,600 US dollars, while the United States is only a little more than 2,500 US dollars. Of course, the gap between the two sides in terms of economic aggregate is still very large, after all, the two sides are not countries at the same level at all, and the population of Mi Guoguang is several times that of the Ming Dynasty! Moreover, the agriculture of the United States has become more and more prosperous in recent years, which has well compensated for their shrinkage in the industrial field.

So on the whole, the United States is still strong, enough to make people look up, especially since they still have the magic weapon of the dollar in their hands, and if they can't do it, they will send more dollars! Anyway, I have a bunch of little brothers under my hands who can gather wool! It is precisely because of this that Eisenhower had to remain strong externally. Otherwise, even the little brother can't be saved. Where else can they go to gather wool?

But the younger brothers are not willing to be fed all the time.

After years in the making. The EEC Treaty was finally signed in Rome by Gaul, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. This time Britain and Denmark were added. Historically, Britain's accession to the European Community was quite difficult, at first because they themselves disdained it, and then because De Gaulle did not welcome it, fearing that they would become a Trojan horse for the United States. But the Suez Canal War made the rift between the United States and Britain public, and it also made the Britons realize that it was most important to unite their neighbors, so this time they offered to join, and Gaul, as the leader, of course, would not object, plus Denmark, which was pulled by Britain, the founding members of the European Community changed from six to eight.

The establishment of the European Economic Community marks a crucial step forward in European integration. It also represents a crucial step for European countries on the road to getting rid of the control of the United States. Economically, a giant that is enough to truly compete with the United States has quietly risen.

You must know that the economic development of the Ming Dynasty is unlikely to reach the point where it can compete with the United States in terms of total volume, but the European Community is different, whether it is the population or the industrial base, the economic alliance is not inferior to the United States, and the three countries of Britain, West Germany, and Gaul, no matter which one of them, are once the real powers, and they can be equal to or even surpass the United States, but it is only because they bleed each other that they have fallen to the point where they are today, giving the United States a situation of dominating the world, but now after the three alliances, The strength is enough to compete with the United States.

There is the European Union in the west, the Ming Dynasty in the east, and the Soviet Union, a giant beast rolling in a red torrent.

It's really hard to live in the United States.

But five or seven years are destined to be a gloomy year for them.

Less than two months after rocking the world with an intercontinental missile, the Soviets once again shook the world when their first, and also the world's first artificial Earth satellite, Mate, was launched on a carrier rocket modified from an R7 missile and began to fly around the Earth.

Humanity has officially started the space age.

But it was not the world's recognized boss who opened the curtain, and despite how dismissive Eisenhower was when he commented on it, anyone who was not a fool could hear the sourness in his words.

And shortly after the launch of this satellite, the Ming Empire held a public test flight performance again in Yingtian, this time the protagonist was Yang Yuan's bomber, a bomber with the same speed of more than Mach 2, and larger than the B58, faster, more bomb load, and even the use of the latest, currently unique variable sweep wing. When this heavy bomber, with a maximum take-off weight of more than 120 tons, roared over the sky at Mach 2, and then the wings that swept back at a large angle flew and stretched out in an exclamation, and then descended to a height of almost less than a body length on the surface of the sea, and flew around the island at this altitude......

It's as if everyone is watching a sci-fi blockbuster.

"Ying Long, its name is Ying Long, a kind of dragon with wings in our mythology, and we will send this bomber and ghost fighter to participate in the upcoming Paris Air Show, and our Red Eagle Air Show Team will also participate in the air show. I didn't agree at first, it was too cruel to exhibitors from other countries, a Mach 2 bomber, in the middle of those old propeller planes, and those who barely flew a thousand kilometers, it was completely humiliating. ”

Yang said to reporters very reservedly.

As for who he refers to by the ancient propeller aircraft and the bombers that can barely fly a thousand kilometers, it is needless to say, anyway, the Soviet Union exhibited the Tu-95 and Mia 4, and the Mi people wanted to fly the B58 over, but they were afraid of falling into the sea halfway, so they could only send the B52 over to support the field. Originally, without Ying Long, they could have maintained their pride, after all, this eight-engine jet bomber must be more popular than the Tu-95 and Mia 4, but unfortunately, now that Ying Long has flown over, it can only be used as a foil.

"Your Excellency, I heard that your country is preparing to launch a research and development program aimed at intercepting intercontinental missiles, I wonder if this is true?"

The Times journalist, who is also the best friend of the Führer's wife, asked.

"Of course it's true, this is the most important strategic plan of the Ming Dynasty in the future, the purpose is to hold up a strong protective umbrella for our people, blocking all those evil countries from shooting at us nuclear missiles, only in this way can we truly protect the peace and tranquility of this land.

Of course, this plan is very huge, and even so huge that the earth cannot accommodate it, and it must be extended to outer space, because we must achieve global monitoring, and we do not know where the enemy's missiles will be launched from, whether it is on their territory or on nuclear submarines in the sea, and in order to achieve global monitoring, only the deployment of large radar, infrared and other types of reconnaissance satellites in outer space can ensure that no matter where the enemy launches missiles from, our early warning system can know in the shortest possible time.

And in our scenario, the best way to do this is to be able to intercept it over the enemy's territory.

ICBMs are the slowest and easiest to intercept only in the ascent stage that has just been launched, but it is impossible for us to deploy missiles near the enemy's launch site, and the only way is also in outer space, of course, not to deploy missiles, but to deploy a completely new concept of weapon. We call it a laser, a pure energy weapon, simply put, a beam of dead light that can destroy everything, of course, its speed is also the speed of light, deploy this weapon on the space battleship of the future, keep cruising in outer space, as long as the enemy's missile is launched, it can be destroyed in the shortest possible time.

If this interception is not successful, then we also have sea-based interception, that is, with more long-range shipborne anti-aircraft missiles, or shipborne laser launchers, and we have already intercepted their bombers with shipborne anti-aircraft missiles the last time the Soviets attacked Yingtian, and this is equivalent to an enlarged version of this system. Of course, our missiles have a longer range, and can even hit outer space at an altitude of several hundred kilometers, and as long as the enemy's ballistic missiles fly past the interception range, they can be directly launched and shot down.

Of course, such missiles will be larger, and we are ready to build large missile cruisers similar to the Long Beach.

If the sea-based interception system is not successful, then we also have a land-based interception system, which consists of two parts, one part is also interception in outer space, and the use of larger interceptor missiles with a range of several hundred kilometers is useless, and it must have a range of several thousand kilometers, similar to medium-range missiles, which can guarantee that the enemy's missiles can be shot down thousands of kilometers away from our national territory.

In addition, there are large intra-atmosphere laser warfare aircraft, simply put, aircraft carrying laser interceptors, which constantly patrol the skies around our territory to compensate for the possibility of interceptor missile failure.

If these layers of interception are not successful, then we will have to rely on the anti-aircraft missiles deployed in various places, as well as land-based laser launchers, to intercept the re-entry stage of the missile, according to my estimate, there will be no intercontinental missile that can break through these four lines of defense to intercept. Even if the enemy fires dozens or hundreds of them at the same time, we are confident that we will intercept them all, even if one or two fish slip through the net, the damage that can be caused is within the range, but our retaliation can completely wipe the enemy off the face of the earth.

The system was so massive and extended to outer space that I gave it a more figurative name, Star Wars!

Uh, Kathy, are you listening to me? ”

Yang Feng, who woke up from his fantasy world, looked at the female reporter who had dropped the microphone on the ground in amazement. (To be continued.) )

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