The spring of '81 was cold, but the atmosphere in the White House was often extremely warm. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Mr. President, our intelligence officers, this information is extremely important, please take a look at it." CIA Director William pulled out a photo and handed it to Reagan.

Reagan took it and looked at the young man inside, it was Andre who was on the list of America's enemies, this guy is currently making waves in the Middle East, which is a huge headache for the United States.

But now, what is he doing? Behind him, there are a lot of technicians, as if assembling an airplane?

"The Soviets are accelerating their Buran project, and now, the first space shuttle has begun to be assembled." William said.

"So what? Our space shuttle has already begun to fly test, and I have no intention of cutting the space budget, and our space shuttle program will not be affected by economic reforms. Reagan said.

These aides are alarmist all day long, but Reagan is very stubborn, for him, how to develop the American economy is the first priority, if the economic situation does not improve, then his voters will be disappointed.

"However, the space shuttle that the Soviets are developing is not used for the peaceful use of space, like us, and the Soviet space shuttle is an important part of their Star Wars program." William said: "This space shuttle is a space carrier. ”

Aerospace carriers? Reagan turned his head and looked at William, "What do you mean?" ”

"This starts with the Soviet Union's spiral plan, when the Soviet Union proposed an aerospace fighter that uses a supersonic aircraft as a carrier to launch this aerospace fighter to carry out combat missions in outer space, and then return to land under its own power." "Now, there are indications that the Soviets combined this program with the Space Shuttle program, and they have a launch mechanism in the space shuttle's cargo compartment that can launch ten of these small aerospace fighters at a time," William said. ”

Cross! The specific information, the agents are preparing to do their best to get their hands on it, but the Soviets are very well protected, these plans are being shipped to Moscow, they plan to do it on the way, however, the general way has been determined, in the cargo hold of the space shuttle, arrange a revolver-like launcher, one in the front and one in the front, each can accommodate five aerospace planes, so that ten planes can be launched!

"These planes can be used as reconnaissance satellites to sweep the sky at any position on the earth, or they can be used as fighter jets to carry weapons to directly destroy our satellites, and they can even be used to attack our space shuttles." "The Soviet Union is now sparing no effort to provoke a war in the outer skies, and we have no choice!" ”

From now on, the outer sky will definitely not be quiet, and these air and space fighters of the Soviets are always like a sharp sword, hanging high above the head of the United States! All American spacecraft in space, no longer safe!

"So what?" Reagan had already guessed what he meant.

"We have to carry out the same project, to put space fighters on the space shuttle, only then can we stop the conspiracy of the Soviets, we have no choice." National Security Advisor Poindecker said: "From now on, there is no peace in outer space, and we must think about our national security. ”

Everyone present seemed to be able to think that in the future, once a war broke out in space, their own space shuttles would take their space fighters into the air, and the Soviets would do the same.

It's a sci-fi Star Wars!

However, if the Soviets have these technologies, they must have them too!

"If this project has to be carried out, how much is it expected to be invested?" At this point, Reagan asked, he had to think about it.

"We estimate that the manufacturing cost of each aerospace fighter is about 100 million US dollars, plus the cost of research and development, 3 billion US dollars can ensure that we have 20 aerospace fighters on standby at any time, and the cost of training is not included."

Three billion dollars! The corners of Reagan's mouth trembled: "This project, let's save it for later!" ”

"But Mr. President, in that case, we in the United States will be completely behind in the field of space." This was stated by Defense Secretary Weinberg.

"What if our economy doesn't improve, what if we win the Soviets in space? We can't afford a plan that our country can't support, and we can't blindly invest in it. Reagan said: "We need to know that the task at this stage is to develop the economy. ”

Reagan was stubborn.

"Mr. President, in fact, I don't think that there is any conflict between our economic development and the development of the space program." At this moment, White House Chief of Staff Baker spoke: "If we want to develop the economy, the country needs to continue to invest, and our investment in the field of space will lead to the improvement of the scientific and technological level of our entire country, and many aspects can be converted into the civilian field. Now, we can also take the same way, our country wants to develop the economy, in fact, relying on science and technology to drive the economy, is a good way. ”

Reagan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and if he looked at it from this point of view, he didn't have to completely reject the space program.

………

Uzbek.

Andrei, who returned to the military district, continued to pay attention to the situation in the Middle East, but although the American side was handed over to Ogarkov, he was still more concerned.

It seems that President Reagan is extremely cautious, and it seems that the United States is at the peak of the space race and invests a large amount of money in space, and it seems that a strong dose of medicine is needed.

I wonder how the KGB is preparing? Is that guy determined to surrender to the West? If this incident does not make Reagan make up his mind, he also has a new means to mobilize the entire Western media, to report on it in a big way, to exaggerate the space threat of the Soviet Union, and the United States, as the leader of the Western world, still does not hurry up to think of countermeasures? If the United States does not make any more moves, then the United States should stop being the big brother of the Western world and leave it to the Soviet Union to cover the little brother of Europe, and the Soviet Union is very willing to take over this burden. (To be continued.) )