Chapter 372: America's Attitude

"Keep the glide line, lower the slope, descend, and descend!" An F-14, while the escort directs another F-14 next to it to land.

John's eyes were blurry, and looking at the small deck, there was an inexplicable fear.

If you want to become a carrier-based aviation, the biggest risk is the deck of an aircraft carrier that is only the size of a basketball court.

With a total length of more than 300 meters, the first half is the take-off area, and the second half is the landing area; for the US aircraft carrier that relies on catapult to take off, it is not difficult to take off, because the catapult of the aircraft carrier has fixed the route of the aircraft, and if you take off by a sliding jump, a sudden crosswind will bring about catastrophic consequences.

Compared with taking off, landing is even more difficult, looking at the aircraft carrier, in fact, it is very narrow, the runway of the roadbed fighter is at least a few hundred meters or even thousands of meters long, while the aircraft carrier is only 300 meters, and the landing area is only more than 100 meters.

What's even more troublesome is that the aircraft carrier is not fixed, it will keep shaking with the waves, and every time it lands, it is a life and death speed.

The fighter landed at a land airfield, the speed was getting smaller and smaller, and finally stopped, and when it landed on an aircraft carrier, it was not a deceleration, but an acceleration.

The deceleration is based on the blocking hook at the tail of the aircraft, one of the three blocking cables that hang the landing area, and the hydraulic cylinders on both sides are used to provide buffers to pull the aircraft stiffly, and the whole landing process is actually the aircraft smashed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and its difficulty can be imagined.

Therefore, the Navy's aircraft have always been stronger than those on land, and various key places, such as the main landing gear and girders, have been strengthened.

And the pilots of the Navy are also the best in the entire aviation force.

But at this time, all the personnel on the aircraft carrier were sweating for this hapless pilot.

The landing gear on the left finally smashed into the deck, and the huge hydraulic shock absorbers almost bottomed out, canceling out a large part of the force, and the other leg finally fell on the deck.

John was just trying to soothe his mood when he heard a shout from the headphones: "No hanging block, hurry, pull up, pull up!" ”

John didn't have time to think about it, and immediately pushed the throttle to the end, and the tomcat rushed out of the deck again and flew into the sky.

Gotta fly again! John struggled to concentrate, and he knew that he had to save the tens of millions of planes to the best of his ability.

United States, White House.

"Guys, something happened to our aircraft carrier." Defense Minister Weinberg said: "Iraq actually dispatched warplanes to take the initiative to provoke our planes, this is a declaration of war against us!" ”

Saddam Hussein, that madman... The thought came to many people's minds. Even Weinberg, who had always been very calm and composed, was furious this time.

How could Weinberg not be angry, a pilot with complicated weather take-off and landing at night, just wasted, after getting on the ship, getting off the plane, the unlucky pilot, his clothes were soaked, it is estimated that in his future career, at most, he will play with propeller aircraft.

Even Saudi Arabia endured it, Kuwait also endured it, and Iraq actually took the initiative to use their most advanced MiG-25 interceptors to take the initiative to confront their fighters in the Persian Gulf!

Although US fighter jets often had friction with the Soviet Union, which was inevitable of the Cold War, they could not tolerate it, and even a small country in the Middle East did not take them seriously!

And now, the American people are feeling inconvenienced by the lack of oil, which could easily be a pretext for a declaration of war.

This matter can be big or small, and how to deal with it depends on them.

"Everyone, please look at a set of materials." CIA Director Casey said, starting to show the slides.

"This is a picture taken by our spy satellite." Casey said, pointing to the plane on the ground: "Here, this is the base of the MiG-25 in Iraq, the H-3 air base (H-3 is the Al-Waleed air base). We have always wondered why the Iraqis maintained the advanced MiG-25 so well. ”

Casey zoomed in on the diagram and eventually, seeing the figures from above, "We have every reason to believe that the MiG-25 in Iraq was maintained by many Soviet personnel. And even, at the very beginning, the Iraqi MiG-25 was flown by Soviet instructors. ”

Soviets! This sentence shook everyone's hearts.

Recently, because of the uproar of OPEC members, because of the anger over the rise in oil prices, in the hearts of many Americans, they are full of complaints about these oil-producing countries, but they forget that the oil crisis is because of their support for Israel!

And Israel, the country that is still besieging Beirut in several emergency resolutions of the United Nations, which has given him an unconditional ceasefire! The United States, which advocates freedom and open boiling, is supporting their allies, trampling on the people of Lebanon, and using force to carve out a bloody road for their own survival.

President Ronald Reagan has not spoken, looking at his think tank, what kind of statement will be given to him.

"Ladies and gentlemen," National Security Adviser Poindecker said, "our greatest threat is the Soviet Union, so I think we should reconsider our policy toward Israel, we..."

Before he could finish speaking, Weinberg said, "You mean, let's have the military bow to Iraq?" How is this possible! We, the American [***] team, are not afraid of any country, not even the Soviet Union, but also of a Middle Eastern country! ”

"Weinberg, you let him finish." Reagan said.

"Iraq's Saddam Hussein is a man with a complicated surname, and we can't estimate his inner thoughts at all, but we have also seen that the Soviet Union is also trying to win him over, and if we continue like this, then we can only let him completely fall to the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union has always been a formidable threat! The opponent of the United States is the Soviet Union! Not Iraq!

"In fact, in the past two years, our relations with Iraq have improved a lot, especially after the Iraqi Qusay boy was born, he signed a large arms sales order with us, and we can tie him to our chariot through the order, after all, he is still beating Khomeini's ass for us!" Secretary George concluded: "In our own interests, this is only an economic struggle, we don't need to send more military fronts, as long as we suspend arms sales to Israel, this crisis will soon pass." ”

Last time, George didn't advocate sending troops, and sometimes it didn't work for the Islamists.

In fact, it is not in the interests of the United States to blindly support Israel in this way, which will lead to major economic problems, and if it insists on going its own way, it will eventually lead to throwing Iraq, which they value very much, into the arms of the Soviet Union, and the gains outweigh the losses.

"Actually, we can win over the Coussey boys." Vice President George spoke: "I have studied this guy, after coming to power, he was not very interested in the Soviet Union, on the contrary, under his auspices, he bought our fighter planes, bought French weapons, and China, and for the Soviet Union in the traditional sense, he did not buy anything, I estimate, this young man, as long as we support him, it is very likely that Iraq will change to us, everyone has also seen that Saddam Hussein, who never played his cards according to common sense, and associated with such a person, It's very dangerous, and this Qusay, on the contrary, is very reasonable, and I think we should get close to him, and even put him in place when necessary. ”

"But," Casey said, "Qusay, who is obviously more intelligent than Saddam, will we be a threat if we raise such a guy?" Our CIA's intelligence agency in southern Iraq has been attacked by him to the point that it is impossible to gain a foothold at all, and a strong Iraq is not in our interests. ”

"Uday has lost power, and Saddam Hussein will not give power to Uday, this idea is unrealistic."

Sometimes, history is always very ironic, Saddam Hussein showed his strength, and after confronting the United States head-on, the United States changed its attitude in order not to force Iraq to the Soviet Union. As a great leader of an Eastern country once said, all imperialism is a paper tiger!

At this time, Zhang Feng had already rushed back to Baghdad from Riyadh, and when he learned that his father had made such a move, Zhang Feng's head was going to be big.

How to put it, Zhang Feng himself thinks that now the oil-producing countries have united to reduce oil production against Western countries that support Israel, which can be said to be a non-violent non-cooperation movement, which is economic.

However, for an old capitalist country like the United States, it is still very much in line with their surname to engage in some military threats after being stimulated by this time, and what Iraq needs to do is to be like Saudi Arabia, be ready for battle, and if his military plane really violates its airspace, then shoot him down unceremoniously!

However, now they have not yet entered the airspace of their own country, and as a result, their own fighter planes have run out and expelled them. This dad of his own, when he does things, is really fierce.

The gun shot the first bird, what kind of reaction will the Americans provoke from this counterattack? Zhang Feng knew that he had to explain his thoughts to his father, and he should also report to his father about the oil embargo.

At this time, the news of the attack on the Sidewinder special forces also spread back to the Southern Military Region, and then to Zhang Feng.

It was eventful

(To be continued)