The Sino-US trade dispute is still going on so lukewarmly, and Clinton's hard-line foreign strategy has almost come to an end at this moment, and Clinton's main work in the next stage will be focused on boosting the US economy, and he has a sense of fatigue and even fear of foreign affairs.

The US military in South Korea finally came to an end, and the US military won the war and gradually withdrew its troops from South Korea, which was expected to be completed in 1994. The U.S. Navy, which had fallen into the sand in Peru, was also gradually withdrawn from the Peruvian coast and withdrew from the Peruvian civil war.

Of course, the U.S. will not relax its support for Peruvian government forces. In addition to some second-hand American-style equipment provided by the U.S. military, the U.S. military will also provide intelligence and tactical support to the Peruvian side. In addition, the US military plans to use a new weapon to strike at the armed forces of the hard-to-hit Macona People's Commune.

In order to verify the new weapon, Secretary of Defense Aspin even went to a dimly lit information-based command room at the CIA's headquarters in Langley to see the weapon put into use for the first time.

“…… Mr. Minister, this new type of weapon launched by DARPA, a UAV with the integrated function of reconnaissance and fighting, its main role is to provide effective intelligence support for our Air Force and Army, penetrate behind enemy lines to reconnoiter enemy intelligence, and at the same time, the aircraft can also carry two laser-guided bombs and four Hellfire missiles, which has a prominent role in hunting and killing important enemy targets. A technical officer gleefully introduced to Aspin.

In front of Asping was a model of this type of drone, with the MQ-1 Predator written on the nameplate and specific performance parameters listed next to it. If Qi Yiming stood next to him, he would definitely feel quite a difference, because the technical parameters of this MQ-1 Predator far exceeded that of the Predator in another plane, but hit a level similar to that of the MQ-9 Reaper drone.

"This is not the predator's strongest capability, this drone has the first generation of combat artificial intelligence we have developed, which can autonomously evaluate the enemy's capabilities and select the most appropriate strike mode through its own on-board equipment with the assistance of rear personnel. This is a model that can really achieve its own fighting, even if our control signal is interrupted, it will not fall, but will follow a pre-programmed program, automatic combat or return home. ”

Aspin frowned slightly after hearing this, and asked, "You mean that if we lose control of this thing, it may attack the target on its own, or even attack us?" ”

The technical officer said with embarrassment: "This extreme situation is basically impossible......"

Aspin interrupted him and said: "Any weapon may have a backfire, so when designing, we need to set up various emergency plans to deal with these situations, which is undoubtedly an epoch-making weapon, but the more advanced and powerful, the more we must guard against the hidden dangers that this weapon may bring." ”

The technical officials could only say yes like a gourd, saying that they must urge the design team to carry out rectification.

Aspin himself actually does not have great expectations for the MQ-1 Predator, because the main driving force for the United States to develop drones actually comes from comparing with China. China is the country with the most complete categories and the most applications in the research and development of UAVs in the world today. At the time of the Gulf War, China staged the ability to use drones to strike important nodes of the enemy in front of the whole world. In the subsequent wars and conflicts, China's drones have performed.

China uses drones more in the civilian field, carrying out ordinary geological exploration and topographic mapping, and even aerial photography drone tools that everyone can buy.

Taking the Peruvian War as an example, although the proportion of American manned aircraft killed is not large, several fighters and helicopters were shot down, and important American pilots were also captured by the enemy and even killed, which obviously put a lot of pressure on the United States and was also a huge loss.

At the same time, using UAVs for military operations can cruise for a longer time in reconnaissance missions, and manned planes will have to come down in five or six hours unless they are large aircraft, but the MQ-1 Predator can cruise in the sky for about 15 hours, thus giving the mission greater flexibility and flexibility. In addition, because of the small size of the UAV, the shape can also be modified, which makes the UAV more difficult to be detected and enhances the probability of successful penetration.

"In view of the fact that Peru's glorious road is hidden in the Andes and difficult to strike, it is difficult for our ordinary fighters to effectively detect and strike the enemy during the mission, and most importantly, our intelligence support cannot keep up, and there is a lack of effective intelligence supply in that area," the technical officer recounted vividly. We can sometimes get reports on the whereabouts of important members of the Shining Path, but it may be too late to launch an attack, and if the intelligence is inaccurate, we lack the ability to continue the mission to search.

And after having the Predator, we have such the ability to hunt accurately, the Predator can fly behind enemy lines, carry out comprehensive reconnaissance and strikes, it can fly to an altitude of 15,000 meters, and there are not many ways for general air defense weapons to deal with it. And the task of UAVs does not require too many operational units, a team is enough to do this job, while manned aircraft need logistics, support, and even bases, etc., while our Predators can take off from most ordinary airfields and carry out simple support operations.

We have prepared a squadron of Predator drones, which are now stationed at the military airfield near Lima, and the main task is to attack the local Shining Path militants, these drones can maintain all-weather high-intensity operations, as long as the militants are found, they can attack and eliminate them. And under such a high-intensity blow from us, the militants have only the share of bad luck. ”

As-Ping nodded, he knew in his heart that there was no way to use drones to replace the three US aircraft carrier battle groups that had been withdrawn. The U.S. military naturally dealt a heavy blow to the Shining Path, but it did not kill all of the Shining Path, and the strength of the Macona People's Commune, one of the main factions of the Shining Path, had not been greatly reduced, and it was this faction that caused the main casualties to the American troops.

The Americans are quite afraid that if they withdraw, these militants will come back out of the mountains, defeat the government forces, and then take power, which means that all the efforts made by the Americans will be in vain. Therefore, sending some drones into Peru to help the government army fight can fill a certain gap, especially if these drones are really as mysterious as he said about the manufacture of a certain winter melon-faced Mediterranean white coat, the effect should be no worse than three aircraft carrier battle groups.

That's right, the Predator has become an intelligent Grim Reaper, most notably Grigory Kirk, who is now crouching in Alaska. When he was in the Mystery Palace, he led the development of intelligent drones for suicide attacks, and after coming to the United States, he had more resource support, and referred to the ideas of several drones designed by China to come up with the Predator, of course, the name was given by the Americans.

At first, the Americans only hoped that Kirk would develop a drone similar to the Chinese Pterodactyl, whose main role was to conduct intelligence reconnaissance, help friendly forces carry out laser target guidance, and incidentally have a certain strike capability. However, Kirk has also made great achievements in the research of UAVs, especially in the research of UAV intelligence, and has made great achievements, so Kirk has provided a set of more intelligent combat modes for the Predator, and the Predator has become more terrifying.

The UAV has the automation that the UAV does not have at this time in the acquisition, analysis and processing of intelligence, and when it finds the enemy's target during the cruise, it can decide whether to strike, or how to strike more effectively, and even calculate whether the cost is cost-effective.

Because in Peru, the Predators were mainly targeting ordinary infantry targets, so instead of using expensive missiles such as Hellfire, the Predators used small cluster bombs and incendiary bombs with cheap seekers to kill and injure mainly people.

Under the watchful eye of US Secretary of Defense Aspin, a Predator drone staged a good show of hunting and killing enemy militants. The power of the People's Commune of Macona was mainly hidden in the Andes, but it was not entirely a primitive man who hid in caves or underground fortifications. They are mainly stationed in different camps in the mountains, and after a period of time they are stationed on another enemy side, and at the same time, they pay great attention to concealment, so they are relatively difficult to be detected, which increases the difficulty of the US military's strike.

But with the MQ-1 Predator, that changed. The U.S. military can use MQ-1 to conduct more effective and comprehensive mountain investigations, and the Predator UAV, which has powerful and complex terrain reconnaissance capabilities, has a good reconnaissance capability for human targets on the ground day and night, and can even distinguish whether it is a threatening target.

As a result, the fighters of the People's Commune of Macona, who were operating on their own territory, were dealt a serious blow. At first, they didn't have much concept of drones, and their previous ambushes on planes basically relied on visual rather than radar. Drone flights are more stealthy and more difficult to detect, and once detected by predators, it is difficult for militants to effectively counter them, because predators can basically achieve a first attack on these militants.

Two guided bombs were dropped, killing several militants on the ground, and people in the CIA Langley command room applauded, and As-Ping smiled with satisfaction.

"We need more drones to be sent to Peru, with this thing, those rebels have no way to escape!" Aspine waved his fist and encouraged.