After the Falcon 1 launched a ground-to-ground missile, the huge movement caused by it could not avoid the observation of the three nearby F22s, and the pilot immediately turned on the onboard APG-77 active phased array radar, but was surprised to find that there was no trace of the enemy aircraft on the screen?

"No. 1, have you found any enemy planes?"

"I don't have it here."

"I don't have one here."

"The enemy aircraft is a stealth fighter, everyone pay attention."

"The long-wave radar array of ground-based air defense also did not find a target."

"The AWACS aircraft found the target in azimuth 250, at an altitude of 8550 meters, and at a speed of Mach 1.8."

The enemy plane's message suddenly came from the E-3 early warning plane more than 100 miles away, and the three F22s grabbed the target, like a hound that smelled the smell of prey, and quickly pulled up and rushed towards the target.

At the same time, the passive radar system of the Falcon 1 had clearly scanned the direction of the three F22s sprinting over, the Falcon 1 ignored them, the engine power began to increase, and the speed instantly broke through Mach 2 and flew towards the western United States.

"No. 1, the enemy plane is so fast!"

"Well, I found it." Balmer, who was on the No. 1 plane, was taken aback and did not believe the message sent by the AWACS aircraft, because the speed of the enemy aircraft was still improving, and it soon surpassed Mach 2.5. The sky outside the window was pitch black, and Balmer's mood was by no means happy, from suddenly receiving an urgent mission to take off, to coming to a hundred miles away to confront a strange enemy plane before he could figure out the cause and effect of the incident. None of this is really anything, and the most important thing is that this is the mainland of the United States, how could a strange enemy plane fly in? Is the air defense of the homeland completely paralyzed? This is the most incredible thing about Balmer.

"Number 1, we can't catch up."

"God, it's faster than Mach 3, is this the SR-71 Blackbird?"

"Hey, the Blackbird isn't as fast as it is, you see, it's over Mach 3.5."

The three of them fell silent in the wireless frequency band, this is still a fart, the speed of F22 is only Mach 2.25 at most, and they are not even qualified to eat the dust behind other people's butts, now they can only sit and wait for the information sent back by the AWACS aircraft?

"Number 2, what do you guess the identity of this enemy plane is?" It was No. 3 who was questioned.

"Could it be...... North Korea? Number 2 was a little unsure.

"Haha, those poor sticks, they can't study such a fighter in a hundred years."

"And Russia, or China?"

"Russia, well, possibly, but China's current engines are not enough to support such a dangerous move."

"Okay, be cautious, and return to base immediately after receiving orders." Balmer interrupted the conversation, pulled the pole, and flew north, followed by two fighters.

When Hagel received the news, he was staring at President Barack without saying a word. This is a conference room in the White House, President Barack is discussing the situation in Syria with the national security adviser team, during the day Barack made the latest statement in the White House Rose Garden, announcing that the United States will launch a military strike against Syria, this series of speeches shook the world, the future situation is unpredictable, and therefore, this meeting has been held for nearly two hours, and there is no sign of over.

But Hagel was absent-minded, and some of the phone calls he had received before seemed to indicate that something was happening a hundred miles away that was out of his control. His hands shook when he heard that an enemy plane was on the mainland of the United States, and he was relieved to hear that the enemy plane was not flying toward Washington, but toward the west. But then Hagel realized the seriousness of the matter, which was even more threatening than the unknown signal source from outer space descending on Earth, at least it was not sure whether it was dangerous or not, and this enemy plane was already trampling on the dignity of the United States.

So, he had to interrupt President Barack, who was in the middle of the conversation, "I'm sorry, Mr. President, I have to stop your speech, there is an important matter to report to you here. ”

Barack frowned, what could be more important than what was being discussed now? But the Minister of Defense would not interrupt his speech for no reason, and Barack's heart moved, thinking about the events of this morning. God forbid, this is reality, not a movie.

"Alright, that's the end of the meeting."

The security advisers sat down and left, and the people who could stay in the conference room were Vice President Joe Biden and several senior officials, except for the Secretary of Defense.

"Mr. Hagel, have something to say." With his feet pressed against the eaves, Barack asked, propping his chin up.

Everyone here knows that Hagel does not need to explain the ins and outs of the matter, and quickly explains the cause of the incident.

"You mean that an enemy plane of unknown origin suddenly appeared on the continental United States and attacked a makeshift military base?" Barack was a little unconcerned, but now he was taken aback.

Vice President Biden was also extremely surprised, realizing the seriousness of the matter, and immediately asked: "What about the casualties?" Where are the enemy planes now? Did you make an interception? ”

"The casualties are very high, and so far there are about 356 military and non-military deaths, and no one survived. According to the information sent by the AWACS aircraft, the enemy aircraft had escaped the pursuit of three raptors and fled to the west. ”

"What the hell are the people from the Air Defense and Sky Command doing?" Biden said angrily, more than 300 people died at once, and they were still in their homeland, once this matter was revealed, everyone present would have to pay a huge price for it, so as soon as he said a word, he immediately began to think about how to suppress the matter with all his might.

"Well, I guess they're trying to make it up right now." Hagel replied quietly.

Hagel is right, the North American Air Defense Command in the cave of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is not only making up for it, but it is also struggling. Thanks to the sensitive response of the U.S. [***] intelligence network system, after Washington Andrews Air Force Base received information about the reinforcement request, the North American Air Defense and Space Defense Command also learned that an unidentified aircraft had come over the vicinity of Charlottesville, which shocked the entire command. The commander of the command, Admiral Kevin Hilton, immediately ordered an E-3 early warning aircraft to take off to monitor, but the result was unexpected, the three F22s failed to intercept them, the target speed was too fast, and when the speed climbed to Mach 6, they left the monitoring range of the E-3 early warning aircraft.

The fact that the AWACS aircraft condescendingly and barely detected the enemy plane from a bird's-eye perspective does not mean that the ground anti-aircraft surveillance radar array network can detect the enemy plane, and the RCS of the enemy plane is outrageously low, like a black cat sneaking into the night, and not even a shadow can be found.

Fortunately, since the North American Air Defense and Space Defense Command can monitor all man-made aircraft in the sky (outer space) over North America, it must have more than that. Soon, the Cheyenne Mountain Underground Monitoring Center activated the ground-based electro-optical-optical deepspace surveillance system (GEODSS) through a dedicated communication line, and the three-meter telescope carried by the Keyhole-12 satellite in geosynchronous orbit at a distance of 36,000 kilometers began to change its angle, and the telescope composed of 4096×4096 CCD elements began to change its angle. Not only can it sense visible light with a wavelength of 400~800nm and the near-infrared segment with a wavelength of 800~1200nm, but also the infrared spectrum sensing range has been increased to 1200nm~1500nm, that is, it covers the entire bandwidth of near-infrared rays, and even the ultraviolet spectrum of 350nm~100nm can be detected.

Being 36,000 kilometers away from the Earth, Keyhole 12's IR scanning array and gaze array enable it to scan a wide area while concentrating on a smaller area, continuously tracking and tracking an object the size of a basketball, even a very low temperature missile warhead cannot escape its reconnaissance, not to mention the local temperature of 1430 degrees Celsius above the surface of the body caused by the speed of Mach 7 of Falcon 1.

"General, you've found your target." The monitor sitting in front of the computer screen shouted.

"Where is it?" Hilton was anxious and hurriedly asked when he heard the voice.

"It's so fast, just past Kansas City, and it's expected to be in Colorado in five minutes."

Hilton's face was serious, the speed of the enemy plane was indeed very fast, no, it was no longer very fast, but it was too fast, at a distance of more than a thousand miles, the enemy plane took less than ten minutes, that is, the speed was likely to reach Mach 7.

Appalling! Although the United States even built planes close to Mach 20, they were all experimental planes, and in the face of several failures, they could not fly far at all. Even the X-43A, which was reduced to Mach 10, was not completely successful, but the current situation is that unknown countries have built hypersonic aircraft that the United States has not made, and the flight situation seems to be stable. What's even more appalling is that the US intelligence services don't have the slightest intelligence on this, oh, at least he doesn't know.

"Colorado, it's going to be here in five minutes? Is there any purpose? The general was lost in thought, but apparently he was not allowed to waste extra time, "Contact the MDA immediately and intercept the target." ”

"Yes, General."

Only three minutes after the order was issued, a concealed missile silo at a nearby ground-based midcourse defense system interceptor missile launch base began to be activated, and a land-based interceptor missile erupted from the silo and flew towards the predetermined position with a dazzling tail flame in the dark night.

On the large screen in the underground command center, the interceptor soared to 4,500 km/h in just one minute through a three-stage booster rocket, and flew towards a red target in the distance as a blue arc on the screen.

In less than a moment, the hearts of everyone present became nervous, and Hilton's palms were unconsciously covered with soaked cold sweat, and his eyes were staring at the big screen without blinking.

It was getting closer and closer, and after a minute and a half, the combined speed of the interceptor and the unknown target was close to the speed of 17,000 kilometers per hour, which was fourteen times the speed of sound.

At this point, the interceptor will use its huge habitual momentum to approach the interception target, and its infrared detector will also be turned on to scan the target area, but unfortunately nothing will be found, but fortunately, there is satellite data from outside the sky, and it is not afraid of this little failure.

It's close, it's close, the distance is only a few tens of kilometers, and at such a speed, in a few seconds the target is about to be destroyed by the interceptor, but ......

"What's going on?"

The technicians present were startled, dumbfounded to see the target suddenly change direction, climb towards the sky at 45 degrees, and accelerate to Mach 8 in an instant, narrowly avoiding the interceptor that rushed over.

"Bastard!"

Hilton slapped the table and stood up angrily, things really weren't that simple, the target was not a ballistic missile that flew rigidly according to a predetermined orbit, but a man-made unidentified aerial vehicle, and wanted to use the current interceptor to intercept such a target, Raytheon didn't take this into account when it made the interceptor.

So, what should we do now? Interceptors are useless against targets, what else can the US military do? With an immature solid-state laser weapon system? That thing can't even hit their own plane right now, let alone this unidentified aerial vehicle.

"Keep tracking my target." Hilton said unwillingly, giving orders to his subordinates, now it is only like this, when will the powerful United States be reduced to this point where it can only watch its opponent but have no choice?

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