Hexagon.

It was still morning when the snowbirds were messing up the western Pacific, and it was already early in the morning.

The nuclear war warning or something did not cause much panic here, and the police duty room knew that it was not so outrageous at a glance at the satellite.

When an ICBM is launched, the tail flame has an extremely strong and unique infrared signature, and the remote sensing satellite in the sky will warn it whenever it sees a thing emitting huge heat moving at a speed of several thousand kilometers per hour.

If the trajectory is judged again and the target is highly suspicious of the homeland or ally, it will raise the highest alert.

But the thermal characteristics of the Snow Bird when flying are far from being comparable to the rocket tail flame, not to mention that it has undergone special treatment, and only the closest time it has not had time to judge the Pacific Fleet panicked for a while.

The next few hours were not so much about guarding against a nuclear war as an opportunity to flex their muscles, after all, the airspace of both allies was bruised, and the perpetrators slapped their butts and flew away, so it was impossible to say that there was no way to react violently.

It's like a person who is suddenly taken aback by a prank, and although it is harmless, he must show his teeth and claws to prove that he is not afraid even if he is real.

The impact of the August 12 incident will certainly be extremely far-reaching, so let's not mention the issue of offending the airspace, let's talk about what the "Lost" aircraft is.

No traces of rocket launches were detected, indicating that it was not launched from a rocket, and that it was most likely taken off autonomously from the airfield.

A flying machine that takes off from the airport and accelerates autonomously, from being detected (when it is about to leave the mainland) to returning to the northeast signal disappears, flying a range of more than 6,000 kilometers, with a minimum speed of Mach 6.8, a maximum speed of Mach 12.1, and an average speed of Mach 10.9, what kind of monster aircraft is this?

A few hours later, the intelligence room also began to summarize the information on the Chinese Internet, and found that from Yinchuan to the Jiaodong Peninsula where the "Higgins" discovered it yesterday, people in the inland cities between the two locations discovered the bright spots in the sky and heard extremely obvious explosions.

The distance through the city is about 1,000 kilometers, and considering that Huaguo likes to set up various secret bases in the northwest desert, it means that the range of the unknown aircraft from take-off to return can be confirmed by them is more than 8,500 kilometers.

It is reasonable to speculate that its design range is at least 10,000 kilometers, and a proper strategic bomber can fly directly to North America.

Mach 12 aircraft, low detectability of radar, range of more than 10,000 kilometers, flight altitude of more than 60,000 meters, all of which are indicators that make people sweat coldly.

Looking at the content of Huaguo's report admitting that there are test pilots, it shows that this is not an unmanned aerial vehicle, and the aircraft that can carry people to this indicator will not be small.

When the hotline of the five countries was called last night, all four sides wanted to know what it was, but the Chinese side was very strict, and apart from revealing the key information of "manned," there was only the "meteorological aircraft" argument that completely fooled people, because after all, there is not a small difference between civilian and military planes illegally crossing the airspace.

Speaking of the "weather plane", everyone is quite familiar with it, and Ami also said the same thing when the U2 was shot down in the territory of the alliance.

Although the question was eventually fooled, everyone was very interested in the unknown craft and was doing everything they could to get the information.

But for the Hexagon, the mere indicators that can be confirmed now are scary enough.

The entire Air Force Intelligence Room held a two-hour steering seminar, and everyone was in a terrible silence except for the occasional speaking by technical experts.

Throughout the history of air warfare, at the beginning was the theory of maneuvering in the primitive stage, and later with the maturity of technology, it developed into energy victory, that is, the theory of high altitude and high speed, and developed to the peak in the era of the second generation of jets after World War II.

However, with the gradual decline of high-altitude and high-speed theory with the maturity of missile technology, air warfare has begun to advance towards informationization.

In other words, the reason for abandoning high-altitude and high-speed in the past is because they are not "high enough" and "not fast enough".

The experts from NACA and aviation companies who were summoned shook their heads when they saw "Mach 12", "60,000 meters", "manned", "atmospheric aircraft" and "10,000 kilometers range", believing that it was completely impossible for these five indicators to be combined.

But facts speak louder than words, and they can only rack their brains to think about what kind of technology can do this.

Major General Kairy, whose face was gloomy enough to get out of the water, also knew that the plane could not analyze anything for the time being, so he asked instead:

"Before you ask us if we can build such a flying machine, you tell me how to shoot it down."

The technologists were silent for a while, and then someone said:

"Standard Three has such capabilities, but there are problems with radar guidance, and the enemy's aircraft obviously use a stealth design, although it seems that there are still many problems, but they are still in the experimental stage, and they will definitely solve these troubles in the future."

"Patriot-3 also has potential, the problem is about the same, and THAAD, missiles with anti-missile capabilities are theoretically similar."

“……”

After some discussion, everyone found that although there are many missiles that can be hit in theory, guidance is a big problem, and others must be trying to improve the defects they can think of, and with the natural barrier of altitude and speed, it is still very difficult to shoot down in practice.

Carey: "You're talking about roadbed and sea-based anti-missile systems, can't you shoot them down with planes?" ”

He was not fooled by the fact that these roadbed and sea-based anti-missile systems are expensive to deploy, not to mention the shortcomings, the biggest problem is that it is difficult to move, and their target aircraft can change course at will.

It's a big deal that the planes go around, the earth is so big, it's impossible to stuff Aegis ships and anti-missile positions everywhere.

The best way is to use an interceptor to intercept, which greatly improves flexibility and responsiveness.

This question directly silenced the experts, can intercept an interceptor of Mach 12 aircraft? Then it has to fly to Mach 10 no matter what, how can this be done.

"Perhaps...... Laser? ”

A Raytheon expert spat out a word that made people think again.

It sounds feasible, sea-based, road-based, and space-based laser Aramco are all under development, including projects for missiles, and it should be feasible to use them to fight aircraft.

But the problem still exists, if the laser of this level is roadbed and sea-based, the problem is similar to that of the anti-missile system, if it is space-based and still lacks a carrier aircraft that flies fast enough, the problem is back to square one.

The Air Force Intelligence Office struggled to discuss a response, but was soon aborted by the arrival of an assistant to the presidential office.

The latter walked in and ran his fingers over the NACA specialist, the director of intelligence, and Major General Carey in turn:

"Gentlemen, the president needs an explanation."

(End of chapter)