The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

This day.

Three fighter jets came through the sky.

These three fighter jets are none other than Seahawk fighter jets.

Three "Seahawk" fighter jets conducted an aerial refueling exercise on Qiongdao, and then flew directly to the southeast toward the target island.

The new directional sound wave bird repelling equipment has been turned on for a long time. In less than a minute, various birds flew away.

The three Seahawk fighter jets had already contacted the command center and began to land under the guidance of radar.

I saw the Seahawk fighter jets starting to land in order and aiming at the runway.

Although the Seahawk fighter jet can take off and land vertically, it can fly directly over the airport and land vertically, but the test pilot did not do this.

With the three "Seahawk" fighter jets landing here, this also means that the "Seahawk" carrier-based aircraft will begin a one-year test flight in the ocean environment.

After completing this year's test flights, the 'Sea Eagle' carrier-based aircraft will conduct a series of tests on merchant ships converted into aircraft carriers.

At this time, after the aircraft was parked, the ground crew began inspection work.

Although this is just an island and a small airport, as the saying goes, although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs and everything it should have here. The entire test field has more than 200 staff members.

The next day, the J-7 high-education aircraft, J-7A high-education aircraft, Eagle high-education aircraft, J-7 latest improved fighter, J-8 latest improved fighter, J-10 fighter, and J-11 fighter arrived at the test airport. These military aircraft all A series of tests in the marine environment will be carried out.

Even two of the ‘Ray Eagle’ helicopters came to the test airfield.

In order to ensure the safety of the airport, Panshan Group deployed an anti-aircraft missile battalion on the island.

Of course, no matter what happens here, Qiongdao Military Airport can take off fighter jets at any time to provide support.

Pentagon.

A meeting is being held in the conference room.

On the projector, it was the military reconnaissance satellite that captured the test airfield.

Satellite photos show the situation of the airport from its construction to the present.

You can even vaguely see planes above the airport.

It’s just that at this time, the resolution of the old and American reconnaissance satellites was not enough. We could only see the runway and the aircraft, but the image resolution was not enough to analyze which aircraft it was.

"Everyone, this is the situation on an island about 300 kilometers southeast of Qiongdao, China. This was originally a fishing island. There are about a few hundred people on the island who make a living by fishing. In less than a year, A runway started to be built here, and at first we thought it was a highway, but now it seems that it is an airport." Leslie Aspin said.

"Sir Leslie, is this a civilian airport or a military airport?" asked a middle-aged man.

Leslie Aspin was speechless. Is this an idiot? If it was a civilian airport, would it go to a Pentagon meeting?

However, despite the contempt in his heart, Leslie Aspin still said: "According to our analysis, it is very likely to be a military airport. After all, it is an island and there are very few people living there. Chinese people can't have too much money and just burn it." Let’s build a civilian airport for these hundreds of islanders.”

"Then who knows, after all, now everyone knows that Chinese people are rich." The middle-aged man 'William' shrugged and said, "I think it is best to send a reconnaissance plane to investigate the situation. If it is a civilian airport, come on our Meetings are such a waste of time.”

William was not a military attache, but a civilian official.

Leslie Aspin said: "William, we are 90% sure that it is a military airport. No country in the world builds a civilian airport on a sparsely populated island. It is a huge waste of money. "

"You said it yourself, you are only 90% sure, which means there is a 10% possibility that it is a civilian airport." William retorted, "Sir Leslie, please understand that that is the territory of the Chinese. We are friends, so don’t treat everyone as an enemy of our United States.”

"There are no permanent friends between countries, only eternal interests! We must have this clear understanding. We cannot take anyone lightly. The British took it lightly in the first place, which was why they lost their dominance of the empire on which the sun never sets and gave us America's opportunity." Leslie Aspin said angrily, "China is developing very fast. We must consider the most unfavorable situation and make all countermeasures!"

William crossed his arms and remained unmoved: "Everyone, our internal problems are very bad now. Three Republican governments have left us with a huge mess. We are unable to use force externally. William Jackson will never allow the military to start a war. "

Leslie Aspin showed dissatisfaction.

"No matter how bad the situation is, we must maintain military spending. This is the basis for maintaining our military strength. Without enough military spending, we will not have money to replace equipment and maintain a large number of military bases." Leslie Aspin was very dissatisfied. .

In February, when the Pentagon submitted its military budget for the new year, it suffered a huge blow and was directly slashed.

The reason is that the United States now has no money and is burdened with huge debts. It has to pay a lot of interest every year and needs to reduce expenditures.

This made Leslie Aspin, who had just been appointed as the head of the Pentagon, very dissatisfied. Military expenditures had been cut. How could he gain a foothold in the Pentagon? Other people in charge can keep increasing military spending, but he is being cut?

If people’s hearts are scattered, it’s hard to lead the team.

Leslie Aspin has been in a very awkward position during this period.

He has no prestige in the Pentagon and the military, and no one listens to him.

Although William’s rank is one level lower than Leslie Aspin’s, everyone knows William’s true identity. He is responsible for supervising them, strictly controlling the military’s military expenditure, and not allowing the military to secretly use force without telling the insiders.

“Why are there so many military bases? Military bases that are useless should be abolished, and important military bases should be retained!” William said indifferently, “As for weapons and equipment, they can be used. Why should they be sealed? The aircraft carrier is obviously in good condition, why should it be retired and sealed?”

Although William has a military rank, he never regards himself as a soldier. He looks down on the US military.

In the Gulf War, judging from the results, the US military undoubtedly won a great victory.

At the beginning, there was a lot of praise, and even praised the US military for finally learning how to fight.

But in the second half of last year, there were more criticisms.

Because of the Gulf War, tens of thousands of American soldiers were killed or injured. The compensation alone is a huge sum, not to mention that some of the American soldiers who were killed or injured did not receive the compensation or were dissatisfied with the compensation and are making trouble.

In addition, there is military expenditure. Various countries paid a large sum of money, and the United States itself also paid a sum of money, but in the final calculation, it was the US military that overspent. Even if the compensation to Iraq is included, the US military overspent by more than 60 billion US dollars.

As for the equipment losses of the US Navy and Air Force, that is also very large.