Chapter 721 Golden Eagle Attacker

Due to the shutdown of Ethiopia's border troops, Li Mo's 'Ogaden counterattack' plan also had to stay on paper because of its covert cooperation with Huaxia, and its implementation was postponed indefinitely.

A week later, Somalia and Huaxia Zheng Axe reached a loan agreement. Huaxia Zheng Axe provided a $5 billion interest-free loan to Somali Zheng Axe, which was divided into ten years to repay.

Of course, this is only revealed to the outside world. In the specific agreement, there are still many exchanges of interests that are not foreign.

After receiving this fund, the Somali political axe left one-fifth to be charged to the treasury, and the remaining $4 billion was handed over to the Star Group.

At the same time, a large team of railway experts arrived in Somalia from China to survey the topography and geology of the Badada-Baidoa-Mogadishu railway. According to the agreement, the railway will be handed over to the construction of the China Railway Department, and the funds will be allocated from the amount of the loan.

The Second East Africa War did not fight, which disappointed many people and made many people happy. The stability of East Africa does not mean that other regions are also stable.

In Iraq in the Middle East, since Saddam became the leader of the Iraqi Revolutionary Front, he has led the Iraqi anti-American guerrillas to carry out several large-scale attacks on U.S. military facilities and personnel, causing great losses to the U.S. military in Iraq, and nearly 200,000 U.S. troops in Iraq are also strengthening anti-U.S. guerrillas against Iraq. The strength of the team's clearance, the two sides agreed to fight in the southeast and northwest of Iraq. There was no large-scale battle, but small-scale cold gun and cold gun exchange clashes occurred from time to time.

Not to mention military actions, the intelligence departments of various countries are also stirring up trouble in Iraq. Some infiltration and spying on anti-American guerrillas are assassinating important cadres of anti-American guerrillas, and some provide military training, tactical guidance and material support to anti-American guerrillas. In short, Iraq is not far from Afghanistan. It's all a dozen in three days and a dozen in five days. Iraq has once again become a red danger zone in the tourism sector of various countries.

In view of the deterioration of the situation in Iraq, the political axe of the United States and NATO have begun to try to solve the antagonism and conflict between NATO and anti-American guerrillas through political means. However, most of the anti-American guerrillas in Iraq are now under the control of Saddam and various troubled forces, who want to pass and I'm afraid it's not difficult to solve the problem by ordinary means.

Although Li Mo did not directly intervene in the situation in Iraq, he did not watch the fire across the shore. Occasionally, he also let the intelligence department make some trouble for the Iraqi U.S. military. As far as he knows, there are several countries and organizations that are similar to his actions.

For example, Iran and Comrades bin Laden are very active in Iraq. In today's Iraq, except for the southern ports with the strongest defense and the strongest military strength of the U.S. military, other areas have become the most fierce place in the game struggle in various countries.

Although the Second East Africa War did not break out, the deterioration of the situation in Iraq also had some impact on international oil prices. However, because the total amount of international oil trade is too large, the deterioration of the situation in Iraq is not very bad.

With the money in his hand, Li Mo was not afraid of some shrinking places before. After inspecting the construction of the Air Force Flight Academy and several important air bases, Li Mo devoted all his energy to the airline industrial park.

With the investment of funds, coupled with Li Mo's recruitment of some technical experts from Huaxia, the first piston propeller attack aircraft was produced at the end of December.

This experimental propeller attack aircraft uses two 'Pentium' air-cooled 24-cylinder piston engines with a single power of 1800 horsepower. The attack aircraft uses high-strength alloy as the skeleton, uses an aluminum alloy fuselage, and is equipped with silicon-uranium alloy armor under the engine and abdomen to enhance the attack aircraft's bulletproof ability against ordinary bullets on the ground and anti-aircraft machine guns;

The attack aircraft is equipped with a navigation/attack radar imitated from the Su-22 attack aircraft. Unlike other fighters, the radar of the attack aircraft is like a long bow Apache helicopter, which loads the radar on the back of the fuselage. The radar shell part uses a new silicon carbide fiber stealth material developed by No. 9 laboratory, which has absorption. Radar waves achieve the effect of primary stealth.

The fire control system is taken from the Mi-24 armed helicopter. The main weapons of the attack aircraft are two 30mm cannons under the nose and two AT-6 anti-tank missiles under the abdomen. Bombs and rocket nests can also be installed. The research department is designing a new missile launch system for the production of naval attack aircraft to launch anti-ship missiles.

The air weight of the attack aircraft is 7.8 tons, the maximum take-off weight is 10 tons, the bomb load is 5 tons, the maximum flat flight speed is 580 kilometers, and the maximum range is 3,200 kilometers. The installation of a secondary fuel tank can increase the range of the attack aircraft to 4,000 kilometers.

It can be said that this is a verification machine pieced together everywhere. Although the results of the current test are satisfactory, it still needs to wait for further testing whether it has the actual combat surname ability.

When Li Mo inspected the flight test of the first aircraft manufacturing plant of the airline and watched the verification aircraft, he immediately produced 5 aircraft for further inspection, and named the piston propeller attack aircraft 'Golden Eagle', and the corresponding naval model was 'Seagull'.

Since its establishment and construction, the airline industrial park has attracted much attention from the outside world. Especially with the gradual rise of Somalia's reputation, the intelligence infiltration of various countries into Somalia has gradually increased. This flight test of the industrial park cannot escape the eyes of the outside world.

Soon, a report on the flight of propeller aircraft in the industrial park was transmitted to the intelligence headquarters and military departments of various countries through various channels.

At first glance, I was surprised to see this information, not to mention the other members of the Third OECD, the 'enemy' like the United States, and the quasi-ally like China.

Originally, all countries attached great importance to Li Mo's actions, especially this aviation industrial park. I knew from the name that it was a military base dedicated to the research and production of aerospace equipment, but I didn't expect that a few months later, I came to such a conclusion:

Aviation Industrial Park is testing a piston propeller aircraft!

There are those who disdain, and those who frown and think. In short, they have disdainful attitudes.

A group of U.S. military generals gathered here at the Pentagon Intelligence Summary Center in Arlington County, Washington, United States of America. The reason is naturally James, the head of the CIA in Somalia. Li's intelligence.

This time, the deputy director of the CIA, Deng Lap, was specially introduced. Other officers were experts from the Ministry of Defense, sea, land, air and aviation.

"Mr. Austin, do you think this kind of propeller plane similar to a light bomber in World War II has a practical surname in modern military?" The question was about an officer of the Ministry of Defense, and the question was John, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force Staff. Austin.

Other officers present also looked at the air force general, who was about 40 years old. When it came to the level of understanding of the aircraft, none of them was more clear than Austin.

On the workbench, there are several enlarged photos with a gray twin-engine propeller plane flying at low altitude. Although no weapons are mounted on it, the two protruding cannons in the nose are so dazzling.

"First of all, I want to show that any weapon is useful, and even a Springfield rifle can destroy the enemy." Austin meditated for a while and made a big joke, but his expression was so serious that he could not feel the smile in this 'joke'.

"From the structure of this aircraft, it is very similar to China's medium bomber B-25 in World War II, and its volume seems to be about the same, so we can estimate that this propeller aircraft has a large range and bomb load. Judging from the more prominent structure under the abdomen of the aircraft, this aircraft is also mainly used for ground attacks. It must be equipped with protective armor. In terms of design, this aircraft plays an obvious prominent role in medium and low-altitude flight... What we should pay attention to is the design similar to the long bow Apache. The other party must have installed thunder on the plane. It improves the aircraft's surface-to-air detection ability and strike ability, but it affects the aircraft's flight speed and detectable area. In terms of the design and structure of this aircraft, we can confirm that it is undoubtedly used for ground attacks. What we need to confirm now is what is the weapon of this aircraft? What is the combat goal? Judging from the intelligence provided by the intelligence department, Somalia now lacks precision-guided weapons except for some of the Air Force Su-27 fighters purchased from Ukraine, and other combat units lack precision-guided weapons. Without precision-guided weapons, the practical surname of propeller aircraft in the military will be greatly reduced, but can't we It is recognized that in Africa, propeller planes are used to attack the indigenous armed forces with rifles and rocket launchers, which has a good effect.

Although Austin explained the aircraft solemnly, because of the lack of sufficient information and parameters, he only made a more objective explanation based on his understanding of the aircraft over the years. But this explanation obviously does not satisfy others, especially army officers and marine officers.

Although they don't understand whether this aircraft is useful or not, Austin has made it clear that the tactical target of this propeller aircraft is the ground forces.

"Is that Chinese general going to use this kind of plane to hit tanks? Hit Abrams? Haha..." An army officer laughed as he spoke, and his tone was full of disdain. He is not arrogant. In addition to the land aviation forces, there is also an air defense battalion in the U.S. Army Division. Take the U.S. infantry as an example, it has 36 Avengers anti-aircraft missile systems and 24 "Fire God" anti-aircraft guns, which may not be used to deal with modern high-altitude high-speed fighters, but it can deal with this low-speed spiral. The paddle plane is hand-to-hand. In addition, the United States has the world's first air force and naval aviation forces. This kind of outdated propeller plane is simply a small ant for the US [***] team, which can be crushed to death at any time.

After the army officer finished speaking, several officers frowned at the same time. They all felt that the Chinese general was not a fool. Didn't they know the strength of the U.S. Air Force and air defense forces?

(to be continued)