Chapter 976 Sinking `Kirishima`

The second air war in the Persian Gulf finally came to an end in the overall contraction of the strength of the United States. Relying on the only new Patriot missiles left, the United States can defend Udeid Air Base. As for Doha, the capital of Qatar, although it is only more than 30 kilometers away from Udedede Air Base, it is already like two worlds.

The fleet of the United Air Force has fully grasped the air s control over the Qatar Peninsula. The Somali Strategic Air Force, which has learned the previous lesson, is staring at it, making Americans afraid to act rashly.

The aircraft carrier battle group Nimitz, which was swimming in the Persian Gulf, also returned to the Fifth Fleet Base in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, after the air battle. Subsequently, the aircraft carrier battle group will be transferred from the Persian Gulf. For a period of time, with the defeat of the Persian Gulf air war, the strength of the United States in the Persian Gulf will be effectively suppressed and weakened.

Most of the Western public opinion is silent about the results of the air war in the Persian Gulf, and a few have also talked about it. It seems that there is something taboo. The remaining media mainly reported on the Sofa War. The Western media, which mastered the world's mainstream public opinion, tried to reduce the impact of the defeat of the U.S. air war in this unreported way, but other countries are different.

not to mention the Third Economic Organization, Russia and China, the two major countries, have opened a special column in the main media to report on the air war in the Persian Gulf, and even broadcast on the national TV station that the commentator commented on the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides in the air war in the Persian Gulf. Among them, there are many obscure U.S. Military criticism is useless.

The Third OECD won the air war in the Persian Gulf, and then the Third OECD Council cooperated with the royal family in Qatar who had long betrayed the Crown Prince of Khalifa. The Third OECD will support a 'close' regime in Qatar.

... In the White House, the black president's face has become a little more tired and haggard. Although there are makeup artists who can do some beneficial decorations for his appearance at any time, the sense of depression revealed in a person's spirit cannot be changed by makeup.

Just now, at the U.S. National Security Conference, the black president was hit again. Originally, according to his wishes, the United States could not lose the Persian Gulf War. The United States still has to ensure its vested interests in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and that its global influence will not be weakened by this war. According to his idea, the United States chose to ignore the results of the Persian Gulf air war, that is, it did not admit defeat or the victory of the Third OECD. It chose a stalemate to continue, and then waited for time for the United States to reorganize new forces to move back to the losses caused by the defeat in the Persian Gulf air war.

In the inaugural speech of the black president and many subsequent decisions, he has always chosen a different strategy from the previous Bush administration. For example, in foreign policy, he chose not to directly intervene in the military, and use military means as a last auxiliary means to complete the global strategy of the United States and safeguard the interests of the United States. But the air war in the Persian Gulf was like a slap in the face. He had to choose a path similar to Bush's political axe and continue to maintain the state of the U.S. foreign war.

However, unlike Bush's political axe, Bush's political axe takes the initiative to launch a global war on terrorism for profit, but he has to maintain a limited degree of war to maintain the interests of the United States from losses, which is much more difficult than Bush's political axe.

Regardless of anything else, as long as you can fight, you can fight to the end, as long as you can seek benefits for the United States. One is to reduce foreign wars to save the negative impact of the United States' international wars against other sovereign countries, and hope that the interests of the United States can be defended or even more in ways other than the means of war.

When this complex diplomatic axe that needs to be balanced was just implemented, the Persian Gulf War led by the Third OECD put the American political axe in an embarrassing situation. The defeat of the Persian Gulf War undoubtedly touched the foundation of the "global hegemon" of the United States.

At the National Security Conference, several cronies of the black president proposed measures to deal with the current defeat in the Persian Gulf air war according to his wishes, but were opposed by several members.

The reason is that if the United States chooses such an attitude to deal with the situation in the Persian Gulf, it may lead to the third Persian Gulf air war.

The United States lost the first Persian Gulf air battle, and the United States lost the second Persian Gulf air battle. Do you have to lose again? How much international influence of the United States can be discarded in lost wars? Moreover, in the two Persian Gulf air battles, the United States lost more than 100 fighters, half of which were the most advanced F-22 fighters. In less than a month, the number of fighters lost by the United States has exceeded the Afghan War, the Iraq War, the Kosovo War, the Gulf War, etc. The sum of the wars. Direct economic losses are more than 200 billion US dollars, and indirect losses are expected to exceed 500 billion US dollars.

Before the United States can find an effective solution to the threat from the Somali Strategic Air Force, if it continues to compete with the Third OECD in this region, it will only cause greater losses, unless... unless the United States intends to launch a full-out war.

A full-scale war not only represents the participation of sea, land and air, but also represents the participation of more large-scale military forces in the war, but also represents a comprehensive competition in political, economic and other fields. In the two Persian Gulf air battles, the global anti-American front showed the "weakness" of the United States. Even if a full-scale war is launched, it is unknown how many countries are willing to join the United States and how many countries will openly support the Third OECD.

Most importantly, in the face of five countries launching a full-scale war, even the United States will lose control and dominance over the war, which will easily get out of control and go to nuclear war.

If it were in the past, these national security commissioners might not have thought so. But two years ago, the U.S. military in Afghanistan was attacked by a nuclear attack, and in the current Sofa War, both sides even used tactical nuclear weapons. The current international situation seems to have become different from before after two air wars in the Persian Gulf. At this time, the United States should not choose those 'bold' plans and strategies.

Immediately after that, the U.S. Congress rejected the Air Force's proposal to purchase 200 more F-22 fighters, on the grounds that the F-22 fighters are no longer adapted to the current air combat mode, and the purchase of such a 'backward' fighter can only waste taxpayers' money.

However, Congress passed another proposal submitted by the political axe, which is to increase the allocation of $50 billion and invest it in the "Goddess of Dawn" plan to develop the United States' own "nuclear-powered fighter".

'Goddess of Dawn', a secret research plan to develop a new generation of U.S. strategic reconnaissance aircraft, was valued by the U.S. political axe and Congress after experiencing the Persian Gulf air war and the overwhelming advantage of the Somali strategic air force over the U.S. Air Force. According to the original "Goddess of Dawn" development plan, much of the data of the Goddess of Dawn strategic reconnaissance aircraft is the same as that of the Somali "Eagle" fighter, but one is a reconnaissance aircraft/bomber combination, one is a fighter/bomber combination, one is a super-burning pulse engine, and the other is a nuclear power used. The gap between the two. It's still big. The United States is now in urgent need of a new type of aircraft that can compete with the Somali Condor fighters and to maintain the leading position of the U.S. Air Force.

In the office of the President of the White House, in front of the black president is sitting the Secretary of State, the former first lady in American politics.

At the national security meeting just now, the Secretary of State did not choose to support him, so his will was not approved. At this time, the black president wants to understand the true attitude and thoughts of the Secretary of State, and also intends to convince her.

However, the result of this conversation was very strange. The President did not convince the Secretary of State, but was persuaded by the Secretary of State.

There is no other reason for persuasion. There is only one thing, that is, the current out-of-control Sofa war is the first thing the United States needs to face, otherwise the nuclear war is in front of us. Once a nuclear war breaks out, everything is empty, and whether it can survive is the most important thing. The U.S. political axe should now focus on the Sofa War, while in the Persian Gulf, the Third OECD can only affect Qatar at most, while in other areas, the Third OECD does not have the strength to drive away the United States to replace it.

After the conversation, the black president held telephone meetings with other heads of state respectively. The discussion was about the Sofa War. During the meeting, the black president did not talk about how to solve the matter after the Persian Gulf War, but mentioned how the major powers cooperated in such a major international event of critical global security. Take responsibility for maintaining global security.

The Sofa War can be said to be an opportunity for the United States to minimize the negative impact of the outcome of the Persian Gulf air war. In this crisis that may lead to nuclear war, if the United States performs well, it can also bring back some lost points for the United States.

While several major powers were negotiating how to intervene in the Sofa war to resolve the nuclear crisis, a shocking news came again.

... A silver-gray destroyer is breaking through the waves on the sea north of the Persian Gulf, near the sea 60 nautical miles southwest of the port of Aden in Yemen.

There is a solar flag hanging on this destroyer, which represents the identity of the destroyer. This is a Japanese-based missile destroyer, which is the King Kong-class Kirishima missile destroyer.

When France was attacking Somalia, the Kirishima tried to approach the mainland of the Somali peninsula, but had to wander overseas under the threat of a large number of "seagull" attack aircraft of the Somali naval aviation. But when France dropped two neutron bombs in Somalia, the destroyer immediately received orders from the country and hurriedly left for the northwest.

It is said that no one can beat my ability to know the current affairs. If I know it is not good, I quickly put on the attitude that I am a soy sauce.

As the captain of the destroyer, Kazuo Yamamoto felt very humiliated by this. He used to be an imperial navy, and even a long and short navy of the U.S. Navy. But it's too shameful to be scared away by the invisible action of the 'enemy'.

"Discover the target... coordinates... 20 knots, heading to the northwest!"

At a height of 35 kilometers of Kirishima, covered by clouds, two Somali strategic air force "Eagle" fighters targeted Kirishima like ghosts.

"'Cobra' calls 'Snake King'... 'Cobra' calls 'Snake King', publish the target... Request to fire. It's over!"

"Allow to fire, OVER!"

(to be continued)