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However, some newspapers, such as a newspaper controlled by Arab-Americans, reposted various reports from Agence France-Presse to expose the current government's practice.

In the presidential election of the United States, it is very important to obtain the support of American Jews.There are only 600 million American Jews, but they have the highest voting rate among the minorities in the United States, with a turnout rate as high as 90%. On the contrary, the average American turnout rate is only about 50%.

The Jewish population is relatively concentrated in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, etc., as well as large cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Boston.Relatively concentrated residence, high turnout rate, the state-centered American electoral system, and the two major political parties, the Mínzhǔ Party and the Republican Party, are often evenly matched in presidential elections. These determine that the high turnout rate of the small number of Jews can often play a key role.

Therefore, at this moment, the Reagan zhèngfǔ knew that it was very important to win the support of Jewish voters. In the election of 80, the support of Jews played a very important role. Moreover, Jewish forces also provided a lot of funds for the election. , in the United States, the Jewish forces are a very important group, the Jews belong to the richest class in the United States, 2% of the population accounts for 5% of the entire national income of the United States.About 20% of the millionaires in the United States are Jewish, so that there have been rumors such as "Jews control Wall Street" and "American money is in the pockets of Jews".

Seeing that Mundell made this choice, Reagan knew that Mundell's election would probably be doomed to fail. However, how to deal with the swarm of public opinion is also an important problem they are facing. On this issue, ordinary Americans may express dissatisfaction with them. After all, the image of the Iraqi government is still very good in the eyes of ordinary people except Jews.

"Now, the most important thing for us is to determine whether Iraq has really conducted an underground nuclear test." At the emergency meeting held again in the United States, Vice President Bush said: "Our original purpose is to take advantage of the possibility that the earthquake in Iraq may It was caused by underground nuclear tests to isolate Iraq's international status and prevent a powerful country from emerging in the Middle East. The Middle East is related to our real interests. We must not stand by and see that Iraq's strength will threaten our interests. But now, The development of the situation is very unfavorable to us. The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations is hesitant to conduct an inspection in Iraq, so we need to determine what caused the earthquake in the Bakhtaran area.”

"If it is really an underground nuclear test, it is to prevent it from being discovered by the outside world. Unlike the experiments in the atmosphere, a large amount of radioactive substances are released. Therefore, it is difficult to find that they are carrying out the test except to go there and check the underground situation. nuclear test," Casey said.

"There's really no way?" President Reagan asked.

"Yes," said the Minister of Defense at this time, "we can use reconnaissance planes to detect the situation there, and use synthetic aperture radar to check whether the terrain there is exactly the same as the original satellite map. The people in the group pointed out an exact place. Also, if it was the first nuclear test in Iraq, their underground nuclear test would not be particularly perfect, there must be radioactive substances released, and we can carry high-precision on the plane Dense radioactive detection equipment to check whether there are radioactive residues there."

"Our reconnaissance plane?" Bush asked, "Our Goddess of Aurora has not been developed yet, has it?"

"Without the Goddess of Dawn, our blackbird is still capable of carrying out this kind of reconnaissance mission," Weinberg said.

Chapter 6 and One SR-71 Blackbird

"Your Excellency Qusay, if Israel really agrees to the conditions and accepts the verification by the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency, will our Bakhtaran area really have to be verified by them?" Adnan asked.

Now, everything Iraq does is for the rest of the world to see. They try to put on a harmless appearance, claiming that they are innocent, and even invite those journalists to hang around in the mountains. , hundreds of kilometers away from the real location.

Israel is the shield they held up high. An earthquake happened. Why should they slander Iraq for conducting an underground nuclear test? Isn’t Israel?

Although Israel has never been willing to suffer a loss, if Israel succumbs to the pressure of the United States this time and agrees to investigate their earthquake area, what will happen to Iraq?

At that time, Iraq's international reputation will not be very good. Although it will encourage the fighting spirit of the Middle East countries, no country will applaud except the Middle East countries. France, the Soviet Union and the eastern powers are still secretly supporting Iraq. , when the time comes, I'm afraid they will all change their tone.

"Israel will not agree to the inspection. If they did, they would have agreed a long time ago." Qu Sai said confidently: "One thing we need to do now is to judge whether the earthquake in Israel is real or not." They're conducting underground nuclear tests."

In the following, underground nuclear test?The faces of all the senior Iraqi officials present changed.

One of the important purposes of Iraq's development of nuclear weapons is to deter Israel, but now, if Israel also conducts nuclear tests, the two sides will return to the same starting line again, although in 73, It has been rumored that Israel tried to use nuclear weapons in vain because of the unfavorable situation. However, it is still a mystery whether Israel has nuclear weapons.

"Your Excellency Qusay, are you saying that the earthquake in Israel may be due to an underground nuclear test?" Taha asked, even if he was seasoned, his face was solemn at this time.

"Yes, we have to confirm this." Qusay said, "It's close to the border with Jordan. We will send our technicians to secretly check the groundwater in Jordan and the water quality of the Dead Sea to see if there are any radioactive residues in it."

Originally, Qusay hadn't realized that Israel had conducted an underground nuclear test, which was just an ordinary earthquake. However, when Iraq pulled Israel into the action of US sanctions, Israel The performance is too unusual.

Even if Israel, like Iraq, invited some journalists, it would be very helpful to clarify the misunderstanding of its own earthquake. However, Israel has sealed off the area there, and its behavior is very suspicious.

Maybe, Israel really conducted a nuclear test this time!In this case, Qusay began to plan in his heart, how to use this incident to make Israel notorious!

First of all, it is to confirm whether Israel really conducted an underground nuclear test. The earthquake area is on the border between Israel and Jordan, and there is the Dead Sea next to it. If Israel really conducted an underground nuclear test, then they It will definitely pollute the groundwater, and the most heinous thing is that Israel's doing so is obviously spreading the disaster to the east and polluting Jordan's groundwater source.

"We'll make arrangements right away," Zia said.

Now, Zia has been appointed as Qusay's scientific advisor, and Zia is invited to participate in this level of meeting.Zia knew the importance of it and had to arrange it immediately.

Qusay has already made preparations. If the United Nations really sends inspectors, then there are many mountains in the Bakhtaran area. It may not take a year or a half for Iraq to "cooperate" with them to conduct inspections. , There is simply no way to find the correct location. By then, the international situation will have changed a long time ago.

85 was a very tough year for the American economy.

...... Eastern Japan, Okinawa, Kadena Air Force Base.

Kadena Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force base located in Kadena Town, Nakatou County, Okinawa Prefecture, and Chatan Town, Nakatou County. It was opened in 1944 and was originally used by the Japanese Army Air Corps. At the end of 1945, when the main island of Okinawa was captured, it took over the base and continued to manage it after the war.The base has two parallel runways of 3700 meters, and nearly 200 military aircraft are stationed here. It is the largest air force base in the Far East.It even has the capacity to provide landings for large wide-body airliners and space shuttles.

Now, in an aircrew preparation room at the base, two American pilots are preparing for the flight.

The two stood in the room, watching several staff members help them put on the complicated flight suits.

As an aircraft that can fly to an altitude of more than 71 meters, the speed and height of the SR-[-] Blackbird have already exceeded the limit that the human body can bear. The pressurized cockpit used by ordinary fighter jets can no longer work normally on the Blackbird. Therefore, Blackbird pilots need to wear fully sealed pressurized flight suits similar to astronauts, wear the same helmets as astronauts, and have life support systems connected to the flight suits.

Therefore, it takes a long time to prepare for each flight.

Major Ed Yielding, the pilot of this mission, and Major Joseph Vida, the reconnaissance system officer, are completing the final wear with the help of ground personnel. The humorous Major Ed Yielding also told a joke about the last flight.

"When returning home after completing the reconnaissance mission, I need to lower the altitude and pass a course of a civil airliner, so I connected to the channel of the tower on the ground and said: 'Request the right to use the airspace at an altitude of 60000 feet, over.' (60000 feet, that is, 18000 meters, which is the ceiling of most fighter jets, and civilian aircraft cannot do it at all) Then, I heard the slightly surprised and mocking voice of the tower dispatcher: "How are you going to climb to that altitude?" So, I was silent. Then my companion, Major Joseph Vida, said, 'We're not going to climb to that altitude. We're going to descend to that altitude. over.'"

Before Major Ed Yielding could finish his sentence, he already made a ground worker who was dressing him smile. It was a blonde beauty. Although her hair was covered by a hat, her hair was still exposed. and the two solid balls under the stiff clothes.

"Honey, is this joke funny?" As soon as Major Ed Yielding finished his sentence, the female ground officer mercilessly put on the flight helmet. Suddenly, everything in front of him became dark. This is to prevent high-altitude solar radiation. A coating that protects the eyes.

After finishing dressing up, the two walked towards their landlines.

In the hangar, a blackbird that has been monitored is quietly waiting for them.

The whole body is black. From the appearance, it looks like a big bird, which is different from all the planes. The triangular wing extends to the front through the big side strips. It has two engines and two vertical tails. However, the engine is not arranged at the tail like an ordinary fighter jet, but on the wing like a passenger plane. This is the aircraft that challenges the high-altitude and high-speed limits in the United States, the M3 high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed: SR-71 .

The development of SR-71 began with the OXCART program implemented by the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed-Martin in 1959 to design a fighter capable of high-speed interception at altitudes above 20000 meters. At that time, high-altitude and high-speed were always mainstream. In 1962, the first test aircraft A-11 took flight, and the name YF-12 fighter was used in publicity.However, after a large number of test flight verifications of the A-11 and the fire control and weapon systems installed later, the Air Force believed that the technology of this fighter was not mature enough and gave up the plan. It was only the excellent performance of the A-11 that made the Air Force decide to make it an improved version. Used as a high-altitude and high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft, this makes the SR-71.The fire control and weapon systems on the A-11 also laid a good foundation for the development of the Navy's F-14 fighter jet.

When performing reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 usually flies at a speed of Mach 25000 at an altitude of about 3 meters (it can fly to an altitude of more than 3 meters during the test flight, and it is said that the speed has exceeded Mach 25, but in regular missions , they still maintain this data, because, outside this safe altitude, the engine will shut down at any time).Although at present, the maximum flight altitude and speed of the MiG 71 are already relatively close to those of the SR-25 when performing reconnaissance missions.However, the difference between the MiG-71 and the SR-25 is that the MiG-71, which is made of stainless steel in large quantities, can only fly for a few minutes at the maximum speed, while the SR-[-], which is made of titanium alloy in large quantities, can only fly for a few minutes at maximum speed. The fighter plane maintains such an altitude and speed throughout the mission.

The MiG-25 uses an ordinary turbojet engine, which has been improved for high altitude and high speed, while the SR-71 has two turbojet sub-combustion ramjet combined cycle engines, using a special JP-7 fuel with a high ignition point. During flight, only a part of the air in the intake hole enters the combustion chamber, while the rest is directly introduced into the afterburner to cause a ram effect; the rest is introduced into the exhaust flow to increase the air flow and increase the thrust.

SR-71 has maintained a record since it entered service: it has never been shot down!

Major Ed Yielding, who performed the mission this time, has already had a thousand hours of flying time on the SR-71, and he is considered a veteran among veterans. Therefore, this mission is just a very ordinary flight.

He climbed into the cockpit with the reconnaissance system officer in the back cabin.

Chapter 6 Blackbird or Bluebird

After entering the cockpit, after some complicated preparations, the life support system was connected to the body, the canopy was closed, the pressurization was confirmed to be intact, and various equipment was turned on. Then, with the help of the base trailer, they came to one end of the runway.

At takeoff, the plane carried very little fuel.

The cockpit view of SR-71 is not very good. Compared with the bubble cockpit of F-15 and F-16, the front cockpit of SR-71 has only four pieces of glass, which is not very large. In the rear cabin, there are only left and right sides One piece of glass each, but this kind of aircraft is much easier to drive than a "glider" like U-2, not to mention that there are two powerful engines on the left and right sides.

With the help of ground support vehicles, the huge blackbird started the engines on both sides, and then, under the powerful airflow from the tail nozzle, the blackbird was already ready to move.

"Topol asked to take off," Major Ed Yielding said calmly.

"It can take off. The babysitter has already taken off and is waiting in the reserved airspace." The ground staff said.

With his space gloved hand, Major Ed Yielding released the brake and stepped up the gas.

Like a black eagle, the SR-71 slid down the runway faster and faster, and the 144 kN engine gave out surging power, allowing the 30-ton fighter plane to take off on the runway and reach the predetermined airspace, "Nanny "That is, the air tanker will add more than [-] tons of fuel to them in the air.

"Heading 2-1-3, distance [-], ready to refuel in the air." The old partner in the rear cabin, Major Joseph Vida said.

"Understood," Major Ed Yielding adjusted his course and altitude for aerial refueling.