Marvel Plane Trader Chapter 296

   Chapter 296 F4 and F22

"Mr. President, what do you mean by Austria?" The Americans reacted very quickly. After discovering the abnormal deployment of troops in Austria, Alfred Maximilian Grunther, who was the Supreme Commander of the European Union Army at the time, The general's phone call immediately reached the Austrian Presidential Palace, and he questioned Karl Renner unceremoniously.

   "I don't quite understand what you mean, Your Excellency the Admiral!" Karl Renner responded with a smile.

   "Your army has entered the bear's territory and surrounded our troops. Don't tell me these things, you, the president, don't know!" Glenther said in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency, I don't agree with what you said. When did our army enter the territory of Mao Xiong... Ah? You didn't mean Hungary, Herzeslovakia, did you? Your Excellency, if I remember correctly, the two This country has always been an independent country, and it has been a friendly neighbor of Austria since ancient times. It is not a bear's territory, and our troops marched into the two countries, and we were also invited by the two countries to fight against possible aggression Those!" Carl Renner said without haste.

"Don't give me these false political terms here, you and I know the essence of the matter, don't you really know that your behavior may completely anger the bear? You will drag the whole of Europe into hell! Grunther slapped the table and barked at Karl Renner on the phone.

"Your Excellency General, we simply want to contribute to the freedom and democracy of our friends. I believe that there is still truth in this world. No matter how tyrannical they are, they can still stop the whole of Europe from yearning for freedom. No way!" Karen Renner said with a mouth full of routines.

"Good, good, good, it turns out that you Austria already think you can represent the whole of Europe to fight against the bears, right? I want to see how you end up!" Grunther was very happy. He was supposed to retire next month. , As a result, something like this happened suddenly, one can imagine his feeling like a dog at this moment.

   "Don't worry about it, Your Excellency! I believe Mao Xiong is reasonable!" Carl Renner said neither humble nor overbearing.

"Hmph, let's put this matter aside for now. What does it mean that your army encircled our army?" Grunther didn't bother to argue with Karl Renner, and instead asked about the three divisions of the US army being captured by the Austrian army. surrounded by things.

"Your Excellency, General, misunderstood. Since World War II, your army has made great contributions to the construction of an independent democracy in our country. Our country is too late to be grateful to your army. How could it be possible to do anything that conflicts with your army? Think about our various military cooperation projects all the time, all of which have made great efforts for the peace and stability of Europe! So the encirclement must be a misunderstanding! All the actions of our army are very normal military mobilization and deployment, There is absolutely no intention of conflicting with you, and some roads in our country have always been completely open to you!" Karl Renner explained to Glenther very "sincerely".

   But Glenther on the other side of the phone was almost fainted.

  Yes, all the roads are open, that is, all the defenses are deployed on both sides of the road and strategic points, and all supply stations are withdrawn, right?

  As soon as the air force approached Austrian airspace, a bunch of fighter jets surrounded it to "greet" and "escort", right?

   Also said that military cooperation projects have contributed to the peace of Europe. Doesn't it mean that the United States has taken so much technology from you, and the favors that should be paid back are almost the same?

   And thinking of those new fighter jets that suddenly appeared, facing the Phantom 3, with various performances that completely surpassed it, Glenther became a little angry again.

  These damned Germans have always been hiding something.

   "What is the name of the fighter you are newly equipped with?" Glenther asked suddenly, suppressing his inner anger.

"Ah? You said that, it's called the F4 Phantom, and it's a cutting-edge fighter that we just developed this year? What? Is your army interested in it? We are happy to share it with your army. Of course, its research and development The manufacturing cost may be relatively high..." Carl Renner said nonsense with his eyes open.

  Grunther was furious again by Carl Renner's words.

   When he doesn't understand the development and production of fighter jets, right?

   This fighter named F4 Phantom is obviously an extremely comprehensive multi-functional heavy fighter. From the completion of research and development to a full refit, it can be completed in one or two years?

  According to the monitoring in the past few days, the fighter called F4 Phantom has appeared at least more than a hundred sorties around the Austrian airspace.

   This is already a very huge number for a jet fighter.

  Even the Mirage 3 equipped in Austria did not reach this kind of number—of course, if you count the Mirage 3 sold abroad, there are at least thousands of them.

   This is not considered a joint venture with the United States, it is only produced by Austria itself for export.

   It can be said that in the past few years, Austria should not do too much in the arms business.

   But even in this case, it is intriguing that Austria can quickly and comprehensively refit so many F4s.

   I'm afraid that F4 has already been secretly built after the Phantom 3 was developed?

"If your country is willing to share, I believe our country will give your country enough compensation!" Although he was already very angry, but thinking of his ultimate goal, Glenther suppressed his temper and said in a muffled voice. Sulky way.

  It turns out that from the very beginning, Grunther's goal was not for Austria to enter Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

  Although the United States was indeed very angry at Austria's unauthorized dispatch of troops, after an analysis by the White House think tank, it actually chose a default attitude.

  Because at this time, although the United States does not want to start a full-scale confrontation with Mao Xiong, it does not exclude people from helping them test the reality of Mao Xiong who has internal contradictions.

  The United States and Mao Xiong in this period are actually far less ambitious than they were in the 1970s and 1980s.

  The hegemony between the United States and Mao Xiong is still in the first stage, and both sides are very careful.

   After all, they have just taken the position of world leader, and have not yet clearly found their own position.

  So in the attitude towards Europe, I dare not be too arrogant.

  As for the three divisions surrounded by the Austrian army, the United States did not worry about their safety at all.

  Because the United States did not think that Austria dared to directly open a film with them after offending Mao Xiong. Its intention was to monitor the U.S. military and prevent the U.S. from forcibly interfering in Austria's actions.

   This is almost obvious.

  So this call, the new Phantom Fighter, is Grunther's ultimate goal.

  Although the performance of Phantom 3 is very good, it is far from meeting the needs of its entire army for the United States, which has a large force, a vast territory, and has to take care of so many allies and maintain its own global strategy.

  So they have been trying to develop a more comprehensive fighter, but because of time, they have not designed a suitable one so far.

  Especially the two companies with the most high hopes, Josie's Boeing and Howard Lockheed Martin, have not taken over this at all.

   After the former was acquired by Josie, it began to make an all-round march towards the aerospace and automotive industries. Of course, the aircraft did not give up.

   Just because of the existence of Phantom 3 and other related models, and the production of jumbo jets, Boeing is almost out of orders. How can it have the experience to build new aircraft? Of course, there are also Josie's deliberate factors.

As for Lockheed Martin, although it did not run to build cars, because Howard has always wanted to compete with Josie, he basically followed Boeing and spent a lot of energy on aerospace. With the existence of other models such as aircraft (C-130), there is no problem with profitability. In addition, Howard has been obsessed with studying the Rubik's Cube for the past few years. Naturally, there is not much energy to develop new fighter jets.

  So only McDonnell Douglas and a few other companies are left that can accept the military's request.

However, due to the brutal expansion of Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the past few years, the business of McDonnell Douglas and other companies has been greatly squeezed, a large number of scientific researchers have also been poached, and the research and development capabilities have been greatly reduced. , Developing a fighter that surpasses the Phantom 3 is really embarrassing for them.

Not to mention that in the past few years, the Continental Group in Josie's hands has continuously released various advanced technologies, especially a series of technological developments brought about by intelligent robots, which directly raised all the technology industries to several levels. As a result, many established companies cannot keep up with the rhythm.

  Take the new F4 ghost in Austria as an example, in terms of appearance, it seems that there is not much difference from the ghost in the original time and space.

  But in fact, the control, electrical, hydraulic, fuel and other systems are not the same as the original ghost.

   Its performance is more inclined to the original time and space, an F4 variant that was abandoned midway—F-4X fighter.

   This is a fighter plane jointly researched by the United States and Israel in the 1970s.

It's just that this fighter, which was supposed to be researched based on F-4, was rejected by the United States because of its long research and development period, high investment, and because the estimated performance is so good that it may affect the F15's arms sales to Israel. stop.

But now the Austrian F4 Phantom has actually reached the performance of the F-4X on paper. Degree of F15.

   But even such a fighter that is so powerful that it can crush the whole world, in the eyes of the Austrian military, it is only a bargaining chip for the Western camp to negotiate.

  As long as the Western camp is willing to pay, Austria will dare to sell it!

  So when he heard that Grunther was interested in F4, Karl Renner was directly happy.

"Of course, the United States has always been a close comrade-in-arms of Austria, and we have always attached great importance to the relationship between the two countries. As long as the price you offer is right, let alone fighter jets, even the corresponding technology and production lines are completely open to you. Yes!" Carl Renner said very emphatically.

  That's right, not only do we dare to sell fighter jets, but we also dare to sell production lines and technologies, as long as you start at the starting price offered by the Americans!

   After all, whether it is F4 or F15, how can F22 be more fragrant? right?

  Yes, at the same time that the Air Force was fully refitting the F4, the Austrian military factory had already started to build the F22 production line with Josie's instructions and help.

  Of course because of the problem of the times, because of the timeline problem in Yuri's world, the F22 fighter technology does not exist.

So the source of Josie's F-22 technology is me, Lawrence of the robot world. In his world, the F-22 has long been a very backward fighter. With Lawrence's energy, I obtained relevant information from the military Naturally, it is not a big problem.

  And with Josie's help, Austria doesn't have to worry about the high cost of the F-22 at all.

  The cost of fighter jets is too high. In the final analysis, the productivity and production technology of supporting industries cannot keep up.

  But these problems are not a problem at all for the Ouroboros organization, which has actually started building space battleships a long time ago.

  Building an F-22 is not much more expensive for Ouroboros than building a large figure.

   And for Ouroboros, providing Austrian F-22 fighters was never the first choice.

  Because whether it is Yuri's world or Lawrence's world, both have fighters that are much more advanced than F-22 fighters.

  The reason why he chose F-22 is that Josie wants to see the pride of America in another world, and become America's nightmare in this world—it's fun, isn't it?

  So the F22, which was eliminated due to excess combat power in Josie's previous life, will appear in this world decades ahead of schedule.

  It is only the current US side, it is impossible to realize the problems here.

  So hearing Carl Renner say so bluntly that everything about the F-4 can be sold, Grunther couldn't help feeling like he was dreaming.

   Is the White House's speculation wrong? Austria does not actually have the idea of ​​completely getting rid of the control of the United States?

   This is too smooth.

   As for the cost of purchasing F-4 technology and production lines, Glenther didn't think too much about it.

  At this time, is there something on earth that my big America can't afford?

   is so arrogant.

   After a few more tentative exchanges, and after confirming that Austria was sincerely willing to sell F-4 technology, Glenther hung up the phone.

   That's the end of his mission.

   Subsequent negotiations are not his task as the commander of the European Allied Forces.

   All he has left to do, apart from reporting to the White House, is to withdraw the three divisions in Austria to the Federal Republic of Germany.

  By the way, the fleet in the Adriatic Sea should also be withdrawn altogether. Anyway, the original fleet stationed in the Adriatic Sea mainly meant to support Austria, and there were not many warships.

   Just be a good friend.

   Now, I can retire with peace of mind.

  Glenther feels at ease here.

  But Karl Renner on the other side couldn't stop.

  Because Mao Xiong, the ambassador to Austria, also came to the door at this time.

  Compared to the Americans who have adopted an evasive attitude in this struggle, the hairy bear is the main dish that the establishment of the Kingdom of Austria needs to face this time!

  (end of this chapter)

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