Chapter 1029 Collision

"What's the matter? In your eyes, it shouldn't be a big deal, right?" Ou Youhou asked in surprise.

"Of course, there is nothing big in the business field. This time, it is a violent collision between China and the United States." Fan Wubing replied.

"What?" Ouyang Xiaowei didn't understand for a moment and was stunned.

Fan Wubing stood up, put his clothes on his arms, and then pulled Ouyang Xiaowei up, threw down the money to pay the bill, and then the two walked out while explaining to Ouyang Xiaowei, "The US reconnaissance plane invaded China's airspace and collided with the Chinese fighter plane that was launched for monitoring.

"Ah! ? "Ouyang Xiaowei was really shocked by the news.

Perhaps, since the embassy was bombed last year, the relationship between China and the United States has been relatively bad. Although both sides have maintained a relatively restrained attitude, what kind of consequences will another collision at this time lead to? No one can really tell.

Fan Wubing and Ouyang Xiaowei quickly rushed to the Ministry of National Defense. After coming here, they found that the security here was strict. After the two of them checked, they let Ouyang Xiaowei stay in the reception room, and only Fan Wubing entered the meeting room of the leaders.

At this time, the atmosphere in the meeting room was also quite tense. The satellite sent The images from the video clearly show that the US reconnaissance plane has landed at the Lingshui military airport in Hainan.

Seeing Fan Wubing coming, a combat staff officer briefly introduced to him some of the things that had just happened.

In the morning, a US 43 military reconnaissance plane flew over the southeastern waters of Hainan Island again. Two J-8 fighter jets of our Air Force immediately took off to track and monitor it.

At 9:07, when our military aircraft was flying normally 104 kilometers southeast of Hainan Island, the US reconnaissance plane violated the flight rules, suddenly turned at a large angle, and hit one of our military aircraft, causing the aircraft to lose control and fall into the sea, and the pilot disappeared. . The damaged American aircraft entered our airspace without permission. And landed at Lingshui Military Airport in Hainan.

The Zhaokou aircraft that participated in the battle was a dual-mission fighter developed and produced by Shenyang Aircraft Research Institute and China Shenyang Aircraft Industry Group on the basis of the name. It is mainly used for national air defense, interception, seizing air supremacy, maintaining air superiority, and ground attack.

The aircraft has been redesigned on the basis of the name, with two-side air intakes, increasing the space for installing avionics equipment, and improving the fire control system, weapon system, airborne electronic equipment and power system, and replaced with a more powerful The engine makes the aircraft have good medium and low altitude combat capability and all-weather interception attack capability. The main onboard equipment instruments include 6 systems, radio compass, radar altimeter, autopilot, etc.

The weapon has a 1.5-millimeter twin-barrel machine gun,

infrared air-to-air missiles, medium-range semi-active radar-guided air-to-air missiles, rockets and bombs can be mounted under the wing, and the maximum level flight speed can reach Mach 2.2.

However, Fan Wubing was also a little surprised. Why did he call himself to attend such a thing?

Just as he was wondering, the Minister of Defense who rushed over urgently began to speak, "This is an American deliberate collision incident! It happened suddenly, what do you think?"

"We should immediately rescue the parachuted pilots and control the damaged American reconnaissance aircraft and crew at the same time!" Someone immediately suggested.

"Will it cause opposition from the Americans and cause accidental discharge? We should still use the national yuan special line to get in touch and then determine the handling method? "This is a relatively moderate opinion of the military forces.

After listening to the brief introduction, Fan Wubing immediately realized that this was a major and sensitive incident. It is said to be major and sensitive because it is the first direct friction between the Chinese and American militaries under the new international situation after the Cold War, and it has caused serious consequences such as aircraft damage and missing personnel.

In particular, this incident also involves major principle issues such as national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national dignity. It is very complicated and it is not easy to handle it properly.

It seems to be an accidental incident, but it is inevitable.

Since the founding of New China, the United States has never interrupted its reconnaissance flights along the coast of my country. Moreover, since the second half of last year, the reconnaissance activities of US military aircraft have become more frequent and closer to our territorial waters. The domestic government has repeatedly negotiated with the United States through various channels, demanding that such reconnaissance activities be stopped, but they have turned a deaf ear and continue to do their own thing.

This time, it finally hit head-on.

The Sino-US relations at this time The climate is very special. During the Clinton administration, after several rounds of competition, the relationship between China and the United States finally entered an upward stage. Therefore, the domestic government also hopes that after Bush Jr. takes office as the US president, Sino-US relations will also have a relatively good development, because his father has a deep understanding of China and he himself has been to China.

But when Bush Jr. came to power, he began to adjust the foreign policy of the Clinton administration, and his China policy also showed strong support. Just a few months ago, in the TV debate of the general election, Bush once repositioned the US-China relationship and emphasized that the relationship between the United States and China should not be a strategic partnership, but a strategic competitive relationship.

From a diplomatic perspective, the meaning of strategic competition is completely different from that of strategic partnership, and the former even has a certain taste of opposition. Bush Jr.'s statement means that the United States regards China more as a competitor than a partner. If this argument eventually becomes the US government's China policy, it will have an adverse impact on Sino-US relations, which cannot but arouse concern.

Internationally. Sino-US relations are a very important bilateral relationship. This is true not only for China and the United States, but also for the whole world. Therefore, the domestic government has been communicating with the new U.S. government to encourage George W. Bush and his new team to correctly understand Sino-U.S. relations and formulate positive and pragmatic policies toward China, so as to facilitate the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.

end of last year. George W. Bush was elected as the 43rd President of the United States.

On the same day, the number one commander sent him a congratulatory message as usual.

Shortly after President George W. Bush took office in February this year, he quickly wrote a letter to Chief No. 1. This letter had a relatively positive attitude. He expressed that the United States is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with China and handle differences with mutual respect and candor.

Director No. 1 immediately responded to the letter to once again congratulate George W. Bush on his inauguration as President of the United States, appreciated his positive attitude towards the development of bilateral relations expressed in his letter, and expressed that he looked forward to working with him to promote the healthy, stable and sustained development of Sino-US relations in the new century. .

End of March. Vice Premier Qian was invited to visit the United States and had direct contact with senior officials of the new U.S. government. President George W. Bush met with Vice Premier Qian and personally expressed that the United States attaches great importance to U.S.-China relations. He said that he himself was looking forward to attending the APEC Leaders’ Informal Meeting in Shanghai in October and Officially launched a visit to China.

Vice Premier Qian's visit achieved positive results and the atmosphere in Sino-US relations has eased.

Against this background, the plane collision occurred unexpectedly. It seems that Sino-US relations are about to undergo another severe test.

There were not many people in the conference room, they were all senior generals. The Minister of Defense glanced at Fan Wubing and said. "Everyone has different opinions! The elder said it before he died. Mr. Fan has an overall view and a broad vision. Do you have any good suggestions?"

All of a sudden. Everyone's eyes were focused on Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing was scratching his head a little. It was really difficult for him to come forward for this kind of thing. The most important thing was that he had too many industries in the United States, so he would offend George W. Bush. There is no benefit at all, but as a Chinese, Zi Xuan can't make any other calculations at this time.

So Fan Wubing nodded and stopped being polite, "Let alone saving people, the most urgent task is to occupy the commanding heights in public opinion and make the incident public! The second step is to organize forces and attack the plane. , get the crew under control and sort out the important parts of the plane and the information as soon as possible. Since the plane has crashed, there is nothing we can do. Now that the other party is on our soil, we cannot let them go easily, except in a humane way. In addition to the crew members, the most important thing is to immediately mobilize experts to conduct research on the aircraft.”

Seeing that some people were still disapproving, Fan Wubing stressed, "Americans are the best at playing with public opinion. Even if we don't announce this news, we are worried that it will affect public sentiment and be difficult to control, and the other party will exaggerate it in the media and on the Internet. . So whoever seizes the opportunity will take the initiative and be able to speak plausibly in future negotiations! As for the advanced equipment on board, when the other party sees that we are trying to seize control of the aircraft, they will definitely do everything possible to sabotage it. Therefore, the attack must be carried out quickly, so that they have no time to destroy it! At the same time, footage of the crew’s life must be recorded through various channels to make the Americans speechless in front of the world’s public opinion!”

After Fan Wubing finished what he said, he won the approval of most of the generals. The Minister of Defense also attached great importance to Fan Wubing's opinions. After talking to the No. 1 Commander on the phone, he said, "General, basically I agreed to handle it according to Mr. Fan’s words, and attack the aircraft first to control the other crew members!”

The next thing had nothing to do with Fan Wubing. Everyone who was supposed to do the work ran to arrange work. Fan Wubing looked around and saw that there was nothing of his own to do, so he said hello to the staff on duty, and then went back Found Ouyang Xiaowei, and the two left together.

It wasn't until the afternoon that he received another urgent call from Boss Zhu, asking him to come over and study the current strategy together.

"It's always hard for me to get involved too deeply in this matter, right?" Fan Wubing hesitated a little after answering the phone.