Babylonian Empire

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This is the famous Hong Kong dollar crisis!

At this point, there is still one month before the outbreak of the Hong Kong dollar crisis.

Zhang Manyu is walking on the streets of Hong Kong. Although she has been here for less than a year, she feels that this place is very friendly. The people here are as yellow-skinned and dark-eyed as she is, although her Mandarin is not good enough. It's pretty standard, but already fluent.

Zhang Manyu is in charge of the sales of Walkmans here, and now the sales volume has declined because Hong Kong's economy is very depressed.

The items that were still full on the shelves have been snapped up by citizens in the past few days. Due to the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, in order to avoid starvation, citizens have snapped up various supplies. The cold winter of Hong Kong’s economy seems to be has come.

It seems that it will be difficult to meet the targets of the Walkman project this year. Fortunately, the sales in the first few months are not bad, and the company's sales in other parts of the world are very good.

Suddenly, there was a beeping sound from something pinned to her waist, and Zhang Manyu knew that someone was calling her.

In Hong Kong, the current pager has begun to be popularized. With this device, it is very helpful to find people who are not on the phone. This is an advancement in technology that changes life.

However, for Zhang Manyu, this thing is just a temporary substitute. When someone calls, he has to call back. Although there are public phones all over the street, it is still very laborious to call. Mobile phone!

Now, the company headquartered in the UK is already developing in this direction. They have sent personnel to conduct a full technical understanding of the wireless phones that have been put into use in Basra, Iraq, and then prepare to imitate and promote them on this basis. Their goal is also very big, hoping to expand to the whole world like the Walkman project!

Zhang Manyu picked up the pager, glanced at it, and knew that the company was in a hurry, so she urged her to go back.

Back at the company, Zhang Manyu saw a few people she didn't know waiting for her.

"Excuse me, are you Miss Zhang Manyu?" a person asked.

"Yes."

"We are here to carry out the Bauhinia Project." The visitor said.

The Bauhinia Project?Zhang Manyu thought: "Welcome everyone, I will fully cooperate with your work."

"First, please find twenty skilled traders. We need to conduct a drill." The visitor said.

"No problem at all."

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Basra Air Force Base.

Here, the most advanced fighter jets imported from Iraq are gathered. F-20 has been installed in several brigades in an organized manner, and the first heavy air superiority fighter, Mirage 4000 Squadron, is also stationed here.

Reyer put on his flight suit, anti-G suit, shiny leather shoes, and a flight helmet in his hand, and once again stepped onto his plane.

Since the Mirage 4000 was equipped in Basra, they have a new mission every day: cruising over the Persian Gulf!

The Persian Gulf belongs to the Arabs, and foreign forces are absolutely not allowed to enter. At the same time, in order to maintain the safety of the waterway, the presence of Iraq is displayed at any time. The Mirage 4000 with a long range is used to follow the zhōngyāng route in the Persian Gulf all the way to Huo Flying around the Strait of Armuz.

After Reyer stepped into the cockpit, the ground crew followed up and helped him fasten his seat belt, watched the cockpit cover slowly fall, and buckled the cockpit lock.

The ground crew removed the ladder, and Reyer began to do a series of pre-flight preparations in an orderly manner.

The whole machine is energized and self-checked. At the same time, with the help of the external power supply vehicle, the two engines at the rear are successfully started.

Reyel listened to the roar of the engine at the back, and his heart also fluctuated accordingly. Reyel had nearly 4000 hours of flying time on the Phantom [-].

For this kind of fighter, he already felt that he was completely integrated with it.

"Skyfalcon request to take off," Reyel called over the radio.

"Can take off."

Reyer let go of the brake, and gently stepped up the accelerator with his left hand. At the same time, his eyes looked at the faster and faster horizon outside the cockpit, and he glanced at the internal instruments with his peripheral vision.

The powerful thrust of the twin engines, although no afterburner is turned on, the speed still increases very quickly. Moreover, due to the use of the full-motion front canard, positive lift can be obtained, which can significantly reduce the sliding distance brought by the delta wing. disadvantage.

After seeing the number displayed on the airspeed indicator, Reyer gently pulled back the control lever with his right hand, and the huge Mirage 4000 flew into the air swiftly, revealing the weapons mounted under its belly: typical air superiority equipment, Two Magic short-range air-to-air missiles and four Super Matra medium-range air-to-air missiles. It is a pity that France does not have long-range air-to-air missiles such as Phoenix. Otherwise, the Mirage 4000 will become an invincible existence like the F-14.

After the Mirage 4000 took off, Reyer retracted the landing gear, made a skillful turn, and started flying towards the Persian Gulf.

Since the number of Mirage 4000s currently equipped by the Iraqi Air Force is relatively small, and they are mainly routine cruises, it shows that the Iraqi Air Force has enough power to defend all airspace in the Persian Gulf, so each cruise is a single aircraft.

Reyer adjusted the altitude and heading, and began to cruise along the centerline of the Persian Gulf.

The pilot is known as the proud blue sky, overlooking the sea from the sky, everything is so unforgettable, Reyel's eyes scanned the sky and the sea, and there was a kind of throbbing.

At this time, in Bandar Abbas on the north side of the Strait of Hormuz, an Iran Civil Aviation Airbus A300 passenger plane No. 155 was carrying more than 200 passengers and flew into the blue sky.

Although we are now at war, the international aviation convention stipulates that no country or government can use force to threaten air transport for peaceful purposes under any circumstances.Therefore, Iran's civil aviation is still flying normally, but the size of the flight has been reduced by half in order to make up the number of people on the plane.

Although the International Aviation Convention has these provisions, the arms embargo of Western countries also includes these parts and components of civil aviation airliners that may be used in the military. The inertial navigation system of this A300 airliner has malfunctioned because it cannot obtain Spare parts, so the crew simply adopted an older navigation method, using the plane's compass to determine the orientation.

However, they didn't know that when the plane took off, the compass also malfunctioned, which caused the civil airliner, which was originally flying to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, to deviate more than ten degrees to the west, and flew into the interior of the Persian Gulf, heading towards Saudi Arabia. Flying in the direction of Dammam Port.

At this time, everyone on the passenger plane, including the pilot and the captain, did not know that they were flying in the wrong direction. Their wrong flight was very fatal to them, because Dammam Port is already a peninsula. An important base for defense forces.And the route they were flying was not open, that is to say, on the enemy's radar, the signal of their civil aviation airliner will be very much like a slow bomber!

After entering the Persian Gulf, Reyer turned on the RDM multifunctional Doppler radar, and the inverted Cassegrain antenna in front began to emit a powerful radar signal, scanning the surrounding airspace.

According to usual experience, the airspace here is very clean, and there is almost nothing to see.

As the light on the radar screen circled along the radius, a light spot appeared on it.

what is that?Reyel was a little curious, and immediately switched the radar to LRS mode, which is long-distance search.

According to the radar signal just now, the other party is still about [-] kilometers away from him. Therefore, Reyer switched the RWS mode just now to this RWS mode optimized for long-range search, that is, LRS mode. This mode is often used to search for long-distance large targets. , such as the opponent's early warning planes and bombers.

The scanning speed of the radar screen was even slower than before, but the information obtained was also clearer. Reyel knew that he was in trouble this time.

Chapter 5 turns out to be a passenger plane!

"Skyfalcon reported to the eagle that an unknown plane was found flying from the middle of the Persian Gulf, heading 3-2-2, speed 450, [-] kilometers away from our plane, and it is likely that the other party's heading is Dammam Port." Reyer Er reported.

Hearing the report, the commanders in the rear immediately became tense.

Something went wrong where it should never have happened, where did that unknown plane come from?American?Or Iranian?What are you flying here for?

"Pay close attention to the direction of the opponent's flight, and be ready to shoot down at any time." The ground ordered.

Coming from that direction, it is flying towards Dammam Port again. The opponent is very likely to be an Iranian fighter plane!Is it because of the escort of the peninsula defense force that Iran already wants to attack them?

"Yes." Reyel immediately got ready when he heard the order from the ground personnel, and adjusted the fire control radar to the single target tracking mode, preparing to guide the Super Matra air-to-air missile mounted under his wing.

At the same time, a missile under the belly of the aircraft has been activated and is ready to launch at any time.

Flight 155 was still flying, and they had no idea that they were in danger of being shot down at any time.

"Sky Falcon reports that the eagle is ready to launch, requesting a lock attack!" Reyel said.The distance between the two sides is rapidly approaching, and will soon reach the distance where missiles can be launched.

Reyel's heartbeat began to speed up a little. This was the first time that the Mirage 4000 entered the combat state, and the first shot down result would most likely be created by him.