"A large group of enemy aircraft were found to appear on the East Coast! The height is 9,000 meters, the speed is 500 kilometers per hour, and the number is no less than 80 aircraft."

When he heard the warning report sent by Wilmington, North Carolina, toward the radar station, Spatz, who was in charge of the Joint Conference, was sweating coldly on his forehead and his heart was beating. Thanks to the results of the last air strike in New York, the United States carried out a large-scale land defense construction system on the east and west coasts, and finally completed the construction of all coastal radar stations. At the same time, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery positions were built. In order to better coordinate and command, the Air Force also vigorously built a number of regional tactical joint command centers, which were called the United Air Force, Army, Police and Volunteer Air Defense Forces in one, but no one knew whether it was effective or not, because most of the commanders who had just graduated from the military academy and had a serious lack of experience.

Moreover, many of these officers have different backgrounds and are closely related to various forces. Although the United States has not announced overall casualties and war losses so far, don’t underestimate the abilities of elites. As long as they are not stupid, they can see clues from the situation of the United States’ continuous retreat, sending the country’s death notices like snowflakes. They also know that the Air Force and the Navy often encounter catastrophes. Of course, they will not let their children die in vain, but evading military service and performing other duties will leave stains on their future life paths. Therefore, the country’s defense, which seems to be less risky, is safer and relatively easy to promote, has become the ideal choice for these second-generation officials, second-generation political officials, second-generation businessmen, and second-generation rich people. They can be both gilded and develop connections, and they don’t have to rush to the front line to die. Why not do this?

Although the senior military leaders of the Joint Association who fought repeatedly and failed repeatedly and fought repeatedly were not very effective in fighting, they were still very effective in making arrangements and maintaining such matters. The two sides formed a tacit understanding. The bureaucrats and congressmen did not hold the generals of the Joint Association accountable. Even if they talked about it, they would say a few words lightly. The latter was responsible for helping the former maintain the network of relations. Those who cannot die must not die, and those who cannot go to the United States will never go to the United States. This is the political correctness of the American elite.

The death of a person of the level of General Roosevelt Jr. is a complete accident, and the deeds of a person with a background like John Kennedy who went to the battlefield to take a chance and save his life are completely rare in the elite circle. Even though they belong to two parties and have completely different political positions, Dewey, who is the president and claims to be a representative of civilians, also appreciates Kennedy very much.

In the view of the Joint Conference, the annoying media always asks the more than 10 million national defense forces and more than 140 billion national defense budgets in the United States. These things can answer their questions well. The newly built facilities, trained personnel and command system alone involve more than 1 million personnel, and this number is far from the upper limit of the Joint Conference.

Germany used more than 700,000 people to build a land defense system. The United States' land area is about ten times that of Germany, and is larger than the entire Western Europe. If it is really built according to German standards, it would be impossible to draw at least 10 million troops. Therefore, the US's local defense system is in a situation of "strong east and west, weak north and south, empty middle". The east coast has the strongest defense capability, and the west coast is a little worse. The border line between the north and Canada and the border line between the south and Mexico is even weaker. As for the vast central part, which accounts for at least 50% of the land area, except for military restricted areas like Oak Ridge and there is a point-like defense system, it is basically unprepared.

Compared with history, the United States' defense capabilities have strengthened many major cities like New York in history, except for 12 radar stations near Long Island, there are no means to comprehensively prevent air strikes. The forced New York City government launched a mafia to monitor ports and docks, and mobilized 400,000 New York citizens to keep a close eye on the air. In terms of air defense level, Chongqing is basically at the same level. The latter has a relatively large number of underground air defense bunkers, and New York has relatively many fighter jets.

Horitiki's air strike on New York did not have a particularly significant impact on New York. In addition to the Statue of Liberty, other damages were basically restored within 36 months. However, the shock in the United States lasted for a long time. The strengthened land defense restrained at least 1 million US military forces and more than 20 billion US dollars. This is much more expensive than the combined cost of all the main ships that the two fleets in the Pacific and Atlantic fleets had at their peak in the pre-war heyday.

Spatz had just mobilized some aviation forces and was preparing to attack the German troops in Bermuda tomorrow morning, but he didn't expect that the enemy would continue to follow him unyieldingly.

Seeing his uncomfortable look, Clark asked, "How far is there?"

“It is still 195 kilometers away from the East Coast.”

"Do you know their goals?"

"I can't see it for the time being!"

"Can't you tell?" Clark gasped for a while, "The Air Force is waiting for nothing?"

MacArthur stated: "They must have come to Oak Ridge! They are going to launch the third round of attack!"

"This may not be." Spatz shook his head, "The straight-line distance from Bermuda to Oak Ridge is more than 2,100 kilometers!"

Turner asked: "The Germans don't have such a far plane?"

"Yes! But the Germans don't have fighter jets that far away! Not to mention that the Germans don't have them, there is no country in the world!"

"Damn, who said that fighters must be accompanied by them? Wouldn't there be no escort combat?" Turner said anxiously, "Didn't we do this?"

Spatz glared at Turner with dissatisfaction: If the latter hadn't played the bad idea of ​​escort combat, how could the Land Airlines bombers and crew suffer such heavy losses?

Nimitz shook his head in his heart: Going more than 2,000 kilometers deep to carry out escort operations, is it all German suicide squads? It is not enough for the Germans to send a ground suicide squad to Oak Ridge, but now they are coming from the air again?

"No matter what their target is, at least we should intercept it, right?" Spruins frowned.

"Anyway, send a plane to intercept it, you can't do nothing, right?" Turner said with his hands spreading, "Otherwise, I can't explain it to the president and the public."

"I have notified the defenses of nearby airports, if enemy planes lower the altitude and anti-aircraft guns fire at full speed."

"Anti-aircraft guns? The air force only relies on anti-aircraft guns to deal with the enemy?" An angry voice came from the door. This was Dewey's voice. He heard that the situation was urgent, and he gritted his teeth and insisted on running from the hospital. Following him were Marshall, General King and Dulles. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard the argument inside, "Where did those tens of billions of dollars go? Where did those tens of thousands of planes?"

Spatz smiled bitterly: "What else can we do if we don't do this? We originally had less than 300 night fighter pilots. Later, due to the tension in war in other directions, we had to draw these pilots for daytime missions. The original night fighter troops continued to shrink. So far, there are only 120 left in the Black Cat Squadron."

"Have you not trained in the past two years?" Dewey said in disbelief, "I have read the report. Didn't you say that the Air Force has at least 50,000 reserve units some time ago?"

"Yes," Spatz sighed helplessly, "It's a reserve. Except for being able to operate the plane normally, the reserve that can't fight any other battles does not have night combat capabilities. There is no difference between forcing them to take off and forcing them to die."

According to Spaz's few words, everyone understood the whole story: the Air Force did not train night pilots, but had no room for training night fighter pilots. They were selected based on elite day pilots. Now even ordinary day pilots who can fight are short of ordinary day pilots. How could they go for vigorous training? Training night fighter pilots is much more difficult than training night bombers. The latter only needs to fly to a designated position according to the formation, press the electric gate and drop the bombs. Night fighter pilots have to discover, chase and destroy the target, and also need a lot of practical combat and training. If it weren't for the Japanese and Germans who attacked New York, even the only remaining Black Cat Squadron would have been dismantled and put into daily operations.

"Okay, 120 aircraft are just 120 aircraft, which is better than doing nothing." Dewey sighed, "Let them take off."

"Sorry, if the enemy is coming to attack Washington or New York, I may also let the Black Cat Squadron attack. If they want to attack other cities, they basically have no established response capabilities." Spatz lowered his head, "because, the Black Cat Squadron is mainly deployed on the city axis corridor of New York, Washington and Philadelphia."

"You" Dewey lowered his head dejectedly and said in pain, "If you want to use anti-aircraft guns, just anti-aircraft guns, I hope our young men can shoot more accurately."

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