I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?.

Chapter 745 Black Conflict
"Misunderstanding cleared up, misunderstanding cleared up!"

No one knew how much torment McMaster was feeling. Only 28 minutes had passed since he was dragged out of the office.

But these 25 minutes seemed even longer than a lifetime. While the intelligence officer was shouting and reporting, he just stared blankly at the quiet sky outside the window.

Without a bright fireball and without the terminal missile warheads, 28 minutes was enough for them to fly overhead.

But the F22 that accidentally passed by told him that everything that had just happened was not an illusion. At that moment, mankind was unprecedentedly close to war, just a little bit away.

Deputy Director Jim couldn't hold on any longer and knelt on the ground, covering his face and crying.

Just now, the Aeronautical Development Commission informed them that Xinyuan had discovered Artemis in an out-of-control state, and asked them for confirmation. NACA immediately confirmed that it was true.

They had already started explaining to the world one by one minutes ago. Both official and unofficial channels were about Artemis's apology letter and the statement that they did not want to cause misunderstanding among all parties. But it was not until now, when the Aeronautical Development Commission agreed to endorse NACA and jointly issue an announcement to the world, that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Such a joint announcement not only shows that the other party understands the misunderstanding, but also can convince other forces to put down their weapons.

As for Artemis herself and how to deal with it afterwards, it has now become a trivial matter.

McMaster sat on the ground with a sense of relief, and ordered his assistant to contact the Chinese immediately to gradually clear up the misunderstanding, but a message from the other party made him jump up immediately, and he shouted without caring about his image:

"Those bastards in the Far East are crazy, I'm going to fire them all!"

Ten minutes ago, East China Sea.

When the front-line radar station saw the dense fleet of planes taking off from the other side, the operating officer at the time did not even enter the highest alert. In his opinion, it was impossible for hundreds of planes to take off from the other side, and there was an 80% chance that they were subject to electronic interference. He simply asked his own air force to quickly go and drive them away.

It should be added here that at this time the Pacific Fleet Headquarters had already detected the signal from the inland long-wave radio station, but the alert was being passed down layer by layer and had not yet reached the front-line radar station.

It happened that an EP3E jammer that had just completed a harassment mission and was about to return took on the job. It flew to the area of ​​the incident with ease, and by the way, planned to see if the opponent was an old acquaintance that it often confronted.

Then the EP3E really saw dense fleets of aircraft taking off from various coastal airports, and without thinking too much, it went all out to carry out electronic warfare.

However, this was completely different from the perspective of our Air Force. The pilots who received the first-level order and almost crawled onto the fighter planes were extremely nervous at this time. The base commander kept repeating "this is not an exercise", and the scale of the dispatch was unprecedentedly large. It was obviously not an emergency drill.

Even the crew preparing to return were ordered not to land, but to wait for the refueling plane or the order to make an emergency landing, and not to return to the airport to die.

When the EP3E was turned on to interfere, the squadron that took off first and was in the process of forming suddenly discovered that it was very certain in the atmosphere at the time: the evil Yankees had torn their faces apart and were launching a tactical raid on our border!
The electronic jammers were definitely providing cover for the F22 and F35 fleets, and possibly the B1B supersonic breakthrough was also needed. Because the Far East Air Force had not yet launched large-scale aircraft at that time, their side naturally believed that stealth aircraft must have been dispatched.

In this situation, the commander, who was also sitting on the fighter plane, thought of the brightly lit city behind him, and immediately ordered the EP3E to be shot down, in order to block the enemy's stealth penetration fleet with all his strength.

Under unprecedented pressure, the three J16s fired two PL2s each and began to perform stealth evasive maneuvers at the same time, intending to buy time for the subsequent J12s. As soon as the EP20E crew turned on the aircraft, they found themselves locked by multiple fire control radars, and the crew was stunned.

No matter how intense the confrontation was in the past, everyone was fighting the "magicians" in a tacit understanding. How come it turned out to be a fight to the death and looked like they were going to be expelled from the start?

Yes, at that time they just thought it was an expulsion signal, so they just made a small maneuver and sent a signal to the friendly forces requesting support.

Immediately, two F15s that were following a night exercise consisting of a DDG destroyer and several frigates received the distress call and turned on their afterburners to prepare to go to the rescue.

However, when they were about to reach the designated airspace, the EP3E signal flashed and disappeared.

With the addition of 6 medium-range missiles, this subsonic turboprop aircraft certainly had no chance of survival and was shot down before reinforcements arrived. It was not until tens of seconds before its death that the crew of the aircraft discovered the missiles and were completely unprepared to parachute, and all of them were buried in the sea.

The fleet that came to reinforce witnessed the entire process of friendly forces being shot down and also heard a few wailing cries on the radio.

Just as they were stunned, the Pacific Fleet's highest combat readiness order was issued, telling them that war might break out.

What else is there to say? Let’s do it!

Even if they didn't believe it, the two F15s could not refute the facts they saw, not to mention that they saw the J16 fleet breaking through at low altitude with great momentum right after that.

The F15 fleet, which was outnumbered, did not try to show off their strength. Apart from leaving two air combat missiles for self-defense, they fired all their other missiles, then immediately dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks, turned around and fled, while desperately reporting the situation to the fleet.

The communication exposed the unknown of this small fleet, and the J16 squadron soon discovered them, especially identifying the battleship Arleigh Burke class, which meant a huge air defense threat and it also had the ability to strike ground targets.

The air commander, who had already gotten really angry, no longer had any concerns and informed the navy of the attack targets through the joint command system.

A 052D that was originally on patrol also strengthened its confidence after receiving the intelligence from the Air Force. With the assistance of the Air Force, it locked onto the small fleet more than 300 kilometers away. At the same time, the anti-ship missiles began to power on and were ready to open the launch silo cover.

If the cross-level command from the General Staff had not been timely intervened, four consecutive Eagle Strike 12 missiles would have been launched.

But this only delayed the launch procedure because the Pacific Fleet's order had not yet arrived!
When faced with four incoming AIM16Cs, our J120 squadron not only maneuvered to evade, but also issued a hunt and kill order without hesitation. The small Arleigh Burke fleet also entered combat readiness and was preparing to launch missiles!

Fortunately, I can only say fortunately.

At the last moment, the Pentagon also contacted the officers on the front line and resolutely stopped their actions. It also required them to publicly report their location, destination and their own status, and prohibited any behavior that might cause misunderstanding.

However, the soldiers on the front line would not easily believe it, or they did not dare to believe it, as more and more warships and planes continued to arrive.

When the news reached McMaster, a confrontation was still going on at the front line at sea and in the air!
(End of this chapter)