The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 601 Scale
The US is on a downward spiral that it simply can't stop. The financial crisis has nearly killed them, and now they're stuck with ZTO Express, getting deeper and deeper into debt and receiving more and more funding.

Every year, the US military spending increases, so the country is facing increasing financial difficulties.

Of course, the U.S. Department of Defense made emergency adjustments. Once the F-22 production was finished, that was it. From now on, all the main aircraft would be the F-35.

They are confident that, with the F-22 and F-35 being the only fifth-generation fighters in the world, even if they use the F-35, which has slightly weaker combat capabilities, they can still dominate the world.

So after halting the F-22 procurement, Raiden Corporation hurriedly dismantled the production line. There was no other way; maintaining the production line would cost money.

When the US hastily dismantled the F-22 production line and proudly announced that even the F-35 has overwhelming global combat power, anyone who disagrees can come and challenge it.

Once Raiden dismantled the production line and disposed of it properly—in a way that made restoration impossible—it was too late.

Then our country released a video of our fifth-generation fighter jet's test flight. Immediately, our netizens started to have all sorts of opinions. Some said it was a modified J-10, while others said it was imported from abroad. Only the most daring people would tentatively ask, "Is this our fifth-generation fighter jet?"

Unfortunately, most people don't believe this, because Russia doesn't yet have a fifth-generation fighter jet. After all, among the world's three major military powers, there's Russia and the United States. In most people's minds, our military strength is slightly inferior to Russia's, so if Russia doesn't have it, we probably can't either.

While we were still somewhat skeptical, the Americans were in an uproar; they were quite different from our netizens.

Netizens are just laymen watching the show, while these experts are seeing the details. Just by looking at the general layout of your plane's launch, they felt that this was not a simple matter.

The US intelligence agencies immediately mobilized their infiltrators to conduct a thorough investigation.

Little did they know, this was exactly what we wanted. We had been laying a trap all along. The American dogs started to move, and we were just about to catch them in the act. Thus, the network that the Americans had painstakingly built in our country over the past two or three decades was captured in one fell swoop.

The Americans don't care about these dogs, but they do care about all the hard work these dogs have put in over the years, and their uncertainty about the future. Is that thing really China's fifth-generation fighter jet?

In order to find out the truth about our family, my parents went to great lengths to stir up trouble around us, sending planes and warships over to investigate.

Our family just satisfies his curiosity. Over the years, our aircraft have been in small-scale production for a long time, but they have not yet officially entered service.

When the American planes were conducting reconnaissance flights around our country, our planes immediately moved close behind.

"Nothing at all." The American pilot soared freely in the blue sky, grumbling into the communication channel while glancing at the radar screen.

"We already know exactly what kind of airports China has along its coast. There's no need for us to keep flying around. They couldn't possibly have fifth-generation fighters, God!"

The ground command center immediately asked, "What happened?"

"Two planes are closely tracking my radar over there. Have you detected anything?"

"Ground radar detected nothing." "I didn't detect anything either, but they're right behind me now." The pilot said in a panic, "They're flying very fast, they're really going to overtake me. They're disrupting the airflow in front of my plane, I have to get out of there."

It must be said that the pilot is quite responsible. Although he was trying his best to control the plane and shouting for evacuation, he still took the time to take two clear photos with his camera.

These few photos became their primary source of information for studying our fifth-generation fighter jet.

Through in-depth research and persistent harassment, they finally realized one thing: our fifth-generation fighter jet is more advanced than their F-22.

Of course, this is the perception of insiders. From the outside, they still claim that the F-22 is the most powerful fifth-generation fighter in the world, followed by the F-35. As for the suspicious fifth-generation fighter that has recently appeared in China, since it has no actual combat experience, it is suspected to be just a showpiece, and its power may not even be as good as the French Rafale.

A reporter asked this question at our Ministry of National Defense's regular press conference, and our spokesperson laughed and said, "Oh, right, right, we have no combat experience. We can talk about the power of the aircraft however we want, but we don't know what combat experience the F-22 has."

A reporter immediately pointed out which operation the F-22 had participated in, suggesting it had combat experience.

Our spokesperson couldn't help but chuckle and said, "If I were to fight a baby in swaddling clothes right now and win, would that prove I'm a formidable fighter?"

The reporters burst into laughter. They realized that the Americans had been dominating weaker opponents for decades, but that didn't mean they had any combat experience.

With our spokesperson's joking remark, it's like we've prepared a manual for the aircraft. This is a fifth-generation fighter jet. Even if the Heavenly King himself came, he wouldn't be a modified J-10.

Military enthusiasts are overjoyed! They've been waiting and hoping for this for so long, and finally, they have the most advanced fighter jet. Although it's almost a decade behind the United States, it has finally arrived.

Some knowledgeable military enthusiasts slapped their thighs and exclaimed, "This is incredible! Although our aircraft is almost ten years behind in development, it has many new technologies that the American aircraft do not have. This means that our aircraft are more advanced!"

Ever since the Americans learned that our planes are more advanced, they've been quite uneasy, especially since their president is a newly elected African American, which is really upsetting for them.

He thought to himself, "I am the first president of color in American history, and I am ready to show my mettle and let the white people see what I'm made of. You Chinese have suddenly risen to power, and you're going to teach me a lesson."

When you were under President Bush, you worked together very well, so why are you being so disrespectful to me?

Xiao Hei and his confidants held a closed-door meeting: "Gentlemen, according to the original plan, we were going to implement universal health insurance to solidify my and the party's position. But now that China is rising, it has distracted me. I want to teach them a lesson, give them a warning, and settle things so that I can focus on the domestic situation."

His closest comrade-in-arms, Sleepy Joe, nodded: "That's right, that's something every American president would do."

The Finance Minister coughed and said, "Gentlemen, you must be careful about the scale. I don't know about other areas, but economically we haven't fully recovered from the financial crisis. We need China to provide us with financial support, so we need to win them over."

(End of this chapter)