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"We mean to temporarily suspend all cooperation with Konstantin. For his own selfish reasons, he disregarded the national security of the Soviet Union and leaked the most deadly secrets to the West. He even dared to sell out his own country. One day, he may also sell out us."

"Of course, these are just the headquarters' initial thoughts. We still need to ask for your expert's opinion on what to do specifically."

While Lin Kaifeng was busy raising funds and planning the Plaza Accord, an unexpected piece of news interrupted all his work.

General Constantine sent new cooperation information through an intermediary.

General Constantine can sell the Su-27 fighter production line, related spare parts, and engines that Longguo has been longing for.

The prerequisite is that the Dragon Kingdom must first pay General Constantine enough food.

The army group under his command is facing a food shortage problem. If this problem is not solved, other cooperation may be affected.

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General Constantine asked the Northern Machinery Group for a "hardship fee" of US$100 million.

Two million tons of food, one hundred million US dollars.

Once the money and goods arrive, General Constantine guarantees that the Su-27 fighter production line and a series of related technologies can be provided to Longguo before July next year.

General Constantine suddenly changed his mind about the things he had not dared to sell before.

He promised that all of them could be sold and took the initiative to set a trading time.

General Constantine dared to offer such a high price, which showed that this matter was a sure thing for him.

General Liu, together with the staff of the headquarters and the generals of various departments, reached a common view.

The exposure of the five-axis CNC machine tool is directly related to General Constantine.

General Konstantin was one of the top military leaders of the Soviet Union.

Any information that ordinary officers don't know will definitely not be hidden from his eyes and ears.

The fact that the island country secretly exported five-axis machine tools to the Soviet Union was exposed. Not only did the United States feel like it was facing a powerful enemy, but the Soviet Union was also in a state of panic.

At the same time that the United States launched an investigation into the East Company incident, the Soviet intelligence department also began to take action.

The entire incident was handled flawlessly by the Soviet intelligence department, without leaving any clues.

How did the United States know this secret?

What went wrong that allowed the United States to find out the truth so quickly?

All the island country personnel involved in the smuggling of five-axis CNC machine tools were arrested by the CIA.

The Soviet Union followed suit and launched an investigation into those who had access to this secret deal.

As for when the investigation results will be available, I'm afraid only God knows.

After listening to the opinions of the headquarters, Lin Kaifeng said nonchalantly: "Constantine is indeed a greedy bastard who will sell anything for money. The more this is the case, the more we should do business with him."

"For money, he would even sell out the Soviet Union. As long as the money is in place, is there anything he wouldn't dare to sell? If he could extend his hand to the navy, I believe the Soviet Union's nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, missile cruisers, and destroyers could all be turned into commodities and sold."

The opinions of the three-service headquarters are necessary, but there is no need to be overly cautious.

The higher authorities were mainly worried that if the Northern Machinery Group continued to trade weapons with General Constantine, it would be in an unfavorable situation of trying to get the skin of a tiger.

Who would have thought that General Constantine would take the initiative to reach out to the fighter production line for money.

To this end, the five-axis machine tool was secretly exposed to the West.

This move was no less damaging to the Soviet Union than being stabbed in the back by itself.

If the matter were exposed, the Soviet Union would lose its strategic initiative to strike first.

Upon learning that the Soviet nuclear submarines have solved the problem of excessive noise, the United States and the West will definitely launch new defensive measures.

Even though nuclear submarines can come and go without a trace and make no sound when operating underwater.

With the United States on guard, it would be difficult for the Soviet Union to take the initiative and launch a fatal blow unexpectedly.

Lin Kaifeng continued, "Old General, thank you for your reminder, thank you for the headquarters' concern, and thank you for the care of my superiors."

"At this stage, the only person who has the courage to sell us strategic weapons is Constantine. Before I came here, I received a call from General Zhang. The Shencheng Aircraft Research Institute urgently needs a few early warning aircraft to serve as research references."

"What is an early warning aircraft? It is also a strategic equipment. If we lose contact with General Constantine, how can we get an early warning aircraft?"

Hearing the word "early warning aircraft", General Liu was filled with emotion and said: "Early warning aircraft is another weak point of our air force. In terms of fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft, we are still a long way behind the West, but as long as we catch up, I believe the gap will get shorter and shorter. Only the early warning aircraft, the development progress has been stalled for fourteen years."

As a military leader, General Liu knows better than Lin Kaifeng how urgent the Air Force is for early warning aircraft.

no way.

For the two major camps of the East and the West, early warning aircraft are strategic equipment that will never be leaked.

To some extent, the strategic value of early warning aircraft far exceeds that of strategic bombers.

In the 60s, General Liu served as the Air Force Commander.

In response to various problems existing in the Air Force, General Liu decided to solve them one by one, starting with the early warning aircraft. He gathered a large number of scientific research backbones and transferred part of the funds from various departments. The Longguo early warning aircraft project was officially launched.

After nearly six years of research, Longguo has finally achieved some results in the field of early warning aircraft.

By installing the air-to-air early warning radar on the bomber, the first generation of airborne early warning aircraft belonging to Longguo was barely produced.

The maximum detection range of this early warning aircraft is close to 400 kilometers, and it can command six fighter jets to conduct air interception at the same time.

Everything seemed perfect, but only General Liu and the participants knew that the performance of the first-generation early warning aircraft was not as perfect as it seemed, and there were many problems that needed to be solved urgently.

First of all, Longguo’s first-generation early warning aircraft radar technology is not mature enough and its data processing capabilities are backward.

These are just one of the many problems of the first generation of early warning aircraft

The biggest problem is that early warning aircraft cannot perform early warning and command missions on land.

Secondly, the early warning aircraft is equivalent to an air command platform, which needs to stay in the air for a long time to command operations.

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The Long Kingdom does not have aerial refueling aircraft, and is unable to use aerial refueling to ensure that the early warning aircraft can stay in the air for a long time to command operations.

Coupled with many problems with the engine and other aspects, the early warning aircraft can only provide early warning and command within a short distance and cannot perform long-distance missions.

In the 70s, due to funding, technical and other reasons, the development of China's domestic early warning aircraft project came to a complete standstill.

In the more than ten years since China stopped developing early warning aircraft, the early warning aircraft of the Soviet Union and the United States have been updated at a dazzling speed.

Let’s leave aside the United States’ early warning aircraft technology for now and just talk about Dragon Country’s old neighbor, the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union's latest generation of A-50 early warning aircraft was put into service last year.

Its performance far surpasses that of Dragon Country's early warning aircraft.