Babylonian Empire

This is a very divergent way of thinking. The biggest threat to the United States now is still the Soviet Union, which brought down the Soviet Union. How could the United States care about a small Iraq.

"Talking about your Star Wars plans again?" Weinberg said.

Poindexter has mentioned this plan several times, but the president has always disagreed, but he is still working hard.

"We are now in the midst of a cold war. Thousands of nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union are aiming at us day and night. The reason why no one dares to launch them now is because once they are launched, both sides will die together. Moreover, Since the Soviet Union has a stronger nuclear attack force and missile defense capability, our "nuclear balance" situation is easily broken. Therefore, we need to establish an effective anti-missile system to ensure the survivability and security of our strategic nuclear forces. Wouldn't it be nice to have a credible deterrent capability, maintain nuclear superiority, and if we build it up, we'll never be afraid of Soviet nuclear warheads again? At the same time, it's a hugely expensive project, and we have a strong economy and With scientific research strength, limited investment can be made to deceive the Soviets. If they compete with us in outer space for weapons, their economy will be completely brought down."

Everyone here has heard the argument of Star Wars, and they are already very familiar with this theory. However, listening to it today, I always feel that the feasibility is much greater.

In particular, there is a great temptation to drag down the Soviet Union's economy.

"Even if our plan fails to achieve its goal in the end, many of the subsystems will make breakthrough progress, and we will benefit a lot." Poindexter said.

Star Wars takes space as its main base, and is a multi-level space defense plan consisting of global surveillance, early warning and identification systems, interception systems, and command, control, and communication systems.A high-tech group consisting of rocket technology, aerospace technology, high-energy laser technology, microelectronics technology, computer technology, etc.

One advantage the United States has over the Soviet Union is its high-tech advantage. This project with a budget of nearly one trillion U.S. dollars will greatly promote the economy and drive the development of a large number of high-tech groups, so as to maintain the United States in the fields of economy, military, science and technology. leadership in such areas.

Reagan nodded, and finally affirmed the plan. Now, the idea of ​​dragging down the Soviet Union's economy and letting the Soviet Union collapse itself is too tempting.

At this time, neither the Soviet Union nor the United States, or His Excellency Qusay who flapped his wings and changed history, did not know that a sudden and far-reaching event that no one was prepared for happened.

Chapter 327 The Hijacking Incident

On October 10th, the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, Athens, the capital of Greece.

The Mediterranean wind is mild and sunny, the sun is dazzling, and the sky is full of white clouds. It is a good weather.

As usual, Athens Airport is organizing passengers to board the plane normally.

A Boeing 832 of TWA Flight 707 flew from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and will arrive at Athens Airport at [-]:[-] am. Some passengers disembark, some board the plane from Athens Airport, and continue to fly to Rome later.

Eight forty.

"Passengers, please note that TWA Flight 832 from Cairo has already asked passengers to go through the security check. Passengers, please get ready and get on the plane at the third boarding gate at nine o'clock." Broadcasting A soft female voice came from inside, broadcasting in Greek, English, French and German respectively.

Passengers began to carry their luggage and headed for the security checkpoint.

Just after most of the passengers had entered the security checkpoint, two young Arabs rushed over, carrying heavy luggage, out of breath.

The two Arab youths were well-dressed and had a good temperament, but they came in a hurry, looking a little embarrassed.

A tall young man threw his bag into the luggage of an American couple. The American couple gave them a blank look, but said nothing.

The short young man seemed to be taking a plane for the first time, and because he was in a hurry, he seemed very nervous.

His body was shaking, and he wanted to go around the outside of the safety door.

"Passenger, please go through the security door." A beautiful female inspector said.

The young man opened his eyes wide in confusion. The female inspector pointed to the security door, and then he saw other people passing by the security door one by one, and then suddenly realized.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the security door, there was a sharp voice.

what happened?He felt terrified.

"Do you have any metal products on your body?" A passenger kindly reminded: "This is a metal detection door. As long as you carry metal products, there will be noise."

He curled his lips, and took out the metal pen and lighter in his pocket.

"Lighters are not allowed on the plane." The female inspector looked at the ZIPPO lighter and said.

"Then I'll give it to you." The young man continued.

"We can't take things from passengers. We will keep them for you first, and you can come and get them when you come back next time." The female security officer said.

The young man signed and walked over.

"Hello, please go through the security door again." The other party reminded again.

The young man had no choice but to walk over again. Unexpectedly, the security door rang the alarm again.

Something else?The youth was completely speechless.

Suddenly, there was a fierce quarrel outside, and everyone looked over.

It was an Arab couple who had a big quarrel for unknown reasons, and the security personnel went over to dissuade them.

The young man took advantage of this gap, and no one noticed that he had already passed the security check with his own bag.

When the female inspector turned her head, she only saw another delicate Arabic machete about ten centimeters in front of her.

This person is really interesting!The female inspector didn't chase the young man any more.

Boeing 707 is a large passenger plane, carrying more than 200 passengers. Two young people boarded the plane, put their bags on the overhead luggage position, and sat quietly in their seats.

At ten o'clock, the plane finally took off from Athens. There were 4 crew members and 209 passengers on board. Almost all passengers were Americans, including men, women and children. Most of them went to the Mediterranean region for tourism, vacation and honeymoon, and the rest were members of the US Marine Corps stationed in the Mediterranean region returning home for vacation or changing defenses, as well as diplomats, businessmen and technicians working in relevant countries.

The two young Arabs quietly closed their eyes in their seats without looking at the people around them.

After the plane took off, it climbed into the sky and flew smoothly on the prescribed route.

The passengers opened their seat belts and started various activities, some began to eat and drink, some read newspapers and magazines, and some leaned on their seats with their eyes closed.

Stewardesses in uniform, pushing the trolley, began to distribute the candies, snacks and refreshing drinks carried on the plane to the passengers.

"Hello, gentlemen, what do you want?" The stewardess came to the two young Arabs and said in English. She was still a little worried, could the two understand her English?To become a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, you need to know several languages, but unfortunately she doesn't know Arabic.

At this moment, the young man with closed eyes opened his eyes, looked at the beautiful flight attendant, and asked, "Where is the plane now?"

"We are above the Mediterranean Sea. If you are seated by the window, you can see the sea below." The flight attendant said, and she was very happy to hear that the other party also answered in English.

"Great." The other party replied, and slowly took out a handful of shiny black things from his pocket.

The stewardess was about to pass the drink to the other party, when she saw that thing, her face turned pale.

That's a pistol!

"Order the passengers to lower their heads! Hands up!" shouted the young man.

"Sir, you, you are joking!"

"Slap!" A slap hit the stewardess on the face, he showed no sympathy at all, and it didn't match his polite appearance just now.

Another Arab youth also took out a pistol and held a grenade in his left hand. He ran quickly to the front cabin, rushed into the cockpit, and put his pistol against the pilot's head.

Since this had never happened with TWA before, the front cockpit door was unlocked to allow the flight crew to enter.

Although there are four people on their side, none of them have weapons. They know that this time they are in big trouble.