In the Middle East, old enemies Israel and Palestine rekindled the war. In the early morning of March 22, 2004, Ahmed Yasin, founder of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), was killed in an air strike launched by Israel. Less than a month ago, the Israeli Air Force dispatched armed helicopters to destroy the car of Hamas Gaza leader Rantisi. Rantisi died. Both Palestinian and Israeli sides were at a strife, and the clouds of new conflicts filled the Middle East.

On May 29, an incident of militants attacking foreign oil companies and foreign settlements in Hubair, an eastern Saudi Arabian city. Saudi security forces killed 22 people in the process of rescuing hostages, shocking the whole world. This is also the first time that such terrorist activities have been out of control in Saudi Arabia, resulting in foreigners being attacked. All signs indicate that the Pandora box opened by the Americans in the name of the war on terrorism did not stop as Afghanistan and Iraq were captured, but instead became more and more intense, affecting the whole world. Everyone is in danger of fighting countries following the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Of course, the most troublesome thing is the US military itself. The main battlefield Iraq has now become the base camp of the global "jihadists" against the United States. In order to attack the Americans, Al Qaeda can be said to have used all kinds of terrifying tricks besides head-on combat. On March 2, two Shiite Muslim mosques in Iraq suffered more than ten consecutive explosions, at least more than 150 people died in the explosion, and more than 200 others were injured. This attack is generally believed to be to arouse hatred between the two major Shiites and Sunnis organizations in Iraq, and to make Iraq fall into sectarian vendettas and take the opportunity to break the Americans' strategic layout in Iraq.

The developments proved that this is true. On April 4, Iraqi Shiite Muslims held a large-scale anti-US demonstration nationwide. The demonstrations in the capital Baghdad and Shiite Muslim holy land Najaf evolved into serious bloody conflicts. Iraqi Shiite armed forces began to attack the US team, and the United States suffered the heaviest losses since occupying Iraq.

The worst thing happened. On March 31, four mercenaries from the largest security company in the United States, Black Water, were ambushed while on duty in Fallujah, Iraq. After all, their bodies were burned in public by local Iraqi militants and mobs, and they dragged burnt bodies to protest. This tragic scene spread throughout the world through TV screens, giving the US military stationed in Iraq a blow.

On April 5, the US Marine Corps began a large-scale encirclement and suppression in the Fallujah area of ​​Iraq in retaliation against the locals in which four Americans killed and destroyed bodies, which turned out to be a fierce battle. 133 US troops stationed in Iraq were attacked and killed, making the month the most casualties for the US military since the outbreak of the Iraq War.

The house was leaking and raining all night. Just when the emotional confrontation between local Iraqi people and the US military stationed in Iraq reached its peak, at the end of this month, the US CBS TV station released a batch of photos of US military troops stationed in Iraq torture prisons in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Then a large number of similar news broke out, and a shocking scandal of US military abuse was erupted. Even President Bush was forced to come forward and personally publicly apologized to the Iraqi people for their illegal and barbaric behavior.

The "prisoner abuse" scandal became a turning point in the entire war. It largely destroyed the image of the so-called "messenger of justice" when the US military invaded Iraq. It not only deepened the resentment of the Arab world towards the United States, but also made the international community begin to question the legitimacy of the US military's Iraq War. People at the local level of war were in high demands, and conservative hawkish warriors around the world were forced to begin to lower their tone.

The first reaction of the US military stationed in Iraq in the face of Iraq's dilemma was still the dual upgrade of traditional force and weapons. On the one hand, it launched a large increase in troops to Iraq, allowing a large number of soldiers to go to the front line to fight. Even the reserve troops were required to rotate several times a year; on the other hand, it continued to pursue the use of high-tech weapons to deal with the resistance armed forces. New drones, digital armored troops and others appeared one after another.

Faced with Iraqi resistance elements, the installation methods are all kinds of, and there are endless roadside bombs and explosives, the US military has spared no expense to buy a large number of bomb disposal devices, bomb disposal robots and mine-proof counter-ambuster vehicles. As the designated supplier of the US military, Zhongxing Group, technical equipment such as "Shear-resistant dense liquid" (stf) bulletproof vests, unmanned vehicle control systems and high-energy batteries, has sold a lot of money, which has made many competitors paying attention to Zhongxing sigh that they are indeed inferior to others. They have unique strategic vision, but not arms dealers can still get large orders from the Pentagon. Why is their own company not that far away?

Yang Xingzheng was proudly showing Lin Jiana, who had just received an order for anti-mine counter ambush vehicles of hundreds of millions of dollars, and said: "Now the market is basically the dominant one, and you are considered the queen of arms. There is no need to go to the battlefield to die. Look at how awesome the American Blackwater Company is, but the desperado under his command are still burned into coke and hung on the bridge for exhibition. On the battlefield, you don't have any eyes, so don't do such a dangerous thing, right?"

He said something heartfelt. Although the arms business is very profitable, he knows the dangers, especially when dealing with Americans. In recent years, in order to pursue "zero casualties" and reduce domestic anti-war pressure, the US military has handed over a large amount of battlefield auxiliary work to private contractors. Although it has reduced its own casualties, those contractors are risking their lives!

Lin Jiana has been often in remote areas of Afghanistan and Iraq with her subordinates. She is now covered by the CIA and the Pentagon. She can fight with justice, which is very satisfying to fight in her blood. Therefore, she likes to fight on the front line of the battlefield. Her reputation as the "Blood Queen" in the mercenary world has become more and more popular. But Yang Xing, who is familiar with the direction of the battlefield, is worried all day long. He knows the cruelty of the war and is afraid that this rebellious woman will have a bad situation. This time she came to her to persuade her. Now that her arms and mercenary company business is booming, there is no need to rush in front.

But Lin Jiana was not so easy to persuade. She stared at Yang Xing and said, "Don't you let me take risks? Then why have you recently brought a lot of strangers into our customer service team, some of whom can see the soldiers and blind people. You'd better remind the other party that some things should be prepared, at least you need to train before sending people out."

After hearing this, Yang Xing had to smile embarrassedly and did not dare to interfere. The secret agreement he reached with the national leaders allowed domestic intelligence personnel to infiltrate the US military's logistics support system with the help of Zhongxing employees, thereby obtaining a large amount of first-hand intelligence. However, this opportunity is hard to come by. Now the number of dispatched personnel has become a hot commodity for the domestic major intelligence agencies. It is not uncommon for the military to send its own personnel, but as Lin Jiana reminded, due to the urgent need, many people have become monks halfway through, and the training time they received was too short, so it is easy to show their weaknesses. Fortunately, Lin Jiana, an intelligence veteran, saw the flaws. Although Yang Xing hid it from her, she still reminded Yang Xing with kindness. It seems that she has to go back and rectify it so that all the personnel involved in the plan must receive short-term employee training and cannot make the same mistakes again.

He had to point to the huge monster that was setting up on the sea in the distance to change the topic, "How is it, I'm right to ask you to relax at the beach, this guy is still very eye-opening, right?" Lin Jiana still said tough: "What's the matter? It's not the first time I watched the rocket launch at the Baikonur Space Base in the Soviet Union. Isn't this guy a big rocket?" "That's different. This is the only rocket launched from the sea in the world!" Yang Xing explained quickly.

Now they are sitting on their own private cruise ship, watching the entire journey of a rocket standing on a huge building like a drilling platform on the distant sea surface. Although the sea water at their feet is still as stable as Mount Tai, the rocket is still as stable as Mount Tai. The countdown is coming from the command ship that looks like a luxury cruise ship on the side.

"4,3,2,1..." With a command, a huge pillar of fire rose below the rocket, and rushed straight into the sky like a sharp arrow, and warm applause rang out around. Yang Xing noticed that even the harsh-mouthed Lin Jiana still held her breath when launching, and was fully focused on the rocket's launch. Sure enough, this great engineering achievement is the most attractive.

This is the only sea launcher in the world that can undertake sea-based launch missions. This is the first sea rocket launch this year, because the rocket has undertaken multiple satellite launch orders for Yang Xing's satellite company. As a big user, he can naturally enjoy the treatment of driving his own cruise ship to watch the rocket launch.

The idea of ​​launching rockets at sea has long existed, and there are not too many technical problems. After all, there are dozens of nuclear submarines in the world. If the nuclear warhead is removed, it will be a rocket. Since it can be launched from underwater, it will not be a problem. The marine launch company was established in 1995 and was jointly invested by four companies from the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Norway. It launched its first rocket in March 1999. It is mainly managed by Boeing and operated by other shareholders.

From 1964 to 1988, the University of Rome and NASA launched multiple spacecraft from the fixed platform of the "San Marco" on the Kenyan coast. In July 1998, near the Babylonian waters, the "Jinghai" carrier rocket launched by the Russian "Neomosgovsk" submarine sent two communication satellites into orbit, which is a good attempt to convert military weapons into civilian use.

There are many benefits to launching rockets at sea. The most important thing is that they can ignite the rocket at the best position on the earth's surface. Compared with land-based launch systems, they can significantly increase the payload and reduce the launch cost. However, compared with land-based rocket launches, the technology and civilized costs of sea-based rockets have not been solved very well. It was not until the mid-1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that the Russian aerospace department launched a large number of cheap confidential rockets in order to raise funds, which allowed the sea-based launch company to be established.!~!
Chapter completed!