Chapter 521 Star Wars Project
The problems in the Far East and the Middle East can be solved directly by using force, but the problems in Western Europe cannot be solved directly by using force. Under the aggressive offensive of the Soviet Union, the people of Western Europe can only have a future if they stick together.
At this time, the only way is to divide them from within! The Americans of later generations have given an accurate answer to how to do it. The situation in Europe in later generations was completely planned by the United States. For the disobedient younger brothers, the United States' methods are also extremely sinister.
And now, hearing Andre's words, everyone smiled. When it comes to fighting, Andre has proved his strength, and when it comes to conspiracy, no one present can compare to Andre.
Using oil as a weapon can cause an economic crisis in Europe. Coupled with these refugees causing trouble, Europe is unable to take care of itself. Can it still respond to the call of the United States and travel all the way to the Middle East to fight?
"Vitaly, the KGB must pay great attention to this matter and push forward it," Andropov said to the KGB chairman present.
Vitali nodded: "General Andre, we have a pleasant cooperation."
Don’t Westerners advocate democracy and freedom? Let them taste the bitter fruit themselves!
"Andrei, do you have any other ideas?" Andropov asked.
"In the past few months, the United States has not made any major moves. However, after Reagan takes office, there will definitely be all-round actions, and we must pay great attention to them." Andre said: "In addition to the possibility that the Americans may continue to stir up trouble in the Middle East militarily, the American economic moves are even more worthy of our attention."
After all, after Andre's disruption in the past few years, the United States is not as strong as it was in history, especially the U.S. economy, which is a mess. After several wars, the United States has to spend a lot of military expenditures. Since the island nation turned to the Soviet Union, the domestic economy of the United States has suffered a great blow. Although the United States has annexed many island nation companies in the United States, it has not been transformed into productivity, while the local companies in the island nation are constantly growing and developing. Although high tariffs have been imposed, some local products of the island nation have already entered the U.S. market. For example, the game consoles led by Andre, Super Mario and Tetris, etc., are very popular in the United States.
After Reagan came to power, he would definitely restore the economy! And the means by which Reagan restored the economy were also quite peculiar. Andre had already thought of the huge Star Wars plan of later generations.
This is called the Strategic Defense Initiative, which is an anti-ballistic missile military strategic plan proposed by US President Ronald Reagan and was vividly called the Star Wars plan at the time.
The core content of this plan is to attack the enemy's intercontinental strategic missiles and outer space spacecraft in outer space by various means to prevent hostile countries from launching nuclear strikes against the United States and its allies. This includes deploying high-energy directed weapons such as microwaves, lasers, high-energy particle beams, electromagnetic kinetic weapons, or conventional strike weapons in outer space and on the ground to conduct multi-level interception at various stages of the enemy's strategic missile attack. The plan consists of two parts: the "Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Defense Program" and the "Anti-Satellite Program." Use conventional warheads or directed weapons to attack strategic missiles during the launch and atmospheric penetration stages. Although it has been proven in later generations that this plan was actually a scam, which successfully dragged down the Soviet Union and pulled the Soviet Union, whose economy was deteriorating at the time, into the space race, this plan still has many advanced features, which is why Andre dared to bring it out.
"In order to disrupt the Americans' various plans for economic recovery, I think we can play to our strengths and launch a Star Wars plan," Andre said, "pulling our Cold War confrontation into space."
Star Wars plan! Hearing Andrei's words, everyone's attention was drawn to it. Ustinov said to Andrei: "Andrei, what did you say? Which planet are you going to?"
"Of course it's our Earth." Andre said, "Now, both the United States and the Soviet Union have a large number of nuclear warheads, but there are not enough countermeasures. So, now it's just a nuclear deterrent. If we develop a new system that can effectively destroy the opponent's missiles during the boost phase of the missile's ascent, isn't this the best way?"
As for anti-ballistic missiles, the Soviet Union actually already had them. In the 1960s, Khrushchev once said, "We hit a fly in space." He was referring to the anti-ballistic missile system that had been deployed in Moscow. However, this system was a tactic of killing ten thousand enemies and losing eight thousand of our own, because it used a nuclear bomb to explode in the air and destroy the opponent's incoming missiles. The nuclear radiation after the explosion would still cover Moscow.
In the final analysis, it is just psychological comfort and self-deception.
Anti-ballistic missiles are almost challenging the limits of human technology. In later generations, the United States is the only superpower, and the ballistic missile defense program it has developed for many years is still imperfect. It does not need to be deployed in actual combat, and even experiments are extremely difficult.
But now, Andre said that the opponent's missile should be intercepted during the ascending phase. In this way, it does not matter even if the opponent's ballistic missile is bombarded with a nuclear bomb, because it will fall on the opponent's territory!
As soon as this plan was proposed, the eyes of many people present lit up.
"Andre, what should we do specifically?"
"It's mainly directed energy weapons that we deploy in space, such as hydrogen fluoride chemical lasers, nuclear energy, X-ray lasers, excimer lasers with space-based reflectors, neutral particle beam weapons, etc., as well as kinetic energy weapons such as non-nuclear interceptors and hypervelocity electromagnetic guns. In this way, when we find the flames of the enemy's ballistic missiles taking off, we can directly use electromagnetic railguns to bomb the enemy!"
Andre's words explained it very clearly, and everyone was stunned. This thing is really powerful!
"Andrei, if we implement such a plan, how much should we invest? What are the chances of success?" Andropov asked.
"The investment is infinite, but the success rate is zero percent," said Andre.
All of a sudden, everyone's face changed again. Andre, even though he has made outstanding achievements recently and has been favored by the General Secretary, he can't play with everyone's feelings at the first meeting of the ZHJ Conference, right?
"In fact, this is a deceptive plan to drag the United States into the space race, drain their national financial resources, reduce their investment in economic recovery, and then drag them down alive!" Andre said, "I believe the Americans will definitely take the bait."