Chapter 110: The Instigator
“At that time, I think you still need the military headquarters to arrange 50-100 security personnel up there to respond to any possible sudden unexpected situations.”
Liu Shengzhan nodded. 1200 people staying on the Moon for long-term garrison work absolutely needed security personnel. If any accident happened, the losses would be too great.
“Good, let’s set it at 100. Among them, 10 astronauts with professional aerospace knowledge will be retained, and the others will be changed to ordinary combat sequence team members. What do you think?”
“Just follow your arrangement. However, time is quite tight. The space elevator’s test feedback results were extremely perfect. After construction is completed, large quantities of base expansion materials can head to the lunar base in batches along with the construction engineers.”
Fan Ren said this, excitement flashing in his eyes.
This grand aerospace era had thoroughly arrived with the space elevator about to be officially put into use.
“Two hours until impact. Continue monitoring the space station. Anti-aircraft forces are ready. The supercomputer has successfully connected to the command data link. Prepare for test launch!”
As the colonel who had been reporting beside Liu Shengzhan earlier spoke, a screen split off on the large screen.
On the screen, a missile launch vehicle was deploying its support frame, and the 15-meter-long cylinder on its back had already risen high, pointing straight at the sky.
“Target drone in position, ignite!”
Fan Ren saw a large amount of yellow gas immediately spray from the missile’s tail, followed by the missile shooting out of the launch tube.
The instant it left the launch tube, a 10-meter-long high-temperature impact flame jetted from the tail. At that moment, the missile shot into the sky like a wild horse breaking free from its reins.
“Red 9 series anti-aircraft missile, top speed of 1200 kilometers per hour, equipped with kinetic impact module, maximum interception distance of 200 kilometers.”
Liu Shengzhan introduced it to Fan Ren. There was actually a hint of fascination in his eyes as he watched this missile.
Fan Ren shivered. This man truly harbored violent tendencies deep down.
“The target drone used our hypersonic drone, set to a speed of 20 Mach. In the past, there was no chance of intercepting it.”
He paused, then continued: “However, this interception target’s flight route is constant, so the chances are much greater. It all depends on your supercomputer now.”
Fan Ren nodded. He had great confidence in the Xinghai Supercomputer.
“Supercomputer begins taking over missile attitude control. Expected interception of target in 8 minutes.”
Liu Shengzhan’s eyes lit up. As a professional, he was very familiar with the data fed back from the missile on the screen.
After the Xinghai Supercomputer connected to the data link, the missile’s attitude stability and fuel control were far more efficient than before.
Impressive!
“20 kilometers from target. Interception impact in 1 minute.”
Liu Shengzhan’s breathing grew heavy.
Due to the altitude and speed, this interception instant was hard for the camera to capture. Everyone was now focused on the huge radar guidance map on the screen for observation.
“Reached predetermined target route. Radar capture, radar capture failed. Waiting for further feedback from ground monitoring forces.”
Fan Ren laughed out loud.
On the radar, the two fast-moving light spots suddenly disappeared. If the radar wasn’t malfunctioning, then the interception had succeeded.
The command hall was silent until a few minutes later, when the colonel answered a telephone call and showed excitement on his face.
“Report to Commander Liu, ground forces have found crash debris. Interception successful!”
“Good, excellent. Continue monitoring the falling space station. Maintain this operation process and wait for launch timing!”
Fan Ren could clearly feel the atmosphere in the hall become slightly more relaxed because of this news.
He breathed a sigh of relief and followed Liu Shengzhan to the second-floor observation room.
United States, Aerospace Command Headquarters.
It wasn’t just Great Xia paying attention to the space station’s fall process; they, the instigators, were also watching it in real time.
“Report officer, supersonic aircraft detected passing through Great Xia territory. But…”
Auro was in the command headquarters command hall. Hearing the hesitation from the messenger beside him, he frowned.
“But what? Speak!”
Startled by his shout, the messenger no longer hesitated: “This hypersonic aircraft reached a flight speed of 20 Mach, but after 20 minutes of flight, the target disappeared from our radar at 20 Mach.”
After hearing this, Auro pondered for a moment, his heart starting to drum.
Why was Mo Han’s proposed plan adopted? Because the space station, upon re-entry into the atmosphere, could reach a speed of 20 Mach.
And at that speed, no force on Earth could currently guarantee 100% interception success.
Moreover, even if interception succeeded, the power from one or two high-speed anti-aircraft missiles would be very limited.
One must know, the main body of the falling space station had a mass of 10 tons. At 20 Mach, the kinetic energy from inertia alone was over 200 billion joules.
Interception possibility was almost zero.
Thinking of this, he breathed a sigh of relief. Even if a missile interception test succeeded occasionally, so what.
And at the United States General Office.
Wells had no mind for office work in her office.
She had already received the news that the space station was falling along the predetermined path, and the order had been issued by her.
But now, less than 1 hour remained until the final impact moment.
Great Xia had still made no contact or any response actions.
In recent years, Great Xia’s development had been rapid, and its high technology strength had long surpassed the United States.
On this planet, currently the only force she feared was Great Xia.
‘Bang!’
The office door was suddenly pushed open by the secretary. At this moment, this handsome young white man’s face no longer had the charming handsomeness he showed in their private intimate moments.
“President, President. Great Xia has put its entire military on level one alert.”
Wells was stunned. Although she had already guessed this was an inevitable outcome, receiving the news for real still left her somewhat shocked.
“Have their forces made any other moves?”
The secretary was taken aback, then his face relaxed a bit.
“None detected yet, just issued the level one alert notification.”
“Then why are you panicking? Wasn’t this expected long ago? Get out.”
Confidence and composure returned to Wells’s face as she waved her hand.
She also temporarily relaxed in her heart. No actions were good; at worst, she could issue an apology statement as president when the time came.
There were many examples of spacecraft falling into the atmosphere due to fuel exhaustion.
It was just particularly unlucky this time that it hit their space elevator.
Besides, who told you to build the space elevator so high? The impact point was at an altitude of 200 kilometers from the ground.
Xinghai Aerospace Base command hall.
Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the high-speed moving target captured by radar on the large screen.
Fan Ren stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, with Liu Shengzhan equally serious-faced beside him.
“Order, anti-aircraft missile ignite immediately!”
The colonel timed it precisely and issued the order at the 200-kilometer mark.
