Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 560

Chapter 560: Chapter 259: Decisive Moment Chapter 560: Chapter 259: Decisive Moment “`

It was already past two in the morning, but five kilometers upstream of Hoover Dam, it was as bright as day. Countless lights swept around, illuminating the area so clearly that every detail was visible.

In the sky above, at least ten F-15 fighters circled in flight. Higher up, several F-22s and F-35 stealth fighters were hidden. Around the outer airspace, dozens of various types of fighter jets were circling. These jets continuously patrolled the skies, and their target was the waters below.

On the highways on both sides of Hoover Dam, more than ten air defense positions had been set up. The anti-aircraft radars inside these positions were operating at full power, and the nearby anti-aircraft missiles were ready to launch. With an order, they could immediately fire all the missiles at incoming targets. Beside these air defense positions, there were also many armored vehicles capable of air defense, all equipped with large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. Further away, there were vehicles with the THAAD system, whose radar was already prepared for battle and would immediately attack any detected target.

In other open areas, a large number of American soldiers had gathered. These soldiers manned the most primitive anti-aircraft cannons, their barrels pointed at the sky, ready to blockade the airspace with their sheer numbers and prevent any enemy from entering.

On the surface of the water in the area, more than a dozen large tugboats had assembled. The lights on the tugboats were all turned on, and strong beams penetrated the water's surface, making the normally pitch-black depths clear. Divers had just surfaced from below and were shouting up to the people on the tugboats.

On one of the nearby tugboats, General Miller, who had previously appeared in Los Angeles, was closely monitoring the situation. After learning that the Destroyer's mysterious aircraft might have crashed here, General Miller immediately handed over the pursuit of the Destroyer and Yan Fei to his deputy and rushed to Hoover Dam himself to recover the Destroyer's mysterious aircraft.

To ensure the success of this aircraft recovery operation, General Miller employed forceful measures. In a short time, he had gathered the finest divers in the United States to the area, then utilized the transport capacity of military transport aircraft to bring in the recovery equipment. He intended to use American divers and equipment to bring up the Destroyer's mysterious aircraft.

The US Forces were well aware of the power of the Destroyer's mysterious aircraft and its many special abilities, including the ability to navigate underwater and rise vertically from below the surface. Even though they speculated from surveillance videos that the mysterious aircraft had problems and had likely crashed underwater, for safety, they still amassed a significant number of fighter jets and air defense troops to blockade the skies thoroughly.

This also explained why Yan Fei didn't encounter several US military fighter jets while being chased; the US Forces had moved their main force to Hoover Dam. For this reason, Yan Fei managed to easily escape the US Forces' pursuit in the wilderness and reached the city area of Las Vegas.

With so many fighter jets and air defense weapons in place, even if the mysterious aircraft was feigning a crash, it wouldn't dare to fly immediately after being surrounded, or it would be shot down by various air defenses. It was because of this complete blockade of the airspace that the US Forces dared to initiate the recovery of the mysterious aircraft.

The mysterious aircraft was located 87 meters below the water's surface. Normally, divers wouldn't be able to descend to such depths so quickly, but the US Forces had spared no expense to bring in a deep-sea submersible for the mission, intending to descend below and ascertain the state of the mysterious aircraft.

Earlier, with the explorations of the divers, the US Forces had discovered the drone buried in the silt of the reservoir. When Miller and his men saw the mysterious aircraft for the first time, they were astounded. It was identical to their B-2 Stealth Strategic Bomber, except that it lacked the markings of the US Forces, and it was slightly larger in size; otherwise, it was completely the same.

The B-2 Stealth Strategic Bomber is a strategic weapon of the US Forces, strictly confidential, and off-limits to all non-essential personnel. Moreover, they are not abundant, so General Miller was well aware of the current location of every B-2 based with the US Forces. Otherwise, he might have mistaken this mysterious aircraft for one of their own when he first saw it.

Upon finding the mysterious aircraft to be just like their most powerful B-2, General Miller grew deeply alarmed. He didn't know what kind of force stood behind the Destroyer, possessing such advanced high-tech technology to upgrade the Destroyer's previous F-15 into a B-2. Moreover, the combat power of the upgraded B-2 had increased dramatically, overpowering an armored division of the National Guard in a single strike.

However, General Miller soon came to terms with it. No matter how powerful the enemy force was, it could only produce one such aircraft, which posed no significant threat to the United States. Besides, the mysterious aircraft wasn't invincible; it had already run into problems, resulting in its crash here. Once the United States secured this mysterious aircraft, scientists would glean various high-tech plans from it. Once thoroughly researched and implemented in the next generation of US fighter jets, coupled with America's formidable weapon production capacity, the strength of the US Air Force would surge by more than tenfold. By then, even if all the aircraft of other nations combined, they would not be a match for the US Air Force, which would sweep away all demons and ghosts across the world.

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