[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-168":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077947,3287,"Chapter 168","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-168",168,"\u003Cp>The Israeli battle group soon realized they had been locked onto by missile after missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the dense rain of missiles transform into streaks of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than a few pilots screamed in terror:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh God, how many fighter jets does the enemy actually have!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, clusters of orange fireworks bloomed in the mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emitting brilliant light across the skies above Batan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I beg for flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's only motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, the Israeli Air Force pilots realized that the minds of those high-level politicians were utterly idiotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people had actually ordered their air force to assemble and surround the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were preparing for a \"dogfight,\" meaning close-quarters combat to defeat the opponent's F-22 fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, these high-level pig-brains seemed to still harbor impressions of air combat modes from decades ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, close-quarters dogfighting between fighter jets was indeed a crucial combat metric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, aircraft maneuverability was especially important,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and aircraft of that era were basically all equipped with cannons for close-range combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with the progress of technology,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"dogfighting\" has increasingly ceased to be the standard for measuring whether a fighter jet is excellent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent years, Dragon Country air force instructors have even asked their cadets:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why do fighter jets engage in dogfights?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadet: \"Because I have super-maneuverability.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instructor would then say: \"Wrong! Because you are stupid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this remark was made in jest, it revealed, to a certain extent, the essence of modern air combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Air combat will become increasingly boring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because once missile ranges reach over a hundred kilometers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>any aircraft detected in advance will be shot down directly by air-to-air missiles before even spotting the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Future air combat will focus on three aspects:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, stealth and counter-stealth, and beyond-visual-range operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Specifically, this involves three concrete performance factors: radar, stealth capability, and missile performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the role of \"dogfighting\" in modern air combat is diminishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in the future, no one will allow you to engage in close-quarters combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You will either be destroyed from a long distance or destroy others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also why Dragon Country's latest J-20 fighter jet is not equipped with a cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because apart from affecting stealth capabilities, it is purely dead weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the Israeli Air Force felt as though they were suffering an attack from a future air force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They possessed not the slightest ability to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could only be frequently attacked by rains of missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, no matter how they flew, they could not get close to the opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy seemed to forever remain outside their line of sight and beyond their radar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Israeli fighters, whether F-16s or F-15s, were blown up like fireworks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, they experienced the same despair those Ugly Country pilots felt when being hunted in the skies over Syria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short span of time, nearly half of the over hundred Israeli military aircraft vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to attack others, or even know where the enemy was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they instead had to endure being locked onto by missiles, with that hypnotic 'beep-beep-beep' alarm sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with such despair, even some Israeli pilots who had arrived with a determination to die\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>finally found they could not bear it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, they turned their aircraft around and sped away into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even abandoned their planes entirely, ejecting directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in such chaotic moments, no one would pay attention to whether their aircraft had malfunctioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they could survive, that was better than anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people certainly did not want to be blown into a pile of dust by missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And over a hundred kilometers away, Lin Yi watched those fleeing aircraft on the F-22's radar display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a second word, he accelerated directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pursued forward at speeds exceeding Mach 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His code of conduct was simple: since you intended to deal with me, it was impossible for me to let you escape unscathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, as long as he kept this batch of Israel's most elite air force here,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then essentially, the Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all Middle Eastern nations would be completely removed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Israeli military's ability to dominate the Middle East relied entirely on its air force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Israel without an air force was like a toothless tiger;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>although its lingering might might still remain,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>any hope for Israel to restore its status as the little hegemon of the Middle East in the short term\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could be forgotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, whether Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, or even neighboring Jordan\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would launch a sixth Middle East war against Israel remained to be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, soon enough, a replica of the scene in Syrian skies occurred again: the classic moment of one aircraft hunting down an entire air group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time, the location was the land of Batan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as Lin Yi was turning Israeli military aircraft into fireworks one by one,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>suddenly, the alarm in his aircraft sounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi was extremely surprised; there were actually aircraft in the skies over Batan that posed a threat to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he soon discovered two missiles heading straight for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were moving incredibly fast, and the distance between them was shrinking rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Lin Yi was currently using the system's \"Combat Simulation\" function, even if this fighter jet were destroyed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he, as the consciousness controlling it, would suffer no harm whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, if that were to happen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the F-22, which had cost him millions of dollars to purchase, would be completely ruined, and he would have to buy a new one for the next battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that was still a minor issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the DWS platform, which raked in gold by the day, a mere five million dollars meant nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real problem, however, was the consequence if such an event actually occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image of invincibility in aerial combat that the DWS platform had cultivated would be shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if an enemy aircraft truly managed to destroy one of the platform's fighters, they would certainly make a huge spectacle of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, it would not only greatly boost the morale of the US military and Israel but could also trigger a chain reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Lin Yi absolutely could not allow himself to be hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, besides deploying the limited number of decoy flares equipped on the F-22,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his over 5,000 hours of aerial combat experience immediately provided him with a solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directly maneuvered the aircraft into a barrel roll,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>narrowly dodging the first missile, which was then disrupted by the decoy flares and exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when facing the second missile, he simply pulled the nose up, causing the entire fuselage to climb vertically at a 90-degree angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The missile initially missed Lin Yi's plane but then traced a large arc, chasing directly upward after him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the F-22 was equipped with thrust-vectoring engines, allowing it to execute rapid turns at high angles of attack in mid-air,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet since the enemy missile was faster, even though it also utilized vectoring technology, its turning radius was significantly larger.\u003C\u002Fp>",1196,"2026-06-16T04:14:27.492Z","2026-06-16T04:35:02.051Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","85bf4de4a414e519c59cca9b43bdeb40bb35f31ca9fe475985e2c10e9c1f8bfd","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-169","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-167",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]