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Finlay was already impatient to leave. The scene before him seemed like a farce to him. Due to the urgency of time, Jack had not explained the whole story to him in detail.

He only knew that many of Reacher's old friends had died, and the case was related to Congressman Lavoie, and they needed to force his staff to reveal some relevant information.

So Finlay quickly got to the point. "When I entered your name into the system, the local FBI office called me. They sent two agents just to talk to you."

"Damn it." Seeing that things were once again developing beyond his expectations, Boyd covered his face dejectedly.

He was finally sure that the other party was not after his money, but the problem was that things were not as simple as just spending money to avoid disaster.

After Finlay opened the door to the interrogation room, the burly Reacher appeared at the door and extended his hand to him, "Special Agent Jack Mugrave."

As he spoke, he stepped aside slightly, revealing the relatively "petite" O'Donnell behind him, "This is Special Agent Blake."

Finlay, who was forcing himself to hold back his laughter, reached out and shook his hand. "I'm Inspector Oscar Finlay. I'll leave this place to you for the time being."

After saying that, he left the interrogation room and went to the monitoring room next door.

Jack was standing in front of the one-way glass observation window with a cut cigar in his mouth, but he didn't light it. When he saw him come in, he flipped his fingers and handed him another cigar.

"I have completely quit smoking." Although Finlay said this, his body was still honest and he stretched out his hand to take it.

Jack flicked his wrist, and the lighter hidden in his sleeve appeared between his fingers, and then it was lit with a clang. "That doesn't stop you from having one occasionally, right? Believe me, what you're going to hear next will make you need this."

At the same time in the interrogation room, O'Donnell had used his expertise and with just a few words, he made Boyd give up the idea of ​​finding a lawyer. However, when he heard that Reacher wanted to know the details of the "Little Wings" project, he chose to keep silent.

The guy didn't relent until O'Donnell started calling his wife in front of him.

"I don't understand. It's not a big deal. 'Little Wings' is just a code name for a new algorithm that is currently being improved. The air defense missiles that use this program have incredible performance."

"Anti-aircraft missile?" Lei Che was a little confused. If it was just an anti-aircraft missile, why would terrorists need it?

The word "missile" sounds high-sounding, but if the requirements for precision are not too high, with the current level of technological development, enough materials can be disassembled from many civilian equipment to make guided rockets with decent performance or even supersonic missiles that can actively seek out targets.

This greenskin-style weapon may be a bit troublesome against warships, but it can still hit civilian ships passing through narrow straits.

However, once the word "air defense" appears in front of a missile, its technical difficulty will increase exponentially. The number of countries in the world that can produce a reliable air defense missile with their own industrial strength can be counted on two hands.

What's complicated about that thing is not just the stick with fire coming out of its butt as people know it, the entire launching system is the most technologically advanced part.

Important functions such as reconnaissance and early warning, search instructions, target identification and tracking, missile launch, guidance and control, etc. are all integrated into a complete system.

6500 million is indeed enough to buy one or even several air defense systems, but what is the use of terrorists spending so much money on this thing? To protect their own sheepfold?

Such a large device cannot be deployed on US soil to attack civilian airliners. If federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are so incompetent as to allow an illegal air defense missile system to be deployed on the mainland, the country will be completely hopeless.

Not only is this thing troublesome to use, but its maintenance requires a professional logistics team and sufficient spare parts, otherwise it will become a pile of scrap metal within two years.

Lei Che's mind moved, and he suddenly thought of a possibility, "Are you saying that this technology can be applied to portable anti-aircraft missiles?"

"Yes, that's right. The research and development team of 'New Era Technology' simplified the algorithm and shrunk it onto a chip so that it can be installed in a single-soldier portable air defense missile.

This software will allow a specially redesigned missile to break through all currently known countermeasures and achieve 100% accuracy.” Daniel Boyd said with certainty.

"How is this possible?" O'Donnell felt as if he was listening to a fairy tale. As a former soldier, albeit only in the army, he was well aware of how many means today's military aircraft have to counter air defense missiles.

Due to its size, portable air defense missiles have an extremely limited range. Their position in the ground-based air defense system is equivalent to that of close-in defense guns to warships.

Faced with low-altitude surprise attacks from armed helicopters and attack aircraft, portable air defense missiles with a range of only two to three kilometers can only be used for pre-ambush or as a last resort for ground troops to fight to the death. Being able to die together is already a huge payback.

Even without mentioning the range, those large air defense missiles that use vehicle-mounted radar tracking and have a complete set of electronic systems cannot be said to be able to hit the target every time. How can a small portable air defense missile possibly do that?

"You'll have to ask those nerdy guys in white lab coats, all I know is that when they showed us the missile, it flew around a target drone in flight.

After the drone released all of its decoys, the missile recalibrated, turned around and launched another attack.

Daniel Boyd leaned back lazily on the chair after he finished speaking. Then, because his hands were still handcuffed on the table, the posture was too uncomfortable, so he had to sit up straight again.

"They test-fired 10 missiles, and they hit the target every time. It was like the god of death rising from the ground. There was no escape."

Reacher remained silent, so O'Donnell pressed on, "So what was Councilman Lavoie's role in this?"

Daniel Boyd tilted his head as if he didn't understand anything. "The portable air defense missile is just for demonstration, okay? If you want to apply this technology to other types of missiles, or even to improve weapons such as anti-ship missiles, it will require a lot of money.

New Age Technology requires a funding bill, but do you know how many processes it takes to pass a bill? You have to spend years dealing with the whole bureaucratic system full of red tape.

Because there are a lot of laws restricting the use of new technologies, but Congressman Lavoie knows the importance of the 'Little Wings' project to enhancing our future military advantage.

Do you know how panicked some of us were a couple of years ago when all those videos of anti-aircraft missiles that could turn right angles and move erratically appeared online? "

"Are you talking about the demonstration videos of air defense missiles officially released by the University of Tokyo?" O'Donnell had obviously seen some related videos.

"Yes, face the reality. The terrifying red dragon in the East has surpassed us in every aspect. If you choose to sit idly by and wait for this project to apply for sufficient funding through normal procedures, it will be almost impossible."