92: Chapter 92 imposes comprehensive sanctions on the countries that sell the weapons and the arms dealers.

Major General Ita watched as only one of the two F-16 Fighter Jets sent for the bombing mission returned, while the other exploded over the border of Lebanon. His head buzzed, leaving him dizzy and lightheaded.

He had clearly ordered the bombing of that area from a distance, but he never expected an anti-aircraft missile to be lying in ambush nearby. The F-16 Fighter Jet hadn't even had time to perform evasive maneuvers before being shot down.

Major General Ita had confirmed that Lebanon's anti-aircraft missiles shouldn't have such a long range, but this incident completely overturned his understanding of Lebanon's air defense capabilities.

Suddenly, he thought of the several fighter jet crashes that had occurred on the Syrian border.

"Could Lebanon also be equipped with that specific anti-aircraft missile? Is Colonel Benny's fate about to repeat itself on me?"

Major General Ita muttered to himself. Although the loss of a drone and an F-16 Fighter Jet wasn't enough to remove him as the head of Harem Air Force Base, it would more or less affect his military career.

Major General Ita quickly ordered his officers and soldiers to collect all relevant data regarding these two crashes, handle the aftermath, and draft an investigation report as soon as possible to report to the high command of the Israeli military while awaiting new orders.

On the other side, Lebanese soldiers had already emerged from their underground bunkers and were rushing toward the F-16 crash site, while some soldiers pursued the direction in which the pilot had ejected.

Although the pilot had landed safely on the ground, he immediately faced the challenge of how to escape back to Israel.

He was still quite a distance from Israel, and under the search and pursuit of Lebanese soldiers, escaping safely would be quite difficult.

The pilot gathered his parachute and discarded it in a valley before hurrying south. However, in his panicked state and exhausted from the flight mission, he couldn't run very far before being cornered by the arriving Lebanese soldiers.

Faced with over a dozen gun barrels pointed at him, the pilot had no choice but to obediently drop his pistol and raise his hands in surrender.

After capturing the pilot, the Lebanese soldiers immediately escorted him to a nearby town. Later, someone would transport him to Beirut for detention, awaiting negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to resolve the conflict.

The collection of the F-16 wreckage proceeded in an orderly fashion under the efforts of the Lebanese soldiers. After all, this was the first time in a long while that Lebanon had shot down an F-16, making it a significant event.

In Beirut, General Moss soon received the report from the Lebanese officers at the border. They had used one Tianlei Type I Anti-Aircraft Missile and one Tianlei Type III Anti-Aircraft Missile to shoot down an Israeli drone and an F-16 Fighter Jet, successfully capturing the pilot.

Upon seeing this news, General Moss let out a rare, hearty laugh.

This was the greatest victory Lebanon had achieved in the border conflicts. Previously, Israel had always held the upper hand, causing Lebanon to lose many military facilities and personnel without achieving any results.

Shooting down two Israeli aircraft this time was completely beyond General Moss's expectations.

He had found it hard to believe when he first heard that Raqqa Military Base used the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile to shoot down USA aircraft, but now he couldn't help but give the combat performance of the series an even higher evaluation.

It seemed that Lebanon would have to increase its procurement of the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile no matter what.

If enough Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missiles were deployed along the Lebanese border, how would Israeli jets dare to intrude into Lebanese airspace so easily again?

General Moss began to envision this beautiful future, but the first problem to solve was the procurement funding.

Lebanon indeed did not have much capital. It seemed he would need to find a way to borrow a sum from the banks to purchase the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile.

As one of Lebanon's main economic sources, the banking industry should support the military in borrowing funds to purchase the missiles, making Beirut safer.

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The high command of the Israeli military soon received intelligence from Tel Nof Airbase and Harem Air Force Base. Seeing that Colonel Yoni and Major General Ita had lost two drones and one F-16 Fighter Jet during this routine patrol, the blood rushed to their heads.

They had already lost two drones and an F-16 on the Syrian border, and now they had lost two more drones and another F-16 on the borders of Jordan and Lebanon. At this rate, how many jets did Israel have left to lose?!

They were especially speechless regarding Major General Ita. After the first drone was shot down, he hadn't even figured out the situation before immediately sending in F-16 Fighter Jets. Fortunately, only one crashed while the other returned.

Otherwise, losing two F-16s at once would be a loss that even the Israeli military, with its large fleet, could not withstand.

The Israeli high command analyzed the two reports and confirmed that Jordan and Lebanon were likely equipped with a new type of anti-aircraft missile. This model was likely the same as the one used by Syria, and possibly even the same model that shot down the USA jets at Raqqa Military Base.

Seeing this missile model appear consecutively in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, the military high command had an uneasy premonition.

Could it be that Israeli jets had no way to counter this missile? Would they no longer be able to roam freely in the Persian Gulf region as they had before?

After all, these three countries had Israel surrounded. If they crossed into the airspace of these nations, they would be threatened by these missiles.

Until they found a way to counter this missile, Israeli jets simply didn't have the ability to escape being shot down.

Faced with this situation, the Israeli high command had no choice but to order all airbases to suspend reconnaissance patrols into the airspace of these three countries, strictly forbidding any combat missions there without approval.

They could only hope to find a countermeasure quickly so that Israeli jets could once again reign supreme over this airspace without threat.

Simultaneously, the Israeli high command ordered their agents embedded in these three countries to immediately launch a full investigation into this anti-aircraft missile.

They needed to find out which units were deployed and where, the source of the missiles, and most importantly, which country or arms dealer dared to sell them to these three nations.

As soon as they had results, Israel would immediately request the USA to impose full sanctions on the relevant countries and arms dealers, forcing a halt to the sale of this missile in the Persian Gulf region.