173 Unknown Weapon (1/2)
At present, there were four warships, two Ferro real class frigates, and two 2,000 tons of offshore patrol ships.
Through the dark night sky, the electric eel could penetrate the block of the water's concrete appearance, to see the real shape of the few ships that had 169, 170, NS04, NS07… several big words painted on the shipboard, but he could not determine if they were navy and from which country.
”Bezik, are you sure it's a submarine?” Captain Paget asked the captain who was in another destroyer through video communications.
”Little George, would I, Old Bez, cheat you? I assure you, the submarine beneath our feet, which is not moving, is a submarine. And I am also sure that it is definitely not a European or American submarine! You quickly get someone to listen to the sonar array,” he said. ”Just record the sound of this unknown submarine, and that's definitely a big contribution!”
'I warn you, I'll divorce your sister immediately if you call me little George again! What if this submarine decides to stay here and deal with us?” Paget made a serious face and said stiffly.
”Then we'll see who will win! So we just released a total of three active sonar detection waves, through computer calculation, and found that the submarine is between 80 and 90 meters in length. This type of submarine would not be from a poor country of Africa. If the submarine from another country came here, it means it must be an unlimited range, nuclear-powered submarine.”
”Would it be possible that it was blown by the mine we left here and had sunk?”
”If it can't even find a 20year-old water mine, how could it be a nuclear submarine?” Bezik shaking his head, looked at Paget with a you're an idiot look. ”They could have also been attracted by the explosion. I have reported the problem to the naval command, to let them investigate exactly which country's submarine this is, which was so bold to come here.”
It had to be said that the efficiency of the military is high, when the two were talking, an encrypted file transmitted through satellite, from the French naval command to the two frigates.
After their investigation, the European Union had no nuclear submarine which performed combat duty there. The nuclear submarine was not from the United States either. France was a follower of the United States, although they did not know their nuclear submarine course. But if there was a submarine coming to the gate of their base, they would be notified in advance, to let them welcome it.
Why did this unidentified submarine come here, they didn't care, they just needed to record the sound of the submarine!
A submarine voice print was equivalent to an ID card number. As long as the dynamic system of submarine noise was recorded, it could easily be detected after filtering the complex sea noise through the computer. They no longer had to use a sonar technician to listen to the noise and determine whether there was a submarine.
When two countries are in a war, a sonar array that could be identified 200 nautical miles away was the nightmare of a submarine that had had its sonar recorded.
The sound of a nuclear-powered submarine, no doubt, any country would spend a huge amount of money to buy it. Also, they were willing to spend a certain amount of effort to collect it.
The four warships that were floating on the water's surface were all the ships of the French embassy in the Djibouti overseas naval base. When their monitoring station monitored an explosion, they immediately sent frigates to the position, to investigate what caused an explosion. When the active sonar was not released, a long strip of an unidentified object was found lying on the seabed using a computer simulation system.
Bezik felt his head buzzing, and immediately ordered the active sonar to be shut down and monitored using passive sonar. It was possible to record the sound of the submarine in the area where the waters are stable and have no underwater volcanic activity.
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”This is not a drill, this is not a drill, this is a combat mission, the pilot is ready to take off in 10 minutes! Repeat, this is not an exercise...”
At the French base in Djibouti, 26 miles south of the electric eel, there was a sudden influx of people rushing into the hangar in a panic.
Djibouti was occupied by France in 1882. After 85 years of colonial history, France finally approved its independence. But the French still established large-scale integration of land, sea, and air bases, to engage with the United States to control and lay a solid foundation in the red sea.
Soon, three 42-meter long, heavily equipped European A400M transport aircraft with propellers on both sides, moved to the four ships' position at the speed of light.
At the same time, there were three minefields in the naval base.
The position of the electric eel was where the channel was only 20 km wide. The naval commander, after receiving the puzzling damage from the sonar, immediately decided to send the mine conveyor and boat to directly block the sea more than 20 kilometers wide, to force the submarine to float, and to get explanation of what weapon was used, so that it could destroy the whole piece of sonar!
After all, the mine could be recycled, and there was no waste at all!
The first to arrive in the sea was, of course, two large transport aircraft, and they were arranged in two straight lines, flying low and slowly opened the cabin, splashing a mine every hundred meters like pouring rain. When the huge mine hit into the sea,
it splashed a full 10 meters of waves.
Twenty-three km of the strait, according to a mine per 100 meters, there were 230 of them. Then, in a linear position, there was one every 150 meters. With a total of 460, the whole area would be blocked.
”Damn, are they truly fighting against me?” Chen Fan, of course, noticed the movement of the electric eel more than two 2,000 meters away. The mine, which was about the size of the eggs, had been detonated. Bang!Bang!Bang! Smashing into the water, depressing the electric eel!
Looking at each of the four motionless warships, it felt as if a thousand rhinos rampaged through its brain.