Chapter 1464 (1/2)

Time goes back to two hours ago.

In the Caribbean Sea, there are thunder and lightning and raging waves.

Heavy rain fell on the deck, the broad bow split the waves, and the towering Ford, surrounded by eleven warships, sailed smoothly through the rolling Caribbean Sea, cruising around the north coast of Colombia.

A total of 12 warships, the expanded aircraft carrier battle group of the Ford has more over the horizon strike and anti submarine capabilities than before. With more emphasis on supporting the ground forces than before, the flagship changed from the ”New York” missile frigate to the aircraft carrier Ford. The commander of the aircraft carrier battle group is still major general Hogg, who is also the commander of the aircraft carrier battle group while serving as captain of the Ford.

After passing through the rain curtain, an F-35 landed on the runway. After being caught by the arresting cable, it gradually stopped on the runway. Ground crew dressed in red, yellow and green trotted forward. The pilot with helmet jumped out of the cockpit, wiped the rain on his face and walked to one side.

The fierce wind and heavy rain in recent days has brought a lot of trouble to the aircraft carrier battle group of Ford, which is responsible for supporting the NATO coalition operations. Not only is the difficulty and danger factor of flight much higher, but the efficiency of air raid is also reduced by many times.

Of course, there are disadvantages and advantages.

The advantage is that from the beginning of the war to now, the carrier plane on the Ford has carried out 15 air raids, and none of them has been intercepted by aurora-20 in the ring trade. I think it's mostly the ring trading aircraft that are not good at dealing with bad weather, and Hogg can't think of any other reason.

In the bridge of the Ford.

Like a bottle of sculpture, Hogg stood in front of the window of the bridge with his hands in his hands, and his eagle like eyes were directly locked on the carrier plane that had just landed, and he did not know what he was thinking. The other crew members in the bridge were also busy in their respective jobs, and there was no other sound except the occasional one or two exchanges of work nature.

”This damned weather,” coop Griffin murmured, looking out of the window. ”I don't know when it's going to end.”

If the weather does not improve, the air attacks on the defenders of Medellin and bukaramanga will not be launched, and the war situation will only continue to stand still.

”What's going on at the front line?”

”Still, our men were nailed to the outskirts of Medellin. It is said that the situation on the land is even worse, and the minimum visibility is less than 20 meters. In this kind of weather, it is too difficult to attack. We have to guard against not only snipers in South Colombia, but also the debris flow that may happen at any time. ”

”It's not that that's more worrying,” Griffin said, pausing. ”I don't know what the star ring traders are doing. Since the beginning of the war, apart from a raid on barranquila, most of the troops seem to have stayed at the port of tumako.”

”It's really disturbing,” Hogg nodded thoughtfully and looked out of the window. ”I hope the storm will stop soon.”

The star ring trade is abnormally motionless and disturbing. Now, for the NATO coalition, the most important thing is to win Medellin in a short time. With Medellin, whatever the ring trade is up to, they will win half the battle.

However, the storm did not stop, on the contrary, there are signs of intensified.

Just as Hogg was about to sit down in the next chair, a series of red dots flashed on the radar screen.

All of a sudden, everyone was stunned.

Major general Hogg's face changed wildly. He grabbed the walkie talkie on the table and roared.

”Attention to units at all levels! Find enemy aircraft

”The carrier plane will take off at once! Air defense fire preparation

“……”

”Damn it, when did they approach us?” After a series of orders, the walkie talkie was photographed on the table. Major general Hogg walked behind the radar observer, staring at the screen and swearing.

A typical double aircraft carrier battle group usually adopts three layers of attack and defense firepower system, of which, the first and second layers are used to attack the enemy and protect the safety of the entire aircraft carrier formation. The third layer is mainly the self-defense of each combat unit in the battle group.

The first layer, the so-called outer defense area, is 200-400 km away from the carrier ship. It is composed of spy-4a shipborne long-range air-to-air search radar, military reconnaissance satellite and E-2C early-warning aircraft in the battle group. In the second layer, shipborne spy-1a phased array radar and sps-43, 49 and other long-range sea to air search radars act as gatekeepers.

However, now, the plane of star ring trade actually directly broke through their first and second defense areas, and they didn't find out until they flew to their faces!

Obviously, star ring trade has upgraded their invisible materials, which was not the case before!

The carrier based aircraft, which was parked on the deck, blasted off.