Chapter 1294: Gunboat Machine!

Proper cleaning and unsightly objects were hurried to throw into the sea, including four expensive anti-tank launchers and a few missiles that had not yet had time to be launched.

It's not bad for money, hurry up and throw it away, thanks to the underwater landform of the Caribbean Sea, the depth of the sea water below is nearly a thousand meters, as long as it is something that will sink and throw it down, it is a proper death without proof.

This time the matter is so big, it is estimated that Washington will send people to inspect the ship for the sake of international influence, and the salvage ship and the goods on board may also be temporarily detained, and Zhang Nan will also agree for the sake of the scene.

As for the ownership of the salvaged objects on the ship, Zhang Nan is not panicked at all: he is not the unlucky Odyssey Marine Exploration Company in his previous life, he is one of the supergiants on Wall Street, and he can influence the existence of the US presidential election.

In May 2007, Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered a Spanish shipwreck called the Mercedes, from which more than 500,000 gold and silver coins were recovered!

The Spanish government took Odyssey to the U.S. court on the grounds that the Mercedes was a frigate, and Odyssey insisted that the Mercedes was transporting cargo and that it was only a cargo ship with some cannons on it.

The transoceanic merchant ships of the sail colonial era were equipped with cannons, and the warships of the same period were also able to be used to load cargo, and the dividing line between the vast majority of ships was not clear.

The relevant international maritime law roughly stipulates that if a warship is on the bottom of the high seas, no matter what period it sank, the ownership of it and its contents still belongs to the warship owner.

As for the ancient merchant ships, whoever catches them will belong to whomever they catch. If there is to be negotiation, depending on the situation, the country of origin has a maximum of 10% of the ownership of the salvage object, and the salvage party can share 90% of it as the cost of finding and salvage.

The wreck found by the Odyssey Company has been sinking for more than 200 years, and the Odyssey Company and the Spanish government have their own reasons, and they don't know how many hundred rounds of verbal battles have been fought.

And then...

In February 2012, a U.S. court ruled against Odyssey in a five-year lawsuit: the full amount of the salvage proceeds involved 22.2 tons of gold and silver catches, including 594,000 gold and silver coins and religious images and jewelry.

In the same month, two Spanish Air Force transport planes arrived in Florida, USA, and returned to Spain a shipment of gold and silver coins worth $1 billion of the Spanish shipwreck.

As soon as the verdict came out, the stock price of Odyssey plummeted, and the huge amount of salvage fees spent was not counted by itself, so all the catch was spit out, and it was sold by the US court!

It's an American company!

$1 billion, that's real money, not just paper!

As for the Spaniards, they spent a little money and a small amount of legal fees, and just shipped the things back.

Note that the gold and silver coins were native to the Americas, shipped from Peru, and were dishonorable to the Spanish colonizers, but now they belong to Spain.

As for the salvage location, it is on the high seas.

Who made the Spanish government have a good relationship with the United States, but it can only be lost to the Odyssey whose waist is not thick enough, and it is estimated that the personnel of this company have murderous intentions!

Don't care about the significance of this verdict on the scene, these are all scene words, you have to ponder and ponder the deep level of that taste: don't think how fair the American law is, just think about what happened to the four unlucky policemen before and after the Los Angeles riots, you can understand how "fair" the American law, courts, and judges are!

Look at the wind direction as the grass on the wall, how to change how you need to change, change it to change it to the desired result.

What is black can become white, and what is white can be said to be black, and it is one of the traditions of American imperialism to open one's eyes and tell nonsense.

Now Zhang Nan's hair is coarser than the "original" Odyssey company, which is exaggerated, but he is really not worried about being picked up by the Spanish government, because everything is played by various interests.

The interests are not just money, but also the games and transactions of the top management of Washington and the backstage of Wall Street. Anything else, the fact that Zhang Nan already has the ability to cause another large-scale financial crisis on Wall Street is enough to ignore the Spanish government.

In this regard, the US imperialists have always been domineering in allowing only state officials to light lamps and not allowing ordinary people to light lamps.

For the sake of the interests of other countries, you can make your own domestic chickens and dogs?

The U.S. imperialists are fighting for the Philippines, not an international column supporting Spain.

Don't worry about the United States adding to its own blockage, what about Zhang Nan's own private island in Spain?

Safiradura Island is a private island, and unless the Spanish government really dares to tear its face, none of their people can go to the island!

Do you really think of yourself as a great empire that colonizes the whole world?

Zhang Nan is not a bird at all, but he will not overestimate the standards of those guys, so since the beginning of last year, he has asked people to start moving the huge treasures in the island's warehouse.

It's not that he has the foresight to deal with the Spanish government because of the salvage of the shipwreck, but he simply doesn't like to leave his ballast treasure at the door of someone's house: most of them are shipped to the Gambia and then airlifted to their nest in Botswana.

On their own territory, which will not be threatened, there is still less than a ton of gold on that private island in the Mediterranean, which has been re-smelted to decorate the façade and be used to disgust the Spaniards in case of emergency.

A ton of gold, a lot, is enough to be used as a bargaining chip to block others and fight a war of words.

It's crooked, now that things are getting bigger, what's the problem, what are you afraid of!

Zhang Nan didn't panic about Spain, and Colombia, which was famous for its drug lords, guerrillas and chaos, went coolly, and as for the several northern South American countries that might jump out because of the treasure of the San Jose, Zhang Nan didn't bother to pay attention to it at all.

In the whole of South America, he only has mining investments in Chile, and Chile has nothing to do with the treasure on the San Jose. Besides, his mining group has a very good relationship with the Chilean government, and even if some people in Chile want to help their South American neighbors, they have no heart.

Besides, is the relationship between Chile and its northern neighbor good?

Not good, even bad!

Chile had fought with Bolivia and Peru in the past, and the result of the war was that Chile annexed a large part of Bolivia's territory, leaving Bolivia without access to the sea and becoming a landlocked country, leaving Peru and Chile directly bordered. There are still many territorial disputes between the two countries, and there are often minor frictions over territorial and fishery resources.

Since the things we have worked so hard to get together are ours, no one can take them, not only for legal reasons, but also for face problems!

Also because of the face work, this will be the façade work that should be done on the "Searcher" still has to be prepared.

Excess anti-tank missiles were thrown, as were two Type 63 rocket launchers: they were bought cheaply from Albania, and the "Searcher" went to Albania after leaving the Black Sea, transporting small things to the United States.

Throw it, it's a little strenuous: the empty cannon is 385 kg, and the guys who went to the second deck to help don't need to dismantle it, so they pulled out the bolt of the stationing hoe, pried the gun wheel out of the drainage ditch, and laid two thin steel plates on the ditch.

And then...

"One, two, three!"

The roaring trumpet and the gang pushed forward violently, which threw the rocket launcher into the sea, and it was done in less than two minutes.

There were 12 more rockets thrown into the sea, and the main gunner of Maozi said with pity: "They are all good guns!"

The Huaxia gunner understood his Russian, and said in Russian, which he was not proficient in: "Don't worry, this thing is cheap, and the boss still has it." ”

"You know Russian?"

The Russian gunner was very strange that Huaxia understood his words at the same time, and the latter said: "What's strange, there are still some middle schools in Huaxia that teach Russian, and Lao Tzu should go to Russia to mix, but in order to go to the United States, I almost learned schizophrenia to learn English!"

There is too much common language, and Mao Zigunner was once in pain because of the process of learning English, and it was difficult for brothers and sisters, so the two immediately found the best common language.

Rocket artillery was thrown on the second floor, and the extra Shmir cloud burst bombs on the first deck were also thrown into the sea, these mass killers were on board when they came out of the Ukrainian shipyard, and this thing is too threatening to ordinary civilian targets, so don't cause trouble to the US military and Washington personnel who will be on board at that time.

A small number of conventional bazookas were left on the ship, and hundreds of them were thrown into the sea to count balls, including RPG-7s that could be fired repeatedly and a small number of rockets that could be used.

It's not good to keep too much, we are a research ship, not an arms ship. As for those that have already been launched, this empty launcher has long been thrown into the sea, and it is good for one time, and there is no proof of death.

Gatling guns and a small number of assault rifles and pistols are regular anti-piracy equipment, and no one can say whether they are wrong or not, without throwing them into the sea.

Originally, I wanted to sweep the machine gun shells everywhere, not because I was worried about violating the rules, but because I was hindering everyone's walking, and I accidentally stepped on it to hand you off, but the report of the radar observer interrupted everyone's cleaning work.

It was in the wheelhouse that the radar observer spotted a medium-sized slow aircraft 30 kilometers away at 6 o'clock on the baseline heading, and it suddenly turned around, right at the stern, and immediately raised the alarm!

"Medium target, speed 140 knots, height 3500 meters, is descending!"

Hearing the operator's report, Andrei and Colonel Myers immediately converted the speed in their minds - 260 km/h.

This is in South America, not North America, and there are quite a few low-speed aircraft within a range of 150 km, which was only surveillance before. But it would have been different, the plane was coming straight for me.

Captain Jamie, who didn't know much about war, asked, "What planes do Colombians have?"

Miles immediately said: "The fighters have 24 Cubs and some Mirage 5, 7 A-37s, 24 Tucans and 10 OV-10 Mustang attack aircraft, and 6 AC-47 gunboat aircraft. ”

As soon as he said this, Andre said in unison with Miles, who had an inspiration in his head: "Gunboat Machine!"

Andrei immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "All attention, all attention, in the direction of 6 o'clock, the distance is 30 kilometers, the height is 3500 meters, it is descending, the AC-47 gunboat machine is coming, the gunboat machine is coming!"

The whole ship was mobilized, and the container on the deck, which had been retracted with its covers, opened all the covers again, and even the top plate was lowered back under the action of the hydraulic rod. Someone also ran to starboard and opened the same container, which contained the same six sets of Yak-B Gatling guns.

This will no longer be manually maneuvered, but will be guided by short-range fire control radar - one on each side of the two containers, which will automatically account for the distance difference between the radar guidance reference and the Gatling gun.

There are too many good things and talents left by the Soviet Union, which are modified with equipment and technology of the close-in defense artillery system, and if they are installed on the roof of the shipbuilding, then they can carry out ultra-close-range air defense of the whole ship 360 degrees without obstruction.

Now the container is placed in a normal position, but even so, both sides can be protected by more than 160 degrees.

The bow and stern of the ship were not idle, and there was a large fixed box open above the platform on the 6th floor of the ship's building and the aft hangar in the lower front of the wheelhouse, each with a twin Yak-B Gatling gun, also equipped with a small fire control radar.

These four sets of radars can not only be controlled separately, but also connected to combat - Zhang Nan does not spend much money to modify this icebreaker on the surface, but secretly adds a little. Anyway, it's not expensive, Ukraine sells everything, shipyards and all kinds of experts agree to any modification requirements on the issue of existing arms, and they can make it for you with quality and scale.

The current "Searcher" is really armed to the teeth, and that plane is a gunboat plane nine times out of ten, which has to attract the attention of Andrey, Miles and others.

This kind of aircraft is too threatening to the sea and ground personnel and equipment, let's just say that the AC-47, the oldest gunboat aircraft, has supported almost 6,000 villages in the battle in Vietnam, and it is amazing that in these 6,000 missions, it is said that not a single village has been lost!

What did the original AC-47 have?

Just a few Gatling guns and some flares!

Even if the Vietnam War is relatively long, when the US military invaded Panama the year before last, the US special forces encountered the most elite 2000 brigade in the hands of Noriega, and were suppressed by the armored vehicle column of the 2000 brigade at the bridgehead.

Then, the sudden appearance of the AC-130 took only 5 minutes to turn all the vehicles of the 2000 brigade into scrap metal!

Colombia has gunboats, perhaps it originally wanted to cooperate with the navy for a rare time, or it was simply sent by the air force to compete with the navy, but it did not think that the frigate was about to sink, and it did not even have time to signal a battle.

The people on the gunboat will probably notice this, and then fly over.

It doesn't matter if it's here to take a look or attack, if it's coming, it's the Seeker's enemy!

This will make it impossible for the "Seeker" to directly contact the US fighters, otherwise the US Air Force will not be happy, and it will take less than 7 minutes for the gunboat plane to fly over, and it will take 9 minutes for the F16 to arrive.

It is impossible for US fighter jets to indiscriminately attack other aircraft before visual confirmation, so the "Seeker" may need to be on top of itself for four or five minutes.

At this time, Andrei again ordered: "Each air defense group is in position and ready to fight!"

No problem, many guys carried long cylinders to the roof of the ship with the best view, and they were basically Soviet veterans.