At the critical moment, it was Commander Lassie who stood up and picked up the intercom.

"At all costs, drive it in the direction of the blockade. ”

"It'...... In the field of view of the helicopter. "The anti-submarine helicopter pilot subconsciously pushes the operating stick.

"Then catch up with it, and you will be given free fire. ”

Two anti-submarine helicopters roared in pursuit of the giant ship, and two rocket depth charges were suspended under their belly.

They also turned on the helicopter fire control radar, which could firmly bite the huge 10,000-ton ship at a distance that was already visible.

“？？？”

A few seconds after the fire control radar was turned on, the pilots of both helicopters stared at the radar screen with inexplicable faces.

Topmost......

There's nothing on it.

"Can you radar it?" the two helicopter pilots asked each other through the intercom.

Get a reply that it can't, or even the radar can't search for the target at all. The driver and weapon operator, not besetting themselves, immediately switched to optical aiming mode and prepared for manual.

Then they were shocked to find that the silhouette of the huge black ship that was speeding across the ocean was slowly getting smaller and smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye.

They increased the speed of the helicopter to the maximum speed, and were shocked to find that they still could not catch up with the "footsteps" of the giant ship.

The plane can't catch up with the giant ship?

Even if it is a helicopter, they are flying a plane equipped with two aviation turboshaft engines with a power of 522 kilowatts, with a total of 1,044 kilowatts of engines bursting at full speed, and in good weather, they can actually fly at a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour.

Radar can't detect it, and these 3.0 pilots can still see it visually.

"Report ...... Report sir, it probably wasn't a giant ship. ”

Commander Lasitt saw from the screen that the helicopter could not catch up with the giant ship, and he roared angrily: "It's not a giant ship, is it a submarine?"

"You're blind, why don't you radar lock on?"

If he had been on the scene, Commander Lasit would have kicked the pilots of these two anti-submarine helicopters into the sea. Judging from the video pod footage of the anti-submarine aircraft, the giant ship was obviously swaggering in the distant sea.

The two anti-submarine helicopters walked into the air, slowly following the wake of the giant ship and watching the giant ship go away.

"Sir, they're heading in the direction of the anti-submarine blockade. ”

After saying that, the pilots of the two helicopters stopped talking, and let the roar of the command ship come from the side.

They don't know how to explain this weirdness, but soon the blockade will feel the unknown fear they feel now.

……

In fact, at the moment when the anti-submarine helicopter discovered the target, the three ships carrying out the blockade order immediately rushed in the direction of the target at full speed.

There was a mistake in the intelligence, it was not a submarine.

This would have dispelled their previous confusion, because judging from the satellite photos, the secret cargo ship of the Behemoth Industry could not have anything to do with the submarine.

Even for the sake of carrying cargo, fluid mechanics should not be completely left behind.

Now the mystery has been solved, it is not a submarine at all, but a black "behemoth" that can gallop at super high speeds on the surface of the sea.

As the mystery was solved, another question arose in the hearts of everyone in the command room.

How fast can it run?

And how did it evade the ubiquitous radar detection?

The deeper the mystery, the stronger Commander Lasit's determination to catch this strange ship, which must have advanced ship power technology that they have not yet mastered.

It just so happened that the giant ship "fled" towards the other end of the blockade net.

The encounter with the giant ship was earlier than everyone expected.

In less than twenty minutes, the sonar buoy they had laid earlier clearly detected the track of the giant ship.

Sonar number coordinates 174, speed......

A speed of one hundred and thirty knots?

Their minds were violently shocked, and it was not until a few minutes later, when all the surrounding sonar buoys had detected the data, that the people in the combat command room dared to accept this fact.

There were no routine radio shouts to leave evidence on, and there were no light warnings, a covert operation that must never be known to the outside world.

So when the giant ship entered the sonar buoy detection net, Commander Lasitt gave the warning firing order.

No matter how fast it is, it can't be faster than a missile.

This is a civilian giant ship, and in the face of absolute force, they can only stop the ship.

The No. 3 ship had previously received an order to investigate the source of the anomalous sound, and had already taken the lead in sailing a distance of dozens of nautical miles. Therefore, when the sonar detection network detected the target, the No. 3 frigate was already less than 20 nautical miles away from the target giant ship.

Commander Lassie abandoned the depth charge program, which was only suitable for attacking submarines.

"Single-shot reduced charge Mk-46 torpedo warning shot. ”

"Yes. The commander of frigate No. 3 immediately replied.

A modified MK-46 torpedo, which was thrown from a torpedo tube by a frigate.

The dark gray metal cylinder, which was nearly three meters long, plunged headlong into the sea, and at the same time as the waves splashed, the tail air compressed thruster immediately activated, heading in the direction of the giant ship.

There is no need for the corvette to be locked by radar.

The detection means of torpedoes have always been based on front-end active and passive sonar technology.

Now hundreds of nautical miles around are planted with dense passive sonar buoys, torpedoes into the water, and those hundreds of sonar buoys are its eyes.

The MK-46 modified torpedo is a light torpedo that can reach speeds of up to forty knots and can accelerate during the final sprint ramming the enemy ship.

In addition, under normal conditions, this torpedo could carry a high-explosive warhead of almost fifty kilograms, but now it has been reduced to twenty kilograms and is set to explode at twenty meters from the target ship.

Even a torpedo with reduced charge was enough to completely scare the sailors on the target ship.

The torpedo skimmed over a thin serpentine white blister trail on the surface of the water, and according to the guidance of the sonar buoy, it headed straight in the direction of the target ship.

The speed of the opponent's ship was extremely fast, so the torpedo approached the range of ten nautical miles of the target giant ship in less than ten minutes.

The MK-46 torpedo did not have a long range, but the other side was only a civilian giant ship, and it was impossible to find a torpedo that swept in the sea at a depth of several meters.

"Sonar buoy detection, torpedo six nautical miles from the target. ”

"Four nautical miles. ”

"Three nautical miles. Twenty seconds from the time of the explosion. ”

Information from frigate No. 3 continued to be transmitted back to the command ship, and by this time, some sailors had already run to the deck of the frigate, ready to watch the sea take off.

They were only a few dozen nautical miles away from the target ship, and standing on the deck, they could clearly see the full outline of the black ship at the end of the sea level.

"Fifteen seconds, lock on to the target, and enter the sprint. ”

"Wait~"

"The target seems to have been found, and it began to turn. ”

"Oh my God, it'...... It's in ......"

The Humpback Whale is drifting.

When the torpedo entered the humpback whale at a distance of two nautical miles, it was captured by optical lenses scattered around the hull.

The Humpback Whale is an air-cushion high-speed giant ship, which is different from the narrow body of traditional giant ships, its length to width ratio is only three to one, and the bottom of the ship is not in contact with the water.

So in an impossible way, it threw an S-shaped wave at sea.

The MK-46 torpedo was left behind, and it was in the sprint phase to follow the huge target of 130 knots at a speed of 50 knots.

In less than twenty seconds of futile tracking, the MK-46 torpedo sank headlong into the sea because it had exhausted all its power.

At this time, the distance it was from the humpback whale had been reopened to three nautical miles.

This scene stunned everyone on the frigate.

Then the sailors on the deck saw an even more shocking scene. The huge black ship did not turn its bow to escape, but adjusted its angle slightly, and headed in the direction of the frigate.

"Ahh

"They...... Are they crazy?"

The distance between the two is less than five nautical miles, and at this distance, the helmsmen in the cockpit can clearly see the huge and terrifying black body of the humpback whale.

Its front end is like a diamond with a diamond-shaped facet.

I don't know if it was an illusion or the light, but the helmsmen seemed to notice that the metal material at the front of the giant ship was slightly different from the surroundings.

It's in sunlight and slightly reflective.

The frigate is just a small body no more than thirteen meters wide and with a displacement of three thousand tons.

The frigate has been given the right to fire at any time, and the commander roared viciously in the combat command room, "Launch the Harpoon anti-ship missile, we have to make him understand who is the real master in the sea." ”

"Long ...... Sir, our fire control radar can't find the target. ”

"The same is true for the sea radar, it is at sea ... It's invisible. ”

At this moment, the commander felt a biting chill of falling into an arctic ice cave. Because of the curvature of the earth and the fact that the sea surface is prone to absorbing electromagnetic waves, the sea search radars on all ships cannot search for targets on the surface of ships that exceed 30 nautical miles.

Of course, AWACS and reconnaissance aircraft are not limited by curvature detection.

Previously, the radar could not detect the target of the ship, and the commander took it for granted that the distance was too far.

Besides, there are dense sonar buoys, and there is no need for shipboard radar to lock on.

Now it humiliated a pair of MK-46 torpedoes and turned the bow at the frigate.

"Then change the optical locking, such a big ship, are you all blind?"

A few seconds later, a Harpoon anti-ship missile whizzed out.

Compared with outdated torpedoes, the parameters of the Harpoon anti-ship missile are more than ten times higher?

After launch, it can accelerate to Mach 0.9 in 7 seconds and can reach a maximum range of 300 kilometers.

Fierce white smoke rose from it, and the Harpoon anti-ship missile spewed a hot wake and shot towards the black giant ship.

Less than 10,000 meters between the two, at the speed of the Harpoon anti-ship missile, twenty seconds later, the front of the giant ship could be seen bursting with a scorching fireball.

S-Drift Dodge?

The Harpoon anti-ship missile has a variety of locking means, radar is not available, it also has optical locking and infrared locking. Even if it misses a hit, it can turn again.

--Pull up to load the next chapter s-->