"Full speed at 28 knots!"

At the command of Captain Serka, the 52nd ship, which had been named "Khashur" by Egypt, began to accelerate with all its might, and after a few minutes, it reached its maximum speed, drawing a straight and graceful wake in the calm and waveless Mediterranean.

This is the fourth day of sea trials.

A week ago, the Castle arrived at its new home, Alexandria, after a long journey.

Later, after a short period of trimming, it began to be put into sea trials.

I don't know if the Mediterranean Sea has really calmed down recently, or because the pharaohs in Egypt have blessed it, and the sea trials in the past four days have gone unusually smoothly, which has made the members of the Chinese expert group who were a little apprehensive at the beginning breathe a sigh of relief.

If this continues, the ship will be officially handed over in a few days, and they will be considered to have completely completed the task and can return home victoriously.

Therefore, including Ma Zhenjiang, they are looking forward to not having anything wrong in the next few days.

"As long as the 'Cashur' itself is fine, there is no need to worry too much, you have to believe in the deterrent power of the US Sixth Fleet in this sea area!"

Serka looked at the faces of several Chinese personnel on the bridge, although they were not nervous but still unsmiling, and smiled and relieved: "Didn't you all see it, these days the ships of the US Navy are cruising around, and with them, no one dares to come over and spread wild." ”

As he spoke, Serka turned his head to think of an officer next to him and ordered, "Put up the flag for the routine greeting." ”

Soon the "Cashur" was hung with a flag greeting a US Navy warship not far away, and a moment later the US warship also replied with a flag.

In the past four days, this has almost become a small tacit understanding between the "Cashur" and the US warship.

In fact, Serka is indeed right, it is indeed much more reassuring to have US warships to help escort the escort, but the question is whether it is really good to hand over the escort work of China's important sea trial projects to the navies of other countries?

The members of the expert group, which emphasizes independence and self-reliance, are a little disagreeable, but looking at the Egyptians' grateful and tacit expressions, no matter how much the Chinese personnel disagree, they just think about it.

In fact, the members of the Chinese expert group were right, although the United States, in order to appease Egypt, a new ally, instructed the Sixth Fleet to send ships to escort its sea trials.

However, the American officers and men on the warship were very unimpressed, and many people felt that this was a waste of time, and that they had not just driven directly to Alexandria to enjoy the charm of the mummies of Lower Egypt.

No, this is the case with the USS Antrim, a Perry-class missile frigate of the 74th Escort Detachment of the US Navy's Sixth Fleet, which is responsible for escort missions today.

At this moment, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan, who had just ordered the flag to be hung so that the Egyptian Navy could maintain a tacit understanding, held a telescope and looked at the "Kashur" that was speeding up in front of the starboard side, and couldn't help but smile, then put down the binoculars in his hand and said to the chief of staff beside him: "It seems that everything is normal for the Egyptian Navy today, and we should be able to return to port ahead of schedule." ”

"That's true, I should have informed the girls of Taranto earlier, so that they wouldn't have gone to bed so early!"

Even if they can return home early, it is estimated that it will be more than midnight to arrive at the home port of the Antrim, the Italian port of Taranto, and at this time those enthusiastic Italian girls have already gone back to sleep, and even if they go back, they will not find much fun, so the chief of staff, Major Joseph Needham, said with some complaints:

"I really don't know what the generals of the fleet command are like, and they actually send ships to escort Egypt, that is, a frigate of 2,000 tons, what can such a small body be used in the Mediterranean? I would like to ask my Egyptian counterparts what they think, such a warship can also be regarded as a treasure. ”

"To tell you the truth, major, if it were me, I would also regard this Chinese-made warship as a treasure!"

Before the words fell, Jonathan was very serious about correcting the mistake of his chief of staff, which made Joseph Needham's face a little ugly, because he didn't know what the captain meant, and was just about to apologize for it, but before he could speak, Jonathan's serious company suddenly showed a mischievous laugh:

"Don't you think that the Chinese have turned such a small platform into an air defense ship, just like their thin body, there is a strange feeling? So if I were to definitely collect this alternative ship, maybe it would appreciate in the future!"

"Hahaha~~~"

When Joseph Needham heard this, he immediately laughed and his stomach hurt, there was no way that Jonathan's words had blackened the "Carshur" to the extreme.

After laughing at it, Joseph Needham still agreed with Jonathan's point of view, because aside from the ridiculous factors, from a professional point of view, Jonathan's words are also very correct.

For a two-thousand-ton frigate, the basic platform is so big, even if the space is saved to the extreme, how much ammunition can be spared?

The "Perry" class they are now piloting is a 4,000-ton frigate, and the reserve of bombs is only 40, so it can meet the requirements of a single ship's ocean-going operations.

And the 2,000-ton body of the "Kashur" can only hold up 20 bombs, and with such a few missiles, if you want to support the air defense of the formation on the Egyptian sea, you can't laugh off your big teeth.

Seeing that Joseph Needham smiled and nodded his head, Jonathan continued: "So this Egyptian ship is more of a deterrent existence, and a response to Israel's possession of special ship-to-air missiles, the Chinese just captured the hearts of the Egyptians, and then sold this large model to the Egyptians, I have to say that the Chinese are much more talented in this regard than us Americans." ”

Let me see that it is our shipyard that disdains such shamelessness, so that the Chinese pick up the cheap!" Joseph Needham's mouth was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it was not much darker than Jonathan's.

Jonathan just smiled at this, immediately looked at the clock behind him, stretched his waist, and said with relief: "Today's escort time has finally arrived, and I have finally survived this long and boring day with the large model, and I will inform the Egyptian 'Khashur', and we will return home." ”

It seemed that she was really concerned about the charm of the Italian girl, and before the telegram announcing the "Cashur" was sent, the Antrim could not wait to turn around and return home, and it took more than an hour to change the Antrim from full speed to economic speed.

Seeing that everything was normal up and down the ship, Captain Jonathan was about to hand over the command task to Joseph Needham and went back to the cabin to rest, at this moment, there was a roar in the sky, and then a shadow quickly passed over the bridge, and Jonathan, who was about to leave, was startled, and just wanted to see what was going on, when the lookout's frightened shout was heard:

"Su-24, it's the Su-24 of the Soviet Union!"