The lights went out.

The huge electronic charts in the command room were extinguished.

The various device screens arranged in a circular shape on both sides of the ECDIS were also extinguished.

Even the intercom in their hands, the laser command pen in their hands, and the electronic watches in their hands were all extinguished.

In the darkness, a choking smell of burnt paste wafted through the command room.

The frigate died.

The combat effectiveness supported by electronic informatization and integrated circuits was wiped out in an instant.

The choking smell of burnt flesh turned into an invisible ghost, quickly burrowing into the bodies of everyone in the war room. They stared blankly until they could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts and screamed.

The humpback whale is coming.

At a speed of one hundred and thirty knots, it slammed into the tail of the frigate.

"Boom ......"

At sea level, there was a sudden landslide and a crack.

If it weren't for the frigate's last emergency maneuver to escape, it would have been its deadliest belly that would have been hit now.

In fact, it was almost the same, the humpback whale's body like a steel fortress slammed into the frigate. Even the humpback whale is so large because of its large size and because it is fast to the sea.

When the humpback whale slammed into the tail of the weak frigate, the humpback whale's impregnable ramming angle could not find a target at all. So much so that the Humpback Whale pressed its entire hull like a raging tank running over an Alto car.

At this moment, the landslide cracked, and the weight of tens of thousands of tons of the humpback whale pressed on this frigate with a displacement of only 3,000 tons, making the upper deck building of the frigate turn into collapsed iron sheets in an instant.

The frigate, which originally had a waterline only a few meters deep, disappeared into the sea level in an instant at this moment.

Any weapon, in the face of the humpback whale's terrifying defensive power and weight, will be overshadowed.

When the humpback whale passed over the frigate, the frigate, which had been unleashing its fire on the surface of the sea a moment ago, had been compressed into a discus by this time.

In the flash of fire and the sound of small explosions, the frigate quickly plunged into the deep sea, until no trace of its existence was no longer visible.

……

No one witnessed this scene.

But the hundreds of sonar detection buoys scattered around the area faithfully recorded the thrilling sound.

These sonar buoys were inadvertently damaged by the humpback whale while sailing, and more than a dozen were destroyed by electromagnetic generators. The rest, still running normally.

On the Burke-class missile destroyer, which rushed to the aid here, the atmosphere in the command room of the war room froze.

The sonar network was connected to the destroyer, although it was still more than seventy nautical miles away from the giant ship of Behemoth Industries. But every weapon launch information on the frigate, they can receive it on their side.

Three Harpoon anti-ship missiles?

Four light torpedoes?

Rapid-fire guns and multi-barreled close-in defense guns continue to fire?

If it were not clearly marked on the network of sonar buoys, there would be only one target vessel.

If it weren't for the frigate's repeated calls, the speed and contours of the target ship were constantly repeated.

The commander of this operation, Lassett, and the rest of the operations command room, must have thought that their frigate had come into contact with a group of powerful warships of unknown origin.

What exactly is that black giant ship capable of forcing the frigate to the point of full fire?

It is no exaggeration to say that the firepower that the frigate poured out just now. If the naval fleets of these countries on the African continent were to be collected by each of them, the naval forces of most of the countries could be easily wiped out.

But neither the torpedoes, nor the Harpoon anti-ship missiles, which they are proud of, were detonated normally.

They are like lumps of iron thrown into the sea.

At last~

All that could be heard in the command room was the chaotic shouting of the frigate.

Someone shouted that the black giant ship had crashed into it, someone shouted that the missile was destroyed by electromagnetic weapons, and even someone shouted that he had jumped ship.

All communication was interrupted instantly, and they had no idea what was happening, except for the alarming frequency of crashing and grinding and dense explosions from nearby sonar buoys.

No one would have believed that it was the civilian ship that exploded.

Because after the sound waves of the dense explosion slowly disappear, the sonar buoy can only detect one voiceprint.

It was the sound of the target ship speeding towards here at a speed of one hundred and thirty knots.

The signal and propeller voiceprint, which represented the corvette, are no longer there.

The atmosphere in the command room froze, and only the received sonar soundprints kept ringing. At this time, the operational staff officer walked up to the operational commander Lasit, and he kept his voice to a minimum, "Sir, we ...... Are you considering abandoning this operation?"

"Give up?" Lacit replied in the same volume, "Do we still have the right to give up?"

"The third ship is gone, and after giving up, what awaits you and me will be an endless investigation report, and forever lose the qualification to command the ship again. ”

The volume of the sonar equipment drowned out their conversation, so the staff officers could not worry about their timidity.

"But this time our adversary has a weapon of terror that we don't know about. The staff officer continued: "I would rather write the investigative reports that have ruined my future than the fate of the frigate. ”

Commander Lassie looked at him directly, "This is a battle. ”

"But our enemy is not a certain country's warship, and this battle has nothing to do with any glory." ”

"This is a covert operation that will never be mentioned to the public, and who would have thought that our target was a cargo ship of a technology company?"

"Sir, if this is a battle to defend against the invasion, then I will accompany you until the last moment. If you're in the mood for a fight, I might be able to put a gun against your back to get you back on your feet. ”

"But this is not, if we lose one more warship, you and I will become the most disgraced fleet commanders since the Cold War. ”

Commander Lasit was silent.

For the first time, he experienced fear and fear.

Perhaps these emotions often appeared in his past opponents.

The staff officer is right, the terrifying weapons that the other side has can turn the precision strikes they are most proud of into a pile of scrap metal.

In essence, the frigate that lost its signal is not much different from the Burke-class missile destroyer in which they are located.

One is 3,000 tons, and the other is more than 7,000 tons.

In addition to tonnage, all that remains is the amount of firepower allocation, and the difference between advanced electronic warfare equipment. In terms of the strength of their armor alone, their destroyer is even inferior to a frigate.

"Even if you give up, you have to give up until the end. ”

Commander Lasit was silent for a moment and raised his voice, "The target ship can interfere with the attack fire of one ship, it can interfere with three or four anti-ship missiles. ”

"What about ten, a hundred?"

"I ordered the remaining ships to cover the target with fire. ”

"We're going to launch all the missiles that can hit there. ”

A moment later.

The sea, which was relatively quiet, was interrupted by a continuous rapid roar.

One missile after another soared into the sky.

The Burke-class destroyer, and another frigate opened all missile launches.

Harpoon anti-ship missiles.

Sparrow short-range anti-aircraft missile.

Standard SM-2 anti-aircraft missile

Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Under the modern intelligent electronic warfare system, various types of missiles are actually all-rounders. They can be anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, and can strike at surface warships, but there is only a difference in their capabilities.

At this moment, the Burke-class missile destroyer, which represents one of the most powerful strike forces on the sea, completely shows a murderous scene.

One missile after another roared away from the launch frame, and the quadruple vertical launch system in front continued to shoot out standard air defense missiles, and the eight-link vertical launch system in the back threw out all 61 missiles of various types.

These missiles are climbing.

The combat system precisely controls the speed of each missile, and in order of priority, the first missile to be launched keeps flying at a slow speed, and the last missile to accelerate to catch up with the missile in front.

They slowly came together, and finally formed a saturated attack formation in the sky that seemed to cover the sky.

Two warships, close to one hundred and fifty missiles.

The white trails they dragged out were like weaving a vast web with no end in sight in the sky.

The end of the net will be the only goal of [Whaling Operation].