In modern warfare, aircraft carrier battle groups are the most vital combat system at sea. However, this offensive and defensive system is not seamless and flawless.

There are great difficulties. The types of ships and aircraft that are deployed in the aircraft carrier formations operating at sea are varied and the number of aircraft chasing is huge. As far as the current Western Pacific Combined Fleet is concerned, the entire formation is equipped with one aircraft carrier, on which more than 30 combat and reconnaissance planes and unmanned aerial vehicles are carried, and the rest of the combat ships and supply ships are 17 ships.

Such a deployment of troops, once unfolded at sea and in the air, will span more than a dozen or even dozens of miles of sea areas. It has many radar reflectors, large reflection cross-sections, and very strong infrared, electromagnetic, acoustic and other physical fields.

Such a battle group can easily be discovered by various detection facilities and equipment. In particular, the rapid development of aerospace technology, reconnaissance and surveillance satellites, and unmanned aircraft reconnaissance aircraft are widely used. So that the aircraft carrier battle group is not in full view all the time.

It can be said that this is both an advantage and the biggest disadvantage of the aircraft carrier battle group. Under such circumstances, the aircraft carrier group actually has no hidden strategic intentions to talk about.

What is the most feared about such a troop deployment?

I'm most afraid that I'm in the light, and the enemy is in the dark!

Therefore, if we say that the two things that the aircraft carrier battle group fears the most, one is the anti-ship missiles with various speeds towards high speeds, and the other is the submarine that wanders under the sea like a ghost!

Coincidentally, the current Stennis is facing precisely the second type!

Above the water, a submarine with a swarthy body and no markings except for the "054" painted on the raised bridge!

At this time, this guy, who could tell at a glance that it was a nuclear-powered attack submarine, was pointing his bow straight at the aircraft carrier Stennis that was in a panic!

The distance between the two is only 0.7 nautical miles!

This submarine, which suddenly surfaced, made the entire aircraft carrier battle group feel like they were collectively scalded by boiling water!

The flagship in charge of escorting, the Thomas Gates, made an emergency turn to protect the Stennis and the 054. Like the Thomas Gates, the CG-24 Perry-class frigate also changed direction in a panic.

In a panic, two large combat ships almost collided together!

But even then, the excessively large turning radius of large frigates and cruisers will never be able to block the aircraft carrier in a short time!

Seeing this scene, whether it was McHaus or the aircraft carrier, the commanders of all the ships were cold--they clearly realized that if it was in actual combat, the Stennis had been tragically sunk or heavily damaged!

Modern advanced torpedoes are inherently equipped with advanced seekers, such as active sonar guidance or wake guidance. The submarine only needs to be able to send the torpedo within the range of its mine-borne guidance system, even if it does not activate the active sonar, and can carry out a "silent attack".

In this way, the maximum distance to launch an attack with current technology is 50 km.

That is, within a range of 50 km, a submarine can carry out an effective strike against a ship.

But now, this distance is 0.7 nautical miles!

To make an inappropriate analogy, for the effective attack range of a submarine, this is a distance that can collapse a person with a fart!

And at such a short distance, the aircraft carrier is too large in size, and its own firepower is weak, like a thin girl who has been stripped naked, and has no power to resist at all!

"FK!FK!FK!When did this damn submarine dive to such a close distance!Did the frigate and the Aegis on the flagship go off today?!"

The commander of the Stennis was in a state of complete frenzy. You know, that damn submarine is now on the surface. It means that they have no intention of attacking, otherwise a few torpedoes will come over in the submersible state, and they will have to accompany the turtles at the bottom of this damn southern sea!

Thomas Gates.

Maihaus has recovered from the nervous state, and since the opponent has taken the initiative to expose the target, it means that the opponent has no intention of attacking.

However, McHaus's face at this time was already as red as pork liver!

Just twenty minutes earlier, he had been talking to two presidents about his submarine sonar active defense system at the Ministry of Defense.

And use the aircraft carrier battle group to discharge the submarine escort formation to show off the role and value of this defense system.

But now, a guy that looks like it's full of torpedoes and anti-ship missiles is just lying in front of him!

However, what surprised him was that there were submarines in the world that could break through the submarine sonar active defense system and the Aegis defense system that he spent $1.5 billion to build, and the two defense networks of the Aegis defense system appeared in front of him, because he actually knew that submarine!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Isn't this the one that was damaged two months ago?! How could it be here! At this time! Damn, contact that damn submarine and find out their intentions!"

Just as he was hysterically ordering, a group of soldiers appeared on the bridge of the 054 boat on the sea, hoisted the red five-star flag, and slowly raised it on the bridge.

At the same time, the soldiers on the bridge raised flags.

"What are they talking about?" saw the flag waving on the other side, and McHaus hurriedly asked.

The information officer picked up the binoculars and looked at the 054 ship.

"Here, yes, the Chinese Navy, the South China Sea Fleet. Ahead, 7, nautical miles, for my Chinese seas. Your side, the combat radiation range, has been violated, our territorial waters. Order, you side, withdraw immediately, the current sea area!"

The information officer parsed the flags one by one and reported them out loud.

Hearing this slogan, McHaus, CNN reporters, and everyone who watched the exercise via video conference, including the president of the presidential office, turned blue!

In this case, it's like someone putting a pistol to their head and saying coldly, "FKU, get out of my territory."

This is an absolute shame for the Navy of the United States of America, for the United States of America!

"That's what you call active defense, huh?" Vice President Perridge snorted and turned off the video of the meeting.

A few seconds later, the president, who was holding his mouth and watching the live broadcast in front of him, also silently withdrew from the meeting.

Seeing such a situation, Maihaus's heart was completely cold.

A good military exercise to promote the use of force has become a joke at this moment! He can even imagine how he will be ridiculed in the United States and the whole world in the news this afternoon or tomorrow.

"Reply to them!"

Thinking of this, McHaus gritted his teeth fiercely and said.

"Our side is conducting military exercises, and the current sea area is international waters. You have no right to interfere! The territory of the United States is where the aircraft carrier battle group is located! You have infringed upon our territory! Retreat quickly, if not, sink it!"

Staring at the 054 boat flying the five-star red flag, his eyes were like knives, and he gave a communication order to the information officer.