Chapter 531: Upgrade
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All the ships of the US Second Fleet and the Fourth Fleet are floating on the sea in a vigilant formation, and the fleet's anti-submarine mechanism operates almost around the clock, if it is only because the Russian Navy is conducting military exercises in the Caribbean, then the deployment of two large fleets in the Caribbean Sea at one time for vigilance is really a bit over-nervous, and both fleets are conducting anti-submarine reconnaissance, which is even more excessively nervous.
But the Pentagon can't be blamed for this, and when the Pentagon's technical observers saw that the Atlantic Floater's frame was not sinking, they began to believe that the Atlantic Floater was not a fool's project. Therefore, the Pentagon has led the naval and air force staff to conduct many exercises about the function of the Atlantic floater mentioned by Titan. After conducting many exercises on the appearance of the Atlantic Floaters, the staff officers found that as long as the Atlantic Floaters could achieve 60 percent of their design functions, the United States would be able to achieve greater strategic superiority in the Atlantic. In particular, Titan not only reserved sheltered berths for the Navy's surface ships, but also prepared underwater access channels for submarines at all levels, so that in the event of a conventional war, an Atlantic floater could not only play a role in choking the passage from Africa and the Mediterranean Sea to the Americas, but also have the advantage of allowing surface ships, submarines, and combat aircraft to be deployed in the front.
In addition, since the beginning of the new century, the European Union's influence on Europe has become more and more great, which has made it very embarrassing for the United States to obtain some island status close to Europe since World War II, and the citizens of some countries always want to recover their former colonies, such as Altyn Island, etc., which has made the top level of the US military and political circles have been worried about Europe's position.
With the Atlantic Floaters, many problems can be solved, and it is a big deal to return some of the islands to those countries.
However, the fleet of the Russians who came to the Caribbean to participate in the military exercises is obviously not very peaceful, and Russian submarines are often found to be ventilating near the construction area of the Atlantic Floaters, and they even carried out ultrasonic scans of the underwater structures of the Atlantic Floaters underwater, obviously trying to figure out the material of the Atlantic Floaters, after all, after such a large thing is combined, in addition to not sinking, there is no structural twisting under the action of the waves, obviously the Russian technical analysts are very competent, and it can be seen that the material used here is very specialγ
Therefore, after discovering that the Russians were trying to get close to the Atlantic Floaters, the Pentagon simply sent both the Second Fleet and the Fourth Fleet in order to "prevent any country's warships from approaching the maritime equipment being built by its own businessmen," and under the banner of cracking down on and intercepting pirates and maintaining the safety of shipping in the Caribbean Sea......
On a destroyer of the Second Fleet, the captain and the second officer looked at the Atlantic floaters in the distance with binoculars, and after a while, the captain muttered to himself: "How do you look like an alien base...... Shall we help the aliens like this?"
The second officer put down the binoculars and said to the captain with a wry smile: "Captain, it is because you always say this that the general asked us to be removed from the anti-submarine position, and you didn't see the people on it, how could it be aliens." β
The captain still held the binoculars and said again in a muttered tone: "Find an agent, you don't need ......the aliens to come forward at all."
"......" the second mate couldn't laugh again, in fact, just arrived here, after seeing the frame of the endless Atlantic floaters, many people's first reaction was also that this was the handiwork of aliens, and the officers on the warship did not just understand the operation of the equipment, they also systematically learned the knowledge of the ship, including the knowledge of the materials of marine equipment, to be honest, they understood better than the layman how special the materials used by such a huge Atlantic floaters are, but such a special material, they have never heard of it, which naturally makes them think that this is alien technologyγ
However, although there are many people who have such thoughts, watching the crane helicopters in the sky lifting goods back and forth has made many people gradually accept the existence of such confidential materials.
But there are also people, such as the captain, who are inexplicably very wary of the designers of the Atlantic Floaters, much to the surprise of the commanders of the Second and Fourth Fleets, as well as the generals of the Pentagon, so they simply withdraw these obviously confused people from the outer alert sequence and let them get close to the Atlantic Floaters, hoping to dispel their strange ideas.
The second officer raised his binoculars and looked at the dozens of ocean-going tugs on the side of the Atlantic floaters, and said: "These tugboats alone consume a lot of fuel every day, and I hope this thing will not sink after it is completed." β
The captain muttered again, "They're pouring breath into their noses again, that silver thing, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a product of the earth......"
The second officer nodded approvingly, he had never heard of the name of Titan before, and this company has been a supplier to the Ministry of Defense since last year, and it took almost less than a year to start building 5,000 square kilometers of floating islands in the Atlantic, using technology and technology that has never been seen before, to be honest, it does make people feel suspicious.
Although he thought so in his heart, the second officer's mouth said: "Maybe the Naval Engineering Bureau has taken out some secret technology, if the Navy undertakes the construction of the Atlantic Floater, the Congress will not agree to allocate funds, but it is not so much trouble to change to a private company to undertake the construction." β
When the captain heard this, he glanced at the second officer and said: "But there are no naval people in this company at all, oh, their president's family has something to do with the navy, but this is all two generations ago, and now the person named Phoebe is very closely connected with the air force, but no one should use her for maritime affairs." β
The second officer shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows what those big guys think." β
The captain shook his head, frowned and raised the binoculars again, looked at it for a while, and said, "You say, is it possible that the high-level officials think that the current international situation is unstable and want to build a sea refuge camp?
The second officer preferred to believe this statement rather than the inexplicable alien base theory, so he nodded and said: "This is very likely, I heard from the people on the tactical submarine that the part below the surface of the Atlantic Floater is larger than the surface of the water, and it is estimated that it can contain a lot of people." There are also six underwater entrances that can be used for large submarines to enter and exit, and if something happens, all the entrances that leak into the air can be sealed. β
Although the second officer did not answer the captain's question directly, he could also hear some point-pointing remarks from his words, and the captain sighed and said, "I don't know if we can be selected for the ......."
When the second officer heard this, his face was slightly gloomy, but he didn't say anything, just raised his binoculars and looked at the Atlantic floaters again.
Just then, a voice rang out from the side: "Hey, I knew you were here." β
When the two of them heard the voice, they saw that it was the first mate and sonar officer, and the captain couldn't help but ask: "What's the matter? Is there a leak in the anti-submarine line?"
The sonar officer nodded and said: "It's a British submarine that came, and there was some trouble, they were deliberately put in by the anti-submarine line." β
The first mate added: "The order of the fleet is to expel the Russian submarines, and it is enough to keep track of the submarines of our allies, and our ships have taken over the tracking of British submarines from Area C, but if they pass through the floating islands, we will not be able to do it." β
The captain nodded, this was all a matter that the fleet commander had explained, so he was a little strange why the two of them came to him for this, so he asked, "Then what are you doing here?"
The first mate glanced at the sonar officer, then sighed and said: "About fifty meters below this British submarine, there may be a Chinese submarine hidden ......"
The captain was stunned for a moment, looked at the sonar officer, and the sonar officer frowned and said: "I'm not sure, but I have been in the Guam fleet for two years, and I still have some memories of the voiceprints of Chinese submarines. I think that the British submarine took the initiative to expose its whereabouts, of course, for the purpose of reassuring us, but ...... I can only say that I do not dare to guarantee that there will be Chinese submarines there. β
Although the sonar officer's words were somewhat ambiguous, their tendencies were unquestionable, and the other three officers present understood that the sonar officer was probably right, and that the British submarine was covering up for the Chinese submarine.
The captain pondered for a while and said: "There are ridges nearby, and there is such a large floating island frame, maybe it is possible that the sonar has failed, after all, anti-submarine operations can encounter any situation." In fact, the most troublesome thing is that if our findings are correct, then it will be troublesome, why did the British get together with the Chinese, did they also think that there were aliens here, so they united?"
The first mate and sonar officer immediately glanced at the second officer, and the second officer shrugged helplessly, in the navy, the speculation about the Atlantic floaters is actually still based on the refuge base, and there are not many claims about alien bases.
The captain then said, "What is the flagship's response to our discovery?"
The first mate shook his head and said, "They told us not to be suspicious, just keep a sonar track of the British submarine." β
The captain nodded and said: "Well, the main purpose of our coming here is to provide protection for the Atlantic floaters, not to provoke other countries, even if there are really Chinese submarines, they have invited the British to cover them, after all, they don't want to cause any trouble during the Olympic Games, and we don't want to do much." β
Hearing this, the sonar officer nodded and went to the sonar room to command, while the first mate stayed, and the three of them leaned on the side of the ship together and held the binoculars to look into the distance, and the first mate said: "Captain, what kind of material did they use, such a large frame can still float on the sea, and the most important thing is that there are a lot of construction machinery and people on it, and there is no sign of sinking at all." β
The captain shook his head and said: "I don't know, I heard that it is a new material developed by a factory in Detroit, and the Navy Technology Department seems to want to get a little bit of testing, but the result is that people don't give it, and the lawsuit goes to the Pentagon, but they have AFRL support, and the Admiralty can only stare dryly, but fortunately, after the completion of this floating island, it will become a strategic base in the Atlantic, and it will be good for us after all." β
The second mate suddenly said: "If more of this kind of floating island is built, will it end the era of aircraft carriers?"
The first mate and the captain were stunned for a moment, and then neither spoke, and after a while, the captain said again in his muttered tone: "In fact, the era of aircraft carriers has long ended, and now it is either to build this kind of large floating island that will not be sunk, or to rely on coral reefs to expand fixed bases, and then to build missile destroyers......
The first mate and the second mate glanced at each other, and they both saw the meaning of approval in each other's eyes.
The three of them were silent for a while, and the captain suddenly pointed ahead and said, "Look over there, that kind of machine really doesn't look like human technology, don't you think it's alien technology?"
The first mate and the second officer looked for a while before they saw the "alien machine" that the captain had mentioned, which looked like it was composed of multiple hexagons, and from a distance it looked like it was somewhat like a sphere, about the size of four container containers, with a strange milky white color, and each hexagonal surface had about twenty long cables the thickness of human legs extending out. It's a machine, it looks more like some kind of strange creature, and it can also rely on those cables to move, and those cables can also carry some canisters that don't know what they contain, and the cables are flexible as if they really have life, no wonder it makes people think it's alien technology.
The second officer pursed his lips and said, "I think this should be something made by a secret project of the Navy or the Air Force." β
The first mate didn't speak, although he didn't know what it was, but he was still more inclined to the second mate's guess, the alien's statement was really a little unreliable.
The captain suddenly said: "See, that thing is like a creature, and it can actually climb the framework of a floating island and dive, the vein of this technology is not at all like the technological context of human beings, if it is our technology, it will probably use a scheme similar to an elevator, right?"
The first officer and the second officer were noncommittal about this, they did not know as much about some knowledge and confidential technology as the captain, so they did not intend to refute the captain, after all, although they had heard about some scientific and technological notification materials of the navy's top brass, they could not see the details.
The captain suddenly put down his binoculars, sighed and asked his two subordinates: "If it is really an alien, who will we be allies with in the future?"
After hearing this question, the two immediately changed their minds about the captain's idea that it was an alien base, and it seemed that the captain had a different idea from those UFO enthusiasts, and this kind of strategic issue was indeed worth careful consideration. However, after thinking about it for a while, the two found that this question is difficult to answer, if the United States really allies with aliens, in case any country fights with aliens again, whether the United States is on the side of humans or on the side of aliens is indeed a difficult choice.
Seeing that the two subordinates were thinking bitterly, the captain couldn't help but smile bitterly, patted the shoulders of the two of them, and walked to the cabin, humming a song at the same time.
When the first and second officers heard the captain humming the song, they immediately knew that it was the unmelodic English version of "intothenewworld" that has been played on the fleet radio recently, and it was said that this song was sung by the president of Titan and the others, but I don't know why this song has no accompanying music, only a cappella. But the lyrics of this song seem to be more or less in line with their current situation......