Chapter 229: Don't Approach the Living
The sunset is still shining, and the sunset is full of sky. Occasionally, a dull explosion can be heard in the Mediterranean Sea on Israel's west coast, as if it is still seeing off the fading Grim Reaper.
More than 50 frigates, destroyers, and supply ships of various types have been lit into torches, burning tenaciously on the rippling sea, desperately releasing their last bit of energy.
The sea was littered with the corpses of officers and soldiers and messy debris, and many more struggled in the water, trying to swim to the shore not very far away. But often an explosion is followed by something, whether it's a screw in the turret, a shattered phased array radar, or a heavy, sharp piece of hull armor......
They are torn apart by the explosion, flying aimlessly in the air, and always end up on the head of one or a group of unlucky people, adding a splash of blood to the sea of fire.
This is the trajectory of death, just as the direction of the Death Scythe wield.
People shouted in the sea, gambling their fate in the baptism of debris. Life or death is no longer a proposition they can choose.
Could it be that from the shores of the distant Americas, across the vast Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas, just to come to the Middle East for the Ball of Death?
As the torches were lit one after another, the flames soon reflected the sea red, the smoke gradually obscured the sky, and the beautiful sunset and sunset of the Mediterranean Sea also disappeared, and the pungent smell of baking and lingering darkness quickly replaced between heaven and earth.
A large Ticonderoga-class warship could not withstand the verdict of death, nor could it resist the powerful pull of the sea god, and finally sank into the warm Mediterranean. The huge whirlpool brought out by it sucked the surrounding US officers and soldiers who were desperately paddling into the seabed, and became the freshest dinner for the swimming fish.
However, it was not this warship that took that part of the life, and before that, the slightly smaller tonnage "Ali Burke" class and the larger tonnage supply ships had begun to sink gradually.
This stretch of water in the eastern Mediterranean is today a veritable graveyard of warships! A sailor's graveyard!
From afar, dozens of huge whirlpools are appearing on the surface of the sea. They took away not only the hull itself, but also almost all the people who were still struggling to escape for their lives in this area!
When the sea is completely calm, how many escort ships of the two US aircraft carrier formations will survive? How many well-trained and arrogant American sailors can escape with their lives?
However, if one calmly reads the satellite photographs of that time, one will be surprised to find that in the midst of this mass of flames and whirlpools, the aircraft carriers "Roosevelt" and "Truman" themselves, except for the warplanes and open-air facilities on the deck that were completely destroyed, and the command tower was blackened by the fire, the rest of the equipment was completely normal!
In other words, as soon as the deck is repaired, the two US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will be able to immediately restore their combat effectiveness.
Of course, this is on the condition of ensuring that all missiles do not turn back......
But in any case, the two largest tonnage ships survived alone.
But what was once a battleship formation was now only two tattered, smoky motherships. Even after the engineer on the "Roosevelt" climbed up from the bilge, he couldn't help but look at the emptiness around the aircraft carrier in disbelief, leaving only the debris, corpses and survivors who were chasing with the waves.
"They were all there just now, beautiful and majestic......"
What people will never forget is still the unparalleled glory of the empire.
But from the point of view of the Chinese, this is: "Retribution!" ”
The Arabs are more direct:
"Well deserved! Who told you to come to my house to grab something! ”
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"With almost no analysis, we can almost be sure that this must be the crime committed by the stealth space bomber!"
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral McKinson, spoke eloquently. Across from him sat the president, the secretary of state, and the director of the CIA, but the general's eyes fell on the sea, which was still boiling to this day.
The prismatic body of water, like a sparkling iron, burned everyone's teeth and pained unbearably.
The whole two aircraft carrier battle groups took only an hour...... It's just gone?
That's it!
Perhaps the hulls of the two aircraft carriers could be dragged back to buy some scrap iron, and the rest of the supporting ships, including the six "Los Angeles" class attack nuclear submarines underwater, all carried their sailors and sank to the cold bottom of the sea on this supposed warm and beautiful evening.
If the warship is gone, it can be rebuilt. I believe that those arms dealers in China will not be depressed by the sinking of dozens of ships, let alone sad by the disappearance of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. In fact, as long as enough dollars are paid, even if the United States tows these ships on the spot to be target ships, the arms dealers will count the bills while dipping their saliva in saliva and ask with a smile:
"Do you want another one?"
The warship is not important, the more than 10,000 sailors who have been trained for a long time and cooperate with each other are important!
If two new aircraft carrier battle groups are to be formed, how can they form combat effectiveness if they do not have three or five years of training?
It's like the relationship between a fighter plane and a pilot. Aircraft can be quickly deployed from the production line to the airport, but without a pilot?
"No one knew the actual combat performance of this aircraft before," Director James said with a gloomy face, "including its bomb load!" ”
"But in any case, we now suspect that with the bomb load of an air and space bomber, even if it is an improved version of a military transport aircraft, it is impossible to sink all the dependent ships of the entire two aircraft carrier formations!"
The director finished speaking in one breath, and then stared at the president's face that was about to wring out the water, nodded fiercely and shouted:
"Therefore, we suspect that the so-called 'space logistics' company has not only sold a bomber to the Arab League! And according to the analysis, we roughly estimate that the number is at least about ten, and maybe even more! ”
The Secretary of State lifted his beautiful gold-rimmed glasses and said with a suspicious face:
"If you can provide the cross, then ...... Theoretically, there could be more, so ......"
Everyone's hearts were instantly lifted, and all eyes were turned to a sea in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
There, is the staging place of the US Fifth Fleet and the aircraft carrier "Lincoln". There, most likely, it will be the scene of the next feast of death.
That's the stage of the Grim Reaper!
Do not approach the living.