Chapter 128: Ghosts of the Sea
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As for the dismantled giant engine, Wu Hao didn't plan to keep it, but directly cut and disassembled it into all kinds of zero and steel scraps, but Wu Hao didn't throw away these steel scraps directly, but transferred them to a reserved cabin, which was specially reserved by Wu Hao as a temporary place for cargo and his aircraft.
After completing the core power modification of the cargo ship, Wu Hao took a day off before continuing to devote himself to other aspects of the cargo ship.
In fact, there are only a few places where this cargo ship needs to be refitted, the first is the power of the cargo ship, because since the cargo ship will sail in the sea for a long time in the future, there must be enough energy to refine and decompose seawater, and if you want to achieve this, you will naturally be inseparable from the foundation of some industries, that is, power.
Therefore, Wu Hao's first modification of the cargo ship was to build an independent sealed cabin and build a fusion reactor, so that it could replace the original diesel engine and traditional power generation mode of the cargo ship.
Only after solving the energy and power system of the cargo ship can he modify the subsequent parts of the cargo ship.
In the next few days, Wu Hao did not modify the seawater extraction and refining device of the cargo ship so quickly, because this part can be said to occupy almost half of the space of the cargo ship, except for the fusion reactor compartment of the cargo ship, it is the most important part of this part.
However, after Wu Hao completed the construction of the fusion reactor, he put this piece on the back burner for the time being, and began to modify the satellite navigation and radar systems of his cargo ships.
Wu Hao naturally didn't like the original radar and navigation devices of the cargo ship, and it didn't meet his needs, so the first thing he did was to disassemble all the original electronic systems and radar devices on the cargo ship, and then reassemble and debug them with various electronic components and parts that he transported from the base.
After nearly three days of busyness, the entire electronic system and satellite navigation and radar detection devices of the cargo ship have been completely renewed.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the cargo ship is now equipped with electronic systems and satellite navigation radar. It is much more high-end than the most advanced surface ships in the world at present.
For example, the largest detection distance of the world's active ship radar devices on the sea surface is about more than 300 kilometers, but the radar system that Wu Hao loaded on cargo ships is twice this distance, not to mention satellite navigation and electronic systems.
However, it is not much stronger in terms of satellite navigation, after all, the satellite that Wu Hao is using now is still a civilian-grade navigation satellite. And it's used secretly.
Although Wu Hao is completely capable of making a better navigation satellite system with the technology he currently masters, it is one thing to make it, and it is another thing to be able to send it safely to the sky.
After all, this launch of satellites into space cannot be hidden, and with the current capabilities of countries around the world, no matter where you launch a carrier rocket from the corner of the earth, it will be known.
Therefore, even if Wu Hao wants to launch his own satellite, it must be launched through regular channels, and in this case, he must not be able to do it in China, maybe he has this opportunity to launch his own satellite in the United States, and it is still legal. But. The satellite is not too urgent for Wu Hao now.
After the modification of the ship's electronic system and navigation radar, the safety and privacy of the cargo ship are now naturally improved by several levels.
Because, now the navigation radar of cargo ships can detect other ships hundreds of kilometers away, and then according to their navigation trajectory, so as to do and the ability of these ships to evade.
In other words, unless the other side calls in satellites to detect from the sky and on the sea, no warship or ship can touch a cargo ship head-on on the sea.
And even if satellites were used to investigate, there were no satellite coordinates of cargo ships. If you want to search directly by satellite in the vast Pacific Ocean, you can see how difficult it is if you think about it. And that's not even counting natural conditions such as weather. Therefore, unless the other party finds the satellite coordinates of the cargo ship through satellites, it is completely impossible to find Wu Hao's cargo ship in the vast Pacific Ocean.
The satellite coordinates of the cargo ship were set by Wu Hao himself, and unless someone had more computer hacking skills than Wu Hao, they would not be able to crack the highly secret coordinate code he set.
"Now that this cargo ship of mine has basically completely 'disappeared' from the world, in that case, let's call it the Ghost!" Come to think of it. Wu Hao quickly gave himself a new name for the cargo ship, and he ignored the original English name of the cargo ship.
The cargo ship Wu Hao bought from a shipping company in Hawaii, and the cargo ship also departed from Hawaii to arrive in the magic capital of China.
As for why the shipping company sold the ship, it is not difficult to explain, because in recent years it has become more and more difficult to do the shipping business in the bulk carrier sector. Many shipping companies have either gone out of business or put their own bulk carriers up for sale, all at very low prices.
The ship Wu Hao bought can be sold for 50 million US dollars, mainly because it is a new ship that has only been launched for two years, and the quality of the ship and the various equipment on board are much better than bulk carriers of the same tonnage, otherwise it will definitely not be worth 50 million US dollars.
For example, the price of some middle-aged, bulk carriers of the same tonnage is more than 10 million US dollars less than Wu Hao's, and some longer ones are either facing scrapping, or they are close to the price of cabbage, which can be won for only a few million US dollars.
It can be said that among the three kinds of ocean-going ships with different roles in the world, bulk carriers are much lower than container ships and oil tankers of the same tonnage, and some even have two bulk carriers The price is enough to buy an oil tanker or container ship of the same tonnage.
The reason why the price of bulk carriers is cheaper than container ships and oil tankers of the same tonnage is also because of their different uses, oil tankers as the name suggests are large ships specially used to carry oil, such ships usually have a tonnage of 200,000 to 300,000 tons, and some even as high as 40 to 500,000 tons, which is completely a supergiant.
The same is true for some container ships, and bulk carriers of 100,000 to 200,000 tons are already super large ships.
For example, the Panama-class freighter purchased by Wu Hao has a maximum loading capacity of 65,000 tons, which is a small number among bulk carriers of this class, but its actual displacement is almost close to 100,000 tons, and 65,000 tons is just its maximum safe carrying capacity.
…… (To be continued.) )