Chapter 443: The Stressed Navy

The USS Minsk, the USS Minsk, a former Soviet aircraft carrier that has been modernizing and refitting in the port of Jeddah, Bangladesh, has been carrying out protection missions off the coast of Angola, mainly circling around the drilling platform, but with such a powerful aircraft carrier in charge, there is no problem in terms of safety for oil development in coastal areas and offshore areas. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, the deck of this aircraft carrier has been simply modified to take off and land carrier-based aircraft of the Shield Guardian 1 type, but the naval department of the mercenary corps, there are currently ten American-made aircraft carriers alone, and there is no need to refit the Minsk, defined as a helicopter carrier, whose main role is anti-submarine and anti-ship.

Angola is so rich in oil and gas that Atlantis Mineral Resources has built more than 20 drilling rigs here, which are lit up at night. Several platforms have long, thick pipes extending from the seabed, carrying a steady stream of crude oil from the seabed to tankers, which is then transported to Ukolan and Huaxia for US dollars.

With the call from the naval headquarters, the captain of the ship suddenly issued a series of orders, and the more than 1,200 people on the aircraft carrier suddenly entered a state of first-level combat readiness. If the French Triumph-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine sank this aircraft carrier, then the navy would not be able to explain to the boss.

The aircraft carrier has adopted the method of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, and on the surface there seems to be nothing, but the anti-submarine system has been fully activated, monitoring the surrounding sea area 24 hours a day, and all weapons have also entered the firing state, and can be used for anti-submarine warfare at any time.

Two of the four Sierra class attack nuclear submarines hidden at the port of Bont nuclear submarine base in Sierra Leone arrived in the waters north of Angola ahead of schedule, made contact with the aircraft carriers, and hid underwater waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

The commander of the nuclear submarine force, Flor, personally entered the Sierra class K-336 Okun nuclear submarine this time, and it is also the fourth nuclear submarine of this class to command the operation. These nuclear submarines made in the former Soviet Union have their own names, but Wu Chen is suspicious of twisting his mouth, and they are generally replaced by serial numbers, and the navy of the mercenary regiment also calls the nuclear submarines in this way.

The reason why this nuclear submarine was named No. 4 is because it belongs to the last and fourth nuclear submarine of the Sierra class, which has been in service for less than seven years, and is a relatively new deep-sea ghost.

The Sierra class attack nuclear submarine is a well-known model in the history of nuclear submarines, more than 100 meters long and 14 meters wide, and a behemoth with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons.

The underwater self-sustaining time of the Sierra class nuclear submarine is a hundred days, but since the mercenary navy received it, it has not performed such a mission, hiding in the sea during the day and floating at night to breathe fresh air, but in order to hunt the Triumph-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, these two nuclear submarines have not surfaced since they came to the sea.

"Commander, have a cup of coffee to refresh yourself, all our search radars, reconnaissance radars and all kinds of sonar are all activated, there are special personnel on duty 24 hours a day, the newly upgraded and modified electronic system is the cutting-edge technology from the US Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarine, as long as the French Triumph-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine dares to approach this sea area, it will definitely be discovered by us!" Joseph, the captain of the four, poured himself a cup of coffee.

"Joseph, you don't know, I'm under a lot of pressure at the moment, in fact, the pressure on His Excellency Denis, the commander of the Navy, is even greater, since the establishment of the navy, the boss has implemented a strategy of resource tilting, and the funds are allocated first, but because there are no outstanding achievements, the navy has been ridiculed by the air force and the army, saying that we are a pension unit with a high salary!"

"And the situation of the nuclear submarine force is even worse, we have hardly carried out any decent tasks, and there are no bright spots for people to see, the most conspicuous thing is that there are six Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, as well as the two Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarines, as the commander, my face is really ugly." The commander of the nuclear submarine forces, Flor, said with a frown.

Of course, there will be competition between the various arms, and Joseph also understands the difficulties of his superiors, the air force and army of the mercenary corps are the absolute main force of many missions since its establishment, and in the eyes of the militaries of all countries in the world, they are all well-known elite forces.

However, the navy has an astonishing number of first-rate warships, but they have hardly played any role, and watching the successive victories of the air force and the army make the officers and men of the navy up and down feel very embarrassed and very unpleasant.

The Navy's nuclear submarine force is even more aggrieved, with 81 of the world's most advanced nuclear submarines, second only to the United States in quantity and quality, and even Russia's nuclear submarines in service cannot be used as an opponent.

However, as a high-tech branch of the armed forces, the treatment of officers and men of nuclear submarines is also the highest in the regiment, and even the most ordinary soldiers have an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars. If you don't work every day, in addition to studying and training, you also get such a high salary, no one feels awkward.

According to the decision of the meeting at the beginning of the year, the boss will add 15 more Deep Blue-class attack nuclear submarines and 30 Atlantis-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines to the nuclear submarine force, plus the relevant facilities attached to them, and the investment will reach $6 billion at a time.

"This time the boss ordered to attack the Triumph-class nuclear submarine of the French Navy, and clearly requested to capture one as a trophy, which is a chance for our nuclear submarine force to perform, if the chain is returned in such a situation, then there will be no face to see the boss again!" Flor continued.

Wu Chen didn't know that his subordinates would have such a conversation, he was attending the awards party in the venue of the Grand Theater of the Temple at the moment, even if he knew, he wouldn't care, an army without competition and threat would have no explosive power and combat effectiveness, but he was happy to see such a situation.

The navy is an important strategic force in his reserves, and if it does not play a role now, it does not mean that this will be the case in the future; each of the three arms has its own purpose, and what the navy can do, the air force and the army cannot do; warships are mobile fortresses and mobile sea-based missile launching platforms.

For example, the hunt for the Triumph-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine is the best example, if the French know the strength of the nuclear submarine force, they will be scared to death, and they will definitely not take out their own treasures to die.