"It has been confirmed, all thirty-six crew members have been found, only three have been slightly injured, and the others are fine."

Hearing the report, Wang Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked towards Yunlong.

Yun Long's expression was also obviously much more relaxed.

Wang Dong didn't ask much, he didn't want to know if there was anything greasy in this, because even if he knew, he couldn't blame Yunlong for this.

Anyway, it's good that people are okay.

"What about tankers?"

"The fire was big and the engine had stopped. Saudi and Kuwaiti rescue ships will arrive in a few hours, and I am afraid it will be too late. ”

"How much oil is being spilled?"

"At present, it is judged that it is more than 10,000 tons. If the fire is not controlled, it will definitely be more serious. ”

Yunlong nodded slightly, waved his hand again, and took the person away.

"It was an accident."

Wang Dong still didn't speak, because he felt that the accident Yunlong said was not an attack on the oil tanker, but an explosion that occurred afterwards.

Perhaps, this is not an accident at all.

"You go and rest, I'm watching here. There's new news, I'll call you. ”

"No, I'd like to sit for a while."

Yunlong nodded, and didn't bother Wang Dong anymore.

The oil tanker in Huaxia was attacked, and now the matter is very big.

Of course, strictly speaking, it was a Panamanian oil tanker, but the owner and cargo owner were Chinese enterprises.

Registering in Panama and flying the flag of Panama is nothing more than to avoid taxes, which is an international common practice, that is, the tax of a few countries such as Panama is extremely low.

After sitting for a while, Wang Dong got up and left the command center and went to the restaurant.

It was already past eight o'clock, and the breakfast was very rich, but Wang Dong didn't have much appetite, so he asked for a glass of milk and a few refined breads.

In the Royal Guard, the food is definitely not bad.

There were not many officers and soldiers who came to eat, because at this time, most of the officers and soldiers of the Royal Guard had not yet gotten up, and they would not be lively until after nine o'clock.

The TV hanging from the ceiling was playing the morning news.

When Wang Dong sat down, the picture changed.

Saudi state television was the first to report on the attack on an oil tanker by an Iranian anti-ship missile, and the footage was from a search and rescue helicopter ahead.

Remember getting on a search and rescue helicopter?

If it was a helicopter from the TV station, it would certainly not have been possible to arrive at the scene so quickly.

Besides, it is only a few dozen kilometers away from the warring sea area, which is a military-controlled area, and the helicopter of the television station may not be able to obtain a permit to fly.

Obviously, this was already scheduled.

In the report, the presenter highlighted that the anti-ship missiles came from Iranian missile boats, and for good reason, that in previous battles, only Iranian missile boats fired anti-ship missiles, Kuwaiti speedboats did not launch missiles, and the missiles flew from the north.

All in all, Iranian missile boats attacked the supertanker with anti-ship missiles.

It's just that the host didn't mention whether it was a deliberate attack or a mistakenly injury.

It sounds more like a deliberate attack.

Let's not forget that only two anti-ship missiles hit the ship, and one of them hit the tanker, and if it was accidentally damaged, it would have been too coincidental.

A little more than ten minutes later, Kuwaiti national television joined in.

This time, the footage is from a high-speed patrol boat.

It was also the first patrol boat to arrive on the scene.

Because it was only a patrol boat of several tens of tons, it could not do anything other than circle around the tanker, let alone extinguish the fire on the tanker.

Its greatest contribution is to capture the damage to the tanker from a closer distance.

The point of impact was about five metres above the tanker's waterline, and the ship's plank at the site of the explosion was rolled outward, indicating that the explosion occurred inside the hull.

Obviously, this fully corresponds to the characteristics of anti-ship missiles.

Quite simply, the "Victory" is designed specifically to deal with battleships, with a delayed-time fuze semi-armor-piercing warhead, which does not explode immediately when hitting the target, but delays by tens to hundreds of milliseconds, ensuring that the warhead can penetrate the shell of the battleship, and then detonate inside the battleship.

If the explosion occurs outside the hull, the planks at the site of the explosion should be curled inward.

It is clear that the anti-ship missile, having penetrated the hull of the tanker, detonated when it hit the inner hull, and the inner hull was destroyed.

It is precisely because of this that the crude oil inside is leaking.

Because the propellant of the anti-ship missile had not yet run out, a part of the leaked crude oil was immediately ignited, and the crude oil that was not ignited rose into oil and gas under the action of high temperatures.

After a certain level of enrichment, the oil and gas explode.

The fire engulfed almost the entire tanker, not to mention that it would take several hours for the rescue ship to arrive, and even if it did, it would not be able to save the tanker.

At present, the best result is that all 400,000 tons of crude oil on the tanker will be burned.

Otherwise, 400,000 tons of crude oil will leak out, and the environmental damage caused will last for several years, or even more than ten years.

However, the probability of the best outcome is almost zero, because tens of thousands of tons of crude oil have already been spilled, and the tanker looks like it will sink soon.

After the sinking of the tanker, the crude oil that was not burned will leak!

Wang Dong felt very uncomfortable, because this disaster could have been avoided.

"It reminds me of the Iran-Iraq war."

Hearing this, Wang Dong looked back and saw that he was a veteran in his fifties.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I didn't think to bother you, I just ......"

"It's okay, you said the Iran-Iraq war?"

The veteran nodded and said, "At that time, such things were simply commonplace, in fact, as long as you get used to it, anything is fine." ”

Wang Dong smiled bitterly, he was not so artificial.

"When the Iraqi army retreated from Kuwait, it set fire to all the oil fields. What now? How many others remember? War is not terrible, what is terrible is that there is no end in sight. Either way, I have always believed that one day in the future we will forget about these disasters that are happening now. ”

Wang Dong was slightly stunned, yes, ending the war can end everything.

"Sir, what else do you need?"

"No need, I'm sorry for you."

In fact, Wang Dong drank a few sips of milk, and those slices of bread were not touched at all.

The Saudi veteran was not involved in the Iran-Iraq war, and perhaps not in the Gulf War, but he has witnessed several wars over the past few decades.

For all the people in this country, in this region, war is perhaps a daily routine.

As an outsider, why complain?

Although you have to talk about means in peacetime, but on the battlefield, who will talk about means?

The so-called "laws of international war" are nothing more than to restrain weak and small countries. Among other things, the United States has not signed an international convention prohibiting the use of inhumane weapons such as dummy bombs, cluster bombs, and landmines, and has arbitrarily trampled on the sovereignty of other countries according to its own standards.