Chapter 652: Gibraltar

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At the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on a narrow peninsula on the Mediterranean coast, lies a triangular rocky area.

There are no rivers, no springs, no arable land, and almost no one wants to live here, so it can be said that almost no one wants to live here.

However, the geographical location is quite important, as it borders the Gibraltar region of Spain to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the east, west and south. The southern part of it faces the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the choke point for the sea passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.

Yes, this is Gibraltar. Due to its unique geographical location, it has been a small land with few resources, but the British and Spain have been fighting for it for more than 300 years.

Gibraltar is the bridgehead on the northern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar and is able to effectively control the sea lanes. It is only a dozen kilometers away from the port of Ceuta on the southern shore of the strait, and it is easy to blockade the strait.

In particular, with the opening of the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal have played a role in shortening the maritime distance between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

In 1588, an unprecedented naval battle was fought between England and Spain, which ended in the destruction of the Spanish "Armada". The war established Britain as the world's leading naval power, and laid the foundation for the "empire on which the sun never sets".

This was the beginning of the rise of the British, and then, in 1704, the British and the Netherlands launched the Spanish War and captured Gibraltar, which became a British colony.

Geographically, Gibraltar was entirely on Spanish territory, but it became a British colony, so over the years, Spain has never given up its claim to recover Gibraltar's sovereignty, but unfortunately, there has been no progress.

As an empire on which the sun never sets, Britain has a strong military power, and now, Britain has built various military bases in Gibraltar, which is one of the most important strategic points for Britain.

It is a pity that the British fleet no longer has the glory it used to be.

With the fall of the H Fleet, Britain's maritime supremacy once again faced serious challenges, including in the Mediterranean!

The British have been anxious all the time, but what they didn't expect was that even the French actually launched an attack on them!

Perhaps, in the eyes of the British, it was already good that they did not fight others, especially France, in their eyes, it was France who did wrong, they actually surrendered to Germany, and actually stood with their enemies!

The French navy should all be transferred to Britain and under British command, so it is correct!

As for the French actually fighting back, this is really something that no one expected.

The sun slowly slipped down from the west, and when the last rays of the setting sun disappeared into the sea to the west, the whole of Gibraltar also entered darkness.

This was originally a land of projectiles, and it can even be said that the inhabitants of Gibraltar now live mainly by serving the British ** team, and now, as soon as it gets dark, this place has stopped.

If you look at the topography map, you can see that a huge mountain range occupies almost the entire eastern and central parts of Gibraltar, which is the Gibraltar Rock Mountain.

It seems to have appeared out of nowhere, standing like a rocky mountain towering above the sea, and there are few places in the world that are more memorable than the Rock of Gibraltar.

This majestic 1,396-foot-tall limestone mountain belonging to the Jurassic period was the result of a violent collision between the African and European plates about 55 million years ago.

Therefore, this rock mountain is also a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially when the British occupied this place, and built a complex system of underground exits and tunnels, it can be said that it is impregnable.

Otherwise, the Spaniards would have sent troops to occupy this place long ago.

At the same time, in the western part of this rocky mountain, it is a flat land, and it is also a natural harbor, and the main inhabitants live in the middle of the west side of the rocky mountain.

Although in the northern part of the city there is a power station dedicated to the use of the entire city, during this period, priority is given to the supply of electricity to the troops, and ordinary citizens are in a state of darkness at night.

High on the rocky mountain, a MK LV-MK VL radar is in working condition, and a steady stream of electricity, through its antenna, radiates out, and turns into electromagnetic waves, scanning the sea.

In this era, Germany's radio technology has come to the forefront, especially the development of transistors, which has allowed Germany to leapfrog this era, and at the same time, British electronic technology is also distinctive.

In 35 years, Britain also invented radar, and now deployed here is a sea surface search radar specially developed for naval coastal defense forces.

As long as Gibraltar is occupied, it can control the strait here, which is equivalent to blocking the throat of the Mediterranean, a strategic point that Britain has always attached great importance to.

Now, in the engine room, several British soldiers are on duty.

Next to the radar, there are also high-power searchlights, and in general, they will turn on the searchlight only after the radar finds the target, after all, the radar can observe much farther than the searchlight.

Time passed little by little, and the radar soldiers kept rubbing their eyes, and this kind of task was quite boring and eye-consuming.

Suddenly, on the radar screen in front of him, there was a snowflake.

In an instant, he was stunned, and then he couldn't help but shout in wonder: "John, our machine is out of order again!" ”

Radars of this era, the reliability is quite low, various failures often occur, and in general, the probability of the tube burning out is the greatest.

For radar soldiers, it is also a basic task to check for faults.

Hearing his shout, John walked to the cabinet next to him and opened the outside door, inside, there were dense electronic circuits, and you could see that one by one "light bulbs" were on, and these bulbs were tubes.

Which one is black, it means that there is a malfunction, and they were very experienced before.

But this time, I opened the cabinet door, but I didn't see that the bulb was black.

Oops, if the other electronic circuits fail, that's a problem! The two of them immediately frowned.

"Report to the commander that our radar is broken, and ask them to send an engineer to repair it." Said the radar squad leader.

Well, the rest of the time, they can sleep soundly.

In general, ships sail from here during the day, what can they have at night?

Leaning back in the chair, soon, they fell asleep, they didn't know that their comfort had made a big mistake!

Their radar wasn't broken, those snowflakes were jammed by a high-powered jammer in nearby Spain!

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