Chapter 865: The Special Anglo-American Relationship

"It was the Chileans who gave it to the Argentinians, not me! It seems that things are getting a little bigger! Serov muttered to himself, then put down the phone. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info If Britain can't even find out what country's missiles have sunk its own aircraft carrier, it will also be too much to live up to the name of the old imperialists.

I don't feel much about Alexei's accusations of military blindness, and people are not wrong, he is originally military blind.

It is conceivable that as long as Britain understands the distance between the aircraft carrier Invincible and the silence of Argentina, it will definitely be able to figure out that the Soviet Union is the only one in the world that can have such a long-range anti-ship missile. Moreover, Soviet weapons are not difficult to detect, as long as you find someone to compare them, you can know that it is a Soviet granite anti-ship missile.

The Granite is a third-generation long-range anti-ship missile of the Soviet Union, a large supersonic anti-ship missile propelled by a rocket ramjet engine. With a total length of 10.5 meters and a weight of 6.98 tons, the SS-N-19 can be launched from a vertical launcher, has a maximum range of 500-550 km, a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.5, and can be equipped with a 500kt equivalent nuclear warhead or a 750 kg semi-armor-piercing high-explosive warhead. The SS-N-19 uses inertial / command correction / active radar guidance.

Depending on the weight of the warhead, the range is of course all different, and if the range is 600 kilometers away, it must be that the Argentines have reduced the weight of the warhead, but as Alexei said, even if the warhead is reduced, the Granite, which was originally used to hit American aircraft carriers, can sink the British light aircraft carrier Invincible.

For specific intelligence, Serov also has to practice as an intelligence officer in Argentina. Considering that he still didn't do it, the British would have reported it, and he could have saved a little energy.

The sinking of the aircraft carrier Invincible had a completely different effect in Britain and Argentina. As the Soviet Ministry of Defense said after the sinking of the destroyer Sheffield, from now on the British Empire could not get even the slightest bit of awe from the countries of the world, and all the newspapers of the whole of Britain were occupied by the news of the sinking of the aircraft carrier Invincible.

The same is true of the Argentine side, which is diametrically opposed to the British sentiment, and the news of the sinking of the aircraft carrier Invincible has once again aroused Argentina's enthusiasm for fighting, and the demonstrations in support of the war have come and gone, if this is a bloody battle, at least for now.

Soon a question took over everyone's minds, what was the sinking of the aircraft carrier Invincible. Just as the sinking of the Shelfield made the French Exocet famous, the weapons that sank the aircraft carrier Invincible made people look forward to it even more.

"Are Argentines sick, not their own things, not distressed, right?" When Serov saw the war report, he thought that it was not Argentina that had done it, but the United States or the Soviet Union.

For one aircraft carrier, the USS Invincible, Argentina fired sixteen Granite anti-ship missiles, seven of which stalled halfway because of insufficient charge, and four did not find their targets. Three were intercepted by the USS Invincible, and only two concentrated the British HMS Invincible, but it was these two heavy anti-ship missiles that sank the important strategic projection forces that Britain does not have much today.

"I have a heart condition, don't mention anti-ship missiles to me, it has nothing to do with me, it was given to Argentina by Chile!" At the meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, Serov was at a loss, and last night he had been fooling around with his little secretary in his arms, and his malaise was definitely not faked, it was definitely a hollowed out body.

"I didn't say that it was your responsibility, but Comrade Gromyko was very busy at the moment." Defense Minister Ustinov is not dissatisfied, any weapon must be combated, and you can't always have your own precious good things, so that the enemy will not see it, right?

From the sinking of the British aircraft carrier Invincible, that is, two days ago, the US Navy's fleet monitoring the Soviet Red Navy retreated another 200 nautical miles, and it is obvious that the US Navy has already estimated from the site where the British aircraft carrier sank, what is the ultimate range of the Granite anti-ship missile, and the earlier confrontation distance was wrong, and it cannot guarantee its own safety.

This retreat was also noticed by some countries, and the British newspapers had already disclosed the news that Argentina had used the Granite anti-ship missile, and for a time the Granite anti-ship missile became famous, offsetting the French Exocet that sank the destroyer Sheffield.

In the midst of the global uproar, the Soviet Union received numerous letters of protest from Britain and fierce accusations from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but Mrs. Thatcher did not get a little cheap from Gromyko, the famous Mr. Shake Shake. Gromyko was the foreign minister of the Soviet Union, but in fact he was not a diplomat in his early years, and he was valued because he studied papers as a scholar and evaluated the export of American capital and the economic crisis of the United States.

Therefore, Gromyko was the first in the presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union to think that Serov was right, that Britain and the United States focused on the financial industry was completely a chronic suicide, and as long as the Soviet Union withstood the most difficult moment, it could bring the end of the Cold War.

Margaret Thatcher received two sentences from Gromyko, first, that this matter had nothing to do with the Soviet Union. It was Chile that gave it to Argentina, and the USSR did not interfere. Second, Gromy Cotten made a long speech criticizing the imperialists who had started the war, and at the same time said that at this time, Britain and Argentina had negotiated a solution to the problem.

Negotiation? Probably Argentina is willing to negotiate now, and Britain will not negotiate. The Falklands War had already made Britain a big show in front of the whole world, and if they did not retake the island, then Britain would be no different from defeat. Margaret Thatcher failed at the outset in advocating a greater role for Britain in diplomacy.

"We can't go on like this, if we ignore the current difficult situation of Britain, the whole NATO will no longer trust us, even Argentina will make us worry, when we really face the Soviet Union, who dares to let us protect?" Reagan said categorically, "End the war quickly and don't give the Soviet Union a chance to intervene in Latin America." ”

Who is more important, the UK or Argentina, and this kind of question is still a choice? The United States supports Britain not only because if it does not side with Britain, it will have serious consequences for American strategic interests, and the loss of this close ally of the United States will make it much more difficult for the NATO bloc to be aligned on military, economic, diplomatic and other issues.

Britain was an important ally of the United States against the Soviet Union in Europe, and Argentina was insignificant compared to Britain. On foreign issues, NATO countries are always unanimous, even if France has stopped Argentina's arms purchase contract.

Another reason is that Argentina dared to use force when the United States did not nod its head, and it really did not take the United States seriously, the Americas are the Americas of the Americans, and Reagan could not tolerate that if he did not nod, another American country would use force, and this right only belonged to the United States itself.

If Argentina had the strength, Reagan would have thought about it, but the problem was that Argentina didn't. Compared with the US allies in Western Europe, the US allies in Latin America are very indisputable, and not only do they not have the relative economic advantage of Western Europe over Eastern Europe. On the contrary, in terms of per capita indicators, the allies of the United States lag behind Cuba and Chile. It's not that the enemy is too strong, it's that Latin American countries are too weak.

After all this consideration, Reagan decided to come to Britain's aid and end the war as soon as possible. As for the grievances in Latin America, they can be resolved slowly later, and if Britain loses this war, the impact on the confrontation in Europe will be decisive.

"Okay, to express the support of our team, the United Kingdom, do you want the Secretary of State to go?" Vice President Bush has no objection to this matter, and normal people know how to choose between Britain and Argentina.

"I'm going in person, Prime Minister Thatcher is under a lot of pressure, and I'm going to come forward to show my support for her." Reagan made up his mind, and he had contact with Margaret Thatcher. Personally, this woman is very difficult to contact, even if the two are now standing together in the trenches, and the friendship between the two countries is limited to the treatment of the Soviet Union.

Reagan now had no choice, such as helping Margaret Thatcher, once Britain was defeated, he could not find another ally to fight alongside him, the French were as unreliable as ever, and the Germans could not do more in the face of Soviet pressure.

Mrs. Thatcher is indeed under tremendous pressure now, especially after the sinking of the aircraft carrier Invincible, because no one knows how many Soviet anti-ship missiles there are in Argentina, and the Soviets know it, but the Soviets, who are still saying that Britain is imperial, should not tell them.

There have been voices to end the war, and this voice believes that if war breaks out, hostility will arise and Britain will lose the support of the international community. The Foreign Secretary was of the view that Britain should be open to the document. We don't give in to each other. The draft agreement provided for the British task force to leave the designated area within a week and completely disappear after fifteen days. This would completely deprive us of military influence over the withdrawal process. Secondly, the sanctions against Argentina will be lifted from the date of signing the agreement.

Of course, this was the day the aircraft carrier Invincible was sunk, and now that the United States had thought about it, Margaret Thatcher, who was in a state of anxiety, soon received the latest attitude from Washington, the United States sent a fleet to help the British movement to land troops, and the carrier had the opportunity to cover the landing of the British expeditionary force and seize the Falklands.

"We absolutely cannot tolerate the aggressive behavior of Argentina!" Later, U.S. President Ronald Reagan made a public statement on behalf of the United States for the first time about the Falklands and expressed his willingness to assist Britain in ending the war as soon as possible.

Subsequently, Reagan said that he would visit Britain in half a month, and at the same time as Reagan made his statement, the US Home Fleet still replenished fuel for the British task force and mobilized a batch of steel plates to repair the British task force.

This move is sure to arouse anti-American interest in Latin America, but simply commenting on the war, "Argentina is finished!" ”

"The next generation of Meteorite anti-ship missiles did not go well, several launches failed, and it was troublesome." Serov is not paying attention to Argentina, the United States intervenes, unless aliens help Argentina, and it is estimated that Argentina will surrender in a few days.