Li Lan's figure was finally seen by the sharp-eyed engineers, an engineer wearing a yellow helmet, his face covered with oil, and a pair of heavy gloves on his hands, hurriedly walked over.

When he got closer, the engineer untied the gloves on his hands, gave Li Lan a military salute and said, "Welcome the commander and General Natasha to come and inspect."

"I'm busy with you, I'm just here to see, don't be restrained." Li Lan waved her hand, signaling that the other party did not need to be so polite.

"I'll take you to see it! It's dirty and messy here. The engineer spoke again.

Li Lan first glanced at the various equipment and tools around her. and a number of lines connected to the interior of the submarine and inside the eight torpedo tubes in the bow of the boat, and then nodded.

"By the way, did you think about this submarine in this way?" As he walked closer to the submarine, Li Lan asked.

"Based on the results of the scientists' consultation with us, we intend to fix it. The hull is not very difficult, but the electronics inside are more troublesome, and you have to be careful to fumble around, and it takes a long time to complete. ”

"It's good to have an idea, this thing is a treasure, the most expensive attack nuclear submarine in the world, the value of it is not simply 3.2 billion US dollars." Li Lanba smacked his mouth a few times, and said with some yin and yang weirdness.

"Please rest assured, commander, we will definitely find out the equipment and functions inside."

Li Lan nodded and continued, "Take us inside for a walk." ”

"Please follow me."

Led by the engineer, Li Lan and Natasha soon came to the interior of the submarine.

As soon as you enter the interior of the submarine, the smell will not be talked about. It's definitely not much better, but the space inside makes Li Lan a little surprised. It's not the same as the small environment you imagined. The space inside this submarine feels not tight at all. On the contrary, there is a lot of room to move, especially in the control center, where eight seats are placed side by side with their backs to each other, and there is a space in the middle that can accommodate three people walking at the same time.

As soon as Li Lan came in, the engineer began to introduce him to the basic situation of the submarine: "The difference between this submarine and other submarines is its multi-mission platform (MMP) configuration, which lengthens the entire hull by 30 meters and increases the displacement by 2,500 tons. The MMP enhances the submarine's ability to hold loads, allowing the submarine to develop and test a new generation of weapons, sensors and underwater vehicles using advanced technology. At the same time, the boat also retains the characteristics of the first two Seawolf-class ships that are fast, quiet and have strong underwater combat capabilities.

And this submarine also has many American design features. In terms of personnel comfort, full design considerations have been made. Even in the personnel living cabin, there is a simulated sunlight, as well as a sunbathing place, a swimming pool, and a gymnasium, and the living facilities are very sound. ”

Li Lan gently swiped his fingers over the electronic devices in the control center and asked, "What about weapons?"

"We found a total of twelve Tomahawk cruise missiles, eighteen Whaling Fork anti-ship missiles, and twenty torpedoes. There are also hundreds of mines. These weapons are already in full condition for this submarine. ”

"Why is there only so little?" The data given by the engineer is only the loading capacity of a normal nuclear submarine, but this Carter is thirty meters larger than a normal nuclear submarine. The weapons inside have not increased, so the increase in the length of thirty meters is really just for the multi-tasking platform?

"Hmm. Most of the things on this submarine are actually tools for intelligence gathering, whether it is a multi-mission platform or the equipment in the control center. A lot of it is used for intelligence gathering. The engineer replied, gently fiddling with the electronics in the cabin. Then he said helplessly: "It's a pity that these devices have been immersed in seawater, and they must be repaired and prepared before they can be turned on." According to our estimates, there must be a large amount of intelligence stored in these devices, and it is impossible for a submarine to transmit the real-time collected intelligence out of the submarine, and it must be stored inside the submarine first, and then the intelligence will be transmitted out of the submarine after returning or after it has surfaced. ”

"There's no rush on this. Everything is in your hands, and it is only a matter of time before you get this information. Li Lan replied calmly.

Today's Li Lan is not the ordinary person he once was, and he knows a lot of little-known secrets. From the land-based listening stations scattered all over the world, to the aerial reconnaissance planes flying at the gates of other countries, to the various types of reconnaissance satellites in space, the Americans' "ears" are getting longer and longer, and all countries and regions in the world are within the scope of their eavesdropping, and military, political, economic, and other intelligence is constantly converging to the headquarters of the US National Security Agency.

Of course, the US surveillance network will not let go of the sea and will spread it into the ocean. With Jimmy. The USS Carter multi-mission nuclear submarine was officially commissioned in '05, and the United States will be able to eavesdrop on the fiber optic cables laid by other countries on the bottom of the sea. The "ears" of the Americans, after reaching out from land to space, went deep into the ocean.

Before the end of the 80s of the 20th century, short-wave communications and satellite communications were responsible for 90% of the world's voice and data communications, and even top-secret diplomatic cables were mainly sent through these two means, but they were encrypted. The US National Security Agency, which is responsible for surveillance matters, has been operating for decades and has spent huge sums of money to build a huge eavesdropping network that can cover the whole world, including a group of land-based listening stations in the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, and other countries, as well as spy satellites, reconnaissance planes, and reconnaissance ships. It is precisely by relying on these listening devices that the United States can almost wipe out all of the world's voice and data communications.

Even the submarine copper cable transatlantic telephone, which is considered the most secret by many countries, has been picked up by the US National Security Agency. In the 70s and 80s of the last century, American agents used the spy submarine Polk to conduct large-scale eavesdropping on the submarine copper cables on the Pacific coast of the former Soviet Union. However, submarines have to collect tapping tapes every few months after installing bugs along the submarine cables, which is time-consuming and laborious, and the information obtained is often outdated. This was eventually betrayed by a spy, and its eavesdropping device became an exhibit in the KGB Museum in Moscow.

The emergence of submarine fiber optic cables has made this practice of the United States begin to lose its effectiveness. The outside of the submarine fiber optic cable is wrapped with a thick steel sheath, and most of the fiber optic cables are located on the seabed at a depth of several hundred or even thousands of meters, and are generally buried in the seabed at a depth of 1 meter. Not to mention eavesdropping, it's not so easy to find it in the middle of nowhere. As more and more transoceanic phone calls, texts, data files and e-mails are transferred to submarine fiber optic cables, the information that can be captured by traditional eavesdropping methods is becoming less and less.

The NSA, of course, was not going to sit idly by, and the golden age of eavesdropping on global communications was over, and the idea of eavesdropping on submarine fiber optic cables began – albeit much more difficult than wiretapping copper cables.

After more than a decade of hard work and many failures, the United States finally succeeded. The task of monitoring fiber optic cable communications was entrusted to the third Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarine of the US Navy. Carter. The boat is a tailor-made multi-mission platform for eavesdropping submarine fiber optic cables, equipped with the most advanced electronic reconnaissance equipment, which can collect intelligence underwater, including reconnaissance and surveillance of important targets and eavesdropping submarine fiber optic cable communications, so it has become the most ideal underwater spy for the US National Security Agency. After its official commissioning, the USS Carter will target a network of fiber-optic cables in the Pacific and Mediterranean, and the location of the surveillance may be between Japan, China and Singapore, as well as between Europe and the Middle East.

And this submarine, which has also undergone many secret modifications, has been praised by the US Congress as the most effective anti-terrorism underwater platform, and it is still the kind of extraordinary anti-terrorism capability.

Under the guidance of the engineer, it took Li Lan nearly an hour to walk around the entire interior of the submarine, of course, most of the time, he was curious about a certain device on the submarine, and stood for a moment. The multiple moments add up to an hour.

After getting out of the submarine, Li Lan didn't stay here for long, and after taking a look at the behemoth and saying goodbye to the staff inside, Li Lan and Natasha left the military port.

As soon as Natasha got into the car, she asked, "The commander seems to be very interested in the electronics inside this submarine. ”

"Yes, I'm really interested, since 911, the United States has an extremely tight intelligence network throughout the world, if we don't have encrypted communications from the base, otherwise the terrorist attack will not even start, and the American intelligence network will be informed." Li Lan did not hide her thoughts from Natasha, and said: "This submarine is an important intelligence gathering submarine of the United States, and every device on its body has an extremely huge effect on us......

Li Lan looked out the window of the car at the hazy shadow of the ship docked in the military port, his eyes were a little solemn, and he continued: "The United States is an extremely large country, not only because of its powerful armament and economy, but also because of its various pervasive intelligence agencies. Nowadays, we only have two words of mystery, but sooner or later these two words will be revealed. The last Lincoln operation, the CIA sensed a very dangerous signal.

Far from it, there are a large number of CIA agents hidden in Somalia, and over the years, as we have developed, there have been more and more CIA agents. They may not yet be able to access the base's cordoned out, but in southern Somalia, these CIA operatives are extremely active. They are like poisonous snakes lurking in the shadows, and sooner or later they will become a great problem in our hearts......"

The special car turned a corner and lost the angle of looking at the warship, and Li Lan also withdrew his gaze, but his words did not stop, but he only had a little more hope in his words: "I hope that this US submarine can bring us more initiative in future wars!" (To be continued......)