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In the anti-mine operation, how to find the mine is the first problem, because the mine is like a stone in the water, without making any sound, just waiting quietly, and not on the sea, so you can only use active sonar, which is completely based on the intuition of the sonar operator.

The Thomson-Sintra Diodontsm 2630 hull sonar at the bow of the Abuha began work, and soon, from the returning echo, the sonar operator spotted several floating objects that could be mines.

Sure enough, there are large areas of mines here!

Talal knew that with the current capabilities of the formation, it would not be possible to pass through here at all.

Unexpectedly, the Iranians actually came up with this way and completely blocked the Strait of Hormuz! Talal expressed strong contempt for this behavior of the Iranians, if it is immoral enough to attack with missiles and harass with small boats, then now the Iranians are actually blocking this strait with mines, which is simply an act that even Allah cannot tolerate!

Because, with missiles, with boats, this is all temporary, and when the war is over, these dangers will pass, and with mines, as long as the mines are put into the water, the mines will no longer know people, and even the Iranians who dropped them will face the danger of mines, if they are not cleared, then this danger will always exist, and in ten years, twenty years, fifty years, this place will completely become a stagnant water that cannot be navigated.

Aren't the Iranians going to use this strait? You must know that although Iran has been occupied by Iraq in Khuzestan Province, there are still some oil wells in Iran at sea, and the Iranians are digging their own graves!

At this time, the wounded Bridgerton, struggling backwards, exited the minefield.

Fortunately, the 400,000-ton ship did not leak, let alone sink, and it needed to sail to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to unload the crude oil and then repair it.

In response to this new situation, even Talal had no choice but to send the news to Riyadh and ask for minesweepers to come and help.

At the same time, the news was also reported to the Gulf countries.

The Iranians actually blocked the Strait of Hormuz with mines, and he actually did this way of cutting off children and grandchildren!

After receiving this news, Qusay was also very surprised, although Iran also laid mines in the later Iran-Iraq ship war, but they never placed mines in the most critical position of the strait, and they still used anti-ship missiles to block the strait.

In the mine warfare of later generations, the United States, together with other allies, mobilized a large number of mine-sweeping equipment and spared no effort to search underwater, but it still took great effort to complete the mine-sweeping task.

And now the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia, which has the most powerful navy, has only a few old-fashioned "Adria"-class coastal minesweepers, which are simply not able to undertake the task of rapid minesweeping.

You must know that for ordinary mines placed in the water, minehunters need to use hull sonar to repeatedly search, detect, classify and identify the sea area, and in the whole process, the mines are unresponsive. When the minehunters think that the target found by the sonar may be a mine, they need to release the mine-extinguishing device, approach the mine, and sail around the mine, and then use the acousto-optic sensor on the mine-extinguishing device to identify and confirm the mine, sometimes the mine-extinguishing device is only 2~3 meters away from the mine, and the mine at this time will not move, can only sit and wait, and finally be destroyed by the bomb dropped by the mine-killing device.

Therefore, this mode of mine-hunting operation to eliminate 1 mine or suspicious target will take 2~3 hours at the earliest, and if it is slow, it may be a day, and if it encounters unfavorable conditions such as meteorology, hydrology, and complex seabed conditions, the time will be longer. It simply cannot meet the requirements of the rapid elimination of the mine obstacles laid by the Iranians and the rapid opening of shipping lanes.

If only the minesweepers of the peninsula defense forces were to clear the mines, I am afraid that the entire channel would not be cleared in a month, and even if the Strait of Hormuz was blocked, only ships with the courage and good luck could venture through the strait without triggering the mines.

You have to come up with a quick and workable way! Otherwise, in the end, it will have to turn to the United States for help, and no country can afford to be unable to pass ships for a month, and Kuwait will definitely collapse, needless to say.

No one thought that the Iranians would be able to lay out mines that filled the entire Strait of Hormuz overnight, and even if the Americans found out, they would never have warned them, and now the Americans wish that the Arabs would not be able to escort ships to the normal passage!

Moreover, mine clearance is already a worldwide problem, and giving such a huge responsibility to Iraq makes Qusay feel a lot of pressure.

After receiving the news, Prince Sultan immediately dispatched Adria-class minesweepers to start a long minesweeping mission.

There are many ways to detonate mines, anchor mines are the most commonly used way to trigger explosions, in addition to this, there are also magnetic, noise and water pressure methods to detonate.

Therefore, minesweepers generally use ships without magnetism, such as these Saudi minesweepers, which use wooden hulls.

The old boats rushed to the area of the Strait of Hormuz and began an intense operation, but, until before dark, only three mines were swept out.

The waiting steamer, which followed, began to feel uneasy.

Because, they already have a hunch, if they continue like this, they don't know when they will be able to cross this strait?

Knowing that the Strait of Hormuz was mined by the Iranians, all of a sudden, the world's crude oil futures began a new round of price increases.

Oil is the catalyst for the entire industry, and the continuous rise in the price of crude oil is the last thing that countries that need to import oil from the Middle East want to see, and the United States is the most concerned about it.

"Your Majesty, the Ambassador of the United States asks for a meeting." In Riyadh, King Fahd was again under pressure from the United States.

King Fahd knew that the American ambassador must have come to put pressure on him, but he had no other way but to accept it.

Soon, the American ambassador walked in.

Because of Saudi Arabia's pro-American policy, the status of the US ambassador in Saudi Arabia is very high, and the relationship with the Saudi royal family is also very good, but now, because Saudi Arabia has a disagreement with the United States on the issue of escort ships in the Persian Gulf, the US ambassador has also begun to harden his attitude towards Saudi Arabia.

"Your Majesty." When the U.S. ambassador came in, he said: "We are very worried when we hear that Iran has laid a large number of mines in the Strait of Hormuz and blocked the entire shipping lane. ”

"We are doing our best to remove mines and restore the passage of waterways." King Fahd said: "We are very confident. (To be continued.) )