Chapter 773: Sunk, Shelfield!

Protect the aircraft carrier! When the aircraft carrier formation is fighting, it is carried out surrounded by other warships, especially professional air defense destroyers, which are used to block missiles for aircraft carriers!

Now, Salter already knew that he had not misjudged at all, and the echo he discovered a minute ago was the Argentine's carrier-based aircraft, which climbed up to scan his own target after flying at an ultra-low altitude!

Damn it! If the whole fleet was on alert, these two missiles should have been detected earlier! But now, your own radar has just been turned off, and it will take time to start the Sea Javelin missile, and it will be too late!

What to do? You can't let the aircraft carrier be hit! At this moment, Salter made the most correct decision, the Shelfield was full of rudder on the right, and used his wide body to block the direction of the incoming missile! At the same time, this will greatly increase the radar echo, and you may be able to deceive the opponent's missiles!

Sure enough, the first Exocet missile was originally aimed at the aircraft carrier Invincible, and that aircraft carrier had the largest radar echo, but suddenly a wall-like hull blocked in front of it, and it found a bigger guy! So, unceremoniously, the Exocet missile crashed into it!

A 160-kilogram warhead is enough to penetrate a 12-mm thick steel plate! Unless it is a battleship during the First World War, the current destroyer will not be able to block the attack of Exocet missiles at all!

"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded, coming from the middle of the hull, Exocet missiles, accurate hits!

The fire quickly spread on the Shelfield, and the damage management personnel were urgently in position to fight the fire in the thick smoke, but the fire soon exceeded expectations and was simply uncontrollable!

At the time of construction, in order to control the budget, the displacement of the Type 42 destroyer was limited to the scale of 4000 tons, and at the same time, in order to increase the power of the battleship, it was necessary to constantly load various weapon systems, which led to the total weight of the warship soaring, so, in order to reduce weight, the British used a large amount of aluminum alloy on the upper stage of the Type 42 destroyer, this material is very light, and at the same time, another shortcoming, it is also easy to burn! A few hundred degrees can make aluminum burn!

Now, the whole Shelfield is on fire, it's those superstructures that are burning!

After struggling with the fire for several hours, Salter finally decided to abandon the ship, and the lone Shelfield, which burned at sea for six whole days, and finally, burned into an empty shell, immersed in the icy Atlantic. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Fortunately, another Exocet missile, missed, and did not hit any targets.

At this time, the British bombers who bombed Port Stanley Air Force Base had just embarked on their return journey, and their bombing was so successful that they dropped all the bombs on the airfield and suffered no losses.

However, the British could not be happy in any case, because their main air defense destroyer was killed by a Exocet missile! And this missile, which was shot down at the same time, also had the self-confidence of the British!

"Now, the elders of Congress have begun to waver, and the United Nations is also negotiating, hoping that we can negotiate a solution to this dispute and give up force." On the Invincible line, Admiral John's words were even more cold: "However, this is a shame for our British Royal Navy!" We have absolutely no failures, and we are going to make the Argentines pay a greater price! ”

At the beginning, before leaving, Admiral John remembered the words of the Iron Lady, no matter what the cost, to retake the Falklands! All the pressure is borne by the Iron Lady, and Britain only needs victory!

"Right now, the biggest threat to us is the Argentine's Super Flag fighters and Exocet missiles, and we have the latest satellite intelligence from the United States, and these planes are taking off from Port Stanley Air Force Base and don't need to be refueled in the air to be able to attack us, so I suggest that we can send a special force to land in Port Stanley and blow up the warplanes there." Commodore Michael Clapp said.

Although the bombers bombed there, they only destroyed the runway, and the fighters there still existed, and the Argentines only had a few super flag planes in total, as long as they destroyed all these planes, the Argentines would have no way to continue to impress and attack their own side.

"We have lost a destroyer, and we cannot allow the Argentines to claim to be the victors, I propose, we use nuclear submarines, attack the Argentine navy, destroy their aircraft carriers and large warships, take a breath!" Maj. Gen. Woodward said.

British Navy, how could it be frightened by this small setback? You must fight back, and you must let the Argentines know how powerful you are! Now, at the very beginning of the war, with a sense of heroism, how can the Argentines not lose a few warships? That's how to relieve your anger!

Compared to the low British Navy, on this day, the whole of Argentina was boiling! The streets are filled with a joyful atmosphere. The British fleet came all the way to recover the Falklands, war was inevitable, Argentina was a third world country after all, how could it be compared with Britain, which had the support of the entire Western world?

The war was not favored by the general public, and now, the Argentine army handed over a beautiful answer, and the flag was victorious, taking out one of the latest destroyers of the British!

In the presidential palace, there was also jubilation. Galtieri raised his glass and said to his subordinates: "Victory, we Argentina!" Cheers! ”

Cheers! Galtieri was originally a soldier, and now, almost all of the people around him are soldiers, except for one person.

A man who had never been here before, at this time, in a suit and leather shoes, attended this meeting of the Argentine leadership.

He raised his glass, and before he could drink it, he heard the person next to him say: "This time, we were able to take out the destroyers of the British, also because of accurate information, Mr. Mhammad, thank you very much for the information, completely accurate." ”

Information! If there is no intelligence support, how can the two super military flag fighters that attacked at ultra-low altitude accurately fly to the target? Without intelligence support, the attack would never have gone so smoothly!

And the person who provided this information was Mhammad, a secret arms dealer, who completely won the trust of the entire Argentine top level after taking out the Exocet missile by trick, and this time, providing accurate information and allowing the Argentine naval aviation to succeed made Galtieri extremely happy, so he was qualified to participate in this meeting.

At this time, the person who was talking next to him was Aranya, and the friendship between the two was the deepest among the people present.

"I wish us a happy cooperation." Picking up the glass, Mhammad toasted to Aranya, and the others raised their glasses to Mhammad.

And at this moment, there was a bang, and the door was pushed open.

"General Galtieri, no, our cruiser General Belgrano, sunk by the British!" (To be continued.) )