Next to the US aircraft carrier, a Soviet submarine appeared, and the aircraft carrier formation, which claimed to have the most complete warning network, could not even stop a submarine.

If it was in the war, everyone knew that this would mean that the aircraft carrier had already been destroyed.

The face of the US Navy is very ugly, and how to deal with this surfacing submarine is even more of a headache.

And the subsequent diplomatic turmoil may not be able to withstand them.

Having received a collision of his own submarine with an American aircraft carrier, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Hovlin, while replying to Moscow, has already sent his fleet.

More than a dozen large warships of the Black Sea Fleet, headed by a "Moskva"-class aircraft carrier, set off from the base of the Black Sea Fleet and rushed to the area where the accident occurred, while two Tu-22 planes had already taken off and rushed to the area where the accident occurred.

The Moskva-class aircraft carrier is the first generation of aircraft-carrying carriers of the former Soviet Union, mainly used to deal with the Polaris ballistic missile nuclear submarine that appeared in the United States. Adopting the hybrid type first pioneered by France and Italy, the front half of the ship is a typical cruiser arrangement, and the rear half of the ship is a spacious helicopter flight deck, which is very different from the American supercarrier, and the Soviet Union also called itself an anti-submarine cruiser, with a total of 2 "Moskva" and "Leningrad", both deployed in the Black Sea Fleet.

Behind the Moskva, there are various warships carrying anti-ship missiles.

The Black Sea Fleet has always been eyeing the Mediterranean, and now, one of its own submarines has an accident there, although it is said that it has successfully entered the defense circle of the aircraft carrier, but the power system is injured and cannot move there, which is also a very irritating thing.

In order to rescue this submarine, the Black Sea Fleet must show its presence.

With this incident, another naval confrontation between the two major military empires in the late Cold War finally began.

Iraq.

Zhang Feng knows that with Iraq's current capabilities, it is completely powerless to interfere with the confrontation between these two big countries, and Iraq is not strong enough to that extent, all he can do is to be a quiet spectator.

However, after the Soviets got involved, the situation became even more complicated, and this complicated situation, was it beneficial for them?

Listening to the information and thinking that those giant beasts on the sea were staring at each other, Zhang Feng had a feeling of excitement. If Iraq wants to be strong, it must develop its economy, and so far, here in the Middle East, the oil economy is still the most important, and a strong navy is indispensable if it wants not to be choked by others.

In order to maintain Iraq's economy, Iraq needs a strong navy that can escort Iraqi ships everywhere, not just in the Persian Gulf, not just in the Arabian Sea, but globally!

It's just that now Iraq has no money. Economy, economic development is the most important thing!

However, if Zhang Feng was given the choice, he still resolutely decided that supporting Yasir's battle was what he should do as an Arab brother!

"Your Excellency Qusay." Suddenly, Yured came in and reported to him: "According to reliable sources, during yesterday's fighting in Lebanon, Israel's Defense Minister, Sharon, was shot dead by a mysterious sniper. ”

Since the outbreak of the Lebanese War, Zhang Feng has shifted the attention of the Messiah Bureau to the direction of Lebanon.

Is Sharon dead? Zhang Feng was nervous in his heart: "Is the news confirmed?" ”

Yured nodded, although Israel blocked the news, however, there were still many of their friendly Falangist militias who knew about the situation, and his intelligence officers were not vegetarians and obtained this information.

Sharon died, Zhang Feng knew that it was definitely not just a defense minister who died in battle, although Sharon in later generations had begun to become a little gentle, but in modern times, he was definitely an iron fist figure.

Sharon is dead, what will Israel respond? Will the onslaught continue, or will the troops be withdrawn?

Zhang Feng felt that from the perspective of Israel alone, it would definitely choose to continue the offensive, and with the victory in the Bekaa Valley, Israel was the right time to continue the offensive, and they would definitely not let go of this opportunity.

However, in the face of the international situation, they have to weigh and weigh, especially when the United States is likely to engage in a direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union, if they are smart, they will definitely avoid confrontation with each other, and the Americans should retreat, and now that France has been pulled over, if the United States does not support it, other countries will definitely change their tone.

When all the nations are denouncing Israel, when their defense ministers are also killed in the war, will Israel continue to hold on?

If the PLO fights a few more beautiful counterattacks to prove that they are capable of resisting the Israeli army, and when Israel's combat objectives cannot be achieved, perhaps, they will choose to withdraw their troops, right?

Perhaps, it's time to add some more heat.

"Report." A familiar voice sounded outside.

"Come in." Zhang Feng heard it, it was Marwan's voice.

Marwan walked in, a little tired, and said: "Report to Your Excellency Qusay, our team did not complete its mission, and all the jamming equipment was bombed by Israeli planes..."

Zhang Feng already knew about this, and he said: "It is beyond my expectation that your team can hold on for so many days, and it is good that people can come back." ”

Those technicians, but baby, they were not injured, Zhang Feng was already very satisfied.

"However, our team hasn't all returned." Marwan said.

"I know that the few who died in the war will receive the highest standard of bereavement." Zhang Feng said that he knew that the sneak attack by Israeli special forces, coupled with the bombing of aircraft, caused them many casualties. "You can pick the right people from each army to join."

Marwan shook his head, he hadn't reported that incident yet: "Deputy Captain Hades, who did not listen to my orders, entered Beirut without an order to conduct special operations against the Israeli army, mainly long-range sniping..."

Zhang Feng suddenly thought that the salon reported by Yurid was sniped just now, it couldn't be Hades, right? Battlefield resistance, that can be shot on the spot, but if Hades has made such a big contribution... Wait until he comes back to determine what to do with him.

Originally, Zhang Feng wanted to only cooperate with Saudi Arabia and other countries to reduce oil production in solidarity with Arafat, but now it seems that the most critical step has been reached, and perhaps it is time for him to provide more powerful help.

In Zhang Feng's mind, he suddenly came up with another plan and asked, "Marwan, do you want to personally take out those planes that bombed your Jews?" ”

"Of course!" Marwan said.

"Then I'll have to work hard for you." Zhang Feng immediately told Marwan his idea.

Marwan's face turned red when he heard this, and he happily accepted the order.

Yurid, who was next to him, also had his eyes lit up when he heard it, and Zhang Feng said: "The Messiah Bureau must closely cooperate with their actions. ”

"Yes!" Yured readily agreed.

Dark clouds were gathering over the Mediterranean, and at this time, the United States began to worry about it.

"We are not to blame for this incident at all, it is the Soviet submarines themselves that have caused the problem, and we should ask the ambassador to the Soviet Union to lodge a serious protest against them!" James said.

"That submarine actually appeared in the center of our aircraft carrier formation, it's incredible, why is the combat capability of our aircraft carrier formation so poor?" Poyndexter said.

Weinberg blushed and was silent, at this moment, he really wanted to strangle the commander of that aircraft carrier, the person who could become the captain of the aircraft carrier, what a steady person he should be, he actually made such a low-level mistake! However, it is also to blame that damn Soviet submarine, how on earth it hid under the aircraft carrier?

"Guys, we're not holding the aircraft carrier accountable right now, we're discussing how to deal with this crisis." Vice President Bush said: "The situation is very critical now, and we need to discuss how to deal with the aircraft carrier group." ”

"At the moment, the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR is already arriving on a large scale, and the photos taken by our satellites show that among them are the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, a helicopter carrier, and dozens of large ships, loaded with anti-ship missiles with a range of more than two hundred kilometers." The director of the CIA said without any expression.

It was clear that the Navy of the USSR was enraged, they wanted to pull that submarine back, and at the same time, wanted to show the US Navy their presence.

"The Soviets are bluffing, their leaders are dying, the top leaders are carrying out activities, staring at the position of the first secretary, don't look at them so aggressively, I suspect that they are at the top, no one pays attention to this at all." Suddenly, Secretary of State George? Schultz came with a word.

President Reagan's eyes lit up, and George's analysis made a lot of sense! Because, that old guy in the Soviet Union is not long dead!

Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is 76 years old and has been in power for 18 years. At this time, Brezhnev no longer had the same vigor as when he first came to power, his body was already very weak, and due to the impact of multiple strokes, his intelligence and physical strength had dropped significantly.

On the same day, while attending the meeting, Brezhnev made a speech and broadcast it live on television. When he picked up the text with a trembling hand and read a few paragraphs, the people in the hall twitched. This speech was read in Moscow a month ago!

However, Brezhnev, who was already half-demented, did not notice it at all, and he was still reading downward.

An assistant ran up to the stage and handed the correct speech to Brezhnev. Only then did he realize that he had just read it wrong, but he did not show any embarrassment, but said calmly: "Comrades, what happened just now is not my fault. I'm going to start all over again. ”

Breonev was followed by Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry. Marshal Ustinov and Andropov.

At this time, Marshal Sokolov, the first deputy minister of defense who remained in Moscow, after getting the news of the Black Sea Fleet, knew that there was going to be a confrontation with the United States, but, since the president was not there, and the Minister of Defense was not there, he could only contact Azerbaijan, hoping to inform his superiors, but unfortunately, now it was going on live television.

In the Mediterranean, the two Tu-22 bombers in the early stage have approached the 500 kilometers away from the US Navy ship formation.

The Tu-22M Backfire bomber is a kind of main bomber of the Soviet Union, and it is a supersonic variable-swept wing medium strategic bomber designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau of the Soviet Union on the basis of the Tu-22 "blindfold", which can carry out both strategic nuclear bombing and tactical bombing: especially carrying high-power anti-ship missiles, long-distance and rapid attack, attacking US aircraft carrier formations.

This is a great threat to the US aircraft carriers, because the other side is launching anti-ship missiles outside its own defense circle!

And now, on two Tu-22M bombers, each has a Kh-22 (i.e. AS-4) missile on board.

This missile is a metamorphosis that surpasses the immortal bird. The missile adopts an aircraft-style bomb body structure and shape layout, with a pointed head and a terminal guidance radar antenna. The projectile body is cylindrical, with large cut-tip triangular wings located in the middle of the projectile body to provide lift, and the horizontal and vertical stabilizers of the cut-tip triangle are located at the rear of the projectile body with rudders, and a cutting-tip triangle vertical stabilizer is installed at the rear of the rear of the projectile body to improve the stability of maneuvering flight.

The missile body is equipped with one liquid hydrazine fuel rocket engine. The cruising speed reaches Mach 2.5, the terminal speed is Mach 4, and the range exceeds 500km, all kinds of anti-aircraft missiles of the US aircraft carrier formation are simply unable to effectively intercept, and what is more perverted is the warhead, in addition to carrying 1000kg of high explosives, there is also a 350 kiloton yield nuclear warhead to choose from, specifically targeting US Navy aircraft carriers and aircraft carrier battle groups.

With just one hit, it can be said that the entire aircraft carrier formation is reimbursed.

It's just that the use of nuclear warheads may trigger a world war, so they don't dare to use it easily, and this time the one mounted is an ordinary warhead.

But that's a ton of high explosives!

Therefore, the Tu-22M Backfire, for the American aircraft carrier, is an invincible existence. And, in general, it chooses to penetrate at low-altitude supersonic speeds.

And the range of 500 kilometers is also outside the early warning range of the E-2C early warning aircraft on board the aircraft carrier.

(One more thing, in fact, China's territorial air defense in that era was mainly to guard against this kind of bomber of the Soviet Union, and the combat target of the eighth master was also this aircraft.) Before the arrival of a large number of fleets of the Black Sea Fleet, the killer weapon had already been killed.

Of course, he had not yet received orders from his superiors to open fire, and if he had attacked like this, the consequences would not have been borne by the commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral Hovlin.

He did this just to put up a big battle to save his submarine.

The AWACS aircraft of the US military base over Turkey spotted the two incoming big guys and immediately notified the aircraft carrier formation.

Compared to the ships behind them, these two things are more threatening!

(To be continued)