Chapter 193: Returning home
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On the Black Sea, a formation is riding the wind and waves. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are not many ships in this formation, only four, but, sometimes, it is absolutely impossible to look at the number of them.
These four warships, two of them, have a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, moreover, tens of thousands of tons.
From the sky, these two warships also have large decks, with a leaping deck at the head and a bridge on the side, which all indicate their identity and are quasi-aircraft carriers in the full sense.
However, the Soviet Union would never say that, and in Soviet parlance, both of these were called heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers.
Next to them, there is a dreadnought-class and a modern-class destroyer.
With such a formation, no one will despise their strength.
Abdur looked at the sea in the distance, the waves were magnificent, and his mood was as turbulent as the sea, they were finally going to return home!
Now, the first phase of the sea trials of the Baghdad has been announced, and they have completed the work of one year in half a year, because the changes in the external international environment have left them with very little time. In this case, the Iraqi naval personnel burst out with great enthusiasm and work experience.
Although the Kuznetsov has been tested at sea for several years, it is because this is the first large aircraft carrier that goes straight to the deck, and a lot of work needs to be done on it, for example, the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft requires a lot of preparation in advance before it can be carried out, and many things have to be done after its first attempt, and when it comes to the next few ships, the progress is much faster. On the other hand, it is also because of the current problems in the Soviet Union, which has led to the passive slackness of workers and the slow progress, which did not happen on the aircraft carriers in Iraq. Moreover, the Baghdad is loaded with mature electronic equipment, such as the Sky Sentinel, the technology is not mature, and Iraq has no equipment, which shortens the time.
After completing the sea trials, the aircraft carrier embarked on the road home.
At present, Qusay is not willing to enter into a direct conflict with Turkey, although the intelligence agency of the Messiah Bureau is agitating the armed forces of the Kurds in Turkey, but it cannot be said in plain sight.
After Turkey announced that it would ban the passage of their warships, Qusay began to lay out a new round.
Turkey is just a clown, at most it will exert its power with Iraq, and the Soviet Union, although weakened, is still there after all.
So, this time their warship is just a Soviet heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser called Vodka, and the flag of the sickle and axe flutters above their warship.
At the same time, another Soviet aircraft carrier, the Kuznetsov, has finally completed its final sea trials and is ready to sail for its home port, the naval base of the Northern Fleet.
However, there was still a long waterway from the Black Sea to their bases, and now due to the deterioration of Soviet finances, the Navy has not been able to raise enough funds. As a result, the Iraqi side once again showed a friendly style and provided them with travel expenses.
Anyway, we have to go, so it's better to go together.
In later generations, this aircraft carrier was also commissioned in 91, but it was still stationed in Ukrainian ports at that time.
In addition to these two warships, a modern-class destroyer of the Soviet Navy and another dreadnought-class anti-submarine ship of the Iraqi Navy were also built, and they simply went out together, and in this way, the four warships began to march together.
For Turkey, the Soviet Navy, as usual, said hello.
As for the Bosphorus, although it should be regarded as Turkey in terms of ownership, because both sides of it are Turkish territory, but if Turkey regards it as its own and opens the door as it wants, and closes it when it wants, then the Black Sea will completely become Turkey's inland sea, and in this case, other countries along the Black Sea coast, especially the Soviet Union, will never agree.
Of the four major fleets of the Soviet Union, the Northern Fleet was the largest and the Black Sea Fleet was second, and the size of the Black Sea Fleet alone surpassed the strength of Britain, the third naval power in the world. If Turkey does not agree to the passage of the Black Sea Fleet through this strait, it is clearly looking for a beating.
Therefore, in 1936, the countries convened an international conference on the Turkish strait, which agreed that ships of various countries could freely pass through the strait, and warships of the Black Sea littoral countries could also pass through the strait, with the exception of aircraft carriers, and there were certain restrictions on the passage of warships of non-Black Sea littoral countries.
During the Cold War after World War II, the Soviet Union repeatedly exerted pressure on Turkey, which backfired and pushed Turkey into the arms of the United States.
Even so, the Soviets never cared about Turkey's reaction, and in order to hide their shame, they called all these super-large warships they built heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers.
These warships, as long as neither Iraq nor the Soviet Union recognized them, then all of them were warships of the Soviet Navy. Under the terms of the treaty, Turkey could not restrict their passage.
Moreover, they did not take into account the reaction of the Turks at all, and after informing the Turks as usual, they set sail.
The Black Sea Shipyard has built four warships, which now need to pass through the Bosphorus, two of which will pass through the Mediterranean Sea to the Northern Fleet, and the other two, through the Suez Canal, to the Pacific Fleet, it's as simple as that.
So, how will Turkey react? They don't know yet, but, although now that the Red Empire has fallen, the navy of the Red Empire is still very strong, and they are not afraid of that watchdog at all.
The four propellers in the tail are spinning, and now they are sailing at economical speeds.
An MR-710 "top-plate" air-to-air/sea radar at the top of the bridge is working, searching the surrounding sea and air as it gets closer and closer to Istanbul.
Although this strait is only a few hundred meters wide, although the size of the aircraft carrier is already large, it is still insignificant in relation to the strait.
On the deck, two Su-27Ks were quietly staying on the take-off line, and Abdur knew that although they were in the name of the Soviet Navy, the real situation was probably not hidden from the audience, and the Turks would not do anything to the Kuznetsov, and they might make some small moves for them.
Therefore, in order to cope with the unexpected, two Su-27Ks were ready to take off at any time to meet the enemy, moreover, they were waiting for orders at one end of the catapult.
In the distance, the bridge pulled by steel cables got closer and closer, gradually entering the center line of the strait, but there was no special encounter.
The reaction of the Turks, that is, no reaction.
At the instigation of the United States, they announced that they would prohibit the warship from passing through their straits, although they are also NATO countries, but their relations with the United States are not as iron as those of the United Kingdom, and they are now facing serious Kurdish problems at home, and the armed conflict between government forces and the Kurds is getting bigger and bigger, and the United States, for various purposes, is putting pressure on the Turkish government, condemning their national policy for creating these contradictions. So, Turkey watched the passage of Soviet warships and did not react.
Although Turkey has not reacted, it does not mean that the United States has not reacted, they are waiting for an opportunity.
The Cold War is over, and there will be no large-scale confrontation between the two sides, but it is not impossible for American fighters to visit the aircraft carriers of the "Soviets", right?
Having passed the strait safely, Abdul breathed a sigh of relief.
"The alarm is lifted, according to the original plan, sail in the direction of the Suez Canal!" Abdul commanded.
The whistle sounded, and in the middle of the Aegean they said goodbye to the two Soviet warships and parted ways.
On the deck, Reyer, who had been in the cockpit for three hours, finally received the order to lift the alarm, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and it was not easy to be on standby on the fighter plane.
A trailer underneath is preparing to tow the front landing gear and tow it back to the parking position.
The cockpit canopy was opened, Abdul breathed in a big gulp, and in a moment, when he reached the parking stand, he was ready to get off the plane.
Since most of the Su-27K had already flown back to Qeshm Island ahead of schedule for training there, there are now only eight Su-27K fighters on board the Baghdad, four of which are in the hangar for maintenance, two in the deck parking area, and the other two are on standby.
The rest of the anti-submarine helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft ordered by Iraq were returned to Iraq with the ships.
As a matter of fact, the current aircraft carrier is not yet fully capable of combat, and its effectiveness still depends on the entire aircraft carrier battle group, but because Iraq has conducted training in advance, they already have a certain combat capability when they sail home.
Reyer moved his thighs, loosened his seat belt, and suddenly, a signal sounded on the deck, it was the order to take off urgently!
Reyer's mind moved, and an order had already been transmitted on the radio: "001, 002, take off urgently, there is a plane flying in the 270 area!" ”
The entire deck was immediately busy, nervously making all kinds of preparations.
Then, as white smoke rose from the deck, two Su-27Ks had been ejected into the air.
Reyer has been flying this kind of fighter for several years, and he has a relatively thorough grasp of the performance of this kind of aircraft, and he was originally a very talented pilot, and he was able to give full play to the maneuverability of the Su-27K.
As soon as the body was loosened, after the huge acceleration passed, the two planes left the Baghdad one after another, and flew in the direction of 270 according to the guidance of their own radar.
A four-propeller aircraft, flying low on the surface of the sea, its fuselage, covered with various antennas, this is the main electronic reconnaissance aircraft of the US Navy, EP-3.
Now, its mission is to collect the electromagnetic signals of this aircraft carrier.
The EP-3 flew from the sea, it had already intercepted the radar signal of this aircraft carrier, and in the air detection, it was not equipped with a sky sentry radar, but a backward roof radar?
Other electromagnetic signals, such as communication signals, are also being collected by it.
It's not a time of war, and here is the high seas, so it flies unscrupulously.
As long as it does not fly over Baghdad, it cannot be said that it constitutes a violation of the "Soviet" Navy, which they did much during the Cold War.
Don't look at the strait, the fighters on the deck still seem to be in a state of taking off at any time, the Americans are not afraid at all, even if it is really the Soviet Navy, it is not certain whether it can have the combat capability of carrier-based aviation, let alone these two warships that have just completed sea trials. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to register as a member to recommend this work, your support is my biggest motivation. )