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Minesweepers in Iraq? King Fahd was very surprised that Iraq had only a few Soviet-made Yevgenia-class minesweepers and Yugoslavia-made Llden-class inshore minesweepers, and even if these minesweepers could carry out minesweeping activities, their usefulness was very limited, and it would take unimaginable time to remove mines from such a large area of water. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info≦≧ updates are uploaded

"Are you sure that Qusay said they could get rid of those mines quickly?" King Fahd said.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Your Excellency Qusay only mentioned that a route could be quickly cleared, but he didn't say that those mines could be quickly cleared. ”

Isn't that the same? Prince Sultan thought, but then, he figured it out: this is different, he didn't say to clear all the mines laid by the Iranians, just to clear the shipping lanes?

Now the minesweepers are scanning the entire Strait of Hormuz in a wide formation, which will take a long time, but if they only clear a route along the median line, it will be much faster.

However, even then, it will take a few days, and how quickly does Cusai say that he can clear the route quickly.

They didn't know that Kusai, racking his brains, finally came up with a peculiar method. ≦≧

The Iranians mainly lay anchor mines, this kind of anchor mines, are tied to the bottom of the water with a mine, because they cannot be seen outside the water, so it is easy to touch the underwater mine, and let this anchor mine show its original shape, it is also very simple, that is, to cut the mine!

In fact, this method, which has been used for a long time, is a single-ship towing and cutting minesweeper. This is a cutting tool in which 16 cutters are divided equally into the stern of the ship by two sweeping cables, and then dragged by the minesweeper to cut the anchor anchor cable. When the sweep line advances with the ship, if the cutter meets the anchor cable, the mine line will be cut due to the ship's power, so that the mine body will surface, and then the mine will be destroyed by water blasting methods such as artillery.

However, now the Saudis are not using this method in their minesweeping operations. Instead, sonar is used to look for a needle in a haystack in the water, look for suspicious targets, and then confirm them. Because the anchor mines are scattered and will not be arranged very centrally, so, if you are unlucky. You may drive a boat for a day and not cut a single rope. And even worse luck was that those steamers, within a few nautical miles, struck a mine.

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Therefore, Qusay's method is to let these old minesweepers with cutters line up and open the way forward, then, at least a few hundred meters wide. It's all safe. It's a safe route!

If you are unlucky and do not cut the Reso, then forget it, and if you do, then, the two missile boats that follow behind these minesweepers. Will use his own naval guns to blast away those anchor mines that have surfaced.

Qusay's divergent thinking shines here, and originally the minesweeper repeatedly searched all the seas. It's a huge undertaking to make sure it's all safe. And Qusay just needs to make sure that there are no mines on the route, and as for the rest of the place, leave it for later! If the Iranians themselves accidentally dropped the mines on their doorstep, they would have deserved it even more.

However, new problems will arise again, how to let the cargo ships behind follow this channel? Now there is no such device for the navigation of the cargo ship to visually see the trajectory of the minesweeper in front of it? That's simply impossible. Because it is not a cargo ship, there are dozens of cargo ships behind it, and if it deviates slightly, there will still be a danger of hitting mines.

One of the clever ideas that Qusay came up with was actually a homegrown method: artificially carve out a shipping path for landmarks!

The water in the Strait of Hormuz is very shallow, with an average of only 70 meters, so as long as you are in the middle of the channel, you can cast something that can be calibrated, this thing, which is somewhat similar to the anchor mine, is heavier below, and falls directly to the bottom of the sea, and the difference is that the anchor mine is not exposed, and this calibrated thing, so that it just comes out of the water, you can guide the course for the ships coming and going!

As long as the boat follows this beacon that floats on the water, there will be absolutely no problem!

Fortunately, now Iraq's industry has begun to rise, when Qusay said his idea, the secret immediately went to Zubayer to find workers overnight to process a batch of these beacons, the bottom is an iron block, the bottom has a point, can be pierced into the Persian Gulf water, and the surface is a large piece of foam with an outer layer of plastic packaging, the middle string is made of materials that are not afraid of flooding, this kind of modern high-tech incompatible but absolutely practical beacon to guide the way, it was produced in large quantities. ≦≧

The missile boats were followed by two vessels dedicated to dropping such beacons. ≦≧

The only thing to pay attention to is to pay attention to the length of the string when putting it in, if it is too long, it will drift with the current, which will bring wrong channel information to the cargo ship behind.

However, it is still imperfect to consider it in this way, because who can guarantee that Iran will only put into the sea an ordinary anchor mine, and if there are advanced acoustic mines, magnetic mines, and water pressure mines, those minesweepers that are just driving minesweepers frantically cutting the minelines in front of them will face great danger.

So, for insurance, at the front of this minesweeping force, there are also two remote-controlled boats that are specially "sent to death".

In order to avoid being attacked by magnetic mines, the minesweeping ships are made of non-magnetic materials, and these two remote-controlled ships that are specially sent to death are to enhance the magnetic star, not only to enhance the magnetic star, but also to increase the sound and increase the water pressure of the voyage.

In other words, similar to Khomeini's young soldiers, they are going to step on mines.

These two ships are rebuilt from the old 100-ton speedboats, and the cabins below the waterline at the bottom of the hull are separated, and they are filled with foam plastic, so that when the ship enters the minefield and detonates the mine, even if the shock wave and shrench generated by the mine explosion penetrate the hull and cause perforation, because the foam plastic filled in the ship can provide buoyancy to ensure that the body is not sinkable, so it can still continue to perform the task of stepping on the mine. ≦≧

In order to ensure safety, the two ships were made by remote control, and they were equipped with devices that could extend the signals of magnetic sound and water pressure forward, so that the mines could explode as early as possible.

After these devices were completely completed, an experiment was carried out on the sea outside the Faw Peninsula, and the equipment was hurried.

Because Qusay knows that if this problem cannot be dealt with as soon as possible, then all countries in the world will exert a lot of pressure on the Persian Gulf countries, and now the world crude oil price is already rising rapidly. If you want to say that you are happy now, only the Soviets should be happy.

As far as Iraq itself is concerned, it is also related to its vital interests, because if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, Iraq will not be able to transport its own crude oil.

So, this peculiar formation, opened the curtain on the clearing of shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz.

A few hours after King Fahd received news from Iraq, the ships, sailing through the port of Oman, came to the periphery of the Strait of Hormuz at four o'clock in the afternoon and made contact with Talal's formation.

By this time, all the ships had anchored and stopped, waiting for the clear passage of water ahead, but, after a few days, they had begun to be a little pessimistic.

When they saw the new naval formation coming, the crews of the huge oil tankers, and the small boats flying the Iraqi flag, couldn't help but feel even more sad, what kind of ships were they? Are those capable of minesweeping?

There are even some crew members who are already expecting the entry of the ships of the US Navy.

Talal too, seeing that among these ships, even the warships are not fully matched, and there are two cargo ships behind them, so how can they clear mines?

"May I ask if this is the Iraqi Navy that is assisting us in mine clearance?" Talal asked over the radio.

"Yes, we were ordered to come to the minesweeper, ask the minesweepers of the Saudi Navy to stand back." The other man shouted over the radio.

The first two ships that will go there in a moment will be specially detonated mines, and it will not be fun if the Saudi minesweeper is hit by mistake.

"Iraqi brothers, are you sure you can clear the mines?" Talal was still a little uneasy.

"No problem at all! Ask the commander to organize a fleet and sail with our beacons. The other man shouted very self-contained over the radio.

The operation to clean up the waterway has officially begun!

At this time, the Saudi Navy had cleared an area of nearly 100 square nautical miles, which had already consumed a lot of their efforts, so when those minesweepers saw that the Iraqi Navy that came to support them actually did this, they had a feeling of vomiting blood.

Walking in front are two ships that are specially sent to death, those two ships are remotely controlled, and at the same time emitting a strong sound signal and water pressure, the sonar of the Saudi minesweeper, you can clearly hear the sound signal of the two ships.

And in the back, there was a row of minesweepers, like casting nets to catch fish, sailing forward side by side, and as peers, they knew that this was a simple and direct way to deal with anchor mines, and under the invisible water, there must be a cutter that could cut the thunderbolt.

Soon, I saw a "thorn" floating on the surface of the sea, which was an old-fashioned 0 mine.

Good luck catching a guy so quickly!

Then, one of the two missile boats in the back, with the 30-millimeter naval gun in front, hit the anchor mine that was out of the water and exploded immediately, splashing a column of water several meters high.

And the last two inconspicuous cargo ships began to drop buoys into the sea, and their eyes widened as they looked at the route of several buoys, because they understood the intention of the Iraqi Navy, which meant that they could move along the waterway they had opened up! To be continued.