"Attention, attention, this is the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, I am the Wing Captain Lone Ranger, now, please follow the plan and conduct landing training!" Nathan picked up the microphone and shouted over the radio. Now Nathan has integrated into the role of Wing Captain.

A response was soon heard on the radio: "Tomcat squadron understood. ”

"AWACS squadron understands."

When an aircraft carrier goes to sea, it does not carry carrier-based aircraft, and after the aircraft carrier sails on the sea, the carrier-based aircraft will take off from the airfield on land to carry out a landing operation, after all, after the aircraft carrier returns to port, the carrier-based aircraft also fly to the base on land.

Now they are going to sea for the first time, and the carrier-based aircraft are also in the land base of the port.

The sea is rippling, the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is just a medium-sized aircraft carrier, the deck is much smaller than the American supercarrier, but, no one cares, they are all preparing, there is a whistling in the sky in the distance, and the first to fly over is the Tomcat fighter squadron.

Andrew's fighter flew first, and he had carried out more than ten landing operations on American aircraft carriers so far, although he did not have the ability to land at night, but among the novices, he was also relatively good.

I saw that the wings of the fighter planes were all spread out, swaying left and right.

This is also the characteristic of the Tomcat fighter, this kind of aircraft because the two engines are far apart, the deflection torque is large, so every time the adjustment, the fuselage shakes badly.

As it shook, the wheels touched the deck and slid forward, hooking firmly on the second barrage.

It was a very good landing, quite perfect.

The barrage was restored, and the fighters taxied towards the parking area on one side, which was also testing the skills of the deck crews, who quickly packed up the fighters and put them in the hangar below through the elevator.

The second Tomcat fighter has already roared down, followed by the third, and then the fourth.

The deck has a limited area, so after it is fully manned, some carrier-based aircraft will inevitably enter the hangar below.

The Tomcat fleet fell, followed by the E-2 AWACS.

The Tomcat fighters are all British pilots, and this E-2 AWACS aircraft is the Americans, they were borrowed by Nathan, and when they learned that they were going to fight with Nathan, they agreed without hesitation.

Now, their landing was much more calm, and after hooking the barrage, they slowly stopped, and from this moment on, the crew members joined the British Navy.

"From today onwards, we will conduct take-off and landing training for carrier-based aircraft every day, air combat training under the command of early warning aircraft, etc., we are about to go to the battlefield, and my expectation for everyone is to come back alive." On the bridge, Nathan spoke to the proud sons of the sky.

He won't say more words of encouragement, when they come down from the battlefield in Vietnam, for them, living is the greatest luxury, and only by practicing their skills can they come back alive.

"Yes!" The crowd shouted in unison.

On the third day, the aircraft carrier passed through Panama.

The United States has developed its territory several times and has become a country with sea on both sides, so for the United States, how to communicate the fleets on the east and west sides is a big problem.

Fortunately, this problem has been solved a long time ago, and this is the Panama Canal.

If Latin America is America's backyard, then Panama is the door.

It is located in the middle of the Americas, and it happens to be the narrowest stretch, so at the beginning of the 20th century, the Panama Canal was dug here.

Of course, it is the Americans who are convenient, and anyway, this canal was dug by the Americans.

As for Panama, weak Panama, does it have a say?

If you don't go to Panama, you have to bypass the southernmost corner of Latin America, and the voyage is several times longer, which is very important to the United States, so the United States has stationed a heavy presence in the Canal Zone, has established 14 military bases or fortresses, and established the "Caribbean Command", which was later expanded to the "Southern Command", which is responsible for the operations of the three armed services in the western hemisphere outside the US mainland.

U.S. military bases in the Panama Canal Zone include Fort Clayton Army Base, Fort Amado, Rodman Naval Base, Howard Air Force Base, and Albrook Air Force Base on the Pacific coast, as well as the Naval Electronic Communications Center on Calleta Island, the Fort Sherman Army Jungle Combat Training Center, and Kokosolo Air Force Base on the Atlantic coast. During the Cold War, 65,000 U.S. troops and thousands of civilians were deployed in the Canal Zone, the highest density in the world.

For example, in 1977, the Jimmy Carter administration was preparing to sign a treaty with Panama to return the canal, which was passed by a very narrow majority in the Senate and House of Representatives on March 16, 1978.

(Writing this, East China Zhixiong also felt very emotional, this product is really a traitor, how blind the Americans are, they actually chose this person as president.) There is no one before and no one after. ）

At the time, the Carter administration was also subject to a lot of skepticism, and for most Americans, the Panama Canal would always be the property of Stars and Stripes, and when asked how the United States would respond if the Panamanian government closed the canal on the grounds of "repair" in the future, President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski famously said: "If that happens, the American military will go in and shut down and repair the Panamanian government." ”

This sentence is very atmospheric, but in fact, if this step really occurs, then President Carter will definitely still shout peace, it's okay, just walk to Cape Horn, just exercise.

This idiot has completely deprived the United States of its good international form.

Fortunately, although President Carter signed the treaty, there was still a transition period, and it was not until 1999 that it was officially handed over to the Panamanian government, and now, it is still the Americans who are in charge of it.

If it is a supercarrier in later generations, it will not be able to pass through the Panama Canal, where the locks have a width limit, and among the US Navy, the Midway-class aircraft carrier is the first US warship designed to pass through the Panama Canal with a maximum width.

Anything wider than it will not pass.

As for the current Queen Elizabeth, it is narrower than the Midway-class aircraft carriers, so there is no problem passing through Panama.

At this time, it was already dusk, the sun was shining on the aircraft carrier, the rice flag was fluttering in the wind on the mast, and the deck of the aircraft carrier was so conspicuous with all the carrier-based aircraft.

As long as you pass through the Panama Canal, you are ready to fight at any time!