Chapter 503: Where is the base?
The sea was still blue all around, and the bow of the ship split the waves, which seemed to be a normal voyage.
But no one on board the Queen Elizabeth thought so, and when they turned around and came back from the locks of the Panama Canal in the middle of the night, everyone was curious.
What's going on?
How did you come back again?
The discipline of secrecy has been issued, everyone cannot inquire about each other, everything has to rot in the stomach, and at the same time, the aircraft carrier is already at full speed, soaring at a speed of 30 knots.
When the sun sailed from the left side of the warship, it was already clear in everyone's minds that this was continuing to sail south, what did it mean?
Are you going to carry out a sneak attack from the south?
How much courage does it take for a lone aircraft carrier to go for a sneak attack?
That's right, this plan, even in Britain, has caused a lot of controversy, and the high-level people debated for a long time, but finally handed over the decision to Major General Woodward, and Woodward was not afraid of the risk and actually agreed.
Woodward knew that this plan was proposed by Nathan, and maintained absolute trust in Nathan, Woodward, yes, he believed in Nathan's choice, Nathan had strong insight, and his judgment would not be wrong.
That is, now they are sailing along the Pacific Ocean, to the south.
On the bridge, Nathan was studying the large-scale map.
They are simply running naked, a lone aircraft carrier, once they encounter an enemy submarine, they will be sunk at any time, they do not have any close protection, even the Argentine Skyhawk attack aircraft can cause them damage.
However, now that the choice has been made, there is absolutely no fear.
"Nathan, what are you looking for?" Lieutenant Colonel Brown asked Nathan.
"The location of the bombers deployed by the Soviets." Nathan said.
Although Emily was asked to contact the CIA to keep a close eye on the Soviets' bomber shipments, the CIA never sent back the news.
It is not easy to spy on intelligence from the Soviet Union, and many CIA agents just cut and cut the newspapers in the Soviet Union to find intelligence from above, and in the Soviet Union, they will be watched by the KGB at any time, and they cannot go to many places, so it is difficult to obtain first-hand information.
Moreover, if the Soviets had been prepared, they might have transported the bombers a long time ago, and it would have been easy to intercept them on the sea. So, multi-handed preparation, for Nathan, is to look for it from the map.
Where will the Soviets deploy their bombers?
Coastal? Certainly not suitable, they knew that the British Navy would blow it up at any cost.
It is also impossible near the capital, Galtieri was a rebel, how can you not suspect their intentions?
And if you want to have the greatest strategic depth, then only the border line remains.
Argentina and Chile are bordered by the winding and rugged Andes Mountains, and it is most convenient to deploy a base at the foot of the mountain due to the high mountains.
Nathan carefully studied the map, and finally selected a few places: "Emily, ask the CIA to mobilize aerial reconnaissance satellites to carefully search these areas." ”
It needs to be near the national border, and at the same time, at the end of the main transportation artery, after all, a military base cannot be built at all without various transport vehicles, and at the same time, it is better to have a city nearby so that they can be resupplyed.
In this way, there are five or six places to choose from, and it is good to let the reconnaissance satellites carefully search for this place.
"Understood." Emily took Nathan's order and went back to contact.
Zapara.
Located in the middle of Argentina, near the border with Chile, it is surrounded by quiet, high-pitched mountains to the west, where you can see the perennial snow, and at the foot of the mountains is a huge flat land.
The surface of this flat land has been laid up with metal plates and turned into a long runway, which is the deployment of field runways that are common in the Soviet Union.
Because it is a Tu-16 bomber, if it is a front-line fighter plane that takes off and lands the Soviet Union, it does not even need to lay metal plates, and can take off directly by pressing this surface with a road roller.
Next to the runway, military tents were erected, all of which were grass green and blended in with the surrounding woods.
At the same time, the nearby woods have also been cut down, just in time to turn them into places where bombers are hidden.
At this time, one car after another was rumbling over, carrying the fuselage, wings, and so on of the Tu-16 bomber one by one, and then assembling them.
"Hurry, hurry!" The commander shouted loudly, and the commander of the 1st Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Navy, Varysi, shouted to his subordinates: "We are running out of time, hurry up and assemble!" ”
Supposedly, they were supposed to assemble it at night, but it's secluded and close to the border, and if you work hard at night, you might get the attention of the Chilean side.
The place they chose was very ingenious, and the Americans' reconnaissance satellites would not fly over here, so it was okay to work during the day.
Although it looked cold on the top of the mountain, the temperature was just right, and many ground crews were rolling up their sleeves to quickly assemble the Tu-16.
The Tu-16 bomber is designed to meet the requirements of strategic bombing of important military targets in the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Western Europe, and its performance and size are roughly comparable to those of the American B-47 and the British Warrior, Vulcan and Victor bombers.
The aircraft looks ordinary, with a streamlined fuselage and swept wings, two Tumansky turbojet engines on either side of the fuselage, and both flat and vertical tails have swept angles.
This bomber was developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau of the Soviet Union in 1950, made its first flight in 1952, and was delivered in 1955, about 2,000 units were produced, in addition to being mainly used as a bomber, it was also modified to undertake aerial reconnaissance, aerial refueling and other tasks, because of backward performance, it began to be gradually retired in 1966.
Now there are only dozens of such bombers in the entire Soviet Navy and Air Force, although it is backward for the Soviet Union, but when it is brought here, it is the most advanced thing.
At the same time, this bomber also became the main bomber of China, codenamed H-6, and was in service until the new century.
Due to the limited space and the lack of a large hangar, they had to assemble in the open air.
With the help of the crane, the wings were quickly installed, followed by the tail fin, and even though they were on the other side of the world, they were also extremely energetic, regardless of jet lag and the like, they worked very hard.
However, they will not know that in outer space, an American reconnaissance satellite began to change its orbit, flew towards them, and aimed its high-definition camera at the ground.