Chapter 502: Secret Deployment
The aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, moving slowly in the locks, has a much lower capacity than the Suez Canal, and even in this era, it still loses money.
However, the waterway was still very important, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, effectively shortening the distance between the east and west coasts of the United States.
Now the golden sun shines on the canal, on the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, and the carrier-based aircraft on it, sparkling in the sun.
On both sides of the strait, there were people waving their hands, and they were the personnel of the American base here, who waved to the personnel on the ships, encouraging them to fight bravely and retake the Falkland Islands that belonged to them.
In space, reconnaissance satellites are also watching all this.
"Another aircraft carrier has entered the battle, and according to their course, we estimate that they may converge in two days." At this time, in the Argentine capital, Galtieri saw Andrea and his party again.
The last time the British bombers bombed the Falklands, Galtieri had already begun to accept the help of the Soviets, which they had to accept to win the war.
Three aircraft carriers, 80 Tomcat fighters, four AWACS aircraft, anti-submarine helicopters, and so on, such an aircraft carrier formation, the overall combat effectiveness has surpassed that of the Argentine navy and air force, and they cannot win on their own.
"Yes, they have crossed the Panama Canal, thanks to our Soviet friends, for providing us with a steady stream of intelligence support." "We have decided to accept your offer and ask you to transport the equipment to us immediately," Galtieri said. ”
How long will it take to accept it now, if it is transported from the Soviet mainland? Galtieri hoped to catch up with the war, and the British fleet moved too fast.
"Okay, we can transport it tonight." "We wanted to have the base in the interior. ”
In fact, the ships transporting equipment, which have been wandering around the nearby seas, have already arrived, and as long as they agree, they will immediately dock and unload, after all, Andrei is guarding against the other party.
The Soviet Navy was far from being well equipped to protect the sea routes, and what if the Americans knew that their ships were carrying planes for Argentina, and what if the Americans came up to intercept them?
Even with the Soviet flag flying, the Soviets were helpless when they were far from the Soviet mainland.
Therefore, it is necessary to prepare in advance.
Since the combat radius of one's own bombers is several kilometers, there is no difference between choosing inland and coastal areas, but in comparison, inland is definitely the safest.
In the Falklands War in the future, Argentina's super-flag aircraft sank the Shelfield, and then the British Navy dispatched special forces to go ashore and blew up the base of the super-flag aircraft, and several planes became scrap metal, which is a lesson.
If you want to choose inland, even if the other side wants to hit your own airport, it will not have a chance, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Landlocked? Hearing the other party's words, Galtieri frowned, in this way, will the influence of the Soviets go deeper?
"How about we choose to be near the border with Chile?"
Chile used to be a country that walked sideways in South America, but unfortunately, in modern society, Chile has rapidly weakened, and, looking at the border between the two sides, Chile is a long and narrow country, and Argentina seems to be able to annex Chile easily, so for many years, the relationship between Chile and Argentina has not been good.
However, it is the deepest place in Argentina, and even if the British send fighter planes over, they will not be able to bomb there, and it is the safest. The Tu-16 bombers deployed in the plan, carrying missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers, were launched from a distance and left, and they did not meet the British Navy at all.
In the Soviet Navy, the Tu-16 was already a backward and obsolete bomber, and it was replaced by the Tu-22 and Tu-22M bombers, however, it was still a knife used to kill chickens, and it was definitely no problem.
Since the pilots are all Soviets, they can't afford to lose in this war, after all, this is not a war of the Soviets, and there is no need to fight to the death.
"Okay." Galtieri let out a long sigh of agreement and agreed. After all, it is far from the Argentine capital, and it is said that it will not affect Argentine politics. The Soviets could not do what they wanted to do with Afghanistan as they did with Afghanistan.
That night, a steamer docked gently in the capital's harbor, the Argentine army closed the port, and trucks carried away the disassembled Tu-16 bombers and disappeared into the night.
Under the current reconnaissance technology, night reconnaissance satellites are still unable to work, so night is a very good way to hide their whereabouts.
On this night, Andrei did not sleep, but personally supervised in the port, and this batch of planes, secretly entered, secretly deployed, and must not be known to outsiders.
Even the top level of Argentina, not many people know about it, and he wants to prevent leaks, which is related to his own security.
After daylight, it was exactly the same as yesterday, and no one knew what they had found.
"Andrey, our intelligence system reports the loss of the whereabouts of the Queen Elizabeth." Just then, a subordinate reported to him.
Queen Elizabeth, gone.
Yesterday, the aircraft carrier was supposed to pass through Panama, but after dawn today, on the scheduled route, the aircraft carrier was not found!
Don't look at the aircraft carrier as a giant on the sea, but relative to the sea, the aircraft carrier is nothing, absolutely pediatric, in the vast sea, it is very difficult to find an aircraft carrier.
The other side is not on the course that they expected, and they have lost the trace of this aircraft carrier!
"Expand the scope of the search, they must be trying to avoid our search." Andrei said.
Now it is different from history, this war in the South Atlantic is already unrecognizable, the British in history only have a pocket fleet, and Argentina's Exocet missiles are in the single digits, the two sides have finished fighting advanced equipment, and the rest is to fight bayonets.
But now, the British actually have three aircraft carriers, all of which can operate Tomcats, no matter how much, the performance is many times more powerful than the Sea Harrier, and at the same time there are E-2 AWACS aircraft, which is simply open.
Correspondingly, with the help of its own side, Argentina will also have a first-class means of attacking the sea, and this naval battle will inevitably be even more tragic.
The British probably wanted to play tricks, leave them alone, settle their own bombers attacking the sea, and kill them as soon as the British arrived.
That's right, it was when they were still on a firm foothold that they carried out a sneak attack and disabled their formation first!