Chapter 486: Interception (1)
Originally, in places such as Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. military had built a certain number of military bases, but the scale was not very large, and it certainly could not be used as outposts this time.
Yes, it is imperative to borrow the Royal Air Force base in Australia.
With Australia's relationship with the United States, borrowing an air base is not a big deal, as long as they are not left alone.
Hearing Dempsey's words, Andrews breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "I still need to go back and discuss this matter, and I will give you an answer as soon as possible." ”
"We're running out of time, Lord Andrews, and I hope you'll get back to us within fifteen minutes...... Because the air formation from Guam will arrive in half an hour. ”
"What?"
Andrews changed color slightly, it was simply a prelude, as if he didn't worry that they wouldn't agree. But seriously, this does have to be agreed.
The meeting continued, and tens of thousands of kilometers away, a bombing formation composed of four B-1B Lancer strategic bombers and six B-52Hs flew quickly to the south, sailing at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and there were six F-22 stealth fighters on the periphery to escort them.
As for the four earlier Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance planes, they flew to the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica at an altitude of 63o kilometers at an altitude of 20,000 meters a few hours ago, and remotely transmitted the detected data back to the US Pacific Command at any time through a satellite link.
When it came time to approach Australia, the F-22 first went to the air base that Australia had negotiated for refueling, while the ten strategic bombers did not stop and continued to fly forward.
In order not to lose time, these bombers do not land for resupply, but fly continuously. Just because just in the front direction, there are already several air tankers waiting, ready to refuel strategic bombers at any time.
It's like a baton, a grouping, and a tactical line set in advance. It is a global military strategy that the US military is proud of.
Military bases are deployed around the globe and can take off in half an hour at any time. Striking at any target in the world within 24 hours is a kind of military combat capability that no other country can do except the current US military.
After Sydney, it was still nearly 5,000 kilometers away from the Ross Ice Shelf, and it would take five hours for the bombers to arrive at the earliest, and by that time, the first muto had already been at sea for two hours.
The target of the strategic bombing formation was not the first MUTO, but the second, third, and fourth MUTO, which were immediately in close proximity.
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One meeting lasted nearly three hours. After two breaks, and the time was approaching five o'clock in the morning in Washington, D.C., all of you were not sleepy, and your eyes were staring directly at the images on the big screen.
There, the image information transmitted by several Global Hawk drones is making real-time observations of the first MUTO at low altitude.
Although Dempsey repeatedly emphasized that this was just a branch of Muto, and the number was not very large, everyone looked at this torrent with a width of more than three hundred and fifty meters and no end. Everyone can't agree that this number is also very small?
That's not a lot, but what is a lot?
It's three kilometers from the sea!
A group is 5o to 75 cm long. Clumsy penguins, with white eyes and blue-green heads and finned feet, are in groups of thousands of penguins, moving in groups on the ice floes and icebergs along the coast, and more are piled up on the edge of the six places.
There are so many penguins, it is estimated that they are also a team composed of several large families, leisurely and comfortable, and they don't even realize that they are a few kilometers away. A terrifying otherworldly unknown creature is sweeping in.
The penguins chirp loudly and bark at each other. Some of them are still clapping each other's flippers and chirping, as if such a show will be a successful courtship.
Wait until the first torrent of muto is close to within a kilometer. It was the violent shaking of the ground that attracted the attention of these Adreid penguins.
Unfortunately, it was too late to escape at this time.
When the torrent army advanced an average of forty kilometers, the width of the rolling unknown creatures exceeded more than three hundred and fifty meters, encompassing the entire coast that surrounded this area, and the penguins lying on the ground and chirping made a sharp cry, and turned around to escape into the sea.
There are not just a few dozens, but thousands of penguins moving, and it feels like there are countless people all over the mountains, but in front of this torrent of muto, it is still just a joke.
The greasy, tangled tentacles swung violently, rolling up the clumsy penguins like a towel, and twisted them into a mixture of minced meat and feathers directly in the air.
More often than not, they devoured these penguins and disappeared in an instant.
Thousands of penguins, except for the penguin flock on the beach and ice floes, more than 9o% of the penguins did not have time to escape, and were swept over by the muto behind them, and disappeared into the vast black torrent, without even a ripple.
Seeing such a terrifying and tragic scene through the drone, the big people in the conference room all had bad faces, and they were somewhat worried and frightened.
This kind of aggressive creature is not a friendly object from any point of view, and once it is landed in the coastal cities of various countries6, what kind of casualties will it cause?
No one can guess.
Of course, the premise of all this is that these mutos can really go to the sea.
Just like the lions and tigers, no matter how powerful they are, they can't swim into the sea to the opposite big 6, maybe they are too unfounded, maybe these unknown creatures can't swim at all?
"Bang Bang Bang Bang ......"
The sound of entering the water is endless, as if magma has rolled into the sea, and a large number of these mutos have poured into the sea from 6 places, causing the sea water along the coast to be turbulent and splashing.
The scene is quite majestic.
"It's ......"
"My God!"
The surrounding small muto chaos got out of the way, and a huge muto squirmed and plunged headlong into the sea.
A creature of this size, this plunged into the sea, and the surrounding sea water was violently discharged, turbulent and undulating, and the momentum was huge, and everyone in the conference room was in a cold sweat.
One of the largest documented creatures on Earth, the Seisosaurus, was no more than 42 meters in length at most, and there may have been longer instances, but it was never possible to go further than 6o meters.
Such a creature can be described as a behemoth, and it can bring vibrations like an earthquake with a single gesture, which is why it is named Seismosaurus.
But this large muto in front of everyone, the body length is more than 15o meters, and its diameter is as much as six meters on average. (To be continued)