Chapter 490: Crisis Fermentation
It is impossible to stop the entry of MUTO into the sea, at least from the current point of view, even if the Third and Seventh Fleets reach Antarctica, they will certainly not be able to stop such a large number of MUTO.
What's more, before that, at least hundreds of millions of mutos were successfully entered into the sea.
This is not a cat or a dog kind of creature, the small muto body length has reached seven or eight meters, similar to the average Amazon python, the attack power is much stronger, ordinary people face this creature, there is only one dead word.
Once Muto lands on a large scale, will the military really have the ability to stop and destroy this level of monsters?
Thinking of the MUTO-A's body of more than 150 meters long roaming the city, crushing and causing countless casualties, and even being able to spit out attack materials like electromagnetic cannons, it is absolutely impossible to resist by ordinary troops.
But whether this can be done, Dempsey is uncertain.
"Your Excellency, in order to avoid civilian casualties, I propose to publish certain facts and evacuate the residents of coastal cities first."
The major deliberately suggested.
Dempsey's eyebrows twitched suddenly, and he glanced at the Major, looked him down, and said nothing.
Yes, if the truth is revealed, it will indeed reduce a lot of harm in the foreseeable future under the government's forced evacuation. But the disadvantages of this are also obvious, first of all, it will definitely cause large-scale social unrest around the world after the news is announced, and if the government does not respond appropriately, the White House may step down en masse.
Second. Coastal cities concentrate most of the economic and industrial strength and population of the United States, and an evacuation is easy to say, but how can it really be so easy to do, so many people, so many materials, where to evacuate?
The land is there. But what other cities can accommodate such a large number of people? There is no time to evacuate properly.
What's more, in such a turmoil, the United States will definitely enter a state of military management because of economic problems, which is not an outcome that many people want to see.
These problems are thus involved in a variety of other problems, and there are countless of them, and if each problem is not handled well, it can make many big people fall to pieces, who dares to take this risk and make such a suggestion at this time? Who would dare to take responsibility?
No, it's not a question of who dares to take responsibility. But who has the qualifications to take responsibility?
Only Mr. President.
But is His Excellency the President willing to take the risk of disrepute and irreparation?
To put himself in his shoes, Dempsey doesn't think His Excellency the President would be willing to take such a risk, nor would he be able to pass Congressional consent.
Unless the members of Congress are all crazy, they will evacuate at this time.
There is an old Chinese saying that if you don't see a coffin, you can't shed tears, and only when you really face the threat of death will people really agree with this advice.
He sighed slightly. Dempsey boured his tired spirits a little, ready to discuss these issues with the president and others.
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People go to work and rest as usual. The whole Western world is immersed in the arrival of Christmas, and in eastern Asia, influenced by Christmas, many young people are also willing to spend the holiday happily with their girlfriends on this date.
However, in the waters south of Australia and New Zealand, the huge Third Fleet is filled with a dull and tense atmosphere.
It is different from the emergency readiness state that was entered before. At this moment, the entire fleet has actually entered a state of engagement, as early as a few hours ago, with the cooperation of the main force of the Australian Air Force, F-22 fighters took off and landed from Guam. Muto, who had already joined forces with the Royal Australian Air Force units in advance, had begun to attack at the forefront.
After several tests, it was found that the MUTO-A has a detection and strike capability of 40 kilometers, and the fighter group is simply unable to carry out a close approach attack, otherwise there is a possibility of being shot down.
Fortunately, the MUTO is too eye-catching, and the number is quite large, under the command of high-altitude electronic early warning aircraft, and in the detection of reconnaissance satellites, the fighter group only needs to be separated by hundreds of kilometers to directly launch missiles, and when the missiles fly to 20 kilometers, they can turn on the on-board radar and let the missiles directly hit the target.
However, there are two problems with this.
One is that the number of missiles carried by fighters is limited, let alone one fighter, even if all the dozen fighters are combined, it is difficult to compare with the amount of ammunition carried by strategic bombers.
In this way, even if you can attack the MUTO group beyond the visual range, in terms of the number of MUTO horrors, it is just a scratching loss.
After all, humans never imagined that the weapons they developed would be used against such alien creatures.
In modern warfare, missiles are indeed very powerful, and sometimes only one shot hits a ship, which can make it lose all its combat capability, or even sink.
If you add up a fleet, it is only a dozen or dozens of ships, and the number of missiles carried by the fighter formation is absolutely sufficient.
But if you face an astonishing number of mutos, just like a human with a good pistol, although it can kill a person with one shot, but against a dense number of insects, a pistol is destroyed, and it may not be able to kill a hundred percent of the number of insects.
That is to say, the conventional weapons and equipment of human beings, used to deal with small MUTO, are definitely not cost-effective and do not have the same gain.
It can only be used against large Muto-A creatures, and the effect is okay.
The second headache is that the missile with a flight speed of Mach is actually destroyed in one fell swoop after being detected by the large MUTO-A!
Missiles have never been seen to track enemy planes, but where have we ever seen them that can evade them by performing various tactical maneuvers like fighter planes?
Yes, when ten missiles are launched, seven missiles will be exploded by a volley of mass missiles after approaching a range of 20 kilometers!
Originally, the results of the missile use in this situation were troublesome, and the success rate was reduced to 30%, which was unbearable for everyone anyway.
"No, we have to change the way of attacking!"
Third Fleet Commander Kenneth Murphy. After Lieutenant General Freud learned of the results of the attack. The use of over-the-horizon missile attacks was immediately denied.
"How far are we from the front?"
"Thirty-two hours to go!"
The general next to him replied.
"What if you count the speed of the other party?"
“…… In this way, it only takes us twenty hours to meet each other. ”
Spreading out the map, Commander Floyd quickly calculated the distance, and in twenty hours, the two sides would meet about 1,460 kilometers southeast of Tasmania, Australia.
The place is also 2,284 kilometers from Sydney and less than 1,000 kilometers from Invercargill, a coastal city in the south of New Zealand!
At the speed at which these monsters were spotted at this time. Twenty hours later, if there is a sudden diversion in this place, then immediately after
In 16 hours, you can land in New Zealand.
That's 36 hours of time left for New Zealand!
Forty-four hours left on the island of Tasmania, Australia!
Melbourne and Sydney have only a dozen to twenty hours more time.
After more than a day, if this muto into the sea cannot be stopped, then New Zealand will suffer first, and in another day it will be Australia's turn!
To this time period, of course. I'm afraid that the number of mutos in Antarctica has climbed to more than 15 billion!
No, not only that, but at the same time, Chile and Argentina in South America will also face this unprecedented catastrophe!
Floyd could think of it, and the Australian military, which shares the intelligence of the US military, can naturally think of this result.
Andrews glanced at the map with a pale face and turned his gaze to Prime Minister Albert to the side.
"Is it that bad?".
Albert withdrew his gaze from the map. I couldn't help frowning, and my heart was extremely worried.
Previously, Andrews thought that the U.S. military would be able to intercept Muto's continued entry into the sea. So they only need to face seven million mutos, where can they think of it, not to mention the failure of the US military interception, and the loss of several strategic bombers in one go, and the gray and retreated back, which made him very angry.
What is the result of a failed interception?
That's what they're doing now. A horrific and frightening result.
According to the previous calculations, it is easy to come to the conclusion that just five or six hours have passed, and the number of mutos that have gone to sea has reached more than 22 million!
Two days later, the speed of Ruomuto's entry into the sea did not decrease at all. There are hundreds of millions of mutos that continue to land off the coast of Australia.
With such a number of monsters, Andrews did not think that with the strength of his country's military, he could annihilate them all.
To put it simply, if these unknown creatures are replaced by the same number of rabbits, they may not be able to kill them in a short period of time, not to mention that Muto is by no means a weak rabbit.
"Your Excellency, do you have any suggestions?"
Albert began to ask himself for the opinion of the Minister of Defense.
"Your Excellency, I think...... If only on our own, it will not be enough to fight such a number of mutos. So I recommend...... First evacuate the residents of the coastal cities urgently, and then mobilize all the best forces to arrange ...... Of course, the best way is to let the United States use nuclear weapons, which may be able to prevent the landing of these monsters. ”
"Nuclear weapons?"
Albert groaned and did not speak, the use of nuclear weapons in the South China Sea of Australia is not a trivial matter. However, compared with the tragedy that followed, the use of nuclear weapons is really not a big deal, and the biggest difficulty is to get the United States to agree to use nuclear weapons.
This......
It should not be difficult to do, after all, American think tanks are not fools, and in such a critical situation, they will definitely suggest that the president use nuclear weapons to block the advance of Muto.
Even if you try it out in advance. (To be continued......)