General Smith did have some headaches, this damn fog, this damn communication glitch, really stumped him, so much so that he was now in the biggest crisis since he joined the army.

It is estimated that in the history of the US military, he is the first general who holds two aircraft carrier formations but is still trapped in such a small sea area, but there is no solution.

This situation is indeed a bit weird, so much so that he feels that this time the incident is inseparable from the previous satellite communication failure, but the difference is that now even ordinary radio communication is invalid.

It was as if they had entered an encirclement of radio shielding at this time.

"Hell, hell!" Vice Admiral Smith had repeated these two sentences a hundred times, but he could not find any solution, and the only thing he could do now was to keep the ships at a distance, so as not to crash into himself and cause greater losses.

Originally, the distance between the ships of the aircraft carrier formation was relatively long.

Although the dozens of fighters carried by the aircraft carrier have strong attack power, their own firepower is relatively weak and their defense is weak, especially the flight deck is an excellent target.

When a single aircraft carrier is faced with a close surprise attack by enemy submarines and surface ships, or a volley attack by aircraft and missiles, its survivability is very low.

In the aircraft carrier formation, aircraft carriers and the military aircraft they carry are the core of combat effectiveness, and they are equipped with surface ships, attack submarines, and logistics supply vessels to jointly complete air defense, anti-submarine, and support tasks. At the same time, the subordinate ships can also cooperate with the aircraft carrier to complete the tactical targets of attack and suppression with their own firepower.

Such a battle group, covering a strike range of hundreds of kilometers, can also attack land near the sea.

The major powers in the world, where they have aircraft carriers, will always do their best to equip them with other ships to form a formation in order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carriers, and the overall strength of the aircraft carrier formations depends not only on the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carriers themselves, but also on the quality of these ships to which they are attached.

Some military experts say that in an aircraft carrier formation, ships are separated by dozens of nautical miles, sometimes not even within the line of sight of the other side, and a lot of training and testing is required to develop combat power.

As a matter of fact, although the actual combat formation of air defense and antisubmarine warfare between aircraft carriers and "close" escort ships cannot be as close as the US aircraft carrier formation is only a few hundred meters away from each other, it is not "dozens of nautical miles apart, and sometimes it is not even within the other side's line of sight."

Just like the maximum effective firing distance of the Huaxia long-range Aegis anti-aircraft missile, the farthest is only more than 50 nautical miles, and the actual engagement distance of the counter-attack target is about 50 kilometers, and the actual maximum firing range of the 054A anti-aircraft missile used as the main force in the surface ships of the Huaxia Navy is only 40 kilometers, and the actual engagement distance with the target is only about 20 kilometers.

That is, the straight-line distance of the air defense ship from the aircraft carrier cannot be greater than the actual most effective combat radius of the anti-aircraft missile.

This distance is at most half of the maximum range of the air defense missile, and it is impossible for any air defense missile to be launched as soon as the radar finds the incoming target close to the maximum range circle, and it is necessary to ensure that it hits, and it is generally launched only after the target enters the range circle, and the hit point of the air defense missile and the target, leaving the ship itself that launched the air defense missile, is already relatively close, about the middle of the entire range of the missile, or even closer, otherwise the air defense umbrella will fail.

In the face of the threat of an air attack, especially the threat of a saturation attack, the carrier-based air defense missiles that rely only on the air defense circle organized by the ship are still very passive, the target is too large, and in the face of a saturation attack, one or two fish that slip through the net will cause a disaster, so the aircraft carrier tries to expand the air defense circle to the periphery by relying on carrier-based aircraft, and strives to shoot down or drive away the enemy plane before the enemy attack aircraft group launches anti-ship missiles, because intercepting a number of anti-ship missiles that have already been launched is better than intercepting attacking enemy planes that have not yet launched missiles. The difficulty is more than an order of magnitude higher.

If the ships in the formation are mainly anti-submarine, they will be closer to the aircraft carrier itself, and if there are dozens of nautical miles between the ships in the formation, the enemy submarine and torpedo will have enough holes to get in and get close to the aircraft carrier and directly hit the aircraft carrier.

Not only does this possibility exist, but it did happen, and during a previous Pacific exercise, the Huaxia submarine suddenly appeared at the site of the exercise and approached the US aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, which was carrying 4,500 officers and men, which stunned US military officials.

The site of the incident is located in the waters between southern Japan and the Taiwan Strait, and the Huaxia submarine has already passed over at least 12 US ships protecting the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier, and the presence of the submarine has not been detected by the US military's expensive monitoring equipment.

By the time the 160-foot-long Huaxia Song-class diesel-electric attack submarine surfaced, it was within range of firing torpedoes or missiles at U.S. aircraft carriers.

The Americans had no idea that China's rapidly developing submarine force had reached such an advanced level, or that it had posed such a great threat to them, that the impact of this incident on them was no less than that of the Soviets' launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957 to usher in the space age.

The encounter forced the United States and NATO to rethink their naval strategy, while triggering intensive diplomatic activity.

Therefore, in order to expand the distance of air defense and anti-submarine warfare, other frigates are not allowed to leave the aircraft carrier for more than a few dozen nautical miles, but such a ship detachment must be counted as a forward or flanking formation, and cannot be regarded as an escort force of the aircraft carrier itself in the strict sense.

The appearance of the Dongfeng-21D directly crossed the surface and bottom atmospheric defense circle composed of all carrier-based aircraft and ships, and when the first blow was blown, only a limited number of missiles in the aircraft carrier formation had a theoretical probability of interception, and it was indeed a brand-new threat to the aircraft carrier defense circle, so the Americans thought that the Dongfeng-21D was the revolution of naval warfare. Lifeal weapons.

So for the aircraft carrier formation, it is not good for the ships to be too far away, but it is also not good to be too close.

In that case, as in the current situation, nearly 30 ships of various types, crammed into a small circle within a radius of less than two nautical miles, are like dumplings, and any high-powered missile can hit one ship.

"If this is the enemy's plan, then we don't even have a chance to escape." Lieutenant General Smith said to his deputy commander.

Lieutenant General Smith was worried about the situation in front of him, but there was no way to solve it, after all, the fog on the sea came too suddenly, and the communication failure was also the most irritating thing, otherwise, no matter how serious the fog at sea was, they would not be helpless, and they could only wait passively on the vast sea.

"I'm afraid Washington is going crazy." The deputy commander also said helplessly.

Washington, on the other hand, is indeed going crazy, and the two aircraft carrier formations cannot be contacted, which is a big event.

You must know that the entire United States, which is now in service only 12 aircraft carriers, suddenly has a decrease of one-sixth, and it is also the two most important aircraft carrier formations, and the deployment of troops in the entire Asia-Pacific region has suddenly appeared in a situation close to a vacuum.

There was constant communication between the Pentagon and the White House, and staff members came and went, all busy with it.

Several spy satellites were also temporarily used to search over the Sea of Japan, but no clues were found, and the two aircraft carrier formations, the huge fleet that usually spanned dozens of nautical miles, disappeared without a trace, and no trace could be found.

"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on?!" President O'Hei was already a little anxious and almost crazy at this time, and kept patting his leather shoes on the big oak table to vent the uneasiness in his heart.

O'Hei has been having a hard time lately, especially when the media has just voted him the worst performing president in U.S. history in 60 years, which hurts the ambitious O'Hei.

But that's not all, there have been a series of major incidents recently, first the Lord of the Demon Stone Society turned into a hell demon and was defeated by Lin Xiao, and then they used antimatter weapons to solve Lin Xiao by the way, but the result was a failure, and now there has been an incident of the sudden disappearance of two aircraft carrier formations, which is tantamount to making matters worse for him.

Under so much pressure, even if he changes to any strong president, he is powerless, not to mention that he is an empty president himself, and some things are not counted at all.

"President, the news from the Huaxia side ......" At this time, an assistant ran in and said with a nervous expression, "They sent news for Lin Xiao, saying that Lin Xiao was very annoyed by our use of antimatter weapons to attack him, and now they are detaining our two aircraft carrier groups in return." ”

"What, there's such a thing??" When everyone heard this, they were all scorched by thunder.

When will someone be able to detain two powerful aircraft carrier formations of the United States with the strength of one person, what is wrong with this world? That's crazy, isn't it?!

"He also said that if we can't agree to his conditions and give him some compensation, we will not rule out the possibility of permanently leaving these two aircraft carrier groups." The assistant continued.

"What?!"

"This is ridiculous!"

"Is it April Fool's Day?!"

In the office, there was a sudden sound of swearing, and it was obvious that everyone was angered by Lin Xiao's words.

Some people even began to shout, "He is dreaming, and the United States does not accept threats!" ”