After the "director team" cleared the radio interference to the traverser, the rough embryos on the "Sacramento"-class integrated supply ship E4 were finally able to learn about their "dangerous" situation from the radio. It turned out that many of the people who had been hiding in the E4 ship's dining room with Wei Xun had already begun to leave, and the news that the F-15E "Strike Eagle" fighter with the number LN2003 had simultaneously killed John Bull's Far East Fleet and Maozi's Pacific Fleet made these rough embryos who had always been skeptical about the fact of the crossing unable to sit still.

To be reasonable, the E4 ship, which was also dismantled by the "director team", has a worse rhythm than the "Mistral" class amphibious assault ship in terms of self-defense capabilities. Well, this refers to the fact that the E4 ship has been in this state of anchoring and mooring. Once the E4's steam turbines moved from the Iowa-class battleship Kentucky were operational, it would be possible to soar its massive body with a full load displacement of 53,600 tons to a speed of 26 knots. This speed is almost twice the speed of large surface ships in this era, and in front of the E4 ship, which is the crown metamorphosis ship that is the "fastest supply ship" even in the 21st century, it is not even qualified to eat soil with the speed of John Bull and Maozi's scum.

As Su Yan expected, many of the people who had gathered around Wei Xun were indeed familiar with the operation of large ships. When they realized that they would be beaten by John Bull and Maozi's two fleets that had been attacked by LN2003, they all jumped out one after another, and when the 4 ships were fully loaded, they carried the equivalent of 177,000 barrels of fuel, and its armor obviously could not be compared with those battleships in World War II. Anyone familiar with large ships knows that once the E4 is attacked, even by a late nineteenth-century scum battleship with tattered naval guns, it is as if they are in an iron coffin that can cause a mushroom cloud at any moment. The only way out is to speed up the ship and merge with Task Force 38 as soon as possible to replenish the fleet's warships with fuel and ammunition.

For a while, the E4 ship immediately entered an efficient and busy rhythm from a lazy state, and the engine room was finally able to operate normally after a group of professionals poured in. Su Yan broke out in a cold sweat after seeing the group of people who had gathered in the restaurant put down the rubber assault boat to measure the depth of the water, thinking that fortunately, the two knives in the engine room before would not fiddle with the two steam turbines with a total power of 100,000 shaft horsepower produced by General Electric, otherwise the E4 ship in the offshore sea would most likely hit the rocks once it moved.

"E4, send a helicopter to rescue the pilot who parachuted out, it may take some time for us to enter the Gretel Sound." Marcos, who had already driven at full speed to the northwest, said to Su Yan through the radio.

"This is very difficult, there are indeed people in the restaurant who can fly helicopters, but now the three helicopters on our ship are all Eagle Sauce's CH-46E 'Sea Knights', they have no experience in flying this kind of twin-rotor helicopter!" Su Yan said.

As a helicopter with Eagle Sauce and others as its main customers, the CH-46E "Sea Knight" is obviously a bit low. Compared to the CH-53E "Super Stallion", a big guy who can carry 55 people with an extra seat, it is really a little unsightly. In addition, the navigation system of the entire series of CH-46 is very bad, and the low-end night vision equipment is a big flaw for it. As an aircraft with transportation as its main mission, the range of the "Sea Knight" is only half that of the "Super Stallion", which is also very embarrassing. As for the load capacity, uh, it's better not to be heavier than the "Sea Stallion", a pervert that can lift the F-15 fighter.

So why did the "Sea Knight" become its biggest customer despite all the shortcomings of the "Sea Knights", who were not short of money? Let's list the advantages of this helicopter with the same tandem twin-rotor structure as the "Chinook": when equipped with an engine that provides the same lift, its structure is more compact, the folding helicopter is smaller in size, suitable for maritime carrier-based use, and the load capacity is larger; The best performance can be obtained at low paddle loads, with high hovering efficiency; It has a strong ability to resist crosswind disturbance when hovering, has a large maneuvering margin, and allows a large change in the center of gravity, so its reliability and safety are higher. These advantages make the "Sea Knight" easily and incompetently for tasks that require long hours of hovering on the sea surface, such as sea transportation, personnel search and rescue.

Of course, the structure of twin-rotor longitudinal helicopters such as "Chinook" and "Sea Knight" is definitely more complex than that of single-rotor helicopters, and the aerodynamic interference of the front rotor to the rear rotor leads to low aerodynamic efficiency of the rear rotor, large pitch inertia, unstable angle of attack, low yaw control efficiency, and poor maneuverability. These are undoubtedly nightmarish existences for pilots who are accustomed to flying single-rotor helicopters, especially for those who have only piloted civilian helicopters just out of the E4 ship cafeteria, it is simply impossible to parachute and rescue Kang Xiaoshuai floating on the sea by reading the manual.

"If they are forced to drive one of these 'Sea Knights' on a rescue mission, I fear that we will have more people to save in the near future. Even if there was a miracle, they didn't fall into the sea, hovering and rappelling to save people, none of us would do it, at best, they would just fly to the head of the parachuted pilot to cheer him up. Su Yan added.

"Okay, send our MK-88A Sea Cat helicopter to save people, but we don't have much aviation fuel, our helicopter needs to refuel your ship first, you can free us on the tarmac." Marcos replied that the Sea Cat helicopter on the Brandenburg-class frigate F217 was even shorter than the Sea Knight.

As the saying goes, there are many dreams at night, and Marcos really didn't dare to let Kang Xiaoshuai soak in the Gretel Strait like this, and there was John Bull's airport nearby. The original shortage of the three ships of the 38th Task Force was extremely serious, but after encountering the fully staffed "Mistral"-class amphibious assault ship, Yang Guang gritted his teeth and put together two crews for the Ka-28 of the "Dreadnought II" class destroyer and the MK-88A of the "Brandenburg." After all, with limited artillery shells and the inability to easily use anti-ship missiles, the 38th Task Force counted on the torpedoes and depth charges hanging from these anti-submarine helicopters to attack the ironclads.

"A1, please take off."

"K2, permission to take off."

"I'm rubbing, isn't that 'Sea Cat' going to catch the pilot, why did it take off with torpedoes and depth charges, is this going to make trouble?" The control officer of the F217 ship discovered that the Sea Cat anti-submarine/search and rescue helicopter numbered K2 had taken off with live ammunition after it left the apron at the stern of the ship.

"Do you want to call her back? Why do I think it's not very reliable to carry these big bombers to catch people? The lookout on the side asked.

"Pull it down, it's going to take more than ten minutes to land on the ship, and then half an hour has passed to unload those things, just take the guy who saved the people, don't waste time." As the captain of the ship, Marcose was also speechless for his group of soldiers.

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