In the era of the Martian discovery, the news of the launch of the fourth aircraft carrier on Hawk Island did not cause a big sensation around the world.

However, military fans and the 54 million islanders of Hawk Island are still very concerned, because this is the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on Hawk Island, and Hawker Island has also become the third country to have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

As a duke, He Xiao was unsurprisingly invited to participate in the naming ceremony, and he was joined by the heads of the Hawk Island Administration and the military, as well as celebrities and academic elders such as Roger André and Carl Einstein.

At 11 o'clock, the naming ceremony began, and the audience sang the national anthem of the Principality of Hawke "The Stars Shine Forever on the Eastern Ocean", and the Big Dipper Flag was raised. At the ceremony, He Xiao presented a naming certificate to the chief officer of the receiving unit and cut the ribbon for the launch of the aircraft carrier.

A bottle throwing ceremony ensued, the champagne bottle smashed into the bow of the ship, the two sides sprayed brilliant ribbons, the ship whistled, the dock door opened, and the aircraft carrier slowly moved out of the dock. The launching ceremony ended with the singing of the Hawk Island military anthem.

The fourth aircraft carrier on Hawk Island is named the "Hawk Island Naval Tianquan-class Ship", which is currently the largest aircraft carrier on the Blue Star.

Its length is 512 meters, the hull width is 63 meters, the flight deck width is 102 meters, the draft is 15 meters, the full load is 165,000 tons, the crew is 5,217 people, the endurance is 70 days, and the speed is more than 35 knots.

Everyone present, as well as the spectators on the shore, were thrilled and proud.

Hawke's navy has long been considered not strong enough, having previously had only three ordinary aircraft carriers with a displacement of less than 80,000 tons, and not entirely developed in-house.

The construction of a supercarrier of more than 100,000 tons has always been the common aspiration of the 54 million islanders of Hawk Island.

The Duke's Mansion and the Executive Hall often receive relevant petitions, the official website of Hawk Island and social accounts, and there are also many messages, and now, it has become a reality, and this will not be the first, and at least 5 more aircraft carriers of the same level will be built in the future.

After all, although Hawk Island has only 750,000 square kilometers of territory, it is the largest country in the Blue Star Ocean Exclusive Economic Zone, and half of the Eastern Ocean is the exclusive economic zone of Hawker Island......

It is well known that, in accordance with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the width of the territorial sea does not exceed 12 nautical miles, but the exclusive economic zone outside its territorial territory can reach 200 nautical miles.

Other countries enjoy three freedoms in their exclusive economic zones: freedom of overflight, freedom of navigation on water, and freedom to lay cables and pipelines under the seabed. However, the exercise of these three freedoms is not unrestricted, but conditional, and cannot affect the national security of the coastal State.

In other words, as long as it affects its national security, it has the power to stop it......

Of course, the premise is that you have the strength to stop it.

Hawker Island is not particularly large in size compared to the southern continent, and even slightly smaller than the island of New Guinea, which is also part of the southern continent, ranking the fourth largest island in the world, but it has 2,700 small islands in the eastern ocean.

The island where the nuclear explosion was tested before was one of the larger uninhabited islands.

The vast majority of these small islands are uninhabited islands, with an area of no more than 1 square kilometer, which cannot be seen on the world map at all, even on the normal version of the map of Hawk Island, after all, the map drawings are only so large, and if these unimportant islands are drawn, the size of the island will be greatly reduced, and the amount of information that the island can standard will be greatly reduced.

Only a special version of the map of the entire sea area of Hawk Island can show these small islands, which were the result of the colonization of the Pu and Tulip Kingdoms, and at that time, these islands in the eastern ocean were unified as Hawk Island "Trusteeship" for ease of management.

These islands cover almost the entire eastern ocean, with a total area of less than 2,000 square kilometers, but due to the law of the sea, any island can have exclusive economic rights around 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers......

In other words, even a 0.01 square kilometer pelagic island can have an exclusive economic zone of 430,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the area of the four islands of Fuso combined......

Theoretically, the 2,700 islands of Hawker Island can have an exclusive economic zone of up to 11610000 square kilometers, of course, in fact, there are many islands that are relatively close to each other and have many overlapping areas, and the real EEZ area of Hawker Island is "only" 35.25 million square kilometers, which is only one-fifth of the eastern ocean......

In comparison, the exclusive economic zone of the United States, which has many overseas territories, is 12.17 million square kilometers, the exclusive economic zone of the Frank country is 11.69 million square kilometers, the Southern Federation is 8.2 million square kilometers, and the eastern country is only 3 million square kilometers......

In a sense, the EEZ clause was in the best interest of the former colonial powers, who possessed many territories isolated from overseas.

Hawk Island and the Confederation of the South, both of which originally belonged to the Tulip Federation of the Sunset Empire, can be regarded as inheriting the legacy of the old colonial empire, and it is not surprising that the EEZ is a little larger.

It's just that Hawk Island has inherited a little too much due to historical reasons, and the suzerainty has always regretted why so many ocean-like uninhabited islands were handed over to Hawk Island for "mandate rule" - some of them were given to the Southern Federation for "mandate rule".

They can't be blamed for this, after all, at the end of World War II, most countries did not realize the value of maritime EEZs, and there was no talk of a 200-nautical-mile EEZ, only a 3-nautical-mile (5.55-kilometer) territorial sea.

The most important thing is that at that time, they never expected that their prestige would decline so quickly, and Hawk Island would rise so quickly.

At the end of World War II, Hawke Island under the rule of the old Duke Hawke was basically an agricultural country!

Who would have thought that after 70 years of laying the foundation of this historical strongman, and after the outbreak of the past few years, there would be a trend of surpassing the suzerain......

In a sense, Hawk Island is now the largest country in the territorial waters of Blue Star, so the navy is naturally very important to Hawk Island, and they have been bullied by the Midi and even the Southern Federation because of the weakness of the navy in the past......

Their warships arbitrarily entered and exited the exclusive economic zone of Hawk Island and even the territorial waters within 12 nautical miles, and Hawker Island had no choice but to act as if it was not known, and this kind of thing would not be allowed to happen in the future!

Although Hawk Island is, in a sense, also part of NATO, this is not the Western Ocean, this is the Eastern Ocean!

And you do threaten the national security of Hawk Island!

He Xiao looked at the map of the whole sea area of Hawker Island, almost the entire Eastern Ocean, full of Hawker Island's subordinate islands, and even has an extra-long island chain, north to Alaska, south to near the Antarctic Circle, the exclusive sea area of Hawker Island is connected......

If Hawker Island had enough naval strength to allow any country to pass through, they would have to go around the North Strait or the coast of Antarctica......

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Chapter 140 Exclusive Economic Zone Free Read.