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Is Humpback Whale a submarine?

It is not.

Strictly speaking, it is an air-cushioned super freighter.

It relies on two nuclear power units with a total power of 400,000 kilowatt-hours, which can speed up to 130 knots per hour on the sea.

Its power is twice that of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier…

It’s a pity that they don’t know.

The tactical commander Maddix first submitted the request to the Pentagon. After the Pentagon discussed it and confirmed the feasibility, it immediately issued the order to the Fifth Fleet.

The Fifth Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain, where an aircraft carrier, four guided-missile cruisers, nearly twenty guided-missile destroyers and frigates, as well as five assault submarines and eight landing craft are deployed throughout the year.

In addition to maritime power, it also has a fighter squadron, three fighter-bomber squadrons, and 200 combat aircraft of various types such as anti-submarine, early warning, and electronic warfare.

Upon receiving the order from the Pentagon, the Fifth Fleet immediately set up a combat team and began to discuss what kind of naval force to send to rush to both sides of Madagas to set up a blockade.

Inside the command center of the Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain.

The one who received this blockade mission was the Joint Fleet Commander Rasit. He was in charge of the Fifth Fleet’s combat command work for many years and has rich experience in multi-warship joint command.

“I emphasize again, this mission is to block and intercept, not sink.” Rasit emphasized at the meeting: “We have established a blockade on both sides of Madagas Island. When the target submarine arrives, we must be like a group of submarines. They swarmed around like sharks and forced the target submarine out of the water.”

“Everyone has seen the target submarine information from the Pentagon, and I think everyone understands that such a peculiarly shaped submarine must have technology and technology that has never been seen in the field of ships today.”

“So~ we can’t sink it without a last resort.”

Someone said: “Sir. There is no sound print of the propeller of this submarine in the data, but from the fact that there is no fluid dynamics outside of it, the noise when it sails underwater must be higher than that of China in the 1990s. The submarine’s voice is still loud.”

“We can ask the anti-submarine squadron to provide two P-8 anti-submarine aircraft to operate together.”

“The anti-submarine aircraft is okay.” Lassett pointed to the big screen behind him, and the assistant next to him quickly added two small icons of P-8 anti-submarine aircraft on the screen.

The P-8 anti-submarine aircraft can carry more than 100 sonar buoys and can also hang four to six anti-submarine torpedoes or anti-ship missiles.

So theoretically, the two blockades are equipped with an anti-submarine aircraft each, and then paired with professional anti-submarine ships, let alone a civilian-class submarine, even if the strategic nuclear submarine comes, you can never escape to heaven.

But there is a problem here.

Lasit received the order to capture the submarine and preserve the integrity of the submarine to the greatest extent so that scientific experts can study the submarine.

“How can we push it up from the water below?”

Lassett knocked on the table with a relaxed tone, “It is a civilian-class submarine, and the giant animal industry may have used some of their advanced technology to build this submarine.”

“But it is impossible to master modern, absolutely confidential military-grade submarine combat and early warning technology.”

“In other words, it is very likely that in Madagas, our anti-submarine aircraft has found its tracks and is flying around on top of it.”

“Surface ships have surrounded it with the most standard tactical formation.”

“But this civilian submarine doesn’t know it.”

Sitting on both sides, the officers who were holding a combat meeting burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was particularly relaxed.

They represent the most powerful sea power on this planet.

And this time, the opponent is another civilian-class submarine without tactical attack capabilities.

Submarine ~ It is probably the weakest and most vulnerable existence among maritime military ships.

It is an underwater ghost that strikes a deadly blow at the ship in an invisible place. But once it is exposed to the enemy’s vision, even if it is a 10,000-ton strategic nuclear submarine, it can be easily sent to the sky by a 1,000-ton anti-submarine torpedo boat.

Let alone a civilian submarine with no attack capability?

For example, in 1940, a submarine named Sea Wolf attacked a transport ship. The submarine exploded the transport ship in half with a shot of fish, and it was about to sink.

The Sea Wolf floated up triumphantly, ready to watch the excitement.

At this time, the transport ship exploded, and by the way, the tank that carried it also exploded into the sky.

The tank fell, unbiased and smashed onto the Sea Wolf.

Result~

The Wolf of the Sea “Suddenly”.

In four or four years, there was another submarine that was even more miserable. It was only because some people used the toilet and the toilet flushed back, causing the submarine to sink into water and eventually sink.

So these officers in the conference room don’t have to worry about how to find it.

Instead, we have to struggle, how can we not hurt it.

And in their analysis, it is impossible for this civilian-class submarine to be equipped with advanced military-class surveillance equipment. It should be similar to a blind man underwater, and can only passively follow a fixed route.

Can’t throw a depth bomb down to remind them, right?

“The depth-water bomb is too powerful, which does not meet our operational requirements.” An officer suggested: “Can we use sonar jamming bombs to remind them?”

“Didn’t our submarines be equipped with sonar jamming bombs and use the principle of underwater multi-directional small-scale blasting to interfere with the operation of surface reconnaissance equipment?”

“This kind of jamming bomb has a small charge, but it will produce a particularly loud echo when blasted underwater. At that time, we can put a batch around the submarine, even if they don’t have sonar monitoring equipment, they can still hear it with ears in the submarine.”

This method is feasible.

“If the target submarine still does not choose to float, we can detonate a rocket-style depth charge at a distance.”

“Although there is the possibility of operating equipment on the target submarine by the quake.”

“But I don’t think it will cause too much damage to the submarine’s hull, leaving them with no emergency buoyancy capability.”

“Let’s halve the charge of depth charges.” An officer looked worried. “For a civilian submarine, after our hundreds of kilograms of standard charge exploded, can the shock wave generated paralyze all their electronics? Equipment, I can’t guarantee this. But the shocking sound of vibration will definitely paralyze all the sailors in the submarine.”

Everyone smiled again, saying that after they float up, they must be gentle when letting the navy assault team go in to clear the obstacles, and don’t frighten this group of people.

After all, they have to torture the specific information of this submarine from them!

…

In less than a few hours, the battle plan called “Operation Whaling” was quickly finalized.

A whale is a huge animal with an unusually gentle personality. It fits this group of shark-like navies in positioning the target submarine.

An integrated supply ship.

Two P-8 anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Two Burke-class guided missile destroyers.

Four Perry-class frigates.

This is a great gift prepared by the joint fleet commander Rashid for the submarine of the giant animal industry.

Two destroyers, four frigates.

The military power represented by these six ships can already sweep over 90% of the naval power of the world.

We must know that Spain, which ranks tenth in naval power, has only a few dozen frigates. And the weapon system on the frigate was sold to them by the United States.

Powerful strength is their ease and confidence, but also their determination to win.

In less than two hours after receiving the action order, the warships of various types that were in the combat readiness sequence and cruising in the open waters changed their course quickly and moved towards the island of Madagas.

At this time, the Humpback Whale, far away in the port of Anu District, was still unloading a whole ship of industrial equipment.

These equipments are the second batch of large-scale diamond smelting equipment that arrived. When the unloading is completed, it will also load all the mineral raw materials extracted from the factory and the metal raw materials purchased from other mining areas and return to Zhongyun City.

The next day.

This time [Whaling Operation] all warships have completed their formation on the high seas near Seychelles.

After the assembly is complete, the fleet enters a wartime state.

All warships implement radio silence and actively avoid all civilian ships on the route.

Relaxation does not mean arrogance.

Now that the giant animal industry has already shown a technical job of radio positioning, don’t want to succeed again.

Even in their analysis, that submarine does not have military detection equipment at all.

At nine o’clock in the evening local time, the fleet arrived in the waters near Madagas.

Under the light signal of the command ship, the fleet quickly divided into two forces according to the plan, and each went to the waters on both sides of Madagas Island.

According to the photos sent by the reconnaissance satellite in the morning, the target submarine is still moored in the port for cargo loading.

So in this operation, they did not have any possibility of failure.