Monster Factory - 1296

The identities of the hunter and the prey seem to have been reversed.

The Burke-class destroyer abruptly drew a U-shaped circle on the surface of the sea, and the other frigate was faster, and it was far away from the destroyer in less than a few minutes.

In order to prevent their tracks from being detected by radio detection radars, they even implement the highest level of radio silence procedures.

Fleet commander Lassiter didn’t care about the violent turbulence of the hull when he escaped. He quickly tore a blank sheet of paper from the equipment maintenance register, and then wrote something on it with a pencil.

His mood was as violently shaking as the command room that was bumping on the sea at this time.

He could easily figure out the speed and the position above the sea.

The target is 64 nautical miles directly behind.

Now they are evacuating at the maximum speed of 32 knots, and the target ship is chasing at 130 knots.

There is no need to formulate an equation to calculate how long the target ship can catch up with them between the pursuit and escape.

Just a simple calculation, if the target ship moves straight ahead, it will reach their current position within 30 minutes.

What is enough time for thirty minutes?

Thirty minutes, enough for the destroyer and the frigate to run in two directions…

Run sixteen nautical miles.

Lassiter quickly recalled in his mind the data on the influence of the earth’s curvature on the sea level field of vision.

Affected by the curvature of the earth, if the draught is close to eight meters in good weather, the height of the antenna on the top of the console, and the Burke-class guided-missile destroyer with a 20-meter drop from sea level can be observed at a distance of twelve nautical miles. See the outline of the control tower above the deck.

If the distance is 20 nautical miles, the observer standing at a high place can use a telescope to spot the top radar antenna of the Burke-class destroyer.

According to the scale calculation on the satellite image, the height of the top building of the target ship is about 30 meters.

Suppose an observer stands on the top of the target ship and observes visually with a marine telescope…

Even elementary school students know that the straight line distance is the shortest between the two. Fleet commander Rasit could only order the two warships to run in a straight line in different directions, striving to run the longest distance in the shortest time.

But after some calculations, Lassiter found that no matter which direction he ran.

The target ship can be chased within half an hour, and the two warships can be easily locked through visual observation.

The staff officer on the side saw the numbers written by Lasit on the paper, and understood the seriousness of the matter without hesitation. “Sir… Officer.”

“They may not be able to find us… right?” Rassett said with a pale expression of self-comfort: “From the previous firefight, the target ship is equipped with equipment that can shield electromagnetic waves and powerful electromagnetic interference. .”

“But it does not have any long-range firepower configuration. Strictly speaking… it is still a civilian ship.”

“We are now in a state of radio silence. The target ship is sixty nautical miles away and it is impossible to pinpoint our position accurately.”

“They have… a high probability of running in the wrong direction.”

Lassiter’s comfort is not without reason, now the target ship is still sixty nautical miles away. At this distance, whether it is a shipborne radar or an optical observation device with a resolution large enough to view the lunar crater, it will be limited to a very limited use range under the influence of the curvature of the earth.

Since the target ship cannot obtain accurate coordinates now, it is very likely that the direction will deviate in the pursuit.

As long as the opponent’s heading deviates by ten degrees, the observer will not be able to spot any targets from the sea.

Thinking of this, Lasit couldn’t help but start to pray, praying that the other party must deviate from the course.

“Sir…” The staff member touched Lassiter’s shoulder with some hesitation, and when the other party opened his eyes, the staff member pointed to the observation window on the outer wall.

Following the direction of the staff, Lasit saw the fiery red sky at dusk.

Lassiter was puzzled.

The staff whispered: “Sir, do you remember the missiles we launched?”

At this moment, Lassett’s face changed drastically, and he rushed out of the command room to the spiral staircase regardless of his identity.

Standing here, he could see the entire sky.

Then, he saw the sky behind the destroyer, a huge cloud like gold and pink.

These cloud pillars traverse the entire sky, and the more they go to the end of the sky, the more obvious they become. You can even see that cloud pillar is actually made up of many small, thin lines like sea snakes.

This is the trace of smoke emitted by the engine after the missile is launched.

The smoke contains a lot of liquid and gaseous waste, and small particles after burning solid fuel.

If it is in fine weather at noon, the smoke will appear pure white. But now it is dusk, and the brilliance of the setting sun has rendered them into an unusually obvious golden cloud column.

In calm weather, the trajectory of the missile after launching can be maintained for several hours, let alone the trajectory of smoke left by the dense flight of more than one hundred missiles?

As long as the crew on the target ship is not blind, they will definitely notice the golden cloud pillar in the sky. Of course, they will be guided by this cloud pillar and find the target as accurately as a radar.

Originally, Lassiter imagined these missiles as a big deadly net.

It now appears that this “net” is indeed deadly enough, but it is his life to take the ground.

Why is it dusk?

Why is it only half an hour to escape to time?

At this moment, how much Lassiter hoped that Goddess of Luck could give him another hour to support him until night fell.

…

A few minutes later, a stern alarm sounded in all cabins of the destroyer.

The seven sirens were short and one long, and the crew members who stood at each post heard the sirens, as if they had heard a cry from the abyss.

Because this is the highest level of all distress warnings.

This is an abandon ship warning.

After hearing the alarm, everyone must immediately abandon all work and rush to the deck to take a rescue boat to evacuate the mothership within five minutes.

Five minutes means that the crew has no time to pack their belongings, nor are they allowed to carry any personal belongings that take up space.

At this moment, everyone is wondering crazy in their hearts, but no one will waste time asking questions.

Order is above all else, they can only gritted their teeth and rushed out of the work area to the deck.

When they arrived on the deck, they did not find any signs of an enemy attack.

Destroyers rely on fuel as their power, not nuclear power that is likely to be completely scrapped as soon as an accident occurs. Besides, now that the destroyer is doing well, why abandon the ship?

“This is not a drill. Everyone will immediately perform emergency evacuation in accordance with the scheduled procedure.”

“This is not a drill…”

The destroyer was decelerating urgently. The rescue boats were released into the sea by the boom. The cabins were filled with crew members who were ignorant of “Am I dreaming”.

In the other direction of the destroyer, the frigate was executing the same emergency evacuation order.

After dozens of minutes, more than 20 lifeboats have floated on the surface of the sea with all the crew.

Then these lifeboats scattered like flowers, spreading towards the surrounding waters.

The lifeboat is equipped with a high-speed motor. Although it has a range of only a few hundred nautical miles, it can reach a speed of close to forty knots.

In addition, with the size of a lifeboat, they can completely disappear from the sight of the target ship by just tens of nautical miles away.

In the situation where it is no longer possible to take the destroyer and escape the magic hand of the target ship, this is the only self-rescue plan that the fleet commander Rasit can think of.

They had already fired all the missiles, and even the first frigate was completely destroyed before it could even send out the distress signal.

Lassett, who didn’t want to die early, would rather ruin all his future completely than to take another look at that “black behemoth”.

Of course~

If he didn’t do anything, leaving a destroyer and a frigate here, he would definitely lose his future while also losing his life.

So he ordered someone to place a timed self-destruction device in the ammunition depot. After half an hour, when the target ship arrived here, he would see two fire clouds rising high above the sea.

Its practical remote control self-destruct device, which is the best solution, is to wait for the target ship to contact the destroyer and then activate it.

But Lassiter did not dare to bet whether the electromagnetic interference equipment on the target ship could still work.

In order to be foolproof, this timing device can only be a mechanical working principle.

“Flee, as far as you can.” After Lasit, who was curled up in the cabin, said this to the staff officer, he buried his head in his life jacket and never looked at the sea outside.

I’m finished.