Monster Factory - 840

Thunder and lightning, rainstorms are like a curtain.

29.944 east longitude, 126.808 north latitude.

In this deep ocean where there are almost no commercial ships, the Humpback Whale is moving straight ahead at a speed of 130 knots like an arrow from the string.

According to the electronic chart, one hundred and fifty nautical miles ahead is the Miyako Strait between Ryukyu Island and Miyako Island.

The Miyako Strait is about 150 nautical miles wide, hundreds of nautical miles of which are international waterways, which can be used by civilian ships to travel harmlessly. However, no ship is willing to take the middle deep sea channel, and most of them pass by the islands with lighthouses on both sides and navigation stations.

This provided convenience for the Humpback Whale, and Ye Qing was going to cross the Miyako Strait from the middle, adjusting its course at a fifteen-degree angle, and heading towards the waters near the final destination, Ogasa Marushima.

The total voyage is 500 nautical miles, and it takes about seven and a half hours to turn back and forth, enough for the humpback whale to test.

In this way, when the humpback whale returned to Longxi Beach, Zhongyun also just ushered in a new dawn.

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This torrential rain covered hundreds of nautical miles, and over the distant Miyako Strait, it was still good weather with sparse moons and stars.

At 11 o’clock in the evening local time, the Coast Guard is located at the security headquarters of the Miyako Strait and is conducting routine night cruises.

The Coast Guard has 11 maritime jurisdictions, and the branch responsible for the Miyako Strait, both in terms of staffing and the number of patrolling ships, is at the forefront of the 11 jurisdictions. Because the Miyako Strait is a very important channel, both for them and for China.

Over the years, Japan has been emphasizing the demilitarization of the Miyako Strait, trying to prevent warships or military aircraft of any country except the United States from passing over the strait.

Therefore, patrols cannot be less, especially at night.

A PL-class [Hayakawa Patrol Ship] newly allocated by the Security Agency is patrolling from south to north along the widest waters of the Miyako Strait.

The PL class is a thousand-ton patrol ship. This security agency has the most advanced technology and the shortest installation time. It has particularly strengthened the ability to search and identify ships.

This Hayakawa is the eighth ship in the nine-ship construction plan and has been launched in less than two years.

When the Hayakawa patrolled one-third of the route and was about to approach the central strait.

The captain Miyamoto Yoyama in the command room suddenly received a report from the radar operator that at seven o’clock ahead, nine nautical miles away from the ship, there was an unmarked large ship, which was moving quickly toward the middle of the strait.

Unmarked ships are illegal ships that have turned off GPS positioning and do not report their travel routes to the national navigation station in the sea area, deliberately concealing their own illegal ships.

Because of the curvature of the earth, no matter how advanced the shipborne radar is, the detection radius of the ship will not exceed forty kilometers. Therefore, in the vast sea, not all ships like to be law-abiding, and not all legal ships are willing to keep themselves in a state of being positioned.

Of course, the early warning aircraft is not limited by the curvature of the earth.

It’s just that the early warning aircraft is more expensive than gold, and only a few countries in the world have it. Japan has dozens of early warning aircraft purchased from the United States, how can it be willing to let it patrol the sea.

“Unidentified international ship?” Captain Miyamoto Yoyama glanced at the electronic chart, frowning and asked: “Calculate the latitude and longitude and the ship’s speed.”

The radar operator sitting opposite quickly reported detailed data.

This is an illegal ship with a radar characteristic of a civilian ship. The ship should be between 3,000 to 5,000 tons, with a speed of 27 knots…

“The freighter can’t run at 27 knots. It appears to be a large illegal fishing boat. This speed is probably their maximum speed, indicating that their destination is not far away.” Captain Miyamoto Yoyama said angrily: ” Only Ogasawa Island has the richest fishery resources ahead. These damn fishermen dare to steal fish during the fishing ban.”

“Perform the radar lock, adjust to the maximum speed to catch up with them, and use the public radio channel to warn them after entering two nautical miles. If you don’t stop the ship, you will warn you to shoot.”

The Hayakawa patrol ship in the dark soon burst into black smoke from the flue. The sea surface radar power on the top of the ship island is fully turned on, and the wheels are spinning fast.

The Hayakawa patrol ship has a maximum speed of 33 knots, and it only takes one and a half hours to catch up with a fishing boat with a speed of 27 knots.

Once caught up, the huge fine can make all members of the Hayakawa patrol ship bend over with laughter.

In the radar control room, on the light-green radar screen, there was a triangle mark that firmly locked the illegal ship, and kept correcting the latest parameters at 0.5 second intervals. This is a cat-and-mouse pursuit, and there has never been an illegal fishing boat that can escape from the lock of the Hayakawa patrol ship.

“Dip Dong~”

At this moment, the radar console suddenly sounded a warning tone that a new target had entered the scanning radius.

At the same time, the radar computer automatically gives the parameters of the distance between the two of them 22 nautical miles. At this time, within a radius of 22 nautical miles from the Hayagawa patrol ship, there were only the illegal fishing boat and the unknown new target that had just entered the field of vision.

After 0.5 seconds, the radar corrected the information, and the distance was still 22 nautical miles.

At the same time, the radar operator reports the location of the new target to the command center, and asks them to contact the nearby navigation station to help inquire whether there is a registered ship at that location that will pass through here.

Few ships would choose to navigate the central waters of the Miyako Strait, because northward is the endless North Pacific Ocean. Since the Hayakawa patrol ship patrols at night, it will of course choose waters where ships are scarce and catch those ships that are unwilling to take the normal course.

The navigation stations are all electronic offices. On a huge electronic chart, all the recorded trajectories of past ships are listed. Therefore, the other party gave a reply in less than ten seconds that no registered ship passed in the target area.

Well, it’s another illegal navigable vessel.

When the radar operator set the target to lock the target, he thought to himself, judging by the location where the target appeared, the ship was driving in their direction. Then when they chased the illegal fishing boat, they could also catch that boat by turning around.

The target is locked, and the time until the radar gives detailed information is no more than one second.

The radar operator had already prepared to report to the captain, but at the next moment, he heard a piercing alarm from the radar console.

“Warning~”

“Warning~”

“Unidentified ultra-low-altitude flying object found.”

The radar operator looked at the warning message on the screen in confusion.

Tens of seconds ago, the unknown ship had just entered the radar detection range, and the two were 22 nautical miles apart.

Now the radar computer gives detailed data. The radar reflection characteristics of the unknown target cannot be used to identify whether it is a civilian or military ship, or even if it is not a ship at all.

Speed…

The speed is 130 knots, 66ms.

At this time, the operator panicked and recalled that the Hayakawa was the most advanced patrol ship installed by the Security Agency. The ship’s OPS-28D surface radar is directly copied from the Atago-type frigate. It can not only search for and identify surface ships, but also has the ability to identify ultra-low-altitude aircraft, that is, sea-skimming anti-ship missiles.

What can an object that travels at a speed of 130 knots and moves 66 meters per second if it is not a flying object?

Everyone in the command center stopped working and stared at the radar operator in a daze.

“Damn it, what’s the situation?” The Hayakawa patrol ship is a small ship, and the electronic equipment control system is concentrated in one cabin. Captain Miyamoto Yoyama ran to the radar console that kept alerting him. He looked very ugly. He really thought that the patrol ship had encountered an unknown enemy.

“This…” The radar operator was surprised. At this moment, he also saw the volume information of the flying object given by the radar. Although no match was found in the database, the computer vaguely gave a judgment that the object was more than 5,000 tons.

“Could it be… this is a ship?” the radar operator muttered to himself, but the next second, when the radar updated the data, the unknown object suddenly disappeared.

“Huh?” The operator and the captain rubbed their eyes. The original two tracking targets became one. The illegal fishing boat was still in the line, but the edge target seemed to have never appeared.

After the alarm disappeared, in the command center, silence continued for half a minute.

The radar has updated the data sixty times, and the target that the radar does not understand has never appeared.

The target cannot disappear instantly, and no ship can reach the speed of 130 knots.

It’s even more impossible for a spacecraft, so big, unless it’s an alien spacecraft.

“Captain, maybe… the radar is malfunctioning.” The radar operator subconsciously tapped the equipment.

“”I… Captain, if you are not at ease, you can contact the headquarters and ask them to send a helicopter to search. ”

Captain Miyamoto Yoyama frowned, and he was more inclined to radar false alarms in his heart. This kind of situation is not very common, but it is also by no means uncommon. Last year, the patrol ship on the island of Kunashir made the biggest joke of a radar false alarm.

Kunhou Island’s administrative area is close to the Kuril Islands, which is particularly close to Russia. During a patrol, the radar of the local patrol ship suddenly scanned an unknown circular target with a diameter of 800 meters, hovering at an ultra-low altitude.

At that time, the radar operator was far less calm than his subordinate. The guy quickly grabbed the emergency phone to report to the headquarters, saying that a UFO had come to the Japanese waters.

In the end, two air-self fighters took off in an emergency. After the fuel was almost empty, Ghost Shadow did not find one.

If it weren’t for someone inadvertently flipping through the on-board monitoring screen of that patrol ship at the end, this matter could become an unsolvable mystery.

what’s the result?

As a result, the storm reached level six that day, and a piece of tinfoil used for baking bread in the patrol ship’s kitchen was blown over the radar somehow by the gale. The good electromagnetic reflectivity of the tin foil made the radar, which could detect the volume, made a mistake. In the end, it was reported as a UFO by an uncomfortable rookie operator.

Captain Miyamoto Yoyama certainly couldn’t make his own patrol ship appear such a ridiculous joke, but the radar detection time of tens of seconds still made him weigh in and grab the radio phone.

“This is the Hayakawa patrol ship. We found an abnormal situation in the target during the patrol. We cannot judge the target. After receiving the location of the abnormal target, please conduct a helicopter search operation.”

“The search range is fifty nautical miles.”