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Chapter 408 UFO

Use an old aircraft carrier as a target ship, drag it under the noses of hundreds of enemy ships and blow it up...

It can be seen that the Navy has put in a lot of effort to ensure that this exercise can have the desired deterrent effect!
The target ship is the Minsk aircraft carrier, the second ship of the Russian Type 1143 aircraft carrier. It was also the world's first aircraft carrier equipped with vertical short take-off and landing fighter jets.

After the old Russians were disbanded, the Russians inherited the aircraft carrier, but due to the lack of economic strength, they could not afford to maintain the aircraft carrier.
As a result, the Minsk, which had been in service for only twelve years, had to be retired in disgrace.

In 95, after its main equipment was dismantled, the Minsk was sold to South Korea. After that, it went around in circles and was bought by China in 98. It was parked in Pengcheng and turned into an aircraft carrier theme park.

At the beginning, everyone was very interested in this thing, and the tourism income was quite considerable. But later, the domestically-made aircraft carrier was launched. This aircraft carrier had never served in China and had nothing to do with Chinese history. After the novelty wore off, the aircraft carrier was quickly relegated to the sidelines and there were very few tourists.

The Minsk Aircraft Carrier World finally announced its closure in 16, and later said it would be towed to Nantong for repairs. There were also reports that the aircraft carrier theme park would be moved to Nantong, but the Minsk was eventually abandoned near the Sutong Bridge for ten years, and the entire ship was already rusted.

Until today, when the Minsk appeared in the East China Sea as an aircraft carrier target ship, it suddenly became the focus of the whole scene...

At this time, near the Minsk, there were more than ten warships from the East China Sea Fleet. They formed a modern regular aircraft carrier strike group defense formation and became its loyal guards.

If the old Russian soldiers who had been on the Minsk saw this scene, they would probably be very moved.

Although it was used as a target ship, compared to slowly rotting at the dock or being dismantled, it was obviously a good choice to put an end to it with a spectacular exercise.

What's more, China has prepared a very high-level event for it.

In order to defend against the next attack on the target ship, the escort warships have made adequate preparations. In order to demonstrate their strength more realistically, they are even ready to empty their ammunition depots and directly lose their combat effectiveness.

To be honest, emptying the magazine under the eyes of the 'enemy' is actually quite dangerous.

But Ming Zhenxiong believed in Chief Shen's judgment and decision, and believed that Country M would never dare to take the initiative to open fire.
There are also other friendly forces nearby, and the coastline is only 500 kilometers away. Basically, most of the road-based missiles can easily provide coverage and support, so there is no need to panic.

Deep down in Ming Zhenxiong's heart, he even had a faint expectation that the other party would dare to fire the first shot, even if it might cost him his life...

After all, as a soldier, there is no one who doesn't like war.

But as an officer, he had to stay rational, so he quickly hid this crazy idea in his heart and turned to the operations staff and asked, "The exercise has already started for ten minutes, and the Red Army still has no reaction?"

The staff officer shook his head: "Not yet."

Ming Zhenxiong sighed helplessly.

He also knew that the exercise command did not tell them the specific time and method of attack, just to make the exercise closer to the real battlefield.

But the current situation is that he knows that the 'enemy' has aimed a sniper rifle at his head and may pull the trigger at any time, but he can only stay where he is and wait passively, which is somewhat tormenting...

What Ming Zhenxiong didn't expect was that until ten hours later, the Red Army had not launched an attack.

The long period of mental tension made Ming Zhenxiong a little dazed.

"Fuck, this is so torturous."

The soldier, who had been concentrating on watching the radar for several hours, couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "The command must have done this on purpose!"

"It's obvious."

"It's also possible that the Red Team's commander is deliberately playing tricks on us..."

"I heard that the Red Army will test a new fighter jet first this time?"

"I also heard from Staff Officer Lu that this time they are clearly going to show off their strength to the other side."

"Is it the H-20?"

"I think it's very possible."

"Impossible! Why would they send real planes to a live-fire exercise? Especially a new and expensive fighter like the H-20. What if it really hits you?"

"Who knows? Have you heard of this kind of exercise where fighter planes dodge live ammunition?"

"I don't think so. Aircraft attack drills with live ammunition are common, but using live ammunition to shoot down aircraft... I don't think I've ever heard of that."

"Of course there have been. There are also drones that can be used as targets, right? It's just that we haven't seen them." "So that's a drone?"

"probably."

"By the way...what if we don't defend it?"

"Isn't this normal? The purpose of bringing an aircraft carrier target ship here is to sink it. This is the desired effect."

"What if it doesn't sink?"

"As long as you don't save ammunition, you will definitely be able to sink the ship. If it fails, it just means you didn't use enough missiles."

"Have you ever thought that the reason why the ship could not be sunk might be because our defenses were too strong?"

"Good boy, you'll make money anyway, right?"

"..."

Seeing that the soldiers couldn't help chatting, Ming Zhenxiong didn't say anything.
After all, proper small talk can also help relieve tension...

But there was one thing he felt he had to emphasize again.

"Notify all units once again. If you spot any flying objects that are not from our fleet within the specified range of the exercise, whether they are ballistic aircraft or other weapons, you should shoot them down without reporting!"

"In addition, we need to pay special attention to the fact that the Red Army may deploy aircraft with very strong stealth performance. We must always remain vigilant. By the time the radar system detects them, the distance may be very close, and we may have very little time to react."

"Roger that!"

"Roger that!"

"..."

After issuing the notice, Ming Zhenxiong decided to lower the combat status by one level in order to relieve the soldiers' mental fatigue and maintain their combat effectiveness at all times. He let everyone take turns. Finally, he couldn't help but sit on the chair and close his eyes to rest.

On the other side, after a long period of surveillance on the East China Sea Fleet, the soldiers on the USS Mike Campbell also felt a little tired.

"What the hell, why are they so slow?"

"That's right. It's been almost a whole day, why is there still no movement? Are they going to continue the performance or not?"

"..."

Compared to the complaining soldiers, Captain Jackie Gilman went straight back to sleep.

Keshid, who had originally focused all his attention here, gradually lost his patience and began to focus his attention back on Liuqiu Island.

A few hours ago, the island tried to send several negotiation experts over, but the results of the initial contact were not ideal. The Liu Chieftain put forward some conditions that they could not accept at all, and even threatened that if they did not immediately and publicly accept these conditions, there would be no need to send negotiation experts over, and they would detain one for each one they sent.

So after several hours of discussion, the island country headquarters finally agreed to let Country M send soldiers from its military base to help Yuta Ozawa and his men rescue the guard team.

However, they required the M Army to open fire only when Yuta Ozawa actively sought support.

At this time, Yuta Ozawa's men had already landed, and many soldiers from the M Army base, led by their superiors, drove out of the base in armored vehicles, preparing to reunite with Yuta Ozawa and go to the Ground Guard Agency to suppress the rebellion.

Kshid Lister sat in the command room, looking at the bright crescent moon in the night sky. For some reason, he always felt a little frightened...

"Report, an unidentified flying object was spotted at an altitude of 10 kilometers northeast of our ship!"

After hearing the radar soldier's report, everyone was stunned.

ten kilometers?
Or high in the sky? ! !

Are you kidding me?!!!

(End of this chapter)