The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1094: Aircraft Carrier Fleet Fights Pirates

Persian Gulf.

The escort warship, with the five-star red flag flying, blew its whistle in return.

This is a Type 054 frigate. They are performing escort missions in the Persian Gulf, even though they only encounter pirates once a year.

But this escort mission has lasted for more than ten years.

According to escort requirements, the escort fleet maintains a Type 054 frigate in the Persian Gulf all year round, a Type 052 destroyer in the Arabian Sea, and a Type 054 frigate in the Red Sea.

After a certain period of time, supplies will be carried out at ports in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Persia.

Each escort formation carries out escort missions for half a year. Each escort formation has two Type 052 destroyers and four Type 054 frigates.

The escort fleet is headquartered in Djibouti, which is also the navy's most important overseas logistics base.

The two tankers were sailing at a slow speed, about 13 to 17 knots, or 13 to 17 nautical miles per hour. The distance from the Persian Gulf to the Strait of Hormuz is about 970 kilometers, which means that it would take more than a day for the two tankers to depart and cross the Strait of Hormuz.

It takes about 17 to 18 days to get from Iraq to Guangzhou, China.

As for cargo ships, they will arrive in about 15 days.

Just after passing the Maldives waters, the sailors saw several sampans speedboats speeding from afar, creating several water dragons on the calm sea.

At the same time, several gunshots were heard.

The sailor immediately sounded the alarm and shouted, "Something's happening! It's pirates!"

The captain called the police immediately and reported to his superiors.

The captain only hopes that the Maldives Coast Guard can come to support him in time, otherwise if he is hijacked by pirates, the losses will be heavy.

As for getting rid of the pirates, that is simply impossible because the pirates' speedboats are much faster than tankers.

At this moment, a sailor shouted: "Captain, look, it's an aircraft carrier! It's an aircraft carrier formation!"

The two tankers were lucky as they encountered the three-carrier formation very close to them.

The helicopter came towards the two tankers, and then the soldiers shot at the climbing pirates and used helicopters to snipe from the air.

This group of pirates came from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has been in constant war, which has spawned a large number of pirates.

This is also a key escort area.

"Boom~~"

A rocket was fired and hit the speedboat, which exploded directly.

Of course, there is no need for missiles to fight these pirates. Relying on gun firepower and rockets is more than enough.

Faced with the aircraft carrier formation, the pirates couldn't even escape. Some were killed and some were taken prisoner.

It was bad luck for this group of pirates that they happened to encounter a fleet of three aircraft carriers passing by and were attacked immediately.

The crews of the two tankers waved and cheered at the aircraft carrier formation.

On the Type 055A command ship, Zhang Zhaozhong listened to the report with no change in expression on his face.

Using an aircraft carrier fleet to fight pirates is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. What accidents could possibly happen?

By this time, the aircraft carrier fleet had visited the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and then Myanmar, Bangladesh, East India, and South India through the Strait of Malacca. As a result, they had just left South India when they encountered a request for help. Since it was a Chinese tanker, it was natural to protect it.

This was just an episode of the aircraft carrier formation. After arriving in the Arabian Sea, the two Saudi aircraft carrier formations left, while China's second aircraft carrier formation arrived in Karachi, Pakistan, for a friendly visit and exchange with Pakistan.

Soon, the video of the aircraft carrier fleet annihilating the Sri Lankan pirates spread on the Internet and quickly spread throughout the world.

Only then did the whole world know that China's second aircraft carrier fleet was actually paying a friendly visit and was actually escorting the shipping routes along the route.

But it always gives people a weird feeling!

Wakhan Corridor.

This is the border between Afghanistan and China, presenting a narrow strip of land running from east to west, located in a valley between the southern end of the Pamir Plateau and the northeastern section of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

There are mountains on both sides of the valley, and there is only one national highway, at the end of which is the border.

The border between the two countries is 22 kilometers wide. The entire Wakhan Corridor belongs to Tajikistan in the north and Pakistan in the south.

The border has been locked to ensure that Afghan refugees will not enter China through the Wakhan Corridor.

When it comes to border control measures, China is the country with the most experience in the world.

There are not many people who can enter China without going through legitimate channels every year. Even if they do enter, they will be quickly found out because the police will come to register their information and the public will report them.

In front of the border, there are tents on the plains and hillsides. These are all Afghan refugees provided by China out of humanitarian assistance.

Near the border, there are more than 40 Afghan refugees gathered.

Suddenly, the border gate opened, and transport trucks came in and began to unload at the stacking point.

These transport vehicles are carrying grain, instant noodles, pasta, flour, corn, wheat, and some are carrying vegetables and meat.

Then a car came with a loud speaker, notifying everyone to come and collect supplies.

Some human rights organizations and UN staff were busy distributing supplies to everyone. Someone from every family came with a temporary ID card to collect a week's worth of supplies.

The supplies for 40 refugees for one week are so huge that the food alone is 280 million kilograms, or 2800 tons.

There were reporters filming, reporting on the news, and then interviewing Afghan refugees.

Afghan refugees have denounced the US-led coalition for bringing disaster to Afghanistan and said Afghanistan will never succumb to power.

The person in charge of refugee resettlement work said that the current refugee resettlement work is very difficult. More and more refugees are coming to the border, which brings great challenges to the refugee resettlement work. He hopes that Afghanistan will stop the war and restore peace as soon as possible so that the refugees can go back to normal production.

Human rights organization staff in Europe and the United States expressed sadness that wars bring chaos and refugees, and that there should be no wars in the 21st century and that wars should be kept away from ordinary people.

The war was extremely brutal. In just over half a year, Afghanistan created millions of refugees.

You know, the entire Afghanistan has a population of less than 2000 million, but the war has continued to this day, millions of people have lost their lives, and millions have become refugees.

The atrocities committed by the coalition forces in Afghanistan continue to be exposed.

For example, there were illegal killings of prisoners and civilians by coalition soldiers, and many people were brutally tortured.

The allied soldiers committed all kinds of crimes, including burning, killing and looting.

This made peace lovers around the world very angry, and they accused the coalition forces of crimes in Afghanistan. After all, killing civilians and children is simply unacceptable for normal people.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is outrageous to both humans and gods!
(End of this chapter)