Chapter 339 Triumph
Rear Admiral Alan West on the USS Excellence aircraft carrier left CIC in the last half minute.
As the fleet commander, there is nothing he needs to do under the current situation.
The moment he saw three Chinese fighter jets rushing towards the fleet, the major general's mind almost went blank.
What emerged before my eyes were the menacing figures of two A4 Skyhawk attack aircraft.
This gave him a sudden sense of vision returning to the frigate Enthusiasm 15 years ago.
What’s even more outrageous is that the plane that flew over the aircraft carrier actually dropped two auxiliary fuel tanks into the sea when it left...
This is basically equivalent to riding on the face and driving directly. ridicule.
But there was nothing he could do.
Everyone is numb.
After a few breaths, West finally recovered from his sluggishness.
Fortunately, compared to the ground staff scattered on the deck, the major general standing motionless outside really has the demeanor of a big boss who remains unchanged despite the collapse of the mountain.
Now he just hopes that this matter will not have a big impact on public opinion, otherwise he may not even be able to keep his current position if he doesn't go further in the future.
As soon as this thought occurred, he caught sight of the royal cruise ship about 1 kilometer away from the corner of his eye...
Although the major general had not been there personally, he knew it just by thinking about it. , there must be a lot of good reporters there.
He felt he had to do something.
After returning to the CIC, West glanced at Colonel Dennis, who was also pale, and Lieutenant General Boise, who did not show anything but lowered his head and remained silent.
To be fair, considering the tactical literacy and technical capabilities displayed by the opponent's six aircraft, under the premise that they could not fire, even if the two Sea Harriers used for verification and evacuation were not sent out before, the result would be Nothing will change.
The key to the problem is that we are not mentally prepared for this and underestimate the enemy. Second, the aircraft carrier is at its weakest moment when the four returning carrier-based aircraft are landing.
Thinking of this, the major general couldn't help but feel a little sad.
The other party did not use radar during the whole process, and by extremely coincidence, they caught the critical moment when their own fleet was recovering the aircraft and the deck was in the most chaos.
It can only be said that even God is not on the side of the Royal Navy this time.
However, this does not hinder his plan to use some spring and autumn writing techniques in the report to shift part of the responsibility, preferably the main responsibility, to Boise.
As for what offended the future First Sea Lord...
Laughing to death, let’s not mention that I may not be able to pass the test at the moment and have no time to think about the future.
After such an incident, whether Boise can still be the First Sea Lord is a question.
If you offend, you will be offended.
The key to the problem now is that he needs to win the support of another key figure, Captain Dennis.
And also, try your best to save some face of the Royal Navy.
After calming down a little, West took over the command of CIC again.
Although his heartbeat and blood pressure are now racing, he must appear calm and indifferent.
"Let each ship in the fleet report on the air defense situation just now."
In fact, there is no predetermined victory or defeat in this kind of confrontation where there is no gunfire. The main thing is to see who wins in the end. Can't live.
Because if the attacker really insists on flying over your fleet, they will be able to rush in after all.
It’s just that if you are under the lock of anti-aircraft fire the whole time, doing this is completely self-defeating.
Therefore, the first thing the Major General thought of was to see if any ship in the fleet had completed the lock before the opponent broke through.
As long as the radar information map of the locked state is released, the other party will be embarrassed.
However, there was still confusion on the fleet radio.
Most of the young commanders of the destroyers and frigates had not experienced the 1982 war, and many of them were panicked when faced with such a scene.
And the sea javelin on the Type 42 destroyer cannot respond to such a close target.
After a few seconds, the major general finally received his first decent answer.
From the captain of the Somerset, Dortham Slater. He said that the 910 guidance radar equipped with the Seawolf air defense missile was never able to lock the target. It barely completed tracking until the opponent was almost close to visual distance. However, due to the obstruction of other ships and the influence of sea clutter and electromagnetic interference, the signal was very weak. Unstable and will unlatch after a few seconds.
So he switched to the manually controlled TV channel at the last moment. Although it was too late to complete the optical tracking, he was able to capture the opponent's back in the aiming frame as he left gracefully.
The captains of several other ships did not even have time to make such a response. They almost watched the scene where their own aircraft carrier was almost ejected.
West let out a long sigh and sat down on the chair a little slumped.
Tired, destroy it.
15 years later, the situation of the Royal Navy seems to be no different from that time...
Capturing the opponent's back, let alone not being able to lock it at all, even if it is locked. , at most it can only be regarded as "post-action air defense"——
Others' attack has been completed, and one's own side will lose blood no matter what.
"Notify Captain Slater and ask him to save the relevant video and image data."
In any case, it is better than nothing.
In the Royal Cruise Ship on the other side, the riot caused by the two "bombs" just now continued.
After all, the plane that flew past the window just now showed them the weapons it carried.
In fact, the current J-8C does not have the ability to attack the sea. Only two J-Handian-7s in the entire fleet symbolically carry one YJ-81 anti-ship missile.
It's just that most people can't tell the difference between auxiliary fuel tanks, bombs, air-to-air missiles and anti-ship missiles.
Especially after someone shouted that there was a bomb.
In these days, there were no mobile phones that could take photos and videos anytime and anywhere, and the cameras in the hands of Seward and Spencer did not have video functions, but they still had a tacit understanding of recording them with photos and tape recorders respectively. Situation on site.
Some people panicked, some hid under the table with their heads in their hands, and some even rushed out to lower the lifeboat...
All living things are clearly revealed.
Seward even had a press release in mind.
It wasn’t until about a minute later that a more knowledgeable passenger squeezed onto the stage in the center of the banquet hall and loudly told everyone through a microphone that those were probably just two auxiliary fuel tanks and not bombs, and the farce finally ended.
The men and women at the scene tidied up their suits or dresses again, and returned to the banquet with an uneasy mood.
It seems that nothing has happened, only the wine glasses and dinner plate fragments on the ground that have not been cleaned up by the waiter tell the story of the chaos...
At 17:48 on June 30, 1997, Under the watchful eyes of most of the passengers on the Royal Cruise Ship, as well as Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Alan West, a J-8C fighter jet with August 1 red five-star paint on its vertical tail and tactical number 81192 almost passed by. , passing by the Royal Navy's R06 aircraft carrier HMS Excellence.
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In the cockpit of Unit 12, Wang Wei naturally didn’t know that his act of dropping two auxiliary fuel tanks almost triggered the other fleet commander’s PTSD.
It just feels very refreshing and transparent.
Ever since he arrived at the training base in Qingtang Province more than a month ago and heard that the British were going to send a fleet to provoke at this time, he has been thinking about what he should do to make a provocation. This bad breath.
Now I finally did it.
Wang Wei glanced at his fuel gauge.
Due to a more fuel-consuming ultra-low-altitude flight, the remaining fuel was already a little tight. Therefore, after leaving the range of the opponent's fleet, he quickly led the fleet back to the normal cruising altitude.
"Yuejiang 10, how is the situation on your side?"
After calming down his excitement a little, Wang Wei was able to spare his energy to pay attention to the attraction of the opponent's ship. An attentive teacher.
"Yuejiang 12, everything is going well for us. We have been dealing with the two Sea Harriers for a while. They didn't lose anything. They probably ran out of fuel just now and escaped from the battlefield."
The voice on the other side of the radio was slightly breathy, and it was obvious that it was not that calm.
Flying with heavy overload is indeed a burden for a pilot of Tang Yiping's age.
However, no matter what, this embankment operation achieved near-perfect success on both the sea and air levels.
"Okay, the mission is over, regroup and prepare to return!"
(End of this chapter)