Monster Factory

Thunder, electricity, rain and curtain.

29.944 East, 126.808 North.

In this deep sea, where few commercial vessels are involved, the humpback whale moves in a straight line at a speed of one hundred and thirty knots, like an arrow off a string.

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

The Gonggu Strait is about 150 nautical miles wide, of which hundreds of nautical miles are international shipping lanes for harmless travel by civilian vessels. However, no vessel is willing to take the middle deep sea lane, mostly with lighthouses on either side and island sides of the navigation terminal passing by.

This facilitates the humpback whale as Ye Qing prepares to cross the ancient Miyako Strait from the middle and navigate towards a 15-degree angle towards the sea near the final destination of Ogasawa Island.

With a total cruise of 500 nautical miles, a return journey of about seven and a half hours is sufficient for the Hulk to be tested.

When the humpback whale returned to Longxi Beach, Zhongyun also happened to welcome a new day.

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Covering hundreds of nautical miles, over the ancient Straits of the Palace in the distance, the storm continues to be a fine weather with rare moonlight stars.

At eleven o'clock local time, the Maritime Guard Department is located at the security headquarters in the Gonggu Strait and is conducting routine night cruises.

The Office of Maritime Security has 11 maritime districts, which are responsible for this section of the Gonggu Strait, both in terms of staffing and the number of patrol vessels, which are at the forefront of the 11 districts. Because the Gonggu Strait is a very important shipping lane, both for them and for Huaxia.

Throughout these years, the Japanese State has emphasized the demilitarization of the Gonggu Strait, attempting to prevent warships or military aircraft of any country other than the United States from passing over the Strait.

So patrols cannot be sparse, especially at night.

A newly assigned PL class [Early River patrol ship] from the Security Department is patrolling north-south along the widest area of the Gonggu Strait.

The PL class belongs to the kiloton class of patrol vessels, which are the most technologically advanced and have the shortest loading time in the Office of Security Services, enhancing in particular the search and identification capability of vessels.

The Hayakawa is the eighth of nine planned construction vessels, with less than two years to drain.

As the Morning River patrolled a third of the route, approaching the Central Channel.

Yangshan Miyamoto, the captain of the command room, suddenly received a report from a radar operator that at seven o'clock in front of him, nine nautical miles from the ship, there was an unmarked large vessel that was moving rapidly towards the middle of the strait.

An unmarked vessel is a deliberate concealment of its illegal vessel by shutting down GPS positioning and failing to report the route to a national navigation station in the area.

Because of the Earth's curvature, no matter how advanced the onboard radar is, the range of the ship's detection radius will not exceed 40 kilometres. So not all boats in the open ocean like to follow the law, not all legitimate boats are willing to keep themselves in position.

Of course, early-warning machines are not limited by the curvature of the Earth.

Only an early-warning machine is more expensive than gold, and only a few countries around the world own it. Dozens of early-warning aircraft owned by Japan, procured from the United States, could not be allowed to patrol the sea.

“Unknown international ship?” Captain Yangshan Miyamoto swept the electronic chart and frowned, “Calculate the latitude and longitude of the ship. ”

Radar operators sitting opposite quickly report detailed data.

This is an illegal vessel with a radar characteristic of a civilian vessel, which should travel between 3,000 and 5,000 tons at a speed of 27 knots...

“The cargo vessel is less than 27 knots and appears to be a large illegal fishing vessel. Most of this speed is their maximum speed, indicating that they are not far from their destination.” Captain Yangshan Miyamoto was somewhat annoyed: “Only Ogasawa Island has the most abundant fishery resources ahead, and these bloody fishermen dare to steal during the fishing ban period. ”

“Carry out radar locks, adjust to the maximum speed to catch them, enter two nautical miles and alert them via public radio channels, or if they do not stop, fire. ”

The early river patrol ship in the evening soon sprayed a black smoke from the flue. The sea surface radar at the top of the island is fully powered and spins as fast as a wheel.

Early River patrol vessel has a maximum speed of 33 knots and catching up with a fishing vessel with a speed of 27 knots takes only one and a half hours.

Once caught up, a huge fine would make the entire crew of the Early River patrol laugh.

In the radar control room, on the light green radar screen, there was already a triangle that locked the illegal vessel securely, constantly correcting the latest parameters at intervals of 0.5 seconds. It was a cat and mouse chase, and there had never been an illegal fishing boat that could escape the lock of the Early River patrol ship.

“Drop it!”

At this point, the radar console suddenly sounds a tone with a new target entering the scanning radius.

At the same time, the radar computer automatically gives the distance parameter 22 nautical miles from each other. At that time, within a 22-nautical-mile radius of the Early River patrol vessel, there was only that illegal fishing vessel and an unknown new target that had just entered the field of vision.

After 0.5 seconds, the radar corrected the message, still 22 nautical miles apart.

In the meantime, radar operators report the location of the new target to the command centre, asking them to contact the nearby navigation station to assist in the search for that location and whether there is a registered vessel going to be able to access it.

Few ships opt to navigate in the central waters of the Miyako Strait, as the north is an endless northern Pacific Ocean. The Early River patrol vessel, since it patrols at night, of course chooses sparse areas of the ship to catch those vessels that are reluctant to follow the normal course of navigation.

The navigation stations are all electronically operated, and on a giant electronic chart, all the tracks of past vessels on file are listed. So in less than ten seconds, the other party gave the target area, and there was no response for the vessel to pass.

Well, it's another illegal ship.

While the radar operator sets the target as a locking target, he is mindful that the ship is moving in their direction, judging by where the target appears. If they catch that illegal fishing boat, they can turn around and catch it too.

Target locked, the time to radar giving details does not exceed one second.

The radar operator is ready to report to the captain, but at the next moment the radar console will hear an audible siren.

Warning ~

Warning ~

“Unknown ultra-low altitude aerial vehicle found. ”

The radar operator looks at the alarm message on the screen somewhat confused.

Decades ago, the unidentified vessel had just entered radar detection range, 22 nautical miles apart.

Now the radar computer gives detailed data, the unknown target, and the radar reflex characteristic cannot identify whether it is a civilian or a military vessel, even if it is not a vessel at all.

Speed……

Speed 130 knots, 66ms.

Only then did the operator panic and recall that the Hayakawa was the most advanced patrol ship listed by the Security Department. The ship's OPS-28D surface radar, replicated directly from the Aidan frigate, not only searches and identifies surface vessels, but also possesses the capability to identify ultra-low altitude aircraft, or anti-ship missiles.

At 130 knots, 66 meters per second, what can an object be if it's not a flying object?

Everyone in the command centre stopped working and looked at the radar operator blankly.

“Damn, what's going on?” The Early River patrol is a small vessel with electronic control systems centralized in one compartment. Captain Yangshan Miyamoto ran to the alarming radar console, and the colour was unusual. He really thought the patrol ship had encountered an unknown enemy.

“This…” The radar operator was uncertain, and at this moment he also saw the volume of the flying object given by the radar. Although no matches were found in the database, the computer blurred the determination that the object exceeded 5,000 tonnes.

“Is this a ship?” The radar operator muttered to himself, but the next second the unknown object suddenly disappeared when the radar updated the data.

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

After the alarm disappeared, silence lasted for half an hour in the command centre.

The radar has updated its data sixty times, and the target, which makes the radar indistinguishable, has never appeared.

Targets cannot disappear instantaneously, nor can ships achieve 130 knots of speed.

The aircraft is even more unlikely to be that large, unless it is an alien spacecraft.

“Captain, there may be a radar malfunction.” The radar operator subconsciously tapped the device.

““ I... Captain, if you're not comfortable, you can contact HQ and ask them to send a helicopter to search. ”

Captain Yangshan Miyamoto twisted his eyebrows and his heart was more inclined to radar false positives. This is not common, but it is by no means uncommon, as last year's post-island patrol vessels made the biggest joke of radar false positives.

The Kunikoshima Prefecture is close to the Qiandao Islands, which is also particularly close to Russia. During one patrol, the local patrol vessel suddenly scanned an unidentified circular target 800 metres in diameter against the sea radar, hovering at very low altitudes.

At that time, the radar operator was far from having his men calm down, and the guy grabbed the emergency call to report to HQ and said that a UFO had landed in the waters of Japan.

In the end, the haunted fighter aircraft took off urgently, and after the fuel was almost exhausted, the ghost shadow did not find one.

If someone hadn't finally accidentally looked at the surveillance footage of the patrol ship on board, it might have become an unsolvable mystery.

What is the result?

As a result, wind waves reached level six, and a tin foil for toast in the patrol kitchen was somehow blown over the radar by the wind. Tin foil has good electromagnetic reflectance, allowing for errors in radar judgment that could have detected volumes, and is eventually treated as a UFO debrief by an uncooleable rookie operator.

Captain Yangshan Miyamoto certainly couldn't have had this ridiculous laugh on his patrol ship, but after dozens of seconds of radar discovery, he grabbed the radio phone after weighing it against his heart.

“This is the Early River patrol ship, and we found an anomaly in the target while on patrol. We are unable to determine the target. Please conduct helicopter search after receiving the abnormal target location. ”

“Search range fifty nautical miles. ”