Monster Factory

At this critical juncture, Commander Rashid stood up and picked up the phone.

“Drive it towards the closure net at all costs. ”

“It's... out of the helicopter's view.” The anti-submarine helicopter driver subconsciously pushes the lever.

“Then catch up with it and you will be given the authority to fire freely. ”

Two anti-submarine helicopters chased in the direction of a giant wheel, and two rocket deep water bombs hung under their bellies.

They also turned on the helicopter fire control radar, which, at an already visible distance, could hold onto this massive 10,000-ton ship.

“ ”

Several seconds after the fire control radar turned on, both helicopter drivers stared inexplicably at the radar screen.

Above……

Nothing on it.

“Can you radar-lock it?” The two helicopter drivers asked each other through a telephone instead of an appointment.

Get answers that can't, or even the radar can't even search for the target. Drivers and weapon operators were surprised and immediately switched to optical aiming mode to prepare manually.

Then they were appalled to find that the huge black contour, rapidly moving through the ocean, was slowly becoming smaller at a rate that was visible to the naked eye.

They maximized helicopter speeds and found it appalling that they were still unable to keep up with the "footsteps” of the ship.

The plane can't catch a giant wheel?

Even the helicopters are operated by a combat helicopter with two 522 kW aerial turbine engines, totalling 1044 kW, which can actually fly up to 250 km/h under favourable weather conditions.

Radar is undetectable, and these pilots with 3.0 vision can still see.

“Newspaper… report sir, that may not be a giant ship. ”

Commander Rashid saw from the screen that the helicopter had never been able to catch the giant wheel, and he yelled, “Not the giant wheel. What is it, a submarine? ”

“You're blind. Why don't you lock the radar? ”

If at the scene, Commander Rashid would have kicked the pilots of the two anti-submarine helicopters into the sea.

According to the video pod of the anti-submarine, the giant wheel swaggered in the distant sea.

The two anti-submarine helicopters strolled into the air, slowly following the tail wave of the giant wheel and watching the giant wheel go away.

“Sir, they're heading towards the anti-submarine lockdown. ”

After that, the pilots of the two helicopters were not talking, leaving the commander's side to the roar of the decapitation.

They don't know how to explain all this strangeness, but soon the cordon line will feel, the unknown fear they feel now.

……

In fact, as soon as the anti-submarine helicopter spotted the target, the three ships carrying out the blockade order immediately rushed towards the target at full speed.

Intelligence is wrong, it's not a submarine.

That would undo their previous confusion, because from satellite photographs, the secret cargo ship of Giant Beast Industries could not relate to the submarine.

Even for carrying cargo, the essential fluid mechanics of a submarine should not be left entirely behind.

Now the riddle is solved, it is not a submarine at all, but a black “giant beast” that can run at super high speeds on the surface of the sea.

While the mystery was solved, another question arose in the hearts of all those in the command room.

How fast can it run?

How the hell did it escape ubiquitous radar detection?

The deeper the puzzle, the more determined Commander Rashid will be to capture the ship, which must have advanced ship power technology that they do not yet possess.

Just in time, that giant wheel “escaped” towards the other end of the lockdown net.

Meet that giant ship a little earlier than anyone expected.

In almost twenty minutes, they clearly detected the trajectory of that giant ship with the sound of a buoy they had previously laid down.

Sonar number coordinates 174, speed...

Speed 130 knots?

Their thoughts were severely impacted until minutes later, when all the surrounding sonar buoys detected the data, the people in the operational command room dared to accept this horrific fact.

There is no routine radio call to leave evidence, nor is there any light signal warning, a covert operation that must never be known to the outside world.

So when the ship entered the sonar buoy detection network, Commander Rashid issued a warning shooting order.

Faster than a torpedo missile.

This is a huge civilian ship, and in the face of absolute force they can only stop the ship.

The third frigate had already taken the lead for dozens of nautical miles because it had previously been ordered to probe abnormal sound sources. So when the sonar probe detected the target, frigate three was less than 20 nautical miles from the target ship.

Commander Rashid abandoned the Deep Water Bomb program, which was only suitable for attacking submarines, "a single reduced charge MK-46 torpedo warning shot. ”

“Yes." The commander of frigate three responded immediately.

An improved MK-46 torpedo was thrown out of the torpedo launch tube by a frigate.

This dark gray metal cylinder, nearly three meters long, stuck its head into the sea and spurted the waves, while the tail air compression thruster immediately activated and headed in the direction of the giant ship.

There is no need for frigates to be radar-locked.

Torpedo detection has always been the main passive sound locking technology of the front end.

Hundreds of nautical miles around are now filled with dense passive sound buoys, torpedoes in the water, and those hundreds of sonic buoys are its eyes.

The MK-46 improved torpedo is a light torpedo with a speed of up to 40 knots and acceleration during the final burst impact phase.

Also, normally, the torpedo can carry close to 50 kilograms of high explosive combat, and now it has been reduced to 20 kilograms and is set to explode 20 metres from the target ship.

Even a reduced charge torpedo is enough to completely scare the sailors on the target ship.

The torpedo skipped a fine snake-like white blister on the water and, guided by a sonar buoy, headed straight for the target ship.

The other ship was fast, so the torpedo was less than a few dozen minutes away, approaching the five-nautical mile range of the target ship.

The MK-46 torpedo has a short voyage, but the other party is only a giant civilian ship and it is unlikely that a torpedo will be found pillaging in the deep ocean for several metres.

“Sonar buoy detection, torpedo five nautical miles from target. ”

Four nautical miles. ”

“Two nautical miles, twenty seconds from the blast. ”

Continuously returning information from frigate 3 to the command ship, some sailors were already on the frigate deck ready to watch the seawater sail.

Now that they are only a few dozen nautical miles from the target ship, they can already clearly see the end of the sea level on deck, the full outline of the black ship.

“In fifteen seconds, lock the target and enter the sprint phase. ”

“Wait ~”

“The target seemed to have found it, and it began to turn. ”

“God, it's... it's in...”

The humpback is drifting.

As the torpedo entered the humpback whale two nautical miles away, it was caught in trajectory by optical lenses scattered around the hull.

The humpback whale is an aircushion high-speed gigantic wheel that differs from the narrow body of a traditional gigantic wheel with an aspect ratio of only three to one and no contact with water at the bottom of the ship.

So in an impossible way, it was born out of an S-wave at sea.

The MK-46 torpedo was dumped behind it, entering the sprint phase, and it was following the huge target of 130 knots at 50 knots.

Less than twenty seconds of futile tracking, the MK-46 torpedo sank into the sea, exhausting all its power.

By that time, it was three nautical miles away from the Whale.

This scene shocked everyone on the frigate.

Then the sailors on the deck saw a more shocking scene. Instead of turning the bow to escape, the black ship adjusted its angle slightly and headed towards the frigate.

“Ah!”

“They... are they insane? ”

The humpback and frigate are less than five nautical miles away, and that distance, the helmsmen in the cockpit, can clearly see the enormous and terrifying black body of the humpback whale.

It has a diamond-shaped cut on the front end.

Whether it was illusion or light, the helmsmen seemed to find the metal at the front end of the wheel slightly different from the surroundings.

It's a little reflective in the sunlight.

The frigate is only a small plate that is no more than 13 metres wide and drains 3,000 tons of water.

The frigate has been given the right to fire at any time, and the commander roared hard in the battle command room, "How dare you provoke our dignity and fire a harpoon anti-ship missile, we need to make him understand who really owns the ocean. ”

“Sir… Sir, our fire control radar cannot search for targets. ”

“And for Hairada, it's invisible at sea. ”

At this moment, the commander had a bitter cold feeling of falling into the Arctic Ice Cave. Due to the Earth's curvature and the susceptibility of the surface to electromagnetic waves, searching radar on all ships cannot search for surface vessel targets over 30 nautical miles.

Of course, early warning and reconnaissance aircraft are not subject to curvature detection.

Previously, the radar could not detect the ship's target and the commander took it for granted that it was too far away.

Besides, there are dense sound buoys, and there is no need for onboard radar to lock them.

Now it humiliates a MK-46 torpedo and points the bow at the frigate.

Without thinking, he shouted, "Then change the optical lock. Are you all blind? ”

A few seconds later, a harpoon anti-ship missile whistled out.

Harpoon antiship missile parameter index is more than ten times higher than the torpedoes in the ranks?

After launch, it can accelerate to Mach 0.9 in seven seconds, with a maximum range of 300 km.

Harpoon antiship guided missiles sprayed hot tail currents and lasered towards the giant black ship.

Less than 10,000 metres between them, with a harpoon anti-ship missile velocity, you'll see a hot fireball explode in the front of this giant ship in 20 seconds.

S-type drift evasion?

Harpoon antiship missiles have multiple locking means, radar is unavailable, and optical and infrared locks are also available. Even if it doesn't hit, it can turn again.