Chapter 439: Sense of Oppression
Time passes by unknowingly.
It was April 7th of the 24th year.
More than a month has passed since the Homo sapiens fleet advanced into Latin America, and nearly three months have passed since the leak.
At this time, the Chilean Latin American Regional Branch not only formed a large security force, but also stationed two "commercial escort" fleets.
The two fleets are: the Pacific Third Fleet (also known as the New Granada Fleet) and the Atlantic First Fleet.
Surrounded on two sides, the American Canal State is like the center of a sandwich.
Following the First Atlantic Fleet from the Madagascar region was a giant rhinoceros canal-drilling ship. It was obvious that the Homo Sapiens Company did not intend to use the canal of the American Canal State, but to dig its own canal.
The canal is located just north of New Granada, in an area with a low-lying plain. The land distance from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean is only about 140 kilometers.
For a canal-dredging ship, it only takes about two or three months to build a single-line canal with a width of 550 meters.
Moreover, compared with the canal in the American Canal State that requires locks, the New Granada Canal dug by the Sapiens Company is a gravity-flowing seawater canal that does not require locks. It will greatly improve the navigation efficiency of the canal and reduce maintenance costs.
This is a good thing for commercial shipping companies.
Of course, the premise is that these shipping companies do not commit suicide.
Sapiens has always struck back hard at companies that dare to make threats.
For example, Amazon Group and Apple Inc. were directly blacklisted by Sapiens for publishing slanderous remarks against Sapiens. The products and business activities of these two companies were directly banned from appearing within Sapiens.
This directly resulted in Apple phones being unable to pass through the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Kra Canal.
Amazon's international express deliveries also have no way to pass through these core waterways and have to take detours.
Now many large companies in Europe and the United States have become cautious in their words and actions, fearing that they will be hit in the face by the iron fist of Sapiens.
These guys are typical jerk-ass bastards. They will only do business with you in a friendly manner if you punch them hard in the face.
…
New Granada.
Cattelan Palace, Bogotá.
Garfield looked at the briefings reported from various places, and he focused on the construction of security forces and death ray defense systems.
Except for the Amazon rainforest area within the Redwood Federation, where there is no formal security force of the company, the branches in the other three regions have been fully formalized.
However, Garfield did not relax his vigilance in the Amazon rainforest area. Although the agreement with the Redwood Federation does not allow Homo sapiens to station formal security forces, there are no restrictions on private armed forces.
Therefore, he equipped the employees of the Amazon rainforest branch with a large number of "private" weapons, and their weapons and equipment were exactly the same as those of the security guards.
As for the opinions of the Redwood Federation, Garfield simply ignored them. The weak are not qualified to have opinions.
There were footsteps outside the office.
The assistant walked in and said, "Mr. Manager, this is Mang Lie, the director of the Latin American Division of the Foreign Security Division, requesting a meeting with you."
"Where are the others?"
"In the waiting room."
"Bring him here."
"yes."
After a while, Mang Lie appeared in front of him.
Garfield put down the tablet and asked, "Is there an emergency?"
"The Quetzalcoatl Legion's second aerospace fleet has been formed, and the headquarters plans to deploy the second aerospace fleet in the Latin American branch." Mang Lie reported to him.
"The Space Fleet? Has it been completed?"
"Yes. We have built a total of five Quetzalcoatl-class aerospace carriers and 24 Winged Dragon-class aerospace frigates. The First Aerospace Fleet will be stationed at the Southeast Asia headquarters, and the Third Aerospace Fleet will be stationed in the North African region."
Garfield had no objection to strengthening the security capabilities of the Latin American region: "When will it be in place?"
"In about 60 hours, the Third Aerospace Fleet will arrive on the west coast of New Granada."
"I see. Anything else?"
Mang Lie said quickly: "In addition, the underground bases we previously hid in the New Granada Mountains have been integrated 37% complete. Currently, using the facilities of these bases, we have initially achieved self-sufficiency in ammunition and light weapons."
"Produce more light weapons. They will be needed soon."
Mang Lie nodded: "I will ask the logistics department to speed up production."
Garfield asked again: "By the way, are those channels ready?"
"It's ready. In addition to the obvious paths, there are also some temporary underground tunnels."
"That's good."
…
at the same time.
On East Irian Island in the Western Pacific.
There is a military airship production base here under the Foreign Security Division.
Previously, many factories here were hidden inside the mountains.
However, there was no way to hide those several large assembly plants and a dozen medium-sized assembly plants inside the mountain because they were too big.
The roofs of three of the large assembly plants slowly opened, revealing the huge structures inside.
Compared with previous transport airships, the airships produced here are larger in size. As the Quetzalcoatl class of aerospace mothership, after many adjustments, the volume has reached 4.2 billion cubic meters. At the bottom of the stratosphere, it has a total buoyancy of about 80,000 tons.
Inside the cockpit of the flagship Quetzalcoatl 003.
The commander of the aerospace fleet, Cavo Garcia, ordered: "Begin takeoff, all departments, take positions!"
"Received, start the vacuum system..."
As the air inside each carbon ball rapidly decreased, the aerospace mothership slowly left the dock and floated up into the sky.
The outer shell of the airship is covered with a layer of matte modified plastic film, and underneath is filled with a 1.5-meter-thick layer of composite aerogel foam, which is flame retardant and can also withstand warheads with a caliber of less than 30 mm.
More importantly, this foam armor is very easy to repair and does not require welding or the like.
This Quetzalcoatl-class aerospace carrier is generally similar to a transport ship, except that it has six death ray cannons embedded on each side of the bottom.
On the upper deck, there are also 18 death ray cannons.
The length of the three flight decks is 500 meters. It’s not that it cannot be lengthened, but there is no need to do so.
After all, the airship itself can reach a speed of 200 to 300 kilometers per hour, and with an altitude of 20,000 meters in the stratosphere, it is very easy for the aircraft to take off.
If it weren't for the purpose of matching with the Feiming space transport aircraft, a 200-meter runway would be enough.
Quetzalcoatl-class aerospace carrier.
Full load is 72,000 tons, total buoyancy is 81,000 tons, dry weight is 28,000 tons, and payload is 44,000 tons.
The power comes from three improved thorium-based molten salt reactors with a total power of 600 megawatts; another 30 death ray cannons can also provide some electricity.
The maximum speed when fully loaded is 500 kilometers per hour, and the cruising speed is 240 to 300 kilometers per hour.
The weapons and equipment include 30 death ray cannons, 30 Phalanx machine guns, 600 cruise missiles, 100 cruise missiles, and 20 medium-range ballistic missiles.
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In addition to the 1,753 soldiers it needs, it can also carry an additional 2,000 Quetzalcoatl suborbital paratroopers.
The Quetzalcoatl 003, which was already fully loaded with supplies, joined up with another Quetzalcoatl 004, plus eight auxiliary Winged Dragon-class aerospace frigates.
Of course, these aerospace frigates are not entirely combat-type. Two of them also serve as supply ships, and two also serve as landing ships.
Kavo looked at the holographic map and picked up the intercom: "All ships, implement Plan C."
"receive……"
10 aerospace warships quickly adjusted their positions.
Four of the frigates were at the same flying altitude as the mother ship, located exactly at the four corners, with the distance maintained between 28 and 30 kilometers.
The other four frigates are distributed in an altitude area of about 15,000 meters below the mother ship, also at the four corners with a distance of 28 to 30 kilometers.
The purpose of this arrangement is actually to defend against attacks from the ground.
Since the flight altitude of the aerospace fleet is between 15,000 meters and 30,000 meters, usually only a small number of fighter jets can fly to this altitude.
Ordinary missiles and the like have no way of breaking through the frigate's death ray defense system.
It is only possible to break through the frigate's defense system if a saturation attack is used.
However, it is extremely difficult to carry out a saturation strike. After all, the aerospace fleet is not stupid and will certainly not give the enemy time to make arrangements.
The cruise missiles and cruise missiles on frigates and carriers are not just for show.
Moreover, from a high vantage point, the death ray cannon can strike the sea and plains within 500 kilometers, and aerial targets have no way of getting within 1,500 kilometers of the aerospace fleet.
Faced with this iron-clad defense system, no major global force currently has the ability to break through.
Cavo saw through the magnetic field radar that the ships had arrived at the designated location, so he picked up the intercom and said, "Everyone, move at full speed to New Granada."
"receive."
These airships all use electric propellers as their main propulsion method, while the auxiliary jet engines only serve as auxiliary power for emergency acceleration and maneuvering.
After all, the airship is powered by a nuclear reactor and uses a two-stage composite thermoelectric conversion system, so it has plenty of electricity.
Therefore, the use of electric propellers is the right choice. If jet engines are used, the fuel alone will require tens of thousands of tons, which will seriously squeeze the airship's payload.
The aerospace fleet flew towards New Granada 15,000 kilometers away at a cruising , and is expected to arrive at the west coast of New Granada in 60 hours.
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Northeast of Kangaroo Country.
Cape York Air Force Base.
This is the U.S. military using the mechanism of the Free Union to jointly establish an air force base here. It is currently affiliated with the Free Union and is numbered as A-06 base.
At this time, at the Cape York Air Force Base, the long-wave radar had detected an unidentified flying object in the sky above New Guinea Island.
Base commander Major General Rhodes hurried to the radar monitoring room.
"Is the target still over East Irian Island?"
Smith, the head of the radar monitoring room, quickly replied: "They are moving. They are moving eastward at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour."
“Can we tune the satellite to check?”
Smith looked at the satellite's trajectory and said, "In about 12 minutes, a Keyhole satellite will pass over the western Pacific Ocean."
The current US military no longer has the composure it had before. After dozens of professional satellites were destroyed by Homo sapiens, the spy satellites in low-Earth orbit are now stretched to the limit.
Despite the emergency addition of 12 Keyhole satellites by SpaceX, the monitoring force in low-Earth orbit has not yet returned to its peak.
12 minutes later.
The Keyhole satellite finally moved over the western Pacific Ocean, and Smith quickly aimed the camera at the area where the UFO was spotted.
Soon they saw the true face of the UFO.
"Airship?" Chief of Staff Allen, who had just arrived, murmured subconsciously.
However, Smith, who was staring at the screen, showed a hint of shock on his face: "3.3 kilometers long? Is this thing really an airship?"
Allen, who had come to his senses, paid more attention to the deck of the airship in the picture. At first he thought it was a solar panel, until he saw more than a dozen fighter jets parked on it, he realized that it was the flight deck.
He swallowed and said, "Gulp... Is this an aerospace carrier?"
Major General Rhodes frowned, his expression becoming more serious: "It seems that this is the new equipment launched by the Sapiens Company?"
They actually already knew that the Sapiens company had built a number of airships.
After all, hundreds of Sperm Whale-class transport airships have been produced, plus dozens of communication airships. These things are flying around in the sky. America's intelligence agencies are not blind and must have collected some intelligence.
However, according to their previous intelligence, those airships were not used in the military field and their sizes were not so exaggerated.
Allen saw the two men's expressions become serious, but he smiled and said, "Major General Rhodes, this large airship is just a target. It can be shot down by any missile. There is no need to worry too much."
Rhode looked confused, as if he was looking at a fool, and thought to himself: "You country bumpkins are really arrogant, and you are the chief of staff, but you don't even know that Homo sapiens have gamma ray weapons."
"Ahem...Colonel Allen, have you seen the relevant assessment report of the Sapiens Company?"
Alan was confused: "What report?"
Shit! Rhodes had already made up his mind that after a while, he would find a way to get this guy back to Canberra to train new recruits.
He suppressed his anger and said, "It was the document sent from the Pentagon last Friday."
"Uh... sorry, I just got back from vacation yesterday and haven't had time to watch it yet." Alan scratched his head awkwardly.
Fuck! Can America really defeat the Sapiens company together with these idiots? Rhodes couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.
Smith on the side was also speechless. He explained helplessly: "The Sapiens Company has a gamma ray weapon that can intercept aircraft missiles and even destroy satellites in low-Earth orbit."
"Oh my god...it's terrible that they have such a weapon." Alan was very shocked.
In fact, this was also the Pentagon blocking the news of the destruction of the satellites, using the solar storm as an excuse, saying that some satellites were attacked by solar storms.
After all, this kind of thing is a shame for America.
If it were made public, it would be a severe blow to the morale of the Free Association.
This is why Allen, the chief of staff who had just been transferred from the Australian Army, did not know about gamma rays.
After hearing Smith's explanation, Allen was very surprised.
After Homo sapiens possessed gamma ray weapons, the US military had to re-evaluate their combat capabilities.
This is also the reason why Major General Rhodes' expression is so solemn, because their missiles and fighter jets have no way to get close to these airships.
He quickly reported the matter to the Pentagon.
