A submarine was, of course, a submersible vehicle that traveled underwater.
Therefore, according to their experience, it was an almost impossible task to accurately find this submarine in the vast sea.
However, the submarine would eventually float up.
As long as they kept a close eye on the port, they would be able to catch a rare trace of it when it floated up to load goods.
Originally, there were intelligence personnel stationed at the port for a long time, responsible for investigating the entry and exit of raw materials from the Monster Industries. However, every time the submarine entered the port, it would not inform the port dispatch at all. Even the entry and exit of materials were handled by the factory staff.
The intelligence personnel who were mixed in the port had no access to information related to the submarine at all.
The United States was probably the only country in the world that could come up with such an extravagant plan to specially change the orbit of a reconnaissance satellite to keep an eye on the port.
Now, they had paid off for burning money.
In the morning, tactical commander Matticus received the latest information from the Pentagon.
The reconnaissance satellite had captured a bird 's-eye view of the submarine.
In addition, the reconnaissance satellite did not only have optical photography as a reconnaissance function. As one of the most advanced reconnaissance satellites in the world, in addition to carrying advanced optical equipment, it also had a special ability to track moving targets on the sea at all costs.
Multi-band, multi-spectral reconnaissance equipment.
Electromagnetic remote sensing equipment.
This way, the reconnaissance satellite could track the route according to the special wake produced by the propellers of large ships and even submarines when they sailed.
The larger the ship, the greater the current fluctuations produced when it sailed on the surface of the water.
The current fluctuations caused by the propellers and the outline of the hull could be observed with the naked eye. They could be seen dragging a long white wave mark on the surface of the sea.
Not to mention under sophisticated reconnaissance equipment?
Of course.
Because the submarine was submerged in the sea, its propeller wake could only be captured by the reconnaissance satellite in the shallow sea area.
The technology that was rumored on the Internet that satellites in space could use the special wake transmitted to the surface of the sea by the submarine and pull the submarine out of the vast sea was still an alien technology, and humans had not mastered it.
Therefore, in this latest information, only a 20-kilometer sailing trajectory was marked when the submarine entered the port.
Any further, and this satellite with a strict observation window time limit, it would not be able to continue capturing the characteristic ripples of the propellers.
The reconnaissance satellite only had an eight-minute observation window every day. If it missed this time, the satellite would have to fly elsewhere along its orbit.
"That's enough!" Tactical Commander Matticus clenched his fists and muttered to himself as he looked at the information. "The twenty-kilometer long route is already enough for us to make a preliminary judgment of its sailing route. As for the next step, as long as we set up ambushes on the routes it might pass through, we can make sure it doesn't have a second chance to enter the harbor. "
"But …"
"Is this really a submarine?"
Looking at the satellite view, Tactical Commander Matticus was filled with questions.
The satellite's aerial view had a precise scale. According to the scale data, the dark and strangely shaped submarine in the picture didn't look like a submarine at all.
Submarines were all droplet-shaped or transitional types, but the one in the satellite photo was different. It did not have the outline of a submarine at all. Instead, it was closer to the shape of a landing craft.
It also did not have the upper hull and hull rudder that a submarine should have.
Perhaps it was because it was close to the port, but the "submarine" in the picture looked more like a boat, drifting on the water and entering the port at a speed of ten knots.
Of course, if it hadn't surfaced near the port, the reconnaissance equipment wouldn't have been able to track the 20-kilometer long trajectory so easily.
Tactical Commander Matticus even consulted the experts in the Pentagon on submarines.
In the end, the other party confidently told him that this couldn't be a submarine at all.
If submarines weren't designed to be droplet-shaped, what else were they built?
With the shape in the satellite photo, the underwater resistance would be at least three times that of an ordinary submarine. After these three times the resistance was converted into the energy that the power system needed to offset, it would be a miracle for this submarine to be able to run at a speed of five knots underwater.
If it wasn't a submarine, what could it be?
Tactical Commander Matticus and intelligence analysts still believed that it was a submarine.
This was because they had never captured the ship's radar feedback signal. They hadn't even arranged for a satellite. They didn't even know if this submarine was round or flat.
Perhaps Monster Industries had designed it this way to allow submarines to have a larger capacity.
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No matter what the purpose was, as long as they hunted this submarine, all the mysteries would be solved.
As the commander in charge of all operations against Monster Industries, Matticus naturally had the authority to ask the Fifth Fleet, which was the closest to this place, to hunt this submarine.
The second time the reconnaissance satellite arrived at the port was still the next morning. In order to avoid any complications, Matticus immediately contacted the Fifth Fleet and asked them to set up a "blockade" on the route that the submarine had to pass through.
The base of the Fifth Fleet was located in the Persian Gulf, while the Anut Special District was located in the Gulf of Guinea.
The two were separated by tens of thousands of nautical miles, spanning two oceans.
If they wanted to accurately mark the route of this mysterious submarine on this endless ocean …
Actually, it wasn't difficult.
Because the results of the eight-minute investigation in the morning had clearly shown that the submarine's route was from south to north, along the coastline of the Gulf of Guinea, and parked in the port.
Then, when it returned, its route must have been along the edge of the African continent, passing through the waters near South Africa, and finally sailing into the vast ocean from one of the two sides of the waters of Madagascar.
This route was the shortest and most economical route back to Hua Xia.
Monster Industries would never take a detour of thousands of nautical miles to waste precious material transportation time.
Madagascar Island was the fourth largest island in the world. It was across the sea from the African continent, and the strait between them was less than 400 kilometers away. The sea route was the shortest distance, and it was also the route that all civilian ships traveling between the two oceans had to pass through.
Basically, as long as they intercepted in this strait that was less than 400 kilometers wide, there was a 90% chance that they would be able to intercept the mysterious submarine of Monster Industries.
The other 10% was left for the other side of Madagascar Island.
If the submarine went around Matticus Island and took the other side of the sea, it would only waste a few hundred nautical miles around the island.
Going around a few hundred nautical miles would waste time and energy, but it could avoid the busy strait. With the terrifying financial resources of Monster Industries, they might not care about such a small loss.
Therefore, Matticus requested the Fifth Fleet to set up a 400-kilometer "blockade" in this area of the sea.
Two 400-kilometer blockade lines for hunting submarines was a piece of cake for the Fifth Fleet. It would take at most two days to mobilize the military ships that were running around the nearby waters to set up defenses on both sides of Madagascar Island.
Monster Industries' submarine needed time to load and unload supplies, and it would also take time to sail back to Madagascar Island.
Then, two days later, the submarine blockade formed by the world's most powerful maritime military forces would quietly wait for the arrival of the submarine.
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