Chapter 1280
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Half an hour later, the crew members on the lifeboat, who were frantically fleeing in all directions, saw two huge flames soaring into the sky at the end of the sea behind them.
At this distance, they could no longer hear the roar of the exploding ammunition.
However, the raging flames that rose a hundred meters high had already made it clear that from now on, the renowned Fifth Fleet would completely lose one of its main warships and two frigates that galloped through the sea.
This time, in the imagination of Commander Lakhit of the Joint Fleet, should have been a relaxing journey full of fun.
Once the sonar buoy was thrown into the sea, the target submarine or ship would immediately be scared out of its wits and obediently be slaughtered.
In the end, they encountered a ship with a particularly strong head that was so fast that it could treat an originally deadly torpedo like a turtle.
All of this was like a dream.
However, the cold sea breeze and the bumpy lifeboat kept forcing Lakhit to stay awake.
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The sea under the setting sun flickered with a golden afterglow.
When the golden afterglow slowly faded, the originally blue sea turned into a boundless black curtain.
The lifeboat Lakhit was in was like a speck of dust attached to the curtain.
Fear, insignificance, and helplessness.
At this time, their lifeboat had run out of fuel and could only move with the waves on the sea. The negative emotions brought about by the darkness were slowly eroding everyone's will.
They didn't know how long they drifted on the sea before they finally saw a ray of light at the end of the darkness.
The staff officer excitedly took out a signal gun from behind and wanted to send a signal, but Commander Lakhit pressed it down.
"Confirm the identity first." As Lakhit spoke, he turned on the special handheld radio that had been turned off. After confirming that the person who came was one of them, he fired a signal flare into the sky that rose high into the air.
On the other side of Madagas Island, the other three warships carrying out the blockade mission finally arrived.
After five hours of emergency navigation, they were originally participating in the pursuit operation, but they were rescuing their companions drifting on the sea.
Two hours later, the three warships that picked up all the personnel from the lifeboat turned on their detection radars. There were five monitors sitting in the monitoring seats of the SQR-20 active and passive towing sonar system.
The three warships were on high alert as they approached the location of the two warships that self-destructed in the sea in the evening.
Before the evacuation, the crew recorded the GPS positioning coordinates of the two ships. The precision of the military-grade positioning coordinates was less than one meter in this open sea.
However, when the searchlight shone, there was no sign of the wreckage of the two warships.
The two warships should have sunk into the sea. The average depth of the sea was 80 meters, so they were qualified to be salvaged.
They wanted to salvage the two warships.
Even if the ammunition stores were detonated, the shockwave would not be able to tear the entire ship to pieces.
At the beginning of the design of the modern warships, they had fully absorbed the blood, sweat, and tears that their predecessors had accumulated over hundreds of years. In order to minimize the damage caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot, not only was the ammunition depot set up far away from the command tower where the electronic equipment was the most integrated, but it was also equipped with an astonishingly thick high-strength alloy armor to reduce the possible impact of external attacks on the ammunition depot.
In addition to being equipped with a dense fire extinguishing system in the ammunition depot, there was also a separation process for different types of ammunition, so that the explosions would not occur at the same time as much as possible to reduce the power of the explosions.
In addition, unlike a normal explosion, the two warships had used up all the missiles they carried, which could greatly reduce the power of the explosion.
Therefore, even if the salvaged warships were no longer qualified to be repaired, the engineers could still dismantle at least half of the equipment on the ship for secondary use.
The combined supply ship, rescue ship, and salvage ship would arrive in two days. During this period of time, they had to make proper preparations.
An unmanned diving probe was lowered into the water by the crew on the ship to observe the damage to the warship.
In the end, the crew operating the diving probe steered the probe for a long time, but they couldn't find the slightest trace of the destroyer.
If it weren't for the broken deck and ship parts stuck in the seabed, Commander Rachter would have suspected that someone had tampered with their positioning coordinates.
Where did the destroyer go?
They immediately turned on the active sonar base, which had the ability to detect the underwater terrain.
In the end, they scanned a radius of 30 nautical miles one by one, but they couldn't find any trace of the destroyer.
The frigate hadn't been lost. It had been broken into two pieces and was lying quietly on the seabed.
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