Chapter 416 Fight!
Everything was going smoothly for Gao Zhendong, and there were also some new changes in other places.

On the sea east of our country, in the darkness of night, a large ship weighing several thousand tons was cruising on the sea under the escort of several small boats.

There are several rapid-fire cannons on this large ship, but these are not the main things. Nowadays, any ship that dares to sail at night, except for fishing boats, must carry some guns and cannons.

This is not entirely correct. At that time, even the fishing boats were carrying guns.

The special thing about this ship is that there are several large clothes drying racks and parabolas on the deck, some of which are constantly rotating, while others are standing quietly, as if listening to something quietly.

Lights were flashing between the small boat and the big ship. Under such close-range conditions, light communication worked quite well.

In the command room of the large ship, a lighting and communications soldier came in to report.

"Captain, the 'fishing boat' is requesting supplies."

The captain looked at the time and nodded, "Reply and agree to the supply."

Several small boats nearby came up and the big ship began to hoist things down.

Ever since the two ships on the other side were sunk by anti-ship missiles, their maritime forces in this area have basically retreated, and this sea area has become our world. If it were not for certain considerations, some small islands would probably not even get supplies.

Seeing this situation, the naval comrades simply stepped forward!
There is no intention to attack anyone. The core of the advance is this large ship of several thousand tons, a newly modified electric reconnaissance ship that is still under testing. This ship has a hard time protecting itself against combat ships, let alone taking direct action. It has two purposes.

The first is to get closer to monitor the aircraft sent from the other side.

Secondly, the signal will attenuate if the distance is too far. If you get closer, you can hear it more clearly.

Those clothes drying racks on this ship are more than just radar.

The comrades on the boat received the supplies and said with a smile: "This is a good idea. Although we can't travel far on the sea, after handing over some of the supplies to the 'laundry workers', this problem has been solved to some extent."

Laundryman is the code name of this big ship. Needless to say, the name comes from those big clothes drying racks.

I believe that people in the industry can recognize at a glance that the clothes drying rack on this big ship is a Yagi antenna. Yagi means a person, not eight pieces of wood.

Even this radar was directly modified from a land-based radar. The modification time was tight and the task was heavy, so there was no time to develop a new radar, so the land-based radar was used first. Anyway, the ship is large and has no other tasks, so the tonnage is still sufficient.

After the ship is modified and goes out to sea, it will always need escort. This is not like the future when a single ship can stroll around the streets. This is a real war.

The several cannons on this ship are mainly used to defend against pirates or for emergencies. As for a head-on confrontation with the enemy, this fat man who can't run fast or be flexible can forget about it, because it's not his job.

However, in terms of existing forces, large combat ships are already scarce and have heavy tasks, so the only ones that can undertake escort missions are small boats.

But there is a problem. The boat runs fast, but it can't go far.

The comrades at the base thought about it and came up with a simple solution. Except for a short period of drinking water and normal ammunition, all the fuel and most of the drinking water were placed on the large ship.

The large ship is both a target for escort and a supply mother ship. Although it cannot solve the problem of ocean-going operations, it can at least follow the large ship for several hundred kilometers and then escort it to carry out tasks for a certain period of time.

In order to guard against enemy air attacks, it was inconvenient to resupply during the day, so it was carried out at night.

The living conditions on the small boat were very poor, but the comrades' morale was very high. No one had ever traveled such a long distance before.

They were not the first fleet of boats to come for the escort, which made the captains of several small boats quite regretful. They all knew that those who came first must be the most stable and reliable, with the best combat effectiveness and support work. Only after they verified the feasibility, it was the turn of these "not the best" to participate.

It was almost dawn, and the radar operator on the ship reported to the captain.

"Report, target found. Based on echo characteristics, it is identified as a P-2V electronic reconnaissance aircraft. Direction: xxx, heading: xxx, distance: 180km, altitude: 500m, speed: xxx."

This data comes from the altimeter radar that we have just successfully copied, which is also our first radar that can measure the height of the target.

I just put a new set up here after I succeeded in copying it. I am very determined.

This radar has a detection range of about 500km for medium-sized air targets at an altitude of 200 meters, which is a good performance. However, if it looks downward, it is not very effective against low-altitude targets due to ground clutter.

The first early warning aircraft we wanted to develop was to be equipped with this radar, but due to downward-looking performance issues and some other reasons, it ultimately did not succeed.

Fortunately, if it is installed on the boat and you look upward, there is no problem and it can perform well.

The captain looked at the target's speed, then at its heading, and sighed, "It looks like their P-2V has managed to escape again."

Although their ship was newly modified, the crew was experienced and could recognize the type of enemy target at a glance. The P-2V escaped beyond the range of our warning radar at sea and rose to an altitude of 500 meters after it was safe. At this altitude, plus a distance of more than 300 km from the shore, it could not be detected by shore-based radar.

Flying at low altitude for a long time is very dangerous and they value their lives very much.

I just didn't expect that there was one of our electronic reconnaissance ships here.

This made the captain of the electronic surveillance ship quite angry, but there was nothing he could do. Although he could see the other party, he could not reach it. In fact, at this time, both sides could not do anything to the other side.

At sea, the other side really can't beat us here, so it's okay if I just stay at home.

In the air, we couldn’t catch the enemy’s P-2V at night and could only drive it away at best.

Strictly speaking, we have to be stronger, after all, if the enemy comes out at sea, they will die. And in the air, the enemy can only maintain a situation where they can escape.

Although they knew they could do nothing about it, they still sent a telegram to the headquarters, informing them of the movements of the enemy P-2V.

A command center somewhere along the coast.

"Our 'laundryman' spotted the enemy P-2V returning home again, 510km away from the enemy island."

"This bastard got away again!" A commander slapped the table hard.

The other commander seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment's thought, he asked, "Is our Tu-4 modified conducting a night flight test?"

The previous commander looked up at it and said, "No, that weapon system is not installed yet."

The commander who proposed the Tu-4 was still unwilling to give up. After thinking about it, his eyes lit up.

"It's almost dawn! It's further east over there, so it gets light earlier!"

"What do you mean?" The previous commander seemed to remember something.

"We sent fighter jets to intercept it! We couldn't intercept it before because its route was too far from the coastline and we couldn't find the target. Even if we found it occasionally, we would lose it quickly. But this time, we were the target discovered by the forward electronic reconnaissance ship, so we have the ability to track it all the time!"

The person in front of him thought, yes! This time it was not the shore-based radar that discovered the target, and he was just blinded by his past experience!
"According to the report from the electronic surveillance ship, the P-2V is flying 350km from the coastline and 500km from its base. This distance is more than enough for our fighter jets to fly over and intercept it!"

"Yes, yes, yes! And when the fighter jets fly over, it will be almost daybreak, and we will be able to conduct a visual search and attack!"

"Fight! Even if we can't defeat them, we must scare these bastards to death."

In the command center, a group of comrades became more and more excited as they talked.

Not long after, the "laundry worker" received a secret message.

"Keep tracking the enemy P-2V and report its position at any time using the XXX encrypted channel."

Although the line of words looked ordinary, the captain of the electronic reconnaissance ship felt a murderous aura from it!
"Great!" In his opinion, whether or not the fight could be won was another matter, so he might as well fight first and talk later. Judging from this call back, it seemed that he was going to take action.

He looked up and gave instructions to the radar operator.

"Use the listening antenna to keep tracking the P-2V! Turn on the radar every 2 to 3 minutes to review the listening and tracking results!"

This is an electronic reconnaissance ship. It only needs to listen to the enemy's radar signals to roughly locate the enemy's position. The enemy is afraid of being attacked from the air by our fighter jets that occasionally run into them, so the radar is turned on at sea.

If the radar tracking is kept on, the cunning and panicked enemy will probably be scared away. They are very afraid of death, and as long as they realize that they are being followed, they will probably immediately descend in altitude and hide in the blind spot of the earth's curvature.

By occasionally turning on the machine for precise positioning every few minutes, the chance of alerting the enemy can be minimized.

The captain turned around and gave orders to the small boat that was guarding him.

"Plan No. 2. All boats spread out in battle formation to escort our ship!"

The small boats knew that something was happening. They didn't know what the electronic reconnaissance ship was going to do in Plan No. 2, but they knew what they were going to do. The boats entered complete electromagnetic silence, and the lookouts searched the sea, ready to attack the invading enemy at any time.

It was a busy scene at sea. At a coastal airport, an order came from two fighter jets.

"Wuyi 01, Wuyi 02, take off immediately, heading for xxx!"

These two planes are on duty. Although they have not taken off, the pilots are always in the cockpit and can take off at any time. They will maintain this status until the end of their duty.

But today they were lucky and the wait was not in vain. The two pilots were very excited.

After receiving the order from the tower, the two fighter jets took off with the help of ground crew members and flew towards the sea in the east. When they took off with afterburners, the flames from the tail nozzles pierced the night sky.

Only after taking off did the two pilots receive the mission.

——In the eastward ocean air, we spotted an enemy P-2V electronic reconnaissance aircraft that had returned after harassing us, and we have now established stable tracking. Our superiors asked two people to quickly engage the enemy under ground guidance and try to shoot it down.

(End of this chapter)