20 f-35c, 24 f/a-18f.
7 ea-18g electronic warfare aircraft and 5 e-2d early warning aircraft.
3 cv-22b torpedo transport aircraft and 19 h-60r/s helicopters.
5 q-25a refuelling drones
several means of transportation, including armored personnel carriers.
Three mini-submarines and six UAVs ... Bookla
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It was resupplied yesterday. 10,000 tons of aviation fuel and gasoline.
6,000 tons of various types of food and seasonings.
8,000 tons of daily living goods.
50 tons of various drugs.
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Zhou Lin was ecstatic, not feeling the passage of time.
At 3:00 p.m. the soldiers of the USS Tefal began to "send off" the tourists, and at 3:30 p.m. the stairs were closed for routine maintenance. At 5:30, the soldiers who had participated in the party began to leave the ship. At six o'clock, the captain and his officers walked down the gangway with smiles on their faces.
At seven o'clock in the evening the Tefal, which had originally numbered over five thousand men, now had less than three hundred of all men combined, the highest-ranking of whom was Lieutenant-Colonel Magri, who was in charge of the air force.
Even though he couldn't go to the orgy, Magri still didn't shortchange himself by inviting two female soldiers to his room to drink, chat, dance and whatnot ... Anyway what else is there to worry about in the capital harbor of the island.
And just as Magri was deep in conversation with the two female soldiers, the sea at the rear of the carrier suddenly rolled over! At the same time those metal cables extending to the shore twisted like snakes, detaching themselves from the bollards in three or five strokes, and then snaking back into the hull.
The anchor engine was also running, the thick anchor chain was recovered quickly, and the iron anchor weighing more than thirty tons was dragged out of the water and tightened on the bow with a clatter.
A mere ten minutes had passed before the carrier Tefal began to slowly turn, the great commotion finally triggering the attention of everyone around them, including the pretty countrymen aboard the other battleships.
"How did the Tefal move?"
"There were no orders!"
"Quick, contact the Tefal!"
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The men aboard the Pretty Country fleet were dumbfounded by the movement of the Tefal.
Aircraft carriers can't act alone even if they're great ... Bla bla bla, otherwise it's a live target! So if the Tefal was to leave, the other battleships in the fleet would inevitably receive orders as well, and they would have to set sail even before the Tefal!
Yet no matter how hard one tried to contact the Tefal, no response was forthcoming, it was as if the messages had not been received at all.
"Damn it, contact Domestic Defense and say ... The Telford has been stolen!" The captain of one of the destroyers slapped the railing in hatred.
Unlike the Tefal, whose nuclear reactors never went off, large conventionally powered ships took at least three to five hours from the captain's order to start them up until they were finally actually underway, so by the time the Tefal sailed out of the harbor, none of the other battleships' warm-up work had been completed!
On shore, the captain of the Tefal and others who had gotten the news had just arrived. Looking at the disappearing silhouette of the Tefal, the captain was dumbfounded. He was finished, no matter whether the Tefal could be recovered or not, he was finished!
"Inform our military bases in the island nation to send out fighter planes to track the Tefal, in addition, the islanders can't get out of this matter, tell them to send out fighter planes as well!" The Pretty Country's defense ministry that received the news quickly functioned, and the minister who hurriedly rushed back gave his order at the first opportunity, but he also knew that he was afraid that he wouldn't have much of a chance to give the order.
Such explosive news can not be controlled, Zhou Lin will Tefal "open" away less than half an hour the news has spread around the world. Because of the time difference, the netizens of the country of Daxia are now discussing the most intense.
"Laughing my ass off at the pretty country's aircraft carrier leaving without saying goodbye!"
"Is it an uprising? I've long said that AI can't be trusted, but the AI on the Tefal, well, I like it."
"It couldn't have been the state that did it, could it? If it is then all I can say is - well done!"
"Don't you guys care where the Tefal is now? Click on my avatar to watch in real time! (paid link)"
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At this time more excited than the netizens are the military ministries and governments of various countries.
Needless to say, the president of the beautiful country was so angry that he had a heart attack, he took several rounds of quick-acting heart pills and still couldn't speak more than three sentences without gasping for air, and the minister of defense was wiping off his sweat while writing a report on his resignation.
And all the other countries except the Pretty Country acted in much the same way, ostensibly consoling the Pretty Country in high style, and privately sending signals to the Tefal, wanting to know what kind of person was so brave as to hijack an aircraft carrier outright!
Everyone thinks this must be the work of a bunch of professionals, ordinary people can't play with carriers, let alone the most advanced nuclear-powered carriers in the pretty country.
The Tefal, however, remained radio silent, not responding to signals from either side.
The three hundred or so men who had been assigned to stay on board the wind-borne Telford, including Lieutenant-Commander Magri, were almost all desperately slamming doors and windows!
Many of them were the first to sense that something was wrong, but before they could act accordingly, they were trapped by the rapidly closing and locking hatch! It was as if the Tefal had suddenly come to life, not only restricting their range of motion and blocking all communication signals, but also directly erasing all of their permissions, so there was no other way but to use brute force to smash the doors and windows.
"What are you doing so hard, as if you could break it."
Zhou Lin sat in the captain's room controlling the Tefal as it rushed towards the Xia territorial waters at top speed.
It wasn't impossible to stow the Tefal in the storage space, but then he'd be in the water with the rest of the ship. If he did that in the harbor he'd probably get a million guns pressed against his head the next moment!
Even after leaving the harbor it is still not safe. It is conceivable that the beautiful country will send warplanes to track it, even ...
"Shouldn't be using nuclear weapons casually." Zhou Lin thought secretly.
At this time, the speed of the Tefal had reached an astonishing 35 knots, exceeding the maximum speed claimed by the public. At this speed, the beautiful country and the island country did not have any warships that could intercept the Tefal, and if they wanted to do so, they could only use faster fighters.
The Pretty Country had air bases in both the Island and the Stick Country, and estimating from the distance as well as the speed of response, it would take at most an hour for the Pretty Country's warplanes to show up above Zhou Lin's head.
Once the fighters are close, even if Zhou Lin can control all kinds of weapons on the Tefal as he wishes after the "symbiosis", it doesn't mean that he can control the fighters on the carrier to rise up and intercept them, so in a sense, he can only be passive and beaten.
Of course, the beautiful country will not attack as soon as it arrives, after all, this is a battleship made of gold, not to mention that there are more than 300 "hostages" on board.
Forty minutes later, several fighters drilled out of the clouds above the Tefal and sent a message to Zhou Lin from high above:
"This is the Pretty Country Air Force, following the USS Tefal, please respond if you copy."
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After repeating it three times, the shout Zhou Lin received changed: "Tefal, if you don't reply we will take forceful measures!"
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"This is the Tefal."
Zhou Lin's voice appeared through the radio in the ears of countless organizations and individuals who were secretly eavesdropping. He had only just spoken, and the Pretty Country fighters overhead immediately demanded that he shut down the Tefal's power system and stop the ship to wait, and that if he didn't comply they would launch an air strike.
"Air strike?" Zhou Lin smiled and directly sent the video of the Pretty Country's officers and soldiers under the surveillance camera to the internet, catching the Pretty Country off guard.
"Damn it!"
The president of the pretty country swallowed another handful of heart pills and snarled, "Tell them to come up with a program right now, anything useful other than the use of nukes, anything!"