Chapter 1094 Aircraft carrier fleet fights pirates
Persian Gulf.
The escorting warship, with the five-star red flag flying, whistled in return.
This is a Type 054 frigate. They perform escort missions here in the Persian Gulf, and they do not encounter pirates even once a year.
But this escort mission has been going on for more than ten years.
According to the escort requirements, the escort formation maintains a Type 054 frigate in the Persian Gulf all year round, a Type 052 destroyer in the Arabian Sea, and a Type 054 frigate in the Red Sea.
At a certain time, supplies will be carried out at ports in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Persia.
Each escort formation performs escort missions for half a year. Each escort formation has two Type 052 destroyers and four Type 054 frigates.
The escort taskforce is headquartered in Djibouti, which is also the Navy's most important overseas logistics base.
The two oil tankers were traveling. The speed of the oil tankers was not very fast, about 13 to 17 knots, that is, 13 to 17 nautical miles per hour. The distance from the Persian Gulf to the Strait of Hormuz is about 970 kilometers, which means that the two oil tankers traveled from the departure point to the Strait of Hormuz. Crossing the Strait of Hormuz takes almost a day.
It takes about 17 to 18 days to get from Iraq to Yangcheng, China.
As for the cargo ship, it can arrive in about 15 days.
Just after crossing the waters of the Maldives, the sailors saw several sampan speedboats speeding over from a distance, setting off several water dragons on the calm sea.
Several gunshots were also heard.
The sailor quickly sounded the alarm and shouted: "There's a situation! It's pirates!"
The captain immediately called the police and reported to his superiors.
The captain only hoped that the Maldivian coast guard could come to support in time, otherwise the pirates would hijack him and the losses would be heavy.
As for getting rid of the pirates, that's simply impossible because the pirates' speedboats are much faster than the tankers.
At this moment, a sailor shouted: "Captain, look, it's an aircraft carrier! It's an aircraft carrier formation!"
It was also the luck of these two oil tankers that they encountered a three-carrier formation very close to each other.
Helicopters came towards the two oil tankers, and then the soldiers shot at the climbing pirates, and also used helicopters to snipe in the air.
This group of pirates comes from Sri Lanka, which has been at war for many years and has spawned a large number of pirates.
This is also the key area for escort.
"Boom~~"
A rocket was launched, hitting the speedboat, and the speedboat exploded directly.
Naturally, missiles are not needed to defeat these pirates. The firepower of firearms and rockets are more than enough.
Facing the aircraft carrier formation, the pirates could not even escape. Some were killed and some were captured.
This group of pirates was also unlucky. They happened to encounter a three-carrier formation passing by and were hit immediately.
The crews of the two oil tankers waved and cheered to the aircraft carrier formation.
On the Type 055A command ship, Zhang Zhaozhong listened to the report with no expression on his face.
When an aircraft carrier formation fights against pirates, isn't this just killing a chicken with a sledgehammer? There can be no surprises.
By now, the aircraft carrier fleet has paid friendly visits to the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malay, Cambodia, and Thailand, and then passed through the Strait of Malacca to visit Myanmar, Bangladesh, East India, and South India. As a result, it had just left South India when it encountered Arrived for help.
Since it is a Chinese oil tanker, it naturally needs to be protected.
This is just an episode of the aircraft carrier fleet. After arriving in the Arabian Sea, the two Saudi aircraft carrier fleets left, while the Chinese second aircraft carrier fleet arrived in Karachi, Pakistan, for a friendly visit and exchange with Pakistan.
And soon, the video of the aircraft carrier formation annihilating Sri Lankan pirates spread on the Internet and quickly spread throughout the world.
Only then did the whole world know that China's second aircraft carrier fleet was really conducting a friendly visit and escorting the routes along the route.
But it always feels weird!
Wakhan Corridor.
This is the junction of Afghanistan and China, presenting a narrow strip of east-west direction, located in a valley between the southern end of the Pamir Plateau and the northeastern section of the Hindu Kush Mountains.
There are mountains on both sides of the valley, with only one national highway leading to it, and the end of the national highway is the border pass.
The border width between the two countries is 22 kilometers. The entire Wakhan Corridor belongs to Tajikistan in the north and Pakistan in the south.
The border has been locked to ensure that Afghan refugees will not enter China through the Wakhan Corridor.
The country with the most experience in border control measures in the world is none other than China.
There are not many people who can enter the territory of China without entering through formal channels every year. And even if you enter, you will be found out quickly, because the police will visit the door to register the information, and the people will report it.
In front of the border, there are tents on the ground and on the hillsides. These are China's humanitarian aid to Afghan refugees.
Near the border, more than 400,000 Afghan refugees gathered.
Suddenly, the border gate opened, and transport trucks came over one after another, and then began to unload the goods at the storage point.
Some of these transport vehicles transport grain, some transport instant noodles, pasta, flour, corn, wheat, and some transport vegetables and meat.
Then a car turned on its loudspeaker, notifying everyone to come and collect supplies.
Some human rights organizations and United Nations staff are busy distributing supplies to everyone. Someone from every family comes with a temporary ID card to collect supplies for a week.
The supplies for 400,000 refugees in one week are so huge. Only 2.8 million kilograms of food, that is, 2,800 tons.
A reporter was filming, reporting the news, and then interviewing Afghan refugees.
Afghan refugees denounced the coalition led by the United States for bringing disaster to Afghanistan, and said that Afghanistan would never succumb to power.
The person in charge of refugee resettlement said that the current refugee resettlement work is very difficult. More and more refugees are coming to the border, which brings great challenges to refugee resettlement. He hopes that Afghanistan will stop the war and restore peace as soon as possible, and refugees can go back to normal production.
Human rights organization staff in Europe and the United States said sadly that war has brought war and refugees. There should be no war in the 21st century, and war should be far away from ordinary people.
The war is extremely cruel. In just over half a year, Afghanistan has spawned millions of refugees.
You know, the entire Afghanistan has a population of less than 20 million, but the war has continued to this day, millions of people have lost their lives, and millions have become refugees.
The atrocities of the coalition forces in Afghanistan are constantly being exposed.
For example, there were illegal killings of prisoners and civilians by coalition soldiers, and many people were brutally abused.
Burning, killing, looting, all done by coalition soldiers.
This made peace lovers around the world very angry, and they accused the coalition of crimes in Afghanistan. After all, killing civilians and children is simply unacceptable to normal people.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is outrageous to both humans and gods!