What happened along the Persian Gulf naturally alarmed another great power in the world: the Soviet Union.

Andropov held a high-level meeting to focus on how to deal with this incident..

"There is a new situation in the Iran-Iran war, and the Iranians have begun to attack civilian ships." Gorinevsky, who is in charge of Middle East intelligence, said: "Iran used an anti-ship missile to hit the Kuwaiti cargo ship "Umkabashi" loading crude oil from Kuwait. This incident caused a sensation in the whole world and caused other countries to dare to go to sea in the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in the tension in international crude oil. Now the price of crude oil has been rising."

The rising international crude oil prices are tantamount to timely assistance for the current Soviet Union, because under the leadership of Andropov, the Soviet Union is shifting the country's focus to reform, focusing on the economy, and curbing the economic recession. In the process of curbing the economic recession, Soviet crude oil exports are an important economic income of the Soviet Union. Rising oil prices will increase the Soviet Union's income.

However, as a huge empire, the Soviet Union only had economic benefits, which was obviously not good, and it was political!

"After the international crude oil supply is tight, the United States' reaction is the strongest. As for our current perspective, the US aircraft carrier battle group has approached the Arabian Sea. It is very likely that they will enter the Persian Gulf at some point." Defense Minister Ustinov said: "The Americans enter there, not just escort. They are likely to plan to develop there, which will seriously affect the interests of our Soviet Union."

Since the time of Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union has always wanted to find a channel to go south to enter the Indian Ocean, and the Afghan War is the same, but now, if the Americans take the lead, it will definitely not be in the interests of the Soviet Union.

"The Americans have issued a statement that if they accept invitations from the Gulf countries, they are willing to escort them. It seems that the Americans can't wait." Foreign Minister Gromiko also said: "I think we, the Soviet Union, must also make some statements so that we can show the style of our great power."

Showing something? Andropov asked, "What should we do?"

"We also have trade with Middle Eastern countries, those ships, which are now threatened by Iran, have not dared to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. So, if the Americans were escorting, we could also send our warships to escort," Gromiko said.

Although the Red Empire's navy is not as powerful as the US Navy, it is still no problem to deal with the missiles of Iran. The United States has been coveting the Middle East for a long time, so why is the Soviet Union not the same?

"Yes, we can send several warships over there," said the Minister of Defense.

Although Andropov attached importance to the economy, as an experienced old man, he naturally knew the problems. The Middle East was very important to the Soviet Union and we must not let the United States cover up the situation!

"Okay. Then transfer a few warships from our Pacific Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet." Andropov agreed.

The situation in the Persian Gulf has become severe because of a missile, and within a few days it becomes the focus of competition for major powers.

However, they still did not take concrete actions because the master was named Wuming.

After all, the Persian Gulf is an inland sea. Without the consent of several countries along the Persian Gulf coast, they entered the Persian Gulf in a big way, which is unreasonable in the international community.

However, until now, those countries have no explanation, just suspended shipping.

This made other countries very curious.

They didn't know that at this time, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a group of people were working hard.

The last time the MiG23 electronic jammer discarded the precious electronic jammer pod, Joseph was really annoyed. However, Joseph also knew that in the emergency situation at that time, it was normal to throw the pod. Moreover, after analysis, he finally came to the conclusion that because the Immortal Missile was added a special command: if the target was lost when encountering a strong interference source, it would be changed to attack the interference source, which was the same as the mockingbirds encountered in the Beca Valley, and Americans liked to do this.

Therefore, when developing a new type of interference pod, Joseph added a new function: if it is tracked by the opponent's missile, the interference source will be output and attenuated immediately, so that it can avoid being attacked. Because this time it was installed on a warship for the first time, it will be corroded by salt in the sea water at sea, and sealing measures will be added, which will increase the difficulty.

The Badr-class is just a small frigate with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons. It is only equipped with anti-ship missiles and has enough space to install these electronic equipment. However, the frigate's power generation is insufficient, so another generator set is also installed.

It is probably the first time in the history of all military equipment that a ship is helpless. This is a helpless choice.

Looking at the sea in the distance, the oil tankers in the Kuwait port were already filled with crude oil, but they could not be transported, and the captains became irritable.

Although delaying one or two days is nothing, the key point now is that it seems that the days are far away, and no one can tell which day it will take to sail. If it is delayed for a month, the climate at sea will change and typhoons will come.

"When will we go out to sea?" asked a crew member: "Maybe the last attack was a misunderstanding. We might as well pass through the strait quietly in the dark."

"Misunderstanding? Go to the land opposite and ask, see if they are misunderstanding?" said the captain: "The Iranians have issued a statement that any ship that transports goods to Kuwait is the scope of their attack."

If I could leave, I would have left long ago, if I could leave, the captain said in his heart.

"Captain." At this time, another crew member said: "The Kuwait government has come down to document and let us prepare to sail."

The government agreed? The captain asked, "Can they protect us? Iranians do not care which country we are."

"Yes, it is said that a peninsula defense force has been established, and the navies of several countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and other countries have formed an escort fleet to protect us from sailing." The crew said.

Their countries combined are not as good as an aircraft carrier formation of the US Navy. Why don’t the US Navy protect it? The captain thought in his heart, but he still said: “Call the guys on the shore back, we are ready to set sail.

Their ship is a steamship of a steam turbine. It boils the boiler and presses it until it can sail, which takes several hours of preparation.

At the same time, at the Dhahran Port in Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan personally attended the final expedition ceremony of the escort ship.

This escort formation has two frigates, namely the Medina-class frigate of Saudi Arabia, the Badir-class Badir, the two "Sidik"-class missile boats, the Kuwait Navy's "Sambuk"-class missile boat, the Bahrain Navy's "Ahamad"-class missile boat, and the Qatar Navy's "Balzan"-class missile patrol boat.

Among all the ships guarded, the only one with air defense capabilities is the Aibuha, which is a frigate with a full load displacement of nearly 3,000 tons, with a captain of more than 100 meters. On the top of the building on the back upper floor, there is a Sea Rattlesnake missile launch device and eight missiles. This is the only thing that can hardly kill anti-ship missiles.

The Badel itself does not have air defense missiles, and it can rely on the high-power electronic interference device on the rear deck.

The remaining missile boats at most have a small caliber naval gun to shoot at the sea surface.

Relying on this naval ship, they needed to escort the first batch of nearly thirty tankers out of the strait safely, and to pick up more than a dozen cargo ships outside the strait. This was their first attempt.

Because some ships have not had a long range, they all temporarily use Dhahlan, Saudi Arabia as their base.

At this time, the naval base was already waving, and all warships were ready to go.

"Dear brave soldiers." Sultan looked at the naval officers and soldiers lined up on the deck on the warships anchored at the port, and looked at the newly formed naval formation, and shouted in the loudspeaker: "Our maritime route has been harassed by shameful Persians. They want to stop us from exporting oil and destroy our economy. Now, we need to use our navy and our force to protect the safety of our formation!"

The soldiers applauded. They already knew that the Iranians dared to openly attack the oil tanker in Kuwait last time. They were already very indignant about this behavior. Now, they are going to protect the safety of maritime routes, which is the obligation as a naval soldier!

"Your mission is very difficult, because we don't know where the Iranians will hide, or when they will be attacked, but I firmly believe that we will be able to complete the mission, because Allah is with us, and let us smash this conspiracy of the Iranians!"

Prince Sultan's words were very contagious. He heard the officers and soldiers on the ship's minds rippling. Allah is with us! Allah will never bless the Persians who dared to attack the civilian ships!

"Woo!" The Aibuha sounded the whistle first, and black smoke came out of the chimney. The propeller began to rotate, driving the hull, and began the voyage.

With the Aibuha, Badel, and various small missile boats, they also began to dispatch.

They will join the tankers on the route east of Dhahran to prepare to form the Strait of Hormuz, which makes them feel scared.

The morning sun shines on the calm Persian Gulf, but this is an uneasy day! (To be continued...)

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