The blue sea is sparkling, the sun shines softly on the Persian Gulf, and white clouds are floating in the sky.

The fog in the morning has dissipated and the sea is endless. It is a good weather for sailing!.

There were more than 20 cargo ships from various terminals along the Persian Gulf, gathered in the planned assembly waters, preparing to leave the Persian Gulf again under the escort of the Peninsula defense forces. Most of them were tankers worth tens of thousands of tons.

Although Iran has been clamoring to attack ships from the Arab countries that support Iraq in the past, they have been safe and sound in the past few days. The Iranians have been beaten up. Moreover, even if there are Iranians coming, they are not afraid, because on their cargo ships, several Iraqis with weapons are already protecting them.

The energetic Iraqi Marines were at the side of the ship, watching the sea vigilantly. If the Iranians had small boats coming to move, they would use the machine guns they carried to snipe at a distance.

All crew members were very confident that they were safe.

In a long line, at the forefront was a Saudi Navy's Sidick-class missile boat and frigate Aibha. The formation commander Major General Talar was in high spirits.

As the escort operation went smoothly, Major General Taral's name also spread throughout the Persian Gulf. In the mouths of all crew members, Major General Taral became their guardian god, which made Major General Taral a little complacent. Moreover, news has already spread that he will soon be promoted to Lieutenant General.

Major General Talar was a little grateful to the Iranians. If it weren't for the Iranians' actions, he would have to last at least three or five years, or even ten or eight years, before he could be promoted. Now, if he made several more military achievements or even promoted, it would be very likely.

The Aibuha radar antenna is rotating, and the air-to-coast guard radar is ready to discover the Iranian speedboats coming again at any time. Although the radar characteristics of the speedboats are small, a large number of speedboats are coming to attack. This kind of radar can still be discovered.

The entire formation, like a giant dragon, slowly approached the Strait of Hormuz.

Following the Aibha is a giant 400,000-ton tanker "Bridgeton" in Kuwait.

"Report, our formation has entered the Strait of Hormuz." The first mate reported to Talar.

"Be alert to advance and strictly guard against attacks from Iranian dinghys," said Taral.

"yes."

In the calm sea, at some point, several Iranian speedboats suddenly popped up. In a blink of an eye, there will be a storm.

All the personnel in the formation were watching the surrounding sea vigilantly.

Standing in the bridge, Talar looked at the sea around him with a telescope.

Suddenly, Talar was attracted by a floating thing on the sea in the distance, and that thing was like a huge ball, floating constantly with the waves.

What is that?

Talar carefully adjusted the telescope, and finally, the thing became clearer and clearer. It was a black ball with several tentacles on the surface.

Talar suddenly felt nervous. Every soldier in the navy should be familiar with it. This kind of thing is anchor thunder!

Damn Iranians, they dare to set up minefields here!

"The formation stopped moving forward immediately, the two cars were at full speed, and retreated three times!" Talar ordered urgently.

It was an anchor thunder that had been released in operation mining last night. After falling into the sea, the thunder seat sank to the bottom of the water, but the thunder body floated to the sea.

But this is definitely not the first one.

Being able to enter the minefield and retreat without any loss is definitely luck. Although the distance between two mines is dozens of meters or even one or two hundred meters long, the chance of the hull hitting the mine is quite high. Because the mine defense line is not one.

Therefore, Talar did not order the warship to turn, but retreated at full speed.

The speed at this time is eighteen knots.

After receiving the order, the personnel in the engine compartment immediately operated the machine, the propeller began to reverse, and the engine worked at full speed.

It is definitely not as simple as driving on land. If you want a thousand-ton warship to stop and the propeller reverses, you can only slowly slow down the speed of the warship's advance. The huge body of the warship is still moving forward.

In this process, whether you can hit the mines in front of you will need to bless God.

Aibuha is slowing down, slowing down, under the water surface that no one can see, a 0-anchor thunder is on the way forward of Aibuha.

The distance between the Aibuha and the anchor thunder is getting closer and closer, 200 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters, 20 meters, ten meters... If it is a magnetic water mine or a sound water mine, it has been fired and an explosion has occurred.

And this is an old-fashioned anchor thunder that requires direct contact to explode.

Just one meter away from the anchor thunder, the huge Aibuha stopped and then began to slowly retreat.

No one of the people on the warship noticed that they were only one meter away from the God of Death.

Even if the ocean current floats, it can blow the anchor thunder to the sonar cover at the bottom of the bow of the Aibuha ship, which is a shocking sound.

However, the Bridgeton, which followed the Aibuha, was not so lucky.

Bridgeton is a forty-ton tanker. It takes a long time to accelerate the behemoth to the eighteen knots, but it takes longer and longer to stop.

It's not that easy to brake in the sea.

Hearing the order sent from the front, the formation immediately stopped moving forward, and the captain of Bridgeton couldn't help but want to curse.

The two huge propellers reversed at full speed, but the more plump hull was still rushing forward.

In order to avoid hitting the escort ship in front of him, the captain had to control the servo in his hand and let the ship change its direction.

Bridgeton's hull soon surpassed the Aibuha and his speed was slowly decreasing.

The Aibuha who had already stopped, Talar looked at the ship that was sliding past him, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Why didn't that ship stop? That's very dangerous!

"Bridgeton, stop immediately!" Taral shouted in the radio.

"I'm stopping!" said the captain of the Bridgeton angrily.

The Bridgeton, which is 400,000 tons, gradually slowed down, but Talar has never felt at ease. I wonder how dense the mines laid in front of the Iranians are?

If the density is not high, the Bridgeton may be safe and sound. However, if you are not lucky, even a big guy with 400,000 tons triggers a mine, which may cause the ship to sink.

Bridgeton was very unlucky.

Just as the ship speed dropped, under the water that no one could see, two 0 anchor thunders were shaking under the water with the ocean currents.

In the black ball tied with an anchor rope, there are human-made ** and the five tentacles of the ball are floating back and forth with the ball.

A tentacle suddenly felt like he was hit hard, and suddenly, the anchor thunder got angry.

Each antenna is composed of a zinc cup, a carbon rod and a glass tube containing electrolyte. The principle is also very simple. Each antenna is equivalent to a dry battery. The zinc cup is equal to the zinc skin on the outer layer of the battery. The carbon rod is similar to the carbon core with a copper head on the top of the battery. The electrolyte in the glass tube is the viscous body in the battery.

In the impact just now, the tentacles were immediately bent, the glass tube inside was broken, and the electrolyte flowed between the zinc cup and the carbon rod within one second. The battery immediately started working. The current generated by the tentacles battery passed to the electric detonator inside the lightning body, and the electric detonator exploded instantly, and the explosion of the detonator ignited Tienti**.

"Boom!" A violent explosion came from underwater. The captain standing on the bridge felt a violent shaking under his feet. Even the old captain who had sailed safely in the typhoon was unable to stand firm and fell to the ground.

The Aibuha, less than a nautical mile from Bridgeton, witnessed this scene.

Bridgeton hit a thunder!

0 The explosion energy of the anchor mine is very high. It does not directly destroy the hull with explosion, but impacts the ship hull with a powerful pressure wave. When this pressure wave exceeds the maximum pressure the ship hull can withstand, the ship hull will break, and the radius of damage can reach 56 meters. For destroyers and ships smaller than it, one to two mines exploded in the right position, which can cause it to sink, or cause serious damage and lose combat ability.

The only thing to be thankful is that the 400,000-ton tanker that was blown up was still held back. Unfortunately, it triggered a total of two mines.

Just after the first mine explosion, Bridgeton had slowed down to five knots and was still rushing forward. When it rushed another thirty meters away, it hit the second mine again and exploded again.

Both explosions occurred on the right front of the tanker, without injuring the rear power compartment of the tanker. Moreover, since Bridgeton uses a double-shell structure, it does not hurt the cabin loading of crude oil inside and does not cause crude oil leakage.

The purpose of building a double-shell tanker was to save energy when transporting liquids that need to be heated, such as asphalt, molasses or paraffin, because the insulation performance of the two-layer shells is better.

Later, the purpose of building a double-hulled oil tanker was to improve its safety and prevent oil from leaking. The space between the two hulls was also used as a ballast tank to balance the hull according to the cargo situation of the ship. As ballast, the sea water drawn into the hull.

In other words, this type of double-hull oil tanker has the same effect as the double-hull nuclear submarine built by the Soviet Union. At the same time, the double-hull oil tanker can also increase the strength of the hull and prevent hull fatigue.

Now, the shell of this double-shell tanker plays a good protective role.

"Discharge the sea water from the three cabins on the left to balance the hull." The captain shouted. The hull was tilted due to the blown two holes on the right.

At this time, the Bridgeton finally stopped and the crew began to urgently rescue their ships. To be continued...

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