Chapter 439: Sense of Oppression (including additional updates)

Time passes unconsciously.

It’s April 7, 2024.

More than a month has passed since the Homo sapiens fleet entered Latin America, and nearly three months have passed since the leak.

At this time, the Chilean Latin America Branch not only established a huge security force, but also stationed two "commercial escort" fleets.

These two fleets are: the Third Pacific Fleet (also known as the New Granada Fleet) and the First Atlantic Fleet.

Surrounded by two sides, the American Canal States are like the center of a sandwich.

Following the First Atlantic Fleet from Madagascar, there was also a giant rhinoceros canal vessel. Obviously, the Homo sapiens company did not intend to use the canal of the American Canal States, but to dig its own canal.

The canal is located just north of New Granada. There is a low-lying plain in the area. The land distance from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean is only about 140 kilometers.

For a canalizing ship, it only takes about two or three months to create a single-line canal with a width of 550 meters.

And compared with the canals of the American Canal Countries that require ship locks, the New Granada Canal excavated by Homo Sapiens is an artesian seawater canal that does not require ship locks. It will greatly improve the navigation efficiency of the canal and at the same time reduce the number of ships.

Maintenance costs.

This is a good thing for commercial shipping companies.

Of course, the premise is that these shipping companies do not commit suicide.

Homo sapiens has always struck hard against companies that dare to make noises.

For example, Amazon Group and Apple were directly blacklisted by Homo sapiens because they published remarks that slandered Homo sapiens. Their products and business activities were directly banned from appearing within Homo sapiens companies.

This directly led to the inability of Apple mobile phones to pass through the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Kra Canal.

Amazon's international express delivery has no way to pass through these core waterways and has to take a detour.

Nowadays, many large companies in Europe and the United States have become cautious in their words and deeds, fearing that they will be fooled by the iron fist of Homo sapiens.

These guys are all typical scoundrels. Only by hitting them hard in the face with your fists will they do business in a friendly manner.

…

New Granada.

Bogotá, Catalan Palace.

Garfield looked at the briefings reported from various places. He focused on the construction of security forces and the death ray defense system.

Except for the Amazon rainforest area within the Redwood Federation, which does not have the company's formal security force, branches in the other three areas have completed full formalization.

However, Garfield did not relax his vigilance in the Amazon rainforest. Although the agreement with the Redwood Federation did not allow Homo sapiens to station formal security forces, there were no restrictions on private armed forces.

Therefore, he equipped the employees of the Amazon Rainforest Branch with a large number of "personal" weapons, and the weapons and equipment were exactly the same as those of security guards.

As for the opinions of the Redwood Federation, Garfield simply ignored them. Weak people were not qualified to have opinions.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the office.

The assistant walked in: "Mr. Manager, Mang Lie, Director of the Latin America Department of the External Security Division, has requested to meet with you."

"Where are the others?"

"Just in the waiting room."

"Bring him here."

"yes."

After a while, Mang Lie appeared in front of him.

Garfield put down the tablet and asked: "Is there an emergency?"

"The Second Aerospace Fleet of the Feathered Serpent Corps has been formed, and the headquarters plans to deploy the Second Aerospace Fleet in the Latin America Branch." Mang Lie reported to him.

"Aerospace Fleet? Has it been completed?"

"Yes, we have currently built a total of 5 Quetzalcoatl-class aerospace carriers, and 24 Pterodactyl-class aerospace frigates. Among them, the First Aerospace Fleet will be stationed at the Southeast Asia headquarters, and the Third Aerospace Fleet will be stationed in the North Africa region.

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Garfield has no opinion on strengthening the security capabilities of the Latin American region: "When will it be in place?"

"In about 60 hours, the Third Aerospace Fleet will arrive on the west coast of New Granada."

"I understand, is there anything else?"

Mang Lie hurriedly said: "In addition, 37% of the underground bases we previously hidden in the New Granada Mountains have been integrated. Currently, using the facilities of these bases, we have initially achieved self-sufficiency in ammunition and light weapons."

"Produce more light weapons and they will be needed soon."

Mang Lie nodded: "I will ask the logistics department to step up production."

Garfield asked again: "By the way, are those channels ready?"

"Get ready. In addition to the paths on the surface, there are also some temporarily dug underground tunnels."

"That's good."

…

at the same time.

East Irian Island in the Western Pacific Region.

There is a military airship production base here under the Foreign Security Division.

Many factories here used to be hidden inside the mountains.

However, those large assembly plants and a dozen medium-sized assembly plants cannot be hidden in the mountain. After all, they are too big.

The roofs of three of the large assembly plants slowly opened, revealing the behemoths inside.

Compared with the previous transport airships, the airships produced here are larger in size. As a space carrier, the Feathered Serpent-class has reached a volume of 4.2 billion cubic meters after many adjustments. At the bottom of the stratosphere, it has a total weight of about 80,000 tons.

buoyancy.

The cabin of the flagship Quetzalcoatl 003.

Air and Space Fleet Commander Cabo Garcia ordered: "Start taking off, all departments are in place!"

"Received, start the vacuum system..."

As the air inside each carbon ball rapidly decreased, the space carrier slowly left the dock and then floated up into the sky.

The outer shell of the airship is covered with a layer of matte modified plastic film, and the bottom is filled with a layer of composite aerogel foam with a thickness of 1.5 meters. This thing is flame retardant and can also resist warheads with a caliber of less than 30 mm.

More importantly, this kind of foam armor is very easy to repair and does not require welding or the like.

This Feathered Serpent-class aerospace carrier is roughly similar to a transport ship, except that there are 6 death-ray cannons embedded on both sides of the bottom.

On the upper deck, there are also 18 death ray cannons.

The length of the three flight decks is 500 meters. It is not that it cannot be lengthened, but it is not necessary.

After all, the speed of the airship itself can reach 200 to 300 kilometers per hour, and with the stratosphere at an altitude of 20,000 meters, it is very easy for the plane to take off.

If it weren't for the purpose of matching the Flying Sable aerospace transport aircraft, a 200-meter runway would actually be enough.

Quetzalcoatl-class air carrier.

It has a full load of 72,000 tons, a total buoyancy of 81,000 tons, a dry body weight of 28,000 tons, and a payload of 44,000 tons.

It is powered by three improved thorium-based molten salt reactors with a total power of 600 megawatts; another 30 death ray cannons can also provide part of the power.

The maximum speed at full load is 500 kilometers per hour, and the cruising speed is 240 to 300 kilometers per hour.

The weapons and equipment include 30 death ray cannons, 30 Phalanx cannons, 600 loitering missiles, 100 cruise missiles, and 20 medium-range ballistic missiles.

There are 60 specially-built Eagle fighter jets, 4 Jinpeng transport aircraft, and 2 to 4 Flying Sable aerospace transport aircraft.

In addition to the 1,753 soldiers required, it can also carry an additional 2,000 Quetzalcoatl suborbital airborne troops.

The Quetzalcoatl 003, already fully loaded with supplies, joined another Quetzalcoatl 004, plus 8 auxiliary Pterosaur-class aerospace frigates.

Of course, these air and space frigates are not entirely combat-type. Two of them also serve as supply ships and two of them also serve as landing ships.

Cavo looked at the holographic map and picked up the intercom: "Each ship will implement Plan C."

"receive……"

The 10 air and space warships quickly adjusted their positions.

Among them, four frigates and the mothership are at the same flying altitude, located exactly at the four corners, and the distance is maintained between 28 and 30 kilometers.

The other four frigates are located in a height area of ​​about 15,000 meters below the mother ship, also at four corners 28 to 30 kilometers away.

The purpose of this arrangement is actually to defend against attacks from the ground.

Since the flying altitude of the aerospace fleet is between 15,000 meters and 30,000 meters, usually only a small number of fighters can fly to this altitude.

Ordinary missiles and the like cannot break through the frigate's death ray defense system.

Unless a saturation strike is used, it is possible to break through the frigate's defense system.

However, it is very difficult to implement a saturation strike. After all, the aerospace fleet is not a fool and will certainly not give the enemy time to plan.
To be continued...