Great Power Technology.

Chapter 282 A Cannon Creates the Effect of a Battleship

While Ye Zhou was visiting the newest fortress on Yongxia Island, several Vietnamese fishermen also returned to their country. Captain Ruan Xiong rushed to the military camp immediately after landing, intending to report the news to the top leadership. However, his actions were not smooth.

Due to the special nature of the operation at sea, he did not carry any documents that could prove his identity. When he arrived at the gate of the barracks, he was actually stopped by the sentry on the grounds that he was not allowed to enter without the documents.

What a joke, my ID is in the barracks, if you won't let me in, how can I provide my ID?

This is obviously a normal operation process. Without a certificate, as long as the password can be matched and the identity can be confirmed, you can enter the barracks. But today's sentry has only one sentence: Without a certificate, you can't do it.

Ruan Xiong cursed angrily, he knew exactly what the so-called sentinel was up to.

Don't you just want money?
I pass by the door every day, and even remember the face of this sentinel, how could he not remember himself?
In the three days before going to sea, the two sat together and smoked.

Now come to this trick of turning faces and denying people, it's a bit too ugly, right?
But for this situation, he really has nothing to do.

Since the army started doing business, the army has become the largest chaebol in the country, controlling dozens of monopoly enterprises, owning thousands of companies, and forming a huge interest group.

Their annual business income is as high as tens of billions, and most of these profits go to the pockets of upper-level senior military officers.

The upper-level officers are busy making money, but the lower-level soldiers can only envy them. They also want to make money, but they have no channels, so what should they do?

So, I had no choice but to start with my own people.

Especially low-level officers like Ruan Xiong, who have a certain amount of extra income, but don't have much real power, can't pose an effective threat to soldiers at adjacent levels, so they become the focus of exploitation.

This situation has intensified, and now even a sentinel can use the rules to talk things out, regardless of the actual situation and the urgency of the intelligence, and forcefully charge his own protection fee.

In this regard, Ruan Xiong has nothing to do, he can't really ignore the blocking of the sentry and force his way.

So, he could only curse and go to the street to ask his acquaintance to borrow 200 yuan and give it to the sentinel.

Ruan Xiong took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, went back to his barracks, got his ID, changed his clothes, and immediately reported to his superiors.

He still has the video record taken by the drone in his hand, and he also brought it with him at this time, intending to directly use the video to prove his judgment.

When he came to the superior's office, several officers were already sitting there, Ruan Xiong glanced hesitantly, and asked:
"Colonel, I have important information to report. If it's inconvenient, I'll come back later?"

The man sitting opposite waved his hand and replied boldly:
"Let's just say it, everyone here is our own, there is nothing to hide!"

Ruan Xiong looked around, and all he saw were faces he was not familiar with. He still hesitated, but the colonel's eyes had begun to become severe, so he had no choice but to say:
"Colonel, this time we went to the high seas for a routine patrol, and happened to encounter a drill by the Huaxia side. According to our previous judgment, the content of their drill was to experiment with a new type of artillery."

"However, judging from the evidence I have so far, this is far from being as simple as a new type of artillery."

"Not a new type of artillery? What's that? Missiles?"

Ruan Xiong took out the memory card he had prepared in his hand and put it on the table, then replied:

"I think they are probably experimenting with a new type of battleship."

"Battleship?? Do you know what you're talking about?"

A complex look of surprise and sarcasm appeared on the colonel's face, and he glanced at the other people in the office, who had the same expression on their faces.

These people are professional officers with the most basic understanding of modern warfare, especially modern naval warfare, so they all know that with the rapid development of modern missiles, battleships have already become old antiques submerged in the trend of history.

Because the battleship itself is a product of the era of large ships and cannons, it mainly deals with battles within the visual range, but the development of modern weapons has already broken through the visual range. In the current technological environment, early warning aircraft can be used to detect in advance. Then sending you a missile hundreds of thousands of kilometers away is the most efficient way to fight.

No matter how thick the armor of a battleship is, it is impossible to withstand the bombing of a large-equivalent missile. What's more, its firepower projection capability is far behind this era. Others are playing with anti-ship missiles with a range of thousands of kilometers. Are you still playing cannons with tens of kilometers?
How is this possible?
Unless it is a guided missile battleship—but this kind of thing is even more tasteless. Instead of concentrating all the missiles on one ship to increase the risk of death, it is better to disassemble it and make several small ships with high stealth performance and fast speed.

Seeing the expressions of everyone in the conference room, Ruan Xiong sighed.

He had already guessed that these people would not believe what he said—if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it himself.

Thinking of this, he directly connected the memory card with the computer in the meeting room, and a few minutes later, the picture captured by the drone was presented in front of everyone.

Water flowers bloomed one after another, cannonballs from nowhere shattered islands and reefs, and huge waves surged. Seeing this scene, everyone who was mocking just now fell silent.

They all realized the problems Ruan Xiong had realized before.

Such a firepower projection feature can only be a giant cannon.

The cannon can only be installed on battleships.

There was a puzzled look on the colonel's face, he couldn't understand what he had speculated.

Why engage in battleships?

Is such a large non-stealth sea target really not afraid of being hit?

Or do they already have absolutely advanced anti-missile equipment and are confident that they can intercept every missile?
This shouldn't be. If you really have such equipment, what kind of battleships are there, and you can directly declare yourself as the overlord of the ocean!

"You play the video again."

said the colonel.

Ruan Xiong obediently rewound the video, and again and again, several people in the meeting room watched this video of just a few minutes no less than five times, but in the end no one could make a final decision.

After reading it for the last time, the colonel was silent for a long time before he spoke:
"Judging from the current situation, the opponent's new equipment must be a battleship. I don't know why such equipment appeared in this era, but judging from its firepower density, range, and power, this should be a battleship. No less battleship than USS Iowa."

"We must immediately report this information to our superiors, mobilize all our forces, and find out the other party's intention to create a new type of battleship."

"The Chinese people can't make mistakes. If they are building battleships, then it's best for us to have them too."

"The most important thing is that we need to figure out their combat configuration. It is impossible for a battleship to have no escort formation, and it is impossible to have no air defense system. We have to find a way to figure out what their direction is."

"Only by figuring out the direction, can we cross the river by feeling the stones!"

"Ruan Xiong, you did a good job this time, I will reward you!"

Hearing what the colonel said, Ruan Xiong gave a military salute excitedly, and replied loudly:
"Yes! Colonel! I promise to keep trying!"

"Okay, you go first."

The colonel planned to let Ruan Xiong retreat, but the door of the conference room was pushed open.

An intelligence officer entered the door, holding a stack of documents in his hand, and said in a hurried tone as soon as he walked in:
"The latest news, Huaxia's electromagnetic gun system is on board! The test was just completed today! All the islands we were on the high seas were sunk by them!"

Hearing this, Ruan Xiong opened his mouth in shock.

The island was bombed and sunk. Railgun.
Could it be that what I saw was not the shells fired by the battleship?

He looked back at the Colonel, who had the same doubts in his eyes.

After a moment, the Colonel asked:
"Is the electromagnetic gun you mentioned true?"

"Absolutely true! It was released by the other party's official media. Look, the news is here!"

The colonel took the document and examined it carefully. After a few minutes, his expression changed from confusion to surprise, and then became serious again.

He looked up at the intelligence officer, and asked in a cold tone:
"You said, how many electromagnetic guns did they test this time?"

"There is only one door, a warship, Type 055D."

The colonel froze for a moment, then turned to Ruan Xiong.

"So, these Chinese people used a warship and a gun to create the effect of a battleship???"

(End of this chapter)