Ballistic Silence of Special Years

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the escort.

Since entering the Gulf of Aden, none of the escort missions carried out by the formation has failed, with a 100% success rate, giving everyone a feeling of being invincible.

More than a month of escort experience is of great significance to Li Zheng.

For the Tiger Brigade where he is, it’s not that there were no sea training subjects in the past, and there were also, every summer, the army would organize troops to be pulled to the seaside for sea training.

Most of the army's sea training is amphibious combat subjects, including beach landing with the naval landing craft brigade, airborne penetration with the air force, or using its own amphibious combat vehicles to conduct maritime formation attacks and shooting, etc.

However, there used to be restrictions on these subjects. Unless it was a large-scale military exercise above the military area, in most cases it would be good to be able to return to the navy's landing craft detachment for exercise.

There are not many opportunities to conduct joint combat exercises with the navy's large destroyer detachment and naval aviation, and the depth of joint operations is not enough during the drill. The navy often follows the navy's script, the air force follows the air force's script, and the army itself I am in charge of my own one-acre three-point land, and the Joint Operations Command is all made up temporarily, and the commanders at all levels in the sea, land and air are not well integrated. This is why in the previous confrontation exercise, the serious junior Long Gang The reason for being able to win the red side despite the inferior force.

Long Gang is a compound talent. He is familiar with the commanding professions of sea, land and air. He can rationally deploy the coordination and cooperation among various arms. The victory of that military exercise.

Solemnly saw Long Gang's advantages, and of course the chiefs also saw it, which is why the cross-arms officer exchange plan that Li Zheng and the others participated in was also aimed at cultivating compound command talents like Long Gang. This kind of talent is Trained as military reserve cadres, in the future young cadres like Li Zheng with high education, high ability, and high combat ability will be senior talents in synthetic combat command.

Everything went smoothly so that the members of the special warfare unit couldn't help but feel a little flustered. The pirates with outdated equipment looked so vulnerable in front of the regular naval special forces.

Except for a few who dared to resist, many of them even turned around and ran away when they saw the navy warship approaching, directly giving up the idea of ​​hijacking the ship.

In the words of Fatty Wei - it seems that it is not as difficult as imagined!

However, Fatty Wei is always a bit weak.

Because that mouth always has an unlucky attribute, whenever Fatty Wei feels that something is easy, everyone has to be careful, otherwise trouble will come and knock on the door soon.

When Fatty Wei said this, he was practicing target on the deck. In those few days, the water was still and the river was flying, and the pirates seemed to have made an appointment and disappeared.

The international channel 16 was quiet, and it was the normal communication between the merchant ships and warships that needed to be escorted. Occasionally, everyone would greet each other, and the merchant ships would always say some words of blessing and thanks, which was heartwarming and proud.

Among them are not only the merchant ships of the motherland, but also foreign ships. They all give a thumbs up to the professional formation escort, saying that the navy is very OK.

Hearing what Fatty Wei said, Li Zheng immediately wanted to go up and cover his mouth. Fatty Wei's mouth has the super crow attribute that he has learned since he was a recruit.

Too bad it's all too late.

That night, the tranquility was finally broken.

The bustle started at 2 o'clock in the night. The reason was that the No. 6 ship suddenly received an order from the formation command center to send a [-]-man team to the merchant ship to drop down and prepare to escort the ship.

It's not like I haven't done this kind of thing before, it can be said that I am familiar with the road, and there is no difficulty at all.

The ship to accompany the ship is called "Pengcheng", a large bulk carrier with a total length of 201.8 meters, a width of 32.26 meters, a molded depth of 19.3 meters, a structural draft of 13.3 meters, a speed of 13.5 knots, and an endurance of 22000 nautical miles. , with a deadweight of about 62000 tons.

None of this is a problem.

但问题就在于这种散货船由于运载需要，船舶上设置2台75吨单臂克令吊和一台75吨×2的双克令吊，最大吊重可达150吨。

These design features enable the ship to take care of shipping heavy items and other goods in addition to some specific replacement goods such as pulp.

However, because of its design, the ship's helicopter pilot and six special forces members including Li Zheng were dumbfounded.

One of the most terrible problems everyone has to face is - how to slide down?

Because looking from the sky, from the bow to the stern, there is a series of booms and booms in a straight line. The steel cables on the top are vertical and horizontal. Unlike ordinary cargo ships, this kind of ship has no front deck, no helipad, if If it is an ordinary container bulk carrier, even if it is full of cargo, it will not be difficult to slide directly on top of the container, and then get off the container.

But it's different here.

Those booms and steel cables will affect the safety of helicopters and special forces. Generally, the height of the cable drop is more than ten meters, and these booms are nearly ten meters high. Under the undulating waves, it is easy to collide with the helicopter. Collision, the whole helicopter will be in danger.

"Team Zhang, we need to increase the height. Do you think it is okay to raise it to more than 20 meters?"

The driver made a suggestion.

"Yes!" Zhang Jian said: "30 meters is fine! As long as the rope is long enough, too high is not good."

Why is too high bad?
Because the rope is long, the team members will stay in the air for a long time when descending, and the risk will increase.

What's more deadly is that the longer the rope, the more difficult it is to control the landing point. The longer the rope is like a disobedient snake in the air, it will float around under the sea wind and the airflow of the helicopter propeller. There are booms and The steel cable, if the downhill rope is entangled, it is also a dead word.

At this time, the helicopter is hovering in the air in front of the bow. Why did you choose this place? Because in the middle section of this cargo ship, a long gantry crane iron frame almost runs through the entire hull. It is basically impossible to lower the cable in the middle section of the ship. The location of the rappelling.

There is a separate door crane at the front end of the bow, and there is a space of about ten meters behind, followed by the second door crane.

This open space is actually the roof of the cargo compartment, and there are several steel cables around the roof to fix the door crane.

There are also risks in rappelling here, but the risk is much smaller than that in the middle of the deck, so the helicopter pilot Lao He chose this place as the landing site.

In the cockpit, the non-commissioned officer mechanic of the helicopter picked up a bundle of ziplines and asked Zhang Jian, "Try the 28-meter one first?"

"Row!"

Zhang Jian nodded.

The helicopter slowly descends to a height of about 28 meters.

Lao He's driving skills are very good, the height is not too much, and after the drop cable is thrown down, there is still more than one meter of margin on the ground.

Under the bright light, Zhang Jian looked down and saw that the rope hanging on the deck was swinging from side to side, shaking violently.

He turned his head and asked the mechanic: "What level of wind?!"

"Level 6!"

"No!" Zhang Jian saw that the rope had been blown to one side by the wind, and it was left on the steel cable several times.

Now, the boat is going straight ahead, and the helicopter has to keep the same speed, and it is almost impossible to keep the rope stable at the same time.

Due to the inertia and the sea wind, the rope has been shifted by more than three meters toward the stern, and hit the steel rope several times, but fortunately it was not wrapped.

"It's too windy!"

Zhang Jian felt that he couldn't take such a risk.

Fatty Wei said from the side: "Why don't you tie a tactical bag under the rope and throw it down for stability."

Because everyone is heavily armed, the escorts carry a lot of weapons, and each of them has a tactical bag.

"No, that little weight is useless!" Zhang Jian rejected Fatty Wei's suggestion: "I can only lower the height, and then I will slide down and grab the rope first."

"It's too risky. Look at this rope. You might hit the steel cable halfway down."

Li Zheng denied Zhang Jian's idea.

Fatty Wei asked: "This won't work, that won't work, so what do you say!" (End of this chapter)