Rebirth of England.

Chapter 765 Mediation
In fact, the strike against armed ships in Benin was a bit of a waste of their two frigates.

The Type 23 frigate itself is positioned in the British Navy as a multi-functional ship used for ocean-going operations, and it has complete and powerful armaments.

In terms of weapons, the main air defense self-defense weapon of the Type 23 frigate is the GWS.26-1 Sea Wolf air defense missile vertical launch system at the B gun position, which has a total of 32 tubes and provides a very powerful point air defense self-defense capability.

In addition to the Sea Wolf missiles, another air defense weapon of the Type 23 frigate is two Oerlikon DS-30B 30mm 75-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns with automatic operation capabilities and stable bases. The range for surface targets is 10km and the air defense range is 3.5km. This was also installed by the British Navy based on the experience of the Falklands War.

During this war, the Royal Navy discovered that as long as they fired tracer bullets at Argentine fighter planes with machine guns, even if they failed to hit them, they could greatly interfere with their bombing and thus reduce their hit rate.

In terms of anti-ship weapons, the Type 23 frigate is equipped with a MK-8 4.5-inch automatic naval gun produced by BAE SYSTEM RO Defence at the bow, with a sea range of 22km and an air range of 6km; in addition, two sets of quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers are installed between the vertical launcher and the bridge.

In terms of anti-submarine weapons, the Type 23 frigate itself is equipped with two triple-mounted 324mm torpedo launchers and uses the British-made Stingray light anti-submarine torpedoes.

There is a helicopter hangar at the stern of the ship, which can provide landing refueling and loading operations.

It is worth mentioning that the original design of the take-off and landing deck and hangar size of the Type 23 frigate were to match the newly developed HM Mk.1 Merlin heavy anti-submarine helicopter (its size and weight were larger than the largest Sea King anti-submarine helicopter in service with the Royal Navy at the time). However, the development speed of Merlin could not keep up with the service of the Type 23, so in the early stage of service, an active Lynx Mk.8 anti-submarine helicopter was operated first. The Merlin entered service in the Royal Navy in December 1998 and was equipped on the Type 12 frigate.

Currently, Kolo’s two frigates are equipped with Merlin heavy anti-submarine helicopters.

The average speed of the Type 23 frigate is nominally 28 knots, but in fact, during the voyage from England to Colo, the two frigates of Colo were able to easily reach a speed of 32 knots.

This speed is not much behind the 35-knot speed of Barron's two superyachts.

You know, Barron's two superyachts are already relatively fast among the current superyachts. For example, Abramovich's "Eclipse" has a maximum speed of only 21 knots.

The so-called armed ships departing from Benin are actually just small boats that have been modified from ordinary speedboats. At most, they have a machine gun welded on them, or the armed personnel are carrying RPGs.

When faced with harassment from these ships, the patrol boats of the Kolo Corps are enough to deal with it.

Moreover, the value of the anti-ship missiles carried by these two frigates is far higher than that of those so-called armed ships.

The reason why Kolo bought these two frigates was not because of the harassment from these small armed ships from Benin, but to maintain the safety of the waterways in their vicinity.

According to their plan, after this, Kolo will cooperate with many countries and international organizations to form a joint escort fleet to carry out law enforcement in the Gulf of Guinea and prevent some transport ships from being harassed by pirates.

Of course, in addition to this, owning these two "advanced" frigates is also a deterrent to neighboring countries - it is a crime to possess a treasure, and there will always be those who covet offshore oil fields with rich reserves.

Excluding those armed ships, Benin's maritime forces, like Colo's before, only have some small patrol boats for near-shore defense.

Therefore, if their Type 23 frigates were to take action, I am afraid that these Benin patrol boats would not pose any threat at all.

In any case, this operation can be regarded as an actual combat exercise, so in the final operation, their two frigates participated in this operation. The operation of the Kolo Corps was still very smooth. With detailed intelligence, the location of the enemy's several armed ships, and the advanced electronic equipment and weapons of the two frigates, Kolo easily destroyed the stronghold in one operation.

When the patrol boats from Benin arrived, they only dared to follow from a distance and escorted the two "giants" out of the waters of Benin.

However, what followed was a strong protest from Benin.

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"The president received representatives from the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union today, who expressed great concern about the conflict between Kolo and Benin..."

At this time, Barron and his party had already left Loti and arrived at Britta, the capital of Kolo, via the Loda Highway.

After the Kolo Corps' naval operation, the conflict between Kolo and Benin became more and more intense. Although Benin's naval power was insufficient, in order to express its protest, it began to gather a considerable part of its military forces to the border between the two countries.

Benin's total military strength exceeds 5000, but a considerable number of them belong to the "Public Security Force" and militia. The regular army is around 4500, most of which are the army (about people).

Their equipment is mainly French and Chinese weapons. In the 1980s, Benin had a five-year civil war, and China provided Benin with a lot of help, so their relationship with China is also very good.

"Before this, the president also met with representatives from France and China, and they all hoped to mediate this conflict..."

Barron could understand the Chinese side. After all, Benin had a good relationship with China, and China and Kolo also had a lot of cooperation. Therefore, they did not want the two sides to really intensify the conflict and lead to a war.

As for France, they were the ones who initiated this conflict. They are just crying over the rat and showing false mercy.

Because Kolo and Benin both belong to the Economic Community of West African States (after Kolo abandoned the West African franc, it withdrew from the West African Monetary Union but remained in ECOWAS), both ECOWAS and the AU hope to reconcile their conflicts.

"The AU is preparing to hold a relevant meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, and hopes that we and Benin can send people to participate in mediating the recent conflict."

Soon, Barron got the news about Jammeh Bongo.

Abuja is the capital of Nigeria and is very close to Kolo and Benin, which is Benin's neighbor to the east.

It is also very normal for the AU to choose Nigeria, a third country, to mediate between Kolo and Benin.

Moreover, Nigeria itself is Africa's largest economy and the largest oil exporter. If they preside over the mediation work, Kolo and Benin will have to give them face.

(End of this chapter)