However, it was not all that. After listening to the specific route of the global submarine described by Commander Xie, Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai were even more stunned.

"Your mission this time is to start from Keelung Port, enter the Pacific Ocean, bypass Hawaii, cross the Bering Strait northward along the west coast of the United States about 1,000 nautical miles, then cross the Arctic Ocean and enter the North Atlantic Ocean, then stay in the Bermuda waters for 5 days before sailing south, bypass the Cape of Africa along the African coast and enter the Indian Ocean, and then return to the base through the Strait of Malacca to complete this global combat exercise.

During the entire exercise, the radio silence is not allowed to contact the base actively. Instead, the orders from the exercise command are accepted through the passive reception system on the submarine. The exercise is directly commanded by the head of the General Staff. The ballistic missile launcher on the 238 and 239 are controlled through the latest long-range command system. Your mission is to ensure that various combat tasks are performed in accordance with the latest combat command of the command."

Whether it is the submersible route design or the entire command and combat drill design, these are all major events that have created the world in the history of the PLA Navy, and it is also a practical test of whether the PLA naval forces truly have global strike capabilities. No wonder the senior management treated them so grandly.

Because along the way, Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai will drive two 097-class nuclear submarines to challenge the most huge and deterrent anti-submarine network in the world today. Once the exercise is successful, it will mark the PLA's naval strategic strike force finally transformed and become one of the country's new generation of reliable strategic strike forces. The PLA will thus become the third military force in the world that can use sea-based forces to launch all-round strikes on the United States after the former Soviet Union and Russia.

The strategic significance is so great that it cannot be over-described.

However, the difficulty of this journey is also unimaginable. Not to mention how to cross the blockade line of the first, second island chain of the US imperialists, along the way, you have to pass the Bering Strait, where the US military is focusing on guard, and the North Atlantic Ocean, where the US military is fortified and surveillance, approaching within 1,000 nautical miles of the US military's doorstep. This is not a joke.

For Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai, the two commanders of the PLA's latest nuclear submarine, the silent performance of the 097-class nuclear submarine they are driving now exceeds that of the US Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine and is close to the US Seawolf-class strategic nuclear submarine level, but the US Seawolf-class nuclear submarine was completed thirty years ago. The US military has naturally studied the use and prevention of such ultra-low silent nuclear submarines more thoroughly than the PLA.

While our anti-submarine system was still very difficult to deal with the Los Angeles-class, the US military was already familiar with anti-submarine operations of Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. Therefore, before this, the PLA Navy's nuclear submarines had never appeared in the Atlantic Ocean. It was not that I didn't want to, but I really couldn't.

Previously, the PLA submarines broke through the anti-submarine network of the US aircraft carrier formation through some unconventional tactical means, such as ambushing in advance and shutting down to sit at the bottom to avoid the first wave of the strongest anti-submarine searches of their formation, and then rely on the aircraft carrier position information detected in the air to find its weak points, and then approached quietly with the silent low-speed drive of the electric power.

This kind of combat method is not a big problem when relying on the mainland, sea and air-based reconnaissance system and cooperating with local defense operations, but taking the initiative to attack is another matter.

What's more, this submarine has just been in service, and even though Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai are the best selected from former nuclear submarine captains, they dare not say that they can easily break through the anti-submarine network of Japan, the United States and Okinawa, and even if they go tens of thousands of miles away to challenge the US military's local anti-submarine network.

Seeing Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai seemingly stunned, Commander Xie raised his eyebrows, "What? Is there a problem?"

Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai woke up from a dream and immediately straightened their bodies straight, "Swear to complete the task to the death!" Zhang Han gritted his teeth and replied loudly. Although the future is difficult and unpredictable, as a soldier, he should be prepared to set out to fight at any time. No matter how you fail, you can only fight a sure battle!

"Well, I know you've just been in the process of assembly and it takes time to get familiar with everything, but the enemy won't give us time to do these things slowly. I hope you can grow up quickly in the battle!" Commander Xie was quite satisfied with Zhang Han's bloody answer and nodded.

Who doesn’t want to fight a sure battle, but now the situation is like this, and the military commanders have to drive the ducks to put them on the shelves.

Since the US military failed in the air in Diaoyutai, it has comprehensively adjusted its military deployment and formed new military preparations for encirclement in the country.

This time, the central government's high-profile attack on Africa is preparing to develop African resources on a large scale for our use, which once again touched the sensitive nerves of the US military. Before the war in the Persian Gulf was extinguished, Africa is very likely to ignite a new war. Although it is still just an undercurrent, it is also a storm that is about to fill the building. There is no way, the world is so big, we are developing faster, and the benefits we have obtained are greater, so naturally there are fewer people. As vested interests, who is willing to give up all this?

Therefore, when the 097-class nuclear submarine was put into service, the General Staff was considering how to use the most powerful long-range strategic strike force in the navy. In this case, there was no better choice for global submarine to test the new achievements. Once successful, the military would have a big trump card in order to play it as an asymmetric strategic deterrent force when necessary to prevent local conflicts with the US military from turning into a full-scale war.

Although the People's Liberation Army is now based on its own, it has the ability to compete with the US military head-on, but this also means that the war will revolve around our country. If this is true, decades of development will be equivalent to being destroyed. Even if both the US military lose, the losses caused to our country by the war will definitely be far greater than the losses caused to the Americans.

This situation is of course something that senior military strategy makers do not want to see. Because the current development opportunity is on our side, with the current rapid development, we have great hope of catching up and surpassing the United States.

Therefore, the military must maintain that the overall situation of the world will not undergo major changes. Even if there is a conflict, it will try its best to control it in a local area. Just as the radicals imagined, they did not attack the Japanese again, as they did in one go, and restore the original appearance of the Ryukyu Islands in the past. After regaining the occupied islands in the South China Sea, they will not carry out further punitive attacks on these countries that seized the islands.

Everything is to buy the greatest space and the longest time for development.

Of course, the two colonels Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai did not know about these causes and effects. They only know now that they are going to complete an unprecedented great task. If they succeed, they will become heroes who open a new chapter in the history of the People's Liberation Army Navy. If they fail, they may be buried at the bottom of the sea forever and become unknown martyrs.

"Please rest assured, Chief, we will overcome all difficulties and ensure that we complete the task!" Although there was no rehearsal, Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai answered in unison as Commander Xie finished speaking.

After saying that, they were all a little surprised, and the three generals smiled even more satisfied.

"Okay! It's rare that you have ambitions together. I believe you will be able to return successfully! I'll prepare a celebration banquet for you." Commander Liu Chaohua said happily. It is of course a good omen to have such a good sign.

"However, you must pay attention to the principle of confidentiality. This is a top-secret combat mission. Except for necessary personnel, no information about this combat mission shall be disclosed to anyone, including your detachment leader. In this operation, we will announce in the form of the Fleet Command's order that you are conducting routine joint training in the adjacent waters. Let's set off today!" Commander Liu said seriously.

"Yes! Ensure the completion of the task!" Zhang Han and Cao Yunhai accepted Commander Liu's somewhat inhumane order without any disagreement.

This is a highly confidential task that concerns the strategic intentions of senior management. On the one hand, it is an important trump card in the hands of senior management; on the other hand, the fewer people know about this task, the more beneficial it will be for Zhang Han and others to complete the task safely. Let's set out today to minimize the possibility of leaks.

Therefore, when two giant whale-like 097-class nuclear submarines disappeared silently at a submarine base in the Pacific Fleet, except for the few military insiders, almost no one knew that their disappearance this time was to accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

(The second update, can you ask for a monthly ticket? It’s recommended on the homepage at least. There is no monthly ticket, it’s really a miserable one)
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