Darkstone Code-Chapter 724 - 0722 Playing mind games makes one’s heart dirty
At the forefront of the fleet, close to the target ship’s position, suddenly three Gafura submarines surfaced and launched torpedoes.
The purpose of surfacing was to avoid being hit by the submarines behind them. After all, it was a live-fire exercise, and any accident at the end would be a hassle.
If it was just like this, it wouldn’t be surprising, because the Federation’s submarines would do the same shortly, but the problem was, Gafura’s submarines had already reached the designated attack position, while the Federation’s submarines had only completed about seventy percent of the journey.
In other words, the performance of Gafura’s submarines is superior!
"This is impossible!" The pure color in the mouth of the Federation’s Commander-in-Chief inadvertently dropped. He quickly stood up, "Find the video, calculate their starting point, calculate the time, I need to know how fast they are!"
After submarines achieved success in naval battles, the Federation Navy increased its research on submarines. Among many parameters, underwater speed is a very important parameter.
It represents whether the submarine can quickly approach the target and launch torpedoes in a "ghost state." The further away from the target, the lower the torpedo’s hit rate, and beyond a certain distance, whether it hits or not depends entirely on luck.
On this limited-loading submarine, to fulfill its role and value, it must quickly approach the target and then fire.
The speed of Gafura’s submarines underwater is faster than the Federation’s, which means that Gafura will have more initiative in the war!
At this moment, not only was the Joint Exercise Command buzzing, the entire world was abuzz.
People were astonished that Gafura’s submarines were so fast, even surpassing the Federation, which had unearthed the immense value of submarines in warfare. The Federation had lost points!
In the grand hall, Emperor Gafura breathed a sigh of relief, his face showing a slightly relaxed smile, some pallor on his face had regained much of its color, "It seems we’ve succeeded."
He glanced at the Minister of the Navy, who also took a deep breath, succeeded.
This means he does not need to resign from his current position, which means he can stay in this position for at least ten more years, benefiting his family for decades.
"Yes, Your Majesty, we’ve succeeded." He reiterated with a smile, saying nice things at this time would surely make His Majesty the Emperor very happy, there’s no cost to flattery.
His Majesty the Emperor was in high spirits, "I would love to know what expression the Federation president has now..."
What expression could the Federation president have?
Isn’t it just blank-faced?
He doesn’t understand military matters at all. His understanding of military affairs is limited to summoning the Minister of Defense and senior military officers and asking them simple questions like "Can we win?" and "Can we hold the line?"
It’s too difficult for him to understand these subtle changes, although it can also be said that it’s the Federation president’s "privilege" that he doesn’t need to understand too much of the professional stuff, as long as he can get along with the capitalists, lie, brag, and at times be completely shameless, he can qualify for the job of Federation president.
It sounds quite simple, but actually quite hard, because not everyone can appease those capitalists.
"I want to know what this means. From the look on your faces, I saw something not so good..." The Federation president asked the Ministry of Defense and Navy officers in the room, what was supposed to be a joyous occasion had suddenly become a little incomprehensible.
A colonel from the Ministry of Defense said solemnly, "Mr. President, this means we may have already started to fall behind in submarine strategy and tactics..."
"Faster speeds allow them to easily approach our warships, even if they choose to circle around by out of sight, if a naval battle occurs between us, the result is uncertain."
The president now understood what this meant, and his face began to look as bad as Emperor Gafura speculated, "I remember we have a new submarine project, don’t we?"
Thirty-one military projects were signed by him, he had some impression, and at this time the president of Sheep Ship stood up, "Yes, Mr. President, our seawolf II design has basically been finalized, and a batch can be delivered around the end of next year."
The president shook his head, "I’m not concerned about that, I’m concerned about whether your seawolf II can outperform what we just saw in the data."
He pointed at the TV, "Exceed Gafura’s submarines."
"I need to make a call..."
After getting permission from Mr. President, the president of Sheep Ship quickly went to a side room to talk to the engineers.
The engineers at Sheep Ship also watched this exercise, and they were equally shocked by the underwater speed of Gafura’s submarines, a group of people frantically calculating until the president’s call came in.
After more than ten minutes, the president of Sheep Ship returned to the somewhat oppressive room, his expression not so relaxed, "Mr. President, I just communicated with our company’s engineers, and our theoretical parameters will exceed their current performance by about ten to twenty percent."
"And I’ve already asked the company’s engineers to speed up the research of some new technologies, we have confidence we can completely surpass them!"
Mr. President’s expression finally eased a bit, "That’s good, don’t be afraid of pressure, sometimes pressure is also a motive."
The president of Sheep Ship sat down again with a smile, but in fact, he wasn’t optimistic, he lied.
The engineers told him that unless there is a breakthrough in new technology, redesigning the current Sea Wolf II submarines to maximize their performance would, at best, only match the underwater speed of Gafura’s submarines, or possibly even be inferior.
He didn’t dare to speak the truth, as it was related to a military order worth over seven billion and a series of subsequent orders. He could only lie, believing the board would understand the reason for his deception.
With good news, President was not so anxious. He looked at the Minister of Science and Education beside him, "I remember the Gafura people sent a delegation here, right?"
He did not meet with that delegation, as it was a so-called "cultural visit" under the guise of "spontaneous civilian" initiative. Although the members included some Federation regulations and even an Empress Princess, civilian is civilian, and not eligible to meet the President.
If not, any civilian delegation would require presidential involvement. Would the President get any work done?
Now he remembered this matter, also to ease the bilateral relations.
International relations are just that simple and direct.
If you’re strong, I’ll be a bit more yielding.
If I’m strong, would you dare not to yield?
The Minister of Education nodded, "Yes, that did happen..."
Everyone did not take the issue seriously, which shows that these people are slightly complacent, but indeed, the visitation level is low.
"Arrange someone to receive them, show our Federation’s warmth and hospitality," the President said while furrowing his brow, "I remember that...," He looked beside him but suddenly recalled that Mr. Truman was not here today, which made him slightly regret not having asked Truman to come along.
He tapped his fingers on the table, "The Emperor’s sister..." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"Princess Jenia, Mr. President," someone suddenly said the name brightly.
The President glanced appreciatively at the young man standing on the outermost side and nodded, "Yes, Princess Jenia, I heard that during our delegation’s visit to Gafura, Lynch had some rumors with her?"
The representative of the Security Committee confirmed this statement, "Not just in Gafura, when the delegation first arrived, Lynch also secretly met with Princess Jenia several times."
"Include Lynch in the reception list, be sure to transmit the Federation people’s love for peace through the visiting delegation..."
While the whole world was discussing Gafura’s submarine delivering a huge upset, beneath the waters where visibility is absent, three Gafura submarines that should not have existed were slowly moving away from the exercise sea area.
Each sailor in the cramped cabin had a particularly solemn expression, as they carried significant responsibilities.
In fact, they were the real "exercise warships," in other words, Emperor Gafura and his ministers were performing a trick.
They had arranged three submarines late last night to secretly head to predetermined positions, hiding behind the target ships, so that the observation ships would not discover these already hidden submarines.
After submerging, the three submarines that surfaced did not head to the intended direction but instead turned around and left the battlefield, while the hidden submarines behind the target ships began diving to enter the predetermined area.
The goal of doing this was to create an illusion that Gafura’s submarines are superior in performance to Federation’s submarines. This was a last resort.
If it weren’t for Gafura’s poor and even absurd performance in sea-land coordination, they would not consider using such cheating methods to steal "victory," which is an insult to the Empire’s spirit.
But for the sake of the Empire, they had no choice.
Once their submarines revealed terrifying performance parameters, no one would consider challenging Gafura’s dominance at sea for at least three to five years, including the Federation.
They have developed submarines for war purposes, so they should know better than anyone else the value of submarines at the current stage, unless the submarine surfaces itself, otherwise, it’s impossible for anyone to effectively counterattack!
More importantly, this will also mislead others, diverting attention to the "underwater speed of submarines."
Even subsequently, Emperor Gafura had a series of plans, intending to engage in a true and false "digital warfare" with the Federation, using exaggerated military parameters to drag them into a vicious cycle of military updates.
The recently developed expensive military equipment would face obsolescence before coming to light, dealing a direct economic and research blow to the Federation.
Nation vs. nation competitions.
Numbers vs. numbers competitions!
Eventually, they will only realize they played a game of "lies."
This is "The Race" plan!
