My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1172 - 1078: Heavy Losses! Critical Situation!_2
From the satellite imagery, there doesn’t seem to be any problem.
Especially for the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its escort warships are all present, none have sunk.
About twenty minutes later.
At Seleck port airport, the urgently dispatched aircraft arrived near the aircraft carrier battle group.
But strangely, they couldn’t establish any contact with the warships.
Whether it was the aircraft carrier or the missile destroyers, it seemed that severe malfunctions had occurred, to the extent that even basic radio communications were unavailable.
After flying at ultra-low altitude and airdropping the communication equipment onto the aircraft carrier’s flight deck, they finally understood the unbelievable situation.
The people on the aircraft carrier said that the sky suddenly brightened, with numerous lightning strikes, and even the air felt scorching hot.
Afterward...
All the warships and planes of the carrier battle group had their electronic instruments and devices short-circuit and catch fire regardless of whether they were on or off, causing many jets in the process of takeoff and landing to crash, and those in the hangar and on the flight deck were wrecked.
The most baffling thing was that each warship had a storeroom filled with spare parts allowing for self-repair at sea should any issues arise.
However, even the backup communication equipment freaking broke, and fixing the command and communication systems of the warships wasn’t that simple; wires, circuit boards, everything was burnt out.
So the ordinarily formidable and mighty Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Battle Group was now completely ’blind, deaf, and paralyzed’.
They couldn’t manage command and communications, air defense alerts, anti-submarine surveillance, etc., not even the warships’ power or lighting could be quickly restored, and even eating became a nuisance since induction cookers and rice cookers were all broken.
In other words.
At this moment, each warship of the aircraft carrier battle group was like a metal coffin floating on the sea.
If at this time, the enemy sent fighters and warships, even the oldest and most outdated could methodically sink the utterly defenseless carrier battle group.
A fleet of astonishingly expensive advanced warships was reduced to this state due to the mysterious destruction of electronic instruments and equipment.
This couldn’t but be considered the tragedy of high dependence on electronics and information systems!
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On the other hand.
The planes sent to the Baldet region encountered no missile interception, and the battle in that area continued unabated.
Yet after taking the risk of airdropping communication equipment into the airport, the situation learned was remarkably similar.
It was also suddenly from night to day, with flashing lightning and burning hot air.
Then...
Radar, communications, command and all other electronic instruments and devices were toast.
Most unbelievably, even freaking phones were burning to the touch.
The battlefield was now in a dire state as main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery, and other highly automated and informative devices malfunctioned and became unusable, making the ground forces even more passive.
Resisting an enemy force tens of times their size with light weapons was profoundly frustrating, and it was estimated they could not hold on for much longer before facing a rout.
The situation in Gold Coin was even worse; a complete tragedy.
Many drones used for reconnaissance and fire guidance crashed, cruise missiles and air-to-ground missiles worth millions of Gold Coins turned into headless flies, and many fighter jets executing precision strike missions lost control and crashed due to sudden equipment failure, resulting in both machine and life losses.
The ground forces, with their main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles broken and unusable, faced enemies with strong defenses and formidable fire from permanent fortifications, forcing them to temporarily retreat. Recapturing Gold Coin and seizing back the nuclear warheads would require another plan.
Time slipped away by the minute.
Seleck port airport dispatched more aircraft and drones, hurrying to deliver supplies to both the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Battle Group and Baldet battlefield ground forces, especially communication command equipment, even if it’s just a single radio.
Also, search and rescue teams were quickly deployed to locate the out-of-control and crashed early warning aircraft, bombers, fighters, etc., to see if the precious pilots could be rescued.
Around nine o’clock at night.
More and more information was being compiled, ultimately forming a battle report like catastrophic news.
After reading it, Padding Shayol couldn’t even stand steadily, hardly believing his own eyes.
Why?
Who did this?
What on earth happened?
He couldn’t understand why, just as the battle in Baldet was nearly concluded and Abulaxi’s treasury was about to be breached, such an unexpected turn of events occurred!
Even more incomprehensible was how the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, with the world’s top naval and aerial integrated combat capabilities, could be so brutally ravaged as if left undefended!
Why did the skies above the city of Baldet and the Aircraft Carrier Battle Group suddenly turn from night to day, with flashes of lightning and scorching air?
Why did all electronic equipment instantly break, including unused cell phones, rice cookers, spare radios, etc., while people remained unharmed?
Why were only these two areas affected, and not others?
This was clearly not a natural disaster, but a type of highly advanced, unseen weapon.
The user must have intended to cause loss to the Star Federation, but if they wanted to strike the heaviest blow, they would target their homeland, the economically bustling megacities.
Instantly rendering all household appliances in thousands of homes useless, damaging countless electronic equipment in enterprises and public institutions.
The economic loss and severe adverse impacts this would bring... but why didn’t it happen?
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All these questions troubled Padding Shayol.
But he simply didn’t have the time to ponder the answers.
The situation at hand was just too terrible.
In Baldet, the treasury couldn’t be attacked, and the ground forces in the city were surrounded; if they didn’t receive powerful support in time, the entire army might be annihilated.
An entire Marine Brigade, defeated by hundreds of thousands of nearly illiterate armed individuals, this was damn humiliating.
And the Aircraft Carrier Battle Group was in extreme danger.
Whether it was the Aircraft Carrier or the escorting warships, they were now completely devoid of combat power, with no scouting, alertness, communication, or defense capabilities, to the extent that even a World War II submarine firing old-fashioned straight-running torpedoes could sink them one by one.
The Aircraft Carrier Battle Group!
The most mighty and proud massive combat cluster on this planet.
And yet now it has become decoration, drifting aimlessly like powerless target ships.
If rescue measures are not taken promptly, it is feared that without enemy intervention, the warships could capsize in the hurricane and violent waves due to being uncontrollable.
As for the fighter jets, transport planes, early warning aircraft, and so on, each costing tens of millions to billions of Gold Coin, controlled crash, how many casualties, Padding Shayol dare not even contemplate.
Rescue!
Support the battlefield and rescue the Aircraft Carrier Battle Group with all available resources.
Furthermore, promptly report this extremely rare encounter to the homeland.
And for the higher-ups, thousands of miles away, knowing this, what could they do?
They could only exclaim in shock, wondering if it’s the start of an alien invasion of Earth?
For a moment.
They actually forgot about Wu Jie, whom they loathed to their bones and had been scheming to kill.
Only concerned with whether there really were aliens...
