Great warships

Chapter 1245: Meaningless Cover-up
"This must have been done intentionally. We just had a satellite fly over it and took a few photos. The target ship is intact, but a tugboat fifty kilometers away was accidentally hit and has caught fire. It will probably sink soon."

"Intentionally? Damn it, who on earth did this to hack into our GPS!"

Meier Birnbaum had a sneer on his face. "Humph, you just refused to spend money to develop a new generation of satellite navigation systems. Now you are suffering the consequences, right?"

When the accident happened before, Bernbaum had already issued a warning that the current satellite navigation system is no longer safe and that a new generation is needed. However, no one listened. Later, he talked about deciphering Beidou, but nothing happened.

Now, look, something even more powerful is coming!

Before, they just faked signals and deceived users, but now? They directly hacked into the navigation satellite and modified the time information on it. This must be done intentionally by someone!
This time it's just the Indians, what about next time? What if it's the Americans?

"Yes, we need to update the navigation satellite. The current navigation satellite is no longer safe!" You Weite nodded: "But we don't have the money."

If I had money, I would have passed last time. The problem is that I don’t have money.

"Which is more important, losing money or losing life?" Birnbaum asked a soul-searching question.

No one answered. Ah San's example was right before their eyes, so what choice should they make?

Ah San was also very anxious at this time.

"We must never say that a mistake occurred. We must announce to the public that we successfully hit the target ship!" Sunil said gritting his teeth.

Even if this is just an attempt to cover up one's own mistakes, they have to do this. If the outside world knew that they missed the target by 50 kilometers, how would they view them?
People will definitely think that there is something wrong with India’s missiles!
"Yes, we will definitely announce it this way." Pi Lai nodded. Of course he couldn't admit it. After all, their missiles were not only for their own use, but they also planned to sell them to make money. If customers knew that their missiles had poor performance and high errors, who would buy them?
"Have you found the reason?" Sunil continued with a gloomy face.

"I don't know, but we can guarantee that there is absolutely no problem with our missiles!"

In the previous tests, their missiles had all been complete successes. How come there was suddenly such a big error this time?
Of course, it is not ruled out that something went wrong with the missile during the manufacturing process, but Pi Lai would never admit it!

"If it's not a problem with your missiles, then what is the problem?" Sunil continued with a gloomy face.

"There must be interference from the outside world! Of course, based on this experience, we must also learn a lesson and install advanced satellite receiving terminals on the missiles so that we can issue self-destruct commands at any time."

Their missiles have no data links and no satellite receiving terminals, so once the missiles are launched, they cannot be controlled.

In fact, for missiles of this era, this design is understandable. After all, the distance between the enemy and us is at least hundreds of kilometers. As long as the anti-ship missile is launched, it will hit the enemy and it is impossible to hit our own people. Moreover, there is no need to activate the self-destruct after launching it. What if the missile on our side self-destructs and the enemy's missile hits us?
But now, they think that in view of the unreliability of their missiles, it is better to add this kind of device as an extra insurance. However, India does not have a mature data link system, so they can only use satellite communications. Of course, their military communication satellites are also pitifully few, as to whether they can appear overhead in time, they do not know.

"Report." At this moment, someone came in and said, "We detected that the GPS satellite signal had errors for a period of time after the missile was launched."

"What?" Everyone was shocked.

"How could there be errors in satellite signals?" Sunil asked, "Could it be the Americans who did it?"

India's policy is to play both sides. Sometimes it is close to the Russians, and sometimes it is in close contact with the United States. Many of the Indian Navy's equipment are purchased from Russia, and they even conduct joint research and development, such as the anti-ship missile tested this time.

But at the same time, India can also get a lot of advanced equipment from the United States, such as ship-based gas turbines. The advanced LM2500 gas turbine is available for purchase at any time. Even when they want to buy carrier-based aircraft, the Americans will quickly send the Hornet over for testing.

However, India also knows that this style of playing both sides will offend many people. For example, the BrahMos anti-ship missile jointly developed by India and Russia will naturally make Americans unhappy. If India did not pay, Russia would not have developed advanced anti-ship missiles. India is using them, Russia is also using them, and Russia's weapons are aimed at Americans.

Therefore, the Americans deliberately ruined their test launch!

Thinking of this, Sunil's face became extremely ugly.

"We will protest to the Americans immediately. We will never tolerate such behavior." Sunil said, "They actually used such a despicable method to disrupt our test launch!"

"Yes, we must protest!" Pi Lai said. At this moment, he actually felt relaxed. After all, it was not a matter of missiles, but external factors. Their missiles were still very advanced!
but……

"The Americans can sabotage like this once, and they can do it a second time and a third time. We must prevent this from happening again," said Pilai.

"Yes, we need to prevent it from happening again, but how can we do it?"

"We need to have our own satellite navigation system!" Mukherjee said, "This project can't be delayed any longer!"

For a long time, the Indian army has been using GPS and GLONASS systems for satellite positioning. After all, apart from these two, there is only Beidou from the East, which they will never use. As for Europe's Galileo, it has not yet been networked.

Since the Russians' GLONASS is extremely unreliable, the Indians mainly rely on GPS. They even signed an agreement with the United States to obtain the right to use military codes, and in theory have the same high strike accuracy as the US military.

However, they have always been uneasy. After all, they have no initiative when using a foreign satellite navigation system. This time, they were completely cheated!

The Indians would never think that someone had hacked into the GPS satellite. After all, this was simply impossible. The Americans would not admit it either, otherwise it would cause great panic. Therefore, a gap arose between the two sides.

India has long wanted to have its own regional navigation system. When the Eastern Beidou began to build a network, they had this idea. Their space research organization has long planned to build an Indian regional navigation satellite system. After all, they do not need global deployment and only need to meet the satellite navigation needs of the waters near their own country.

However, not everyone can master the satellite navigation system.

There is no need to talk about atomic clocks or advanced satellites. Just talking about frequency bands, the best frequency bands are occupied by GPS and GLONASS, and the second best frequency bands are Beidou and Galileo. What should they use?
So, although India has long wanted to develop its own regional satellite navigation system, it has never taken action. Now, the time has finally come to do it. If they don't do it, their army will not be able to survive.

When fighter jets take off to perform missions, their navigation fails and the bombs they drop may fall on their heads. Their warships cannot find their way home in the vast ocean, and their civilian population will be in chaos due to the lack of accurate timekeeping services.

Therefore, you must have your own system!
"That's right, this matter must be put on the agenda as soon as possible." Sunil nodded. After this accident, they had no choice but to use satellite navigation!
Fortunately, they don’t have to worry about funding, as the money in Asan’s hands is never too little.

On the same day, Mukherjee solemnly announced: "Today, our navy conducted an anti-ship exercise at sea. The destroyer Mumbai used the BrahMos anti-ship missile to successfully hit the target ship 300 kilometers away and sank it to the bottom of the sea. This exercise greatly enhanced our national prestige and military power and demonstrated the powerful combat capability of our Indian Navy..."

The announcement was grand and impressive, fully demonstrating the strength of the Indian Navy. At the same time, there was a video on the large screen at the back, showing the outline of a ship that was hit, burning and then sinking. Although the image was blurry, it could be seen that it was a successful attack.

"It is impossible to intercept our BrahMos anti-ship missile!" Mukherjee concluded: "This anti-ship missile has a speed of Mach 3, a range of more than 300 kilometers, and can perform serpentine maneuvers in the terminal stage. No air defense missile or close-in defense weapon can intercept it!"

Mukherjee was very proud. Did you see that? We sank a 100,000-ton tanker!
After Mukherjee's announcement, India's famous military expert Prakash made a special program to explain the difficulty. This program imitated Zhang Zhongshuo from the East and was called Prakash Shuo.

"Hello everyone, welcome to this episode of Prakash Says. The name of this episode is Prakash Says Tanker Attack. As we all know, this time our navy launched a BrahMos anti-ship missile and successfully hit a 100,000-ton tanker 300 kilometers away, and sent the tanker to the bottom of the sea on the spot."

Prakash was very excited: "Some people may think that it is not a big deal to hit a 100,000-ton oil tanker. In fact, it is very impressive. It is even more difficult to sink such an oil tanker!"

"Let's first look at a historical record. In 1974, a huge oil tanker named the Juichi Yuyo Maru collided with another ship loaded with steel in Tokyo Bay. The tanker caught fire and could explode at any time, so the Self-Defense Forces decided to sink it. However, no matter how many shells were used and even fighter planes were launched, the tanker still floated firmly on the sea."

"The structure of an oil tanker is complex. In order to prevent leakage and pollution of the sea, oil tankers generally use a double-hull structure with a large number of compartments inside. It is easy to damage an oil tanker, but it is very difficult to sink it, which is no less difficult than sinking an aircraft carrier!"

In Prakash's mouth, this attack became equivalent to attacking an aircraft carrier!
"Therefore, we are confident that even the Eastern 003 aircraft carrier will not be able to survive the attack of our BrahMos anti-ship missiles. At most two BrahMos anti-ship missiles can send this aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea! We believe that in front of our absolute strength, the Orientals should be afraid, but also be grateful that they did not conflict with us, otherwise, they will be easily killed by us!"

East.

"Mr. Qin, let's call this episode "Zhang Zhong Talks about BrahMos Anti-Ship Missile". I will unveil the fig leaf of this anti-ship missile and let the whole world know what level this missile is at. What is there to brag about an anti-ship missile found in archaeology?" Zhang Zhong's face was full of anticipation. Since someone was offering his face to him for a slap, what else could he say?

Qin Tao shook his head: "The superiors have ordered us not to get involved in this incident. We have to listen to them."

"What is the superior thinking?" Zhang Zhong looked at Qin Tao: "Please tell me the truth!"

"how could I know."

Zhang Zhong had no choice but to leave Qin Tao's office. Looking at the sun above his head, he couldn't help but sneeze.

Just then, the cell phone rang.

"Teacher Zhang, our computer has restored the video of their missiles hitting the tanker, and found many problems in it."

Zhang Zhong said that the program is of course not just Zhang Zhong, but a team. Now hearing his subordinates say that there has been progress, Zhang Zhong is very excited: "Really? What's the problem?"

"In that video, the object that was hit was probably not an oil tanker, but a tugboat."

tug?

Zhang Zhong's eyes lit up: "Did they call the wrong number? This is big news!"

No wonder the superiors don't allow us to report it. There is explosive news here. They probably don't allow us to report it because they don't want us to be involved. However, we can choose not to report it, but the true situation of this incident must be exposed. We who work in the media are here to find out the truth of the incident!
"We are currently searching using Google satellite maps to try to find the hiding place of the target ship."

"Okay, find it as soon as possible!"

Sunil returned to the shore and felt a little weak. After returning home, he wanted to have a good rest, but for some reason, his eyelids kept twitching.

Is something going to happen?

Sure enough, that very night, when he had just fallen asleep, the phone rang.

"Sir Sunil, please turn on your computer immediately. There are some rumors circulating on the Internet."

"What rumors?"

"You will know when you take a look. The website address has been sent to you."

So Sunil had no choice but to sit up and turn on the computer. When he saw the relevant web page, he felt like he had fallen into an ice cave.

"According to the Indian Navy, the target ship was a 100,000-ton oil tanker named Sai Baba. The tanker was supposed to have sunk to the bottom of the sea, but we found the ship again in the town of Alang in Gujarat, India. Because there were too many ships waiting to be dismantled, the ship was still at sea and had not been dismantled."

The town of Alang is a magical place. It is the largest ship dismantling site in the world.

In 1983, 22 workers dismantled a scrap ship here, and then the vigorous era of shipbreaking began. Up to now, more than half of the world's scrap ships are dismantled here.

In any country, dismantling scrap ships is a high-risk investment. Various pollutants on the scrap ships need to be dealt with in advance, and safety must be ensured during the dismantling process. If a worker has an accident, he may have to pay a large sum of money.

But Ah San doesn't need to. The workers here are paid very low wages and do not have to consider environmental protection. The oil stains on the ground and the pungent smell in the air cannot stop them from working. It is said that someone has conducted a survey and found that more than 20% of the people here have respiratory diseases, and many of them are even suffering from lead poisoning.

But no one cared. The dismantling yard was right on the seashore, and the dismantling office was also on the shore. Every day, countless ships washed ashore and were then dismantled by workers using simple tools and brought into the steel plant.

Due to the large number of junked ships, some of the junked ships that had not been dismantled in time could only wander on the sea outside. Unexpectedly, the target ship mysteriously appeared!
"These damn guys, don't they know to sink the ship in advance? For such a little benefit, they are going to expose our navy's trump card!" Sunil cursed and picked up the phone.

"Hey, make that ship disappear immediately!"

"It can't disappear!"

"why?"

"Because many reporters went there and took many photos, they have confirmed that the ship was the target ship that was supposed to disappear."

When the news spread on the Internet, well-informed reporters arrived at the scene in advance and began investigating.

Didn't the Indian Navy say they sank the ship? Why did it appear in the shipbreaking yard?

"Then tell them that we have salvaged this target ship and are dismantling it. We will never waste it!" Sunil had no other choice but to give this answer.

"Yes."

So, the next day, Mukherjee spoke again.

"We in India are a country that values ​​the reuse of resources. So after we sank the target ship, we towed it to the shipbreaking yard to dismantle it. The steel is still useful to us. We will use it to make motorcycles."

"Excuse me, after being attacked by anti-ship missiles, why is the appearance of this ship still intact?"

"Excuse me, according to the video, the ship sank quickly after the fire and explosion. How much did you spend on salvaging it afterwards?"

How to answer these questions? Of course there is no way to answer them! Ah San was eager to cover up the facts, but ended up revealing many flaws!

"Excuse me, why was the video you released last time so blurry? Can it be clearer?"

Of course not, if it were clearer, it would be exposed!
Just when Mukherjee was unable to answer these overwhelming questions, another reporter shouted: "We used advanced computer technology to restore the target, and found that the target in the last video was a tugboat, not an oil tanker. Did your missile attack fail and take the tugboat 50 kilometers away as the target ship?"

(End of this chapter)