Carrier Air Wing Operations Analysis Room.

Xiao Nian, commander of the Carrier Aircraft Wing, was communicating with Lu Ping, commander of the 1st Squadron, about the possible plan for the escort mission.

"According to Chen Yanguo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the rebellious guided missile destroyer that broke away from the navy is likely to become a member of terrorism. Chen Yanguo's territorial waters are too close to our country's international sea lanes. Over there, the headquarters

We have submitted an escort plan to the Ministry of National Defense and are waiting for approval from above." Xiao Nian's eyes fell on a chart spread out on the table, his face full of worry.

Chen Yanguo has been in civil strife for many years, and the turbulent environment has created the tough and bloodthirsty characteristics of their army. Now there is a regular missile destroyer rebellion, which is basically the rhythm of turning grass into bandits. If the rebel captain on this missile destroyer is...

Going crazy, all ships passing through the Koshu Strait will be threatened by safety.

When there was civil strife in Chenyan, Xiao Nian and aircraft carrier captain Wang Tianyi were worried that the civil strife in Chenyan would affect the navigation of the Koshu Strait. But after the civil strife subsided, a guided missile destroyer lost control. This situation was undoubtedly

More dangerous.

The international community does not know what the defected guided-missile destroyer's claims are, what its intentions are, and how dangerous it is. It is like a time bomb swimming around the Koshu Strait, an international navigation artery.

When civil strife broke out in Chenyan Kingdom, both Wang Tianyi and Xiao Nian were ready to conduct escort. However, as the civil strife in Chenyan subsided, the situation worsened, and the escort plan became urgent.

At least before the defected guided missile destroyer can be brought under control, escort is quite necessary.

However, escort is not decided at a glance. Who will escort, how to escort, what is the escort route, and how to respond if it encounters that guided missile destroyer? Should Chen Yanguo's consent be required to fire, or if he feels threatened?

Can fire on its own.

Even if there is a rebellion, in the final analysis, the guided missile destroyer still belongs to Chen Yanguo. Whether it has the right to fire freely or what attack restrictions are there need to be clarified. Otherwise, if there is an encounter during the actual escort, it will be

What's the point of being tied up?

The people above have realized this problem. As the South Ship, or Gengdu Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, which is the main body responsible for escort missions, the Ministry of National Defense requires the Gengdu Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to provide an escort plan for their review.

The escort plan not only needs to be reviewed by the Ministry of National Defense, but also requires the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to communicate with Chen Yanguo accordingly to eliminate all difficulties that may be encountered during the escort.

Although the review of the escort plan will take some time, Xiao Nian feels that this time should not be long.

Xiao Nian said: "This escort mission will be carried out by the destroyer squadron. Our carrier-based aircraft force is mainly responsible for patrolling and providing information, as well as appropriate air support. When the escort plan is approved by the superiors, the mission of your first squadron will be

It’s a bit more arduous. This is actual combat, so try not to arrange for Xu Xian to carry out the mission alone.”

"Destroyer squadron, I thought we were going to send a cruiser there!" Lu Ping said with a smile.

"Cruiser?" Xiao Nian sneered: "As for those old destroyers of Chen Yanguo, sending cruisers would be too disrespectful to them."

Cruisers are multi-purpose large and medium-sized surface combatants second only to battleships in terms of displacement, artillery, armor protection, etc. They can serve as fleet command ships.

In Xiao Nian's opinion, Chen Yanguo's old destroyers really have no combat effectiveness. Using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken and using cruisers as escorts really overestimates the strength of Chen Yanguo's destroyers.

Domestic destroyers are now a full generation ahead of Chen Yanguo's destroyer. Even if they encounter Chen Yanguo's rebel destroyer head-on, they can still sink it without incident if necessary.

This is Xiao Nian’s confidence!

"Yes, hahaha!" Lu Ping was also quite proud: "When assigning escort missions, I will pay extra attention to Xu Xian and will not let him go out alone. Don't worry, Captain Xiao!"

"Then you should pay more attention." Xiao Nian nodded. Xu Xian was somewhat different from other pilots, and Xiao Nian actually had a conflicting mentality.

That is, he knows that a pilot who can truly stand alone cannot spend all his time in the protection of a greenhouse, and must always accept the baptism of actual combat. However, Xu Xian is so outstanding that no one who sees him wants him to suffer any consequences.

Damage. If we use a metaphor, Xu Xian is like an extremely exquisite sword. Everyone knows that this sword is indestructible, but no one is willing to use this sword to really kill.

.

What if a gap is made? Even if in fact, the gap on the sword is a symbol of honor like a warrior's scar, few people can accept that Xu Xian's perfect blade has any flaws.

Because of Xu Xian's unparalleled talent, everyone hopes to protect him. However, they are afraid that excessive care will cause Xu Xian to become a flower in the greenhouse. This is contradictory.

"Also, after returning to port this time, there will be an opening event for the aircraft carrier. Many people will come on board to visit the ship. Qin Qing's mother seems to be coming too. As Qin Qing's squadron leader, you,

Be responsible for the reception then. Pay attention to your image and attitude, got it?" Xiao Nian warned.

It is not uncommon for aircraft carriers to be open to the public. This is mainly to provide patriotism education to the people, so that the people can personally feel the progress of the country, which has hundreds of benefits and no harm.

Of course, for safety reasons, people who can actually go to the aircraft carrier still need to go through some reviews. Qin Qing's mother had submitted an application before, and the final review was passed.

After all, Qin Qing is a little red in the green bush, and a little preferential treatment is acceptable.

Speaking of Qin Qing, Lu Ping couldn't help but laugh. Indeed, in a place where almost all the carrier-based aircraft are composed of big men, it is also a good physical examination to have a little girl to mediate. The entire carrier-based aircraft

Among the men in the army, the older ones treat her as their daughter, and the younger ones treat her as their sister. Since her mother is coming to visit, it is appropriate for him to receive her.

At this moment, a messenger hurriedly opened the door: "Captain Xiao, something happened!"

...

By the time Xiao Nian came to the deck, many people had gathered around Xu Xian. In addition to the maintenance department, there were also many people from the support department and the service department. Many of them moved their eyes downwards and scanned the deck, as if they were

Looking for something.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Nian pushed aside the people and looked directly at Xu Xian in the center of the crowd.

I saw Xu Xian holding the mop with one hand and stretching out towards Xiao Nian with the other hand. In his palm was a screw: "I just found this on the deck..."

Xiao Nian frowned, pinched the screw from Xu Xian's palm, and knitted his brows together: "Is this a screw? It's from the plane?"

"Team Xiao, this seems to be from the C18 landing gear assembly." A maintenance person nearby said: "However, this kind of screw on the C18 landing gear assembly is universal. It is difficult to judge where it is."

"On the C18 landing gear?" Xiao Nian held the screw in his palm and moved his eyes to Xu Xian: "Where did you find it?"

Xu Xian moved the mop: "It's right here. I found it when I dragged it here."

Xiao Nian looked far into the distance. It was still a little far away from the apron. He could even see that some maintenance personnel had begun to conduct route inspections on the aircraft on the parking bay. He turned his head and asked the maintenance staff: "Are there any planes taking off soon?"

"

The flight attendant nodded: "In about half an hour, the last batch will take off."

"Cancel the takeoff plans of all planes..." Xiao Nian looked at the courier beside him: "Contact the maintenance department and ask them to check all the planes to see which plane fell. Also

... Let the deck department arrange for personnel to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the deck to see if there are any other fallen objects."

The messenger nodded: "Got it!"

Immediately, the messenger who received the order hurriedly went about his own business.

Xiao Nian felt the small screw in his palm, and his heart was filled with worry. He glanced at Xu Xian, who was still holding the mop, and said, "Well done. Today's task is over. Go back and rest."

Finding screws on the deck of an aircraft carrier, or screws from a fighter jet, is simply a fatal thing.

If this screw fell off a fighter jet, it means that the fighter jet has a huge safety hazard. If it flies rashly, it is likely to be a serious safety incident.

Even if it didn't fall off the plane, but was dropped by the maintenance staff at some point, if the screw rolled onto the flight deck with the ups and downs of the ship's hull, whether it was taking off or landing, the tires of the landing gear would be knocked.

If the screw gets damaged or is sucked into the engine, it will have disastrous consequences.

Although a screw is small, the consequences it can cause are unimaginable. Based on this, Xu Xian can be regarded as having made a big contribution.

"Is this the end?" Xu Xian was stunned for a moment. He was still complaining a moment ago, but he didn't work for long, and he didn't expect that the task would be over today. This was a blessing from heaven.

"Yes, it's over." Xiao Nian confirmed. An unknown screw was found on the deck. He still needed to communicate with many departments. He was about to leave first, but when he just turned around, Xiao Nian still paused and turned to face

Xu Xian said: "Well done!"

"Ah?" Xu Xian didn't expect Xiao Nian to say this, and didn't react for a moment. When he came to his senses, Xiao Nian had already disappeared into the crowd.

This day's work ended inexplicably, and Xu Xian was suddenly at a loss. Checking the time, the press conference should be almost over, and there was no point in going back to watch the press conference.

However, Xu Xian is not the kind of person who is full of enthusiasm for work. Now that today's task is over, he will not continue to work. So, holding a bucket in one hand and a mop in the other, he is ready to go back and rest first.

The maintenance and support personnel surrounding Xu Xian did not leave. Screws appeared from nowhere on the deck. The maintenance department, support department, and deck department were definitely the most anxious. They would be coming anyway later.

, there is no need to go back again.

Xu Xian, who was about to leave, suddenly remembered something. He turned around and scanned a few tarmacs, counting silently in his mind, and then asked the flight attendant beside him: "Are there any planes that haven't come back yet?"

"This..." The aircraft maintenance officer was asked by Xu Xian, and he really couldn't answer for a while: "This, you may need to ask the deck control room, they have plans for all aircraft. But

, I roughly remember that there will be a team that will conduct a post-flight flight in a while, it should be because there are still planes that have not returned."

Each aircraft needs to undergo a post-flight inspection after recovery. Although the maintenance side does not have a mission plan for each aircraft, they can roughly calculate the mission plan of the aircraft through their own schedule plan.

The maintenance man knew that one of his friends would have a post-flight inspection scheduled for a while. From the looks of it, there was indeed a plane that had not returned, but the return time should be close.

"There will be a flight soon?" Xu Xian cursed: "It's bad!"

As he spoke, he hurried towards the landing island with a bucket and mop. When passing by the service room, he threw the mop and bucket in, and then ran towards the deck command room.

The deck control room controls the dispatch of aircraft on the entire deck and masters the flight plans of all carrier-based aircraft. If you want to see if there are any aircraft that have not returned, you can only go to the deck control room.

Xu Xian knew the location of the deck command room. When he opened the door of the deck command room, the entire command room was also busy. Apparently, the deck command room also received reports from Xiao Nian about the unknown appearance on the deck.

After hearing the news about the screws, I began to contact various departments to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the deck. At the same time, I also canceled the take-off plan half an hour later.

We still don’t know the condition of the planes. What if screws fell off in the planes that were about to take off? Wouldn’t we be causing trouble for ourselves if we took off?

In the middle of the deck command room, there is a reduced simulation disk of the two decks of the aircraft carrier. The deck command room uses this sand table-like method to schedule the deck.

Even though the electronic dispatch method is now relatively mature, for some reason, the military still feels that this traditional command method is safer and simpler.

At this moment, many people gathered next to the simulation board, and they were probably discussing how to retrieve as many aircraft on the deck as possible through the elevator to the lower hangar, so that the inventory personnel could inspect the deck more conveniently.

"Inform the inventory personnel on the deck to hurry up. A plane will land soon." A person in the deck control room who did not know the specific position ordered to his subordinates.

"No! We can't let the plane land!" Xu Xian shouted directly, overwhelming the sound of the entire noisy deck control room. In an instant, everyone in the deck control room looked at Xu Xian standing at the door.

The person who just gave the order put down the document in his hand and stared at Xu Xian: "Who are you?"
To be continued...