Second Clash

Over the Red Sea, with a single order, the two U.S. carrier strike groups that had begun converging on the Middle East half a month ago finally sprang into action.

Six Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and two Ticonderoga-class cruisers began to bare their fangs.

Tomahawk Cruise Missiles rose from the fleet one after another, streaking rapidly toward Cairo.

On two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, two Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, and two Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships, ground crews were making their final preparations.

On the decks, fighter jets had long been poised and ready.

Once the two waves of missiles had finished sweeping the ground, they would immediately take off and coordinate with the eight warships to bombard the Cybertronians in Cairo.

The command ship soon issued the order authorizing takeoff. One fighter after another, already primed for action and loaded with ammunition, rapidly lifted into the air, ready to carry out a precise bombing run on Cairo.

They had received an invitation from the Egyptian authorities, so the U.S. military, which had always been accustomed to acting without restraint, did not care in the slightest whether their actions would cause even more casualties in Cairo.

At the same time, at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia.

Six urgently redeployed B-52 strategic bombers, having finished replenishing their ammunition, also began taking off for Egypt.

The U.S. military was not like the European Combined Fleet. Perhaps it did not have as many warships in total.

But as the most powerful military nation on Earth, U.S. warships surpassed those of the European nations by at least half a generation in every respect, and by a full two generations in some areas.

So while their numbers were smaller, the damage they inflicted was even greater than that of the Combined Fleet.

After all, many European