Chapter 440: Preparing the Counterattack Tactical Network
On July 11, massive warships cut through the waves in the central-western Pacific.
Huaguo's North Sea Combined Fleet, Third Carrier Battle Division, bridge of Aircraft Carrier 003.
A middle-aged senior colonel gazed calmly at the boundless sea.
Because of communication problems and their limited knowledge of conditions at sea, naval fleets had rarely carried out ocean-going missions over the past few months.
Most often, they had served as groups of mobile offshore artillery platforms, coordinating strikes against inland danger zones from the coast. Interference also meant that extremely long-range strikes often fell short of expectations, and the areas they could reach from coastal waters were fairly limited.
Throughout this period, the navies of various countries had been itching for action. While the army and air force fought for their lives, most sailors could only train aboard their ships over and over. At most, carrier-based aircraft occasionally took part in missions.
With the launch of the Quantum Satellites and the immediate installation of quantum signal receivers across the major fleets, the navy could finally show what it could do.
Naturally, their mission was not to scour the vast ocean for monsters from the Otherworld to destroy. They had fixed routes and targets.
The Third Carrier Battle Division's mission was to reach its designated position, lock onto sixteen nearby contact points where Earth intruded into the Otherworld, and serve as a sea-based launch platform, preparing for Earth's counterattack out in the open ocean.
Destroyers would handle most of the launches.
The ultra-long-range nuclear missiles intended for cross-world strikes had already been installed aboard several destroyers.
"Captain, the frigate Saber One's towed sonar array has detected clustered disturbances underwater, forty nautical miles ahead."
The captain immediately walked over to the information display as the frigate's sonar