"Motherfucker!"
"All four propellers have been cut off?"
"What... what the hell is this enemy trying to do?" Barton was utterly dumbfounded after hearing his subordinate's report. Even with his good temper, he could not help swearing.
After witnessing the Izumo, the first to bear the brunt of the attack, being cut clean in two, General Barton had thought his own Nimitz-class carrier would not escape the same fate.
Who could have imagined that the underwater enemy who had left their entire 1st Carrier Strike Group helpless would only cut off this carrier's four propellers!
It felt as though the enemy were humiliating Barton to his face!
A Nimitz-class carrier was nothing like a self-proclaimed quasi-carrier such as the Izumo. It was a genuine nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, only slightly inferior to Eagle Country's latest Ford-class nuclear-powered carriers.
Its full-load displacement could reach 104,000 tonnes. Of the four propellers at its stern, three were driven by nuclear power, while only one used conventional power.
These propellers were highly sophisticated. Each weighed thirty tonnes and measured 7.6 meters in diameter, a full two stories tall!
To install such enormous carrier propellers, Eagle Country's shipyards had to use heavy gantry cranes to maneuver them.
Moreover, these carrier propellers were all made of ultra-high-strength alloy steel that could resist seawater corrosion as well as the "cavitation" caused by high-speed rotation. Each cost more than ten million US dollars.
Any ordinary school of fish caught in a carrier's rapidly spinning propellers could only be ground to pulp!
Yet Chen Jue had severed all four of these powerful propellers with a single sword strike, stripping the Nimitz-class carrier of its propulsion and leaving it stranded on the sea like an enormous zombie ship.
As for why Chen Jue had not cut the entire carrier apart with