Chapter 583: Looking for a nuclear bomb (2)
Chapter 583: Looking for a nuclear bomb (2)
Every time you dive a mile deep; seawater exerts a pressure of one thousand tons per square meter on the object. At a depth of 5,000 meters, the pressure per square meter will reach 5,000 tons, and for reaching the maximum detection range, the Squid would have to dive into the deep sea and search near the bottom of the sea.
Assuming that the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft which was based on an aircraft carrier was present in a definite depth, if the Squid could not distinguish the specific outline of the nuclear bomb, the attack aircraft had to be hoisted as a whole, which was very likely.
Public information showed it was a nuclear bomb that could produce an explosive force equivalent to 500,000 tons. It was also the type of third-generation nuclear bomb produced in the United States. It was produced continuously from 1961 to 1965, and the total number of its production had reached 1,000 bombs.
In the last decades of history, this nuclear bomb has been corroded by seawater, buried in dust, and embedded in the wreckage of the aircraft.
The possibility of pulling the nuclear bomb out of the deep sea alone was very low, which meant that Ye Qing had only one choice, and that was to hoist the sunken attack plane in that deep sea as a whole. Considering the enormous pressure of the sea, there is no crane with a lifting capacity of 15,000 tonnes, which is completely absurd. It was also the reason why the United States abandoned the search for this nuclear bomb.
Not to mention industrial technology decades ago, if not decades later, the world’s most powerful engineering vessel with the highest lifting capacity could lift only 12,000 tons. Today, this world record for industrial technology is broken by Monster Heavy Industry.
When this 70,000-ton bulk carrier consisting of a keel and a hull was moored at the quay, a huge engineering vessel particularly thickened, the temporary helmsman and crew left the factory and the ten Monster laborers who were waiting at the wharf immediately began the vigorous renovation project.
The shore crane tower was activated and five Titan I type equipped with magnetic bases and pieces of heavy alloy steel were hoisted onto the engineering ship’s workbench. The Titan I will act as a large processing robot, whether for cutting or welding.
In the underground base, the metal smelting center, which represented the highest level of metallurgical technology, had also started forging higher performance modular alloy materials to strengthen the keel of this engineering vessel.
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It may not be appropriate to use the term traditional keel to call this new brand advanced engineering vessel. Modern ships are built-in modules, which have long been separated from the traditional structure of keel ships. Now there are the longitudinal ones and the spars. In the double hull, there is a reinforcing rib at every certain distance. It can be said that the whole body is a keel, and its structural strength and anti-wave ability have been significantly improved.
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This is not enough; Ye Qing had wanted to install lifting equipment with a lifting capacity of 15,000 tons on the engineering vessel. When this set of equipment operates at a full load, it will also be a test for the hull and will need to be upgraded and then upgraded. At the same time, in order to reduce the total weight of the ship. The boom of this lifting equipment will be made entirely of alloy material and will have a swivel lifting function.
Two days later, the hull transformation was complete, and Ye Qing was sitting in the cockpit of the Titan I with a shirtless Monster laborer and using high-strength alloy steel beams with a single over the five-ton body to build the boom. At the same time, in the underground base, Master Metal Experts and Master Craftsmen were also engaged in an industrial process, of which only a few large industrial countries can imitate 50% of this shocking technology.
A two-meter-long square titanium-alloy steel ingot was fixed on a five-stage central metal smelting forging table by a special device.
“Boom boom boom ~” The ground was shaking as if it were galloping by thousands of horses. This fiery red titanium alloy steel ingot was squeezed from the top of the head by a forging hammer capable of exploding 20,000 tons of impact that struck five times per second. The degree of the beat made the heart tremble, and it was a non-stop forging. Every time he knocked, sparks splashed and the ground shook. With each hit, this titanium alloy steel ingot warped slightly at the bottom, and the metal cube gradually became a circle.
This was no ordinary metal forging; Ye Qing used a unique forging hammer that could freely change the angle. I can easily say it is difficult to complete an impossible feat. This forging was forged into a small ball to make the central hull of the Squid Deep-sea Searcher.
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Half a month later, twelve Squid Deep-sea Searchers were made. At the same time, the crane ship named “Colossus” was also transformed. In more than half a month and a few days, the transformation of the enormous bulk carrier was completed. Even if it was told to aliens, it would be amazing to them, but he was truly born.
Everything is ready, and the plan to find the nuclear bomb has officially started.
Ye Qing arranged the business of the company and asked General Mopu of Nigeria to come up with a cooperation plan for the construction of a wharf.
Of course, the plan was wrong. Where could they afford to set up a branch of Monster Heavy Industry in this poor place in Nigeria? This was done in order to give the giant crane ship a reasonable reason to sail to the Pacific Ocean.
The weather will heat up more and more. Before the emergence, Ye Qing also specifically checked the marine weather forecast for this area of the sea. As a result of this investigation, the temperature there now averages 30 degrees. In the coming days, there will be heavy rains and thunderstorms.
The wind means there will be big waves, but that won’t stop the Lord Duan Battleship from standing in front.
In the dark, Ye Qing drove the Lord Duan Battleship and set off with the Twelve Squids.
It was located in the waters of northwestern Japan, at the junction of the 6 plates of Asia and Europe and 1,500 kilometers from the city of Shanghai.
The camouflaged Lord Duan Battleship had sailed straight to the max, over five hours later the seawater under the Lord Duan Battleship had gradually changed color.
Under the searchlight’s reflection, the color of the seawater became darker and darker as it moved towards the predetermined area. It was as if under the deep sea there was a huge beast with a huge mouth wide open, waiting to swallow the passing ships.
“Although I know it is because the sea below is the starting point of the Japanese trench and the water depth has exceeded four kilometers. It’s really scary, no wonder a lot of people have a phobia of the deep sea,” Ye Qing whispered to himself, trying not to stare at the opaque colors of the sea in front of him.
After confirming the detection area with a radius of 200 kilometers, after stopping the propeller, Ye Qing turned on the Lord Duan Battleship’s radio to listen to the situation of ships in nearby waters.
The Colossus had already left the port of Longxi Beach in Shanghai, but it will take two days to arrive at the most perfect situation and until the moment it arrives there, Ye Qing will have already found the site where the nuclear bomb was located.
Ye Qing also gave the order to tune the public channel to the internal channel at the same time, preparing to release the Squid Deep-sea Searchers.
“This is the offshore oil tanker, Serena. Our location is latitude 29, longitude 31, and is traveling at 13 knots. Please help me. I’m asking for information on the ripples in the water here.”
“Hello, this is the Uradake Uramiya Marine Dispatching. In the next two days, the wave height will be 4 meters, and the swell height will be 5 meters, and the current will be 1.5 knots. It flows northwest.”
“Selina, your local water model is relatively bad. It is recommended you go to the nearest port for shelter.”
“Too late, hundreds of thousands of miles to get there, this little wave is nothing ahead of us Serena.”
“This is the Sapphire cruise ship. Our ship has a load of 9,000 tonnes. Please provide information on nearby ports. We are starting to have big waves in our area. I decided to go to the nearest port to avoid the waves.
“Sapphire, you have to hide from this wave. I am very sorry for your ship as one of the top ten luxury cruise ships in the world,” in the radio, Captain Serena’s strong curry English came.
“Hehe ~ what we’re looking for is comfort. What do you know as a commodity? Oil?” The captain of the Sapphire cruise ship sneered.
These are the waters of northwestern Japan. It is one of the main routes from North America to Asia. After the radio had been on for a while, Ye Qing heard as many as ten ships chatting together.
At this time, the Lord Duan Battleship was on the sea, swaying up and down with the big waves. The open tailgate and two Juli’s were working hard together to push the two flattened ends and the perfectly round Squid Deep-sea Searchers plunged into the waves one by one. There were twelve Squid Deep-sea Searchers in all on the high seas, each connected to the Lord Duan Battleship by a thin wire.
Subsequently, the Lord Duan Battleship took the twelve Squid Deep-sea Searchers with its branches around and plunged into the deep sea which seemed endless, and when it disappeared under the water where the waves were gradually increasing, a huge tanker over 300 meters long and 100,000 tons more majestic and magnificent than a city, cutting the waves, roared above it.
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