Chapter 650: Enmity is as deep as the sea
It would be impossible for the Greeks to do nothing and rely on Western Europe to provide relief. After all, Greece is also a capitalist country that has been developing for hundreds of years. Greece is still quite famous in some areas around the world, such as the shipping industry.
As the birthplace of ancient civilization, Greece began to detect the ocean very early. The nautical genes flowing in the blood of their people's bodies. Part of these people became ship owners. Greek ship owners have always maintained their status as the world's largest ship owner country. They have ships accounting for about 18% of the global fleet, and the ships put into operation have reached 333 million deadweight tons. Athens/Piraeus has the world's largest ship owner cluster. Greek ship owners' main force is concentrated in bulk cargo ships and oil tankers. The Greek fleet's bulk cargo ships account for 47% and oil tankers account for 35%.
Greece's huge civilian fleet made their army very quickly. This time, the 1st Army was sent to the city, which was a civilian transport ship.
However, they absolutely did not expect that the Turks would dare to attack their transport ships so crazy!
Perhaps, the Turks were afraid of something, so the Turks did not blatantly use planes to drop bombs, but their behavior was even more abominable. They actually used submarines to sink a Greek transport ship!
Rhode Island, east of Crete, is very close to the Turkish coastline. The hydrological situation below is complex. This kind of underwater is the best place for submarines to hide!
Although the Greek transport fleet was escorted by warships, they still could not find the submarine underwater, so they were hit and sunk a transport ship!
If it is a transport ship built according to military specifications, it may be able to be hit by a torpedo without sinking. However, now, ordinary civilian ships have no resistance to sinking than military ships!
On the sea surface, the Cotrod transport ship was slowly sinking, and the stern had completely entered below the sea surface. Only the bow of the ship was raised high, and countless soldiers were densely covered with the entire sea surface.
It is a relatively lucky thing to be able to jump into the water before the shipwreck, but not everyone can swim. When the waves swell, some lives will be taken away forever!
The nearby ships were doing their best to rescue their compatriots who fell into the water. At the same time, the destroyers escorted nearby released helicopters to find the Turkish submarine.
The K-Japan Ezis belongs to the American Keeling class and is a general destroyer built in the World War II era. More than 100 were built, but many of them did not catch up with World War II. For example, this ship is painted with the hull number of DD-817 in the US shipyard, named Corry Corry, and was only put into service for 45.
After swaying in the organization of the US Navy for more than 20 years, this year it was sold to Greece and renamed the K-Di Ezis number.
When it was just built, this kind of destroyer was just an artillery destroyer. The main weapon was three MK.32 dual 5-inch high-level dual-purpose cannons. However, in this era, it is impossible to fight naval battleships into battleships. Therefore, the Killing class has also been improved, equipped with new sonar and radar, and also has Sea Sparrow air defense missiles and helicopter hangar.
Captain Papasta, the captain of the K-Shizis, was full of anger. As a warship for escort, they took on a great responsibility! Now, we must find the Turkish submarine and kill it!
Although it is the latest destroyer sold by the United States to Greece, the electronic equipment performance of this destroyer is not advanced. It can be said that it is the technology of the United States in the 1970s. It is quite difficult to detect submarines under complex water flows under the seabed using carrier-based sonar. Therefore, at this time, they rely more on carrier-based helicopters.
Compared with the Seahawk helicopter, the main force of the US Navy in later generations, the 500md anti-submarine helicopter is simply a pocket-sized one.
This small helicopter was developed from a civilian model. The total length of the sled landing gear is only seven meters, four propellers, and the moving radius is only one hundred kilometers.
However, a distance of 100 kilometers is enough. It is less than 100 kilometers away from the Turkey coastline!
Helicopter pilot Lazaros flew this small helicopter and flew on the sea, releasing sonar buoys from time to time. As an anti-submarine helicopter, their mission is to find the underwater enemies!
This kind of undeclared war is very shameful! The original hatred between Greece and Türkiye made them indignate.
"No movement was found underwater," the sonar said.
Continue to fly north, the Turkish submarines must want to return to their territorial waters! Lazaros pushes the operating pole, and the helicopter continues to fly north!
"K-Ren Ezis call 500md, K-Ren Ezis call 500md, and found two fighter jets flying from Turkey. Be careful not to enter the Turkish territorial sea." At this moment, the sound of warships came from the headphones.
The radar of the warship discovered that the Turkish fighter jets flew over. Obviously, they wanted to interfere with their anti-submarine operations and cover their submarines to escape! The Turks are really shameless!
At this time, the Greek naval soldiers were very angry. They ignored a detail. The Turkish air force would definitely not help cover the naval submarine!
Because the Turkish Air Force and Navy are absolutely jealous of the deep sea. Among the military equipment of various countries around the world, only the Turkish three armies are so strange.
In 1974, Turkey and Greece broke out in fierce conflict in order to compete for Cyprus. In July of that year, the Turkish Air Force discovered the "Greek Navy" destroyer fleet outside Cyprus. Turkey, the unscrupulous Turkey immediately dispatched F-100 and F-104 fighter jets to mount bombs. They fought one after another and fought passionately. The Turkish Air Force's combat efficiency was indeed not low, and it killed three destroyers of the Greek Navy!
The Turkish Air Force was proud and asked the Ministry of Defense for credit. It was not until this time that they realized how earth-shaking things they had done! They sank the destroyer "Kakadebe" and severely damaged the destroyer "Adadebe" and "Marshal Fiftzichakmak". All of these warships were the property of the Turkish Navy. This time, they killed two naval soldiers, accounting for one-quarter of the total casualties of Turkish soldiers in this war!
At the same time, Turkish warships also used anti-aircraft guns to fight with existing fighter jets until the last moment, and a Turkish Air Force F-104 fighter jet was dropped.
Now, not only Türkiye and Greece have a feud, but also a hatred between the Turkish Air Force and the Navy.
In later generations, in 2006, two F-16 fighter jets from Greece and Turkey collided on the Aegean Sea. After the ejection, the Turkish Air Force F-16 pilot refused the Turkish Navy's request to send it back to the shore, and returned to Turkey on its own under the transportation of a Panama-class cargo ship. When the war was about to break out, the Air Force and the Navy distrust each other and had deep resentment.
Chapter completed!