Chapter 851 Alaska (4)

After receiving the news that his fleet in the Alaskan waters was severely damaged, Yannick was shocked and immediately convened a high-level meeting of the navy.

"What's wrong with the naval intelligence department? Hasn't it cracked the American secret code?!" They didn't even notice the American secret action plan? This serious dereliction of duty can be sent to the military court.

The head of the naval intelligence department stood up tremblingly, wiping the cold sweat on his face and explained. "Your Highness, the Americans seem to have noticed that their secret codes have been cracked, so they frequently change the secret codes; the secret codes used in this operation were just changed two days ago, and our intelligence department has not had time to complete the decryption."

"..." Yannick nodded slightly, which was considered to be an approval of the explanation of the person in charge. Although the intelligence department is equipped with computers to participate in the decryption work, the new secret code cannot be successfully decrypted in one day.

Don't these Americans find it troublesome? You know, changing the secret code is not a small project, especially frequent changes in a short period of time, which may cause confusion in the communication of the entire army. Many telegrams may also have translation errors and other problems, and a lot of time has to be wasted to correct and confirm.

But if it were him, he would have taken the same measures; after all, trouble is better than being seen through.

"I didn't expect that the Americans have such means. Tsk tsk, it seems that we are really blinded by victory. If we don't suffer a little loss, we will forget that there is such a thing as setbacks in this world." Yannick's words sounded like a joke, but the people in the conference room didn't dare to say anything, or even breathe.

But Yannick was indeed joking. The navy that defeated the British Empire had never suffered such a big loss, but unexpectedly fell at the hands of the Americans. Fortunately, this fall was not big, and it didn't hurt the Imperial Navy.

After sighing for a while, Yannick asked again. "How many enemy planes did we shoot down?"

"Including those old-fashioned fighters that acted as bait, we shot down about 700 planes, and all the invading enemy planes were wiped out."

"Oh?" Yannick raised his eyebrows slightly. It was still a good result. Even if the Americans are rich, it is impossible for them to dispatch such a number of fighters every time, right? And the whole army was annihilated, which means that the Americans lost at least 1,000 pilots. Those who can participate in such a secret raid must be elite pilots. If he were the president of the United States, he would feel distressed for a while. If this kind of raid happens ten more times, the Americans will lose more than 10,000 pilots?

However, it is really unpleasant to be tricked like this, and he has to take revenge. "How many Tiger Shark-class submarines do we have now?"

Dönitz said respectfully. "A total of six, Your Highness. Two more will be launched in a month."

"Three are sent to the east coast of the United States, and the other three are sent to the west coast of the United States." Because the American surface warships are already equipped with active sonar, sending ordinary U-boats will only increase casualties. Today, the operations of the German submarine force are basically carried out by Tiger Shark submarines. The navy will no longer continue to produce U-boats, and the active U-boats are looking for buyers.

After giving instructions for other things, Yannick announced the adjournment of the meeting and emphasized one sentence. "Victory and defeat are common in the military, but I hope that such mistakes will not happen again next time."

Everyone said loudly in unison. "Please rest assured, Your Highness!"

After leaving the conference room, Yannick was still a little depressed. If the Americans hadn't been tricked, those US military aircraft groups might not even be able to get close to the fleet and would have been shot down by carrier-based fighters.

With a sigh, he decided to go out and relax. It happened that the Algerian space launch base launched two satellites today, so he asked Anne to arrange a plane to fly to the space launch base.

However, he was a step late. When the plane landed at the space launch base airport, the two rockets carrying the satellites had already been launched, leaving only two white tracks in the sky.

He returned to the command room with the people who came to greet him and listened to Dr. Obert explain that this time a communication satellite and a meteorological satellite were launched. The design of these two satellites was also from Yannick's hand, imitating the original time and space's first communication satellite "Echo 1" and the first meteorological satellite "Taros 1".

Among them, the structure of the "Echo 1" satellite is not very complicated. It is a large balloon with a diameter of about 30 meters. Of course, a rocket cannot hold such a large object. The satellite is very small in the rocket's payload compartment and will not expand until it enters the predetermined orbit.

Such a large balloon requires 18 tons of air to be fully inflated during ground testing. But in orbit, only a few kilograms of gas are enough to keep it inflated. Even a small amount of excess air in the balloon can expand into a huge volume under the extremely low pressure in space.

As a balloon-shaped passive communication satellite, the shell of "Echo 1" is made of polyester film. Although it is only 0.127 mm thick, it can withstand the impact of meteorites of a certain speed and mass. The reason why the satellite is made into such a huge balloon shape is that such a design can enhance the satellite's ability to reflect radio waves. For this reason, a layer of thin film metal material is specially applied to enhance the reflectivity.

"Tairos-1" is a satellite made of aluminum and stainless steel, with a drum-shaped shape. Nearly 10,000 small solar cells are attached to the outer side. The payload is equipped with two TV cameras, one high-resolution and one low-resolution, as well as an antenna for receiving ground commands and four other antennas for transmitting TV images to the ground. The satellite is also equipped with two recorders for temporary storage of satellite images when the satellite is out of the receiving range of the ground station.

However, this time the two satellites were launched at the same time. The "Tairos-1" satellite will transmit the signal to the "Echo 1", which will then be transmitted back to the ground receiving center by the "Echo 1".

After more than half an hour, after the engineers were busy operating, a black and white picture suddenly flashed on the giant screen on the wall of the command room, which had always been white snowflakes.

This is the picture of the "Echo 1" transmitting the received "Tairos-1" satellite camera signal back.

Looking at the "lumps" of blurry black and white pictures, Yannick couldn't help but mutter in his heart what this thing is. Satellite maps of later generations can even clearly show license plate numbers on the ground. But now, except for the vague outlines of the continents on the earth, almost nothing can be seen on this screen.

However, this picture made everyone in the command room cheer, and they rushed to the big screen and pointed at the screen.

"This seems to be Greenland!"

"It looks a bit like it, so this is the European continent?"

"This should be Germany."

Looking at a large group of engineers and scientists crowded in front of the screen and chattering like a group of children, Yannick flashed a strange feeling in his heart.