Chapter 701: The Decline of the Imperial Navy

The Jamaican government gave the crew a green light all the way to the filming, which is a good publicity opportunity, and when the crew leaves, the filming venue will be famous because of this film, attracting countless tourists to visit, bringing a lot of tourism income, and changing to other directors, the government may not be confident, but for the world's only super director, there is no need to think about it at that time.

Look at the strength of others, in order to shoot this movie, they actually borrowed a Sacramento-class supply ship with a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons from the Golden Triangle Federal Navy, and a Wichita-class supply ship with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons.

Unfortunately, the Jamaican government did not expect that every night the supply ships and the Papa-class cruise missile nuclear submarine would send divers to the bottom of the sea, searching for wealth everywhere, and the harvest was quickly obtained. The detection instruments installed in nuclear submarines are not only powerful and high-precision, but also cover a wide area, which is by no means comparable to those small equipment, submersibles also have detection equipment, divers have portable metal detectors, such strength, as long as there is wealth, it is bound to be found.

"Boss, the wealth under the sea of Port Royal may be beyond our imagination, in just ten days to clear out a cargo warehouse, we have found the same value of gold and silver jewelry as the shipwreck of the San Jose, if you deduce according to this concept, this Caribbean pirate capital, the value of wealth may exceed 100 billion dollars!"

"The materials and information we have obtained are only a small amount of treasure value from the shipwreck, and in fact, in the ruins of this city, there are also a large number of pirate warehouses and merchant warehouses, and since the two sides have been trading all year round, they will have their own storage places." The captain said with excitement on his face.

The lower warehouse of the Sacramento-class supply ship was filled with piles of gold bars, silver bars, gold coins, pearls from Panama, emeralds, amethysts and diamonds from the Andes, as well as a large number of gold and silver utensils and artifacts of great value, such as gold masks, gold statues and gold scepters, which were studded with diamonds and gemstones and glittered in the light and did not feel real to see.

"What you said makes sense, in fact, how much wealth Port Royal has, before it is completely salvaged, even the Jamaican government itself does not know, and there is no detailed written record, if it is like what you said, the Navy's nuclear submarine force will not have to worry about military spending for 20 years!"

"Tell the brothers underwater, don't be too anxious, you must change shifts when it's time to change shifts, millions of shipwrecks in the sea have not been discovered, and there will be a lot of such things in the future, one person will send 100,000 US dollars to refresh yourself, follow the boss and me, and you will not suffer a loss when you do things." Wu Chen grabbed a handful of diamonds and gemstones, and his mood was very comfortable.

In the end, this is Jamaican territory, and things cannot be done unscrupulously, and the wooden boxes containing jewelry, gold and silver have long been soaked by the sea, and the divers need to put them away little by little and put them into special boxes, and they have to come up every hour to change shifts, so it took a full ten days to clean up a warehouse alone.

Staying underwater for a long time, water pressure will cause harm to the human body, Wu Chen would rather slow down the salvage work, than destroy the health of the treasure hunting team members, how to salvage those ancient ships in the future?

"Boss, the British government has agreed to sell us the aircraft carrier Invincible, which is being overhauled, for five million dollars for scrap metal, and keep all the weapons and electronic equipment, and also give us twenty-four Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighters."

"Some time ago, our navy blocked the door of France for a full month, this incident sounded the alarm for the British government, the mercenary corps is fully capable of winning the old military power in a war other than a nuclear war, Britain previously known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and has many interests overseas, it is inevitable to have conflicts with mercenaries, this time we took the opportunity to buy aircraft carriers, and sent these old-fashioned fighters also to strengthen the relationship between the two sides." Marcus called.

Britain once had the most powerful navy in the world, which was also the pride and glory of the empire on which the sun never set, but unfortunately, with the end of World War II, the Royal Navy fell into an extremely embarrassing situation due to the economic downturn.

Taking nuclear submarines as an example, there are seven Trafalgar attack nuclear submarines and five second-generation fast-class attack nuclear submarines, while as for ballistic missile nuclear submarines, there are only four avant-garde-class strategic nuclear submarines, which is less than one-tenth of the number of mercenary nuclear submarine forces. The ICBM used by Britain is a Trident-type submarine-launched ICBM of the United States, and the launch requires the consent of the US Government.

Look at France, although this old European country has also lost its domineering and status as a military power after World War II, and its influence on the world is not as good as before, but at least people have always independently developed weapons and equipment, whether it is nuclear submarines or submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, they have mastered the most core technology, and they do not pee on the US government.

The Triumph-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine is one of the world's top strategic nuclear submarines with quite advanced technology. Although the tonnage of the Ruby-class attack nuclear submarine is the smallest in the world, its performance is much stronger than that of the United Kingdom, and it will not lie on the back seven at a time, resulting in no attack nuclear submarine available.

This is a bit far-fetched, anyway, the British Royal Navy can only barely maintain the name of the blue-water navy at present, except for the avant-garde-class strategic nuclear submarines, there is no deterrent force, especially for a super power such as the mercenary corps.

As for the so-called Invincible-class aircraft carriers, they are only light aircraft carriers, and the Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighters on board are not only limited in number, but also obviously inferior to the fixed-wing aircraft that catapult and take off, with a large bomb load and a long range, and their combat effectiveness is limited.

"It's just a light aircraft carrier with a full load of more than 20,000 tons, which is a publicity gimmick for us, and enjoying the atmosphere of top-level gambling in an aircraft carrier is particularly safe, and you can devote yourself to it without worrying about danger."

"As for those Sea Harrier VTOL fighters, they are all old-fashioned fighters, strictly speaking, they are not as good as the Yak-141 VTOL fighters of the former Soviet Union, and they are finally better than nothing, and they can be used as training aircraft, anyway, our VTOL fighters are also under development, and there is a serious lack of such pilots."

"You have been staring more recently, and when the overhaul of this light aircraft carrier is completed, we will drive it to our own shipyard for internal transformation, sort out the hangar, and divide the area of more than 2,000 square meters into several large ultra-luxury VIP halls, lounges and guest rooms, only the most distinguished guests can go to the aircraft carrier to consume, set a high standard when it is open, and the general guests will go to the cruise." Wu Chen thought for a while and said.