Battle for America by Maloney Mack;

Author:Maloney, Mack;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Published: 2017-02-22T18:30:45+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

May 7

It was no myth that the Admiral Isakov was the world’s most powerful warship. In fact, it might have been the most powerful warship ever.

Not only did it carry fleets of fighters and attack copters on board, it was also outfitted with long-range offensive weapons more typically seen on battleships. Four massive batteries, two fore and two aft of the carrier’s immense, ten-story superstructure, each packing three gigantic eighteen-inch guns. Cruise missile launchers dominated both sides of the ship’s wide deck, along with a line of antiship missiles, weapons that could be quickly adapted to carry nuclear warheads.

For its own protection, dozens of SAM launchers, rotary cannons, and CADS Gatling-type weapons could be found in place all over the exterior, threatening anyone who dared come in close.

But the Isakov’s supremacy lay in its air group. The ship carried three dozen Su-34 JLR Mach 2 fighters, extremely advanced and extremely dangerous airplanes. In air-to-air mode, a Su-34 JLR could destroy enemy airplanes up to a hundred miles away. It could also shred anything in near visual distance with its pair of massive nose-mounted cannons.

But the Su-34 JLR was also a bomber—a real bomber, not just some fighter plane with bombs attached. It carried a crew of two and a cockpit big enough to have a galley, a toilet, and a bunk bed. Its fuel capacity, bumped up to huge numbers in the JLR model, gave the plane the capability to fly fifteen hundred miles, drop its bombs, and fly back again—a three-thousand-mile combat radius, incredible for a midsize warplane. A Su-34 JLR taking off from New York City could fly to Kansas, drop ten thousand pounds of conventional bombs, and return with fuel to spare. But … if this bomber went with a buddy plane, they could fly the same mission all the way to the West Coast and back, again with leftover fuel. And their weapons systems could just as easily drop poison-gas containers or biological weapons or even nukes.

The carrier was also home to three-dozen Mi-24N helicopters plus just as many cargo lifters, guaranteeing the Russian helicopter shortage in New York City was about to end. The huge Mi-24s featured enough firepower to bust up anything from tanks to entire city blocks, all while carrying up to ten fully armed combat troops. They were so big, the Isakov’s gigantic main flight-deck elevator, used to bring aircraft up and down from the ship’s hangar decks, was built to service its Mi-24s as well as other oversize Russian copters.

Most of the Isakov’s sea operations were run by computers—lots of them on the second deck. There were even some primitive robots—moving arms mostly—that chipped in on things like loading shells or remotely operating the main deck elevator. The carrier carried a crew of just four hundred, instead of the more typical four thousand. This left space for more weapons, fuel, and airplanes.

But the most unusual thing about the Isakov was who it belonged to.

The Russian Navy had been kept in the dark while the carrier was being built.

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