Special envoy aboard the "Diksmuide"
“Battle stations!”
The strident alert resounded in the passageways, immediately crossed at a charge by helmeted soldiers rejoining their position at the Simbad missile launcher turrets, at the bow of the
Diksmuide
.
On the flight deck of the imposing amphibious helicopter carrier (PHA), the blades of a Dauphin crush the moist equatorial air, ready for take-off.
On the horizon, a rare freighter traces its wake on a sea of silver oil, between the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra.
A Conrad-style setting, for a scenario resembling the bad Netflix series.
“We are entering waters with a strong asymmetric threat”,
spit the loudspeakers to the 650 crewmen of the imposing 21,500-ton national navy building, on which
Le Figaro embarked
.
Before reporting a rocket attack on the starboard rear of the steel juggernaut, with a loud crash of decibels.
The voice hoarse, panting to go into the treble, when a strike decapitates the bridge of ...
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