As soon as these words came out, Edwards' face was also full of disbelief, and he immediately looked at Mitchell, "Lieutenant Colonel, there are also our submarines in this area?"

Mitchell was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the focus of the reporter in front of him was actually on the submarine of the US military, and he helplessly lowered his shoulders, "The Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine that monitors the movements of the Soviet Navy in Cam Ranh Bay, the Shooting Fish." ”

After speaking, he pointed to the sonar buoy floating not far away, "But it doesn't matter whether we have a submarine or not, the key to the problem is that China has sent an anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and has already discovered the Shooting Fish, damn, our reconnaissance ship is equipped with simple anti-aircraft detection equipment, but who would have thought that China would send an anti-submarine patrol aircraft in such bad weather?"

As he spoke, Mitchell began to complain nervously, because of the estimate of the Chinese Navy, so the U.S. Navy stationed in Subic did not use the most advanced large reconnaissance ship when sending the reconnaissance ship.

After all, the old ships of the Chinese Navy are obvious to all, coupled with the weak air force, it is really a bit overkill to send super reconnaissance ships that specialize in tracking the large maritime formations of the Soviet Union, and ordinary small and medium-sized reconnaissance ships of more than 1,000 tons are enough, and even at the level of some electronic equipment, this kind of medium reconnaissance ships are even stronger than those of the entire Chinese fleet.

However, the electronic equipment of small and medium-sized reconnaissance ships is good, but they have been castrated in air detection, and there is no way that a ship platform of more than 1,000 tons is so large, and it has to do its best to stuff so many electronic detection, monitoring, signal interception, and electronic countermeasure equipment.

It is easy to cause mutual interference, and if it is coupled with super anti-air detection equipment, the entire reconnaissance ship will have to be chaotic, so the "Thinker" is actually equipped with an ordinary sea-to-air radar, and its main function is to check the surrounding sea conditions and avoid collisions between ships.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible to effectively detect and identify air targets.

Of course, no one took this flaw seriously before departure, because the Chinese Navy's air force was not only insufficient in quantity, but also miserable in quality, so the US Navy in Subic, including Mitchell, believed that the Chinese fleet without air support was a piece of fat floating on the sea, and there was no need to spend so much effort to guard against it.

As they expected, the Chinese fleet did not have a single decent combat aircraft over the fleet, except for the negligible communications support provided by the Y-8 maritime patrol planes that often appeared.

Even so, the Y-8 maritime patrol aircraft do not often accompany the Chinese fleet, and the strength of support is not strong, which shows that the Chinese Navy's Y-8 maritime patrol aircraft are either insufficient in number or poor maintenance, resulting in low attendance.

In any case, it shows that the Chinese fleet tracked by the "Thinker" is not a cause for concern.

Therefore, when the Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine Shooting Fish, which was monitoring Cam Ranh Bay, found that the B-79 "Foxtrot" class conventional submarine had left the port and quietly bit the Chinese fleet to conduct a series of underwater training, the following Shooting Fish simply played the trick of the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches.

First, they wanted to continue their tracking and monitoring missions, hoping to catch the Soviet Union's ballistic missile nuclear submarines by biting the B-79 "Foxtrot" class conventional submarines; second, they wanted to further test the Soviet Union's and China's antisubmarine reconnaissance and combat capabilities through their own hidden tracking; and finally, they cooperated with the "Thinker" to collect underwater voiceprints and communications intelligence.

All in all, the silent Shooting Fish was like a ghost, quietly watching the various performances of the Soviets and Chinese, until it was hit by the acoustic signal from an active sonar buoy into the pitch-black pressure-resistant shell, and the Shooting Fish, which had been hidden underwater for more than a week, realized in disbelief that it had been discovered.

The USS Fishfish nuclear submarine is unbelievable, and Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell is even more incomprehensible, he is considered a moderate in the US Navy, and he belongs to the kind that will never make a move if he is not prepared.

The reason why he looked down on the Chinese fleet in front of Edwards before was really not intentional, but the real conclusion reached after a lot of research, so Mitchell was not afraid, so Mitchell had nothing to fear.

Until he found out that the Chinese anti-submarine patrol aircraft was hovering over his head.

When did China have antisubmarine patrol planes? Aren't their antisubmarine bomb-6 ready to be decommissioned? Isn't the performance of the newly developed Shui-H-5 unstable? More importantly, aren't these two planes deployed in the north?

One question after another made Mitchell's head almost wrinkled, but he still couldn't think of a reason, Edwards on the side also turned his attention from the nuclear submarine to the Chinese anti-submarine aircraft at this time, but it was also unclear why the Chinese side suddenly had an anti-submarine aircraft.

At this moment, there was a roar in the sky, and a twin-engine plane swooped down from a high altitude covered with clouds, and Edwards quickly picked up the telescope to look at the plane that broke through the clouds, and immediately exclaimed, "It's An-26!"

"No, it's a modified An-26!" corrected Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, who was also holding a telescope, "look under its belly." ”

Edwards discovered that the An-26 had a streamlined module under its belly, with a semicircular bulge in the front, a prominent recessed semi-cylindrical bulge in the middle, and several honeycomb-shaped components in the end.

"It's ......"

Edwards wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to describe it, he couldn't help it, but the streamlined formation under the belly of the An-26 was so strange and weird that Edwards, as a reporter, didn't know what words to use to describe it.

......

"I didn't expect that there was a big fish hiding under the water. ”

Above the sky, on the improved An-26 that was lowered from 1,500 meters to 600 meters, Song Changzheng held the joystick in his hand, said with a happy face, and immediately turned his head and shouted into the cockpit behind him, "Old Zhou, do you know what model it is?"

"If you knew, you wouldn't have to lower the height, just by using the voiceprint recognition system. There were four or five display devices in the simple cabin, and a bald middle-aged man sat on a temporary chair, looked at the stuck monitor in front of him, and said helplessly, "No way, we don't have a corresponding submarine voiceprint database at all, and even if we find it, we don't know which country or what model." ”

Saying that, his originally helpless face was filled with excitement that could not be concealed, "But this is not the most important thing, the voiceprint database of submarines can not be established slowly, as long as we have such aviation anti-submarine equipment, it is not difficult at all, oh...... By the way, after this mission, you will hand over this plane to us, anyway, you fly the plane, and it will be the same if you change the plane. ”

Song Changzheng refused without being polite, "That's not good, what kind of plane has an anti-submarine plane that can catch fish, and it is comfortable to drive? Tell you Lao Zhou, catch fish, ah~~ No, it's anti-submarine, I'm serious." ”

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