Chapter 847 Submarine Confrontation (4)

With Pang Bing's order, something like a torpedo suspended in the sea water immediately emitted sound waves that were invisible to the naked eye, and just a dozen seconds later, the Mississippi sonar who was the first to receive the signal shouted violently: "Azimuth 175, active sonar shooting, 12 kilometers away!" ”

The entire Mississippi instantly became like a cat that had been trampled on, and suddenly began to be irritable, and Lawrence said directly and loudly without thinking about it: "The direction remains the same, full speed forward, and emergency afloat." "Active sonar slapping, this is the prelude to the opponent's attack, but they can't fight back, because the other party has not yet fired a torpedo, because they have received an order to be able to return fire only if they are attacked, and the other party is only active sonar slapping now, or it may be to drive them away, so it is better to urgently float at this time.

Hit back when you're attacked? That's a joke, let's not talk about whether the torpedo fired later can catch the other party, but even if the other party is caught, the first to die must be himself, and after he dies, it is unknown whether the torpedo can attack the other party. "Calculate distances, angles, pay close attention to enemy movements." After Lawrence's second order was given, the Jimmy Carter also received an active sonar slap from the decoy.

"Pay close attention to the sound of enemy torpedoes entering the water, and if the enemy fires a torpedo, we also fire a torpedo, enter the torpedo data in advance." Kelso's face was gloomy, if it was really a battle, he had not hesitated to launch a torpedo directly at this time, active sonar slapping, what is the difference between this and exposing his position? Could it be that the other party has already affirmed that he died first? But now it was not a battle, and he received an order that he could only return fire after being attacked first, and if the other side did not fire torpedoes, there would be no way for his side to fire torpedoes.

Kelso's palms were already soaked with sweat. Although there were two times before when the other party seemed to have attacked, and there was still nothing after the end, no one could say whether the other party would continue to attack next time. "Heading 095, speed 20, depth 200, does the other party still react?"

"Heading 095, speed 20, depth 200."

"The target did not react, did not hear the torpedo entering the water." The sonar soldier arrived quickly, and more than ten seconds had passed. The other party has not yet launched a torpedo, and at this time Kelso probably knows what the other party wants to do, obviously the other party does not want to attack, but just wants to drive himself and the Mississippi out of here, so. Do you want to leave? Kerso immediately became hesitant, not just losing a towed sonar worth more than $30 million. Now he hasn't even accomplished anything. So if you continue to stay, what will be the other person's reaction?

"In addition to the sound of active sonar slapping, have enemy submarines been spotted?" Kelso suddenly thought of something, and asked sharply.

"No, the USS Mississippi has risen urgently, and is currently heading for us." The sonar shook his head, just a brief report on the current state of the USS Mississippi. The two submarines confronted each other and were forced to float, which was the most humiliating thing for the submarine, but Kerso did not feel that Lawrence had done something wrong. If he were in Lawrence's position, I am afraid that the same choice would have been made, at that distance and speed, it would have been impossible to dodge the torpedo fired by the other party by making an emergency dive or throwing a decoy.

And they didn't hear the sound of the torpedo entering the water, naturally there was no way to fight back, and they couldn't launch torpedoes, so there was only one way, urgently floating, floating to the surface, even if it was attacked, maybe it wouldn't be wiped out, at least a few people could be kept alive, if it was attacked underwater, it would be impossible for the entire submarine to escape, this kind of breath-holding battle could not be fought, but neither Kelso nor Lawrence had a second choice. It is impossible for them to attack on their own initiative, because they cannot afford to take responsibility for provoking a war between the two nuclear powers.

Then there is only one question left, do the submarines on the Chinese side also have such an order, so they dare not attack? Just an attempt to drive yourself away with a water injection of torpedo tubes, as well as an active sonar slap? If that's the case, then you can continue to wander here and continue to fight against the other party, anyway, they don't dare to attack, do you have to bump into yourself in the deep sea.

But Kelso had another ominous premonition, because it was very simple, at the current position, whether it was the active sonar slap or the sound of the torpedo tube entering the water, it was the sound of the other party trying to drive itself away, except for these two sounds, they did not detect any other sounds, including the sound of the opponent's submarine, and the thing that was as high as 53 knots but suddenly disappeared, if it was a torpedo, then this proved that the opponent's patience had reached the limit.

But now, there is no way to confirm the specific location of the opponent based on the sound of the torpedo tube entering the water and the sound of the active sonar slap, once you launch the torpedo yourself, if the opponent quickly accelerates away, when the torpedo reaches more than 20 kilometers away, the opponent may have already left in a different direction, and it is impossible for you to hit it, because you have not locked on to the opponent at all, and if you want to attack, then only after the opponent attacks, and after the opponent attacks, it is impossible for you to choose a wire-guided torpedo.

Because he needs to escape to avoid the torpedoes launched by the other party, he has no time to control the torpedo, and such a torpedo attack is not as stable as the wire-guided torpedo, and the natural hit rate is not high, especially this submarine is obviously China's latest submarine, and the sonar on himself and the Mississippi is already the best sonar in the current American submarine, but he can't lock the other party, how can he attack?

However, Kelso, Lawrence and Pang Bing did not expect that the decoy mine also had the sound of a simulated torpedo tube entering the water, but it was very sad that the two submarines did not receive it, and the sound of the torpedo tube entering the water was quite difficult to capture, basically close to the background noise of the ocean, and the simulated sound emitted by the decoy mine was smaller than that of the submarine itself, so it was normal that it was not captured.

"What is the current situation of the USS Mississippi?" Time passed by second, but in submarine battles, every second seemed like a year, and after about a minute, Kelso asked again.

"Depth 50, heading 110, approaching us, speed 30." The sonar soldier reported once.

"How far are we from the target?" Kelso thought for a moment and continued.

"42 kilometers at the moment."

"Where's Naha?"

"It is currently 15 kilometers away from the Japanese military port of Naha."

"Float, depth 150, course unchanged, wait for the Mississippi to approach, speed 25. Kelso decided to leave here first, there is no doubt that there are Chinese submarines here, and more importantly, the two sides have already confronted each other, and the Chinese submarine has obviously been authorized to a certain extent, if he insists on approaching, then there is only one result, to be killed, so Kelso now has to be responsible for the two submarines with nearly 300 officers and men, leave here first, and after passing the Naha military port, directly float and use the radio to contact the fleet, and then let the fleet cruise near the Naha military port, and he can come back with the Mississippi.

On top of that, he and the USS Mississippi were not authorized to attack on their own initiative, and they could only attack after they were attacked, which was undoubtedly a disadvantage for them. Two minutes later, the Yangtze River, which was quietly following behind, had already learned about the current movements of the USS Mississippi and the USS Jimmy Carter, and judging from the current movements of the two submarines, it should have been ready to leave here.

Pang Bing sneered at this time, and directly waved his hand: "I order, use the wire guide method to launch the No. 1 and No. 2 toys after 20 seconds, and after the launch, pay close attention to whether the enemy launches torpedoes." ”

This direction is a tangential distance from the right front where the two boats left, and now the Yangtze River is about 20 kilometers away from the Mississippi, and Jimmy. The Carter is 18 km. From this direction, if the enemy fires a torpedo, the Yangtze River not only has enough time and distance to get rid of the enemy's torpedo, but also pulls the distance between it and the decoy, and if they do not catch the movement of the Yangtze River firing torpedo, they may fire a torpedo at the place where they have just taken the initiative to slap the torpedo when they hear the sound of the torpedo.

At this time, it is better to keep a distance from the decoy, as the countdown ended, accompanied by two low sounds of "buzz", two torpedoes were immediately fired from the No. 1 and No. 2 torpedo tubes of the Yangtze River, and the entire bridge became quiet in an instant, and everyone was afraid of affecting the sonar soldiers to eavesdrop on whether the enemy found the torpedoes.

"The enemy did not find the torpedo." About twenty seconds later, the sonar soldier quickly reported. Pang Bing nodded with satisfaction, torpedoes are generally line guided and terminal acoustic self-guided, heavy torpedoes will only start active acoustic self-guidance when they are close to the target 10 kilometers, or when the range is the last 10 kilometers, that is, the active sonar installed on the torpedo to quickly capture the target for attack.

And now those two submarines are quite conspicuous above the sonar detector of the Yangtze River, so the wire-guided torpedoes have been directly directed towards them. If it was the sound of ordinary heavy torpedoes entering the water, maybe these two submarines would have caught it, but the sound of these two hunter torpedoes entering the water and the sound of their movements were very small, and its speed was as high as 90 knots, allowing it to travel a distance of 11 kilometers in 4 minutes, and at this time, both the USS Mississippi and the USS Jimmy Carter had only traveled three or four thousand meters.

Thus, the two submarines were already doomed to tragedy. (To be continued......)