"Yellow flag, it's yellow flag, they raised yellow flag!"

Through the binoculars, he saw the Russian submarine floating above the yellow signal flag, and the new British Navy Lieutenant Gurendez, who was born in Wales, shouted excitedly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In contrast, Major Davis was much calmer, holding the telescope and observing and analyzing: "Judging from its position, it should have been hit by a deep bomb we fired." Belch...... It was supposed to be an X-class submarine, which the Russians called the Leninist class, which is said to have been in service since the late 30s, with relatively advanced performance, had a good performance in the Soviet-Japanese war, and was one of the main submarines of the Soviet and Russian Northern Fleet. ”

However, Lieutenant Gurundez's attention was not there, and he muttered, "This credit is ours, and it will not be credited to the 'Galway'!" Although they are also carrying out anti-submarine warfare, that position is clearly our attack range. ”

"According to the practice of naval warfare, most of these results will be recorded as formation achievements." Major Davis said, "Don't worry too much, it's just a drill after all." ”

Grundez pouted dissatisfiedly: "Although this is just a drill, it is also the result of our efforts. If it is confirmed as a formation record, when we talk about it in the future, it will inevitably be said that we have stained the light of the Irish. Sir, I think we should fight with reason, and this is obviously our victory! ”

Major Davis took a deep breath and replied noncommittally, "I see." ”

Gurendez did not go into details, but focused on the Russian submarine that was floating on the surface. The wind and snow continued, its low-profile black hull appeared and disappeared in the waves, and there were some crew members standing on the fore and aft decks, but it seemed that they were only coming up to watch and breathe, and no one was in control of the deck guns and machine guns. According to the rules of the exercise, after a ship of one side is "sunk" by the other side, it should truthfully provide information such as the name of the ship, its number, and the course of the battle.

Suddenly, an alarm was heard from the sonar room, and mechanical noise was detected underwater, and there was more than one target.

"I see!" Major Davis narrowed his eyes, and a strong aura ignited all over his body, and he ordered: "The sonar tracks the direction of the target, and the anti-submarine department is ready to launch deep bombs continuously, and we must not let the submarine of the 'defender' slip under our noses!" ”

Seeing that the captain seemed to be a different person, Gurundez also became excited, and he no longer paid attention to the Soviet and Russian submarine on the sea, but devoted all his experience to directing and arranging anti-submarine warfare.

Each of the Red Dragon-class destroyers equipped with the new United Kingdom Navy is equipped with two quadruple rocket depth bomb launchers, all four rocket depth bombs can be fired in less than five seconds, compared to the standard manual reload time of 30 seconds, and the well-trained crew can achieve a burst rate of fire of two per minute. According to the calculation of the combat density of each rocket with an interval of 3 meters, a Red Dragon-class destroyer can form a dense coverage area of 42 meters ×3 meters or a standard coverage area of 84 meters ×3 meters per minute, and deal with a submarine that slowly evades the attack of deep bombs by continuous attack, which theoretically has an absolute hit rate - a Red Dragon-class destroyer can carry up to 960 rocket-type anti-submarine deep bombs, and the Red Dragon-class destroyer equipped by the new United Kingdom Navy is equipped with 720 pieces in standard combat!

With everything in order, Major Davis ordered the signalmen to inform the formation leader, the USS Galway, of the discovery of an underwater target and an anti-submarine attack. At this time, the "Cardiff" had the right to judge the situation on its own and take emergency measures in the event of an enemy situation, while the "Galway", as the leader of the formation, could authorize or restrict the "Cardiff" from acting alone, or requiring it to coordinate its own actions.

Fixing the target's bearing, calculating the firing parameters, and firing three rounds of rapid fire, all before the "Galway" could reply. The 24 rocket-type deep bombs entered the water one by one, forming an insurmountable underwater fence - although the submarine in the submarine could not observe the situation of the deep bomb falling into the water, it could infer its landing point through sonar equipment, so as to make corresponding evasive actions, and the destroyer carrying out the anti-submarine attack also tracked the operation of the submarine through sonar and guided the anti-submarine department to adjust the depth bomb delivery position.

At this time, the "Galway" sent out a lantern message that "your ship will first fight against submarines, and our ship will respond later." It quickly left the Soviet and Russian submarine flying the yellow flag and had completely suspended combat operations, and turned around to support the "Cardiff." Whether in the Irish Navy or in the new United Kingdom Navy today, technical coordination has always been more valued and encouraged than alone, and the practical effect of one plus one is more often than two, which is firmly entrenched in the consciousness of Irish professional soldiers, compared to Welsh officers, who are more likely to value British personal heroism, but not as brave as American officers to question and refute the decisions made by their superiors.

Before the "Galway" could occupy the position of the deep bomb launcher, the sonar department of the "Cardiff" came with exciting news: the sound wave generated by the impact of a hard object was detected in the area of the deep bomb attack!

Major Davis immediately ordered the signal corps to send a light message to the "Cardiff" that "our ship has hit an enemy submarine."

A few minutes later, somewhat unexpectedly, another Soviet and Russian submarine surfaced. However, the crew of this submarine was not as leisurely as their companions on the previous one, and they quickly got out of the hatch and ran to the deck gun and machine gun positions. The commanders of the two new British destroyers saw what was happening on the boats, and since the exercise did not define which situation was "sunk" and which was "damaged" after a submarine was attacked by a deep bomb, the Soviet and Russian submarines had the right to conduct a "wounded and floating operation."

In the face of this "stubborn resistance" defender submarine, the two Red Dragon-class destroyers opened fire almost at the same time. Before the deck guns of the Soviet Russian submarine sounded, the "Galway" completed a round of three rapid fires, and the position of the "Cardiff" was less than 500 meters away from the target, and the twin 127-mm naval guns bombarded the target with all their might, and four rounds of guns had already been fired at this time. With the current state of the art of the new British Navy's fire control radar, stabilizers, and mechanical ballistic calculators, a fully equipped destroyer with a qualified crew can hit more than 5 percent of submarine targets at 500 meters, even in very bad sea conditions, which means that the "Cardiff" has achieved at least one direct hit, and the 127 mm caliber artillery shells, whether general-purpose grenades, armor-piercing shells, anti-aircraft shotguns, or incendiary bombs, are enough to fatally injure a submarine of more than 1,000 tons.

While the crew was manipulating the deck guns and machine guns, the Soviet Russian submarine also suddenly fired cold arrows, and two looming torpedo tracks extended towards the closer "Cardiff". On this Welsh Red Dragon-class destroyer, anti-submarine lookouts and sonar crews spotted the incoming torpedo almost at the same time, and the alarm for an emergency turn immediately sounded throughout the ship. Because of the anti-submarine combat mission, the speed of the "Cardiff" is less than half of the top speed, but this kind of 2,000-ton destroyer is inferior to the 3,000-ton destroyer that some countries are keen to develop, although the absolute speed is inferior, but the sea maneuverability has reached an excellent level. When turning, three groups of twin 127mm guns were quickly adjusted, and the muzzles of the black holes were viciously staring at the Soviet Russian submarines that were getting closer and closer.

Since it was a regular non-live-fire exercise, the effect of a naval gun's attack could not be confirmed by ballistics, but torpedoes were different. The torpedo commander on the ship skillfully calculated the firing parameters, and the torpedo crews only took 30 seconds to complete the setting adjustment work before the torpedo was launched, and only after Major Davis gave an order, four 533 mm sound-guided torpedoes with high speed and low depth were fired out from the No. 1 torpedo launcher group in turn, and at this time, the "Cardiff" and the target submarine were only more than 300 meters, and the two sides could clearly see each other's faces through the telescope!

It was found that the opponent's torpedo was almost close to the sea, and its trajectory formed a perfect set of fans, and the officers and crews on the Soviet and Russian submarines suddenly became busy. Although their submarine had already started its diesel engines, its speed had only increased to about 10 knots, and the inefficiency of the emergency steering was maddening, and the extraordinarily slender hull was exposed to the opponent's torpedoes. At the last minute, the Russian crew loaded their machine guns with live ammunition and tried to intercept the rapidly approaching torpedoes, but to no avail, and in the end they could only watch one of the torpedoes slam into the submarine. Although the torpedoes used for the exercise do not explode, they will rise to the surface and emit red signal smoke when navigation is blocked. Seeing this, the crews of the Soviet and Russian submarines finally gave up useless resistance and honestly hung a yellow flag.

On the destroyer "Cardiff," the officers and crew members of the ship high-fived each other in celebration when they saw the red smoke released after the torpedo hit the target and the yellow flag hung by the other side on the snowy sea. In the battle bridge, both the young and vigorous Lieutenant Gurendez and the calm and experienced Major Davis were filled with the joy of victory.

"Ha, it's still the happiest battle like this!" Gurendes laughed, "Look, those Russians are salvaging our torpedoes, do they want to see what new technology we are using in them?" ”

Major Davis said unhurriedly: "We provided this kind of acoustic torpedo to them in large quantities a few years ago, and it is said that they have been trying to imitate it, but without success. Before this exercise, the above specially explained that if this happens, just let them fish! Some technologies cannot be obtained by simple imitation, and without the support of complete and advanced industry, it is useless to give them a full set of drawings. ”

(End of chapter)