After hearing this, the captain of the ship, Hans Edmenger, was immediately surprised: "The target location, report immediately." ”

"Behind me, about three nautical miles, to the right, is approaching us."

"Attention, take off carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft immediately, immediately!" Hans shouted loudly, and when he was finished, he looked at Commodore Bundy on the side, Brigadier Bundy nodded, and at the same time, said to the radioman: "Report to the fleet commander, suspicious underwater targets have been found, and screening is underway." ”

In the beginning, the Z-17 class destroyer had five 127 mm naval guns, but soon after it was built, the two 127 mm naval guns were dismantled, and a helicopter take-off and landing platform and a helicopter hangar were arranged in the original space.

When the helicopter appeared, the German Navy was extremely excited, in the past, only about 10,000 tons of warships could carry seaplanes, but now, even destroyers of more than 3,000 tons can be carried.

Moreover, the main task of such a destroyer is anti-submarine, so the helicopter is also a special anti-submarine aircraft after improvement!

In this era, surface ships are mainly used to deal with submarines, and it is almost a matter of luck to hit each other by throwing depth charges, okay, a few go down, and the submarine will blow up, and the worse, go back and forth for a few days, throw hundreds, and there is no gain.

Germany, which leads the science and technology of the whole era, of course, will not let such a scene appear, and the main surface anti-submarine ships have begun to be equipped with anti-submarine helicopters.

This is a modification of the Hummingbird 2.

The ordinary Hummingbird 2 was originally a general-purpose helicopter of the Navy with great potential for modification, and now, the special anti-submarine version is improved in the crew compartment at the back.

The 15-member crew compartment is now occupied by a large instrument with two display screens, and two people are warming up before starting in front of the instrument.

In the second half, there are densely stacked equipment, those small ones are sonar buoys, and the large ones are anti-submarine depth charges.

Under the short wings on both sides, two anti-submarine torpedoes were suspended.

With the order, the five crew members were ready to take off in three minutes, the helicopter was pushed out of the hangar, the folding rotors were extended, several people were busy, and soon, with the roar of the 2000-horsepower engine on the top, the helicopter shook a few times on the small helicopter deck and pulled up.

Anti-submarine operations begin!

What are the advantages of anti-submarine helicopters over warships?

The first is speed! When surface ships are anti-submarine, in order to avoid their own noise interference, the speed is very slow, which may give the other side enough time to escape, and the anti-submarine helicopter can arrive at the scene as quickly as possible!

Three nautical miles, that was almost as soon as it took off, and it was very short.

At this point, it can only be said that Captain Bill was lucky enough, he operated his periscope, constantly looking at the fleet, at this time, his eyes fell on a destroyer.

At the back of the destroyer, there was a special platform, on which a uniquely shaped plane was pushed out, and then the plane flew up.

When his eyes fell on the short wings of the plane, he was startled by what was on it.

What is that? Torpedo!

"Quick, dive, urgently dive to a hundred meters!" Captain Bill shouted loudly, retrieving his periscope.

At this time, the ballast tank was already filled with water, and after receiving the order, the helmsman began to put the elevator to the maximum position, and the engineer pushed the speed to the maximum, and as the speed of the propeller in the tail increased, the water splashed, and the hull tilted, and the dive began.

Sailors, as long as they were idle, were running quickly towards the bow, and soon the torpedo compartment in the bow was full of people, and as they moved, the gravity of the bow increased, and the inclination of the dive became greater.

The strangely shaped aircraft should be a German helicopter, and the United States is said to be developing the same equipment, but it has not made much progress, and the German warships have actually begun to be equipped in large quantities!

Once you fall behind, you can never catch up.

Although I don't know what the other party is going to do, as long as I look at the torpedo, I know that it may be coming to trouble my side, now, protect myself first!

The instructions for the submarine's depth gauge began to increase slowly, and everyone was silent, only the sonar man listened intently, and the sound of the nearby fleet's engines turning the propellers was the loudest, and in this sound, there seemed to be other soft sounds.

"Puff, puff." It's like something overboard.

Is it a deep bullet? Thinking of this, the sonar soldier immediately frowned, but then he stretched out again.

It shouldn't be, the movement of the deep bomb falling into the water is not so big, this should be something small falling into the water. But what it was, he couldn't guess.

At this time, the anti-submarine helicopter had already flown over the target, and one of the pilots in the aft compartment, as instructed, began to throw things down.

It's not big, almost the size of a military backpack, and at the same time, it's not very heavy.

The helicopter circled the sea area where the target had just been found, and as it turned, it threw downwards, one, two. In the time it took to go around in a circle, about eight were put in.

It's all money, and the cost of each one is almost 8,000 euros, but the war is a money-burning thing, so you don't have to worry about it a lot.

After throwing it away, the people on the front console, wearing headphones, began to listen carefully.

This is the result of the latest German technology, sonar buoys!

Sonar has only appeared in recent years, and under water, by listening to the sound to identify the enemy, propellers, engines, there will be noise, and listening to the sound can deduce the location of the target.

However, the sonar of submarines and surface ships is defective, and once the target is far away and the bearing is wrong, it may disappear, and now, every sonar buoy that is dropped can hear the sound in one direction, and several sonar buoys circle around the sea surface to form an array, and then it can be heard more clearly.

"The target is down there, it's diving, azimuth 039, and it's about eighty at depth." While one person was listening carefully to the sound, the other person was operating the instrument in front of him, and on the display screen in front of him, the analyzed data was already displayed.

"Ready to throw anti-submarine torpedoes." The captain shouted.