Chapter 443: Life in a Submarine

The oil transport formation will go to Saudi Arabia to get back crude oil and transport it to the Ningbo Beilun refinery, which Li Baoqiang and Hu Shengsong have agreed on a long time ago.

In addition to the additional jeeps that are being transported by ferry along the Yangtze River, the tankers and warships of the Zhoushan Military Port in Zhejiang Province are already in full gear and ready to go.

In order to facilitate communication, the 131 ship was moored at the Yanziji wharf on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and Nanjing was still too far away from the Zhoushan military port.

In the conference room of the 131st ship, Konoha was reporting on the equipment and personnel of the formation.

And the voyage plan and the battle plan are being reviewed.

Staff Officer Long Ayouyou has been promoted to lieutenant colonel and deputy regimental senior staff member, but he is from the army, and he can only help the naval command of Konoha to deal with the details of landing operations.

Long Aoyou has high requirements for himself, although he doesn't understand the business of the Navy and Air Force very well, but Long Gaoshen is very humble and asks if he doesn't understand.

Long Aoyou firmly believes that one day, he will shine, and he will firmly sit in the seat of the first staff officer of the Civil Defense Army.

"Commander, the composition of the formation is like this: two 300,000-ton tankers, two 100,000-ton tankers; 131 destroyer, three 5,000-ton landing ships, one 5,000-ton tugboat, and two 3,000-ton tugboats. ”

Konoha glanced down at the small notebook and checked the data.

"Alas, the number of escorted ships is still too small." Li Baoqiang hid his face and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something.

"Commander Mu, how are those mothballed submarines repaired now?"

"Hehe, Commander Li, I was about to report this matter to you." Konoha admires Li Baoqiang's memory.

Yes, those submarines are being modernized, and when it is said to be a modern modification, it is actually a tinkering, but the most advanced part is that the original lead-acid battery has been replaced with a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell.

Wuhan Offshore Science and Technology Center has developed the medium of hydrogen and oxygen fuel cells, with the new medium, the power of the fuel cell has been greatly increased, and the cost has been reduced a lot.

Using submarine battery packs as an example, the volume of the same number of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells and the original 200 batteries is basically the same, but the output current has increased tenfold and the weight has been reduced by two-thirds, which is quite objective and huge change for submarines.

Even if the manufacturing of a very simple battery, it also needs to be supported by a complete set of industrial systems, Wuhan Offshore Engineering Research Institute is formulated, Chengdu production, and the peripheral plastic shell and other molds are completed by a small workshop in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.

Li Baoqiang inquired about Boss Huang of this small workshop afterwards, and he was still very famous, the buzzing Zula loudspeaker in the World Cup in South Africa was produced by this Boss Huang, although the money was earned by foreigners, but Boss Huang's reputation was started in China.

"Commander, after the submarines are renovated, the endurance of these submarines has increased greatly, do you mean?"

Konoha guessed Li Baoqiang's thoughts, but this guy didn't say it, he can't rob the leader's demeanor, let the leader say it, only then can he save face.

"Yes, get me two submarines first, and sail with them."

"Commander, I think the soldiers and officers of these submarines still need to be trained, and it is a little dangerous to rush to the ocean."

Konoha thought very thoughtfully: ten years of the army, a hundred years of the navy, this makes sense.

The navy is a technical branch, and the various pipes on a single submarine are enough to surround a 'drill' field ten times, not to mention the various valve 'gates' densely packed on it.

"If you can immediately generate combat effectiveness, let's pull up the posture first!"

Li Baoqiang decided categorically.

Training on the dock does not yet know what year and month it will take to produce combat effectiveness, and only on the sea can it grow rapidly after actual tempering.

"It's okay, how can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? If it succeeds, our submarine will be the world's first conventionally powered submarine with unlimited submersibles. ”

Konoha understood what Li Baoqiang meant, and finally decided to let these submarine recruits go to sea immediately, but the training on the dock still needs to be 'refined' and 'refined', and the difficulty will be higher, otherwise when you get to the sea, you will accidentally go wrong.

"Commander, there is a submarine that has dismantled the diesel engine and replaced it with a plasma system, and the submarine space has become larger, this is the first submarine with a plasma system, and this one will follow the voyage, which can be regarded as a test."

Konoha suggested.

"The submarine space has expanded, so let's improve the living space of the submariners, and don't let the soldiers be too aggrieved."

Li Baoqiang remembered that he secretly infiltrated with a submarine in his previous life and lived on the submarine for two months.

Li Baoqiang was able to participate in the secret infiltration mission thanks to his good teeth, and it was precisely because of his good teeth that he experienced the hard work of submariners.

Contrary to many people's conjectures, although the physical examination standards of submariners are stricter than those of other arms, there is actually no height limit for being a submariner. The unique requirements for their physical examination are that the teeth must be neat and beautiful, well meshed and intact.

Because once a submarine has an accident, it is possible to hold the air supply mask tightly when wearing diving equipment when it escapes underwater. This "outlandish" rule has made many 'awesome' guys miserable.

Life on the boat was hard. The first one to face is the problem of lack of water. Fresh water is especially precious on board the boat when sailing, and the submarine's faucet is managed by a special person.

In addition to drinking water, the water used for washing every day is measured in a tea jar, and all the water used for washing is a tea tank, and all the water used for washing and brushing teeth is included.

They often wipe their faces with a 'wool' towel dipped in a little water after brushing their teeth.

Li Baoqiang spent two months in this way, so that after he went ashore, the sour smell of his whole body almost revealed his whereabouts.

In addition, it is very hot in the submarine, especially in the summer when going on long voyages to hot areas.

Because the mechanical equipment emits a lot of heat when the submarine is sailing, it cannot be discharged from the outside of the boat, so the temperature in the cabin is very high.

Therefore, when sailing on hot weather, officers and men, regardless of their position, regardless of their age, usually wear only loose, 'fat' linen 'trousers' and vests.

Because the linen fabric is sweat-absorbing, volatile, and non-sticky, even if it is worn for ten days and a half months, there will be no sweat smell.

The space of the submarine cabin is very small and embarrassing: sleep with a detachable bunk, and when sleeping, get up and remove the 'bed', otherwise it will affect the normal 'operation'.

The "line" on the submarine is also very particular, and people must have "eyesight", otherwise they will run into walls everywhere, and their noses and faces will be swollen. The low roof and the hard machinery may leave a "souvenir" on the sailor's head at any time. When the submarine is underwater, personnel should minimize the movement of large distances across the compartment, because the moment of disruption of the equilibrium generated by such actions is large and can have an impact on the balance of the submarine.

Because the submarine compartment is closed, and the shift is changed every 4-6 hours during a long voyage, the biological clock of the sailors will soon be 'messed up', so the clock in the submarine compartment rotates once every 24 hours - so that the sailors will not mistake 10 o'clock in the evening for 10 o'clock in the morning.

When sailing at night, the lighting of the command cabin is dark red, so as to facilitate the personnel concerned to keep the dark adaptation, and when the captain and the guard officer put their eyes on the periscope to observe the outside, the vision is clearer.

In this kind of life, the body's biological clock is all 'disrupted', which is indeed very difficult, can you not remember it vividly.