Chapter 160: Nuclear Submarine Engagement
In the depths of the North Sea, with the sound of huge engine vibrations, the Dreadnought submarine of more than 4,000 tons is diving at high speed.
Belonging to the Royal Navy, the submarine is the UK's only active multipurpose nuclear submarine, with six avant-garde ballistic missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometers and six nuclear torpedoes with a yield of 100,000 tons installed in the back of a huge turtle.
At this moment, in the submarine command room, the captain of the boat, Rear Admiral Laurson, has been urging the operators in the power room to move them forward at full speed.
Just the moment before, more than seventy surface warships of the main fleet of the British Royal Navy were attacked by the Tang Army's sea and air saturation.
The British Navy fleet was first attacked by the Tang Army's EMP electromagnetic pulse bombs, and the communication system, command system, and various electronic and electrical equipment were instantly damaged, causing the British warship to become a live target, and was sunk by the Tang Navy's long-range orbital kinetic energy guns, anti-ship missiles, and cruise missiles.
The scene was as if the end times had come, huge and shocking, and the officers and men of the Intrepid witnessed everything with their own eyes. If it hadn't been for the fact that the Dreadnought happened to be diving at the time and avoided the EMP attack, it would have been a fate.
Laurson wanted revenge, because he saw that his father's battleship was sunk by several cannonballs, and no one was spared, so he kept urging the power room to get close to the location of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Navy at full speed, and only when it was close enough could it launch a nuclear torpedo and destroy the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Army in one fell swoop.
"General, the Tang fleet is heavily defended, our nuclear submarines are too noisy, they can't get close to each other at all, and they will be discovered and sunk by the opponent's anti-submarine ships, anti-submarine aircraft and submarines at the outermost periphery!"
In the face of Adjutant Munch's worries, Laurson didn't care at all, he was blinded by hatred at the moment, and he had already lost the calm that a commander should have.
Of course, his courage was admired by other British officers and soldiers, and since the end of World War II, the British army has pretended to be a good grandson in front of the Tang army for decades, and no matter how the Tang army provoked and bullied them, they did not dare to fight back.
Today. This cowardice finally became a disaster for the British Navy, and Laurson wanted to be a lone hero, daring to attack the entire Atlantic Fleet battle group of the Tang Empire with a first-generation nuclear submarine, which made the officers and men of the Dreadnought excited, and they went crazy with him.
The Intrepid is the first nuclear submarine of the British Navy, and except for the nuclear reactor from the United States, the others are all built and developed in the United Kingdom.
However, this nuclear submarine is too backward, and the noise is not ordinary, once the steam turbine is running at full speed. It's like running a train in the middle of the sea. Whoa, whoa.
Such noise was detectable even by sonar systems of the thirties. Not to mention that the anti-submarine power of the Datang Imperial Navy at this time was extremely powerful, and the anti-submarine ships were equipped with active and passive sonar detection systems with three generations of advanced technology, as well as the assistance of anti-submarine aircraft.
The Tang Army's submarines are known as the least noisy, and not only conventional submarines are known as the black holes of the ocean. Nuclear submarines are even more difficult to detect. The huge size and powerful power system of the nuclear submarine can install more and more powerful sonar detection equipment, which makes the anti-submarine power of the Tang Army unprecedentedly powerful.
"General, please think twice, we are seeking revenge on the Tang Army now, and we have not received an order to take the initiative to attack the Tang Army!" The adjutant continued.
Laurson shook his head and said, "Do you still count on those politicians?" They are probably scared to pee their pants now, and it's impossible for you to expect them to order a counterattack, they don't have that guts. So revenge can only be done by ourselves! ”
"But we are now expanding the war, once we attack the Tang army. Then this war is inevitable! The adjutant said what he feared most.
"It's all because we haven't been able to fight back, scolding and not returning the mouth, so that the Tang Army thinks that we are easy to bully, and if we are still shrunken turtles now, then Britain will perish tomorrow. Our entire fleet has been wiped out, and we still don't fight back? What kind of military are you? Laurson was getting impatient.
"I'll admit I'm spineless. But you have to know that once we fight back, the war will inevitably expand, and then the Tang Empire will inevitably use nuclear weapons in anger. ”
"We are not without nuclear weapons!"
"Just a few of our nuclear weapons can't be delivered to the Tang Empire itself!"
"We also have the United States and NATO allies!"
"Are you sure that the United States and NATO allies will really die with the Tang Empire for our sake? It's ridiculous! ”
Laursen was stunned for a moment, speechless for a while. Will the United States really break out into a nuclear war with the Tang Empire for the sake of Britain? This proposition has always been unfavorable.
Laurson hesitated, and just then, the sonar soldier suddenly gave a warning.
"We've been discovered, and sonar is coming at us again!"
There was a sudden silence inside the Dreadnought, and soon a sonar wave was heard clattering against the submarine's hull and into everyone's ears.
The British officers and soldiers who had sworn to the original swear suddenly became nervous, and after their lives were in danger, many of them regretted it, and they no longer had the fighting spirit they had at the beginning.
At the same time, the sonar of the attack nuclear submarine of the Don Army Bonito has locked on the Dreadnought.
"Judging by the sonar echo and noise detection, the submarine that is approaching our fleet is the British Navy nuclear submarine Dreadnought!"
"This is to launch a counterattack on our fleet, immediately report to the fleet command, prepare to sink it!"
The commander of the Don Army quickly gave the order, and the attack nuclear submarine Bonito prepared to attack the Dreadnought.
The command center of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Army, which was celebrating the destruction of the main fleet of the British Navy in one fell swoop, was also shocked when it suddenly received a report from the Bonito, thinking that the explosion of more than a dozen electromagnetic pulse bombs close to the sea level would be enough to cause the British submarine to malfunction, but it never thought that there would be fish that slipped through the net.
This is terrible, you must know that the Dreadnought is a nuclear submarine carrying nuclear torpedoes, and at this moment the Dreadnought is quickly approaching the Atlantic Fleet of the Don Army, and the answer is already obvious.
Soon, a number of guided missile destroyers of the Tang Army were dispatched to the target sea area, and at the same time, a number of anti-submarine patrol planes and anti-submarine helicopters took to the air to participate in the operation together.
"Lock on to the target and launch the anti-submarine torpedo!"
In order to be safe, the Tang army fired a number of anti-submarine torpedoes in succession.
Under the surface, the anti-submarine torpedo signal was quickly detected on the dreadnought's electronic screen.
"Multiple torpedoes are approaching!"
"Dive now and launch the source of interference!"
Laurson was startled and hurriedly commanded.
A number of explosions occurred one after another under the sea, not far from the Dreadnought, which made the British officers and men inside the Dreadnought nervous.
Tick tick!
The sonar waves of the Tang Army kept coming, becoming more and more urgent.
"Two torpedoes approached at high speed, on the port side!"
"Right rudder evasion!"
"It's too late!"
"Prepare for shock!"
Before the words could be spoken, two torpedoes hit the Dreadnought.
At the same time, not far away, inside the nuclear submarine Bonito, sonar crews reported to the commander.
"All hits! The Dreadnought is sunk! There was no nuclear explosion! ”
Needless to say, everyone on board the bonito knew that if there was a nuclear explosion, they would have already sunk to the bottom of the sea by now.
"Keep on guard and see if there are any more fish that have slipped through the net!"