[96] Unknown target discovered

Regardless of whether you think 037 is good or bad, in short, for new sailors, the initial adaptation period is not so comfortable, 037 submarine hunting that "sea jeep" reputation is not blown, four 402 diesel engines provide a total power of 10,000 horsepower output, when the diesel engine starts at full speed, the 300-ton boat is like flying on the sea, the whole hull leaps over the tip of the wave to penetrate the wave wall and the hull landing to slap the sea surface is a common thing, if you encounter wind and waves, it is even more bumpy, Spit out a few new sailors who switched from the Army to operate artillery into human shapes. However, in the words of Shi Dasheng, the chief engineer of No. 608, this boat is stable and quiet, and you landlubbers have never been on a really upside down boat. Of course, the 037 has made a number of improvements in waveworthiness and stability, and the use of shock absorption equipment and sound absorption and sound insulation equipment makes the 037 much quieter than the ships of the 50s. But for the landlubber sailors who got on the boat for the first time, there was no good reference point to compare. Fortunately, after this period of training and escort missions, everyone gradually adapted to this rhythm.

According to Chief Engineer Shi Dasheng, the Jiangfang patrol boat he used to stay in was not as fast as the 037's cruising speed at full speed, and those old-fashioned gunboats were driven by coal-burning steam engines, which had to be warmed up, started slowly, and even slower. In the opinion of captain Han Tingfeng, the ship environment of the 037 hunting submarine is hundreds of times better than the gunboat Anton he led before. But everyone knows that a good environment has little to do with strong combat effectiveness, but after completing the naval gun shooting training, everyone understands what are the advantages of the 037 submarine hunting firepower, one word, accurate.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE REAL-TIME DATA PROVIDED BY THE "ROUND BALL" GUN-SECOND RADAR, THE 57MM MAIN GUN CAN ATTACK TWO-THIRDS OF THE MAXIMUM RANGE TARGET UNDER THE MANUAL CONTROL AND ADJUSTMENT OF EIGHT GUNNERS, AND THE HIT RATE CAN REACH ABOUT 10 PERCENT. When this data appeared in front of Captain Han Tingfeng, he didn't believe his eyes at all, and the 8000-meter hit could be close to one percent? That's a 370-ton boat! It's not the kind of warship that is extremely stable in motion and stationary with thousands of tons! Besides, it is the British and American battleships, and the ones whose hit rate can reach 4 percent of the tail in these years are the captains who burn high incense - the ancestral graves of eight lifetimes are smoking. Well, this is stopping the ship to shoot a fixed target in calm sea conditions, but this is what also makes Han Tingfeng crazy, he knows, the Andong gunboat he brought before, a 77MM main gun in a stationary state to hit a fixed target of just 1000 meters is only less than 10 percent, a distance of 1,000 meters, only one out of ten shots. That's a full 8,000 meters.

"Round Ball" is the old equipment installed in 1987, in 2011 it was a knockout of goods, but in 1950, this is a top military secret, according to the requirements of the Navy Command, in addition to their own tasks, the radar and sonar soldiers on the boat in addition to their own tasks, there is also an important mission, that is, before the ship is sunk or captured by the enemy, all electronic equipment on the ship is destroyed, and all electronic equipment such as radar and sonar are destroyed with explosives, and the captain must also open the sea valve, and must not let the 037 hunting submarine fall into the hands of the enemy.

On the sea, the 608 boat and the 610 boat followed the 6605 minesweeper in the channel, and the captain of the 6605 minesweeper, Dong Chuncai, was really proud, because he had never commanded a minesweeper like 6605 before, in addition to two sets of blasting and cutting minesweepers, 6605 was also equipped with a set of audio minesweepers and a set of electromagnetic minesweepers, in 1950, this was a fighter in the minesweeper. Historically, our army relied on two fishing boats pulling steel cables to sweep through the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there were four steel cables, and only after pulling off three of them did they pull out a floating chain of a mine, which was inefficient, because the mines sank no less than dozens of fishing boats in China and merchant ships in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union. For a time, the countries of Eastern Europe did not dare to communicate with us by sea.

In addition, the 6605 is also equipped with two Type 64 depth launchers and ten large depth charges for mine clearance. Dong Chuncai never dared to think that he would be able to command such a high-tech minelayer in his life.

After a week of taking turns to wade into the sea, in fact, the captains of each squad had a little expectation in their hearts, hoping to meet a small gunboat used by two Kuomintang to block the channel to practice their hands, according to the deployment, each squad had two 037 and one 6605 radar turned on, but it had been a week, and the radar had also found two unidentified ships, and after 037 cautiously approached according to the combat standards, he found that the unidentified ships were just a few fishing boats, and they still did not encounter the Kuomintang gunboats. However, the ships did not let their guard down, and they understood that the more south they went, the more dangerous it became.

"Report to the captain, two unidentified targets were found on the radar, azimuth 192, distance display 33 km!" From the loudspeaker in the command room of the bridge of Submarine Hunter No. 608 came a report from the radar sonar room at the lowest level of the bridge near the bottom of the ship.

Deputy Captain You Guanghua frowned slightly: "It won't be another fishing boat." ”

Captain Han Tingfeng pushed the military hat embroidered with a five-pointed star with his hand, raised his head slightly and gave an order: "Communicator, immediately notify the target location of the 610 boat and the 802 ship, and the 610 will continue to escort the 802 to carry out the minesweeping mission; Notify the chief engineer that the four engines are fully open; First mate, change course, direction 192; The personnel of each gun emplacement went into combat positions; The whole ship went into combat readiness. ”

You Guanghua nodded: "This place is close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, it may indeed be an enemy gunboat, and the fishing boat should not dare to go to sea under the blockade at this time." ”

Han Tingfeng looked at the boundless sea in the distance, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly: "It doesn't matter if it's not, it's better to find out." ”

With that, the two of them ran up the stairs and climbed to the top platform of the bridge to carefully observe the sea with binoculars hanging on their chests, like three officers on the bridge who were nervously using high-powered fixed telescopes.

The minesweeping formation of these three ships is the second batch of minesweeping formations sent by the Qingdao base, they have taken over the previous first batch of formations, from the base to the present, they have been at sea for nearly two days, according to the organizational form of changing a formation in five days, in another day, the new formation will set off to change the guard, because it is close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, the new formation will be a fully armed destroyer or frigate to lead the submarine hunting to escort, Han Tingfeng very much hopes to make some achievements before being incorporated into the large fleet in the future.