Chapter 887: Three Submarines Chase Underwater
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"Captain, if we follow any further, I'm afraid we'll have to enter the harbor. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}" In the huge K-132 submarine, the deputy captain still couldn't help but suggest to Yezhov.
The captain didn't know what was going on, he was so obsessed with this operation, following the huge oil tanker overhead, the two sides were so close, if he was not careful, there would be a danger of collision, and he would follow the other party at any time to turn, fortunately this was an oil tanker with a fixed route, it was to load crude oil in the Persian Gulf, if it was another ship, such as a fishing boat, it would change course at any time, and if a fishing net was cast again, then they would stop eating.
According to the original plan, they had already reached the Indian Ocean, tested the surrounding underwater acoustic environment, and then returned to the voyage, but they did not expect that the captain seemed to have become a fun-loving child at this time, and liked to follow the big belly of the tanker, and ran all the way here.
In the Indian Ocean, in the Arabian Sea, it is okay, but, now, it is already in the Persian Gulf, and in the narrow waters, it is not suitable for the navigation of giant submarines with a displacement of 18,000 tons, where it is the world of diesel-electric submarines of one or two thousand tons, so the deputy commander finally began to propose to the captain.
It was already very thrilling to follow the tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, and now, does the captain still want to slip into those ports?
No one knows what Yezhov himself was thinking, the Persian Gulf is very narrow and simply not suitable for K-132 activities. Although this mode of action is of great practical significance, it is the work of attacking nuclear submarines, and it is a cruise missile submarine on its own side, which is a bit difficult.
Of course. Yezhoff did this with his own considerations, because he always felt that there was a Los Angeles-class submarine following behind.
It's just a feeling, but, Yezhov's feeling. Very accurate all the time.
Hearing the words of the deputy captain, Yezhov knew that he could not be so stubborn anymore. Finally run to the ports of Iraq or Kuwait? Moreover, even with a submarine in the back, it is so well concealed on its own. Moreover, if they enter the Persian Gulf again, they will definitely give the other side the wrong feeling, they are following the wrong target, because the nuclear submarine will not run into such a narrow water.
Staying underwater for a long time, although in this submarine, there is even a swimming pool, and the sailors are used to working in three shifts regardless of day and night, but. You still have to get some fresh air.
After leaving here, find a safe place to float once, Yezhov thought, this time, he has not contacted the headquarters. After ascending, use communication satellites to contact the headquarters once. The Los Angeles-class should not follow.
"Three on the left side, four on the front." Yezhov said.
With his order, the K-132 submarine left the tanker above and began its own return journey.
He didn't know. Just as he was separating from the tanker above, he was less than two nautical miles away from another conventional submarine underwater, and although his submarine was quiet enough, it was still spotted at this distance.
With the turn of the K-132 submarine, at a distance of three nautical miles behind it, the Baton Ruri submarine also turned.
The Baton Ruri followed it all the way from near the Philippines, because although the unknown submarine was very quiet, the ship on it was still noisy enough.
However, it did not dare to go too far, because, I don't know when the submarine will slip away from under the tanker, the noise of the other party is too small, if it is too far away, it will not be noticed, it will be too much failure, so, although it knows that this cāo is very dangerous, and there will be a possibility of collision at any time, but it still carefully follows behind. Fortunately, the tanker was only a dozen knots, and he had enough time to react, and if he sailed at high speed, the danger would be greatly increased. {{}}
After following all the way to the Arabian Sea, until he followed through the Strait of Hormuz, Johnson even began to doubt his own judgment, was that cunning submarine really under that tanker? What did he do in the Persian Gulf?
Johnson eventually insisted on his judgment, and as a result, after the water was open, he finally found out that the submarine had slipped out.
Underwater, it is a world of nuclear submarine competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, although this is the Persian Gulf, they have no fear. However, they did not know that not far from them, a conventional submarine, was watching them.
Mustafa's submarine has not been turned on the engine and sits on the seabed less than a hundred meters, so that it can play the greatest quiet, and no sonar will find a submarine that is not turned on. In this way, right under the noses of the two heavyweight nuclear submarines, no, under the ears, the TR-1700 submarines, the first to detect each other.
Hearing the sonar's words, Mustafa immediately felt happy in his heart, this time he finally caught up with the opportunity to almost fight!
What's that voice? A submarine for sure! When Mustafa was instructed by the German adviser Leo, he knew that in submarines, there was a tactic that was to stick under the belly of the ship to get rid of the risk of noise exposure, which they did in World War II, but at that time they were all conventional submarines, and after following for a while, they had to leave and find a safe place to recharge, and if the merchant ships were too fast, they couldn't keep up. {{}}
So, Mustafa judged that it was a submarine, and, most likely, a nuclear submarine!
The sonar man listened carefully to the sound in the water, and finally, he noticed that behind that voice, there was another voice! That's another submarine!
"They're all accelerating, they're moving away from us, the latter submarine, it's the Los Angeles class, the former submarine is unknown." The sonar judged.
Both submarines were speeding up, and, in the Los Angeles class behind, the tail propeller was heading at the TR-1700 submarine, which was immediately judged by the sonar officer, and the sound of this American submarine was very easy to identify, of course, at a sufficiently close distance and bearing.
The situation at the front is unknown, but, without a doubt, it must have been a Soviet submarine! As a submariner, you must be familiar with all kinds of underwater knowledge. For example, the United States and the USSR have always been in underwater confrontation!
"Let's keep up!" Mustafa said. {{}}
Here, but in the Persian Gulf, in Mustafa's heart, this is the territory of the Iraqi Navy, their backyard, and there are people who dare to infiltrate underwater here. The Iraqi Navy must put an end to this behavior! Moreover, there are Iraqi warships overhead!
It's just a pity that another TR-1700 submarine is fifty nautical miles away. Otherwise, with two submarines working together, the chances will be greater.
Right now. Mustafa commanded his own submarine and caught up!
"Forward five, keep up with enemy submarines, find unidentified submarines in our exercise waters, note, this is not an exercise." Mustafa said.
The sailors on the entire submarine immediately went into action.
The TR-1700 submarine has eight battery packs composed of 120 cells each, which are used to drive an 8850 shaft horsepower Siemens propulsion motor at the tail. Drive the propeller to rotate.
Now, the drive motor is spinning at full speed, and the propeller at the tail is spinning, stirring up the sea water and propelling the hull. Drive forward.
Forward five, which can be said to be the highest gear, that is, full speed forward, this way, is the most power-consuming. If submerged at cruising speed, the battery can sustain several days of sailing. However, sailing at maximum speed, supported for a maximum of an hour, will consume all the power.
Although this will consume the electricity, although it is very noisy, but if you want to catch up with the two submarines in front, you have to run, because the other party is too fast! Moreover, the other party is still accelerating!
The only good thing is that because the TR-1700 submarine is at the rear, there is no need to worry about being discovered by the two submarines in front, no matter how loud the noise behind them is, they can't find it, and the noise of this conventional submarine is actually very low, born from the excellent 209-class submarine, and it is also a conventional submarine bought from the black hole of the ocean.
After leaving the belly of the tanker, the K-132 submarine began to search around, except for two tankers, no other ships were found, and the two Iraqi frigates were conducting an anti-submarine search at a distance of 80 nautical miles at this time, and the speed was only six knots, and the K-132 could not be found.
So, Yezhov gave an order: sail at full speed!
Under Yezhov's order, the K-132, which had been sailing at turtle speed for more than ten days, once again burst out at maximum speed and started at full speed.
This trick is clear to everyone, and next, it's time to have a left full rudder.
Yezhov had always suspected that behind him, the damn Los Angeles-class submarine was still following him, and he had always had this premonition, and now, he was going to embark on the return journey, and he had to check if there was indeed a tail behind him, so he had to accelerate, and after full speed, he would make another sharp turn, and use the sonar on his side to search for the Los Angeles-class submarine behind him.
Without Yezhov's orders, all the people had already grasped the handrails around them.
"Report to the captain, they're too fast for us to catch up." The chief engineer reported to Captain Mustafa: "We have accelerated to a maximum speed of 25 knots, and we can still use electricity for half an hour." ”
Twenty-five verses! For a nuclear submarine, it can be achieved as long as it maintains 70% power, but for a submarine powered by batteries, this is already an effort to eat. The propulsion motor made by Siemens at the tail burst out with more than 8,000 horsepower, so that the TR-1700 submarine is also consuming precious power when sailing at high speed.
"What about the two submarines?" Mustafa asked.
"They've accelerated to at least thirty knots." The sonar soldier analyzed from the sound he heard, the other party must be a nuclear submarine! What do they want to do with their two submarines sailing at high speed?
If it were possible, Johnson would not be willing to follow so close under the water, and run so fast, if not, at most half an hour, he would have completely lost the trace of the other party, and if he lost it, how would he explain to the Kitty Hawk when he went back?
This is very dangerous, Johnson knows that the next action of the other party is probably to turn around, fortunately, he has already touched the law of the other party, the captain of the submarine in front of him is a left-hander! Every time he is checking whether there is movement in the rear, he likes to have a full rudder on the left, so his current submarine is in the right position of the opponent's tail, so that when the opponent turns, although he turns later, he can still follow the opponent just right.