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"Report, an urgent document from the Seventh Fleet for His Excellency the Minister to approve. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}" At the Pentagon, Weinberg rubbed his reddened eyes, he had just received an emergency call from home.

After the last espionage incident, the United States has raised the level of secrecy in all aspects, and all kinds of materials cannot be taken from outside, so Weinberg can only get the documents when he goes to the office.

Generally speaking, the commander of an aircraft carrier is already a qualified diplomat, representing the United States and exercising various powers, and the commander of the fleet is also a veteran of diplomacy, and now, this document has to be sent to the Ministry of Defense for approval, then something must be wrong.

After getting the documents, Weinberg frowned, one of his Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines had an accident!

After a severe collision, the hull barely floated, but then lost power, and now, two warships of the Iraqi Navy arrived next to it, and Captain Johnson was waiting for orders from his superiors.

This submarine has not sent any news since it tracked a Soviet submarine more than half a month ago, and now, again, it is actually in the Persian Gulf, a nuclear submarine with a displacement of 7,000 tons, what is it doing in such a narrow Persian Gulf! Moreover, there was a crash!

However, now is not the time to hold those above accountable, the key question now is, what to do?

The office door opened, and the equally sleepy-eyed Chief of Naval Operations James David Watkins, the world's most powerful naval force, walked in. {{}} is also set up in the Pentagon.

As the head of the Navy, as an admiral, James had an extensive resume, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1949 and served on destroyers and submarines. In 1958, he entered the Naval Academy, obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Naval Graduate School, and served as the executive commander of the nuclear submarine Snook from 1964 to 1966. In 1967, he was appointed commander of the nuclear-powered cruiser USS Long Beach. In 1969, he was appointed head of the Naval Personnel Directorate of the Admiralty in charge of the management of the distribution of submarine and nuclear power personnel. After that, he was successively promoted to the chief of the Soldier Personnel Division of the Naval Personnel Bureau, the assistant director of the Naval Personnel Bureau, the director of the Personnel Bureau of the Navy Department, the commander of the Sixth Fleet, the deputy director of the Naval Operations Bureau, and the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. Until 1982, he succeeded Admiral Thomas Bibb Hayward as Chief of Naval Operations.

Such a professional leader. It is a submarine that is very familiar with the Navy and, especially, with the Navy.

Take the information from Weinberg. James suddenly felt that this time the situation was very bad.

Obviously, the collision was very violent, otherwise, the captain would not have taken the emergency ascent, fortunately it did not cause a water leak, and after the afloat, the nuclear reactor was shut down, which was even more fortunate and unfortunate.

Now the submarine has lost power. What should I do if I am hit too hard again?

"We need to get this submarine into the dock, inspect the damage down there, and if it's not too serious, tow it back to our naval base. If the damage is severe, we can only use dry dock carriers and transport them back to our local shipyards. ”

Now, no one can determine what the situation of the Baton Ru RI is, so. {{}} must let it into the floating dock, expose the entire hull, carefully check the situation, these divers can not do well, even a small mechanical strain, a small crack, is absolutely fatal, only completely sure that there is no problem, can be towed back, towed back to the base in the Pacific Ocean, it will also take half a month, in the meantime, whether there will be all kinds of bad weather on the sea, are all factors that need to be considered.

And the nuclear reactor was shut down, which is also very lucky, since the reactor has been shut down, then there must be a problem, and the reactor can no longer be ventured on, and it needs to be checked and confirmed by experts.

The most troublesome situation is that there is a serious problem with the hull and the safety of the hauling process cannot be guaranteed, so the only way to do this is to use a dry dock transport vessel.

This is a kind of dock-type transport ship, through the cāo for water intake and drainage, so that the front flat hull of the transport ship is semi-submerged, let the nuclear submarine float above it, and then, empty the water, the hull rises, the nuclear submarine is fished out, and it is safely loaded on its own front half, which belongs to a special civilian ship. {{}}

In fact, this way is a better way, but the key problem is that the US Navy is not equipped with this kind of transport ship, and if you want to use it, you have to lease a civilian company, you know, after the nuclear submarine is built in the shipyard, it has always been driven away by itself, and this method is not used, so this kind of big-bellied nanny has to be temporarily leased, and it takes two or three months to sail back from the coast of the United States, and then drive back, half a year has passed, and these ships are low-speed.

So, James knew that the nuclear submarine that lost power and did not know how to collide with it, or first check the suitability.

"Where to check?" "Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are our allies there, but alas, they don't have shipyards," Weinberg said. ”

"Iraq has." "Iraq has built its own shipyard and is said to have built a missile boat with a displacement of more than 500 tons," James said. Moreover, the construction of civilian ships in this shipyard has also begun, and there is a dock with a maximum capacity of 50,000 tons of oil tankers. They haven't received an order yet, and the dock is still empty. ”

Shipyards in Iraq? Weinberg's brow furrowed, and he felt that it was a sarcasm to the U.S. Navy that he had always seen Iraq as a potential threat, and that he was going to ask Iraq to lease their dock. {{}}

However, at present, the relationship between the United States and Iraq is quite acceptable, and in particular, various arms sales projects between the United States and Iraq are underway.

"We need to report back to the president and ask for support from the Iraqi side." Weinberg said.

In the current situation, they can only choose the nearest place, that is, the shipyard in Iraq, hoping that Iraq will take the initiative to cooperate this time.

"Our submarines have been tracking Soviet submarines all the time, and there has only been one collision, and it is not as serious as this one, what is going on this time?" Weinberg then asked.

"This time is very strange, the Soviet submarines, we are generally twenty nautical miles away, at most ten nautical miles away, we can accurately distinguish, they are very noisy, but now, the noise of this submarine is very small, our submarine in order to be able to track, can only shorten the distance, moreover, the other side is sailing at high speed, so, when the other side suddenly turns, our submarine is..." This kind of experience, when James was the executive commander of the USS Snook nuclear submarine, often did it, but at that time, The noise on both sides is very loud, so it is safer to track and the distance is long.

It's just that now, with the improvement of the silent energy level, the safety distance is getting closer and closer, and it is becoming more and more unsafe to track, but it is still within the controllable range, as it is now, the silent energy of the Soviet nuclear submarine is no longer under the American submarine, which is very dangerous.

"Soviet submarines have always been very noisy, what is the situation this time?" Weinberg asked.

"It's possible that they used a new way, our satellites have observed that the patched Soviet submarines on the surface are laid with silencing tiles, but the technology is not up to par, and after a long voyage, some of the silencing tiles will fall off." James said.

Laying sound-absorbing tiles on submarines can greatly reduce the noise in the boat, which is a way that the Soviet Union has begun to adopt, but the US Navy's silencing tiles are still in the development stage, and their Los Angeles class is not laying silencing tiles, however, thanks to the excellent low noise and propellers, their noise level is still very low.

Through this incident, the two have seen the essence clearly: if the noise level of the Soviet nuclear submarine really becomes very low, it will definitely not be good news for them, either they will have to risk colliding and follow them at close range, or they will have to lose the trace of the Soviets.

Reminiscent of what happened to the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier half a month ago, both of them felt a little headache, does the US military need to spend huge sums of money to invest in the development and production of updated underwater listening equipment?

"The report, the picture taken by the reconnaissance satellite ten minutes ago, the situation is very urgent, and the intelligence department quickly sent it to us." Said an adjutant on duty.

After the situation on the Baton Ruri, the US reconnaissance satellite began to adjust its orbit and prepare to fly over it, scanning the surrounding situation in addition to its own nuclear submarine, and also scanning the surrounding situation incidentally.

Originally, it was not easy to find a needle in a haystack to sweep something out from the sky, and this is also the target of the aircraft carrier formation, although the target of the aircraft carrier formation is large, but the reconnaissance satellite still has to be very lucky to find the traces of the other party, and in the vast sea, no matter how huge the ship is, it will become like an ant.

It's just that this reconnaissance satellite was attracted by the shiny thing below, and when the lens was adjusted and the thing was seen clearly, the Cāo personnel on the ground immediately realized that this information was too useful!

In that photo, a huge submarine, the head is still in the water, but the tail is exposed, and the two huge propellers in the tail are made of high-strength copper alloy, glittering, and its anti-shè sunlight is captured by high-definition satellite lenses.

That kind of propeller is no longer the five-bladed propeller commonly used by Soviet nuclear submarines that they are familiar with, but uses a seven-bladed large side-inclined propeller similar to that of the West!