Chapter 49: Constant Harassment
In the face of the oncoming Cohen, Ilyich did not rush to break through the opponent's defense, and now, the distance between the two survey ships and the salvage ship is about a thousand meters, just within the range of the RBU-1200 quintuple anti-submarine deep bomb launcher equipped on his own warship, and when the Americans find their own MiG-25 and are ready to salvage, it must be that the survey ship will leave and let the salvage ship be in place. Withdraw to the base at high speed under the protection of aviation!
Now, play hide and seek with this American destroyer! Under Ilyich's orders and under the operation of all the officers and men of the ship, the Tashkent was like a wandering fish on the ocean, constantly circling with the American warship, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, sometimes accelerating, sometimes slowing down, staging a cat-and-mouse battle on the sea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Time is passing little by little, and the sky is getting darker and darker.
"Captain, it's getting dark, what are we going to do?" The deputy captain said to Ilyich. Sailing at night is full of risks, and if there is a collision with a US warship, it will be very unfavorable to oneself.
"We just have our navigation lights on, just follow the Americans, and keep a safe distance." "Also, turn on our active sonar and release a sonar wave every minute," Ilyich said. ”
Although the Riga class was built at the end of World War II, as a frigate, it was still equipped with the latest sonar at that time, and now, this active sonar, of course, is used to block the Americans.
For various reasons, when the Americans found that only two Soviet frigates were running over to make trouble, the Americans did not send more warships to obstruct them. The reason is also very simple: the Americans will increase their warships, and the Soviets will also send more warships over, so that in the waters near Hokkaido, warships are gathered, and apart from the danger of war, the Americans' survey of the seabed will certainly not be possible.
Now, the Soviets must have noticed it, so they came to make trouble, but the two American warships were completely able to cope with it and were able to control the situation, and in this case, the American survey ships continued to survey the seabed.
The sonar crew worked in two shifts, the sonar officer on the day went to rest, and the sonar officer on the night shift had just put on the headphones when he heard a huge snapping sound, and suddenly, he screamed and took off the headphones instantly.
“****!” The sonar cursed loudly.
Sonars are a special group of people who have keen ears and can hear small sounds, which means that their ears are more sensitive, and suddenly hearing a high decibel sound has a great impact on their ears.
After rubbing his ears vigorously to reduce the magnification of the sonar, he put the headphones back on.
The screen in front of him was also showing a waveform, and just a few dozen seconds later, he heard that hateful voice again, pop!
This time it wasn't so harsh, but the sound in his ears made him even more disgusted, and watching the waveform on the screen jump suddenly, he couldn't help but continue to curse: "Damn the Soviets!" ”
Under water, the attenuation of electromagnetic waves is quite powerful, but the sound travels far away due to the presence of water as the medium, so the main equipment used to detect underwater is sonar, and like radar, sonar will also be interfered with. Now, the Soviets are using the active sonar on their ships to interfere with their own search!
"Yes, that's it, keep harassing me!" After a spin in the sonar room, Ilyich was very satisfied, he also needed to rest, wait until tomorrow daylight, and then fight the Americans!
It was a restless night.
Yokota, U.S. Forces Command in Japan.
"Our salvage work is not going well." Vice Admiral Jonad Williams, commander of the Seventh Fleet, also came to the Yokota base and said to several other senior officials: "In order to avoid the escalation of the conflict, we have not sent more warships over, and the two warships of the Soviets have been entangled with our two warships. ”
Now, whether the United States can save face depends on whether the United States can salvage this MiG-25 and study the secrets of the most advanced fighter of the Soviets, and at the same time, this is also a way to exchange its own EP-3 reconnaissance plane and pilot. The hateful Soviet Union actually flatly denied that until now, it has not returned the EP-3 reconnaissance plane and its crew, and even the Soviets plan to convict those pilots in the name of violating their airspace and let them spend the rest of their lives in their cells in Moscow!
"Even the president called from the White House to ask about the progress of our salvage." Lieutenant General Paul said: "If the situation continues tomorrow, we will have to send more warships over." ”
In the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States were actually very careful to avoid the expansion of the situation and to avoid direct confrontation and triggering a world war, which was not beneficial to either side, and the leaders of both sides were rational and knew that once the two major blocs of the East and the West resumed the war, it would be time for the world to end.
"Locke, what do you think? This time, the idea was yours. Rusfield, who was on the side, asked Locke with a questioning tone.
It's all your bad idea, just started salvage, and the Soviets came up to stir up the situation!
Locke didn't pay attention to Russfield, he said silently: "I've been thinking, what are the Soviets doing here?" They sent those two old warships not to fight, but to disrupt the situation. We don't know the location of the crashed warplane, and neither do the Soviets. They didn't have a survey ship, they couldn't find a fighter plane at all, but they brought a salvage ship with them, and they said they wanted to salvage. ”
"Yes, they must have come to stir up the situation, they have been stirring up the situation for an afternoon, interfering with our survey work." Lieutenant General Jonad said.
"So what do you think will happen if they find out that we are doing a salvage?" Locke asked.
"It's going to come and make trouble, so we can't salvage, ram, water cannons, or even fire naval guns," said Vice Admiral Joonard, who is a veteran of the Navy and knows this tactic very well.
"No, I think the Soviets sent these two old warships over for a purpose." "Riga-class frigates, equipped with anti-submarine rockets, are good equipment for dealing with undersea targets!" Locke said. ”
Looking at the officers with surprised faces, Locke continued: "I think it's better to plan tomorrow!" ”