Chapter 115: Trawlers
Two stainless steel super fighters soared in the sky, and when they arrived at the target's No. 14 sea area, Andrei saw the EP-3 that was conducting electronic reconnaissance.
When he saw this plane, Andrei's eyes were full of abruptness, and in his memory, he was full of unforgettable hatred for this plane, so he immediately chased after it.
Belenko was the first to expel and tried twice, but the other party ignored them, so Andrei asked for instructions on the radio to expel them.
Belenko agreed, and in Belenko's line of sight, the tall vertical tail on the right side of the MiG-25 crossed the outside of the wing on the left side of the EP-3, near the No. 1 engine.
The sharp vertical tail, like a knife, cut off the outside of the left wing of the EP-3 in unison, and the vertical tail continued to move forward, colliding with the propeller, and metal sparks flew away.
When Andre pushed the throttle and accelerated away, the EP-3 was already shaking like a leaf in the wind.
At this time, in the porthole of the main observation station on the left side of the EP-3's fuselage, the observer watched his own wing being cut and falling, and looked at the sparks of the outer engine propeller of engine No. 1, and couldn't help shouting: "Quick, turn off engine No. 1, our wing is cut off a piece!" ”
Terrible Soviets, it's crazy!
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The Pacific Ocean is calm.
The waves gently lap against the hull of the ship, the "Fordecard", from the outside, is a harmless trawler, it has been built for more than ten years, many years of life at sea, so that it looks tattered on the outside, the paint on the mast has been mottled, and the engine behind it is always roaring, accompanied by puffs of black smoke, it seems to be an old dragon clock.
However, only the US Navy, which is familiar with them, knows that these Soviet trawlers are not at all easy to deal with.
In the Cold War, the Soviet Union was unable to confront the Americans at sea due to the weakness of its navy, and it was not even easy to monitor, so since 1965, the Soviet Union has found a simple and efficient way to monitor the global activities of the US Navy, that is, to use seemingly harmless human and animal trawlers equipped with electronic reconnaissance and intelligence gathering equipment to carry out reconnaissance missions.
Trawlers are civilian vessels, and if the Americans dare to fire at civilian vessels, it is a violation of basic international law, so these trawlers can act with impunity.
The global activities of these trawlers include monitoring the activities of US nuclear submarines in Southern California, Scotland and Guam, observing the formation and movement patterns of US Navy ship formations, monitoring US aircraft carrier attack aircraft sorties in Tokyo Bay, and providing early warning to NATO.
As a result, the Americans were miserable, and there were no US nuclear submarines that went in and out of the East Coast, Spain, and British bases that were not undisturbed. There is no aircraft take-off and landing operation of the aircraft carrier that is not undisturbed. Streamers are often broken. Underwater acoustic operations are often covered by noise from their close range. And every time the U.S. Navy conducted a target exercise, Soviet trawlers always appeared exactly in the restricted area.
The U.S. Navy is also trying to deal with these trawlers, including the destroyer sailing parallel to it, squeezing out, colliding, wrapping steel cables around its propellers, and even using high-power electromagnetic pulse transmitters to burn the Soviets' electron tubes, but it just can't fire on them and sink them.
As a result, the Americans failed, these tattered-looking trawlers were very difficult to deal with, their crews were often well-trained, the intelligence specialists above were fluent in English and knew the US Navy inside out, and the seemingly lazy and fat captain in that wheelhouse was probably an experienced destroyer captain of the Mediterranean detachment of the Soviet Navy a few weeks ago!
His subordinates are all experienced professional sergeants of the Red Navy, who have undergone strict political examination by the KGB, and are skilled, and playing with them, many destroyers of the US Navy seem to be a little tender.
It was not until May 1972 that the "Marine Accident Agreement" between the United States and the Soviet Union was temporarily suspended.
Later, the American trawlers did not come to make trouble so much, and now, the Forecardale, which gave the Soviet Navy a long face, no longer performed the task of colliding with the American Navy, and now, its mission is even more important.
Salvage underwater American overboard fighters!
A few days ago, the amazing shooting of the Immortal Bird missile shocked everyone, and now, the Soviet Union can't wait to get this advanced missile.
It's right underwater, just scoop it up!
At this time, on the trawler, the captain of the destroyer of the Pacific Fleet, the bearded Krosov, was looking at his men: "How is it, have you found anything?" ”
The first step in salvage is to find the place where the plane sank, which can only be achieved by active sonar scanning.
There are two types of sonar, the passive one, which is an underwater listening device, which can be used directly, because it will not expose itself.
But now, it is a sunken fighter under the water, and this fighter itself can no longer move, let alone make a sound, in this case, it is necessary to use active sonar.
Active sonar, just like radar, scans the entire seabed, and the appearance of the seabed can be displayed on the screen, this trawler, sometimes part-time survey tasks, so it has prepared perfect sonar equipment, just at the bow, below the waterline, the bulging big nose, is sonar.
At the same time, on both sides of the big nose, there are two circular openings, that is, the left and right torpedo tubes, which are just in case, if the American warships dare to fire on a trawler like them, then their trawler will immediately open fire without hesitation.
Even, in the event of a sudden outbreak of war, they can use their status as fishing boats to slowly approach the U.S. Navy and then launch a sudden and decisive attack, using torpedoes to take out their main ship.
Hearing Krosov's question, the sonar officer on the side said: "We haven't found out for the time being, maybe the underwater currents impulsively made the target leave the original crash site." ”
Originally, after the discovery, the Admiral Fokine, who was in charge of the observation, marked down the detailed location, and they should be able to find it easily, but now, after searching back and forth several times, they found nothing.
The sky is about to dawn, and once it is dawn, the Americans' P-3Cs will wander overhead, and if they find their fishing boats, they will definitely come down and expel them, and at the same time, as long as they are discovered by the Americans, they will definitely send warships to blockade the waters in this area, and they will never have a chance again.
"Found it, found it!" At this moment, a blurry image flashed on the screen, which made the sonar man happy: "Quick, put the trawl!" ”