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The sea situation in the Barents Sea was quickly grasped by Su Ming, because this is the only sea area that the Russian Northern Fleet enters and exits, so the submarines or reconnaissance ships of NATO countries have been monitoring this place and have a very thorough understanding of the hydrological situation here. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The average depth of the Barents Sea is 220 meters, Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, he couldn't sink any deeper, and the strong Mexican warm current sent a lot of warm water to the Barents Sea, so the Barents Sea became the only sea area in the Arctic Ocean that does not freeze all year round.

It is also Russia's only outlet to the sea in the Arctic Ocean, several ports are distributed in this sea area, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has become Russia's only strategic passage to the Atlantic, the former Soviet Union is also now Russia's most powerful Northern Fleet is stationed here, and the only aircraft carrier in the Russian Navy is in this fleet.

The warm current brings not only seawater, but also rich fishery resources and oil and gas resources, and the warm air current and the cold current of the Arctic Ocean meet here, which also brings an extremely extreme climate to this sea area, with strong winds and waves all year round, and the underwater is turbulent and varied, no matter which aspect, it is a very unfavorable factor for navigation, but Russia has no choice.

Whether it is the era of Tsarist Russia, or the era of the powerful Soviet Union, access to the sea is an important reason for restricting their development of maritime power, starting from Peter the Great, seeking access to the sea has thrown off the main purpose of Russia's war, and St. Petersburg is to commemorate Peter the Great spent 21 years to seize the place of Murmansk from the powerful Sweden through the war, so as to have a northern port that can sail all year round, otherwise Russia can still only succumb to the Arctic Ocean, No matter how powerful the fleet is, it will not be able to play a role if it has only a three-month navigation period.

The wars launched by Peter the Great, whether it was a war with Sweden or a war with Turkey, were all for access to the sea, but Kangxi, another emperor of his time, issued a ban on the sea, prohibiting all ships from going to sea, closing off the country, and the consequence was that the powerful China became a semi-colonial country, and Russia's access to the sea in the Pacific Ocean was also taken from China.

But even during the powerful Soviet era, the Barents Sea was still the best place for their maritime power strategy, because the Pacific Fleet in the east was firmly trapped in the Sea by the United States First Fleet stationed in the Sea, and the outlet to the sea to the south had to pass through the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus, which was firmly controlled by Turkey, and then through the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea to reach the Atlantic. So the only sea route that allows them to come and go freely is here in the Barents Sea.

Although Russia has a vast territory and is the world's largest power, there are only three passages to the sea, just like the first island chain trapped in China, and the maritime strategic situation is extremely grim, so Russia also attaches great importance to this sea area, and the only aircraft carrier is arranged here.

Intelligence very clearly shows the location of Russia's military exercise, which is only a little more than 100 companies in the sea area from Murmansk, and this sea area is only more than 100 meters deep, and at present, this sea area is being firmly blocked by many heavy warships such as the Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great and the Marshal Uskinov cruiser, although the ships and aircraft of Britain, Norway, Sweden and other countries are closely monitoring here, but it is still unknown what is happening. But I guessed that something was wrong.

Some countries even suspected that the nuclear reactor of the nuclear submarine had exploded, and demanded that Russia immediately report the relevant situation so as not to cause a greater disaster like the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but Russia rejected this speculation.

Only Su Ming knew that it was a Kursk nuclear submarine that had an accident, but it was not until three hours after the request was issued that Su Ming could be regarded as getting the basic structural information of the Oscar II class submarine, which was a huge guy, one hundred and fifty-four meters long, eighteen meters wide, and ten meters high, Su Ming estimated that unless it was cut in two, it would be impossible for him to accommodate it.

The main thing is that it is too long, width and height are not a problem, if it is shorter, it can barely be taken, Su Ming took the internal structure of this submarine again, according to the submarine structure, this kind of submarine should not have any problems, the structure of the double hull can resist the attack of large torpedoes, the two sets of power systems are backup to each other, you must know that the 50,000-ton Typhoon-class submarine also adopts the same power system as it.

The design of the sub-compartment can be gradually isolated, and the water ingress of one cabin will not affect the other cabins, and there are two rescue areas, a collective floating rescue cabin located in the enclosure of the command room and the torpedo compartment in the bow respectively), the command cabin, the emergency exit of the crew in the engine room, and the escape equipment is provided at the same time, even if it is a few hundred meters underwater, the crew can escape through the escape exit.

Seeing this, Su Ming was very puzzled, could it be that with such a facility, it was not possible to let the personnel in the Kursk escape, if one person escaped, Russia would not have to be so vigilant, at this time Sun Xian sent Su Ming another piece of information, she learned about the situation of the Kursk through a technician who had worked in the Ruby Design Bureau.

In addition to the basic structure of the Oscar level, there is also a detailed cabin distribution map, and the location of the weapon compartment and the location of the pressurized water reactor that Su Ming wants to get his hands on have been marked in detail, according to what these people have learned, the Kursk should also carry anti-aircraft missiles and place them near the command module.

After remembering these circumstances, Su Ming began to rush to the place of the incident, at this time it was already close to night, and more than six hours had passed since Medvedev informed Putin, what would happen in these more than six hours? What exactly happened to the Kursk, whether it collided with an American submarine or encountered an undersea earthquake, this needs Su Ming to be at the scene to know.

When Su Ming arrived, there was still an extremely tense situation here, although the sea was as dark as ink, but from a distance, you could see a lot of huge luminous bodies floating on the sea, and there were not only on the sea, but also in the air.

Su Ming didn't know the specific location, and Ah Da couldn't move freely in his hands, so Su Ming chose to hitchhike to see where the people were going to get off from, and then he followed behind the people, although the intelligence showed that the Kursk had a towed buoy antenna of several hundred meters, but Su Ming still felt that this thing was a bit unreliable, and if the antenna worked, the Russians would not waste so much time here, and it was obvious that there were special salvage ships still working.

Su Ming followed the other party's miniature salvage submarine and sank into the water, and Ada, who was in a state of stealth, was naturally unfounded, and at the same time, with the help of the other party's lights, Ada didn't even need to turn on the lights, and soon the submarine reached the bottom of the sea, and then began to search carefully, but Su Ming asked Ada to start the detection function and detect the surrounding large sea area.

Although the Kursk is very large, it is nothing compared to the sea, and it can be said that it is very difficult to find such a large target in the sea, and even in the daytime, it is impossible to see anything below twenty meters, not to mention that it is more than a hundred meters deep, and it is still night, and the lights on the submarine look from afar, just like fireflies in the night sky, and because of the fear of being discovered, Ada's own lighting system cannot be turned on.

Fortunately, the ground here is very flat, although the fierce ocean current rushes Ada to drift back and forth, but when it stops, Ada can still move a little, and after more than half an hour, the opponent's submarine floats up, probably because the oxygen or energy is used up.

After the other party left, Su Ming turned on the lights, anyway, the area they had searched would definitely not be searched for a second time, and such a deep sea water, no matter how strong Ada's light was, would not penetrate dozens of meters of sea water, not to mention that there were a lot of plankton on the bottom of the sea, which seriously affected the spread of light.

Ada constantly rotates the direction of detection, and the sea water also seriously affects the effect of detection, if it is in the air, there is no problem for tens of kilometers, and if it is on the ground, the detection distance can also be more than ten kilometers, but in the water, it is good to have three or five kilometers.

The Barents Sea covers an area of 140,000 square kilometers, and if there is no approximate target location, it will be impossible to find it in a year, but since the other side is conducting military exercises here, it is impossible for the submarine to run to an area several hundred kilometers away.

Just as he was searching, a torrent suddenly hit, Ada was immediately washed up and floated, floating dozens of meters away to be considered stable, and at this time, suddenly a submarine sank from above, which frightened Su Ming and hurriedly turned off the lights, but even so, it still attracted the attention of the other party, and the submarine came to the direction where Su Ming was and immediately stopped.

However, Su Ming is not worried that they will find themselves, whether it is optical or electronic means, they have no ability to find Ada, except for a very faint sound, but the background noise of the sea perfectly hides all this, so this submarine stopped here for a long time, and did not find anything, so it continued to sink down.

In the deep water, it is normal to produce hallucinations, not to mention that the time of this mission is so tight, and the time of launching the water is so long, the people inside did not expect that Su Ming was looking at them face to face through the glass just now, and at this time, Ada's light curtain suddenly reacted, and at the position where Su Ming was more than ten kilometers away, there was a huge metal object that sank there, not moving.

(To be continued)