Chapter Thirty-Eight: Landing in High Sea Conditions
On the bridge, Xia Yu and Wang Pengyu stood on the sidelines watching the real-time surveillance footage from the anti-submarine helicopter. Since the submarine was forced to float, the cameras mounted on the anti-submarine helicopter have started to work, which is also a necessary means of collecting evidence, otherwise who will believe you just based on your empty words and white teeth.
Originally, Xia Yu and the two planned to wait for the J-31 to take off directly after filling up the fuel in the mission briefing room and return to the field as originally planned, but because of the struggle with the F35, Wang Yifu said that he would first extract the number jΓΉ in the black box, but it would take a little time, so the original flight plan was changed, and the two would not be able to take off and return until tomorrow.
Since there was no flight mission for the time being, Xia Yu and Wang Pengyu planned to rest separately, but they were called by Mu Shaoqing to go to the bridge to watch the submarine forced to float, which was the scene in the bridge before, otherwise under normal circumstances, the bridge command room is not accessible to anyone.
In the surveillance footage, on the deck of the submarine that has stopped running and floats on the water, a sailor is hoisting the Star-Spangled Banner, which is the first thing the submarine has to do after being forced to float, that is, to identify itself, otherwise it may still be sunk.
Being forced to float and force others to identify themselves is a humiliation for the officers and men of any submarine. Because it means that you have been captured by someone else. So the sailor who went to hang the Star-Spangled Banner was almost in tears, and carefully hung the most important flag in his heart on the deck guardrail.
The humiliation of the enemy is naturally his own glory, so Chen Guofang almost talked to the other party's captain in the communicator with a smile on his face, and the deputy captain Liang Hui was also happy, and explained to Xia Yu: "It's so cool, we finally forced the Yankees' submarine to float." β
"Forced to float too?" Xia Yu didn't care much about the navy, so he didn't know the specific situation, and asked, "Our submarine was forced to float?" β
Hearing Xia Yu's question, as if he remembered something, Liang Hui snorted and said: "In 2006, the Song-class submarine surfaced 5 nautical miles away from the aircraft carrier battle group, and then hung up the five-star red flag and left. β
"Oh, that's it." Xia Yu suddenly realized, nodded and said: "I have indeed heard of it, the discussion was very fierce at that time, I remember that at that time I thought that our submarine was so good that it could approach the aircraft carrier for 5 nautical miles." β
"Hmph, that's just official face-saving words. I think you know by now, 5 nautical miles away from the aircraft carrier battle group and 5 nautical miles away from the aircraft carrier are completely different things, at that time, the Song-class submarine was actually more than 100 kilometers away from the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, and after being discovered by the other side, it was forced to float in order to show that it had no intention of attacking. Liang Hui said hatefully: "The Yankees did not make a noise after forcing our submarine to float, and it was not exposed until the commander-in-chief of their Pacific Fleet Command, Lovehead, visited China, and even our own press spokesman did not know about it at that time." Hmph, of course he can't know, this is an ugly thing, how can we say it ourselves, but the damn Yankees also used this to promote it. β
"Threatening your sister!" Liang Hui couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, and said: "The Song-class submarine is just a diesel-electric hybrid submarine, with a maximum underwater diving speed of only 22 knots, which is much slower than the Kitty Hawk, how can it be possible to keep track of it all the time without being detected, could it be that the sonar of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group eats?" Hmph, if they really eat, our Song-class submarines will not be forced to float. β
"I see." Xia Yu sighed, and then realized that there was such a origin.
"So this time we also forced their submarine to float, which is still known as the quietest Ohio-class nuclear submarine in the world." Liang Hui laughed happily, patted Xia Yu's shoulder and said with a smile: "This is all your credit, watching them also hang the national flag, I feel comfortable, hahaha." β
While the two were talking, Rear Admiral Chen Guofang had finished talking to the captain of the submarine, and then smiled and motioned for everyone to look at the surveillance. In the surveillance, the nuclear submarine flying the Stars and Stripes did not float, but kept heading towards the high seas under the surveillance of anti-submarine helicopters, and the escorted J-15 began to return after entering the open sea and circling around a few times.
But the weather in the sea is like a child's temper, and you can't guess what he's going to look like in the next second. The sky, which was still covered with white clouds just a moment ago, suddenly sank, and the waves gradually rose, and the huge aircraft carrier hull continued to toss up and down with the waves.
In the bridge, the weatherman in charge of the weather radar has just received the latest weather forecast, Typhoon Aimina has been formed, and it is expected that the strong typhoon level is expected, and the central wind is about 43.4 meters per second, although it is still far away from the aircraft carrier formation, but from the meteorologist responsible for deck meteorological detection, the wind speed on the aircraft carrier deck has just increased to 11 meters per second, which has reached the level of a tropical depression cyclone, and is close to the take-off and landing limit of carrier-based aircraft.
This is the first time after the launch of the Liaoning that the plane encountered high sea conditions in the sky, the meteorologist did not dare to be careless, and immediately notified the CIC, and the person in charge of the centralized control room immediately notified Rear Admiral Chen Guofang through the guΓ² internal telephone system, Mu Shaoqing, as the commander-in-chief of the flight, naturally stayed in the bridge, and the weather forecast information was also received together.
The bumps up and down of the aircraft carrier's hull had already made him vaguely worried, but he didn't expect the weather to deteriorate so quickly, and landing on the plane with the flight deck undulating up and down close to 27 degrees was more of a nightmare for the carrier-based pilot.
No pilot would like to take off and land in such a situation, but sometimes it's really hard to help yourself. In the vast sea, there was nowhere to land except for the steel ship that looked the size of a postage stamp in the sky, and the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft had no choice.
Xia Yu was originally going to leave the bridge, but when he thought that there were comrades in the sky who were about to land in danger, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. When he was doing high sea state training in the consciousness space, he had crashed countless times with his reflexes, not to mention that now he was in reality without doing it all over again.
Compared with flying in the sky, the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft are extremely dangerous. Up to today, more than 10,000 US carrier-based planes have been lost and more than 8,000 pilots have been lost. And in China, where aircraft carriers are just beginning to start, all pilots, including Xia Yu, know that maybe one day in the future, the one who crashes will be themselves.