The U.S. Navy has the most powerful aircraft carrier formation in the world. Although the Mao Navy is constantly developing, it is impossible to compete with them head-on. This can be seen from the combat missions of both sides: the U.S. Navy formation is thinking hard about how to improve its attack

The Navy is thinking hard about how to defeat the U.S. Navy.

In this long confrontation, the two sides are constantly developing. Lao Maozi wants to attack the US aircraft carrier formation, that is, a trinity of strikes from the sky, to the sea, and then to the water. Only a saturation attack can kill the opponent.

The Tu-22M carries anti-ship missiles in the sky, anti-ship missiles from various ships on the water, and cruise missile submarines underwater.

Cruise missile submarines were once exclusive to Lao Maozi. The nuclear submarines of other countries were either ballistic missile nuclear submarines or attack nuclear submarines. There were no nuclear submarines specifically designed to carry anti-ship missiles. Lao Maozi has developed many models.

The Type 949 nuclear submarine is the pinnacle of them all. It uses a teardrop-shaped hull with an aspect ratio of approximately 8 and a teardrop-shaped bow. Due to the use of a double-propeller structure, its tail is not an ordinary teardrop-shaped recovery, but has a

Two conical tails, two propeller shafts extending diagonally from the two conical sterns, and a cross-shaped tail rudder.

It uses an 8.5-meter-diameter inner shell inside, and the widest part outside is as high as 18 meters. In other words, there is a thickness of three to four meters between the inner and outer shells!

Between the inner and outer casings, a specialized 3M-45 "Granite" anti-ship missile is inserted. Yes, it is the same anti-ship missile as the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, Kirov class, and Glorious class cruisers.

Missile, a weapon specially designed to hit aircraft carriers!

A submarine can carry 24 anti-ship missiles, cruise underwater, and launch deadly attacks on enemy aircraft carrier formations at any time!

The underwater displacement of the prototype submarine was as high as 18,000 tons. After building two of them, Lao Maozi felt that there were still flaws, so he lengthened the hull by 11 meters. In this way, the underwater displacement also soared to more than 23,000 tons.

, bigger than many strategic nuclear submarines!

At this time, the K-442 Chelyabinsk was such an improved Type 949A nuclear submarine. This nuclear submarine was started in 1987, launched in 1989, and entered service in December 1990. Just after entering service, the Red Empire disappeared.

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It came to the Pacific Fleet. Since it entered service, it has not sailed very far. After all, the Navy's funding is constantly shrinking. For the nuclear submarine force, it can only maintain the cruise of one or two ballistic missile nuclear submarines. The others have to be in

The port is rusty.

Given this opportunity this time, they actively signed up, competed with several Type 971 nuclear submarines, and finally got the opportunity to cruise.

In the 32-meter-long control tower, the captain Avakiants is commanding his submarine with great enthusiasm. It is a rare opportunity for them to go to sea. They must seize this precious opportunity.

The sonar soldiers were the most nervous, constantly listening to what was going on around them.

"Report, our surface ship formations have converged and are conducting joint exercises!"

"I heard the supply ship, it was too slow."

"If we continue to monitor, we may have uninvited guests during our exercises," Avakianc said.

"Report, noise detected, behind us!"

A smile appeared on Avakiyants' face. As an old submariner, he was already familiar with all this: "Now, tell the whole boat to get ready, we are going to have a Crazy Ivan!"

The Crazy Ivan move is actually what the Americans call it. Big Mao calls it the Soviet Union's giant turn, but now they are used to calling it that. They did it once in 1992, and the submariners heard that they were going to do it.

All kinds of actions are very exciting.

"Left full rudder!"

As this order was issued, the huge submarine hull began to tilt, and the entire submarine drew a graceful curve underwater. A clear wake low-pressure area was formed at the tail of the submarine.

Thirty degrees, sixty degrees, ninety degrees, one hundred and eighty degrees!

Boom, boom!

An explosion suddenly sounded.

No. 138.

"Report, sonar detected a suspicious underwater explosion." the sonar operator shouted loudly.

The commander was immediately stunned: "Explosion under water? What's going on? Contact Damao!"

"Vostok 138 called the Varyag. Vostok 138 called the Varyag. We heard underwater explosions. Is there any submarine activity underwater?"

Everyone on the Varyag was stunned: "Underwater explosion? Why didn't our sonar respond?"

When warships perform different tasks, they turn on different equipment. Now they are searching and rescuing at sea. The very nervous sonar soldiers have not turned on the sonar at all. After all, the noise around them is too loud. Besides, there are submarines protecting them underwater.

Don't worry about anything.

"Sonar operator, what's going on?"

"Report, we did not detect any underwater explosion."

"Could it be Dongfang's misjudgment?"

"Yes, their sonar must be malfunctioning!"

Everyone was talking about it.

Nicholas also frowned. Of course he knew how seriously his own naval strength had declined over the years. He also knew how rigorous the Eastern Navy was. Since underwater explosions were detected, there must be something going on.

But, can they admit it? Wouldn't they be outclassed?

At this moment, another calling voice came.

"No. 908 called the Varyag. No. 908 called the Varyag. We have brought a deep-sea lifeboat. We are now requesting an underwater search and rescue exercise!"

Generally speaking, the communication between the two parties in this kind of joint exercise is carried out through the flagship. Currently, such a call as No. 908 is illegal, but now that the situation has changed, Qin Tao must step forward.

Yes, the voice calling was Qin Tao's. At this moment, hearing his voice, Nicholas made up his mind: "Change the exercise subjects to underwater rescue, immediately!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! During the exercise phase, the formation used the same frequency band to call, so No. 908 also received No. 138’s call to Varyag. When hearing this call,

Qin Tao was immediately shocked.

An explosion occurred underwater? What happened? According to my memory, there can only be one!

Regardless of whether it was true or not, he couldn't stay idle. After all, those submariners were innocent. If an accident happened and all the submariners were killed and he didn't lend a helping hand, he would still feel a little guilty.

Therefore, Qin Tao immediately pressed the call button and called Nicholas directly.

Qin Tao was still influential. After hearing Nicholas's order, Qin Tao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Please indicate the specific direction of the explosion from No. 138, we are ready to release the lifeboat!"

At this moment, Qin Tao gave orders again. He originally did not have such power, but since the next protagonist was the Jiaolong of the Mingzhou Group, everyone acquiesced in his suggestion.

After completing the call, Qin Tao walked away.

"Mr. Qin, what are you going to do?" Xu Zhengyang immediately realized something and shouted to Qin Tao.

"I'm going to the Dragon Boat."

"No, Mr. Qin, you can't go, it's dangerous!" Xu Zhengyang ran forward a few steps and stood in front of Qin Tao. He stretched out his arms to stop Qin Tao.

In the past, Qin Tao went down on the Jiaolong, but there was nothing unusual down there. But it is different now. There was an explosion down there. What if it happens again? Danger, too dangerous!

"Xu Zhengyang, you are so brave, get out of the way!"

"No! If you persist, I will have no choice but to knock you out!"

Seeing Xu Zhengyang's resolute attitude, and considering the gap in their fighting skills, Qin Tao could only shake his head: "Okay, I'll listen to you, I'll go to the monitoring station head office, right? You, you don't even listen to me.

I have to find a woman to control you from now on!"

Qin Tao also knew in his heart that Xu Zhengyang was worried about his own safety, which was also Xu Zhengyang's responsibility, so he was not wrong.

I just wanted to go down and see if there was an accident on the Oscar-class nuclear submarine, but now I can only watch it on the monitoring station.

No. 908 stopped in the sea area instructed by No. 138. At this time, the wind and waves were a bit strong. If the mother ship was several thousand tons, it really couldn't start operations. No. 908, which was 30,000 to 40,000 tons, was as stable as a rock.

The Jiaolong has been launched into the water again. Since its birth, it has become an all-rounder. Whether it is deep-sea exploration, underwater treasure hunting, or rescue operations, it can handle it with ease. Now, the underwater situation is complicated, and it is still a leisurely stroll.

On the monitoring station, a picture of the front of the Jiaolong appeared, which was captured by a special camera. Because it used cables towed from the mother ship, it had sufficient power and data transmission channels.

"The average depth of this sea area is more than 1,600 meters. The depth of the sea area where we exercise is 1,200 meters. If there is really an accident on the submarine, then it is probably more serious than bad!" Zhang Qing was a little worried.

said.

Ordinary submarines can dive to a depth of only two to three hundred meters, and nuclear submarines can only dive to a depth of four to five hundred meters. Now, once an accident occurs and the submarine falls to the bottom of more than a thousand meters, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Don't imagine that the submarine is so unbearable." Qin Tao said: "That's just the design depth of the submarine. In fact, the submarine's ultimate dive is far greater than its design depth. Especially Lao Maozi's nuclear submarine, I don't know 949

Whether the model is made of titanium alloy, if it is, it doesn’t matter a thousand meters, but if it has experienced an explosion, it’s really hard to say.”

Submarine technology is top secret. Even if Qin Tao and Nikola have a good relationship, they will not know this top secret information. According to public information, it is a pressure hull with a hybrid structure, partially using yield strength and HY-130 steel.

The shell is made of considerable materials, and some are made of titanium alloy.

However, there are many problems with this statement. Welding titanium alloy is not easy. Welding titanium alloy with other steel plates to form a pressure shell? How does it sound unreliable?

No matter what, the diving depth of the Oscar-class nuclear submarine is still good. Even though it crashed now, I hope it can survive until rescue arrives!

The Jiaolong is still slowly diving, and this process feels a bit long.

The entire fleet stopped other work and waited for the Jiaolong's report.

Varyag.

"Report, active sonar communication not responding."

Upon hearing this answer, everyone's expressions became solemn.

Electromagnetic waves cannot be used underwater, so it is very difficult for submarines to communicate with the outside world. Generally speaking, satellite communication is used to float at fixed times. Only in emergencies, active sonar is used to communicate.

But now, even if I send an inquiry using active sonar, there is still no answer from the other party.
To be continued...