Chapter 1137 Mysterious Submarine
The power of the Acura-class reactor was fully turned on, and the power of the two turbines was all transmitted to the seven-blade large-side inclined propeller at the tail. As the propeller speed accelerated, they finally reached the fifteen nautical miles on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier. This is a very good torpedo position. If they launch torpedoes now, then it is undoubtedly a hit to the target.
At this moment, the captain of the aircraft carrier ** finally received the news, and the shell sonar of an Aegis destroyer next to it captured the target.
Those are feint attacks! This submarine is the main attack!
At this time, the aircraft carrier accelerated and the reactor was fully opened, causing the noise to increase. Therefore, at this time, an unknown submarine actually took advantage of this opportunity to appear by their side!
For Americans, ignorance is terrible. They never knew that a nuclear submarine broke into the core of their aircraft carrier formation. When they were conducting anti-submarine operations, they were broken through the position by such an unknown submarine and occupied a favorable launch position!
The captain of the ** aircraft carrier sweat oozed out of the vest, and the Los Angeles-class submarine was returning to the rescue quickly, hoping to drive the unknown submarine out.
However, before the Los Angeles class came back, when the anti-submarine aircraft had already dropped a large number of sonar buoys, the other anti-submarine helicopters also quickly took off from other warships.
They are facing a great enemy.
And at this moment, the target disappeared, as if it had never appeared here.
After performing the simulated attack, Mustafa immediately ordered to slowly descend to a depth of 600 meters, and then sailed slowly at extremely low speeds.
At this depth, the Acura-level navigation sound will not be more than a shark.
So, even though the United States dragged out the towed sonar, even if they kept throwing the sonar buoy, they still didn't find the unknown submarine.
Now, the most likely situation is this submarine. It hides under the belly of a warship. In order to conduct detection, a Los Angeles-class underwater ship, regardless of the risk of potentially leaking its whereabouts, uses active sonar to detect under each surface warship one by one.
Nothing was found.
The incident was reported to the Pacific Fleet Command, and after careful consideration, the command decided to retreat the aircraft carrier 300 nautical miles to avoid excessive stimulation of China.
At this distance, they can take off their carrier-based aircraft at any time to deal with the sudden occurrence, and they are in the absolute high seas.
Four besieged Han-class nuclear submarines. They were very strange and messy. They were in trouble. They were constantly carrying out anti-submarine operations in their internal waters, and even used active sonar to search for targets underwater.
They knew that their operation was not successful and relying solely on nuclear submarines. Even the wave tactics were no longer able to adapt to modern warfare.
After the United States retreated, they also left this sea area. Why did the Americans retreat voluntarily become a mystery. It was not until twenty years later that the retired Mustafa's memoirs revealed this incident.
However, the arrival of US aircraft carriers has deeply stimulated China's leaders.
Before this, China had shifted its national focus to economic construction, and everything had to make way for economic construction. For the sake of the economy, the army was patient. The country had stopped funds for a large number of projects, and many scientific research institutions were also facing the end of disintegration.
If it were not for Iraq's powerful funds to enter, then the Turbofan 6 and Y-10 would face the fate of dismounting, while other projects such as J-H-7 and J-10 would be greatly delayed and lagged behind. Even so, the amount of military equipment is still very small because the funds are insufficient. Even if the army, because the funds are too small, many of them are going to develop a market economy.
The army's forbearance has brought great economic development, but now it is time to pay off the debts to the army.
The Taiwan Strait crisis, Lee Teng-hui's remarks, and the American aircraft carrier formation have completely made senior leaders notice that the construction of the army is urgent!
The army serves the national interests, so the interests of the army can be sacrificed when necessary. However, if the army cannot assume the task of defending the country, then how can the achievements of economic construction be maintained?
The navy is still mainly based on the old brigade level. There are only two brigade-Shanghai-level brigade and one brigade-Saihai-level brigade and has not yet been built. Their ship-borne air defense missiles are only Haihongqi. One day, they really need to fight at sea. Under the cover of land-based aviation, they have no ability to win a war at all!
If the opponent was only Taiwan, they had already solved this problem, but if they had been involved in the United States, if the war really started, the chances of victory were very small.
The most accurate landing points of the ballistic missiles launched in the early stage were not measured by them, but by the American Aegis warships!
The country owes too much the army!
After this incident, the top Chinese leaders finally began to make up their minds to invest vigorously in the army and build an army that can win the modern high-tech war!
Looking around, they found that Iraq was already ahead of them. The development of various military services in Iraq has surpassed them a lot.
Once upon a time, Iraq's shipyard was built by China, but now, the construction of destroyers and frigates with displacement of thousands of tons has begun, especially dedicated air defense destroyers that use four-sided phased array radar. The advanced level is already comparable to that of the American Aegis warships.
In January 1997, the Chinese Navy visited the Iraqi Navy and at the Naval Base of Geshm Island, the Chinese Navy's 112 Harbin missile destroyer entered the military port here.
"My Chinese brothers are very welcome." At the base of Geshm Island, Deputy Navy Commander Karim cordially received the visiting Chinese naval personnel.
Iraqi Navy Deputy Commander Karim, Gershm Island Base Commander Costa, Captain Abdul, the USS Baghdad aircraft carrier, and others welcomed the visiting Chinese brothers.
This was an exchange operation. Looking at the Harbin destroyer, the Iraqi naval personnel did not show any contempt, but praised it.
The warship is designed reasonably, with moderate displacement, and has good performance in all aspects. Especially, under the maintenance of Chinese naval personnel, it is almost the same as new. When Abdul touched the back of a device in the engine room at the rear of the cabin with his white gloved hand, it was spotless.
In this regard, even Iraq is not as good as that. When Abdul went to the third-deck hangar area of the aircraft carrier last time, there was oil stains everywhere on it, and Abdul cursed him.
Although this is left behind when they were maintaining fighter jets, as a giant at sea, its interior must be clean. For example, if the maintenance fighter jets are about to leak oil, they must use oil barrels at any time, because oil stains on the deck will penetrate into the steel interior, which will cause the ground to slide. When sailing at sea, the ship may only shake, which will cause harm to those walking on it. If the fighter jets slide, the loss will be even greater.
Although Captain Harbin, Colonel Ju Xinchun, knew that they were very sincere in saying this, his warship seemed a little small among the other warships in this military port.
However, Commander Yang, the navy who arrived together, did not feel any embarrassment. Now, the navy is already behind. It is precisely this way that they need to work hard to catch up with the world's major powers. The central government has attached great importance to the navy. When necessary, it can take out a large amount of funds to buy advanced warships for the navy. This time, they came here to see what kind of warships they need.
Later, they rode on Iraq's warships together, and the first one to board was Iraq's USS Baghdad aircraft carrier.
The wide flight deck is empty above, only in the stoppage area on the bridge side, several aircraft are staying there, two Su-27k and one early warning aircraft.
Last year, it was this giant at sea that put a lot of pressure on them. Now, standing on this huge warship, they also felt a kind of momentum and a symbol of powerful force.
"Mahan's theory of sea power explains the importance of the navy. In modern warfare, the biggest threat is the opponent's aviation. If you want to protect your own navy, you must have aviation. On the nearshore, we rely on land-based aviation, but at sea, we can only rely on the power of carrier-based aviation." Abdul said.
Commander Yang was excited when he heard these words. Indeed, without air supremacy, there would be no sea supremacy. Now China can only be the near-shore navy. In Nansha, they have almost no control.
"Yes, no matter how good our ship-to-air missiles are, even if they are Aegis systems, they cannot guarantee that they will hit every shot. As long as there is a fish that misses the net, it will be a catastrophic result." Commander Yang said.
Aircraft carriers, this is what they really hope to get, but now, it is almost impossible to own an aircraft carrier.
There are no supporting warships and no carrier-based aviation. They have no possibility of having an aircraft carrier formation at once, let alone, not to mention that they do not have any technology to build aircraft carriers.
"What a pity, the Varyag in Ukraine has completed 80% of the construction work, but it has not continued to be built. Such a warship has been shut down for six years. What a pity!" Abdul sighed.
For Iraq, the more aircraft carriers, the better. Americans have ten aircraft carriers, and Iraq only have two. Therefore, the Navy has always hoped that this aircraft carrier can be dug up as well.
However, President Kurai has never approved it. After the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Busra is about to be put into service, Iraq already has two aircraft carrier formations, which is enough for the current stage of use. Iraq's next aircraft carrier will be built at the Iraqi Saddam Shipyard.
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