Chapter 720 Deep Sea Contest
The Oscar nuclear submarine of the German Union Navy appeared near the seas of the Chinese Empire, posing a huge military threat to the Chinese Empire.
The so-called "comfort without going back" was inappropriate. The Chinese Empire Navy immediately launched a counterattack. A week later, four Yuan-class attack nuclear submarines and six Ming-class strategic nuclear submarines of the Imperial Empire Navy first made a high-profile appearance at the Pearl Harbor base, set out in secret that night, crossed the Arctic Ocean and entered the North Atlantic Ocean, and then appeared again on the sea less than 200 kilometers away from the German Navy's Northern Fleet Base.
In just half a month, the Chinese Empire's nuclear submarine fleet suddenly came from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic, which undoubtedly gave German League and NATO a wake-up call.
The German Allied Forces were frightened by this. At first, they thought that the nuclear submarines of the Imperial Navy were astonishingly fast, sailing 20,000 nautical miles in half a month. But soon this unrealistic conjecture was broken, and the German Allied Forces finally knew that the nuclear submarines of the Imperial Empire were coming from under the Arctic Ocean.
It was not until this time that the German Allied Forces paid attention to the Arctic Ocean, a place that was originally considered a natural barrier.
Since the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine of the Empire of China, completed its first submarine through the Arctic for the first time in Guanghua for 43 years, the Imperial Navy has conducted more than 30 submarine submarines in a very confidential manner to obtain strategic channels for the Arctic Ocean, as an important bargaining chip for the Imperial Navy's nuclear submarine force from the Pacific Ocean to enter the Atlantic Ocean, threatening the strategic rear of the German Union.
After the Imperial Chinese Navy officially announced this achievement to the world, the submarine submarine actually stopped. Because one was that there were no competitors at that time, and the other was that this kind of navigation also took great risks.
Now, the action of the Chinese Empire naval nuclear submarines passing through the Arctic Ocean once again gave the German League a great strategic threat. If not stopped, the Chinese Empire's nuclear submarines could easily approach the German League's homeland through the Arctic Ocean. The German League's navy, army and air force had almost no early warning time for nuclear strikes. This huge threat made the German League panic all day long.
Soon, the German Allied Forces launched a challenge to the Chinese Empire. In the summer of 1963, the German Navy nuclear submarine Odin made its first expedition to the Arctic, successfully floating in the ice gap at 84 degrees north latitude. The crew boarded the Arctic ice field, raised the German Allied Flag, and even played football on the ice field. A year later, two other German Allied Submarines set off from the Baltic Sea, turned to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic, and then visited Japan. During the submarine's submarines found the unfreezed water surface many times to simulate the missile launch silo to practice the vertical upward maneuver of the submarine.
The German-United Nations nuclear submarine broke the Chinese Empire's patent for Arctic ocean submarine, and the Chinese Empire was really unwilling to accept this. In the 65th year of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire's Carp nuclear submarine crossed three oceans and completed global submarine for the first time. It also claimed that it had established an underwater nuclear missile defense system and would adopt a "nuclear strike strategy without counterattack". This move is another huge stimulus for the German-United Nations.
The German Union was forced to meet the challenge. However, the single submarine's global submarine's global submarine is no longer of great significance. To be superior to the Chinese, it is necessary to carry out actions that others have not seen before. So the German Navy proposed a plan to send three nuclear submarines to carry out global submarine formations, and it is expected to take two months to cross the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean, and then arrive in Japan from the northwest Pacific Ocean.
In the early morning of February 2, 1966, three nuclear submarines of the German European fleet quietly sailed away from the base in the dark before dawn and headed east. The operation was extremely confidential. No one came to the dock to see him off, and few people knew where and the real mission of the three nuclear submarines. However, the submarine formation encountered an unexpected situation shortly after the departure. The nuclear power plant of one nuclear submarine suffered a serious failure and had to withdraw from the operation. The other two nuclear submarines continued to implement the submarine plan. They submarines one by one and one behind along the same route, strictly maintaining the pre-specified submarine depth and distance. The two boats established ultra-short wave and ultrasonic underwater communications. In order to keep the operation confidential, the navigation route was selected in remote sea areas of various oceans. This invisibly increased the danger and difficulty of long-distance voyages.
This submarine was completely different from the one on the Carp submarine in the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire's military carefully selected the submarine route of Carp, so that the route should be as close as possible to ports and bases around the world, so that in case of an accident, the rescue ships could only reach the accident site within a day and night. The Carp submarine was forced to surface twice during its submarine. One was to put out the fire, and the other was to hand over a seriously ill warship to the warship that was coming to rescue.
The German submarines do not have naval bases and maintenance facilities all over the world like the Chinese Empire. Their safety can only be based on the submarine's own equipment and the high quality of the crew.
During the long-distance voyage, the German submarines passed through the sea area near the Antarctic. It is also the most worrying thing about the Navy Headquarters. According to the approved global submarine route, the submarine formation should pass through the Drake Strait, bypass the Americas and enter the Pacific Ocean. The ice conditions in the sea area south of the Falkland Islands are complex. Especially the area leading to the Drake Strait is called the Gate of Hell. The climate is harsh and huge icebergs are floating for many years. The submarine crew knows very little about the situation here, and the limited ocean knowledge is only obtained from the navigation logs of former Russian navigators. In addition, the icebergs here often accumulate into ice groups. Under their influence, the submarine's water sound equipment screen is a highlight and useful signals are blocked. Here, the submarines actually sailed on the sea area information provided by the Expedition sailing ship here a long time ago.
In order to ensure the safe passage of the submarine formation, the German Navy headquarters sent a survey team composed of the marine expedition ship "Frankfurt" and the oil tanker "Laobain" to the South Atlantic. The marine expedition ship also brought reserve crews to each submarine. The submarine and survey fleets closely cooperated to force the strait through radio contact.
The Drake Strait left an unforgettable impression on the submarine soldiers, and Cape Horn at the southern end of South America was not in vain. When passing here, two giants with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons were washed away by powerful currents under the water depth of 70 meters, as if they were sailing on water in 2-3 levels of wind and waves.
On March 26, 1966, two German Navy nuclear submarines arrived at Tokyo Bay and visited Japan according to the plan. At the same time, they announced the successful end of the global submarine. The submarine lasted 53 days and had a range of 25,000 nautical miles. During the submarine, the two nuclear submarines conducted hydrological surveys on individual sea areas, surveyed the seabed terrain, and opened up new routes. The submarines gained experience in organizing underwater long-distance ultra-long wave communications. In Cape Horn, South America, far away from the local coast, the German submarine received a stable signal from the motherland 18 meters underwater for the first time in history.
When the global submarine ended, Hitler won the ninth-level election and took office as the supreme leader of the German Union again. Therefore, the German Union reported significantly, which undoubtedly made this submarine even more eye-catching.
The success of the German Navy formation around the world was undoubtedly a blow to the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire, which had many bases and observatories around the world, knew nothing about this submarine operation. Due to this negligence, coupled with the sudden appearance of the German Navy Oscar nuclear submarine in the offshore of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire's military was criticized by the public. General Li Chengtai, who served as the Minister of the Imperial Navy Command, was forced to resign.
Faced with the panic of the imperial citizens, more than 10,000 telephone calls from the Imperial Ministry of Defense were blown up. In order to quickly quell public anger, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao, nominated Lieutenant General Liang Yingqin as the Minister of Military Order and in charge of maritime anti-submarine operations.
General Liang Yingqin was a famous general of the Chinese Empire Navy during World War II and had rich experience in anti-submarine operations. After taking office, he immediately began to form anti-submarine troops against the German Union Navy's nuclear submarines.
Before taking office, Liang Yingqin personally went to the Old Summer Palace to ask Wang Chenhao for countermeasures. The two talked to each other for a long time and exchanged their own opinions and experiences. Based on his personal strategic ideas, Wang Chenhao pointed out several key anti-submarine strategies for Liang Yingqin, which played a crucial role in becoming a person who made the German Navy's submarine force scared.
Liang Yingqin formed an anti-submarine force. Naturally, various weapon platforms such as cruisers, hunting ships, submarine hunting and anti-submarine aircraft used for anti-submarine are indispensable. The traditional anti-submarine forces of the Imperial Navy have always used surface ships and submarines as the main anti-submarine weapons, and can be used with anti-submarine aircraft. This anti-submarine model was very effective during the two world wars. But it began to become obsolete after the 1950s and 1960s.
It is prominently reflected in the fact that the enemy's submarines have achieved nuclear power, the submersible depth has increased significantly, and the silent ability has also been significantly improved. Traditional anti-submarine destroyers, anti-submarine cruisers and submarine hunting require a lot of effort to lock in the enemy's submarines. However, during many exercises, when locking in the enemy's submarines, they will also be attacked by torpedoes fired by the enemy's submarines, which is almost a situation where both sides are injured or killing one thousand enemies and hurting themselves.
However, with the rapid development of the Chinese Empire's electronic industry capabilities and technological improvement, anti-submarine equipment has been miniaturized, and anti-submarine aircraft can carry more anti-submarine reconnaissance and search equipment and anti-submarine weapons for patrol. The advantage of attacking enemy submarines from the air is very obvious. On the one hand, the patrol range of anti-submarine aircraft has a wide range and fast speed. On the other hand, the enemy's submarines generally do not have air combat capabilities, so anti-submarine aircraft can attack without any scruples, and the anti-submarine effect has been greatly improved.
In addition to continuing to expand the scale of traditional surface anti-submarine warships and underwater submarine hunting, Liang Yingqin focused on the construction of anti-submarine aircraft. This is also an important anti-submarine direction pointed out to him by Wang Chenhao, and many modern anti-submarine models include anti-submarine helicopters and anti-submarine missiles.
During World War II, the Osprey y-1 water anti-submarine aircraft of the Imperial Empire Navy was forcibly retired after Liang Yingqin came to power. Instead, it was replaced by the new generation of anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the Imperial Empire - the Osprey 2 y-2.
Compared with the first generation, the Osprey II anti-submarine patrol aircraft is designed with Pegasus 28 long-range transport aircraft. It is equipped with 4 turboprop engines, with an empty weight of 27 tons, a normal take-off weight of 51.2 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 54.4 tons. The standard landing weight of 47.1 tons. The maximum flat flight speed is 761 kilometers per hour, the economic cruise speed is 608 kilometers per hour, the low-altitude patrol speed is 381 kilometers per hour, the practical ceiling is 9,625 meters, and the combat radius is 3,800 kilometers.
There is a large radar cover at the bottom of the head of the Osprey II anti-submarine aircraft and a magnetic detector at the tail. The three-person controls the cockpit, the middle of the fuselage is a combat compartment, and the crew is 10-12. The front and rear fuselage of the aircraft are two weapon compartments in the front and rear of the fuselage, which can carry rgb-1, rgb-2, and rgb-3 sonar buoys, and 10 external plug-ins under the wings. The anti-submarine weapons that can be carried include: mines, rockets, aviation bombs, deep water bombs, nuclear deep water bombs, anti-submarine torpedoes, illuminated flares, air-to-air missiles, Xiaotiandog anti-ship missiles, etc. The radar's detection distance for large ships reaches 550 kilometers.
Chapter completed!