Eight hundred and eighty-ninth chapter one arrested
As the hull shaking hugely, Johnson knew that they had not escaped the Soviet submarine and they had already collided.
The only one who suffers from colliding with Soviet submarines is that the Soviet submarines operate in the Arctic for most of their time. In order to ensure that they can break through the ice under glaciers, they are all bivalve structures and are built very firmly.
However, the Los Angeles class is just a single shell structure. Once the pressure-resistant shell is damaged and the hull is in water, it is very likely that it will be buried underwater forever. Moreover, since they began to track Soviet submarines, in order not to expose their existence, they have not reported any of their actions to their superiors. In other words, even if they are in a crash, their superiors do not know where to save them.
They became the category of the crashed submarines in World War II and could not determine the specific location and cause of the crash, and could only be attributed to missing ones.
In this case, the quality of the crew will play a great role.
"Check the damage to each cabin, and prepare to float up urgently." Johnson said.
Soviet submarines had small cabin structures, such as Oscar Class 2 nuclear submarines. The entire boat was divided into ten cabins, which could ensure that one cabin would not sink. However, the entire Los Angeles-class submarine was divided into three cabins. Although this was conducive to the arrangement of various equipment and saving volume, if there was a cabin inlet under a huge impact, the entire submarine would probably not have time to float up and would be pulled to the bottom of the sea by the surging seawater, which would be terrible.
The crew carefully checked and found no terrible sound of water under high pressure. Now they were sixty meters deep under the water, and the water pressure was equivalent to six atmospheres. In this case, nothing could stop the surging sea water from surging in.
Fortunately, there was no water inflow, but they continued to stay under the water. It was still very dangerous.
"Excluding the sea water in the first ballast tank and floating up urgently." Johnson ordered. At this time, he could no longer worry about the sea surface of the Persian Gulf above his head, rather than on the ocean.
Compared with the embarrassed Americans, Ye Ruofu was still relatively relaxed. The impact just now caused the enclosure of the k-132 submarine to be severely impacted. However, in order to ensure that the ice breaks out from the huge ice layer, the enclosure of all Soviet submarines was built very strongly, so the impact only caused local damage, but there was no greater harm to this huge submarine.
"Continue to snorkeling, at ten knots of speed. Let's get out of here at a slow speed." Ye Ruofu ordered.
The sonar room had heard the sound of the unlucky submarine using compressed air to remove sea water. They were indeed anxious. It seemed that the impact was quite light. As long as the k-132 could escape, they would never admit that they did it themselves.
"Wow!" As the head of the ** boat jumped out of the sea, a giant exposed his body from underwater.
"The shell on the lower part of our hull is seriously damaged and cannot be subjected to more pressure. There may be danger at any time." At this time, the crew inspecting the hull reported.
Fortunately, although the impact was so severe, hy-80 steel, this excellent shell material, still withstood this test.
Above head, an anti-submarine helicopter had already flew over and circled around the Los Angeles-class submarine.
They were very surprised that the submarine actually exposed its body like this. After receiving the news about the submarine, Abdul immediately ordered the helicopter to rush to this sea area. The real anti-submarine operation was about to begin. However, the anti-submarine operation had not been carried out yet, and the other party actually floated up by himself.
International practice is that for submarines of unknown nationality, the other party can use various means when hiding underwater. However, for submarines floating on the water, it means that the other party has given up underwater resistance and just needs to send them out of their own territorial waters.
Therefore, the anti-submarine personnel on the helicopter felt that the sonar buoy they brought this time was not useful.
"Two helicopters appeared above us, which were from the Iraqi Navy." After floating, a sailor who opened the hatch of the command tower and observed it on it said.
Although Johnson was very calm on the surface, as the commander of more than 100 submarine soldiers on the submarine, he had to show calmness and confidence. No matter what the circumstances, he had actually begun to hesitate in his heart. Can this submarine, which has been severely damaged, be able to successfully drive back to the base?
As the 15th Submarine Detachment of the Seventh Fleet, the Los Angeles-class submarines in the Western Pacific are all stationed in Guam, and there will be more than ten days of voyages left here.
The first thing after the float was to report what happened here through satellites to the Seventh Fleet Command.
"Report, nuclear reactor failure." The report was just completed with the Fleet Command, and the focus was on reporting that the submarine tracked had excellent silent xing capabilities. This must be a newly developed submarine from the Soviet Union. Following this, the submarine had floated up and could continue sailing without any damage. I hope the US Navy will come to pick it up.
Just after the report was completed, Johnson received the worst news and the reactor failed!
"Check for any leakage." Johnson immediately ordered that when the nuclear reactor provides almost unlimited battery life, it is also a Pandora box. If an accident occurs and a nuclear leak occurs, they will be in trouble.
Fortunately, the impact occurred in the middle, and in the front of the submarine, there were torpedo compartments. If a violent impact occurred, it might cause an explosion. The rear of the submarine was a nuclear reactor. If a violent impact occurred, it would be even more dangerous. Even if the submarine exploded and sank in front, it was just the submarine's own affairs. If the nuclear leaked, it would threaten the ecological environment here. If the nuclear leak caused the surrounding pollution, the consequences would be even more serious, because it was on a very busy oil transportation line. If the tanker stopped sailing, the oil prices around the world would soar. Now the impact occurred in the central area, which was a residential and active area for personnel. They were shocked to death. Fortunately, no one was in danger of life.
But now, the nuclear reactor has failed? The United States has been using pressurized water reactors for many years, and has not developed abnormal sodium reactors like the Soviet Union. It is not because the United States cannot achieve the technology, but because the United States is using the most mature technology and has made a balance between advanced and mature xing. For example, it has been improving the self-circulation capacity of the pressurized water reactor. In this way, when the reactor has problems, it can use its own circulation ability to take away excess heat and avoid a harsh accident of core melting.
"No nuclear leaks occurred," said the staff at the rear engine compartment. "Some sensor failures caused the reactor to be shut down and could not be restarted."
Why are the bad results caused by the impact only displayed now? Fortunately, it is displayed now. If the reactor is shut down underwater, it will be even more troublesome.
But now, the reactor shuts down, which means they have lost power! In fact, as the power of a nuclear submarine, as long as the nuclear reactor is installed on a submarine, it will hardly stop. This emergency response can only occur if it encounters extremely special circumstances. For example, this impact caused an abnormality in the reactor.
"Report, weather information, in eight hours, a storm will appear in the northern Indian Ocean, which may affect the Arabian Sea region." At this moment, another news came.
They no longer have the motivation, and even if they have the motivation, they will face storms after going out. If they are usually the submarines will not be afraid of storms on the sea, because the storms are all on the water. If they exceed 50 meters, there will be no wind and waves, except undercurrents.
But now, they no longer have that ability.
At this moment, two Iraqi frigates had arrived on the sea in the distance, using lights to indicate that this is Iraq's territorial waters, please leave immediately!
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The collision only caused damage to the enclosure, and Ye Ruofu was very satisfied with knowing that the American submarine had been forced to surface.
He didn't know that at his tail, an Iraqi submarine had already followed.
"Go forward four, left rudder one," Mustafa said on the command tower: "Have you heard from another submarine?"
"Yes, they have rushed to the designated waters and are ready to intercept them." said the deputy captain.
When the collision occurred, Mustafa's submarine stopped in time because it was behind and stopped in time, so it did not collide with the two unlucky guys in front. Now, when he found the submarine and wanted to escape, he immediately commanded the submarine and followed.
After the collision, I don't know if the other party was injured. In short, the speed slowed down and was sailing at a speed of ten knots, so that his submarine could easily catch up. However, because of the full speed of pursuit just now, nearly half of the electricity was consumed. Now, at a speed of ten knots, they had to surface and charge.
Hopefully another submarine can be picked up to work.
Ismail regretted that he had lost this opportunity. His submarine sonar soldiers also heard the loud noise underwater. Unfortunately, they were thirty nautical miles away at this time.
In order not to expose themselves, they advanced towards their predetermined goals at a speed of eight knots, while using their sonar to search for the target constantly.
No. k-132 didn't know that due to damage to the enclosure, the noise became significantly higher during the navigation process. Moreover, there was a submarine behind it.
Two conventional submarines began to "encircle and annihilate" a large nuclear submarine in the Persian Gulf. Their advantage is to be familiar with every water here.
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