"Report, the Seventh Fleet sent an emergency document, please ask the Minister for approval." In the Pentagon, Weinberg rubbed his red eyes. He had just received an emergency call from his home.

After the last spy incident, the United States has improved its confidentiality level in all aspects, and all kinds of information cannot be obtained from outside, so Weinberg had to go to the office and get the documents.

Generally speaking, the commander of an aircraft carrier is already a qualified diplomat, representing the United States and exercising various powers. The commander of the fleet is also a veteran of diplomacy. Now, this document must be sent to the Ministry of Defense for approval, and something must have happened.

After getting the documents, Weinberg frowned. An accident happened to his Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine!

The aircraft carrier formation was in trouble and experienced a serious collision. After barely floating, it lost its power. Now, two Iraqi Navy warships are coming next to it. Captain Johnson is waiting for the orders of his superiors.

This submarine has never sent any messages since tracking a Soviet submarine more than half a month ago. Now, the message has been sent again. It is actually a nuclear submarine with a displacement of 7,000 tons in the Persian Gulf. What's going on? And there is an impact!

However, now is not the time to hold the above personnel accountable. The key question now is, what should I do?

The office door opened, and the sleepy US Navy Secretary of Operations James David Watkins walked in. As the world's most powerful naval force, its highest command organization, was also set up in the Pentagon.

As the general manager of the Navy, as an admiral, James has rich resumes. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949 and served on destroyers and submarines. In 1958, he entered the Navy Academy for further studies and obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Navy Graduate School. From 4 to 4 years, he served as the executive commander of the nuclear submarine Snooker in Long Beach Chapter 892 aircraft carrier formation. Later, he served as the commander of the nuclear power cruiser in the Navy Department. In 1982, he served as the head of the Navy Department's Navy Department's Navy Department's Soldiers and Personnel Department, Assistant Director of the Navy Department, Assistant Director of the Navy Department, Commander of the Personnel Department of the Navy Department, Commander of the Personnel Department of the Navy Department, Commander of the Sixth Fleet, Deputy Director of the Navy Department of the Navy Department, Commander of the Navy Department of the Sixth Fleet, Commander of the Navy Department of the Navy Department, Commander of the Navy Department of the Deputy Director of the Navy Department, Commander of the Navy Department of the Sixth Fleet, Commander of the Navy Department of the Navy Department, Commander of the Navy Department of the Deputy Director of the Navy Department of the Pacific Fleet. Until 1982, he succeeded General Thomas Beeb Hayward as Secretary of the Navy Department of the Navy Department.

Such a professional person in charge is very familiar with the Navy, especially the Navy's submarines.

After taking over the information from Weinberg, James suddenly felt that the situation was very bad this time.

It is obvious that the collision was very severe, otherwise the captain would not have taken the method of emergency floating. Fortunately, there was no water leakage. After the floating, the nuclear reactor was shut down, which was even more lucky and unfortunate.

Now, the submarine has lost its power and has been hit too hard again. What should I do?

"We need to get this submarine into the dock and check the damage below. If it is not too serious, we can tow it back to our naval base. If it is severe, we can only use dry dock transport ships to transport it back to our local shipyard."

Now, no one can determine what the situation of the Baton Rouge is, so it must be allowed to enter the floating dock, expose the entire hull, and carefully check the situation. These divers cannot do well. Even if there is only a small mechanical strain or a small crack, it is absolutely fatal. Only by fully confident that there is no problem can you drag it back and it will take half a month to drag it back to the base in the Pacific. In the meantime, whether various bad weather will occur on the sea surface are factors that need to be considered.

The nuclear reactor was shut down, which is also very lucky. Since it has been shut down, there must be a problem. You cannot risk opening the reactor. It requires expert inspection and confirmation.

The most troublesome situation is that there are serious problems in the hull and the safety of the towing process cannot be guaranteed, so it can only be a dry dock transport ship.

This is a dock-style transport ship. By operating water inlet and drainage, the hull of the front flat slab of the transport ship is half submerged into the water, allowing the nuclear submarine to float above it, and then drain the water and the hull rises, and then fishes out the nuclear submarine and load it safely on its front half. It is a special civilian ship.

In fact, this method is a better way, but the key problem is that the US Navy does not have such transport ships. If you want to use them, you have to rent a civilian company. You must know that after the nuclear submarine is built in the shipyard, it is always driven away by itself, and this method is not used. Therefore, this big-bellied nanny has to rent it temporarily. It takes two or three months to drive it back, and half a year will pass. These ships are all at low speeds.

So, James knew that he had lost his power and had no idea how to collide with a nuclear submarine, so he should check it first.

"Where are checking?" Weinberg said: "There are Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that are our allies, but unfortunately they don't have shipyards."

"Iraq has it," James said. "Iraq built a shipyard itself, and it is said that it has built a missile boat with a displacement of more than 500 tons. Moreover, the construction of civilian ships in this shipyard has begun, with a dock that can accommodate up to 50,000 tons of oil tankers. They have not received the order yet, and the dock is still empty."

Iraq's shipyard? Weinberg frowned. From the bottom of his heart, he always regarded Iraq as a potential threat. Now, he wants to make a request to Iraq to rent their docks. He feels that this seems to be a satire to the US Navy.

However, the relationship between the United States and Iraq is quite good now, especially various arms sales projects in the United States and Iraq are in progress.

"We need to report to the president and ask for Iraq's support," Weinberg said.

In the current situation, they can only choose the nearest place, that is, the Iraqi shipyard. I hope Iraq can actively cooperate this time.

"Our submarines have been tracking Soviet submarines, and there has only been one collision incident. It is not as serious as this time. What's going on?" Weinberg continued.

"This time, we were very strange. We were usually twenty nautical miles away, and at most ten nautical miles away, so we could accurately distinguish the noise of the Soviet submarine. But now, the noise of this submarine is very small. In order to be able to track, our submarine can only shorten the distance. Moreover, the other party is sailing at high speed. Therefore, when the other party suddenly turns, our submarine will be..." This kind of experience was often done when James was the executive commander of the Snooker nuclear submarine. However, at that time, the noise of both sides was very high, so it was safer to track and long distance.

But now, with the improvement of the silent performance, the safety distance is getting closer and closer, and tracking is becoming increasingly unsafe. However, it is still within a controllable range. As now, the silent performance of the Soviet nuclear submarine is no longer under the American submarine, which is very dangerous.

"Soviet submarines have always been very noisy. What's going on this time?" Weinberg asked.

"It is possible that they have adopted a new approach. Our satellites have observed that the Soviet submarines with patches on the surface were laid with sound silencers, but the technology was not up to standard. After a long time of navigation, some of the sound silencers will fall off." James said.

Laying sound silencer tiles on submarines can greatly reduce the noise inside the boat. This is a method that the Soviet Union has begun to adopt. However, the US Navy's sound silencer tiles are still in the development stage. Their Los Angeles-class has not been laid. However, thanks to the excellent low noise and propellers, their noise level is still very low.

Through this incident, the two of them had seen the essence clearly: if the noise level of the Soviet nuclear submarine really became very low, it would definitely not be good news for them. Either they would have to risk a collision and follow up at close range, or they would have to lose the traces of the Soviets.

Recalling the experience of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier half a month ago, both of them felt a little troubled. Does the US military need to spend huge amounts of money on the development and production of updated underwater sound listening equipment?

"Report, the picture taken by the reconnaissance satellite ten minutes ago was very urgent, and the intelligence department quickly sent it to us." said an adjutant on duty.

After the Baton Rouge had a situation, the US reconnaissance satellite began to adjust its orbit and prepare to pass over there. In addition to scanning the situation around its own nuclear submarine, it also scans the situation around it.

Originally, it was very difficult to find a needle in a haystack to sweep something out. Although the aircraft carrier formation has a large target, it is still very lucky to detect the other party's traces. On the vast sea, even the giant ship will become like an ant.

However, this reconnaissance satellite was attracted by the sparkling thing below. When the camera was adjusted and the thing was seen clearly, the operators on the ground immediately realized that this information was too useful!

In that photo, a huge submarine with its head still in the water, but its tail is exposed. The two huge propellers at the tail are made of high-intensity copper alloy and shines. The sunlight it reflects is captured by high-definition satellite lenses.

That kind of propeller is no longer the five-blade propeller commonly used in Soviet nuclear submarines that they are familiar with, but uses seven-blade large-side inclined propeller similar to that in the West!!!

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