Chapter 28 Nine Deaths(1/2)
No one wants to die, and soldiers have a stronger desire to survive than ordinary people.
Because the noise generated during the high-speed navigation of the Shark is very obvious, all three mk46s are found in passive acoustic self-guided mode.
On the submarine, you can only hear the high-frequency whistling sounds of torpedo thrusters.
The distance measuring capability of the torpedo alarm sonar installed behind the submarine hull and below the tail of the hull is very limited. It can only roughly calculate the distance between the torpedo and the submarine from the attenuation speed of the torpedo noise. When calculating the torpedo impact, Lu Chengfeng can only give a rough time.
Although the calculation is not accurate, everyone knows that there is not much time left.
Seeing the captain remained silent, the other officers and soldiers looked desperate, Mu Haoyang gritted his teeth and said, "Can't you think of a solution?"
Zhou Yusheng looked at Mu Haoyang and seemed to be asking him: Can you come up with a good idea?
"No matter what, I have to do something." Mu Haoyang did not avoid it, and plucked up his courage to look at Zhou Yusheng and said, "Since it cannot interfere with the torpedo, can it sink the torpedo?"
"Sinking the torpedo!?" Yang Yuanfan laughed and said, "Compared with a submarine, a torpedo is like a matchstick."
"Missiles can intercept missiles, so why can't torpedoes intercept torpedoes?"
"Because the submarine's torpedo tubes are all in front of them, there is no torpedo tube on its butt!"
Mu Haoyang was stunned. This was indeed a problem.
At this time, Li Xiaoming seemed to have thought of something and said, "You can't sink a torpedo, you can also interfere with the torpedo."
"How to interfere? The bait bombs are used up, and other interference equipment has not been installed on the 'Shark' number, we..."
Zhou Yusheng waved his hand, asked Yang Yuanfan to shut up, and then looked at Li Xiaoming.
Although Li Xiaoming is not a submarine soldier or a submarine warfare expert, he is eager to seek medical treatment. No matter how bad the method is, it is better than no other way.
"Make some noise to cover up the noise emitted by the submarine."
"Mk46 has the ability to actively seek sound. Even if it covers up the noise, the torpedo can enter the active sound self-guided mode and can still discover us."
"Then create a mess that will prevent the torpedo from discovering us."
“How to make it?”
"Use our torpedo." Li Xiaoming paused for a moment and said, "There is the undersea peak ahead. After the torpedo hit the peak, a lot of sand and stones will definitely be raised."
"It can also cause landslides."
"Then you have to choose between being sunk by torpedoes or being sunk by rocks." Li Xiaoming smiled and said, "If the former is unavoidable, I will definitely throw a color with the Dragon Prince."
Zhou Yusheng's eyes lit up, hesitated no longer, and nodded to Yang Yuanfan.
After Yang Yuanfan sat down, Zhou Yusheng said: "Open the front cover of the torpedo tubes of No. 1 and No. 4, attack in a straight line, with maximum speed, touch the detonation mode."
"The front cover of the torpedo tubes of No. 1 and No. 4 are opened, the torpedo has been powered up, and the attack parameters..."
"No attack parameters are needed." Zhou Yusheng looked at Xia Hongyu and said, "Start it."
Xia Hongyu didn't ask any more questions and pressed the launch button on the control panel.
Amid the harsh whine, two heavy torpedoes with a diameter of 533 mm and weighing 1,800 kilograms jumped out of the torpedo launch tube of the "Shark" under the action of high-pressure water flow. Fifteen seconds later, the speed of the two torpedoes reached fifty knots.
"Use computers to simulate submarine routes," Zhou Yusheng glanced at Lu Chengfeng, then knocked on the tactical console.
A few seconds later, a simulated route map appeared on the large screen of the console. Lu Chengfeng held a touch sensor pen and marked the real-time location of the submarine on the screen.
Although the high-frequency range-finding sonar on the first submarine can still detect the Troy undersea peaks, it won't take long before the sonar will come in handy.
After about half a minute, two low explosions came from the front.
Perhaps forgot to turn on the attenuation filter of the passive sonar. After Meng Guangyang took off his head, he patted his head a few times before he could recover his hearing.
"Old Zhou..."
"Keep the course and speed and follow my orders."
Yang Yuanfan gritted his teeth and did not let the submarine turn.
The two heavy torpedoes each have a 250-kilogram battle thunder head, which is loaded with special mixed explosives with Black Sorkin as the main component, and the explosion equivalent is equivalent to 450-kilograms**. Only one such torpedo can sink a 5,000-ton destroyer, or paralyze a 10,000-ton cruiser, and three to five can kill a 10,000-ton super aircraft carrier.
The two torpedoes detonated on the hillside, which must have thrown up a lot of sand and stones, and even caused the landslide to collapse.
If you hit the collapsed rock at a speed of 35 knots, the Shark will definitely be crushed to pieces. Even if you are hit by the rock, it will damage your muscles and bones.
“How far is it from the mountain?”
“Not a thousand meters.”
"Torpedo impact time?"
"About fifty seconds, maybe less."
Zhou Yusheng quickly thought about it and said: "Maintain the current speed and course, and do not rush to avoid it. Inject water into the No. 2 and No. 3 torpedo launch tubes and prepare to launch the torpedo."
Yang Yuanfan was shocked. Is the "sensation" effect caused by the two torpedoes not enough?
Xia Hongyu didn't have so many problems. He immediately injected water into the No. 2 and No. 3 torpedo launch tubes as directed by the captain.
"Start immediately?"
"Wait a little longer," Zhou Yusheng glanced at Xia Hongyu and said, "Set it in line guide mode, maximum speed and straight-line navigation, do not unlock the fuse."
Xia Hongyu nodded and set an attack mode for the torpedo on the fire control panel.
"Did the anti-submarine torpedo activate the active seeker?"
Meng Guangyang was stunned for a moment before he found the captain asking him, and quickly said, "No, the explosion point is too far away from us and has no impact on the torpedo."
“Distance and time?”
"Eight hundred meters away from the hillside, the torpedo impact time is about forty seconds."
"Open the front cover of the torpedo launch tube." Zhou Yusheng closed his eyes and silently recited for a while before saying to Xia Hongyu, "Start the No. 2 and No. 3 torpedoes."
Xia Hongyu pressed the launch switch again, and two heavy torpedoes came out of the tube.
"Report the distance torpedoes," Zhou Yusheng glanced at Xia Hongyu and said, "Our torpedoes."
"Fifty...one hundred...two hundred...three hundred..."
Xia Hongyu had not reported the "four hundred", and Zhou Yusheng said loudly: "Detonate the torpedo."
Detonating the torpedo!? Xia Hongyu was a little surprised, but after hesitating for a moment, he activated the torpedo's self-destruction device according to Zhou Yusheng's order.
Both torpedoes drag wires, so they can be detonated by a submarine.
The explosion came quickly, louder than the previous two times.
"The first is twenty-five, the last is twenty-five, and the last is twenty-five, and prepare to float."
Although the first and the last parts in this order were contradictory, Yang Yuanfan already understood what Zhou Yusheng meant and immediately completed the operation according to the captain's order.
"Sonar strike sound, anti-submarine torpedo enters active sound self-guided attack mode."
Zhou Yusheng nodded to Meng Guangyang and turned his gaze to Lu Chengfeng.
"The impact time is less than twenty seconds, and it is still four hundred meters away from the hillside."
Because the torpedo enters the active acoustic self-guided attack mode and actively emits sound waves, the distance between the torpedo and the submarine can be calculated by the interval time of the sound waves to obtain the accurate impact time.
"depth?"
"Four hundred and eighty meters, still diving...49,500,510..."
"The impact time is ten seconds, and it is 220 meters away from the mountain."
Zhou Yusheng did not rush to issue an order, staring at the simulated route map on the screen, as if waiting for the most favorable opportunity.
"The impact time is eight seconds, seven, six..."
"The left rudder is full, the front cabin is empty, the first one is flat, and the tail is twenty-five."
Under Zhou Yusheng's command, the "Shark" quickly tilted to the left and floated up at a rapid speed.
Because the deep sea is pitch black, even if the submarine has eyes, it cannot see anything. If you can see it, you can find that the Shark has penetrated into the "sand and stone curtain wall" that was blown up by the first two torpedoes. About fifty meters behind the Shark, two MK46 anti-submarine torpedoes are still outside the "sand and stone curtain wall".
The "sand and stone curtain wall" blocked the sound waves emitted by mk46.
In the eyes of the torpedo, the submarine suddenly disappeared.
According to mk46's attack program, after the target disappears, it will enter the search mode to search for the attack object in a passive way.
The torpedo did not brake, and then entered the "sand and stone curtain wall".
Affected by the sand and stones suspended in the sea, the detection ability of the torpedo passive sonar is greatly reduced, and even if it can detect noise from a submarine, it is difficult to lock. The reason is very simple. The noise reflects and scatters between the sand and stones, and does not spread in a straight line. This is like a person standing in a polygonal room composed of many mirrors, and it is difficult for others to recognize the true image from the virtual images generated by the mirror.
But, doing so is not absolutely insurance.
After the course turned sixty degrees, Zhou Yusheng ordered the parking, let the submarine sail by inertia, and then adjusted the course again, allowing the submarine to slowly move up to the southern slope of the Troy seabed peak.
Yang Yuanfan's concern became a fact. Before the Shark could stop, rocks kept hitting the submarine.
Fortunately, the rocks that hit the Shark were not very large, and the sea water had buoyancy, and the rocks fell quickly, so the impact force generated was not large. Because the Shark used a double-layer shell and there was a non-pressure shell outside the pressure-resistant shell, the falling rocks did not pose a fatal threat to the submarine.
About half a minute later, the submarine shook violently and hit the Troy Mountain Peak.
A pipe at the top of the command cabin broke and white steam spewed out. A sailor standing nearby immediately climbed up with the support steel pipe and locked the valve at the front of the pipe.
"Report the situation in each cabin." Zhou Yusheng picked up the microphone, waved to Xia Hongyu, and asked him to turn off the flashing damage tube alarm light.
To be continued...