Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 247 Fire on the entire fleet

When Gourt's parachute opened, his poor Sea Harrier was still flying forward, and the captain knew that the 300th Naval Air Squadron was dead in name only.

The rest of the pilots parachuted one by one. No one could understand everything in front of them. How could a successful sneak attack turn into a disaster for the fleet?
The Sea King helicopter shuttled across the sea, searching for the pilots who fell into the water and picking them up one by one, which shifted the fleet's air defense loopholes to the anti-submarine. block.

There is only one naval battle involving nuclear submarines that can be learned from history. On May 1982, 5, the Conqueror attacked the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; The old ship of the era, and the MK-2 direct flight torpedo launched by the Conqueror in a fan shape is also a product of the World War II era.The Conqueror even tracked the Argentine 13000 Fleet calmly for 8 hours in a periscope state, and for a long time used the hunter plane that took off from the Ascension base to relay communications with the mainland, waiting for the cabinet's determination to attack. This shows the backwardness of the technical level.

The battle Marin faces is obviously much more complicated than that of his predecessor, Chris Brown. The average age of the Indian fleet is less than 25 years (largely dragged by the Villant), and this fleet is equipped with more advanced Electronic reconnaissance equipment, with more than 10 anti-submarine helicopters, before such reconnaissance means, using periscope or radio communication is no different from suicide.Fortunately, the speed of the enemy fleet has been maintained at a relatively high level, which is beneficial to Marin. At such a speed, it is difficult for anti-submarine destroyers to release the towed array line sonar. Secondly, the noise of the gas turbine will also interfere with the ship's In addition, such a move can also provide Marin with an important message: the attention of the Indian fleet is not underwater at all.

At 1025 in the submarine, the straight track of the Villant finally appeared within the attack range, approximately to the left of the bow of No. 411.The Derry-class destroyer was positioned on the port side of the carrier, and as the distance approached, the destroyer became more difficult to detect.

"It seems that attacking that destroyer has become less feasible?" said the political commissar.

"Then we'll wait." Marin said calmly.It is not easy to wait for the enemy on the ocean, but it is indeed a blink of an eye to let the enemy escape from the position about 5 nautical miles ahead of the bow; now is the time to test the judgment of a captain.From the perspective of others, Marin's attention seemed to be shifted more to the Derry-class destroyer, and he hesitated.

"The enemy fleet has completely entered the bow attack area. The No. 2 ship began to slow down."

Sure enough, a few minutes of waiting paid off, and the Derry class began to slow down, which exposed the destroyer again.

"She is slowing down, maybe she is taking off an anti-submarine helicopter?" Political commissar Su Changjin said.

"Why not land?"

Su Changjin didn't want to make a fuss. First, it was impossible for the submarine to float on it and use the search periscope to take a look. Second, the captain had the final say here.

"Torpedo No. [-]..." Marin picked up the communicator.There was silence in the command cabin, and no one knew what would happen next; Marin's plan to kill them all went beyond the scope of most textbooks written based on experience. Under normal circumstances, submarines should be closed as soon as they are good, and they should provoke the escort ships too much. Clearly unwise.

"emission!"

The command module felt a slight vibration, but the sound of huge metal collisions and water propelling was clearly discernible through the 6 cm thick steel plate.If there are a few decent surveillance personnel in the enemy fleet, it is not difficult to find the position of No. 411.

The No. 4 torpedo sank for a certain distance, and then raised its head by its own power.Its autopilot started to follow the established course, and about [-] minutes later, it would hit the target.

"Very fast moving object to starboard," yelled someone in the Bombay's sonar room, who knew what fast moving object meant.Kirish got the message immediately in the bridge command room.

"Full starboard." The colonel immediately issued an order.His mind was full of counterattacks. In his opinion, the target of this underwater attack was undoubtedly the Villant, so he had to turn around immediately and reveal the 533mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes and anti-submarine rockets. .

The warship turned at a high speed, which forced the landing Sea King helicopter to stay in the air.The drenched Captain Goodell was sitting on the helicopter, watching the destroyer below dragging a huge foam and turning like crazy, he thought: Is the enemy's counterattack not over yet?
On the destroyer Mumbai, Captain Kirish stood at the window, anxiously watching Villant galloping in the distance, praying that she would escape the disaster.

"The target position has been found." The deputy captain marked a mark on the electronic chart.

"Within range of our torpedoes?"

"Yes, but the Villant blocked the torpedo route... temporarily unable to counterattack."

"Let the helicopter go over there,"

"But Colonel, Aquaman is not armed." The deputy captain replied.The helicopter has been performing rescue missions, so it does not carry anti-submarine torpedoes that can be dropped from the air.

"..."

The passive sonar of the heavy-duty torpedo that was dragging the wire clearly caught several targets near the route. It quickly made a judgment and was about to turn to the noisiest target, but the wire connected to the tail immediately made corrections, and the torpedo still followed the Direct route sailing.With amazing courage, Marin revised his plan in the final stage. He decided to launch the torpedoes in two batches, which solved the problem of commanding the same batch of torpedoes to shoot at different targets, and this Bombay replaced Vilan The special number became his primary target of attack.No one can understand what the captain is thinking. His actions are completely unreasonable and violate the combat experience accumulated in this industry for 100 years. The whole fleet goes to war.

The frigate in the distance is also approaching the Villant, and apparently found that the situation is not good. In the aircraft carrier formation, the aircraft carrier itself should be at the core position. This formation can allow many weapons at the end to actively identify targets. The aircraft carrier could not be found, but the Indian fleet was extremely messy. Relying on its high speed, the Villant almost ran to the most prominent position in the front, throwing several Talwar-class frigates more than ten nautical miles away.

On the destroyer Bombay, Colonel Kirish kept holding his binoculars to observe the water surface in the northwest direction. He saw a white underwater track passing by the tail of the Villant, apparently missing it.He suddenly felt relieved, and felt that his prayer had worked.

"Colonel, the sonar department said that the torpedo is coming towards us?" the deputy captain said hesitantly.

"how can that be?"

The colonel turned his head to look there again, but the torpedo track was no longer visible.

The depth of this torpedo was set very deep, and its underwater shadow hid under the sparkling sea surface at noon, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye. Only the sonar room could hear it approaching.No one could have expected it to pounce back on the destroyer before it passed the Villant, and there were no precautions on board the Bombay.

The torpedo exploded on the port side of the Mumbai, and the loud noise shook the eardrums of all the sonar listeners in this sea area.

"Torpedo No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4, launch in sequence!" Marin stood in the center of the command cabin, calmly leading the whole situation according to his own ideas.

The torpedoes were fired from the bow one after another, and the last two remained in the launch tube. If the frigates might pose a threat, he could use these two torpedoes to launch a counterattack.

"The horizontal rudder is tilted forward by 20 degrees, the main ballast tank is filled with water, and the dive is fast to 250 meters. Retract the towed sonar." For the time being, he does not need the sound of hindering the speed to collect information, and retreat is the only task.

"Please enter 3 and correct the course to 105."

Following the captain's order, all the people in the submarine subconsciously grabbed nearby fixed objects, and then the submarine began to tilt rapidly and began to turn to one side.

"How's the circuit pressure?"

"The pressure is normal, and the speed can be increased rapidly."

In view of the fact that Marin had the foresight to increase the power of the core before the attack, and now others can increase the speed faster. In this bet with the Indian task force, he put the victory on the Indian Navy every time. Not professional enough, whether it is using high underwater noise to approach the enemy, or attacking targets in batches, it should be said to be quite risky, but judging from the ending, he won the bet.

After a series of orders to shift positions, he moved behind Sun Xiangdong while holding the pipe above his head. The three torpedoes were still under Sun Xiangdong's control, and they were already very close to the Weilante.According to the information on the No. 411 computer, the draft of the Villant when fully loaded is about 9 meters. This is the information updated not long ago. It may be judged based on the photos taken when the aircraft carrier entered the port. In any case, this figure increased compared to 20 years ago.Sun Xiangdong deduced the depth of the keel completely according to this figure.Now the torpedo is rapidly heading towards the target that is unable to counterattack. The only difficulty is that the aircraft carrier still maintains a high speed.

"Don't stand behind me, you can worry about how those frigates are doing." Sun Xiangdong said impatiently, the captain standing behind brought him some pressure.

Marin left there knowingly, leaned against the pipe on the side of the podium, and smiled at the political commissar.The entire command module is running rapidly, but the two of them have nothing to do, they can only slowly wait for the final result.

No need for a sonar report, the sound of explosions from the east came into the submarine one after another, no more, no less, exactly three.

"Report, the torpedo hit the starboard side of the enemy ship." The sonar department immediately made a judgment.

"Starboard?"

"I tried my best, it should be near the keel." Sun Xiangdong said.

Marin walked quickly behind the sonar soldier, took the earphones and listened.No further explosions were heard, and the sound of metal colliding, twisting, and breaking came from a distance. The aircraft carrier was disintegrating.

(End of this chapter)