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Volume 2: Managing Beiyang Chapter 720: Battle in the Deep Sea

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    The German Navy's Oscar nuclear submarine appeared in the offshore waters of the Chinese Empire, posing a huge military threat to the Chinese Empire.

    As the saying goes, it is indecent to reciprocate, so the Imperial Chinese Navy immediately launched a counterattack.  A week later, four Yuan-class attack nuclear submarines and six Ming-class strategic nuclear submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy first made a high-profile appearance at the Pearl Harbor base. They secretly set off that night, crossed the Arctic Ocean and entered the North Atlantic, and then appeared again with high-profile north of the German Navy.  The fleet base is less than two hundred kilometers away from the sea.

    The nuclear submarine fleet of the Chinese Empire suddenly moved from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic in just half a month, which undoubtedly gave the German Alliance and NATO a wake-up call.

    The German military was greatly alarmed by this. At first, they thought that the nuclear submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy were incredibly fast and could sail 20,000 nautical miles in half a month.  But this unrealistic conjecture was soon broken. The German military finally knew that the nuclear submarine of the Chinese Empire passed through the Arctic Ocean.

    It was only then that the German Allied military paid attention to the Arctic Ocean, a place that was originally considered a natural barrier.

    Since the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine of the Chinese Empire, completed its first submersible voyage across the Arctic in the 43rd year of Guanghua's reign, the Imperial Chinese Navy has conducted more than 30 subsea submersibles under very confidential conditions in order to obtain information about the Arctic Ocean.  The strategic channel serves as an important bargaining chip for the Imperial Chinese Navy's nuclear submarine force to quickly move from the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean, threatening the German alliance's strategic rear.

    After the Imperial Chinese Navy officially announced this achievement to the world, submersible operations under the ice have actually stopped.  Because first, there were no competitors at the time.  Second, this kind of voyage also involves great risks.

    Now, the Chinese Imperial Navy¡¯s nuclear submarine has once again crossed the Arctic Ocean, posing a great strategic threat to Germany.  If not stopped, the nuclear submarines of the Chinese Empire can easily approach the German mainland through the Arctic Ocean. The German navy, land and air forces have almost no warning time for a nuclear strike. This huge threat makes the entire German army 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 North Pole and successfully floated in an ice crevice at 84 degrees north latitude.  The crew climbed onto the Arctic ice sheet, raised the German flag, and even played football on the ice sheet.  one year later.  The other two Delian nuclear submarines set out from the Baltic Sea, transited through the Arctic to the Pacific, and then visited Japan.  During the submersible process under the ice, the Delian submarine repeatedly found unfrozen water and conducted simulated missile silo exercises to practice the submarine's vertical ascent maneuver.

    The Delian nuclear submarine broke the Chinese Empire¡¯s patent for submarine navigation in the Arctic ocean, and the Chinese Empire was not willing to accept this.  In the 65th year of Guanghua's reign, the Chinese Empire's nuclear submarine Carp crossed three oceans and completed the first global submersible voyage.  It also claimed that it has established an underwater nuclear missile defense system and will adopt a "nuclear strike strategy without counterattack."  This move is another huge stimulus for Delian.

    Delian was forced to rise to the challenge.  But a single submarine's global submarine voyage is no longer very interesting, and it is better than the Chinese.  You have to take action that no one else has done before.  So the German Navy proposed a plan to send three nuclear submarines to conduct a global formation submersible, which is expected to take two months to cross the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.  Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and then from the Northwest Pacific to Japan.

    In the early morning of February 2, 1966, three nuclear submarines of the German-Allied European Fleet quietly left the base in the pre-dawn darkness and headed east.  The operation was extremely secretive.  No one came to the dock to see them off, and very few people knew the whereabouts and true missions of these three nuclear submarines.  However, the submarine formation encountered an unexpected situation shortly after setting off.  A nuclear submarine suffered a serious failure in its nuclear power plant and had to withdraw from the operation.  The other two nuclear submarines continue to implement the submarine plan.  They dived one after another along the same route, strictly maintaining the predetermined diving depth and distance.  The two boats have established ultrashort wave and ultrasonic underwater communication links.  To keep the operation secret.  No traces were exposed along the way, and the sailing route was chosen in remote sea areas of each ocean.  This virtually increased the danger and difficulty of the voyage.

    This dive is completely different from the dive of the Carp submarine of the Chinese Empire.  The Chinese Imperial Military carefully selected the submarine route of the Carp to be as close as possible to ports and bases around the world, so that if an accident occurred, the rescue ship could arrive at the accident site within a day and night.  The Carp submarine was forced to surface twice during its dives.  One time was to put out a fire, and the other time was to hand over a seriously ill man to a warship that came to the rescue.

    ??And the German submarines do not have naval bases and maintenance facilities all over the world like the Chinese Empire.  Its safety can only rely on the submarine's own equipment and the high quality of its crew.

    During a long voyage, it is most dangerous for a Delian submarine to pass through the waters near the Antarctic.  It is also what the Navy Headquarters is most worried about.  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 complicated.  Especially the one leading to the Drake PassagePeople in this period call it the Gate of Hell.  The climate there is harsh and there are huge icebergs floating around all year round.  The submariners knew very little about the situation here, and their limited knowledge of the ocean was only obtained from the logbooks of previous Russian navigators.  In addition, icebergs here often accumulate into ice groups. Affected by them, the screen of the submarine's hydroacoustic equipment is filled with bright spots and useful signals are blocked.  Here, the submarine actually sailed based on the sea area data provided by the "Expedition" sailing ship that passed here a long time ago.

    In order to ensure that the submarine formation can safely pass through the strait, the German Navy Headquarters has dispatched a survey team composed of the ocean exploration ship "Frankfurt" and the oil tanker "Lalan" to the South Atlantic in advance.  Ocean Exploration Vessel also brought reserve crew members to each submarine.  The submarine and the survey fleet worked closely together through radio contact to force the passage across the strait.

    The Drake Passage left an unforgettable impression on submariners, and so did Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America.  When passing here, two behemoths with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons were swayed here and there by strong currents under 70 meters of water, as if they were sailing on the water in level 2-3 winds and waves.

    On March 26, 1966, two German Navy nuclear submarines arrived in Tokyo Bay and visited Japan as planned.  At the same time, it was announced that the global submersible voyage was successfully concluded.  The dive lasted 53 days.  Range 25,000 nautical miles.  During the submersible process, the two nuclear submarines conducted hydrographic surveys of individual sea areas, surveyed the seabed topography, and opened up new routes.  Submarines have gained experience in organizing underwater long-distance ultra-long wave communications.  At Cape Horn in South America, far away from the home coast, a Delian submarine received a stable signal from the motherland at 18 meters underwater for the first time in history.

    When the global voyage ended, Hitler won the 9th head of state election and once again assumed the position of supreme leader of the German League.  Therefore, Delian's extensive coverage undoubtedly made this submarine voyage more eye-catching.

    The success of the German naval formation¡¯s global submarine voyage was undoubtedly a blow to the Chinese Empire.  The navies of the Chinese Empire and its allies, which have numerous bases and observation stations around the world, were unaware of this submarine operation.  Due to this negligence and the previous incident of the German nuclear submarine Oscar suddenly appearing in the coastal waters of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Imperial Military was criticized by the public.  General Ri Sung-tae, who served as the Imperial Navy's Chief of Staff in charge of maritime anti-submarine warfare, was forced to resign.

    Faced with the panic of the imperial citizens, more than 10,000 telephones of the Imperial Ministry of Defense were blocked.  In an effort to quickly quell public outrage, Emperor Wang Chenhao of the Chinese Empire nominated Lieutenant General Liang Yingqin as Minister of Military Order and in charge of maritime anti-submarine warfare.

    General Liang Yingqin was a famous general of the Chinese Imperial Navy during World War II and had rich experience in anti-submarine warfare.  After he took office, he immediately began to form an anti-submarine force against the nuclear submarines of the German Navy.

    Before taking office, Liang Yingqin personally went to the Old Summer Palace to ask Wang Chenhao for advice on coping strategies.  The two had a long chat and exchanged their views and experiences.  Wang Chenhao pointed out several key anti-submarine strategies to Liang Yingqin based on his personal strategic ideas, combined with the current international situation and the construction of the Chinese Imperial Navy's anti-submarine capabilities. This was crucial for Liang Yingqin to become a figure who frightened the German Navy submarine force in the future.  role.

    Liang Yingqin formed an anti-submarine force.  Naturally, various cruisers, destroyers, submarine hunting and anti-submarine aircraft and other weapon platforms used for anti-submarine warfare are indispensable.  The traditional anti-submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy have always used surface ships and submarines as the main anti-submarine weapons, which can be combined with anti-submarine aircraft.  This anti-submarine model was very effective during the two world wars.  But it began to become outdated after the 1950s and 1960s after the war.

    The outstanding performance is that the enemy's submarine has achieved nuclear power, its diving depth has been greatly increased, and its silent ability has also been significantly improved.  Traditional anti-submarine destroyers, anti-submarine cruisers and hunting submarines need a lot of effort to lock on enemy submarines. However, in many exercises, when they lock on enemy submarines, they will also be attacked by torpedoes launched by enemy submarines. Almost both sides suffer or lose.  A situation in which one thousand enemies are killed and eight hundred are lost.

    However, with the rapid development and technological improvement of the electronics industry capabilities of the Chinese Empire, anti-submarine equipment has been miniaturized, and anti-submarine aircraft can carry more anti-submarine reconnaissance equipment and anti-submarine weapons for patrolling.  The advantage of attacking enemy submarines under the water from the air is very obvious.  On the one hand, anti-submarine aircraft have a wide patrol range and high speed.  On the other hand, enemy submarines generally do not have air-to-air combat capabilities, so anti-submarine aircraft can attack without any scruples, and the anti-submarine effect is greatly improved.

    In addition to continuing to expand the scale of traditional surface anti-submarine warships and underwater hunting submarines, 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, which also includes many modern anti-submarine modes such as anti-submarine helicopters and anti-submarine missiles.

    The Imperial Chinese Navy¡¯s Osprey-generation Y-1 anti-submarine aircraft during World War II was forcibly retired after Liang Yingqin came to power due to factors such as small load capacity, slow speed, and outdated equipment.  Instead, ChinaChina's new generation anti-submarine patrol aircraft - Osprey Y-2.

    Compared with the first generation Osprey, the second-generation anti-submarine patrol aircraft adopts the design of the Pegasus 28 long-range transport aircraft.  It is equipped with 4 turboprop engines, has 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.  Standard landing weight is 47.1 tons.  The maximum level flight speed is 761 kilometers per hour, the economic cruising speed is 608 kilometers per hour, the low-altitude patrol speed is 381 kilometers per hour, the practical ceiling is 9625 meters, and the combat radius is 3800 kilometers.

    There is a large radome on the lower part of the nose of the Osprey II anti-submarine aircraft and a magnetic detector on the tail.  Three people control the cockpit, and the middle part of the fuselage is the combat cabin, with a crew of 10-12 people. The lower part of the fuselage before and after the wings of this type of aircraft are two weapon bays, which can carry RGB-1, RGB-2, and RGB-3 sounders.  There are 10 external hardpoints under the wings of the nanobuoy. The anti-submarine weapons it can carry include: mines, rockets, aerial bombs, depth bombs, nuclear depth bombs, anti-submarine torpedoes, flares, air-to-air missiles, and Skyhound anti-ship missiles.  The radar's detection range for large ships reaches 550 kilometers.

    In the early 1970s, with the debut of the second-generation Osprey anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the anti-submarine capabilities of the Imperial Chinese Navy soared, and the German nuclear submarine force, which had always been complacent, suddenly fell into a huge crisis.  Being continuously monitored by the Chinese Imperial Navy on a global scale, there is almost no way to hide.  For a time, the nuclear submarines of the German Navy were prohibited from conducting strategic cruise missions and were even prohibited from leaving the port.
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