Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 787

Another Royal Navy ship was sunk, which made all the U.S. Navy officers and soldiers who participated in the round-up operation angry. As many as eight destroyers and several anti-submarine aircraft were frantically searching in this area, trying to capture the submersible shark. -Boat No. 04 was found out.

Captain Lu Zhao also knew that he had exposed himself just now in order to reap the results of the battle, but he still had the confidence to lead his crew to escape.

A large number of destroyers surrounded them, and even the US anti-submarine aircraft flew over and began to drop sonar buoys one by one.However, Lu Zhao also has his own method. In this water area with complex hydrological environment and variable temperature and salinity, he can hide under the thermocline through a large diving depth. The deflection occurred at the thermocline, which also made it difficult for the anti-submarine aircraft to find the Submarine Shark-04 boat hidden under the thermocline.

At a submerged speed of 5 knots, Submarine Shark-04 was sailing westward, avoiding the US Navy ships that rounded them up.

"A small submarine is still in the shallow sea above the continental shelf. I don't believe it, and I can't catch it at all." Brigadier General Alves, the commander of this anti-submarine formation, also got really angry.

This is already the fourth battleship of the Royal American Navy to be sunk. Even during the Great War, the US Navy has never experienced such a tragic loss in submarine warfare.The key is that they all know the opponent's area of ​​activity. After investing such a large-scale force, they still lost a light cruiser right under their noses.

"Have you not found that submarine yet? She has already sunk one of our ships, and her location should have been exposed, but you tell me that she has not been specifically located? God, tell me this is a joke!"

The sweaty fleet staff officer said to Commodore Alves with a mournful face, "...sir, the other party is more difficult than we imagined, or her silence performance is really good..."

"The mute performance is too good? What the hell, even the nuclear submarines of our Royal Navy will not be completely undetectable. Are you telling me that Ming people's submarine mute technology is better than ours?"

The fleet staff can never be sure of such a statement, but these days, Xinming always comes up with something that surprises the American Empire.Including the 48 tank that made the army's most powerful M59 tank fearful on the Lelang ground battlefield, and the Xiaolong fighter that almost dominated the sky.At this moment, the Xinming Navy has also obtained submarines whose technology far exceeds the current level of the American Empire, which is not completely incomprehensible.

The U.S. Navy has never felt that anti-submarine warfare is so difficult. The U.S. Navy has basically never failed to deal with submarines from Japan and European countries during the previous war. The various anti-submarine sonar and anti-submarine weapons developed by the U.S. Navy are very useful. No one thought that it would be useless to deal with the submarines of the Xinming Navy.

After all, Alves is still a very experienced naval officer. He judged that the other party's mute performance is indeed very good, but it is not impossible to completely detect it.Then the only explanation is that the other party cleverly used the hydrological environment in this sea area to make their detection methods ineffective.

"Notify the destroyers on the front line, put down the towed sonar array, go a little deeper, and pass through the thermocline. This sneaky guy should be hiding in a place with a relatively large water depth, using the sound wave refraction of the thermocline to avoid Lost our sonar detection."

Alves' order was quickly carried out by the destroyer of the US Navy. The towed array sonar was lowered and entered a deep depth. Although the signal was weak this time, very experienced US Navy sonar personnel still judged the situation. It was the Shinmin sub that they never caught.

"Found it, found it!"

Alves couldn't help pumping his fist excitedly, and shouted: "Get rid of her, kill her for me!"

This newly invented submarine has already bore the blood debt of hundreds of U.S. Navy sailors, and has given a great humiliation to the U.S. Navy, which has always considered itself the number one in the world. Destroying it will greatly improve the morale of the U.S. Navy.

When the towed array sonar began to send out active sonar at great depths, Lu Zhao knew something was wrong.He knew that even if it sailed at the maximum submerged speed regardless of its stealth, it would be difficult for Submersible Shark-04 to escape the siege of a group of American destroyers.

"No, I must not let Submersible Shark-04 get lost in my hands, I must take her back!" Lu Zhao firmly grasped the armrest of the captain's seat, firm in his will.

This battle turned into a chase between the destroyers on the surface and the submarine in the water. As long as the destroyers came to the top of the submarine shark-04, they could launch depth charges and anti-submarine torpedoes to blow up the submarine shark-04. Shen.

But at this moment, several low-flying fighter jets suddenly appeared above the sea.

When the anti-submarine destroyers of the Royal American Navy at the forefront spotted these fighter jets, the fighter jets were already within sight.

"Air defense alert!"

The low-altitude sea-skimming fighters are the best to avoid radar detection, relying on the curvature of the earth, and these fighters will only be found at a very short distance.These fighter planes are actually Bai Mingxiu's double insurance. If the submarines operating in the waters are not supported, they are extremely dangerous.

From the very beginning, Bai Mingxiu hoped that many US Navy ships would come here to conduct anti-submarine operations.It was not the submarines that really launched the deadliest blows, but these fighter jets that came and went like the wind.

The reload point under the wing of the multi-purpose fighter Xiaolong can hang two air-launched anti-ship missiles. It is not too easy to deal with a destroyer, which is only about [-] tons.The Xiaolong flying at low altitude did not use afterburner to fly above the speed of sound. After entering the range, it directly increased its altitude, and then dropped the anti-ship missile to guide their anti-aircraft missile to shoot directly at the US ship.

"It's an anti-ship missile!" The U.S. Navy never expected that the attack by Xinming naval aviation was not at all the traditional way of sending out a large number of slow planes and then dropping a bunch of bombs and very inflexible torpedoes. Directly release semi-active radar-guided anti-ship missiles dozens of kilometers away, and then guide the missiles to attack.

There were several loud bangs, and two consecutive destroyers were directly hit by anti-ship missiles. Small ships with a small tonnage could not resist such anti-ship missiles with relatively large warheads.The battleship was severely flooded, and it was still in waters where Xinming submarines often appeared. It was impossible to pull it back for repairs, so it had to be abandoned on the spot.

With the help of friendly fighter planes, Lu Zhao quickly escaped from the US ship's blockade.

(End of this chapter)