.News that the amphibious assault fleet was attacked by torpedo immediately reached the anti-submarine helicopter, but.

The anti-submarine helicopter searching in the east did not leave the battle position. After all, there must be submarines there, and maybe two submarines still exist.

If withdrawn, those submarines will launch attack ports again

Affected by this, the anti-submarine helicopter can only notify the nearby "Springfield".

The communication sonar cannot be used to send information to the Hamptons that are coming.

Obviously, the Springfield cannot leave the battle position.

Now, the reaction of the Hamptons became a key factor.

If the submarine turns in time, it will become a decisive force. With the cooperation of two sh-60s, the Hamptons have a great possibility of killing the Sea Snake.

The question is, can the Hampton turn in time?

According to the US military's combat records, the Hampton did find the torpedo attacking the amphibious assault fleet, and the captain also promptly judged that another submarine participated in the ambush operation. However, after making this judgment, the Hampton did not turn south in time, but continued to sail eastward. The reason is very simple. When the torpedo was discovered, the course had been adjusted, so the captain of the US military believed that it was a torpedo launched by the submarine lurking in the east.

This judgment 1 is not an error.

Among submarine tactics, the most famous one is the "wolf pack" tactics under normal circumstances.

Submarines participating in ambush operations will first disrupt the formation of the fleet and fleet, with one or several submarines acting as bait to deter the enemy's anti-submarine force, and then launch an attack by other submarines. When using this tactic, the enemy must first be distracted, so submarines acting as bait lurk in front of the channel, forcing the enemy to change the channel.

Or slow down the navigation. If the bait submarine is ambushed on both sides of the waterway.

The enemy is likely to accelerate their navigation and leave the submarine ambush circle.

Obviously.

The situation was not very different this time, and the submarine acting as bait did not appear in front of the amphibious outbreak fleet channel.

When judging the battlefield situation, the US captain believed that there was only one possibility, that is, the Chinese Navy's submarines were unable to arrive at the battlefield in time.

So we had to launch a raid without sufficient preparation. The result was that other submarines did not reach the front of the fleet, but were on the east side of the fleet.

If this is true, the Hampton cannot turn.

Instead, we should support the Springfield.

This judgment cost the Hampton about fifteen minutes of precious time.

Until the Hampton approached a Burke-class destroyer that cooperated with the Springfield.

After receiving the message from the destroyer, we learned that the "third" enemy boat appeared south of the fleet and fired torpedoes at five large amphibious warships.

At this time, the US amphibious assault fleet was already in chaos.

The first thing that was unlucky was the amphibious assault ship that was attacked by a 650-mm heavy torpedo.

In terms of size, the US military's "Hornet"-class amphibious assault ship is a "super battleship" second only to large aircraft carriers. Its displacement and size are even greater than that of medium-sized aircraft carriers in some countries. Its combat capability is no worse than that of medium-sized aircraft carriers. It can carry dozens of vertical take-off and landing aircraft and helicopters, and carry a battalion of amphibious forces. However, in terms of anti-strike capabilities, amphibious assault ships are completely incomparable to aircraft carriers.

In the US military's combat organization, amphibious assault ships do not undertake front-line deployment and combat tasks.

Normally, the amphibious assault fleet will enter after the aircraft carrier battle group seizes sea control and air control.

Deliver combat troops to the shore. Therefore, when designing, the US military did not overemphasize the performance of amphibious assault ships, such as the maximum speed is only more than 20 knots.

Under torpedo attack.

The response methods of amphibious assault ships are very limited.

After performing less successful tactical evasion.

The amphibious assault ship was caught up by torpedoes.

If you have to say something, you can only say that the "Sea Snake" only fired a torpedo at the ship. If Wang Yuhan adopted the tactic of Safimo attacking the "Washington" and fired all the torpedoes at the largest target, the result would definitely be different. Let alone five.

Even if there are only two heavy torpedoes with 650 mm, it is very likely to sink an amphibious assault ship.

The explosion point of the torpedo is at the rear of the amphibious assault ship, between the two propulsion axles, less than thirty meters away from the stern of the ship.

A violent explosion.

It is enough to destroy the propulsion system of the amphibious assault ship and make it lose its navigation ability.

But it was unable to sink the amphibious assault ship.

Subsequently, two comprehensive landing ships and two dock landing ships were successively torpedoed.

The four 533 mm torpedoes also use wake-guided attack mode, so the hit points of the torpedoes are at the rear of the battleship.

After being attacked, the amphibious assault fleet slowed down.

However, the US military did not give up resistance.

Within five minutes, at least ten anti-submarine helicopters took off from the amphibious warships, four of which flew east to strengthen their attacks on the Sea Dragon, and all the rest went south to participate in the search for the Sea Snake. If the amphibious warships not being attacked began to infiltrate a large amount of water, the captain was forced to use all the generators that could still work to drive the water pump and prevent the seawater from flooding.

Therefore, Kangfa replenishes fuel and ammunition for anti-submarine helicopters.

Otherwise, the US military would definitely send out all the anti-submarine helicopters on the amphibious warships.

At this time, it was not only anti-submarine helicopters, submarines and anti-submarine warships that participated in the war.

Shortly after the "Hailong" launched the first batch of anti-ship missiles, the commander of the amphibious assault fleet issued a request to ask the shore-based aviation to send anti-submarine patrol aircraft. However, the situation was not very bad at that time, and the shore-based aviation was following Colonel Pichi's order and making every effort to occupy the Zhu Xiao's aircraft group, so it did not dispatch anti-submarine patrol aircraft in time. After discovering the incoming torpedo, the US commander issued a request again.

This time, the coalition's shore-based aviation force did not hesitate and quickly let the anti-submarine patrol aircraft move closer to the amphibious assault fleet.

A few minutes later, the J-15 aircraft group that broke into the East Korean Bay received an order and quickly turned to retreat, and the pressure of the coalition's air combat was reduced sharply.

More than a dozen anti-submarine patrol aircraft were dispatched.

However, it is too late to dispatch anti-submarine patrol aircraft at this time.

On the battlefield, the only thing that can really play a role or poses a threat to the "Sea Snake" is that the Hampton attacks the nuclear submarine, which has turned and is rushing toward the sky.

Although the two anti-submarine helicopters that had previously flew over and turned immediately after receiving the order, searching for the sea area within 30 kilometers south of the fleet, Wang Yuhan was already prepared to allow the "Sea Snake" to sail eastward at the maximum allowed speed after launching the torpedo.

It avoided the main search areas of anti-submarine helicopters, so after the torpedo entered the autonomous attack stage, the "Sea Snake" turned its focus to the US nuclear submarine in the northeast, that is, the "Hampton," which had almost caught the "Sea Snake".

Wang Yuhan was a little hesitant when the "Hampton" turned.

Attack Submarine 1 is no better than attacking surface warships.

"Hampton, the maximum submersible speed of the .. can exceed thirty-three knots, and it can increase the speed from twenty-four knots to thirty-three knots within tens of seconds. Therefore, it is attacking "Hampton."

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When it comes to the number, the torpedo will definitely not reach the maximum range, and the firing distance must be shortened as much as possible.

This is a difficult problem.

The navigation speed of US submarines exceeds the maximum submarine speed of the "Sea Snake", so even if Wang Yuhan orders to pursue, he may not be able to catch up with US submarines.

Considering the risk of exposing his whereabouts, Wang Yuhan would never do so.

Now, the problem is here.

If we do not attack the US submarine, the "Sea Dragon" may be buried in the sea. Wang Yuhan is very clear that Safimo made self-sacrifice in order to create opportunities for him. Now the "Sea Snake," the sneak attack must be considered for the friendly boat, and it must help the "Sea Dragon".

, get out of trouble.

The best way is naturally to fire a torpedo at the US submarine.

Between sacrificing oneself and giving up on a friend boat, Wang Yuhan must make a choice.

If he were a rational submarine captain, he would definitely choose the latter, because even if "Sea Snake 1. attacked, it would not necessarily be able to save "Sea Dragon,"

Number.

Wang Yuhan is indeed a rational submarine captain, but in addition to reason, he also understands other principles.

Leave alone.

He would not face Safimo's criticism, but he could not pass his own level. Regardless of whether Safimo chose to sacrifice himself when he made a decision, Wang Yuhan knew that Safimo made sacrifices for him, but he abandoned his comrades.

After a moment of hesitation.

Wang Yuhan made an irrational choice.

After inputting fire control data for two 650 mm torpedoes, Wang Yuhan also asked his deputy to charge the active attack sonar and prepare to attack the "Hampton".

It was at this moment that the "Hampton" turned back.

For Wang Yuhan, this is both a good thing.

It's also a bad thing.

The good thing is that as the enemy boat turns, there is no longer a need to consider the maximum range of torpedoes, and there is greater hope of sinking the enemy boat.

The bad thing is that the US military must have guessed that the "Sea Snake" is south of the amphibious assault fleet, otherwise the attacking nuclear submarine would not have returned to the south of the fleet.

Obviously, even if the Hampton can be sunk, it may be attacked by other anti-submarine forces of the US military.

If there is a choice, Wang Yuhan will give up the idea of ​​attacking at this time. The reason is very simple. After the "Hampton" turns, the threat to the "Sea Dragon" is greatly reduced. More importantly, even if the "Hampton" is attacked, it cannot reduce the threat to the "Sea Dragon".

Unfortunately, Wang Yuhan has no choice.

While he was about to make the "Sea Snake" turn southeast and avoid the US attacking nuclear submarines from the tangent direction, the US anti-submarine helicopter arrived.

Faced with attacking nuclear submarines, the chance of winning of conventional submarines is already very slim. If you have to deal with anti-submarine helicopters that are like green-headed flies at the same time, the chance of surviving is even lower. You can only launch an attack first and kill the attack nuclear submarine that has the greatest threat.

Only then can you escape.

If you can't escape and you can kill an attacking nuclear submarine, it's worth it.
Chapter completed!