Chapter 492 Underwater Confrontation

Time goes on.

All the warships were lined up in an anti-submarine formation and had almost combed the entire nearby sea surface, but still nothing was found underwater!

Everyone on the Nimitz was extremely depressed.

Lieutenant General Jonathan frowned. Was it his own misjudgment, or was it that the Soviet submarine did exist and had just slipped away?

If the Soviet submarines had escaped, it would mean that the Soviet submarines had a huge advantage and could now roam freely around the US aircraft carrier formations? How could this be possible! Even if they had the electronic technology of the island countries, it would be impossible for the Soviets to have such a great technological advancement, right?

And what if he said that his judgment was wrong? Lieutenant General Jonathan would not agree. Everyone knew Lieutenant General Jonathan's resume. This lieutenant general, who was nearly sixty years old, served on a frigate during World War II. His mission was to protect the transport fleet on the Atlantic route. During the long voyage, Lieutenant General Jonathan's frigate sank at least three German submarines!

This old general has a congenital sensitivity to submarines.

"Report, the CIA has sent the hydroacoustic data of this area." At this moment, the adjutant broke the silence and walked in to report.

If you want to play hide-and-seek with submarines, hydroacoustic data is very important! During the long Cold War, the US Navy was very familiar with the hydroacoustic data of all oceans in the world, except here!

After taking the hydroacoustic data, Lieutenant General Jonathan immediately showed an angry expression on his face and threw the data aside. Damn it!

"Mr. Lieutenant General, what's going on?" Captain Miller took the stack of information, took a look at it, and was also shocked.

Damn, the density jump layer here is only a hundred meters! That damn submarine must have slipped into the density jump layer and escaped!

"Send the Omaha to dive to a depth of 150 meters!" Miller gave the order immediately.

Now, our anti-submarine warfare has been going on for four hours. If the Soviet submarine is sailing at full speed, it must have traveled more than 100 nautical miles! If the enemy was sailing towards us at the beginning, it is probably only more than 200 nautical miles away from the Soviet aircraft carrier formation. If we want to intercept them, we can only rely on underwater submarines!

During this period of time, the Groton had been on standby in the sea area being searched by our side. If the Groton was dispatched, even if it was sailing at full speed, it would not be able to catch up with the Soviet submarines. You know, the Soviets always go to extremes on these parameters. Our side even discovered that the Soviet submarines were running at a speed of forty knots underwater!

Fortunately, there could not be only one nuclear submarine underwater in the double aircraft carrier formation. There was an Omaha on standby between our aircraft carrier formation and the Soviet aircraft carrier formation. The mission of this submarine was naturally to intercept the Soviet submarines and prevent the submarines in the Soviet aircraft carrier formation from breaking through our anti-submarine line.

Although the target was lost last night, the Omaha still sailed to the designated location today during the continuous search and monitored the movements of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation.

Now is the perfect time for the Omaha to intercept!

Because this place is already close to the shallow water area, the Omaha is only diving at a depth of 50 meters underwater. If the Omaha dives to a depth of 150 meters, it will be able to track the Soviet submarine!

Recently, the United States has been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Soviet Union, especially the U.S. Navy, which must not become a laughing stock of the Soviets!

After receiving the order, the Omaha set off and began the operation.

Dive!

Knowing that there might be Soviet submarines underwater, the Omaha did not make too much noise. The hull tilted three degrees and sailed silently. It took one minute to finally dive to a depth of 150 meters in the sea.

"Report, suspicious sound source found, distance five, speed thirty, sailing 270!"

After leveling off, the passive sonar monitoring immediately produced results, and an unidentified target was discovered!

It can only be an unknown target, because in the confrontation with the Soviet Union, this kind of sound signal has never been found! The database cannot be compared, it should be a new Soviet submarine!

Moreover, the reason why we can find it now is that the submarine is speeding underwater at a high speed of 30 knots! At this speed, the noise of the submarine is unavoidable. Moreover, we dived at the right time, and the submarine was only five nautical miles away from us!

The disadvantages and advantages of the density jump layer are equally prominent. While the Soviet submarine uses the density jump layer to hide its whereabouts, it is also unable to detect the various situations above the jump layer! And now, our side is right behind the Soviet submarine. In this position of exploding anus, how can we not keep up?

"Release the communication buoy, and discover the Soviet submarine. Our boat is tracking it, requesting support!" said Captain Collison.

Request for support! Once the surface warships receive the message, they will have many countermeasures. The sonar buoys of the anti-submarine aircraft can be set to a depth of 150 meters to locate the submarine underwater, and then throw torpedoes, also set to a depth of 150 meters. With such a loud noise, it is too easy to damage the Soviet submarine!

In fact, needless to say, if we send two active sonar waves now, we can scare the Soviet submarines! In the past ten years that Collison has been a submarine soldier, he has played this game countless times.

And now, in addition to requesting support, another task is naturally to catch up!

"Full speed ahead!" Collison continued to give orders.

The opponent's current speed is only 30 knots, while our Los Angeles-class submarine can exceed 32 knots when sailing at full speed, so we will definitely be able to catch up with the Soviet submarine!

The reason for doing this, apart from fearing that the Soviet submarines would escape, was naturally to collect as much sound characteristics of the enemy's submarines as possible and add them to the database.

Moreover, thinking of the report from his own intelligence system, Collison was also wondering, maybe this was the Soviet Union's Oscar-class cruise missile nuclear submarine?

Follow up! The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and after receiving the news, the S-3 anti-submarine aircraft should be able to arrive within an hour. By then, our side will completely take the initiative!

"Distance three, we're too close!"

"No, keep chasing!" Collison was puzzled. Why was the water power so slow to react and why hadn't it caught up yet?

"Distance two, we have to slow down!"

"Oh, no!" At this moment, the sonar operator suddenly screamed.