Chapter 50 Rocket Anti-Submarine Depth Bomb Launch

The eastern sky first turned white and then began to turn red. Above the sea in the distance, a bright red sun slowly rose, and a new day had arrived.

The blue sky is filled with white clouds. It is a good day!

On the sea, the confrontation between the warships is still going on. Active sonar harassment was activated last night. Except for the personnel on duty, most of them have rested. When they got up today, the sailors are full of energy.

Ilyich looked at the American destroyer No. 866 not far away on the sea. The other side was still following very closely today. It seemed that it would be another passionate day.

After eating a can of fish, Ilyich, standing on the bridge, issued the first order: "Speed ​​up, right full rudder, we will entertain our American friends with black smoke."

The wind was blowing from the east at that time, and when the Tashkent accelerated, the thick black smoke coming out of the chimney just fell on the American ships behind, allowing the other side to greet this morning in the black smoke, which was very refreshing.

Following Ilyich's order, the heavy oil boiler at the rear began to burn violently, and as the oil injection increased, incomplete combustion exhaust gas came out through the chimney, emitting thick black smoke and dust, which drifted behind and became larger and larger in volume.

"Damn Soviets!" Fichteler, who had just washed his face and was standing on the bridge, suddenly felt a choking in his throat. In an instant, he wanted to activate the warship's three-defense system.

Looking at the Soviet warship in front of him that was showing off its might and being complacent, Fichteler couldn't help but sneer in his heart, Soviets, your true form will be revealed in a moment!

The survey ship continued its survey, gradually moving southward at a speed of fifteen knots.

Suddenly, a survey ship stopped, as if it had discovered something.

"Their sonar has increased in intensity." The sonar operator of the Tashkent heard the signal from the enemy's survey ship and couldn't help but report.

The second survey ship also stopped to conduct measurements, and then changed its direction. Ilyich, who was standing on the bridge, realized that the other party must be conducting triangulation!

"Attention, RBU-1200 is loading and entering the firing state!" Ilyich said, "Set the depth to 800 meters."

The seabed here is 850 meters deep. Detonating at a depth of 800 meters can have the best effect. When the two RBU-1200s at the bow are launched, they will cover a certain area and will definitely be able to destroy underwater fighter jets!

Hearing Ilyich's order, the sailors acted quickly, carrying the RGB-12 anti-submarine depth bombs and stuffing them into the five-barrel launcher in front.

The Soviet Union has a long history of using rockets. The Katyusha rockets during World War II made the Nazis terrified.

The anti-submarine depth charges equipped on Soviet anti-submarine warships can be traced back to World War II. In order to jointly fight against the Nazis, the American Allies leased some anti-submarine ships to the Soviet Navy, which were equipped with "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket launchers.

This is a simple truss 4-mounted anti-submarine rocket launcher composed of parallel rails. When in use, the truss is propped up at a fixed elevation angle of 48°. When not in use, the truss is folded and can be laid flat on the deck.

The anti-submarine rocket uses rocket booster to simplify the launch device, and explodes at a certain depth underwater. Even if it does not directly hit the submarine, the violent explosion will cause the surge of sea water and the huge sound, which will kill the enemy submarine and cause a strong shock to the crew. The Soviet Navy admired this device very much.

After World War II, the Soviet Navy improved and upgraded the original "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket launcher and developed a series of anti-submarine depth bombs. RBU is the abbreviation of the Russian anti-submarine rocket depth bomb launcher system spelled in Latin letters. The Arabic numerals behind it represent the range in meters. For example, the RBU-1200 has a range of 1,200 meters. Of course, depending on the use method, the maximum range can be thrown to 1,450 meters.

This RBU system is mainly used for aiming and launching RGB anti-submarine rocket depth charges and giving them an initial elevation angle and flight direction.

RGB is an anti-submarine rocket depth charge, which is a medium- and short-range uncontrolled anti-submarine rocket. It has almost no possibility of directly hitting the target. It mainly uses high-explosive warheads to detonate at a set depth underwater to generate shock waves to kill submarines. Through short-term continuous firing, it can form a "carpet" saturation attack on the target.

In later generations, the United States quickly abandoned this type of anti-submarine rocket and mainly used advanced torpedoes for anti-submarine purposes, while the Soviet Union and China vigorously developed these systems, which were not only used for anti-submarine purposes, but also for anti-torpedo purposes to achieve the purpose of protecting themselves.

Looking at the American destroyer accompanying him on the side, Ilyich had a smile on his face. Americans, look at how powerful I am!

"Aim and fire!" Ilyich shouted.

Following Ilyich's order, the five-tube launcher of the RBU-1200 system in front, driven by the power system, began to rise. The five launcher tubes were arranged in two layers, three tubes in the upper layer and one tube on each side of the lower layer. The weight was 430 kilograms. After the aiming was completed, the operator pressed the button.

"Swish, swish." With the sound of the rocket igniting, black smoke came out from behind the launch tube, and the RGB-12 rocket, dragging tongues of fire, had already flown into the sky.

The original explosion depth of this type of rocket was only 300 meters. After all, the diving depth of conventional submarines generally does not exceed 300 meters. In order to carry out this mission, these rockets have been improved and the maximum explosion depth exceeds 1,000 meters. When loading just now, the explosion depth was set to 800 meters.

In order to prevent the launch of these rocket depth charges from causing misunderstanding to the Americans, the Tashkent frigate has been prepared. The ship's guns can be turned at any time and aimed at the US warships. If the other side dares to attack them, that will be the beginning of the battle!

The launch of ten anti-submarine depth charges from two RBU-1200 systems enveloped the entire Tashkent frigate in smoke, while the rockets, trailing tongues of fire, flew forward rapidly, dragging tongues of fire in the air. The scene was so spectacular.

After flying in the air for dozens of seconds, the rockets penetrated into the water at the predetermined range of 1,100 meters. At this time, the American survey ship had left, but the salvage ship had not yet arrived, so there was just an opening.

Americans, it is impossible to salvage our Soviet new fighter planes! You miscalculated! Ilyich looked at the American warships on the side and was obviously stunned. He couldn't help but feel extremely proud in his heart. He had dealt a blow to the ambitions of American imperialism again!