Chapter 51 Salvage

Underwater, the RGB-12 rocket depth charge, with a maximum diving speed of 6.85 meters per second, kept diving underwater. Soon, it reached a depth of 800 meters underwater. At this position, the KDV triggered the time fuse and exploded.

"Boom!" The warhead with a charge of 32 kg exploded violently, driving the sea water to surge. The huge impact force pushed towards the seabed, and the seabed in this area was flattened in an instant as if an earthquake occurred. If the depth was shallow, you could see the waves on the sea surface.

The sonar operator listened to the sounds and determined that all the depth charges fired had exploded, just like Katyusha, a surface-kill weapon. A large area of ​​the seabed was completely destroyed.

The Americans watched from the sidelines and did not take extreme measures, not firing artillery fire or launching torpedoes at the Tashkent.

"Keep reloading, do it again!" Ilyich ordered loudly.

Originally, according to the predetermined tactics, after launching this round of rockets, if the Americans wanted to fight back, the Soviet warships would quickly retreat. But now, the Americans seemed stunned by the scene and did not react. Seizing the opportunity, Ilyich decided to launch another round.

The RBU-1200 system is a compact device that is widely used on Soviet light warships, usually with four sets of ammunition.

When the second round of loading was completed, the American warship finally reacted. The angry Cohen went at full speed and rammed into the Tashkent.

"Fire!" Ilyich continued to give orders, and just as the rockets were flying out, he gave the order to turn full right.

Mission accomplished. Time to return home! No more playing with these stupid Americans!

The angry American warship USS Peary also gave up fighting with another Soviet warship and ran to block the Tashkent.

It turns out that the Soviets were not here to salvage the MiG-25, they were here to destroy it!

The Americans, who suddenly realized the truth, were extremely disgusted with the Soviet warship that came to cause the underwater explosion and were determined to keep the warship.

"Quick, call for our air support!" Ilyich shouted. It was like poking a hornet's nest. The Americans, unwilling to accept defeat, might send out attack aircraft to deal with their warship, which had basically no modern air defense capabilities.

Air support! The four MiG-25 fighters of the 513th Regiment, which were roaming in the western waters of the Sea of ​​Japan, turned on the afterburners and flew quickly towards this sea area. They had to protect their naval ships that had achieved great success!

"027, 028, eleven o'clock, prepare to enter low altitude, 034, cruise at high altitude with me." Andre ordered on the radio.

Andrei was suddenly promoted to deputy commander of the 513th Regiment, but he was not complacent and did not put on airs. In his eyes, he was always a pilot, a soldier flying a steel fighter plane to protect the Soviet sky.

Today it was his turn to carry out a cruise mission with three fighter jets. After receiving the distress signal, he left and headed for the designated sea area.

Thanks to the newly developed Sapphire-25 radar, this pulse Doppler radar has a certain downward-looking and downward-shooting capability, and can also scan warships on the sea surface on sea surfaces with small waves.

Therefore, during the flight, through a scan, Andre obtained the approximate location of the target and commanded two MiG-25s to enter low altitude, preparing to escort his own warships. At the same time, he and 034 cruised at high altitude so that they could confront the US garrison air force when it arrived.

Wearing a helmet was very inconvenient. Andre lowered his head and looked at the radar screen again, and his eyelids twitched suddenly.

Just to the north of the conflict zone, 30 nautical miles away, there are several ships! Those ships are very close to each other, they should not be fishing boats! And that sea area is also the sea area where Belenko's fighter plane crashed. In fact, when Andrei found the sea area where his navy returned, he felt something was wrong. That sea area seemed to be more than 20 nautical miles away from the sea area where Belenko crashed. Did the MiG-25 glide so far underwater? Or is there another problem? At the beginning, Belenko's nose was facing east. Even if it was gliding underwater, it should glide eastward, not southward?

Moreover, their side had completed the mission and started to return, but the US Air Force did not take any action. Although the warships on the sea were confronting them, they seemed to be driving them away. Andre was even more confused.

"034, pay close attention to the situation over the island nation." Andre said on the radio: "I will go down to investigate."

After saying that, Andre pushed the joystick, and the MiG-25 fighter began to dive and flew towards the sea area where the new situation had just been discovered.

The blue sea is calm and peaceful, this is a rare good weather for salvaging!

On the water, two salvage ships flying plaster flags were working intensively. They started after dawn.

The confrontation in the southern waters was just an illusion, meant to fool the Soviets. As expected, the Soviets were so stubborn that they were fooled!

There is something under this sea area. It was discovered by a survey ship in the middle of last night. At that time, they did not make it public, but marked it on the nautical chart and continued sailing. Today, they fooled the Soviets into leaving this area of ​​water, and these two salvage ships came quietly.

First, a deep-water diver was lowered, wearing a rubber deep-water diving suit, and dived underwater. He successfully found the location of the fighter plane, then fixed the cable. Then, the two salvage ships worked together to lift the fighter plane.

Salvage is a technology. To salvage a sunken ship with a large displacement, one needs to increase the buoyancy of the shipwreck so that the shipwreck can float on its own. But now, to salvage a fighter jet that weighs less than 20 tons, one only needs to lift it.

As the two cranes slowly lifted at the same time, the MiG-25 fighter jet emerged from the sea little by little. In fact, as long as it left the seabed, the rest would be easy.

On a salvage ship, Locke stood quietly on the deck, watching the crane's cable rise little by little. With his careful planning, this operation was about to come to an end!

Those high-ranking American troops stationed in Japan are a bunch of idiots. They can't even do such a small thing. I really don't know how they climbed to such high positions, Locke couldn't help but think in his heart.

"It's out, it's out!" A staff officer from the Air Force Command who came with him shouted with joy.

"Splash." Like a beauty emerging from the bath, the fighter plane was lifted out of the water. Surprisingly, it was still intact. Except for the canopy and seats which were missing, the overall look was perfect.

Seawater continuously flowed out of the fuselage and flowed back into the sea. The Soviet Union's most advanced MiG-25 fighter with twin engines, twin vertical tails and huge rectangular air intakes was finally going to be declassified by American technicians!