One Thousand Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Anti-Submarine Mobilization
"What?" Liu Huaidong jumped up, "Let me see!"
The communications staff immediately handed over the tablet computer in his hand. The computer screen was showing a satellite image of the outside of Xidan Port, with more than 20 light spots representing the enemy constantly flashing on the map.
Liu Huaidong pointed his finger and cancelled the target indication. The picture on the screen turned into an authentic satellite image. Carefully distinguishing, there was a vague shadow under each disappearing light spot.
Liu Huaidong raised his head suddenly: "Combat alert, order all units to prepare for battle; order the fleet to go all out for anti-submarine... Has the Army Aviation returned?"
"Not yet."
"Order the Army Aviation to return as quickly as possible, order the ground crew to prepare anti-submarine equipment; request the assistance of the Qionghe!"
"Yes!" The communications staff immediately passed the order down, and the shrill alarm sounded again.
The naval warships docked at the dock reacted the fastest. Just after receiving the order, a destroyer launched an anti-submarine rocket to the distant sea. With the sound of breaking through the air, all twelve anti-submarine rockets flew to the designated area.
The other warships also reacted quickly, launching anti-submarine rockets at their respective targets. In just a few seconds, the rockets had already fallen into the water and quickly sank underwater.
After all the anti-submarine rockets were used up, the ships immediately reloaded them at the fastest speed. Before the reloading was completed, the depth bombs that had entered the water had exploded in the water, and columns of water rose from the water one after another.
That's not all. The warships that were originally docked at the dock started their engines and sailed away from the dock along a safe route.
Several frigates had a shallow draft and the mines were located at a relatively deep position. The bottom of the ship could not touch the mines at all. They simply didn't care about the route or not, and drove directly over the mines, rushing to the vicinity of the alien submarine at the highest combat speed, and immediately started the ship's depth bomb launcher. One by one, the depth bombs were thrown into the sky, and fell into the water in an arc.
Soon after, the depth bombs exploded in succession at different depths, and columns of water followed the warships, as if something in the water was following the warships.
Depth charges are not advanced weapons. They must be dropped by warships. Their accuracy, power and range are not very good. Once a depth charge is used, it means that the enemy's submarine has approached the fleet.
Take anti-submarine rockets for example. The maximum range of this thing is only ten kilometers, while the most advanced torpedoes can reach a range of 140 kilometers!
The target of the depth charge is submarines,
but the depth charge with rockets is short-armed and can't reach submarines at all. On the other hand, submarines can launch torpedoes at enemy ships from dozens or even hundreds of kilometers away.
In other words, the role of depth charges in anti-submarine is very limited. Before the war, the main function of depth charges was no longer anti-submarine, but to intercept underwater torpedoes!
As the role of depth charges became more and more useless, some countries had eliminated this weapon before the war, and anti-submarine aircraft and anti-submarine torpedoes were used to deal with enemy submarines.
There are many shortcomings of depth charges, but the biggest advantage of this thing is that it is cheap. At present, the space fleet is the key development direction of various countries. The navy's funds have been repeatedly compressed, and this old but economical weapon has to be re-activated.
Otherwise, there would be no way these warships could have so many depth charges.
Of course, the warships have more than just depth charges as an anti-submarine weapon, there are also a certain number of anti-submarine missiles. The vertical launch systems on those frigates have never been idle. Missiles are launched vertically, turn in the air, and then dive into the water to release anti-submarine torpedoes.
The frigates' attack at all costs should have achieved some results, but even if the alien submarines are hit by depth charges and torpedoes, they will not surface. No one knows what kind of results they have achieved.
The two destroyers were only one step slower than the frigates, but the destroyers had a larger tonnage and were equipped with more weapons. After arriving at the sea area where the incident occurred, they threw depth charges and anti-submarine missiles like they were free.
Although the battle was going well in the front, everyone with a discerning eye knew that the warships were not the main anti-submarine force. The real killer was the anti-submarine helicopter that had just taken off from the aircraft carrier.
To put it bluntly, the action of the warships was just to buy time for the anti-submarine helicopters, rather than expecting depth charges to destroy many enemy ships.
Several helicopters quickly flew over the alien submarines, releasing sonar in an orderly manner. After determining the position of the enemy boats, the helicopters released anti-submarine torpedoes into the water.
Unfortunately, the alien submarines were too scattered, and it was not worth using nuclear bombs to bomb them, otherwise Liu Huaidong would have bombed them long ago.
Perhaps the anti-submarine weapons that took turns to fight made the alien submarines feel pressured, and several shadows under the water suddenly began to float up. It can be seen on the satellite map that these shadows are becoming clearer and clearer.
The command center immediately issued a warning. At the same time, the warships in front also discovered this abnormal sign and immediately launched anti-submarine rockets at these locations-coincidentally, the anti-submarine rockets on several warships had just been loaded!
The depth bombs that fell into the water exploded one after another, but the shadows under the water were fine and continued to float up slowly on their own.
Liu Huaidong's pupils shrank when he saw this scene. Just as he was about to give an order, one of the shadows had already surfaced, but only a small corner of it emerged from the water. From the satellite image, it was not clear how big this corner was. It was only certain that the main body of the enemy ship was still hidden under the water.
But the scene was different. The officers and soldiers on the warships and helicopters found that the thing was only three or five meters in radius, like a breathing tube sticking out of the water.
No one knew what this thing was used for, but everyone understood that it must be hiding some kind of danger.
Several warships immediately turned their guns around, and the naval guns fired wildly at the breathing tube.
Most of the shells fell on the water near the breathing tube, and only a few hit the target. However, after the smoke of the explosion dissipated, there was no other effect except for the rippling waves.
Everyone was secretly surprised. The alien submarine was so strong? If so, wouldn’t the depth bombs thrown before have been useless?
At this time, several other underwater effects also floated up, and five or six corners just broke through the water surface, and then the tops of those corners suddenly opened, revealing a black hole.
Before everyone could react, a group of servants had already flown out with wings.
Everyone suddenly realized that this was not a corner at all, it was clearly the channel for the aliens to release the servants!
No doubt, fight!
Several anti-submarine helicopters immediately pulled up, but the servants were much more flexible than the helicopters and quickly chased after them. With a flurry of lightning, the fragile helicopters disintegrated on the spot and fell to the sea in pieces.
The crew members on the helicopters were all killed on the spot without exception, and their blood dyed the sea red.