Chapter 1417 Found the Cargo Ship Formation

When the submarine is sailing underwater, it mainly relies on sonar to search for the surrounding situation, and when it emerges, it can rely on radar. Moreover, the current nuclear-powered submarine has a huge displacement and has sufficient space, so it is in the control tower. Above, the radar has been deployed for a long time, and now after surfacing, the radar has also started to search the surrounding sea and air.

For submarines, the most feared thing is the enemy's surface ships and anti-submarine aircraft, and now with search radars, various situations can be detected as early as possible.

Radar and sonar were working, scanning the surrounding sea, while the submarine continued to sail south.

Two hours later, the sky has gradually turned white. In the Arctic Circle, this season is the time of the polar day. If it is at the North Pole, it will always be bright. As time goes by, the polar day will continue to move outwards. When the summer solstice arrives, the polar day will move to the Arctic Circle, which is the largest range that can be expanded.

At this time, the Arctic Circle is not yet 24 hours of day, but the night is also very short.

The sun is slanting on the Arctic Circle, facing the rising sun, you can see that there are so many floes floating on the seawater of the Arctic Ocean, and the submarine is sailing between the floes.

When the submarine was built, the robustness of the outer shell was fully considered. It uses the latest high-strength steel developed by Krupp, which can easily dive to a depth of 300 meters. At the same time, it also took into account the Arctic environment. .

When needed, it can directly break through the ice layer of the Arctic Ocean and float up, so there is no need to be afraid of the current ice floes even if they hit.

"Heard the noise of the low-speed propeller." At this moment, the sonar soldiers first spotted the target.

The constantly floating ice floes limited the signal search of the air-to-sea search radar. After the sonar indicated the direction, the radar finally captured several vague reflection bright spots.

"Attention, dive to periscope depth and prepare for battle!"

In this area, all the Soviet ships or American ships are sailing, and the goal of our own arrival this time is to launch a sneak attack on the American merchant ships!

The 6,000-ton nuclear submarine formed a huge vortex on the sea, like a big shark, diving into the sea, leaving only a small periscope on the sea.

Standing in front of the periscope of the conning tower, Otto was constantly observing the sea. At the same time, his own submarine was also sailing forward at a speed of 10 knots.

Because of the seven-blade propeller and the first-generation sound-absorbing tiles developed by Germany on the surface, this submarine has a very good mute performance. When sailing at a speed of 10 knots, it will not be detected by American sonar equipment at all.

After passing through the heavy ice floes, Otto finally used his periscope to see the target on the sea in the distance. Suddenly, he felt that his breathing was going to be quick.

aircraft carrier?

The layout that leads directly to the deck, the bridge on the side, must be an aircraft carrier. I didn't expect that the first time I sailed, I caught such a big guy!

This is a fleet with a dozen cargo ships sailing on the sea. The aircraft carrier was the first to be noticed by Otto, and when he continued to approach, he could see it more clearly.

It is indeed an aircraft carrier, but it is not an attack aircraft carrier with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. It should be an escort aircraft carrier. However, it is not one. There are three escort aircraft carriers, sailing with other cargo ships.

In this regard, Otto is aware of some insider.

At the beginning, Germany ordered a batch of container cargo ships from the Newport News Shipyard in the United States. After Germany received it, it was transformed into an aircraft carrier, or it could be used as an aircraft carrier directly without modification.

Later, with the bad relationship with the United States, the Americans suddenly discovered in the Pacific War that they needed a cheap and reliable escort carrier. At this time, they found the Newport News Shipyard, and after inspecting , Nimitz and Roosevelt both made a decision, and the Navy placed dozens of orders for mass production of such ships.

This is the American Casablanca-class aircraft carrier.

Before that, even light aircraft carriers were rebuilt from combat ships, but escort aircraft carriers were refitted from merchant ships, so although the aircraft carrier may have a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, it cannot participate in the front line at all. Combat, without any armor protection, without advanced damage control, looks like an aircraft carrier, but one shot will kill it.

Therefore, this aircraft carrier is mainly used to escort merchant ships. They are generally deployed in front of convoys, using carrier-based aircraft to scout, attack submarines, or guide surface ships to attack. In addition to escort, the escort aircraft carrier also often takes on the role of a transport ship.

Now, these three escort aircraft carriers, like other cargo ships, undertake the task of transportation.

Manila Bay, the sixth Casablanca-class aircraft carrier.

The steam engine at the rear was rumbling, and in the Arctic Ocean, the severe weather conditions made everyone have to be careful.

On the bridge, Colonel Ralph Davidson stood here, looking into the distance with his telescope.

On the sea, ice floes drifted constantly, and they had to avoid those large pieces of ice floes as much as possible to avoid collisions.

Fortunately, there are almost twenty hours of light in a day, which allows them to sail almost all the time during the day, but this kind of sailing makes people even more exhausted.

"We are the navy and we are going to fight, but now, we have become sea jeeps." At this time, in another position on the bridge, First Officer Mitchell looked at the densely packed P-39 fighter jets on the deck, and couldn't help but feel complained.

Now, the biggest enemy of the U.S. Navy is the navy of the island countries. The navy of the island countries is raging in the Pacific Ocean. Even the U.S. Navy is avoiding its edge. Every naval officer is eager to fight, but not running as a transport ship, transporting weapons and ammunition to the Soviets. !

After the Germans took control of the North Sea, the United States even had to venture into the Arctic Ocean, starting from Alaska, all the way along the northern coastal border of the Soviet Union, transported to the White Sea, and unloaded supplies at the closest point to Moscow.

This role change has made many people uncomfortable.

Hearing this, Ralph turned his head: "It is our inevitable choice to help the Soviet Union now. We must let the Soviet Union hold on and hold back the Germans. If the Soviet Union fails, then we will face a two-front battle. Dangerous situation, think about it, we can't even deal with the island countries now, if we deal with the German navy in the Atlantic, we will definitely lose."

It takes time for the navy to be violent, and the idea that the United States must help the Soviet Union to hold back Germany is now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.