"Depth 150 meters." The rear cabin began to report the depth.
"Course 233 has arrived." Xu Siqi completed the order given to him and replied aloud.
The current situation is that the Taishan is facing target No. 1 head-on, and at the same time it is diving sharply and deeply. Target No. 1 has also discovered this and has also begun to increase the depth sharply, to the right front of the Taishan.
Target No. 2 is also approaching the Taishan at high speed, and like Target No. 1, it dives into the deep water in a condescending posture.
The other two torpedoes, namely torpedoes No. 3 and 4, are still far away. In this vast undersea wasteland, the Taishan cannot make any drastic maneuvers to affect targets No. 3 and No. 4.
Academician Wang suddenly realized that the timing of the front lines of targets No. 3 and No. 4 was obviously too early. Even if these two torpedoes planned to speed up and approach the Taishan, under the previous situation, they could have dragged the wires and relied on the mothership's sonar guidance.
This may be a little slower, but it will have more power and maneuverability at the last moment, as well as a clearer active sonar target search range, which will greatly improve their hit rate.
This may mean that there is really such a nuclear bomb falling in the sky, so several nuclear submarines cut the torpedo wires without hesitation and turned around and left!
What is the general fixed depth for nuclear depth charges? Academician Wang couldn't remember it for a moment, but he was sure that the current water depth of more than 300 meters was not enough for the Taishan to conceal itself.
"Torpedo No. 1 is 40 seconds, Torpedo No. 2 is 65 seconds." Su Qin's voice began to sound robotic, making Xiao Song and Xu Siqi's hair stand on end.
"Depth 172 meters."
"Stop water injection!" Academician Wang ordered to stop water injection into the ballast water tank, but he had not yet adjusted the horizontal rudder angle of the bow. Driven by the propeller, the Taishan still maintained the bow downward posture and dived towards the seabed. .
"Torpedo cabin, prepare decoy bombs, one shot! Countdown to 20 seconds for launch." Academician Wang began to issue orders by department.
"Attention helmsman, listen to the command and start to full right rudder, electromechanical, listen to the command and start to surface at full speed."
"Depth 181."
"The outer cover of the torpedo tube is open, and water is being poured into the torpedo tube, 15, 14,..." Zhao Rongguang counted down honestly in the forward torpedo cabin.
"Depth 188."
"Torpedo No. 1 is 25 seconds, torpedo No. 2 is 40 seconds."
"Launch!" Su Qin's mechanical voice didn't seem to affect Zhao Rongguang at all.
"Action!" At the same time that Zhao Rongguang announced the launch of the decoy bombs, Academician Wang also shouted the command.
It took Xu Siqi almost a second to connect these two words with the password he said before, so that when he received a slap on the shoulder from Academician Wang, the reaction in the back cabin was much faster.
Almost immediately, the roar of compressed air rushing into the pipes could be heard everywhere inside the Taishan, followed by the sound of rushing water as the bow of the boat gradually pointed upward.
"Depth 191." But in fact, the Taishan still did not stop diving.
"Torpedo No. 1, 10 seconds..." Although Su Qin was reporting the count mechanically, he was actually no longer needed. Amid the sound of water, the sound of a rumbling propeller approaching could be heard.
The Taishan was raising its heavy bow and tilting the hull to turn sharply to the right. The oncoming torpedo No. 1 did not pay any attention to the decoy bomb.
It was still rushing towards the Taishan on the original route, but it seemed that it was unable to respond to the Taishan's rapid head-up and turn.
In the command cabin, Academician Wang's eyes seemed to be able to see through the wall of the boat. He kept staring at the upper left side, then slowly lowered his gaze to his feet, and finally stared in the direction of the stern of the boat, watching the rumbling propeller sound go away.
"Torpedo No. 1 passed under the belly of the boat." Su Qin's voice finally became a little angry.
"Where is torpedo No. 2?" But Academician Wang did not forget that there was another torpedo at close range.
"Torpedo No. 2 turned right and followed the bait." Su Qin's voice was full of joy.
"Huh..." There was a sound of exhalation in the cabin, and then there were buzzing voices everywhere. People who have escaped from death have a sequelae of talking too much, not to mention that there are too many non-professional submariners on the Taishan.
"Quiet!" Academician Wang had to come out to maintain order.
"There are two more torpedoes behind us! What's the heading?"
"Heading 305, continuous right rudder." Before the order was updated, Xu Siqi maintained the full right rudder action.
"Steady on course 310."
"Yes, heading 310."
The boat was much quieter for a while, but there were still whispers. What finally silenced the boat was Su Qin's report.
"About 10 degrees." Xu Siqi is a naval pilot after all. He has never eaten pork, but he has seen many pigs running away. Now he has entered the role more smoothly.
But the ice floe was not satisfactory.
"This ice floe is quite large. Why is the underwater part so small?"
"And it's so flat."
There are currently no experts on ice floes on board the Tarzan, but the people in the command module are staring at the screen in front of them. Even those who have only watched a few classic old movies are beginning to find it incredible.
The volume of the underwater part of Antarctic polar ice floes or icebergs is usually many times that of the water surface, and due to many factors such as gravity, ocean current erosion, uneven seawater temperature, and buoyancy, the underwater part of the iceberg is usually strangely shaped and complex.
In addition to the common icicles and ice edges, it is not surprising to see hanging canyons and even caves formed by various wrinkles, but the ice floe in front of me has none of these things.
Calculated by its underwater volume, the above-water part of this ice floe is quite small and is only flatter than the underwater part.
This is actually more like the ocean ice floes frozen on the cold sea surface in the Northern Hemisphere, rather than the giant icebergs that break off from the polar ice caps often seen around Antarctica.
"According to the mechanical point of view, this ice floe should have broken into pieces long ago." This is Xiao Song's judgment. No one has a different opinion. The ground of this floating ice is really too flat, but no one has the intention to think about why this floating ice is so flat. The ice has not broken yet.
"Torpedo No. 3 has entered the 100-second attack range!" Su Qin raised his voice to announce that what was supposed to come would always come, but the complex aquatic environment caused the 20-second warning time to be eaten up all at once. This was not the case for a while. People are mentally prepared.
"What about other goals?" Academician Wang asked quickly.
"Target No. 4 is still in the original position, the arrival time is still unknown, and the distance estimated by passive sonar is actually further! I guess its power is almost exhausted." There is always good news!
"Dong..." But it was obviously too early to be happy.
The sound of an active sonar pulse alerted Su Qin, who quickly went to check the No. 1 and No. 2 torpedo targets that he had left aside for a few minutes.
