It leaves Wuya, enters Xisha, passes through Zhongsha, and then enters the vast NSQD sea area, heading directly towards the Zengmu Shoal - the southernmost island reef in the motherland's waters.
Ship No. 53 kept moving at full speed all the way. The helmsman and watch officer were highly vigilant and watched the situation in the sea area ahead. They called on the VHF in advance for ships obstructing navigation to give way. In addition, two people were deployed at the lookout post.
Soldiers conducted a visual lookout, all to ensure that the ship could maintain sailing at full speed to the Zengmu Shoal waters.
That's right, this is to test the diesel power system's working conditions under high working conditions.
Yes, during the last modification, the No. 53 ship was replaced with a diesel-fuel combined power system that was more powerful than the all-diesel power system used by the 054A.
Perhaps it is testing power plants for the next generation of larger frigates.
Without a powerful power unit, the No. 53 ship would have been in a more disadvantageous position when it was competing against the HMS Malawi aircraft carrier strike group.
In other words, if Li Hai had no confidence, he would not dare to joke with the lives of more than a hundred people on the ship.
During the whole journey of 1,780 kilometers, the No. 53 ship rushed to the anchorage in only thirty-three hours. The maximum speed reached over 36 knots. There were no peeing spots throughout the whole journey. The diesel-fuel combined power system withstood the test.
An oil supply ship has anchored at the anchorage point. Fifty meters in front of the bow of the ship and more than ten meters under the water, is a monument of sovereignty standing on the underwater reef.
Li Hai carefully directed the No. 53 ship to approach the oil supply ship, and the two ships anchored close to each other.
After completing the oil replenishment, the divers accompanying the oil supply ship went into the water and painted red on the sovereignty monument. All crew members of the two ships gathered on the deck to hold a solemn flag-raising ceremony and swore sovereignty at the Zengmu Shoal at the southernmost tip of the motherland's territory.
Zengmu Shoal is now under the jurisdiction of Sansha City and is part of the NSQD. Chinese fishermen have always called it Shapai. It is the territory that was first ordered and actually controlled by our country. It is the southernmost area of our territory. It was surrendered as early as 1994.
Sovereignty Monument. The Chinese navy and coast guard patrol here from time to time to declare sovereignty.
Before the No. 53 ship left my country's waters, all the officers and soldiers on the ship held a solemn flag-raising ceremony under the setting sun in the South China Sea, swearing sovereignty, motivating the officers and soldiers, and replenishing oil at the same time.
At 10:00 that night, that is, at 22:00 on the second day after going to sea, the No. 53 ship set sail overnight, turned to a 210-degree course toward the Strait of Malacca, and continued to move forward at an economic speed of 16 knots.
Near midnight the next day, Ship No. 53 slowed down and sailed cautiously.
Li Hai arrived, followed by the correspondent carrying the Beidou communication terminal. Li Hai looked seriously at the sea not far away. Not long after, a big black fish with a dark body emerged from the dark sea, parallel to the No. 53 ship, only a few meters away.
One-fifth of the chain is about thirty meters.
From such a close distance, you can hear your shouting from across the air.
The correspondent handed over the microphone, and Li Hai took it in his hand and called, "Heiyu Yaoyao, this is Wu San, I saw you."
Of course it can be seen from such a close distance.
Zhao Yunlong climbed onto the command enclosure, exposing half of his body. He was also accompanied by a correspondent, who was carrying the same model of Beidou communication terminal.
The communication method between the two sides is like an infantry tactical unit.
Zhao Yunlong turned to look at the No. 53 ship, which was not much taller than the half-floating Big Black Fish, and said with a smile, "I am Black Fish Yaoyao, Wu San, long time no see."
Li Hai looked at Blackfish No. 11 and said, "I haven't seen you for a few months. Your boat is different."
"We changed the command enclosure." Zhao Yunlong nodded and said, "How do we go?"
Did the command enclosure just need to be replaced? Why not change the boat? Li Hai was very aware, but Quan didn't hear it and said, "I'll scan in front and you'll follow behind. We want to test the new sonar."
"I understand, give me the route plan." Zhao Yunlong replied readily.
Li Hai turned to look at the correspondent. After a few seconds, the correspondent nodded, and the route plan of several thousand words had been transmitted to Zhao Yunlong's terminal in the form of electronic text drawings.
"Heiyu Yaoyao, the route plan has been sent, please check it." Li Hai said.
After Zhao Yunlong and other deputy captains checked the received route plan and confirmed it was correct, he said, "It's been checked. Is there anything else you want to explain?"
"Nothing else, let's go." Li Hai said, raising his hand and waving.
I vaguely saw Zhao Yunlong waving his hand.
Soon, Blackfish No. 11 dived quickly, causing the fluctuations in the sea surface to quickly disappear and calm returned.
Li Hai waited for a while before returning to the bridge command center and signaling the duty officer to continue moving forward according to the established plan.
After leaving the Wuya Naval Port, Blackfish 11 has been closely following the 53rd ship. The top speed once reached an astonishing 33 knots and was maintained for a long time. Because the underwater route is shorter, the Blackfish 11th is the same as the 53rd ship.
The ship's fore and aft legs arrived at Zengmu Shoal.
However, the water depth and topography of the Zengmu Shoal are too shallow for a large nuclear submarine with a length of about 120 meters, a maximum surface displacement of more than 8,000 tons, and a maximum underwater displacement of about 12,000 tons.
What Zhao Yunlong and the others yearn for is the wider ocean, and those places are the battlefields of their nuclear submarines.
Blackfish No. 11 did not surface. Instead, it held a simple but grand oath-taking ceremony underwater and in the cabin at the same time.
Zhao Yunlong knew that Li Hai had probably guessed that the Blackfish 11 had also been sailing at maximum speed to test the practical performance and reliability of the new power plant. Moreover, the expert team on board the Blackfish 11 was better than that on the 53rd ship.
Yao Xianyun and others are much more advanced, and any one of them will be a national treasure.
Ship No. 53 entered the Strait of Malacca according to the planned route, and immediately turned on the ship-borne passive sonar and began to search and advance. This was to set the front station and clear the way for Blackfish No. 11.
Li Hai said with emotion, "I thought we could be considered the main team members now, but unexpectedly, we are still just a sparring partner."
"You mean Blackfish No. 11." Chang Haizhou shook his head, "In front of them, our surface ships are all sparring partners. In the end, we still have to rely on them to end the war."
To contain and end wars, in terms of military means, as far as the navy is concerned, the only option is nuclear power.
"Our experiments are also very important." Yao Xianyun beside him interjected.
Wan Liyang immediately agreed, "Yes, in a sense, it is comparable to the Heiyu experiment. In the final analysis, our surface ships are used the most, especially frigates. There is no dirty work that we can't do.
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This interprets the role of the frigate very appropriately.
Seeing that the channel ahead was getting narrower, Wan Liyang said "I'll keep an eye on it" and left. Yao Xianyun was concerned about the operation of the integrated command system and also went to the war situation center.
Li Hai glanced at Yao Xianyun's back and whispered, "This Yao worker is as good as returning home when he goes to sea. There is nothing wrong with him and he is very familiar with our ship."
"There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, 150 of them are either at sea or on the way to the dock, and more than a hundred days are in the office. I can't even remember my home address. If you don't believe me, ask him if he remembers it.
Remember what grade your child is in?" Chang Haizhou looked unconcerned.
Li Hai said with emotion, "The contribution of soldiers is far greater than ordinary people imagine."
"Looking at what you said, you are also a soldier." Chang Haizhou said, he had long been used to it and had passed the stage of often sighing.
Li Hai recalled, "My master said that the most similar thing between him and me is that we are both born to fight. It is the duty of people like us to contribute to national defense construction."
After a pause, Li Hai looked at Chang Haizhou and smiled and said, "I won't hide it from you. The situation in my family is much better than that of ordinary families. This is also the main factor that allows me to work in the army with peace of mind."
Chang Haizhou said, "Is this latter point the main factor?"
Li Hai does not deny that facts are facts. Even if you don’t want to use those resources, those resources will work and have an impact.
However, in the final analysis, personal ability is the final deciding factor.
Ship No. 53 once again entered the Strait of Malacca at night, as if reenacting the scene of picking up a submarine a few months ago. As one of the busiest international waterway throats in the world, the Strait of Malacca waterway is always filled with ships one after another, passively
The frequency of sonar detection of various signals is getting higher and higher, so that sonar operators have to shorten their duty hours and adopt a dual-post system to classify various signal processing, and then confirm the ship type by searching pictures from the complex sonar feature library. Sometimes
It will even be specific to the registered name of the vessel.
Not only warships will be included in the sonar signature library. If a war breaks out in the future, many merchant ships can be transformed into the navy's logistics support force. The larger the tonnage, the more important it is, so it is also very important to understand their situation.
The design and construction of some ship types in our country must be approved by the relevant national defense departments in advance. There is a set of specifications and commercial factors cannot be considered only.
For the No. 53 ship sailing on the surface, adopting a time-occupying attitude to cross the Strait of Malacca is difficult. For the Heiyu No. 11 under the water, it is such a process of holding your breath and concentrating. If there is a slight mistake, the whereabouts will be exposed, otherwise
In thirty minutes, the whole world will know that a mysterious submarine of the Chinese Navy is crossing the Strait of Malacca, and there will be talk of strategic threats.
Similar time travels happen often, but they are not well known.
After the No. 53 ship left the port, it soared all the way, attracting foreign military low-orbit reconnaissance satellites. The foreign military's attention was focused on the greatly changed ship No. 53, and they became keenly interested in the changes on the surface of the ship. Naturally,
I didn’t notice the Blackfish No. 11 quietly sneaking out of the harbor.
This is why Li Hai said that Ship No. 53 will always be a sparring partner.
Compared with the Black Fish No. 11, the No. 53 ship is expendable. The Navy can easily bear the loss of the No. 53 ship, but it is difficult to accept that a big black fish is exposed to the public eye - the big black fish that loses its concealment also loses its strategic importance.
The suddenness makes deterrence impossible.
Who can say for sure whether there is a big black fish strategically diving on the east coast of the Pacific, or whether there is an Ohio-class peeping on the west coast of the Pacific?
Ship No. 53 left the Strait of Malacca and entered the Andaman Sea at dawn. Unknown to the crew, the carrier group No. 16 rushed to the waters south of the South China Sea and started training according to the annual training plan... ()