The sailors on the destroyer Thunderbolt witnessed with their own eyes the entire process of the sinking of their squadron flagship, the Stickleback.
They also received a reminder message from the Stickleback. When they learned that the Tang Army had a torpedo that could turn, their captain became nervous.
Compared with the captain of the Stickleback, he himself does not have that much experience, and the sailors under him are not as elite as those on the Stickleback.
The world was crazy about expanding its navy a year ago. All countries were building aircraft carriers and building enough and large enough warships to install newer weapons and equipment.
People need to learn to control torpedoes, sonar needs to be controlled, and radars need to be controlled. The navies of the entire world lack enough soldiers to support their increasingly large navy.
The Tang Dynasty's navy actually did not have this problem. They had enough time to train mid-level naval cadres, and they had enough ships to accumulate experience for these sailors and officers.
Datang Group did export a large number of warships, but they never exported sailors with the ships. The sailors on those warships were retained and used on newer warships.
This leads to a problem: the quality of the Tang Army's sailors has not changed and has been steadily improving. The old sailors have an advantage in experience, and the new sailors have their own understanding of technology. When the old and new are matched and learn from each other, their combat effectiveness will naturally be
guaranteed.
However, other countries accept new technologies too quickly, and new sailors cannot master so many new technologies, so the entire navy is filled with all kinds of military novices.
There is no way, the lack of people means the shortage of people. This situation of ships and people has always existed in the navies of various countries, and it has always troubled the commanders of the navies of various countries.
This situation has also led to damage control problems for the combined fleet, leading to problems such as the communication unit being unable to do anything after being interfered with.
Everyone is not very familiar with the equipment in their hands, and can barely use it. Once they encounter a problem, they have no experience in solving it, and they don't know the principles, so there is no way to study countermeasures.
The Thunderbolt is such a new destroyer. It was built just before the war. It is equipped with a shipborne radar developed by the Lions Empire. Its performance can only be said to be average, and the overall level of the battleship is also very average.
It has depth charges and sonar. After all, the submarines exported by the Tang Empire included sonar technology. Therefore, all countries understand the important role that sound plays in underwater detection. But if everyone has a thorough understanding of this technology, then
I really think too much.
Everyone quickly copied a batch of sonar, installed it on destroyers, and combined it with depth bombs to give their country's destroyers anti-submarine capabilities.
As in the past, countries around the world have piled a large amount of weapons and equipment on newly built destroyers, hoping that these new destroyers can play an important role in this war.
The same is true for the Thunderbolt. This destroyer has five single-barreled 130mm-caliber main guns, is equipped with radar and sonar, is equipped with a depth charge thrower, and has two quadruple torpedo launchers. The armament can be said to be very
of strength.
However, most of the sailors on this destroyer are new recruits, and some soldiers in some positions have only served for a few months before being dragged into the battlefield.
The captain of this destroyer was a newcomer who had served as an intern on other destroyers. He had only been the first officer for more than a year, and he obviously lacked experience.
He waited nervously for his destroyer to find the lurking enemy submarine, but his sonar did not hear any suspicious sounds from underwater.
There is no way, they are equipped with passive sonar, and there is no way to actively emit sound to determine the location of the enemy submarine based on the echo.
"You haven't found the enemy submarine yet?" The captain of the Thunderbolt looked anxiously at the officer in charge of the sonar. The officer shook his head, and the sweat on his forehead had begun to ooze uncontrollably.
The Stickleback had clearly warned them before it sank. If they missed the best time to attack, the other party would not give them a second chance.
Once the enemy loads new torpedoes, their Thunderbolt will also meet the same ending as the Stickleback: being sunk here.
"It's impossible...as long as their propellers are still spinning, there can't be any sound..." The captain of the Thunderbolt had never encountered such a situation before, and he became more and more nervous.
In the two exercises he was lucky enough to participate in, the sonar on his destroyer successfully discovered the "enemy" submarine, so he never considered the situation when he rushed over and couldn't find the target.
The actual combat situation is that there are a lot of noises made by the propellers of noisy transport ships in the distance, and there is also the sound of a destroyer taking in water and sinking nearby. In addition, the Tang Army submarine has almost slowed down to a stationary state, and the sonar of the Lions Empire has no way to deal with it.
Target detected.
The technology of both sides is not at the same level at all, so with the increase and decrease, the Thunderbolt destroyer will indeed be unable to find the Tang Army submarine that almost blends into the background noise of the ocean in a short period of time.
Moreover, whether it was the Stickleback or the Thunderbolt, they all miscalculated one thing... Yes, that's right, they all miscalculated the time for the Tang Empire submarine to reload its torpedoes!
Under 60 meters of water, the sailors of the Tang Empire had closed the hatch of the torpedo tube and prepared for the next attack.
In fact, the loading speed of submarines is not constant, especially for modern submarines, the difference in loading speed of torpedoes is very obvious.
In the past, submarines could only fire the torpedoes waiting in the torpedo tubes immediately. Reloading subsequent torpedoes did require a lot of time to prepare.
Modern submarines have more reasonable designs, and have designed automatic loading systems for the second round of torpedo launches. In addition, the calibration settings of torpedoes are becoming simpler and more reasonable, so the speed of the second salvo is actually very fast.
Semi-automatic loading equipment will save a lot of manpower and time, ensuring that the submarine can quickly launch the second salvo. But then the loading time may change.
Submarines with large interior space can still rely on the loader to load torpedoes in the third salvo, so the speed of the third salvo can still be very fast.
But some submarines cannot do this. The crews of these submarines need to rely on hoisting equipment to manually transport the spare torpedoes into the semi-automatic loading equipment and fix them.
What's even more tragic is that some submarines' spare torpedoes are stored under the torpedo room floor. You have to lift the floor to pull out the torpedo from inside...
