Watch Fairy Tail Episode 123 The Tao is one foot high, the devil is one foot high
Episode 123 The Tao is one foot high, the devil is one foot high
Xiang Xiaoqiang stated his thoughts to several engineers. This is not a design adapted to the current submarine warfare model. On the contrary, it is tailor-made for future submarine warfare. Every new feature of it is adapted to the future.
A new model of submarine warfare.
"Oh?" Sun Tingyu asked, "How can you see it?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang said:
"The current submarine warfare is nothing more than a submarine wandering alone on the sea. When it finds a cargo ship, it will approach it, give a warning, order to stop the ship for inspection, and then sink it. Of course, the other party will not stop the ship as usual, but will only speed up its escape. And our submarine
As usual, after going through the motions, I found out
Shooting torpedoes and sinking. This is a regular submarine warfare, or "limited submarine warfare". Although the efficiency is very low, it can still survive. Why? Because the other party does not have a warship to escort. Our submarine can pull it on the surface of the water.
Chasing cargo ships at high speeds will not be a problem.
"But what will happen if it encounters an enemy warship or aircraft at this time? Our submarine has only one choice: give up its prey and make an emergency dive. The problem is that the current submarine's underwater speed is only a few knots.
, once you dive, you can’t do anything, it’s like
He announced that he had given up hunting and fighting, and just wanted to save his life. Not only was the prey he finally encountered lost, but it was also difficult to say whether his own life could be saved. It can be said that from the moment the submarine issued the emergency submersion order, its fate changed.
If it is no longer under your control, it will all be left to God."
Qiu Qiu felt the same and nodded vigorously:
"Uh-huh!"
Sun Tingyu smiled and said:
"But Mr. Xiang, what is the probability of the situation you are talking about? How many times have our submarines encountered Japanese warships in the vast ocean? How many times have they encountered Japanese aircraft? We have sunk Japanese freighters ten times, but it is not certain
We will encounter a Japanese warship once. For this one-tenth, one-tenth encounter, do we need to specially design a submarine? Having said that, if we really encounter it once, then the dive is... Haha, old man
Speak more straightforwardly and don't take offense to adults."
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"What the hell, I, a young man, am doing everything in front of you, please don't take offense... Yes, from the current point of view, the probability of our submarines encountering Japanese warships and aircraft is not high. But the old man doesn't want to
I have forgotten that in the European War, the Battle of the Atlantic between Britain and Germany was in the same situation as we are now at the beginning.
Situation. Allied cargo ships sailed alone, and German submarines also hunted alone. The chance of directly encountering Allied warships on the ocean was quite low. But what happened next? After the Allied powers suffered huge losses, they learned the power of submarine warfare and adopted new tactics: fleets
Escort system. They gathered cargo ships that originally sailed alone into large fleets and were escorted by warships.
"In this way, the cargo ships that were originally scattered in one area are concentrated into one point, and the chance of being discovered by a German submarine is greatly reduced. Secondly, even if it is discovered by a German submarine, the German submarine will have to face several ships single-handedly.
How many destroyers are there? What should the submarine do at this time? To dive or not to dive? If not to dive, then the gun will have an absolute advantage in the face of the enemy ship.
Fire is definitely a dead end. Submersing is tantamount to quitting and just trying to save your life. Even if it is not a deep dive, but only dives to the depth of the periscope, then you can only hit and run. Because as long as you stay below the surface of the water, the submarine will
Even the slowest cargo ship cannot catch up. Moreover, as long as one torpedo explodes, it is equivalent to announcing its presence to the entire fleet of escort ships.
"Then at this time, no matter how brave the captain is, he has to order a deep dive. At least he has to dive to a few tens of meters, or if not, he has to dive to hundreds of meters. Once he dives deep, not only will the periscope become unusable,
And it doesn’t mean that you can just float up. You can also
We know that the compressed air stored in the submarine is limited. After tossing it up and down several times, once the compressed air is exhausted, it will no longer float up. If you want to replenish the compressed air, you can get out of the water. The water is out of the water, and the escort ship can be normal.
Raising the cannon, waiting for you to come out of the water.
"The entire fleet will take advantage of the submarine's descent to accelerate, turn, and use its speed advantage to break away from the submarine. At the same time, the destroyers will continuously drop depth bombs on the submarine. It is best to blow up the submarine. If it cannot be blown up, it can also force the submarine
Stay underwater as long as possible and give the fleet as much time as possible to transfer. A few hours later, or more than ten hours later, when the submarine surfaced in shock with half of its life left, the sea was already empty, what?
It's all gone. Everything has to start all over again.
"After spending so much effort and almost risking my own life, what did I get? At most, one or two cargo ships were sunk. Sometimes not even one was sunk, but only one and a half were damaged.
And if you let this fleet go, you won't be able to touch anything for a long time. Compared with the early mode of hunting a single cargo ship, this submarine warfare mode,
Obviously it is much more difficult, much more dangerous, and much more effective with half the effort. This is how Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare failed in the end... Of course, there is also a sonic detector. But that thing is not easy to use, so that is not the main reason.
.The main reason is that the Allied Powers adopted a fleet escort system, and German submarines were unable to adapt to this new model, both technically and tactically."
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After Xiang Xiaoqiang finished speaking in a long paragraph, Sun Tingyu was quite surprised. He didn't expect that Xiang Xiaoqiang, who was an intelligence officer, was also an army officer. He really knew a lot about submarine warfare. Let alone an army officer, even a naval officer
, usually as long as you are not working on submarines, you have only a little knowledge. Now hearing Xiaoqiang's tone, he sounds like an old captain who has participated in the European War.
Sun Tingyu glanced at Qiu Qiu next to him again, and felt relieved: "Yes, my wife is a submarine captain, and she still has practical experience. Master Xiang must have made up for it at home."
In any case, he stopped looking down on Xiang Xiaoqiang. He knew that Xiang Xiaoqiang had really worked hard and didn't just do it on a whim.
Sun Tingyu pondered for a long time and said slowly:
"Sir, I understand what you mean. You mean that we cannot repeat the mistakes of Germany. We cannot think that just because Japan has not adopted the fleet escort system now, it means that it will never adopt it. You mean that we
We must be prepared ahead of Japan, so that when Japan adopts a fleet escort system, we will immediately come up with new things to adapt to it."
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and nodded:
"Haha, exactly."
Sun Tingyu smiled and said:
"But... Mr. Xiang, do you think that this new submarine can always stay below the surface of the water and remain hidden without being discovered even when attacking a fleet?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang knew what he wanted to say. He also smiled:
"Haha, I didn't think so. All-weather submarines, this kind of concealment is firstly used for anti-submarine aircraft, and secondly used for underwater attacks. Today's submarines, as Mr. said, should be called 'surface ships that can dive'
', usually sail on the water surface, and only dive for a short time when avoiding the enemy. Then the enemy aircraft is cruising in the air, and the submarine on the surface can be seen from a long distance. And the submarine often has no time to dive safely.
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"The new submarines even cruise below the water surface, with the periscope and snorkel exposed at most. It is very difficult to see these two tubes on the water surface from an altitude of several hundred meters. Even if they are discovered, the submarine can quickly
Put away the tube and make an emergency dive. This is different from an emergency dive while floating on the water. At this time, the submarine is already below the water surface. If you want to dive deeply, it will be very fast. To exaggerate, as soon as the emergency dive order is issued
, the submarine will sink like a stone."
Sun Tingyu thought and nodded slowly. After a while, he asked again:
"Sir, please don't forget that in addition to ordinary bombs, bombers can also carry depth bombs. As long as the bombers know the approximate location of the submarine when it dives, they can fly over and drop a few depth bombs."
Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded and said:
"Sir, you are right. An airplane can drop depth bombs. But how many depth bombs can an airplane carry? One? Two? Three? That's the limit. And if you ask any destroyer captain, he will tell you,
It is not easy to use depth charges to sink a submarine. Sometimes it takes a few hours, sometimes it takes a whole day. During this period, sonar information is continuously captured.
, modify the depth fuse of the bomb, stop, accelerate, reverse, use full left rudder and full right rudder, fight bravely and patiently with the submarine, and drop depth bombs one after another... In this way, it is difficult to say that the submarine was sunk.
.The only thing we can do is force the submarine to stay below and buy time for our own fleet to leave. It is not easy to sink a submarine that is already deep-diving with one plane or one dive."
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Sun Tingyu was almost convinced. He thought for a long time and asked again:
"Then, sir, what does this have to do with the 'wolf pack tactics' you mentioned?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"My 'Wolf Pack Tactics' are specifically designed to deal with the 'Fleet Escort System'. This is called the devil's height. Didn't they gather all the cargo ships? Didn't they make it impossible for our submarines to find them?
Are you here? It doesn’t matter, they clustered, and we clustered too. During the European War, the British fleet clustered, but German submarines did not cluster, so that one submarine often faced a large group of escorts alone.
At most, one or two cargo ships were sunk, while other submarines were doing nothing in the empty ocean, and the overall results dropped exponentially. Our submarines must now bravely contact each other. Once a submarine discovers the fleet, we must maintain contact with each other.
, while generating electricity to inform other submarines to come immediately and attack in groups. It is only fair that a group of submarines attack a group of cargo ships. Only then can the tonnage of the battle results be increased.
"Then what are the advantages of the new submarine? First of all, they dare to send telegrams to each other. Because they are always submerged underwater, only the periscope, snorkel, and antenna are exposed, so they are not afraid even if the enemy detects their approximate location. The enemy sends planes
When the enemy arrives, the submarine is often not visible. If the enemy sends a destroyer, it will take months and years to arrive. Even if it does arrive, it will not reach overhead in the blink of an eye like an airplane. The submarine has enough time to dive and avoid it.
"Once several submarines of our army gather together and start to jointly attack the fleet, the advantages of submarines will be great. Because they can maintain high speed underwater, the submarines can circle around with the destroyers in the fleet. While maneuvering, they can also
Can constantly wait for opportunities to attack goods
Ship. At this time, many of our submarines have become like wolves among sheep. The entire fleet has been on fire everywhere, explosions are coming one after another, and cargo ships are everywhere sending distress signals. The engines of several submarines and dozens of
The sound of the cargo ship's engine was mixed together.
The snorkel smoke of the submarine was mixed with the thick smoke billowing from the sea. In addition, the destroyers were preoccupied with one thing and the other. They wanted to capture the submarine and had to keep rescuing people. It was simply too much to worry about. Our submarines could go on a killing spree.
.The more cargo ships hit
, the more chaotic the scene, the busier the enemy destroyers, the safer our submarines will be, the more opportunities there will be, and the more cargo ships will be sunk. - Once these two new technologies and new tactics are combined, the result will be
Today’s old model of submarine warfare is far from comparable.”
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At this time, Sun Tingyu and several engineers were silent. They were all thinking with their heads down, staring at the conceptual drawings of the new submarine. Qiu Qiu had long been excited by Xiang Xiaoqiang's story, and sat next to him with a blush on his face, as if he was already eager to
Take command of such a new submarine and go out into the ocean to fight.
Xiang Xiaoqiang also drank tea and looked at them with satisfaction. He knew that it was almost done now. The new submarine plan could get the full support of the old experts in the R&D department.