Chapter 1306: 1307 missed target
Chapter 1306 1307 Missed Target
The sailors on the destroyer Thunderbolt witnessed with their own eyes the entire process of the sinking of the flagship of their squadron, the Stickleback.
They also received the reminder message from the Stickleback. After learning that the Tang Army had a torpedo that could turn, their captain became nervous.
Compared to the captain of the Stickleback, he himself does not have that much experience, and the sailors under his command 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 navy of the Tang Dynasty 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. Veteran sailors have an advantage in experience, and new sailors have their own understanding of technology. If the old and new sailors match each other and learn from each other, their combat effectiveness is naturally 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, resulting in problems such as the communication force 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.
Thunderbolt is such a new destroyer. It was built just before the war. It is equipped with a shipboard radar developed by the Lions Empire itself. 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 previously included sonar technology. Therefore, all countries understand the important role that sound plays in underwater detection. But to say that everyone has a thorough understanding of this technology is to 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 pulled into the battlefield.
The captain of this destroyer was a newcomer who had been an intern on other destroyers. He had only been the first officer for more than a year and was obviously lacking in experience. He waited nervously for his destroyer to find the lurking enemy submarine, but the 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.
They were clearly warned before the Stickleback sank. If they missed the best time to attack, the other party would not give them a second chance.
Once the enemy has loaded new torpedoes, their Thunderbolt will also meet the same ending as the Stickleback: it will be sunk here.
"It's impossible...as long as their propellers are still spinning, it's impossible to make no 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 didn't even think about 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 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. The sonar of the Lions Empire has no way to do anything. 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 torpedoes!
At a depth of 60 meters, the sailors of the Tang Empire had closed the hatches of the torpedo tubes and prepared for the next attack.
In fact, the loading speed of submarines is not constant, especially for modern submarines. The difference in torpedo loading speed is very obvious.
In the past submarines, only the torpedoes waiting in the torpedo tubes could be launched 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 the torpedoes are becoming more simple and 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 reload 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 floor of the torpedo room. You have to lift the floor to pull out the torpedo from inside...
(End of this chapter)