Chapter 460 Blizzard Anti-Submarine Missile

As a professional anti-submarine ship, this warship is equipped with full fuel power. The DT-59 accelerator composed of two 22,500 horsepower M-8KF gas turbines and the D-090 cruise thruster with two 8,500 horsepower M-62 gas turbines as the core work together to drive the fixed-pitch propeller at the tail. The entire warship follows the formation and continues to accelerate.

The characteristics of gas turbines are fast start-up and fast acceleration, which makes it easier to quickly occupy a position in anti-submarine warfare.

The gas turbine is actually a modified aviation power plant. Now, when running at full speed, the sound of the turbine, like that of an airplane, spreads throughout the entire warship.

In this case, the noise of the warship itself will make its sonar almost inoperable, which means that the entire aircraft carrier formation will almost lose its anti-submarine capability. However, as a professional anti-submarine ship, the 1155-type Dreadnought-class anti-submarine destroyer still has its own strengths.

In addition to the MG-342 "Orion" medium- and low-frequency search and attack hull sonar at the bow, which is the main detection method, the Soviet Union has made rapid progress in sonar in recent years. This warship also has an MG-335 "Platinum" variable-depth towed sonar. From a technical point of view, it is not as advanced as the towed array sonar, but this towed sonar is now more than a thousand meters away from the hull, completely avoiding the noise of the hull, and this dreadnought-class ship was originally sailing on one side of the formation, a few hundred meters away from other warships, so the range of observation is very large.

The sonar operator was on the quietest bridge of the entire ship, wearing headphones and listening carefully. They were always on guard against underwater threats. Now, when the bubble-like sound came from the distance, the specially trained sonar operator immediately sounded the alarm: "A Los Angeles-class submarine, distance fifty, speed twenty-five, bearing 350, is approaching our formation!"

Underwater listening technology is constantly improving. When the American Los Angeles-class submarines began to serve, Soviet submarines were also tracking this latest American submarine. Therefore, the underwater sound characteristics of this submarine had already entered the database of Soviet sonar operators' training. They had all been trained to listen to the Los Angeles-class sounds.

"Full left rudder." After hearing the sonar operator's alarm, Captain Petrov ordered his warship to intercept while reporting to the fleet commander!

Fifty nautical miles, in Petrov's opinion, this American submarine was too close! The Soviet Navy would never ignore such hostile behavior!

Now is the time of war!

The hull of the warship drew a splash on the sea surface, and the hull began to turn, forming an arc with a radius of more than a thousand meters on the sea, completing the turn. At the same time, Petrov heard a report: "The blizzard is ready."

"Fire, four missiles!" Faced with the approaching American submarine, the Dreadnought-class escort had no room for relaxation and launched the most violent attack!

At this time, the course has been adjusted, and the bow is pointing in the direction of the target. Through the turn just now, the speed of the Dreadnought-class has been reduced to 15 knots. After the gas turbine reduces the speed, the sonar on the bow provides basic data binding for the launch of the Blizzard. All of this is due to the addition of automated software, which greatly speeds up the speed of combat!

Under the bridge of the Dreadnought-class ship, the covers of the quadruple box-type anti-submarine missile launchers with an elevation angle of 16 degrees are opened, revealing the uniquely shaped equipment inside!

The Buran weapon system is a rocket-propelled torpedo system. Unlike the United States, which places the propulsion device at the rear, the Soviet method is a hoisting type, that is, a double-body design. The upper carrier is a solid rocket, which adopts a duck-style layout, foldable turrets and vertical tails. There are large bundled booster rockets on both sides of the body, which form a double-body anti-submarine missile with the anti-submarine torpedo under the belly of the body. This system, code-named SS-N-14 in the West, was originally thought to be an anti-ship device, after all, it is so large. It was not until later that it was determined to be a device that is mainly anti-submarine and supplemented by anti-ship.

Now, what is revealed is the bulging head. As the launch command comes, a hot flame comes out from the blizzard device, and the three engines of the booster rocket and the solid rocket ignite at the same time, dragging the anti-submarine torpedo below, and flying out of the launch device!

With its wings opened, the device flew at an altitude of one hundred meters above the sea like a small cruising plane, and flew to a distance of forty nautical miles. Then, the AT-2UM anti-submarine torpedo below, dragging a parachute, gently left the mounted missile and fell into the water.

Rocket-propelled torpedoes are a powerful anti-submarine weapon for surface ships that combine the advantages of various aspects! Underwater, torpedoes rely on batteries or thermal power systems, and their range and speed are limited. Although some torpedoes have a maximum range of more than 40 kilometers, this is done at an extremely low cruising speed. By the time the torpedo arrives slowly, the target has already disappeared. If the torpedo is sailing at the highest speed, the range will definitely not exceed 10 kilometers!

Therefore, with the help of the rocket propulsion system, the torpedo first flies most of the distance in the air, and when it reaches the vicinity of the target, the torpedo then falls down and dives into the water to find the target. This is equivalent to installing wings on the torpedo, which greatly increases the reaction speed.

However, this method cannot use the common wire-guided torpedo method. All torpedoes are self-guided torpedoes, which make it difficult to identify friend or foe. If there are submarine forces underwater, it is easy to make accidental attacks.

Fortunately, Petrov now knew that the escorting submarine was within eighty nautical miles in front of the formation and was not on his side at all. Moreover, the sonar operator had heard the sound of a Los Angeles-class submarine and was completely sure that it was an enemy!

You're looking for death! Four torpedoes, I don't believe I can't kill you!

The launch devices on both sides fired two anti-submarine missiles and four anti-submarine torpedoes each at one-second intervals. They were deployed into the water and, according to the pre-bound data, each began its own search in four directions.

The moment the anti-submarine torpedo entered the water, there was a slight splashing sound. And just 200 meters below the splash point, a huge submarine was facing a test.

"Four torpedoes." Inside the Los Angeles-class submarine, the sonar operator reported to Captain Johnson: "Searching for us in four directions."