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The Third Empire - Chapter 1415

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:29:37 AM


Chapter 1415: 1415

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When the submarine navigates underwater, it mainly relies on sonar to search the surrounding situation. When it floats out, it can rely on radar. Moreover, the current nuclear powered submarine has huge displacement and sufficient space. Therefore, the radar has been deployed above the command tower. Now, after it surfaced, the radar also began to work to search the surrounding sea and air.

For submarines, what they fear most is the enemy's surface ships and anti submarine aircraft. Now with search radar, they can find all kinds of situations as soon as possible.

Radar and sonar were working, searching the surrounding sea. At the same time, the submarine began to sail south.

Two hours later, the sky has gradually turned white. In the Arctic Circle, this time is the polar day. If it is at the north pole, it will always be bright. With the passage of time, the polar day will continue to move outward. When it reaches the summer solstice, the polar day will move to the Arctic Circle, which is the largest range that can be expanded.

At this time, the Arctic Circle is not a 24-hour day, but the night is also very short.

The sun shines obliquely on the Arctic Circle and faces the rising sun. You can see that there are so many floating ice on the sea water of the Arctic Ocean, and the submarine is sailing between the floating ice.

When the submarine was built, the firmness of the shell was fully taken into account. It uses the high-strength steel newly developed by Krupp, which can easily dive to the seabed 300 meters deep. At the same time, it also takes into account the Arctic environment.

When necessary, it can directly break through the ice layer of the Arctic Ocean and float up. Therefore, these floating ice now need not be afraid even if they collide.

"Hear low speed propeller noise." Just then, the sonar soldiers first found the target.

The floating ice limits the signal search of the air to sea search radar. After the sonar points out the direction, the radar finally captures several blurred reflection highlights.

"Attention, dive to periscope depth and prepare for battle!"

In this area, the ships sailing are Soviet ships or American ships, and the goal of our side this time is to sneak attacks on American merchant ships!

The 6000 ton nuclear submarine formed a huge vortex on the sea, just like a big shark. It dived into the sea, leaving only a small periscope on the sea.

Standing in front of the periscope of the command tower, Otto was constantly observing the sea. At the same time, his submarine was sailing forward at a speed of 10 knots.

Due to the use of seven blade propeller and the laying of the first generation silencing tile developed by Germany on the surface, the mute performance of this submarine is quite good. When sailing at 10 knots, it will not be found by American sonar equipment at all.

After crossing the heavy ice floes, Otto finally used his periscope to see the target on the sea in the distance. Suddenly, he felt that his breathing was going to be urgent.

Aircraft carrier?

The layout of the through deck and the bridge on the side must be an aircraft carrier. Unexpectedly, I caught such a big guy on my first voyage!

It was a fleet of more than a dozen cargo ships sailing on the sea. Otto first noticed the aircraft carrier, and when he continued to approach, he could see it more clearly.

It is indeed an aircraft carrier, but it is not an attack aircraft carrier with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. It should belong to an escort aircraft carrier. However, it is not one. There are three escort aircraft carriers sailing with other cargo ships.

Otto knows something about this.

At the beginning, Germany ordered a batch of container ships from Newport News shipyard in the United States. After Germany received them, they were transformed into aircraft carriers, or they can be used as aircraft carriers directly without transformation.

Later, with the hostile relationship with the United States, the Americans suddenly found that they needed an escort aircraft carrier with low price and reliable performance in the Pacific War. At this time, they found the Newport News shipyard. After the inspection, Nimitz and Roosevelt made a decision, and the Navy placed dozens of orders for mass production of such ships.

This is the American Casablanca class aircraft carrier.

Before that, even light aircraft carriers were converted from combat ships. However, escort aircraft carriers were refitted from commercial ships. Therefore, although the aircraft carrier may have a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, it simply could not participate in front-line combat. It did not have any armor protection and advanced damage control. It looked like an aircraft carrier, But it's useless as long as you get one.

Therefore, this aircraft carrier is mainly used to escort merchant ships. They are generally deployed in front of the transport fleet, reconnaissance and attack submarines with shipborne aircraft, or guide surface ships to attack. In addition to escort, escort aircraft carriers often play the role of transport ships.

Now, like other cargo ships, these three escort aircraft carriers undertake the task of transportation.

Manila Bay, the sixth Casablanca class aircraft carrier.

The steam engine at the tail is rumbling. In the Arctic Ocean, the bad weather conditions make everyone have to be careful.

On the bridge, Ralph Davidson stood here and looked into the distance with a telescope.

On the sea, there are floating ice constantly. They should try to avoid those large floating ice and avoid collision.

Fortunately, there are almost twenty hours of light in a day, which can make them sail almost all the time during the day. However, such navigation makes people more tired.

"We're the Navy. We're going to war, but now we're a sea jeep." At this time, in another position on the bridge, the chief officer Mitchell looked at the P-39 fighters on the deck and couldn't help complaining.

Now, the biggest enemy of the U.S. Navy is the island Navy. The island Navy is raging in the Pacific Ocean. Even the U.S. Navy avoids its edge. Every naval officer is eager to fight, but he doesn't come to be a transport ship to transport weapons and ammunition to the Soviets!

After the Germans took control of the North Sea, the United States even had to risk opening up an arctic ocean route, starting from Alaska, transporting all the way along the northern coastal border of the Soviet Union to the white sea, and unloading materials at the nearest place to Moscow.

The change of this role makes many people uncomfortable.

Hearing this, Ralph turned his head: "it is our inevitable choice to help the Soviet Union now. We must let the Soviet Union hold on and hold the Germans. If the Soviet Union fails, we will face a dangerous situation of two-line combat. Think about it, we can't deal with the island countries now. If we deal with the German Navy in the Atlantic, we will lose."

Naval violence takes time. The United States must help the Soviet Union hold Germany. This concept has now been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.




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