Two stainless steel super fighter planes soared in the sky. When they reached the target sea area on the 14th, Andre saw the EP-3 that was conducting electronic reconnaissance.
When he saw the plane, Andre's eyes were dazzling. In his memory, he was full of unforgettable hatred for this plane, so he immediately chased after it.
Belenko expelled first, and he tried twice, but the other party ignored him, so Andrei asked for instructions on the radio to expel.
The lead plane Belenko agreed, so in Belenko’s sight, the tall vertical tail on the right side of the MiG-25 passed by the outer side of the EP-3's left wing near the No. 1 engine.
The sharp vertical tail, like a knife, cut off the left side of the EP-3 wing. The vertical tail continued to move forward, colliding with the propeller, and metal sparks splashed.
When Andre pushed the throttle and accelerated to leave, the EP-3 was already shaking like leaves in the wind.
At this time, in the porthole of the main observation station on the left side of the EP-3 fuselage, the observer watched his own wing cut and fell off, watching the external No. 1 engine propeller sparks, and couldn't help but shout: "Quickly, shut down the No. 1 engine, our wing has been cut off!"
Terrible Soviets, too crazy!
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The Pacific Ocean is calm and calm.
The waves slapped gently on the hull. From the outside, the "Four Descartes" looked like a harmless trawler for humans and animals. It has been built for more than ten years. It has been at sea for many years. It looked tattered, the paint on the mast was mottled, and the engine behind it was also roaring all the time, accompanied by puffs of black smoke, which seemed to be aging.
However, only the U.S. Navy, who is familiar with them, knows that these Soviet trawlers are hard to deal with at all.
In the Cold War, the Soviet Union had been unable to confront the Americans at sea due to its weak navy, and even surveillance was not easy. Therefore, starting in 1965, the Soviet Union found a simple and efficient way to monitor the global activities of the U.S. Navy, which is Use seemingly harmless trawlers equipped with electronic reconnaissance and intelligence collection equipment to perform reconnaissance missions.
Trawlers are civilian vessels. If Americans dare to open fire on civilian vessels, it would violate basic international law. Therefore, these trawlers can act unscrupulously.
The global activities of these trawlers include monitoring US nuclear submarine activities in Southern California, Scotland and Guam, observing the formation and activity patterns of US naval fleets, monitoring the deployment of US aircraft carrier attack aircraft groups in Tokyo Bay and providing early warning for NATO.
As a result, the Americans were miserable, and none of the US nuclear submarines entering and leaving the East Coast, Spain, and British bases were harassed. The take-off and landing operations of the aircraft carrier were not uninterrupted. The streamer is often broken. Hydroacoustic operations are often overwhelmed by their close-up noise. And every time the U.S. Navy’s target drills, Soviet trawlers always appear accurately in the restricted area.
The U.S. Navy is also trying its best to deal with these trawlers, including destroyers traveling in parallel with them, squeezing out, colliding, wrapping their propellers with steel cables, and even using high-power electromagnetic pulse transmitters to explode the Soviets’ electron tubes, but they just can’t fire them. Sink.
As a result, the Americans failed. These tattered-looking trawlers are very difficult to deal with. Their crews are often well-trained. The intelligence experts above are proficient in English and know the U.S. Navy. The seemingly lazy and fat captain in the wheelhouse Perhaps a few weeks ago, an experienced destroyer captain of the Mediterranean Division of the Soviet Navy!
His subordinates are all experienced Red Navy professional sergeants who have undergone strict political review by the KGB and are skilled in playing with them. Many destroyers of the US Navy seem to be a little bit tender.
Such matters did not temporarily cease until May 1972, when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the "Marine Accident Agreement."
Later, the U.S. trawler did not make trouble. Now, the Fortescue, which gave the Soviet navy a face, no longer performs the mission of colliding with the U.S. Navy. Now, its mission is even more important. important.
Salvage the American underwater fighter!
Below this sea area, there is an American’s most advanced Tomcat fighter, and it still carries the Phoenix missile. A few days ago, the Phoenix missile’s stunning shooting shocked everyone. Now , The Soviet Union can't wait to get this advanced missile.
Just under the water, just fish it up!
At this moment, on the trawler, the destroyer captain of the Pacific Fleet, the bearded Krosov, was looking at his men: "How about it, have you found it?"
The first step in salvaging is to find the place where the plane sank first. This can only be achieved through active sonar scanning.
There are two types of sonar. The passive one is an underwater listening device. Just listen to the sound directly. This method is often used because it will not expose yourself.
But now, the underwater fighter is a sunken fighter, and the fighter itself can no longer move, let alone make a sound. In this case, active sonar must be used.
Active sonar, like a radar, scans the entire seabed and displays the appearance of the seabed on the screen. This fishing trawler sometimes also conducts survey missions part-time, so it is equipped with complete sonar equipment, right at the bow of the ship. The big nose protruding below the waterline is the sonar.
At the same time, on both sides of the big nose, there are two circular openings. They are the two torpedo tubes on the left and right. They are just in case. If American warships dare to open fire on trawlers like them, their The trawler will open fire immediately and without hesitation.
Even if it is a sudden outbreak of war, they can use their fishing boat identity to slowly approach the US Navy, and then suddenly launch a desperate attack, using torpedoes to kill their main ship.
Hearing Krosov’s question, the sonarman on the side said: “We haven’t noticed yet, maybe the underwater ocean current impulsively caused the target to leave the original crash site.”
At first, after the discovery, Admiral Fujin, who was in charge of the observation, marked down the detailed location. They should be able to find it easily, but now, after searching it back and forth several times, nothing was found.
The sky is about to light up. Once the day breaks, the American P-3C will wander overhead. If they find their fishing boat, they will definitely come down and expel them. At the same time, as long as they are found by the Americans, they will definitely send warships to this area The sea area is blocked to death, and there will be no chance for one's own side.
"Found it, found it!" At this moment, a blurry image flashed past on the screen, making the sonar member happy: "Hurry up, drop the trawl!" (End of this chapter)