After World War II, the mission of the Soviet navy was to confront the United States at sea. Unfortunately, several leaders did not have the navy's vision. They blindly attached importance to missiles and believed that aircraft carriers were useless. Therefore, the Soviet navy had to find another way.
With anti-ship missiles, there must be carriers too, right
Therefore, there are a variety of surface ships that are used to carry a variety of powerful anti-ship missiles, and there are also Air Force bombers, such as Tu-22M, such as Tu-95 and Tu-160, which are all powerful weapons for carrying anti-ship missiles.
Of course, the underwater nuclear submarine was not supplemented, and the nuclear submarine was used to launch anti-ship missiles. This was a pioneering initiative of the Soviet Navy.
That year, after the Soviet Union developed the first-generation Type 627 attack nuclear submarine, it further developed nuclear submarines in three directions. One was the development of the 671 attack nuclear submarine, the second was the development of the 658 strategic nuclear submarine, and the third was the development of the 659 cruise missile nuclear submarine.
The third type is specifically used to launch cruise missiles.
However, due to the P/П-5 anti-ship cruise missile mounted on the Type 659 cruise missile nuclear submarine, NATO claims that the "Saddock" SS-N-3 anti-ship missile, and subsequent models can only strike fixed targets on land, not at sea. Moving targets, in order to counter the threat of US attack aircraft carriers, the Soviet Union further developed the Type 675 nuclear submarine on the basis of the Type 658.
The 675 cruise missile nuclear submarine is used to attack surface targets and land targets. Because only the missile is different, this class of boats and the Type 659 cruise missile nuclear submarine are collectively referred to as the echo class by NATO. The Type 659 is an E-1 class and the Type 675 is an E-2 class.
The emergence of this cruise missile submarine solved the problem of hitting the aircraft carrier. However, it was still a bit tasteless. For example, due to technological limitations at the time, this type of missile still needed to be launched in a full surface state, and it had to take about 20 minutes. To launch all missiles.
What are the advantages of submarines? Of course, it is the concealment under the water. As a result, this cargo has to be launched on the water surface. In actual use, it is similar to hunting for death.
At the same time, the noise of this first-generation submarine is quite loud, and it cannot meet the real need to fight against the US Navy's aircraft carrier formation. It will be discovered from a distance, and then an anti-submarine aircraft will be attacked.
Therefore, the Soviet Union developed a new generation of submarines, the Type 949 Oscar class.
It was developed and designed by the Ruby Design Bureau of the Soviet Union in 1969 and was built by the Severodvinsk Shipyard. This year, the first ship was just built. It is definitely the most secret power of the Soviet Union.
Its first feature is that it is big! Most of the current nuclear submarines are six to seven thousand tons, and the underwater displacement of the 949 cruise missile nuclear submarine has reached 18,300 tons, which is roughly equivalent to the 18,700 tons of the US Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine. It is definitely a huge underwater monster.
In addition to the dual-shell structure, the reason why it is so large is to be able to carry its anti-aircraft carrier weapon, the 3M-45 "granite" anti-ship missile system.
These missiles are arranged between the pressure-resistant shell and the non-pressure-resistant shell on both sides of the front center of the boat. There are 6 rectangular cover plates on each side, about 7 meters in length and 2 meters in width, each rectangular Two missile launching tubes are installed under the cover, arranged at an oblique angle of 45 degrees to the vertical, carrying a total of 24 3M-45 "granite" anti-ship missiles.
Because the missile is so big, the hull must also be so big, otherwise it will not fit at all. It is still arranged at an angle. If it is arranged vertically, the displacement may soar to more than 50,000 tons.
This 3M-45 "Granite" anti-ship missile is a medium- and long-range supersonic sea-skimming multi-purpose missile with a range of 20 to 650 kilometers. It can be launched from underwater. The warhead is 750 kilograms of conventional explosives or 500 kilotons of TNT equivalent. Nuclear charges. It has strong penetration capability and can perform saturation attacks on large surface ships such as aircraft carriers.
In addition to its great power, the submarine’s quietness is also very good. For example, it is equipped with a nuclear reactor that can realize the natural circulation of the steam generating device under the condition of 30% of the coolant power. And this pump is the "noisy person" during the normal cycle of the reactor and the main noise source of nuclear submarines, so natural circulation is often used when navigating with low noise.
Secondly, all the important mechanical equipment in the boat adopts a combined structure to reduce noise. The mechanical device and the unit use double-layer shock absorption, install a floating raft type integral shock absorber base, and take shock absorption measures for the pipeline installation, and the propeller is changed to 7 With large skew propellers, anechoic tiles for sound insulation and sound absorption are also laid on the outer surface of the boat.
In short, this cruise missile submarine is the crystallization of the Soviet Union's latest technology. It is a big killer prepared to attack the American aircraft carrier. Now, it will be used by the British Navy once!
The Soviet Union has suffered twice in a row.
The bomber base was bombed, and the bombers that rushed over for a long distance did not hit the British warships. Now, the British's odds of winning have increased by one more point. They must have a new plan!
As long as the Oscar-class submarines come over, they will surely be able to kill the entire fleet!
It’s just that the use of nuclear submarines is of great importance. Needless to say, it takes many days to sail from the Soviet Union. It is already a crazy behavior to use missiles to kill the entire British formation. Moscow can agree.
Only now, when Andre told the two people in front of him about his thoughts, they both felt that if they wanted to do this, it would be crazy.
However, Andrei's opinion was quickly transmitted back to Moscow, and there was a dispute in the Kremlin.
General Secretary Brezhnev also attended the meeting. His face was ugly. In recent years, his body has been worsening every day. Many major national events are just reported to him. He rarely participates in specific discussions. In China, he will only participate in important events.
For example, actions in Hokkaido, such as the war in Afghanistan, he personally participated in.
Now, the situation in South America has suddenly become sinister, especially now that he has to come to this meeting in person.
"The whole world is watching our jokes, and the whole western world is making fun of us." Ustinov said: "The British dispatched a carrier-based plane and blew up our entire bomber regiment, and then slammed through it again. Strait, merged with their main fleet, we are like clowns!"
He wears glasses and looks very gentle, but he has always been an aggressive leader in charge of the army of the Red Empire.
Now that he suffered two losses in a row, he was completely annoyed.
This is no longer a matter of Argentina and the United Kingdom, but a matter of the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The British have done too much, thinking that they dare not use a big killer
"Your Excellency Minister of Defense, please be aware that we are preparing and conducting wars in two directions in Hokkaido and Afghanistan. Are we going to have another war in South America?"
Gromyko and Ustinov have a good personal relationship, but now he is opposed to it. He believes that under the current circumstances, it is not appropriate for his side to continue to stir up incidents in South America.
As long as we keep silent, this matter will pass. It is too far away, and the Soviet Union never intended to reach out there.
It can be said that if it succeeds, it has gained an ally, but if it fails, the Soviet Union has nothing to lose, and it is not enough to meet the national fortune of the entire Soviet Union. (End of this chapter)