Chapter 895: Export E-2B
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"Fill the ballast water tanks at the back. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info{{{}}" Yezhov ordered: "Empty the seawater of the former ballast tank. ”
In order to get out of this predicament, Yezhov thought of a way, that is, to let the propeller behind him return to the seawater. Then, the propeller reverses at full speed and pulls the hull out!
And if you want to get the back back into the sea, the only way is to use the simplest lever principle, using the reef below as the fulcrum, so that the weight of the back becomes larger, the torque increases, and the back is pried down!
"Captain, can our hull withstand such a big change?" The co-captain asked, a little worried.
Now, the stressed part under the boat, mainly in the position of the reef, the front half of the body is long, so the bow weight is large, is compressed into the seawater, and the second half of the weight is light, is pried up, now, the weight of the back is forced, in this way, it is easy to break the hull!
If the submarine were to break in two here, it would be a complete trouble.
However, looking at the captain in front of him, as if he was bent on going his own way, in the submarine, the captain's words are absolutely authoritative, unless the captain is found guilty of treason, others can take necessary countermeasures, such as imprisoning the captain and taking over the command, which is obviously not met now. {{}}
"The ballast tank is emptied at the front and the ballast tank at the rear is filled with water." The order reached the engine room, and the crew in the engine room began to work cautiously.
With the sound of compressed air, the water in the ballast tanks in the front, was pushed out of the hull, and inside the ballast tanks in the rear. Start filling with water.
All the submariners, not daring to speak loudly, listened to the movement of the hull with two ears, and if the submarine could not withstand this barbaric cāo work, then they were the first to hear. It will be the sound of a steel plate breaking.
As they worked, they felt as if the hull of the boat was slowly vibrating. Slowly shaking, I felt the floor under my feet, which had been sloping forward, as if it was beginning to turn backwards. They knew that the hull was about to start moving, and that this was also the most dangerous time.
"Let all the crew in front go to the stern of the boat." Yezhov gave another order.
He thought that the ballast water tank was filled with seawater, and the force was not strong enough, so he asked the personnel above to go to the back to increase the torque behind. {{}}
In conventional submarines, such actions are often made. When an emergency dive is required, all crew members will run to the bow to increase the bow of the boat, and when it comes to an emergency ascent. They will all converge at the stern.
However, now their submarine is a submarine with a displacement of 18,000 tons, and the gravity of several crew members is almost negligible.
Yezhov was fantasizing that these crew members were the last straw that broke the camel's back. Hopefully, the rear hull will be able to fall off smoothly.
Sure enough, the floor under my feet began to turn slowly, slowly.
Suddenly, they felt a loud noise under their feet. Instead of turning backwards, they sank a little more!
"Stop the action and get out of the cabin to observe." Yezhov said, and his expression was also a little depressed at this time.
The crew had already guessed what had happened, and although the hull of the boat had turned a little, it was also deeply stuck in the reef, even more powerful than just now!
In fact, there is no need to go into the water to observe, the sailors on the conning tower can already feel it, because the surrounding sea level has risen again, and the divers who have just left the cabin have to climb the conning tower, and now, the sea outside is only more than one meter high from the top of the conning tower. {{}}
When the divers who went into the water to observe came up again, their faces were miserable, and as expected, they were stuck even more!
"Report, the military district contacted us and asked us to report on the current situation." At this time, the signal soldier said to Yezhov.
After Marshal Gorshkov learned that there was a stranded nuclear submarine in the waters of the Persian Gulf, he attached great importance to it and immediately ordered the military district to contact the K-132 submarine, and at the same time ordered a special accident investigation and handling team to fly to Iraq to prepare to deal with the incident. [.]
Until now, the United States and the Soviet Union have not expressed their position to the outside world, but this incident has already spread internationally.
After all, on the busy waterways of the Persian Gulf, the sight of those two ships in the field of vision of the sailors of the ocean voyage was too shocking. {{}} They float on the sea all year round, there is no fun at all, the military's nuclear submarines, they can only see them on TV, rarely see them on the sea, this time, at first sight, there are two, one of them has no power, the other is facing the sky, the propellers are exposed, the propellers of that shape, it is even rarer, so, they are very excited, and then, there are reporters who arrived, in addition to renting speedboats, and even more, renting helicopters, From afar, I hope to be able to take some colorful pictures. The Middle East has never been short of such shocking news.
Yezhov's head is big, after he goes back, he may not even have a job to find an easy position, as long as he is not investigated by his superiors, the dismissal is good, through communication satellites, he began to report the situation here with the base.
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Iraq has expressed the hope that it can purchase several long-range pre-jing radars and 10 E-2 pre-jing aircraft from the United States, and at the same time, Iraq will provide rescue work for the American submarine, with a great and selfless heart, will not hold the American submarine responsible for entering the Persian Gulf, and will provide a 30,000-ton dock at the shipyard for the American side to use to inspect the damage to the Los Angeles-class submarine.
This demand from Iraq has made the US side feel very embarrassed. {{}}
On the one hand, the United States really needs Iraq's help, and it is indeed a very troublesome process to drive a dry dock transport ship from the mainland, and it is difficult for them to accept the time and cost, and the submarine has been floating there like this, which is also a manifestation of the incompetence of the US Navy.
However, Iraq's desire to buy the US E-2 pre-aircraft is again a clear violation of the existing US policy decision, and although the Xing capability of the E-2 pre-aircraft is far from that of the E-3, after all, this is the main carrier-based pre-aircraft of the US Navy, and selling this pre-aircraft to Iraq will seriously damage US interests.
It's just that the current Iraq has also mastered the technology of the pre-jing machine, four pre-jing machines of the Hunting Fan series, in the previous wars, showed good xing ability, Britain did not complete the development of this pre-jing machine, sold it to Iraq, and bought the pre-jing machine of the United States instead, and on the contrary, after Iraq got this pre-jing machine, it continued to experiment and improve, especially reduced the unrealistic requirements of the British side, and the technical requirements were lower than those of the E-3However, after all, this kind of pre-jing aircraft is a much larger aircraft than the E-2 fuselage, so the United States speculates that the xing energy of this pre-jing aircraft is not lower than that of the E-2.
In this case, exporting to Iraq is not a help to Iraq's military and technological progress, after all, they already have a similar pre-jing.
Moreover, the Iraqi side has begun the development of a new generation of pre-jing machine, mainly invested in the Swedish Saab company, to cooperate in the development of the phased array system of the pre-jing machine, although it will take a few years for technological breakthroughs, however, Iraq's pre-jing machine technology has begun to mature.
So now, Iraq is only temporarily purchasing emergency situations, and the issue of the airspace over Iran that they raised is indeed reasonable, and most of the mountains below Iran are mountainous, and the pre-jing machine is more critical, and Iraq only has so many pre-jing planes, and they cannot be guarded around the clock.
We cannot use force against Iraq, and now we have to ask for Iraq, but we must not allow Iraq's military strength to continue to grow strong and we must not leak the military science and technology of the United States.
Eventually, they made a decision to export the E-2 pre-jing to Iraq, but not the E-2C pre-jing, which the United States is now leaving the factory, but the E-2B pre-jing, which is being improved.
In order to cope with the emerging threats, the Navy has been improving the Navy's own carrier-based pre-JING aircraft, that is, the E-2A pre-JING aircraft, which was first used in the Vietnam War, and has many technical defects, therefore, on the basis of the E-2A, the E-2B pre-JING aircraft was improved, and in 71 years, all 84 E-2B pre-JING aircraft were equipped with the Navy.
However, this kind of pre-jing machine, Xing can still not be recognized by the US Navy, so, in 71, when the pre-jing machine was improved, the E-2C was also developed. The E-2C has become the most classic carrier-based pre-jing model in later generations, and it has been in service and exported to many countries.
The E-2C in use at this stage mainly uses an improved AN/APS-138 radar, including a new full-firing shè aperture control antenna to reduce side lobes and deal with serious jamming threats. It can detect air targets anywhere within the 12.5 million cubic kilometer surveillance envelope, while monitoring maritime traffic, and can also detect cruise missiles up to 270 kilometers away.
At present, the US Navy is gradually converting the E-2B it uses into the E-2C, and it is also in the process of new production, so since Iraq needs it, it is simply to sell these pre-Jing planes that have been modified by Grumman to Iraq, and this is also a sign of friendship between the two sides.
The process was very fast, and it was getting dark when Brightman met with Taha again and told him that the United States now had a fleet of ready-made E-2 pre-jing aircraft to sell to Iraq, and that they would only charge $100 million each.
Taha was satisfied with such a quick decision by the United States, but he was very dissatisfied with the unit price of the pre-jing, because these were American stocks, which were not worth such a high price at all, and if this was the case, Iraq would charge them $100 million for the use of the shipyard and $100 million for environmental pollution.
After negotiations between the two sides again, Iraq finally imported six E-2 pre-jing planes at a cost of $90 million each, and both sides were satisfied with this contract, and at the same time, Iraq's rescue of US submarines also began.