Chapter 803 German-Soviet War (102)

A few days later, the destroyer equipped with active sonar was finally officially put into service amid "much anticipation". The senior naval officials could not wait to send it to the eastern coastline of the United States to destroy the damn German "ghost submarine".

When the destroyer arrived near New York, it received the news that a freighter had been sunk, and immediately rushed over. The sea area where the freighter was sunk was not far from them. After sailing at full speed for more than ten minutes, the destroyer arrived at that sea area.

There was no movement in the passive sonar, and the captain ordered to turn on the active sonar and prepare depth charges.

The sound waves of the active sonar began to spread on the seabed. The German submarine was not far away, so naturally it could not avoid these sound waves. One after another, the sound waves hit the hull of the submarine. If it was an ordinary submarine, when it was hit by the active sonar waves, the hull would vibrate, and the cavity effect would amplify the sound. The submarine soldiers inside could clearly hear this terrible sound.

However, when the active sonar sound waves of the US destroyer hit the German submarine, the first thing they touched was the anechoic tiles laid on the outer shell of the submarine!

"Reducing the enemy's active sonar detection distance" is the main function of the anechoic tile. Its working mechanism is to produce impedance matching between the seawater and the hull, so that the sound waves can enter the anechoic tile. Due to the damping effect of the anechoic tile material and the effect of the cavity or filler in the tile, the sound wave waveform changes, and the sound energy is converted into heat energy and consumed, thereby greatly reducing the energy of the returned sound wave, achieving the purpose of reducing the active sonar detection distance.

The German Tiger Shark class is a double-hull submarine, with anechoic tiles laid on both the inner and outer shells. The outer anechoic tiles are mainly used to deal with active sonar, while the inner anechoic tiles are mainly used to reduce noise for themselves.

Therefore, the sailors inside the submarine hardly heard the sonar waves hitting the hull, only the sonar operator quickly took off his headphones and cursed softly. "Damn Americans! Captain, the Americans' active sonar!"

The submarine captain raised his eyebrows slightly. "The Americans are also equipped with active sonar?" However, he did not panic and ordered calmly. "Maintain a speed of five knots and reduce noise." Because this submarine has already been tested by the sonar of its own surface ships, active sonar is almost undetectable, and the noise of five knots will not be detected by passive sonar.

Sure enough, the captain circled around the American destroyer on the water but found nothing, and he was a little anxious. "Sonar operator, did you find anything?!"

The sonar operator shook his head. "Captain, there is nothing below. The German submarine may have left long ago."

The captain thought for a while and ordered. "Search eastward." The destroyer turned and headed eastward, but just after sailing more than a thousand meters away, accompanied by a huge explosion, everyone in the bridge was thrown to the ground.

"What's going on!" The captain, who had finally climbed up, just asked, and found that the whole ship was slowly tilting. "Oh my God! Abandon ship! Abandon ship!!" Such an obvious tilt was obviously severely damaged, and there was no need for damage control. "Order everyone to abandon ship!" He rushed out of the bridge and saw that most of the stern had been blown up.

The captain didn't care about anything else. He grabbed the life jacket beside him and put it on. He jumped into the sea and swam out desperately.

"What?!"

The news soon reached President Wilkie's office. Hearing that the destroyer they had high hopes for had been sunk less than a day after it was put into service, President Wilkie's face suddenly darkened. "General Leahy, what's going on?!" He had said before that from now on, German submarines would be nowhere to hide in front of active sonar and would no longer be a threat; the result is this? Isn't this too embarrassing? !

"This..." General Leahy's old face turned red, and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a hole to drill into immediately. Logically, active sonar should be able to search for German submarines, so why was it sunk? "Maybe there was something wrong with the active sonar?" After all, it was the first time it was put into actual combat, and no one could say it was foolproof.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. President Wilkie was so depressed that he didn't even bother to continue discussing this issue. "How is the Soviet Union doing? Have you wiped out the German troops that destroyed the railway?"

"Not yet, Mr. President." Seeing that President Wilkie's face was getting uglier, the secretary quickly reported a good news. "Stalin agreed to send a fleet to defend the Aleutian Islands."

"Hmph. He's smart." President Wilkie snorted coldly. But even if the transportation route on the Pacific Ocean is preserved, what's the use if the railway cannot be preserved? "Are those Germans so difficult to deal with? It's been a few days."

In Moscow, far away, Stalin also raised the same question. "Why haven't you eliminated those Germans yet?!" Because those damn Germans kept harassing the railway, only 5 trains arrived in Moscow this week. "Order them to wipe them out completely within three days!!"

In the deep mountains 20 kilometers away from the railway, Fred and his team ambushed a Soviet army that entered the mountains to search. The Soviets only had Mosin-Nagant and a few light machine guns. They were unable to raise their heads due to the powerful firepower of the Germans and were quickly wiped out.

The deputy company commander looked up the ID from a corpse and checked its serial number. He curled his lips in disdain. "These guys are the same as the last batch. They are rookies who have just been formed not long ago. Don't the Soviets have mountain troops? Why don't they send those troops over?"

According to the organization, the Soviet Army has a total of 19 mountain divisions: 6 in the Kiev Special Military District (44th, 58th, 60th, 72nd, 96th, 192nd Mountain Divisions), 1 in the North Caucasus Military District (28th Mountain Division), 7 in the Lower Caucasus Military District (9th, 20th, 47th, 63rd, 76th, 77th, 138th Mountain Divisions), 3 in the Central Asian Military District (68th, 83rd, 194th Mountain Divisions), 1 in the Far East Military District (101st Mountain Division) and the 9th Independent Army (30th Mountain Division).

Fred on the side couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this. "These rookies are so easy to deal with."

The deputy company commander chuckled. "The old rookies came here, and it seems that Stalin didn't take us seriously." These days, they have eliminated more than 1,000 Soviet troops who entered the mountains, and there are countless more who were killed or injured by the mines they buried. But the Soviets still went into the mountains to search for them, and they sent new troops that had just been established. These guys had no combat experience except for shooting.

As a result, seeing that the battle situation here was so bad, the superiors planned to send another company of paratroopers to support them.

"We have to move again." They have moved the camp four times in the past few days, and it is more than 100 kilometers away from the place where they just landed, which is also a long journey.

Back to the camp, they simply packed up their supplies and equipment and set off again.

After walking for a while, everyone suddenly saw a black-skinned wild boar in front of them that was constantly digging a tree.

"Hehe, this guy is really big. It must be at least 450 pounds, right?"

"Kill him, just for a change of taste." Just as everyone was talking about killing the wild boar for a change of taste, the wild boar turned its head when it heard the noise, stared at everyone with its eyes, and began to dig the ground with its two front hooves.

Seeing this, Fred was not polite, raised the FAL rifle in his hand, aimed at the wild boar and shot it.

The wild boar staggered after being shot, and its ferocity was completely aroused, and it rushed towards everyone. The wild boar was very fast, and it rushed to the front in a few steps.

Fred fired two shots in a row, hitting the wild boar's head, and the wild boar fell to the ground.

(There is only one chapter today, and repairing teeth is really a long and torturous process)