Chapter 242
Gao Jiantang interrupted Peng Huading with a smile and said, "Haha, don't think of telling people. Answer me quickly, why are the planes not eliminated and the submarines obsolete?"
Peng Huading said: "It's very simple. The aircraft can develop in a faster, higher and more stealth direction. It can quickly rush to any place to carry out military operations according to the owner's will. Advance can quickly strike the enemy, retreat can quickly hide into its own air defense network for protection. If the enemy wants to capture an aircraft, the cost will become higher and higher with the development of aircraft technology.
Think about it, in the past, when the propeller plane was fired, it was enough to fire the machine gun. As the plane flew higher and higher, anti-aircraft guns had to be used, and then air defense missiles had to be used. In the future, the aircraft would have supersonic speeds and supersonic speeds, at least 20,000 meters altitudes. The missiles that can shoot such aircraft must be expensive surface-to-air missiles, and must be air-to-air missiles carried by the aircraft.
However, submarines have very high limitations. How fast can you make the submarines fly? The cascade torpedo is fast enough, it is only about 100 knots. Can your submarines do so fast? Can you carry so much fuel that can emit such a large driving force? Even if technology really develops that day, electromagnetic drive can be used to make the submarines reach a speed of 100 knots. Who dares to drive? As long as the aircraft reaches a height of 100 meters, they have almost no obstacles. Don’t worry about hitting a mountain or just hitting another plane. But what about submarines? If you drive so fast, you may hit mountains, reefs, whales and even broken fishing boats under the sea. Just a piece of wood is suspended in the water. At such a high speed, it is enough to make the submarine crash into scrap iron.
You should know that if a submarine is such a big behemoth sailing at a speed of about 100 knots, it must be located below 170 meters to avoid ripples visible to the human eye on the water surface, and it will not be easily seen by people on the water surface without any instruments. However, whether it is the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean, there are not many places with a depth of 170 meters. You know, in the South China Sea area of our country, the average depth is only a few dozen meters. It is difficult to find a waterway that allows you to sail quickly. If you are not careful, you will hit reefs and beaches.
In fact, even a speed of one hundred knots is really fast for ships. But for aircraft, it is simply the speed of a snail. Not to mention modern fighter jets, even old-fashioned propeller aircraft in the past can catch up with you. Once you are stared at by the plane, submarines cannot get rid of the enemy by speed. They can only rely on hiding and hiding, and can only rely on hiding deep in the sea.
But don't forget. The premise we just discussed is that we have an anti-submarine network that can discover submarines.
In addition, another reason is that the cost of submarines is high. The more you make the submarine perform, faster and less noise, the more you have to increase your investment. A nuclear submarine now costs about a billion dollars to stop, but if you want it to reach a very high speed and deep dive, you can't do it without 30 to 4 billion dollars.
Besides, an aircraft was shot down by an expensive missile. Not to mention that the other party wasted several missiles, one of its own party lost an aircraft and a pilot. If the pilot is lucky, he might also be able to parachute to escape. But what about nuclear submarines? Once destroyed, especially at high speed, and when the submarine is deep, hundreds of naval elites on the boat will be buried in the belly of fish. Which country can afford to lose? The core crew of nuclear submarines is similar to that of pilots. If they are experts, their value is higher than that of gold-equivalent pilots. Even if they lose, they will grin in pain if they lose.
The United States was killed by a F35, which was at most a hair loss. However, a seawolf nuclear submarine worth $2.4 billion was sunk in the Pacific Ocean, and one hundred and thirty-three precious submarine crew members would cry even if President Bubanniu was killed.
If we really have to wait until our anti-submarine network is established and mature, I can guarantee that no country will dare to build a submarine. It is like a child carrying gold on a remote path. Even kind passers-by will want to snatch the gold."
Gao Jiantang obviously still disagrees with Peng Huading's statement. Of course, the more important thing is that he is unwilling to believe that the nuclear submarine will be eliminated one day, so he was very depressed and muttered: "Forget it, I can't tell you. I don't believe it will be eliminated. Even if it is eliminated, it will be after I die. But to be honest, if my son grows up and wants to join the army in the future, I don't want him to be a submarine soldier. It's too hard, too lonely, and too dangerous."
Peng Huading smiled and said, "When will they be eliminated, we have to listen to our central bosses. If they want to eliminate nuclear submarines within ten years, we have the ability to eliminate the whole world within ten years. If they say they don't eliminate them for the time being, then we can let the US nuclear submarines show their power for decades. At least they don't know that this kind of power is just a waste of military spending and funds."
Gao Jiantang asked: "Are you really so confident? Can you use snake robots and satellites to lay out the nets and monitor several oceans?"
Peng Huading said: "If we only use robots, we will cover at most half of the Pacific Ocean and the entire South China Sea. If we use new radars and new satellites, we can monitor all oceans and all sea areas within ten years. When it comes to the future of submarines, I am really not optimistic. We can even use snake robots to carry high-performance bombs to directly blow up submarines."
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While continuing to test, the nuclear submarine No. 08 sailed towards the Indian Ocean. A few days later, it met with a steamer anchored at a certain location in the southern Indian Ocean. After obtaining the necessary supplies here, the nuclear submarine dived into the sea and dived towards the Atlantic Ocean, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and officially entered the Atlantic Ocean from the South Atlantic Ocean, which was sandwiched between Europe and the United States.
At the beginning, the nuclear submarine was traveling on the waterways detected by the Chinese freighter in the high seas. After entering the sea areas where the US Navy often entered and exited, the nuclear submarine began to sneak at an extremely slow speed under the command of Gao Jiantang. While using a new passive sonar to pay attention to the movements and stillness around, it used a small-power sonar to detect the situation on the surrounding seabed, and used corresponding sensors to detect the surrounding hydrological data...
What the 08 nuclear submarine does is something that other countries often do, except for the United States and Russia, two global naval powers. It’s not that they don’t do it, it’s because the two countries (Russia was formerly the Soviet Union) had already figured out the situation under the oceans of various oceans during the Cold War. Now they only need to pay attention to where there are undersea volcanoes and where there are large shipwrecks. They only need to change the seabed terrain due to volcanic eruptions. Because of the shipwreck, there is an additional layer of obstacles under the seabed.
From this fact, we can see that putting aside the technical reasons of submarines, when the United States and Russian submarines are sailing in high seas, it is often difficult for other countries to detect, because the submarines of their two countries can run as they wish with their existing charts, while other countries must run carefully, for fear of rushing to those unknown areas. When entering the unknown area, they have to turn on the active sonar for undersea terrain detection. This opening is equivalent to telling people around: I am here!
This situation is not fatal in peacetime. At most, it is to secretly let the submarines coming from hearing the news know about it. But in wartime, this is a fatal problem: people can easily find and sink you, but you can't even know where the enemy is.
The 08 nuclear submarine was in such an awkward situation at this time. When we came to the relatively unfamiliar Atlantic Ocean, we had to pay attention to whether there were any submarines from the United States or European countries around us, and we had to turn on the active sonar for terrain detection. We couldn't walk blindly this time, and the next time a nuclear submarine came, he was still still walking blindly.
However, Peng Huading was very confident this time, because not only did the noise of the nuclear submarine have been reduced a lot, but the active and passive sonar of the nuclear submarine have also been improved to a certain extent, and its performance has been greatly improved, which is enough to compete with the submarines of the United States and Russia.
The North and South Atlantic Oceans are very large and the submarines are very small. The No. 08 nuclear submarine has been here for nearly a month, but has not encountered or found other nuclear submarines and submarines. Only occasionally have some warships and steamers found, which is truly unstoppable.
That day, following the technicians to detect the seabed terrain for a day. As soon as the tired Peng Huading returned to his lounge to rest, Gao Jiantang walked in. Peng Huading stretched and asked Gao Jiantang who was about to sit down, "Captain Gao, do you think we are lucky or have bad luck? Why didn't we encounter a submarine?"
Before the No. 08 submarine went into the sea, Gao Jiantang was promoted from the original chief of staff to the captain.
Gao Jiantang said disapprovingly: "What's the matter? Not to mention that it's hard to meet submarines from other countries in a month, sometimes it's hard to encounter for several months... I'm here to ask you, we've been out for so long and it's time to return now. Should we make some noise here before leaving?"
Peng Huading smiled and said, "I think so, but you are the captain, and it is up to you to decide whether you do it."
Gao Jiantang said: "The problem is that you are ready to leak the submarine's voiceprints and are not prepared for the appearance. You are a technical expert, what are the disadvantages of leaking these to our submarine."
Peng Huading shook his head: "It's okay. It doesn't matter if the voiceprint is silent. We just want them to know that this submarine belongs to our country. In the future, as long as we monitor this voiceprint, we will know that we are here."
Gao Jiantang said: "But once our voice patterns are recorded by others and wars occur in the future, they can be input into the sound-guided torpedo, and the torpedo will only blow up our submarine."
Peng Huading smiled and said, "Who knows when a war with our country will occur? They can input voiceprints into torpedoes to blow us up, and we can also input our voiceprints into our voiceprints to lure torpedoes and lure away the enemy's torpedoes. It's okay for each other."
Chapter completed!