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Chapter 783 - 441: Deep Sea Hunt (Second Update)
Upon receiving the news, Markuer immediately stood up, anxiously saying: "Prepare the air defense firepower at once, make sure to shoot down these missiles, and find out the launch sources immediately."
"We are investigating, we have identified the attack sources within five approximate areas surrounding our fleet, the latitude and longitude coordinates are..."
Radio waves continuously transmitted back and forth across the fleet, the maritime radar and air search radar on the warships, capable of scanning hundreds of kilometers.
The anti-submarine rockets fired from a hundred kilometers away were soon captured by the radar upon rising into the air and then backtracked continuously, allowing us to pin down the approximate location.
Seeing the marked missile attack positions on the screen, surrounding them in five points, enveloping the India fleet, Markuer couldn't help but feel a sense of terror, cold sweat seeping from his forehead.
His voice even turned sharp.
"Submarines? Dispatch helicopters to the area for reconnaissance immediately, deploy sonar buoys, have the escort ships and destroyers activate active sonar, find the enemy's submarines, and deploy deep bombs to sink them."
In a rapid tone, Markuer arranged the battle plan, preparing the fleet for air defense and anti-submarine operations.
Alarms echoed across each warship, the 30 main fleet ships of India, at this moment, just like a hornet's nest, escort ships and destroyers constantly sailing outwards, ready for anti-submarine combat, and simultaneously setting up an air defense firepower network to protect the central area of aircraft carriers and supply ships.
On those escort ships, short-range air defense missiles were already launched, intercepting incoming missiles.
At the tensest moment, forty missiles were almost visible, the sky suddenly lit up with clusters of firelight, picturing air defense missiles detonating incoming missiles.
Incoming missiles visibly reduced, continuously shot down by air defense missiles, easing the whole India fleet.
Just a handful of missiles broke through the firepower net, but the destroyers, escort ships, and close-in weapon system defenses, plus the air defense firepower of internal aircraft carriers.
Boom!
Suddenly, those few incoming missiles made no further intent to penetrate deeper into the air defense net, instead autonomously separating mid-air, their front ends plunging into the sea like spears.
As rocket-assisted torpedoes entered the water, they immediately activated the auto enemy-seeking mode, the torpedoes employed sound self-guiding mode, the guiding heads emitted pulse sound signals spreading in the water until hitting a submarine reflected back to lock.
At this moment, India's carrier fleet presented a circular grouping mode, among which, the Enemy Slayer and Arijat, two 6000-ton nuclear submarines positioned in front of the carrier fleet, playing a better role in alerting, monitoring, tracking, and attacking tasks.
Therefore, the incoming torpedoes targeted not the warships, but aiming at the submarines, not necessary to keep attacking and breaking through the carrier fleet firepower blockade.
The two nuclear submarines, Enemy Slayer and Arijat, upon detecting incoming torpedoes, found it too late to react.
The position of the two submarines had long been caught by biological sonar, the flight paths of the rocket-assisted torpedoes were calculated precisely, the descended torpedoes precisely located above the two nuclear submarines.
As several sound self-guided torpedoes quickly submerged at 50-knot speed, the two nuclear submarines could not evade, they could only submerge to the maximum depth, hoping the torpedoes might misjudge and luck would help them avoid it.
Boom!
A sound self-guided torpedo exploded in the midsection of the Enemy Slayer nuclear submarine.
The power of underwater explosions far surpassed those on land as water is incompressible.
Faced with such explosions, the Enemy Slayer nuclear submarine was utterly powerless, submarines lacked the massive reserve buoyancy of surface warships, unable to set thick armor and watertight compartments for protection.
The section hit on Enemy Slayer, the shock waves tore open large areas of its hull, flooded numerous compartments, the submarine lost control, eventually sinking.
The whole scene resembled an eggshell, crushed by fingers, unbearably fragile.
Inside Enemy Slayer, submariners screamed, unable to take any escape measures, directly overwhelmed by seawater.
The current depth of Enemy Slayer submarine was 300 meters, humans exposed at this means bearing 31 atmospheres of pressure, equivalent to 30 kilograms of force per square centimeter, each submariner's internal organs were directly compressed, blood gushed from their seven orifices, bones and muscles squeezed and torn, blood reddening seawater.
The Other Arijat more lamentable, submariners stayed inside it like cramped up within a sealed steel ball, when the sound self-guided torpedo exploded, it was like someone hammering outside, the intense vibrations and sounds made them distressed.
Due to Enemy Slayer's early sinking, remaining sound self-guided torpedo's firepower attracted to it, up to three sound self-guided torpedoes hit simultaneously.
Upon explosion, Enemy Slayer was bent like a broken chopstick, midsection broke apart, seawater surged repeatedly, destroying everything inside the submarine, machinery and humans alike.
Both nuclear submarines' complete crew, totaling 208, perished with the submarines, when submariners are vastly more at risk than surface ship crew, there's some escape hope if a warship sinks, however no survival chance when a submarine sinks.
Vikrant-class aircraft carrier bridge, when Kumar heard two nuclear submarines were lost contact and the sea surface floated with vast oil slicks and debris, he painfully closed his eyes, Enemy Slayer and Arijat had already perished.
However, Kumar couldn't indulge his grief, as the reconnaissance drones dispatched from his carrier had arrived at the rocket-assisted torpedo launch regions, discovering enemy ship movements.
Kumar quickened his steps to the big screen in the command center, intercepting the drone reconnaissance view.
Over the tumultuous sea, suddenly a section of water arched high like a peak, a steel beast with dark hues displaced thousands of tons of water, just like a whale jumping out, surfacing.
Countless seawater, small fish, and shrimp slid off the steel hull as the water drained off, one by one missile launch units' windows opened.
The number appeared like a swarm, anti-ship missiles ignited sequentially, blazing bright flames, leaving pretty tail flames ascending to the sky.
The missile launch quantity overwhelming, missiles continuously launched, tails flames endlessly spraying.
Sky, sea, and this warship created a flame bridge.
Such a spectacle repeated at five locations simultaneously, attacking them with more than a thousand anti-ship missiles, an absurd number.
Witnessing this scene, inside the Vikrant aircraft carrier bridge command room, Kumar and numerous navy officers had eyes wide open, some legs uncontrollably trembling like shaking chaff.
"Stealth Cruiser, Diving Stealth Cruiser, how can there be so many missiles... order the entire fleet, organize air defense firepower immediately, this is a ten-faced ambush aimed at our India's navy."
Kumar felt his heart icy cold, his lips quivering, this sentence almost drained all his energy.
He then realized, that the stealth cruiser they pursued was merely a decoy, aimed to lure them into a meticulously laid trap, as Jieke Group had five of such missile arsenal cruisers.
Yet he was completely unaware, filled with desires of military merit and honor, charging into other's well-set pocket formation.
Though they only had five cruisers, watching such dreadful firepower, one matched the firepower of ten destroyers, them not sharing the same power tier.
He finally understood why their aircraft carrier fighter squadrons never returned, such overpowering firepower, how could carrier-based aircraft possibly break through successfully.
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