Monster Factory - 1289

The jokes usually only appear at their crew celebration party after the mission.

During the mission, there is no room for the word joke.

Lassett immediately asked the sonar crew to turn on the SQR-20 active and passive towed sonar system at the stern of the destroyer. This system can change the underwater towing trajectory to conduct large-scale long-distance initial detection.

After some trajectory adjustments, the active and passive towed sonar system is U-shaped, aiming at the direction of the abnormal sound source.

Sure enough, no joke.

The active and passive sonar also detected the abnormal voiceprint, and this time the voiceprint was clearer than the vague segment monitored by the main sonar base half an hour ago.

Lassiter’s eyes gradually became serious, “Does it mean that the abnormal sound source is closer to us?”

The sonarman was not sure, “Sir, the current sound source is too far away from us, and we can’t track the other party’s accurate position and speed through the sound source.”

“If the other party’s sound source is not too special, it is completely different from the ship’s mechanical sound source, and it is impossible for us to monitor it at this distance.”

“but……”

“I personally think that this should not be a ship, it may be a new sound source sample that we haven’t collected yet.”

In the vast ocean, not all repetitive and orderly mechanical sound sources are ships, or normal ships.

At least sonarmen have encountered some special situations.

For example, when pirates in the Red Sea were rampant a few years ago, all countries sent warships to perform escort missions here. They quietly dropped sonar buoys in that sea area to collect the soundprint information of the propellers of these warships.

Then they listened to a very special mechanical sound source that had never been touched before.

The sound is like someone playing drums in the sea, puff and puff~

In shock, they thought it was a new-style warship of a certain country.

The results of it?

They rushed over in a hurry, trying to get closer to collect information.

It was discovered that it was an old bulk carrier that had a blast tank and blackened the surrounding sea with oil. As soon as the crew members on the freighter saw a warship approaching, they immediately followed the lost tourists. They were as excited and surprised as they saw the rescue team, and kept calling them distress signals.

There was one more laughter.

They also detected abnormal non-ship-powered mechanical sound sources when performing a certain maritime mission.

When they rushed over and prepared to intercept, they discovered that a huge mining ship was on the opposite side, looting mining materials in the shallow sea.

“Whatever it is, we must figure it out and not let it become a source of influence that interferes with our operations.”

“This mission is not allowed to fail, nor can we fail.” Lassett turned around and ordered to the others in the war room: “The radio pauses silently for one minute, ordering the third ship to go to the sound source area and search for the sound source. Details.”

“Yes!”

…

The No. 3 ship is a frigate, calculated at a speed of 30 nautical miles per hour and an ambiguous distance between 500 and 700 nautical miles from the source of the anomalous sound.

This frigate is probably close to a voyage of dozens of hours before it can get close to 300 nautical miles near the abnormal sound source for effective detection.

In fact, there is no need for a frigate to go.

In the two hours after receiving the detection order, the Burke-class guided missile destroyer, whether it is a large sonar base or the active and passive towed sonar system at the tail, clearly captured the abnormal mechanical sound source, and gradually directed them towards them. Approaching the voiceprint feature here.

From the initial fuzzy forecast between 500 and 700 nautical miles.

To 400 nautical miles, to 300 nautical miles.

When approaching the anti-submarine cordon, all passive sonars in the entire cordon were alarming frantically.

What kind of mechanical noise is this? It is clear that someone driving a supercar is blowing up the street next to them. The sonar crews at the various monitoring posts can no longer hear any other sounds in their ears, only the roar of the surging engines that are getting closer and closer, and the roar of the propellers rapidly breaking through the water waves underwater.

At this time, the frigate only ran less than a hundred nautical miles away, and did not run the distance of the sonar detection net of the anti-submarine blockade.

Command the ship to jump around.

It has only been more than two hours since the discovery of the abnormal sound source.

Even if it’s a ship, it’s not as slow as a tortoise when sailing at sea. When did it become an F1 rally?

A situation that has never been encountered before makes Lassett naturally suspect the target of the giant beast industry. They set up an anti-submarine blockade network here, isn’t it just to intercept the weird submarine of Behemoth Industry?

Judging by the voiceprint frequency, it was a huge ship of more than 10,000 tons.

This is exactly the same size as the strange submarine in the satellite photos.

If the horror speeds that are getting closer and closer are detected according to the sonar, then the submarine of Behemoth Industry will definitely have the strength to leave the port of Nicaya in the morning and soar all the way to the vicinity of this sea area.

Therefore, Lassiter no longer cares about keeping secrets, he immediately lifted the radio silence and ordered the entire ship to enter a state of combat.

It also requested the three ships on the first blockade to rush toward the second blockade to assist here at full speed.

With the Burke-class guided-missile destroyer as the core, the two frigates immediately released anti-submarine helicopters to search for that area.

Assumption~

It was really a submarine when it was erected, and with its rough appearance, it would be madly under the sea.

Even if you don’t use sonar to locate, the helicopter pilot can catch a boiling white wave in the sea with the naked eye.

Of course, by now, no one wants to believe that it is a submarine anymore.

After flying for a while, the pilots of the two anti-submarine helicopters and the weapon operators saw a scene they will never forget.

They saw a huge black ship whose bow cross section was as large as an aircraft carrier, racing wildly on the blue sea.

The sea that the big black ship passed was originally calm, but when it passed, it seemed to have set off a twelfth-level storm.

The huge black ship is also close to the size of an aircraft carrier. It does not seem to have the waterline of an ordinary ship, as if it is flying close to the sea…

Even at an altitude of several thousand meters, the two anti-submarine helicopters can hear a roar as if a giant beast is roaring through the porthole.

They forgot all the enemy reaction measures that should have been engraved into their bodies, and just like this, they watched the black “big beast” on the distant sea.

In the process of staring at the “behemoth”, the “behemoth” may have also spotted two “birds” hovering in the distant air.

The huge black ship that had been galloping in a straight line on the sea unexpectedly drew a circular arc on the sea with an impossible posture.

“It… it changed course.” The two anti-submarine helicopter pilots communicated via radio tremblingly.

Afterwards, they woke up like a dream, quickly turned on the long-distance radio, and shouted to the liaison officer of the mothership: “Dock, this is the seagull.”

“Did you… see it?”

Both anti-submarine helicopters are hung in the camera pods.

After all, they are performing a tracking mission, and of course it is necessary to send the flight screen back to the mothership.

Including Commander Rasit, they were stationed in the command room, and of course they saw this scene on the screen.

The correspondent in the command room was holding the intercom with his hand. He wanted to respond to the call of the two anti-submarine helicopters, but when the words came to his lips, they turned into gibberish.

Commander Lassett slumped in his chair, sweating coldly.

The big black ship is exactly the same as the port “submarine” picture taken by the reconnaissance satellite.