Soviet Union 1991

(Second update)

The Soviet Union's report "Our leaders encourage soldiers on the most dangerous front, while leaders of other countries chat and drink coffee in the safe rear" was reprinted in columns by some American newspapers to satirize Washington's indifference to the economy and people's livelihood.

The United States once again experienced a cyclical economic crisis in 1990, and in the eyes of some journalists and current affairs columnists, the Gulf War was an interventionist war implemented to divert domestic attention.

However, the Bush administration has become immune to the Soviet Union's cynicism. After all, Uncle Sam has been shameless for so many years, and his thick skin has been honed. Instead, a group of intellectuals in the United States who are dissatisfied with the government applauded the Soviet article, accusing the US government of ignoring the people's living standards, ignoring the economic recession and downturn, and thinking about its evil dream of dominating the world.

Marcos Remus, the submarine commander, was reading the news about Chechnya's victory in the Moscow newspaper in the room with relish. He is the captain of the Sierra-class K-276 nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet. Now his nuclear submarine has just left the port of Murmansk and is preparing to perform routine patrol missions in the Arctic Ocean.

The patrol mission is long and boring. The only luxury for the sailors on the ship is to encounter a tracking American submarine to stimulate their nerves, especially to use Crazy Ivan to scare the other party into a cold sweat.

In order to detect whether it has been tracked and stared at by other submarines, the Soviet submarines will suddenly and drastically change their course while submerged. The Soviets' use of towed array sonar is called Crazy Ivan by Americans; Crazy refers to the sudden sharp turn, and Ivan is a common nickname for Russians.

"Captain, our sonar seems to have detected something following us." Deputy Captain Vance reported the news to Marcos Remus.

Captain Remus put down the newspaper. He raised his head and asked. "Are you ready to detect American submarines?"

The deputy captain shook his head. "We just vaguely detected something following us, but according to past experience, the Americans do like to monitor the movements of submarines in our Arctic waters."

"Turn left immediately, turn to Channel 250, and detect whether it is an American ship." Remus stood up and watched every move on the screen on the command platform in silence. If there is really an American submarine following them, a crazy Ivan tactical move can expose the opponent's position.

"Vance. I have an ominous premonition that we seem to be followed by a ghost of the Arctic Ocean." Captain Remus said slowly.

But Remus really guessed that there was indeed an American submarine following them, the Los Angeles-class Baton Rouge submarine. They came to collect the "soundprint" of the Sierra-class nuclear submarine. Each submarine has a specific sound feature, which is also called a "soundprint", and collecting "soundprints" requires close tracking and collection, and then establishing a sound sample database based on it.

Whether in peacetime or wartime, this database is extremely valuable information. This kind of intelligence gathering work is very risky, especially when it goes to someone else's territorial waters. Once discovered by the other party, there is a great risk of being attacked. American submarines often go to the vicinity of Soviet naval bases to collect intelligence in order to obtain the other party's "soundprint" and understand the other party's anti-submarine detection system and anti-submarine tactics.

When K-276 just left the port. Baton Rouge followed behind K-276, which had just left the port, to maintain the same speed as the tracked.

"Captain Jones, the Soviet submarine made a crazy Ivan." The deputy captain who observed the sharp turn reported this news to him urgently.

Hearing the deputy captain's report, Captain Jones of Baton Rouge, who had been dealing with Soviet ships for several years, hurriedly said, "Quick, stop the engine and the propeller blades immediately, control it by yourself and prohibit any possible sound. We want them to think that there is nothing behind them."

The huge submarine suddenly became quiet, like a log floating silently in the sea, without any sound, and the huge inertia led the submarine to continue moving forward.

The command platform was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone was waiting silently, not knowing what the Soviet ship would do.

However, the emergency stop of the USS Baton Rouge was still a little hesitant. The Sierra class is the third generation of Soviet SSN nuclear-powered submarines. The sonar detection system is relatively advanced and its navigation noise is low, so this American nuclear submarine was discovered by K-276 before the emergency stop. The captain of the Soviet submarine, Remus, watched every move of the USS Baton Rouge like watching a child playing hide-and-seek.

"Captain, it is indeed the American Los Angeles-class submarine. What should we do? Get rid of them?" asked the deputy captain.

"Wait, Comrade Vance." Remus made a gesture to interrupt the deputy captain's speech, "Do you know about the recent competition and contest between the Kremlin and the Americans? The newly appointed leader urgently needs to reverse the disadvantage. This can be seen from the increasing publicity of the general secretary's image in the newspapers and the public opinion offensive against the West."

"Captain, what do you mean?" Vance asked in confusion.

Remus put his hands behind his back and said with a smile, "I say, since the top leaders of the Kremlin have been looking for opportunities to humiliate the United States, then let's give them this opportunity. Listen to my instructions, change the course 310, and hit the American submarine with all your strength."

"Are you crazy, Captain?" Vance's face turned pale when he heard this. Hitting the American submarine, my God, only a crazy commander like Remus could do such a crazy thing.

"Don't worry, Comrade Lenin said that death does not belong to the working class, Comrade Vance." Remus said calmly. He knew very well that the Soviet nuclear submarine was a double-hulled small compartment structure with large reserve buoyancy and good anti-sinking ability. In addition, it was large in size, so when it collided underwater, the opponent might be destroyed and killed. In fact, Remus's considerations before launching the collision were still rough and detailed. He had never thought of using a conventional boat with a small displacement and a thin structure to collide underwater. Only the Sierra-class nuclear submarine could do this.

K-276 once again performed the action of Crazy Ivan. After locking the position of the American submarine, K-276 rushed towards the USS Baton Rouge at full speed. This crazy action caused a panic in the command room of the American submarine.

"Oh my God, the Americans are rushing towards me." The deputy captain exclaimed, and he turned his head and asked Captain Jones, who was livid behind him, "What should we do? The distance is too close to avoid it."

Captain Jones grabbed the railing and gave the last order, "Can't avoid it, prepare for the impact!"

Watching the Soviet ships getting closer and closer in the sonar detection, they could almost feel the behemoth rushing towards them dozens of meters away. It was getting closer and closer in the countdown of the deputy captain.

"Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, prepare for the impact."

As soon as the voice fell, a huge impact force almost threw everyone out of their seats, as if the entire ship had hit the ground. Under the crazy collision action of K-276, the pressure hull of the USS Baton Rouge submarine suffered a lot of impact. The command platform of the submarine is a non-pressure hull, and a collision at this position is not fatal, but such a collision on a pressure hull is very fatal.

The bridge of K-276 was damaged, but not to the extent that the hull was seriously damaged. But the situation of the Baton Rouge was worse. The power system was out of action, and it had to surface, and at the same time, an order was issued to all members to abandon the submarine.

After the collision, Remus immediately reported the situation to the headquarters of the North Sea Fleet, asking them to send submarines to the accident area to capture American submarines. Because the accident occurred in the Soviet waters, they had a legitimate reason to seize American submarines.

The surface of the Arctic Ocean was unusually cold, and all the American soldiers were shivering in the lifeboats, complaining about the extreme climate in Russia. It was almost more than half an hour later that the K-276 submarine floated up from the bottom of the sea. Out of humanitarian considerations, it was ready to rescue these henchmen of American imperialism. In Remus' words, the half hour wasted was to hope that the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean could teach these despicable people who secretly came to other people's waters to collect intelligence a lesson.

Remus, wearing a warm coat and holding a bottle of vodka, whistled at the poor American sailors on the submarine, raised the wine in his hand and said, "Hey, friends from the United States, welcome to the Arctic Ocean. I am very sorry for crashing your submarine, because this is the way we Russians welcome guests from afar." (To be continued.)