Soviet Union 1991

The United States has once again experienced a cyclical economic crisis, and in the eyes of some journalists and current affairs columnists, the Gulf War was an interventionist war 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, is 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 carry out 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 the tracking American submarine to stimulate their nerves, especially to use the crazy Ivan to scare the other party into a cold sweat.

In order to detect whether they have been tracked or watched by other submarines, 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, raised his head and asked, "Are you ready to detect if it is an American submarine?"

The deputy captain shook his head, "We only vaguely detected something following us, but according to past experience, 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 desk 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 a bad feeling. It seems that there is a ghost of the Arctic Ocean following us." Captain Remus said slowly.

However, 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". To collect "soundprints", it is necessary to track and collect them close, and then establish a sound sample database based on them.

Whether in peacetime or wartime, this database is extremely valuable information. This kind of intelligence collection work is very risky, especially when running to other people's territorial waters. Once discovered by the other party, there is a great risk of being attacked. American submarines often run to the vicinity of Soviet naval bases to collect intelligence, with the aim of obtaining the other party's "soundprint" and understanding 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 one.

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

Hearing the deputy captain's report, Captain Jones of the Baton Rouge, who had been dealing with Soviet ships for several years, said hurriedly, "Quick, stop the engine and the propeller blades immediately, control it independently 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 a pin drop could be heard. Everyone was waiting silently, not knowing what the Soviet ship would do.

However, the emergency stop of the Baton Rouge was still slightly hesitant. The Sierra class is the third-generation SSN nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet Union. 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 as if he was watching a child playing hide-and-seek.

"Captain, it is indeed an 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 new 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 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 an 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 Soviet nuclear submarines had a double-hulled structure with small subdivisions, large reserve buoyancy, and good anti-sinking properties. Coupled with its large size, the opponent may be destroyed in an underwater collision. In fact, Remus' considerations before launching the collision were rough and fine. He had never thought about using conventional boats with small displacement and thin structure to collide underwater. Only the Sierra-class nuclear submarine could do this.

K-276 once again made Crazy Ivan's move. After locking the position of the American submarine, K-276 rushed towards the American USS Baton Rouge at full power. This crazy action caused a panic in the U.S. submarine command room.

"Oh my God, the Americans are charging towards me." the vice-captain exclaimed. He turned around and asked the livid Captain Jones behind him, "What should we do? We are too close to avoid it."

Captain Jones grasped the railing tightly and gave the final order, "Unable to dodge, prepare for impact!"

Watching the Soviet ships getting closer and closer in the sonar detection, they could almost feel the giant beast rushing toward them dozens of meters away. The countdown of the deputy captain is getting closer and closer.

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

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge impact almost threw everyone out of their seats, as if the entire ship hit the ground. Under the crazy collision action of K-276, the pressure-resistant hull of the Baton Rouge submarine suffered heavy impacts. The command platform enclosure of the submarine is a non-pressure-resistant hull. A collision at this location is not fatal, but such an impact on the pressure-resistant hull is very fatal.

The bridge of the K-276 was hit and damaged, but the damage to the hull was not serious. But the situation of the Baton Rouge was worse. The power system lost its function and had to surface. At the same time, an order was issued to all members to abandon the submarine.

After the near-miss collision, Remus immediately reported the situation to the North Sea Fleet command and asked them to send submarines to the crashed waters to round up the American submarine. Because the accident took place in Soviet waters, they had an honest reason to seize the American submarine.

The surface of the Arctic Ocean was extremely cold. All the American soldiers stayed in the lifeboats and shivered, complaining about the extreme climate in Russia. It took almost half an hour before the K-276 submarine floated up from the seabed. Out of humanitarian considerations We are prepared to rescue these hawks of U.S. imperialism out of ideological considerations. In Remus' words, the more than half an hour he spent was hoping that the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean could teach this group of despicable people who secretly came to other people's waters to collect intelligence a lesson.

Remus, who was wearing a warm coat and carrying 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, very welcome to the Arctic Ocean." Sorry for crashing your submarine, because this is how we Russians welcome guests from far away.” (To be continued.)