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Authors: Ira Tabankin
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might lose the DDG before the day is over. Tell your CAG to hold his planes on board unless you think you’re going to lose the Lincoln, if you lose her, have the good sense to go down with her. We don’t have the deck space to absorb the aircraft from the four struck carriers. We may need yours and the others depending on losses from the attack as a reserve force. Jack, they gave us a black eye in front of the entire world. They destroyed most of our naval power when they took out our carriers. I’d issued the orders to send a destroyer to sit in the wakes of each of you when you got hit. The bastards hit us first. The Missouri is going to take out their carrier, then our planes and missiles will take out the rest of their fleet. We’re going to win today by destroying the Chinese fleet and save the people of Hawaii from having to learn Chinese.”
“Admiral, what can I do to help?”
“Jack, get your ship as ready as it can be. I’ve called Pearl to order ocean going tugs. Get your anti-submarine helicopters up, find the SOBs who hit us and sink them. They couldn’t have gone far.”
“Aye, sir.”
Hanging up, Captain Wilson punches another button on the phone, “CAG, Captain, Admiral says hold your planes here. We’re in no danger of going down. I want your anti-sub copters up. CAG, find that SOB that hit us. When you find it, sink it!”
“Aye, sir.”
Two minutes later four anti-submarine helicopters lift off of the Lincoln’s deck. Each is armed with two anti-submarine torpedoes. They have orders to find and sink the Chinese submarine who struck their carrier.
Meanwhile on the Chinese submarine Ling, the crew rejoiced over their torpedoes striking their target, the USS Lincoln. The Ling’s captain, SingHo told his men to be quiet and to turn 90 degrees to port. He knew he and the other Chinese submarines kicked over a hornet’s nest of very angry hornets, each with a fatal stinger. He knew the US Navy was going to pour every resource they have into finding and destroying them. Ten minutes into their turn, they hear a strong sonar pulse strike their submarine. “Captain, Sonar, US Navy dipping sonar just located us. Recommend we come to a new course of 225 degrees.”
“Sonar, Captain, keep me informed. Control, change course to 225 degrees. Crew of the Ling, this is the captain, we need total silence, the US Navy is hunting us.”
Unknown to the Ling’s captain the US Navy has her plotted. Between the helicopters and a destroyer, they have the Ling in a box. A helicopter hovers over the Ling, she releases one of her Mark 50 digital lightweight torpedoes. The torpedo enters the water above and slightly to the right of the Ling, it went active the moment it hit the water. The digital signal processor in the torpedo quickly locates the Ling, it accelerates to 45 knots, striking the Ling where the conning tower meets the hull. The torpedo’s warhead blows a hole in the Ling, the Pacific Ocean flows in sinking the Ling with all hands.
Within two hours of the Chinese attack against the US carriers, five of the six Chinese submarines were found and sunk. The American damage control was well trained, they got the fires on the four carriers under control within two hours, the Nimitz was the only carrier of the four struck that was able to get one of her four screws turning. She was able to make eight knots. The other three required ocean tugs to take them under tow to Pearl Harbor where it is hoped they could be repaired. Admiral Long wanted to keep the carriers in the area in case he needed their firepower.
The Liaoning’s captain had just received the news that the Chinese submarines were able to surprise and damage four of America’s carriers. He turned to his aide saying, “I’d hoped for a clean sweep of all six, but taking four out beats the computer projection of taking down three of them. Our fleet has enough anti-air weapons to take down
“Admiral, what can I do to help?”
“Jack, get your ship as ready as it can be. I’ve called Pearl to order ocean going tugs. Get your anti-submarine helicopters up, find the SOBs who hit us and sink them. They couldn’t have gone far.”
“Aye, sir.”
Hanging up, Captain Wilson punches another button on the phone, “CAG, Captain, Admiral says hold your planes here. We’re in no danger of going down. I want your anti-sub copters up. CAG, find that SOB that hit us. When you find it, sink it!”
“Aye, sir.”
Two minutes later four anti-submarine helicopters lift off of the Lincoln’s deck. Each is armed with two anti-submarine torpedoes. They have orders to find and sink the Chinese submarine who struck their carrier.
Meanwhile on the Chinese submarine Ling, the crew rejoiced over their torpedoes striking their target, the USS Lincoln. The Ling’s captain, SingHo told his men to be quiet and to turn 90 degrees to port. He knew he and the other Chinese submarines kicked over a hornet’s nest of very angry hornets, each with a fatal stinger. He knew the US Navy was going to pour every resource they have into finding and destroying them. Ten minutes into their turn, they hear a strong sonar pulse strike their submarine. “Captain, Sonar, US Navy dipping sonar just located us. Recommend we come to a new course of 225 degrees.”
“Sonar, Captain, keep me informed. Control, change course to 225 degrees. Crew of the Ling, this is the captain, we need total silence, the US Navy is hunting us.”
Unknown to the Ling’s captain the US Navy has her plotted. Between the helicopters and a destroyer, they have the Ling in a box. A helicopter hovers over the Ling, she releases one of her Mark 50 digital lightweight torpedoes. The torpedo enters the water above and slightly to the right of the Ling, it went active the moment it hit the water. The digital signal processor in the torpedo quickly locates the Ling, it accelerates to 45 knots, striking the Ling where the conning tower meets the hull. The torpedo’s warhead blows a hole in the Ling, the Pacific Ocean flows in sinking the Ling with all hands.
Within two hours of the Chinese attack against the US carriers, five of the six Chinese submarines were found and sunk. The American damage control was well trained, they got the fires on the four carriers under control within two hours, the Nimitz was the only carrier of the four struck that was able to get one of her four screws turning. She was able to make eight knots. The other three required ocean tugs to take them under tow to Pearl Harbor where it is hoped they could be repaired. Admiral Long wanted to keep the carriers in the area in case he needed their firepower.
The Liaoning’s captain had just received the news that the Chinese submarines were able to surprise and damage four of America’s carriers. He turned to his aide saying, “I’d hoped for a clean sweep of all six, but taking four out beats the computer projection of taking down three of them. Our fleet has enough anti-air weapons to take down
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