In 1970, a U.S. military Submarine, the Turbos, who were approaching to monitor Soviet nuclear submarines, suddenly discovered that the target had mysteriously disappeared, which made the officers and men of the Submarines of the Turkhead feel an unprecedented fear, because they were sailing in soviet territorial waters.
On June 24, in the waters about 22 kilometers west of Petropavlovsk in the Soviet Far East, a Soviet submarine was sneaking at high speed and making sharp bends and dives, and closely behind its butt was the American strategic nuclear submarine "Tuna".
This game of "cat and mouse" tracking and anti-tracking almost ran through the entire fierce period of the US-Soviet hegemony. With the advent of the 1970s, due to the decline of national strength due to the quagmire of the Vietnam War in the United States, but at the same time out of jealousy of the Soviet Union's strength, the Americans proposed a "stalking strategy", that is, to send nuclear submarines to crouch at the eastern gate of the Soviet Union and monitor petropavlovsk naval base for a long time. The Pentagon believed that if the Soviet Union took major military action against the United States, there would inevitably be an anomaly at Petropavlovsk Naval Base, and this surveillance would remain for decades.
However, this time, the US military's "Longtou Fish" is obviously not to simply find and track the target, but to monitor the entire underwater movement of the Soviet side for a long time, so it is the only choice to approach and monitor the Soviet strategic nuclear submarine.
Just after the "Rumble Fish" secretly tracked the Soviet nuclear submarine all night, the crew on duty suddenly found that the target had mysteriously disappeared, just when the US military felt extremely frightened, there was a huge impact sound suddenly from the hull, and the US crew who were resting on the boat was thrown out in an instant, and then they immediately ran to the monitoring room with their bare hands, only to find that the disappearing Soviet nuclear submarine directly hit the "Rumblehead", and also broke the top hatch of the periscope tower, and the sea water poured in like a tidal surge. It seriously threatens the navigation safety of submarines, and may even be buried on the bottom of the sea at any time.
At this moment, the captain of the US military made an extremely bold decision, even if he died, he would not be able to float. So he hurriedly ordered the "Longtou Fish" to dive to a depth of 300 meters under the water and wait for the opportunity to turn around and retreat south.
It is said that floating is the best choice for the US military to save its life, but the "Longhead Fish" resolutely chose to dive, the reason is that the site of the incident is only less than 22 kilometers away from the Soviet coastline, that is to say, this is completely the territorial sea line of the Soviets, once the "Longhead Fish" floats, it will immediately face the fate of being sunk or captured, then the United States will be indefensible, and it will also be suspected of provoking a nuclear war. To make matters worse, the Soviet Union was holding large-scale military exercises at the time, and even if it went up, it would be a lifelong death. So I had to risk folding the sea and holding my head and running away.
Fortunately, after emergency maneuvering and rapid submarine, the injured "Longtou Fish" finally stumbled back to Pearl Harbor two days later, but after arriving, the "Longhead Fish" did not dare to appear immediately, but continued to lie underwater until the early morning of the next day, before being allowed to float to the surface of the sea, and at this time there were 2 US destroyers blocking its sides, deceiving the Reconnaissance of Soviet satellites by concealing the sea, and luckily escaped a disaster.
While repairing the "Longhead Fish", the US military was surprised to find that the Soviet nuclear submarine after the impact was likely to have sunk or disintegrated, because after the impact, many rotor fragments were left in the "Longhead Fish", which was obviously from the Soviet nuclear submarine.
But unexpectedly, the United States and the Soviet Union chose silence at the same time on this matter, as if nothing had happened, as usual in the sea and sky hegemony.
Coincidentally, the collision with the US "Tuna" this time was the Most Advanced New Nuclear Submarine of the Soviet Union at that time, the Echo II, and it was the Soviet nuclear submarine that sank the US "Scorpion" two years ago.
Unfortunately, however, at the moment of the impact incident, the Echo II strategic nuclear submarine, which was participating in the exercise, did not perceive the surveillance of the US military and suddenly carried out a tactical maneuver almost without any vigilance, and it was precisely such a sudden maneuver that did not leave any time for the US troops to react to the approaching reconnaissance.
It was not until 2006 that the fate of the Echo II, which collided head-on with the "Bulge Fish", was revealed. After the impact incident that year, the injured Echo II did stall and sink, but fortunately, the captain urgently ordered the submarine to float at full speed, thus avoiding the tragedy. Although out of extreme fear of nuclear war, an all-out war between the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union was avoided, the haze of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was far from dissipating, and three weeks later, the US nuclear submarine "Longtouyu" quietly sneaked back to the Eastern Gate of the Soviet Union.
