In August 1982, a Soviet intelligence ship suddenly shook slightly while sailing in the Barents Sea.
It wasn't until after the collapse of the Soviet Union that this seemingly trivial problem surfaced.
It turned out that the Americans had sent a nuclear submarine to Britain to cut a 3,000-meter-long towed array sonar.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union often spied on each other's doorsteps.
The tools used are reconnaissance aircraft flying in the sky and submarines operating in the sea.
As a result, they are also fighting wits. Some American planes were shot down in the Soviet Union, and some Soviet planes crashed after pilots were forced to leave the cabin due to malfunction. In Belgium.
Submarines on both sides are in a state of multiple fires, and from time to time there are cases of nuclear bombs falling into the deep sea.
By the 1980s, Americans had heard that the Soviets had developed a towed array sonar.
It is an intelligence vessel converted from a trawler, towing a series of passive sonars around its own territorial waters to defend various NATO submarines, especially the United States.
To take an inappropriate example, it's like the Soviets pulling a barbed wire fence in front of their house and hanging a bell on a barbed wire fence. If you dare to come, you will surely be discovered.
This American is absolutely intolerable. I just wanted to come back and do some research.
After all, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 20 years ago is still fresh in my mind.
Who are you looking for? Find the British.
The British readily agreed.
When his confidence exploded, he was credited with winning the Battle of Falkland.
Another was that when the British came to the Argentine doorstep to seize the Falkland Islands, the Soviets sent various intelligence ships to pursue them, hitting the bottom line of the Royal Navy.
Britons have long been frustrated by the issue.
See if Americans have enough companions to share satellite information and communication channels. I have nothing more to say.
So the conqueror took over, setting a record for the first nuclear submarine to sink a surface ship three months ago.
The Conqueror nuclear submarine boasts of this quality.
After sinking Argentine flagship, The Admiral Belgrano, the Argentine Navy returned to its home port. Don't dare to show up!
But when the Americans installed a special steel clip on the bow of the Conqueror nuclear submarine, the crew was still a bit dumbfounded.
Code-named "Bartender", this action is really fresh and exciting.
The officers and men of the submarine in the cabin observed the steel cables of the towing array sonar through the camera mounted on the steel clips, and operated the steel clips to cut the steel cables.
Get the most complete sonar information possible. The Americans planned to have the British Keegans cut the steel cables that towed the array sonar.
In this way, the submarine had to avoid sonar detection and sneak under a Soviet intelligence ship without making the cut too clean. This made the Soviets look like something that had hit the bottom of the sea after the accident. Broken.
The British once let the Conqueror-class submarine Churchill hit the steel cable. As a result, not only was the hull of the submarine damaged, but Soviet depth charges could also be used.
Eventually, England carried out the bartender's plan.
Barents Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. Cold and poor visibility. The conqueror escaped like a weasel, and he took a lot of effort to chew the steel cable in an attempt to drag the 3-kilometer-long sonar into the submarine.
Upon returning to the military port, the sonar was immediately transported by U.S. military aircraft to China for study.
