Text/Zhan Hai
According to a report by the global network, an official propaganda film called "Hidden in the Deep Sea" a few days ago showed the situation of the mysterious "submarine force" of the Chinese Navy to the public for the first time, showing the daily work scenes of the submarine force, including damage management, operations and training scenes. Many of these images are exposed for the first time.
(The screen shows the scene of the submarine diving)
The propaganda film shows the daily damage management drill of the Navy's submarine force, the importance of underwater submarine "damage control" is higher than that of surface ships, once a water leakage fault occurs inside the submarine, if it is not dealt with in time, it is very likely to cause the tragedy of the destruction of the boat in a short period of time, unlike the surface ship can also abandon the ship and flee, in the event of a serious accident, the survival probability of the members of the submarine is extremely low. Therefore, the intensity and frequency of damage management training for submariners are higher, and they are closer to actual combat, which is also more fully reflected in the video.
(The video was filmed in the cramped compartment of a submarine)
But the more crucial content of the propaganda film is the demonstration of the confrontation training tasks of the submarine and aircraft carrier formations. During the period, the composition of the Shandong aircraft carrier formation was exposed, and it can be seen from the picture that the red formation takes the Shandong aircraft carrier formation as the core, and there are at least 4 destroyers and 1 supply ship around it, and there are 3 conventional submarines and strategic nuclear submarines underwater.
In addition to the 055 missile destroyer and the 052D missile destroyer "hunting" submarines, land-based anti-submarine patrol planes also appeared in suspicious sea areas and dropped floating sonar to force the submarine to appear.
The response of the red submarine is to turn off the suspension after diving, and avoid being detected by the surface anti-submarine force by silent throughout the whole process.
("Group photo" of the Shandong aircraft carrier formation)
When carrying out strike missions, the submarine force is grouped with three conventional submarines and strategic nuclear submarines. Conventional submarines responsible for covering strategic nuclear submarines use torpedo tubes to launch unmanned underwater vehicles, which is a "novelty" even in the United States, a major submarine country.
(The United States only tested an unmanned underwater vehicle launched from a torpedo tube for the first time at the end of last year.)
According to US media reports, the previous US Virginia-class attack nuclear submarine has just completed the test of launching an underwater unmanned underwater vehicle from a torpedo tube at the end of 2023, which is the first operation of the United States to launch an unmanned underwater vehicle using a torpedo tube. Although the U.S. military put forward this concept several years ago, it has not been implemented, and the first test will not be carried out until the end of 2023, and the Chinese Navy's propaganda video not only has the same operation, but is not used for testing, but for actual combat exercises, which shows that the Chinese Navy has advanced the research and development progress in the field of unmanned underwater vehicles launched with torpedo tubes ahead of the United States.
(Navy propaganda video showing the launch of an unmanned underwater vehicle from a torpedo tube)
The picture of the launch of the unmanned underwater vehicle is also to pave the way for the most important content in the video - the launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile by a strategic nuclear submarine. Unmanned underwater vehicles can replace submarines to go to unknown waters to detect risks in advance, map underwater terrain, etc. The video also shows how the submarine force traverses the complex underwater terrain, evades the enemy's reconnaissance, and reaches the predetermined attack area when performing the mission, and these are all with the help of unmanned underwater vehicles, so that the submarine formation can reach the mission position and complete the launch of submarine-launched missiles.
(Footage of the launch of Julang-2 in the promotional video)
Although the picture of the launch of the unmanned underwater vehicle flashed by, and was "stolen the limelight" by the picture of the Julang-2 missile launched from behind, this detail is more worthy of the attention of Chinese military fans.