Under the influence of Typhoon Haibeisi, Japan had to cancel the naval parade scheduled for October 14 and make every effort to rescue and rescue the disaster. Recently, after the typhoon, the ships of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force have gone to sea to resume daily training. What they didn't expect, though, was that trouble was finding the door again.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force resumed training
According to the Global Network, on October 25, a video appeared on the Internet showing a pro-tide class conventional submarine suddenly lost power during the process of leaving Yokosuka Military Port, and still could not start under the efforts of the crew, during which the US Navy's 12th Helicopter Maritime Combat Squadron stationed at Atsugi Base even dispatched an MH-60S helicopter to assist. Finally, the diver arrived at the rear of the submarine in a dinghy and successfully solved the problem after underwater groping.
Japanese divers are troubleshooting
According to the analysis afterwards, this pro-tide class submarine may have encountered underwater entanglements when leaving the port, stuck in the rudder, and the crew took the initiative to turn off the engine after seeing the steering failure, which cannot but remind people of the famous remarks of Zhang Zhaozhong's smog anti-laser and kelp entanglement submarine. At the beginning, the bureau seat half-jokingly ridiculed the kelp wrapped around the submarine, and many so-called senior people rushed to the ground to refute it with a white face, without any sense of humor or sense of science, and now they have been punched in the face again.
Kelp wrapped around the submarine is just an image of science, and people must know humor
Of course, the pro-tide class submarine encountered not necessarily kelp, may be fishing nets, marine breeding rope, etc., no matter what, fully illustrates that the propeller, rudder entanglement and destruction, to attack or even capture the submarine, and in fact, this is one of the many black projects being carried out by the U.S. Navy in recent years.
Can't wrap the propeller around the rudder
When it comes to the black project of the US military, as a foodie, Xiaobian can't help but drool, because the US Navy has studied the use of eels to deal with submarines. Eels have all been eaten, fat, smooth, what honey sauce grilled eel, eel stew, eel sushi, eel rice makes people eat fingers, but when dealing with eels, there is a layer of disgusting mucus. And it was this slime that gave the U.S. Navy a whimsy to create a new type of submarine interception device.
Drooling eel rice
Of course, the PRACTICAL USE OF THE US MILITARY IS NOT ORDINARY EELS, BUT HAG EELS, when the hagfish perceive that they are threatened, they will secrete a special mucus, which will expand to 10,000 times its initial volume after contact with the seawater, and its viscosity is very amazing, which can stick the surrounding seawater into a ball, and when the enemy is trapped by this mucus, the hagfish can get out and escape. The U.S. Navy seized on this feature of hagfish mucus to develop weapons-grade synthetic slime.
This is the hagfish and its mucus
The U.S. military found that the mucus of hagfish is composed of two protein parts: linear protein and sticky protein. The shape of the linear egg hundred is like a coiled thread, much like a spring, and as strong as Kevlar material, it will loosen when it comes into contact with seawater. After the adhesive protein binds to seawater, it expands rapidly, filling the channels produced by the dispersion of linear proteins, so that the interaction between linear proteins, sticky proteins and seawater creates a large mass of extremely viscous substances. The substance can be used to make body armor, firefighting foam, anti-fouling nets, and self-defense weapons for divers against sharks, but the most striking effect is to block or capture suspicious ships and submarines by blocking propellers.
Hagfish mucus structure in microscopy
The power of the mucus is great
Through the Japanese pro-tide class submarine incident, we see the rationality of "kelp wrapped around the submarine". Of course, it does not matter whether the submarine is "kelp" or not, the key is "entanglement", and the us military's hagfish slime research results tell us that countless scientific and technological advances and countless inventions of weapons and equipment are related to our brain openings and inspiration flashes in our daily lives.