Author: Hanhai Wolf Mountain
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With regard to the issue of torpedoes being caught by foreign fishermen, the customs authorities have already made an official statement: we have taken note of the information that "fishermen in Phu An Province, Vietnam, caught a Chinese torpedo". In early December, our navy lost a torpedo while organizing maritime training in the waters off the eastern part of Hainan Island, probably drifting offshore Vietnam due to currents. The torpedo is a general training mine only and does not target anything.
Although this passage is not much, the message is very clear. The unreliable rumors about this torpedo on the Internet have been clarified, what is the latest model, what this leak is serious, etc., which are obviously not. It is a training mine, and special attention is paid to the word "general". Training with thunder, the technical term is called drill thunder, and the drill thunder itself has a high and low level of distinction. The high-level guide head can simulate the mine to do a variety of underwater mobile attacks, while the low-level mine is just to experience the feeling of launching a torpedo, and after launching, it will float a few hundred meters. The general word is used here, which clearly implies whether it is a high-level operation with a guiding head and an advanced power system, so it is impossible to talk about what leaks secrets.
General training mines are high imitation models of war mines. The model can also carry power and wires, the more similar the simulation, the better, the modern unmanned combat aircraft is not developed from the intelligent model aircraft? Therefore, it cannot be assumed that the model does not reflect the level of process.
In addition, the Navy has described the time and place where the training mine was lost. The time is lost in early December, and according to the literal meaning of the Chinese, the time period in early December should generally coincide or be smaller than the beginning of December. It can be considered that this training mine must have been lost in training before December 10. The first location lost was near the eastern part of Hainan Island. Chinese is also very strict, in the east of Hainan Island, since it is the east, it is basically due east, not northeast nor southeast; the word nearby means that in the east of Hainan Island, it should not exceed 100 nautical miles of sea, otherwise it is not called nearby.
Then, according to the first site of the training mine lost according to the briefing, the straight-line distance from the site where the torpedo landed was already about 850 kilometers. And from the time of loss to discovery, the time should be between 12 and 15 days. How could it drift so far?
The notice also said that "it may be affected by the current drifting to the coastal waters of Vietnam". This is also very clear, that is, we have not been able to confirm whether the training mine drifted down the current to the beach of Yuefang or was salvaged by the other side's distant-water fishing boat and placed on the beach. It can only be guessed for the time being that he has drifted so far on his own.
If you use 15 days to calculate where you drift, you have to drift 56 kilometers per day, which is equivalent to 2.36 kilometers per hour. Because the drifting route cannot be straight, the actual rafting speed should be more than 3 kilometers per hour, which is basically consistent with the speed of the winter current.
We know that the beach where the torpedoes were found this time is the most prominent location in the whole of Vietnam in this convex terrain, and the drifting object landing here is also reasonable in itself. The direction of the movement of the ocean current is mainly related to the perennial wind direction, and it is also related to the sea and land topography of the sea area. It is winter, the wind is relatively stable from the northeast to the southwest, and most of the sea area in the southern sea is surrounded by land, although there are exports to the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait in the south, but in Southeast Asia are only a few tens of meters shallow sea, basically and the Indian Ocean only has a very weak water exchange. Mainly in the northeast there are treasure island straits and bashi straits, Bahrain pond straits and Pacific Ocean water exchange, especially the bashi strait is the widest and deepest. In this combination of stable winter winds and ocean currents, the currents here flow counterclockwise, which is also a possible factor for the training mine to drift 850 kilometers southwest in about 15 days.
So, the sea valve of this training mine has been opened, why did it not sink? First of all, the mine itself has the possibility of being fished out of the seabed. It is also possible to say that he drifted away.
If the war thunder and high-grade operation thunder are lost, they will sink, but the operation thunder also has a sea valve. After the low-grade detonation is launched, most of them are to float up, so that they can be recovered, but the sea is so large that if the launch depth is large, such as being launched by a submarine under 200 meters underwater, it is also common for them to float all day and cause recovery to fail. In addition, we have always paid attention to thrift and thrift, even if the general training thunder, at least a cost of hundreds of thousands to millions.
If the sea valve is opened after a few hours of soaking, it will be scolded by the superior if it cannot be found immediately sinking. In this way, it is not ruled out that this general operation mine will be "improved" again, so that he can not sink even if he opens the sea valve, the means are very simple, into the internal counterweight water bladder, more styrofoam is OK.
This is certainly more cost-effective, because such a detonation cannot be sunk for a long time. Originally wanted to save training funds, even if I knew that sometimes it would be self-defeating, I did not expect that this drill thunder drifted so far and became an international Internet celebrity. It may also be a criticism, but it is not much of a deal. Of course, this possibility is just speculation.
The last sentence is more interesting: "Nothing is aimed at the target". A training mine actually floated so far in the large Chinese Sea, and the waves in the waves drifted so far. What if this is a real mine with auto-seeking? Those guys who have nothing to do to touch porcelain, shouldn't they think about it more?