Chapter 13 Hunt For The Red October

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{Sorry i had a dumb for a minute...it was 19 when it was suppose to be 13}

4 March 1986

Location: Atlantic Ocean


The Soviets' have sent five of their nuclear submarine into the wild with the objective of conducting missile drills as a form of intimidation to the US and NATO sending the submarines in a wolf pack  but the US command is treating this as close to nuclear war "Never let that happen" the USN is preparing every submarine they got to chase after them the only submarines in the area are two Yūshio class Japanese diesel-electric submarines. The USN sent USS Bremerton, USS Los Angeles, and USS San Francisco to intercept to soviet submarines they were quickly armed in Naval Station Norfolk and sent out there with another two USS Baltimore from Naval Submarine Base New London and USS Dallas whom was having a visit in New York City. All were at full steam ahead trying to intercept the Soviet submarine who in NATO intel had left Severomorsk and are somewhere under the northern icecaps currently at DEFCON 2 command has order all available ship with anti submarine warfare weaponry to form a defensive line across the northern Atlantic patrol routes in case of any soviet threat with all heads high mainly the Americans as the British had a ceremony to host as all five submarines headed north about hours later they all made it on the outskirts of the engagement zone meeting up near a USN fleet 

Los Angeles: Okay we're all here oi Japs

Okishio: はい。

Los Angeles: Where are the contacts last seen

Setoshio: Over at 80 clicks north they were on radar but they disappeared a couple of hours ago

Los Angeles: Ok just keep up the rearguard here

San Francisco: What's the sudden call?

Dallas: It has appear the Soviets are making a move a big one

Baltimore: A wolf pack of five soviet submarines had just left port heading strait towards the US mainland.... we're already at DEFCON 2 so we gotta find these subs and find out there true intentions are and if necessary engage at will

Bremerton: How dangerous are these submarines?

Dallas: Most of them are carrying ballistic missiles to this might turn into a whole new nuclear war we have all of our ballistic subs are on high alert ready to retaliate when the time comes.. we need to not let that happen

Los Angeles: Here's the play we spread out so we can catch them on sonar but everyone only go active sonar when engaging once we fire a shot and miss quickly go back to passive to stay hidden and relocate 

As the five set out to hunt some soviets with them the five submarines had made progress out of the northern icecaps made up of a single Typhoon class submarine, two Delta IV classes, and two Alfa class submarines moved silently under the ice as they began to near Atlantic thus NATO waters Dmitriy Donskoy just having been given an experimental caterpillar drive stealth system using it's pump jet magnetohydrodynamic drive to move silent to no detection as the four other soviet submarines Tula, Bryansk, K-432, and K-493 moved in passive radar following next to her. Dmitriy was given the nickname Red October cause she was given her new technology on the anniversary of the Revolution.

Dmitriy Donskoy: Все лодки движутся на 40 градусов на юго-восток "All boats move 40 degrees south east"

Bryansk: Да, мадам "Yes ma'am"

As they banked left south they were coming into the path of the American submarines whom were closing in from the west. Dallas knew that they were close on the Soviet submarines but where exactly...?. After about half an hour K-432 turned on her sonar and after one beat she saw all five American submarines on her radar.

K-432: Мадам пять американских подводных лодок прямо перед нами!"Madam five American submarines right in front of us!"

Dmitriy Donskoy: Все разделились и выследили их"Everyone split up hunt them down"

As the Soviet submarines broke formation San Francisco saw this on active sonar revealing their position away.

San Francisco: Uuuh guys they just broke formation they got a beat on us...

Dallas: Everyone stick to the plan go passive sonar

Everyone split up and went passive sonar they were under a patch of ice so it was dark under the water the game was now a deadly hide and seek the boats Dallas had a fair tag locations of the soviet submarines but she can't find where Dmitriy is. It was silent pure quiet as everyone was on passive trying to listen for any noise that is admitted five whole minutes of nothing then Bremerton caught something on her sonar catching two of them she launched two torpedoes at the known targets there were explosions.

{BANG!} {BOOM!}

Bremerton: Got'em!

But when it cleared she realized she had missed and hit the ice patch above causing cracks in it. Having given her position away Bryansk fired two Type 53 torpedoes at her Bremerton dive very slowly avoiding the torpedoes maneuvering. It was the slowest underwater battle ever very slow and as the boats float around Dimitry caught a lock on Dallas she positioned herself and fired torpedoes at her which one of them hit her hull.

Dallas: AAh damn i-


To be continued.....

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