Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Clancy Tom
Author:Clancy, Tom [Tom, Clancy,]
Format: epub
ISBN: 0425116840
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Son's
Published: 2010-06-07T04:00:00+00:00
“That's something. Question is, what?” Jones keyed his microphone. “ Conn , Sonar, we have a contact bearing zero-nine-eight. Designate this contact Sierra-Four.”
“You sure it's a contact?” the young petty officer asked.
“See this?” Jones ran his ringer along the screen. The “waterfall display” was cluttered with ambient noise. “Remember that you're looking for nonrandom data. This line ain't random.” He typed in a command to alter the display. The computer began processing a series of discrete frequency bands. Within a minute the picture was clear. At least Mr. Jones thought so, the young sonarman noted. The stroke of light on the screen was irregularly shaped, bowing out and narrowing down, covering about five degrees of bearing. The “tech-rep” stared at the screen for several more seconds, then spoke again.
“ Conn , Sonar, classify target Sierra-Four as a Krivak-class frigate, bearing zero-nine-six. Looks like he's doing turns for fifteen or so knots.” Jones turned to the youngster. He remembered his own first cruise. This nineteen-year-old didn't even have his dolphins yet. “See this? That's the high-frequency signature from his turbine engines, it's a dead giveaway and you can hear it a good ways off, usually, 'cause the Krivak doesn't have good sound-isolation.”
Mancuso came into the compartment. Dallas was a “first-flight” 688, and didn't have direct access from the control room to sonar as the later ones did. Instead, you had to come forward and step around a hole in the deck that led below. Probably the overhaul would change that. The Captain waved his coffee mug at the screen.
“Where's the Krivak?”
“Right here, bearing still constant. We have good water around us. He's probably a good ways off.”
The skipper smiled. Jones was always trying to guess range. The hell of it was that in the two years that Mancuso had had him aboard as a member of the crew he'd been right more often than not. Aft in the control room, the fire-control tracking party was plotting the position of the target against Dallas' known track to determine range and course of the Soviet frigate.
There wasn't much activity on the surface. The other three sonar contacts plotted were all single-screw merchantmen. Though the weather was decent today, the Baltic Sea —an oversized lake to Mancuso's way of thinking—was rarely a nice place in the winter. Intelligence reports said that most of the opposition's ships were tied alongside for repairs. That was good news. Better still, there wasn't much in the way of ice. A really cold season could freeze things solid, and that would put a crimp in their mission, the Captain thought.
Thus far only their other visitor, Clark, knew what that mission was.
“Captain, we have a posit on Sierra-Four,” a lieutenant called from control.
Jones folded a slip of paper and handed it to Mancuso.
“I'm waiting.”
“Range thirty-six thousand, course roughly two-nine-zero.”
Mancuso unfolded the note and laughed. “Jones, you're still a fucking witch!” He handed it back, then went aft to alter the submarine's course to avoid the Krivak.
The sonarman at Jones's side grabbed the note and read it aloud.
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