Sea Strike by James H. Cobb
Author:James H. Cobb [Cobb, James H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, War & Military
ISBN: 9780399143243
Google: kkH2NwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0399143246
Goodreads: 728205
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1997-12-29T00:00:00+00:00
' ' from the life raft group?"
"About six miles to the north of them, ma'am. We have a safety margin."
"Very good." Amanda keyed in to the surface-to-air circuit.
"Gray Lady to Retainers. Kill him."
"Okay, Gus, you heard the Lady. Spin ' up. We're rolling in."
"Aye, aye, Lieutenant. We've got good links and locks.
Positioning and drop points coming up on the HUD."
They were over clean water again, well clear of the oil slick. As the Sea Comanche's nose came around to the north, luminescent grid patterns and targeting reticles seemed to materialize inside the tinted windscreen, the targeting path that would guide them in to the drop point. In the distance, the repetitive flash of Retainer Zero Two's navigational beacon could also be seen.
"Zero Two, this is Zero One. I've got you to the south.
Let's set up a convergence here and whipsaw this son of a bitch between us."
"Roger, Zero One. Coming in."
"Set for snake-acquisition pattern. Set depth for two five oh. Drop at two miles."
"Roger, Zero One."
"I've only got one unit on board, Nance, so you'll have the follow-through. I will disengage to the east. You will overfly to the north and reverse back into the contact to reengage."
"Will comply."
"You got all that, Gus?" Arkady called back into the rear cockpit.
"Got it, sir. The fish is hot. Verifying that warhead and drop safeties are off."
The waves shimmered fifty feet beneath the helo's belly.
On the Heads-Up Display the drop hack crawled in under Zero One's nose as she bore down on her release point. Over the radio band Nancy Delany called out her run. Her voice was tightly controlled. Arkady knew that this would be the first time she had ever delivered live ordnance on a living target.
"Coming in on drop point. Three, two, one ... drop!"
Its weapon released, Zero Two flared upward and climbed.
"Zero Two is out. Zero One is in. Three, two, and one. Torpedo away."
Streaming its drogue chute, Arkady's Mark 50 hit the water in a clean dive, vanishing beneath the surface with a metallic flash.
"Both units running hot, straight, and normal," Grestov itch reported laconically as Zero One turned away.
There was nothing else to be said. The Han was trapped between two converging torpedoes. No matter which way the sub turned, she would be turning into her own death, leaving her absolutely no place to go.
The systems operator pulled the gain bar of the sonar audio output all the way down and waited.
A patch of ocean suddenly went a hazy gray as a million water droplets were shock-bounced off the surface. An instant later, a towering geyser of white foam lifted into the sky.
"Yeah, babe!" Grestovitch heard his pilot exclaim with a quietly fierce satisfaction. "We nailed that sucker!"
Just to make sure, Gus kicked the audio back up.
The reverberation of the blast rang through the local sea environment, but the sonobuoys had already acquired a massive transitory. The unmistakable shriek of high-pressure air boiling into ballast tanks. The death scream of a mortally wounded submarine.
"Confirm that, Lieutenant. Detecting emergency blow.
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