Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 631 Torpedo! Torpedo!
At this moment, Lin Yuan’s biggest feeling was difficulty.

Since he started acting, climbing has been the most common operation for him, but he has never felt so sad.

Lin Yuan had climbed buildings, airplanes, and even tens of millions of years old ice cliffs, but this time the challenge was all-encompassing.

The huge impact of the water flow from his back pressed him firmly against the hull of the Virginia. Lin Yuan felt like a mountain was pressing down on him.

The advantage is that you don't have to worry about the shell falling off because you can't peel it off tightly, but the disadvantage is that your whole body will be damaged by the water pressure.

The original water pressure of 20 atmospheres had already made Lin Yuan feel extremely uncomfortable, and now it was compounded by the impact of the oncoming water flow as the Virginia sailed at high speed.

Lin Yuan suddenly felt dizzy, and his hands and feet felt numb.

This was obviously a reaction to mild hypoxia, but it was not because the oxygen in Lin Yuan's body had been exhausted, but because the oxygen supply to the blood was disturbed.

Under normal circumstances, the left ventricle of the heart contracts, pumping oxygen-rich blood into the aorta, which then flows through the aorta and its branches to the capillaries of various organs throughout the body.

In the capillaries, blood exchanges gases with tissue cells, releasing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide and other metabolic substances.

But now, the blood oxygen supply circulation has been severely disturbed:

The huge water pressure combined with the impact of the water flow formed layer upon layer of heavy pressure, exerting on Lin Yuan's body.

This pressure, together with the cold water temperature, caused Lin Yuan's capillaries to contract, significantly reducing blood circulation capacity.

This in turn leads to reduced efficiency in obtaining oxygen, resulting in an oxygen-deficient reaction.

Lin Yuan knew that this hypoxia reaction would not be alleviated as the body adapted.

On the contrary, he will be with him throughout the filming of today's scene.

This will lead to a decline in his athletic ability, possibly by at least 30% to 40%. Many movements that can be completed under normal circumstances will be difficult to complete at this moment.

But he had no choice but to finish filming today's scenes with this debuff.

The only thing he could do was to go faster and faster.

The longer the night goes, the more trouble he will have. The longer the shooting lasts, the more overwhelmed he becomes.

Lin Yuan tried his best to move towards the No. 1 launch tube step by step, and every inch of movement required tremendous effort.

There is no possibility of taking shortcuts, and no room for technical development. One can only rely on physical fitness and complete the scene head-on.

The distance between the No. 2 torpedo tube where Lin Yuan crawled out and the No. 1 tube was actually less than 5 meters.

On the Virginia, the distance between the two torpedo hydraulic conveyor belts was measured by Lin Yuan with his feet and he could cross it in four and a half steps.

But at this moment it felt like a punishment from heaven, and every inch of progress made Lin Yuan feel extremely difficult.

Lin Yuan felt as if he was being rubbed against rough sandpaper, and the side that was in contact with the Virginia was very painful.

But he had no way to retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and move forward.

He had to be quick, as he only had 1 seconds from the time he left the cabin to the time he launched the torpedo from torpedo tube No. 30.

If you miss it, the shot fails.

Lin Yuan looked at the diving watch on his wrist and it was already 21 seconds.

There are 9 seconds left, but the No. 1 launch tube is still two meters away.

He could only crawl forward desperately.

Lin Yuan didn’t know what he looked like in the camera at this moment, but he was sure that he must be in a very embarrassing state.

Finally, I moved forward more than 1 meter with difficulty.

At this time, the hatch of torpedo tube No. 1 opened.

This means that the torpedo launch is imminent.

So Lin Yuan didn't care about anything else and moved forward desperately.

I saw an orange-red torpedo poking out of the launch tube.

Lin Yuan immediately exerted all his strength, jumped forward, and hugged the torpedo tightly.

At this moment, Lin Yuan had only one thought in his mind, which was to hold on to the MK48 torpedo tightly and not let it be thrown off.

The MK48 heavy torpedo is the iconic heavy torpedo of the US Navy submarines. It is 5.85 meters long, 533 mm in diameter, weighs about 1.6 tons, has a speed of 55 knots (about 101 kilometers per hour), and a range of 46 kilometers.

As soon as he hugged the torpedo, the speed of the rapids that Lin Yuan endured increased again!

Previously, the bow of the Virginia was bearing the impact of water flow at a speed of 30 knots, but now it has almost doubled, instantly jumping to 55 knots!
The huge impact of the water flow made Lin Yuan worry that he could not bear it.

After all, this was his first time sailing with a torpedo, and no one in human history could provide him with this experience.

The only thing that made him feel at ease was that the circumference of the MK48 torpedo was about 1.57 meters. For Lin Yuan, who was 1 meters tall, he could wrap his arms around it and still have some space left after holding it tightly.

And his legs were tightly wrapped around the torpedo, making it easy to hold it tight.

With both arms and feet locked at the same time, Lin Yuan was firmly fixed on the MK48 torpedo and rushed straight towards the Wyoming in the distance.

When Lin Yuan stabilized in the torpedo posture, he suddenly discovered that the impact of the water flow was not as strong as expected?

Doesn't seem to be too fast?
It seems to be faster than the Virginia's 30 knots, but it definitely cannot reach 55 knots, and I'm afraid it can't even reach 45 knots.

What happened? Could it be that the torpedo engine is broken?
If that's the case, it would be really unfortunate.

It would be really torture to shoot this scene repeatedly.

Lin Yuan turned his head and looked at the tail of the torpedo in confusion.

The MK48 torpedo is powered by a thermally powered swash plate engine. A 500-horsepower Otto 2 gas turbine is pushing the torpedo forward.

The advantages of this power system are low noise and no wake, so it is extremely concealed, but it is not good news for Lin Yuan at the moment.

Because the noise was so small, it was difficult for Lin Yuan to notice anything unusual.

As the torpedo sped forward more than 700 meters, its overall movement was quite stable, with no obvious shaking, drifting or other abnormalities.

Lin Yuan's worries were mostly gone. It shouldn't be a problem with the power system of the MK48 torpedo.

The reason for the slowdown is most likely due to him.

The design speed of 55 is based on the smooth shape of the MK48 torpedo.

Now that I have added a "hook", my streamlined shape underwater has obviously been destroyed, so it doesn't seem surprising that my speed has dropped a little.

At this time, the dark shadow of the Wyoming in the distance had appeared in Lin Yuan's sight.

It looks like there is still at least 1300 meters to go, and it will take about 56 seconds to arrive.

Could it be that the next 56 seconds of actual footage only captured the scene of Lin Yuan sailing with the torpedo in his arms?
How is that possible? If that's the case, even if the real footage is very attractive, it still doesn't achieve the effect that Lin Yuan and Meng Tao want.

This was indeed the design in the previous shooting plan.

According to the original shooting plan, Lin Yuan will carry the MK48 torpedo all the way to the Wyoming.

When the torpedo passed by the Wyoming, Lin Yuan jumped from the torpedo and onto the Wyoming as if jumping out of a car.

As long as he can hold on to the hull of this strategic black fish and enter the submarine through the escape pod, he will have completed this scene perfectly.

But this way of shooting is somewhat too monotonous. After all, from beginning to end, Lin Yuan is the only one taking risks in the whole scene, and there is a lack of strong confrontation with the enemy.

It was a helpless move because shooting underwater was too difficult.

Any exciting moves that can be performed on land cannot be achieved underwater, making it difficult to move at all.

But after Lin Yuan dealt with the huge bowhead whale and narwhal group, new filming possibilities emerged.

Then, the hatch of the Wyoming in the distance opened.

Two dark shadows were thrown out from the huge submarine cabin.

It's an unmanned submarine!

The Wyoming was seen standing still, motionless, while two unmanned submarines were heading towards the torpedo that Lin Yuan was on.

Faced with this scene, Lin Yuan's expression became quite solemn.

Because submarines are underwater, their only means of perception is sonar.

All means of attack rely on the navigation effect of sonar.

Now the Wyoming has obviously discovered the incoming MK48 torpedo, so it has taken the most correct response:
On the one hand, turn off the engine and keep it still to reduce the noise it makes.

On the other hand, two unmanned submarines were released, and the noise from the unmanned submarines was used to induce torpedo attacks.

Lure incoming missiles and torpedoes into hitting the wrong targets has always been the most powerful defense against modern weapons.

Sure enough, with the noise made by the two unmanned submarines, the MK48 torpedo that Lin Yuan was on began to turn.

It no longer headed straight for the Wyoming, but turned towards the unmanned submarine on the right.

This made Lin Yuan very anxious. The officers and soldiers on the Virginia did not know that the torpedo had been misdirected.

But he was on the torpedo and could see it clearly with his naked eyes.

As the torpedo yawed, the distance between him and the Wyoming not only did not shorten, but began to grow farther.

Lin Yuan was in a dilemma at the moment.

If he continued to hold on to the torpedo, he would only be lured further and further away from the Wyoming by the unmanned submarine.

But if he jumped off the torpedo now, he would still be 1100 meters away from the Wyoming.

Can I swim there by myself?
Both options were terrible, but Lin Yuan had no choice but to choose the less terrible one.

So he gritted his teeth, loosened his hands and feet that were holding the MK48 torpedo, and jumped off the speeding torpedo.

The moment he got off the torpedo, he felt his heart tighten suddenly.

Looking at the Wyoming more than 1000 meters away, he could only try his best to swim over.

Without being able to breathe, it is almost impossible to swim such a distance in one breath.

But he had no other choice. Even if he couldn't do it, he had to fight. Just when Lin Yuan was about to fight to the death, he suddenly felt a strong disturbance of water flow coming from under his feet.

What appeared under my feet?

Lin Yuan looked down and saw a narwhal swimming towards him quickly.

Is it the group of narwhals that were rescued a few days ago?

Finally there is help!
Lin Yuan walked forward happily and hugged the narwhal's head.

The narwhal, which reunited with Lin Yuan, happily took Lin Yuan for a few circles in the water.

Now was not the time to be happy about the reunion. Lin Yuan patted the narwhal's head and signaled it to swim with him towards the Wyoming.

The narwhal immediately understood Lin Yuan's intention. As Lin Yuan held its head tightly, the narwhal swam quickly towards the Wyoming with Lin Yuan.

The distance between Lin Yuan and the Wyoming began to shorten again.

As it got closer to the Wyoming, the submarine that had not attracted the MK48 torpedo before approached it again.

At the same time, another unmanned submarine was launched from the cabin of the Wyoming and headed towards him.

Faced with this scene, Lin Yuan was stunned.

But he soon realized that he and the narwhal were probably mistaken for a torpedo in the Wyoming's sonar surveillance.

After all, the length of the narwhal is also about 5 meters, and its weight is also 1.5 tons, which is exactly the same as the torpedo just now.

In addition, there is also the plug-in Lin Yuan, which destroys the smooth streamlined shape and stirs up a huge sound of water.

So from the Wyoming's perspective, this was another torpedo like the previous one.

But the crew on the Wyoming must be curious about what kind of submarine is on the opposite side.

Why is the noise from a torpedo launched like this so loud?

For the men aboard the Wyoming, it was just another launch to lure an unmanned underwater vehicle.

But this time it was completely different from before.

Torpedoes can be guided by unmanned underwater vehicles, but animals like narwhals cannot!
It carried Lin Yuan and completely ignored the unmanned submarine, heading straight for the Wyoming.

The distance is shrinking rapidly.

1000 meters!
900 meters!
800 meters!
As the distance continued to decrease, the Wyoming's figure became larger and larger.

The Wyoming, with a displacement of 24000 tons, is simply a sea monster.

The Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine is 170 meters long and nearly 30 stories high.

Coupled with the width of nearly 13 meters and the height of 12 meters, it looks like an underwater building, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

This is the most lethal individual weapon in human history, equipped with 24 Trident intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Each missile can destroy a medium-sized city. If 24 missiles are fired together, it is enough to cause casualties of hundreds of millions of people, which can be said to be devastating.

Such a weapon is equally lethal even if it doesn't launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. How could it possibly sit there and wait for Lin Yuan to approach?

The torpedo launcher of the Wyoming opened, and an MK48 torpedo was ejected by high-pressure gas, dragging a long guidance optical fiber straight towards Lin Yuan and Narwhal.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan was stunned.

Is there such an operation?
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to use a torpedo to fight a torpedo.

Because modern torpedoes are stealthy and make very little noise underwater, they are not conducive to sonar tracking and positioning.

In addition, they are all torpedoes with similar speeds. It is almost impossible for you to use one torpedo to track and attack another torpedo.

But now both of these conditions have been destroyed.

Before, when Lin Yuan was holding a torpedo, or now when he is holding a narwhal, it would cause a lot of underwater noise and affect the speed of advancement.

This makes it entirely possible for the MK48 torpedo launched by the Wyoming to lock onto Lin Yuan, catch up with him and kill him.

I saw the torpedo coming straight towards Lin Yuan at a speed of 55 knots.

Lin Yuan patted the narwhal's head, signaling it to take evasive action.

This strong adult male narwhal immediately understood.

It seemed to be aware of the crisis and immediately turned 90 degrees to the left, making a big circle, trying to avoid the incoming MK48 torpedo.

As the Narwhal made evasive moves, Lin Yuan stared at the MK48 torpedo.

Will evasive action be effective?

The next moment, Lin Yuan felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

The MK48 torpedo immediately corrected its course and headed straight for Lin Yuan's new position without hesitation.

Lin Yuan could only pat the narwhal's head, signaling it to make evasive action again.

However, as the narwhal and Lin Yuan made three consecutive evasive changes of direction, their directions were immediately locked by the MK3 torpedo.

So perverted!

Lin Yuan had to admit that this active noise tracking, combined with the artificial guidance of optical fiber, was like having a pair of super ears.

As long as you make noise, you will never escape the attack of MK48 torpedo.

The underwater speed of the narwhal carrying Lin Yuan was far lower than that of the MK48 torpedo, so it could not escape.

The torpedo was getting closer and closer to Lin Yuan, and the distance was less than 300 meters.

At this distance, Lin Yuan got goosebumps all over his body!
This is almost the attack range of the MK48 torpedo!

Modern torpedoes generally have two triggering methods: contact fuze and proximity fuze.

The triggering fuze is easy to understand. When a torpedo hits a hard object such as a ship and bears enough impact force, the detonating fuze will be triggered.

The proximity fuze is usually triggered manually by the crew on the submarine.

That is, based on the noise intensity, the staff can judge that the current distance between the torpedo and the target has entered the explosion range, and then manually trigger the explosive fuse to detonate the torpedo.

As we all know, the incompressibility of water means that the power of explosives exploding underwater is six times that in air.

Then a distance of 300 meters can be considered as entering the explosion range.

This means that the torpedo operator on the Wyoming can manually detonate the torpedo at any time.

Once the torpedo is detonated, the huge shock wave will instantly tear Lin Yuan and the narwhal to pieces.

Although he was filming, Lin Yuan still felt cold all over.

Because the torpedo fired was loaded with real explosives.

According to the shooting plan, the torpedo will explode 500 meters away from them to increase the visual impact of the scene.

But the impact of the underwater explosion was so strong that it still made Lin Yuan feel quite nervous.

This is probably the most powerful weapon he has ever faced directly.

Compared with this MK48 torpedo, the previous Javelin anti-tank missile is as harmless as a newborn baby.

Just as the torpedo was getting closer and closer to Lin Yuan and the narwhal.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow rushed down from the water.

The black shadow came too fast and its tonnage was too astonishing.

Before the black shadow arrived, the huge disturbance of the water flow had already caused Lin Yuan and the narwhal he was riding to roll to the side involuntarily.

I saw the bowhead whale rushing down from directly above.

With a body length of 23 meters and a weight of 100 tons, both the narwhal and the MK48 torpedo are as small and cute as children's toys.

The bowhead whale waved its tail fin and lined up heavily on the side of the MK48 torpedo.

Suddenly, the entire MK48 torpedo rolled over, as if performing Brownian motion, and swam randomly towards the distance.

What was happening before our eyes was simply shocking.

Let the bowhead whale use its tail fin to slap the MK48 torpedo!

Are you really not afraid of explosions?

In fact, there is really not much danger in doing so.

There are two main ways to trigger a torpedo fuse: impact triggering and proximity triggering.

The proximity trigger is very clear. The crew on the Wyoming will only detonate when they confirm that the torpedo is more than 500 meters away from the noise source.

Impact triggering, on the one hand, requires the trigger fuze located directly in front of the torpedo to be subjected to an impact force of sufficient intensity. On the other hand, it must be combined with a magnetic induction trigger fuze to ensure that the object being hit is a magnetic material, that is, a ship, in order to detonate the torpedo.

It's not like launching a torpedo and it will explode if it hits anything.

Therefore, the bowhead whale's behavior of slapping the MK48 torpedo away is unlikely to detonate the torpedo.

The torpedo lost its direction and ran farther and farther away, now more than 500 meters away from Lin Yuan.

At this moment, the torpedo suddenly turned into a dazzling light in the distance and exploded.

The "twilight layer" 200 meters underwater is already gray.

At this moment, the flames produced by the explosion were as dazzling as a small sun.

Lin Yuan was stunned by the scene before him:
This dazzling fireball is expanding at a high speed.

However, unlike the explosion flames on land, the underwater explosion has a three-layer structure.

The innermost layer is the flames of the explosion, the middle layer is a mixture of a large number of bubbles produced by the explosion and violently churning sea water, and the outermost layer is a layer of large bubbles like a mask.

So beautiful!
It’s so amazing!
(End of this chapter)