How to defeat the worlds largest navi
On these ships they have a room full of guys listening for anything approaching underwater. They have radar for anything approaching from above the water surface. The ships have massive hulls. Not easily defeated. They have huge guns and torpedoes and missiles. Formidable for sure.. but.. they do have some vulnerabilities.
They suck in a lot of water for water-maker and for cooling the engines. That means they have a thru-hull, probably several of them, if those were plugged it would be a challenge.
The Sonar is a specialized listening device, if that could be disabled it would take away a huge advantage.
The hull itself is heavily coated with protection. If something attached itself to the hull and started attacking the surface, say, chemically, or using metal drills to penetrate as deep as possible, it would weaken the hull in that spot.
Enough of these on the hull would send that ship back to port for repairs.
So we need something that swims in the water, like a turtle, or a fish or a dolphin. Something the sonar will not flag as unusual. I would suggest a large turtle. It gets to the hull, scans for vulnerable spots, and attaches itself there.
Now the Sonar is affected, they send down a diver to see why, but the turtle has defences, it can shoot bullets and it takes out the diver.
They send another diver, this time he is more cautious and doesn't get close enough to be shot, but he can see it is a device attached to the hull.
More of them are swimming toward it, at least a dozen more.
The ship launches an ROV to recover one of them. When it gets close it is destroyed.
The captain is informed they have lost water intake. They have to shut off the motors immediately.
The devices are working on the hull of the ship. More of them are arriving and attaching to the hull, drilling holes.
They start dropping depth charges close to the hull, but this does not dislodge any of them.
Water starts to flow into the ship in several places and the guys inside begin welding plates over the holes. The turtles have already moved and are drilling more holes.
The captain sends out a mayday and another ship hooks up to it to tow it to a nearby base.
Turtles attach to that vessel as well and soon its motors have also failed.
The holes in the ship are getting worse, water keeps pouring in faster than plates can be welded, some are behind bulkheads and not easy to get to, the ship is sinking.
The support vessel is also sinking, it didn't have nearly as strong of a hull.
The captain requests another ship to tow both of them to port, but control is not willing to risk another encounter with the turtles.
Soon they are loading sailors into life rafts as the trillion dollar ship sinks.
They suck in a lot of water for water-maker and for cooling the engines. That means they have a thru-hull, probably several of them, if those were plugged it would be a challenge.
The Sonar is a specialized listening device, if that could be disabled it would take away a huge advantage.
The hull itself is heavily coated with protection. If something attached itself to the hull and started attacking the surface, say, chemically, or using metal drills to penetrate as deep as possible, it would weaken the hull in that spot.
Enough of these on the hull would send that ship back to port for repairs.
So we need something that swims in the water, like a turtle, or a fish or a dolphin. Something the sonar will not flag as unusual. I would suggest a large turtle. It gets to the hull, scans for vulnerable spots, and attaches itself there.
Now the Sonar is affected, they send down a diver to see why, but the turtle has defences, it can shoot bullets and it takes out the diver.
They send another diver, this time he is more cautious and doesn't get close enough to be shot, but he can see it is a device attached to the hull.
More of them are swimming toward it, at least a dozen more.
The ship launches an ROV to recover one of them. When it gets close it is destroyed.
The captain is informed they have lost water intake. They have to shut off the motors immediately.
The devices are working on the hull of the ship. More of them are arriving and attaching to the hull, drilling holes.
They start dropping depth charges close to the hull, but this does not dislodge any of them.
Water starts to flow into the ship in several places and the guys inside begin welding plates over the holes. The turtles have already moved and are drilling more holes.
The captain sends out a mayday and another ship hooks up to it to tow it to a nearby base.
Turtles attach to that vessel as well and soon its motors have also failed.
The holes in the ship are getting worse, water keeps pouring in faster than plates can be welded, some are behind bulkheads and not easy to get to, the ship is sinking.
The support vessel is also sinking, it didn't have nearly as strong of a hull.
The captain requests another ship to tow both of them to port, but control is not willing to risk another encounter with the turtles.
Soon they are loading sailors into life rafts as the trillion dollar ship sinks.
