Tim (Seahawk Helo):
Smuook reported a hit of suspicious ESM energy to the south and went to
investigate. With my MAD sensor deployed, I continued to deploy my buoys and
monitor their signals. It was essentially quiet in my sector, but quiet means
nothing when dealing with submarines. That's their job, and it was my job to
flush them out.
A short time after Smuook winged south to investigate the
ESM signal, he reported going into the drink - apparently shot down by a SAM
from a surfaced enemy sub. Consulting the link, I saw that Neal had started to
drive his FFG in that direction to get an active sonar fix on the rascal.
Ramius (Kilo): So, one of my SAMs found its mark after
all, eh?
Smuook (Orion plane):
I kept trying to different methods to try to launch the Maverick.
Meanwhile, Ramius did some launching of his own. I detected flurry of SAM's
coming in my direction. I began launching countermeasures and kept fumbling to
launch my missile at him. The best thing to do would have been to turn away
and open out of his range and figure out what was going wrong. But instead I
probably launched 1 less countermeasure than his SAM's and I went down in
flames.
Tim (Seahawk Helo):
With Smuook down, we had lost that much more buoy analysis capability,
so I began monitoring Smuook's buoys to see what I could pick up, setting my
Acoustic station frequency alerts to listen for one of the lower sub
frequencies. Neal promoted a good active sonar contact to the link and I launched a Mark 50
torpedo on the bearing.