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Chapter 1108 Aircraft Carrier Dream

"Old Wei, Xiao He, please check this out." After dinner, Cao Bin and He Jiahao came to Jiang Yan's bedroom together. They were about to speak when Jiang Yan winked. The two of them sat there in silence while Old Wei was busy moving the equipment around.

Seeing this situation, He Junhao understood and quickly called another group of people over to carry out the inspection with more professional equipment.

The KGB of the Russian bear is quite famous. Although the Russian bear is still in chaos, the KGB is still there after all, so we have to be careful in doing anything. That's why the scene just now happened.

"No problem." After several people checked, the leader spoke.

"Old Cheng, what's the situation in Ukraine?" Jiang Yan asked after taking a puff of his cigarette.

"The chaos there is almost the same as in Moscow, but supplies are even more scarce. Most of the supplies we have brought here have arrived there," Cheng Linwen said.

"Where and how many branches of Hang Seng Bank are there?" Jiang Yan asked.

"There are 200 of them, and they absorb deposits of more than 8 million rubles every month." Cheng Linwen continued.

The reason why Jiang Yan attached great importance to Ukraine was that among the many republics, Ukraine's geographical location was crucial to the Soviet Union. Although Ukraine was a frontier region within the Soviet Union, it was located in the heart of Europe, at the junction of Western Europe and Eastern and Central Europe. With Ukraine as a base, the Soviet Union could go straight to Poland, Hungary and other Eastern European countries to the west, using it as a bridgehead to control Eastern European countries. At the same time, it could attack Turkey across the Black Sea to the south.

In addition, Ukraine is also a barrier between Moscow and the Caucasus. Once Ukraine is lost, Russia's most important economic center and oil and gas resource production area will be directly exposed to the enemy's threat.

On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had become the second largest military industrial base in the Soviet Union after Russia, and its military industry accounted for nearly one-third of the Soviet Union's national defense potential. Many of the Soviet Union's most important weapons, such as all aircraft carriers, giant strategic transport aircraft, a large number of tanks, and surface-to-air missiles and strategic missiles, were produced in Ukraine. It can be said that without Ukraine, the Soviet Union would not be able to compete with the United States in terms of military power.

But Ukraine does not need this asset. Because the purpose of the Soviet Union's military factories in Ukraine was to compete for world hegemony. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the possibility of a world war has been greatly reduced. The newly born Ukraine has given up the strategy of hegemony and only wants to be an ordinary neutral country in Europe. It does not need so many weapons and equipment, nor does it need such a huge military industrial system.

Such a huge military-industrial system consumes a large amount of Ukraine's wealth every year, but cannot meet Ukraine's corresponding social needs. The military-industrial system left by the Soviet Union to Ukraine is more of a burden than an asset.

In order to make good use of these huge military factories left by the Soviet Union, Ukraine accelerated the conversion of the military industry in the late Soviet period after independence, and converted the enterprises that originally produced weapons to produce civilian products. According to the characteristics of its military factories, the Ukrainian government has formulated a corresponding national conversion program to convert domestic military factories to produce electronic products and medical equipment such as color TVs, VCRs, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, etc. Some large military enterprises with scientific research capabilities have also been arranged to carry out research and development of related civilian products.

So Jiang Yan is eyeing this huge military industrial enterprise, especially the Morozov Design Bureau and the Black Sea Shipyard. With these technologies, we can take our flower-growing family to the next level.

"You didn't tell me what I meant. What I meant was how much information those design bureaus and factories have obtained so far." Jiang Yan asked directly.

Cheng Linwen glanced at the person sitting there and spoke only at this time. There was a lot of basic information, and even a batch of machine tools. They have already started to be shipped, hidden in the scrap metal bought from there, and it is estimated that they will arrive in China soon.

"Some projects are still being followed up, and our main focus now is on aircraft carriers and aircraft. We have bribed a deputy chief engineer of the Antonov Design Bureau and obtained all the information on the An-8, An-12 and An-22 from him." "Where is that information?" He Junhao spoke directly after hearing that he had obtained the information on these three aircraft.

Cheng Linwen didn't say anything but looked at Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan nodded, and then he spoke.

"The materials have been placed in a relatively hidden place. As they are quite large and there are so many of them, we are considering transporting them."

"You can give these to us and we will use them for transportation." He Junhao said.

"Okay, we'll hand it over to you later. If you need anything, we'll fully cooperate with you." Jiang Yan interrupted.

"Now let's focus on the Kiev-class aircraft carrier and other warships of the Black Sea Shipyard, the most important ship and water design data, and the Tu series of bombers." Jiang Yan spoke immediately.

"No problem, I have arranged personnel to follow up." Cheng Linwen said.

"If, for example, the Black Sea Shipyard sells an aircraft carrier, they will take it at any price and tell the public that it is for the construction of a marine park."

After hearing Jiang Yan's words, Cao Bin and He Junhao's breathing became heavier.

Aircraft carriers are top-notch naval equipment and are also standard equipment for the navies of world-class powers. The Chinese Navy's dream of an aircraft carrier lasted nearly a hundred years, and it gradually became a reality in 2012 with the commissioning of the Liaoning aircraft carrier.

After the establishment of the New China Navy in 1949, it long pursued a near-shore defense strategy equipped mainly with "flying, submerging and fast" weapons. It was not until the 80s that the dream of aircraft carriers was rekindled under the promotion of naval generals.

In 1985, the relevant units purchased a "scrapped warship" through international bidding in the name of "Guangzhou Huangpu Ship Recycling Company". After the scrap ship was towed into the Pearl River Estuary, the navy discovered that it was actually a basically intact 3-ton aircraft carrier! This is the "Melbourne" aircraft carrier, which was just retired from Australia and originated in the UK. When this retired aircraft carrier was towed to the flower-growing home, many of the aircraft carrier's key equipment had not been dismantled - including the aircraft carrier's take-off and landing lighting command system, the core take-off catapult system and landing arresting equipment, etc.!
The opportunity was rare, so the Navy Headquarters immediately contacted the shipbreaking yard and requested to postpone the dismantling. They immediately formed a so-called "expert group" to rush to Zhongshan, Guangdong, to visit and survey the ship. Although it was called an "expert group", in fact, it was like "Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden". Everything was new to them after they boarded the ship! The arrival of Melbourne allowed the Navy to truly come into contact with a real aircraft carrier for the first time, and to have the most intuitive understanding of the structure and main equipment of the aircraft carrier!
Although the important aviation equipment on the Melbourne was still there, the main shaft had been cut off, which meant that it had lost its basic function as a warship. In addition, the ship dismantling company had to bear its own profits and losses and dismantle the ship within a limited time. The Navy also had no extra funds to buy the old ship, so after a tense month of surveying, the Melbourne was finally dismantled into a pile of steel. However, some of the key equipment was said to have been retained, and the Melbourne became the real beginning of the Huazhong people's dream of a modern aircraft carrier.

However, China had just started its reform and opening-up, and its economic and shipbuilding industry was still very weak. The cost of building and operating a light aircraft carrier battle group far exceeded the annual budget of the navy at that time! In the end, the superiors shelved the plan. The Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier dream was stranded again.

But now they heard that Jiang Yan was going to get an aircraft carrier, so the two of them did this. At the same time, they also understood that in the past two years, Jiang Yan had been searching the world for retired aircraft carriers to build an offshore amusement park, and it seemed that this was all to pave the way for today.

"I understand this. We have already assigned people to focus on this matter," said Cheng Linwen.

(End of this chapter)