The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Just when everyone was talking about the military parade to commemorate the return of Macau to China as the biggest surprise of the event, half an hour later, everyone was shocked by another surprise.

When the live broadcast of Hong Kong TV and CCTV-1 switched from Macau to the Guangzhou Shipyard, what appeared before the audience was an extra-large dock and a steel behemoth came into view.

When people across the country saw this Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, they couldn't help but be surprised, and everyone stood up involuntarily.

This year, two Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have been launched, namely the "Yue" and the "Liao"!
That is why everyone believes that no more Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will be launched this year.

After all, two Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have been launched, and we can't have a third one.

Even the citizens of Macau considered the failure to launch the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier 'Macau' as the first of the ten regrets of this year's Macau return celebrations!
There are even Macau citizens who self-deprecatingly say that they are illegitimate children!
But who could have thought that the higher-ups had prepared such a big gift for Macau.

The whole world was shocked by the news and tuned into Hong Kong TV and CCTV-1 to watch the live broadcast.

Three Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were launched in one year, which means that in this year alone, the Chinese Navy launched more than 003 tons of warships with these three Type 30 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers!

This data is extremely shocking!

Looking around the world, China is the only country that can launch three large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in a year!

Before this, everyone was amazed that China launched two Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in one year. After all, up to now, the only countries in the world that have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the United States, China, and France!
Even Britain, the former maritime hegemon, does not have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier!

Russia has not yet developed a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

What a result! Even after praising China so much, I still underestimated China!
This is not launching two Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in one year, but launching three Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in one year.

The Macau guests who were invited to attend the launching ceremony were all very surprised and had bright smiles on their faces.

Because they only learned about this surprise when the helicopter landed.

They were so satisfied with this gift from the country!

Sure enough, as everyone expected, this Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was named "Macao"!
This also means that China has four Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, namely the 'Xiangjiang', 'Yue', 'Liao' and now the 'Macao'!
Under the attention of the whole audience, the military band played ceremonial music, and then the "Macao Ship" sounded the whistle, and there were fireworks, streamers, and bottle-throwing ceremonies. With the help of a pushboat, the "Macao Ship" sailed out of the dock and headed for the outfitting dock.

All subsequent work on the 'Macao Ship' will be carried out at the outfitting dock, and this dock will be vacated.

Guests who participated in the launching ceremony of the 'Macao Ship' were interviewed one after another. During the interviews, they expressed their feelings of surprise, excitement and pride, and said that this was the greatest gift given to Macao and that the citizens of Macao were very satisfied.

Similarly, after watching the live broadcast of the launching ceremony, the Macau citizens were interviewed by media reporters, and each of them had a happy smile on their face.

After all, having an aircraft carrier named after your city/province, and it is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is such a happy thing!
In the evening, there is a cultural evening.

"Song of the Seven Sons" is an indispensable part of any cultural evening party.

The lead singer this time is still Rong Yunlin.

She was still a primary school student at the time. Although her Mandarin was not standard, she sang "Song of the Seven Sons" with great charm, which left a deep impression on people. She was praised as the best singer of "Song of the Seven Sons".

In recent years, she has been invited to every evening performance of "Song of the Seven Sons".

Today, she appeared on the stage again as the singer of "Song of the Seven Sons".

Her Mandarin is still a little non-standard, but it is precisely her non-standardity that makes this song show its most charming moment.

Liu Tao also had to be praised, because many people sang "Song of the Seven Sons", but her singing was the most flavorful and the most memorable.

It’s just that the little girl in second grade back then has grown into a young girl!

Liu Tao heard that many entertainment companies invited her and wanted to make her a star, but she refused and continued to study.

This is very rare!

With the development of the economy, China's entertainment industry has also developed rapidly, which has led to the skyrocketing income of celebrities. Many people want to be celebrities, because the money that celebrities make in a year is often more than ordinary people can earn in their entire lives.

This also makes society involuntarily develop a sense of ostentation. To be able to maintain one's own identity and have one's own pursuits in such a social atmosphere is actually a rare thing.

After the evening party, I arrived at my residence and found that the secretary had already sorted out the news briefings.

Up to now, all the major media outlets around the world have reported on the news about the fourth Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the 'Macao'!
Even the American media across the Pacific Ocean must have reported it.

Even though there is a time difference, in the media industry, it is normal to work overtime to write press releases.

The launching of any aircraft carrier is big news in the world, let alone a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier!
Any one of the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers deserves to be on the front page of authoritative media!
After spending a few minutes catching up on the news, Liu Tao went to sleep in a good mood.

The fact that he went to bed in a good mood means that someone will be in a bad mood.

This is good!

Moscow.

A special meeting was held, bringing together decision-makers from across Russia.

The theme of this conference is about Russia's naval development!
继承了大部分苏联遗产，海军同样也不例外，当时俄罗斯继承了苏联海军99%的作战舰只，包括潜艇、航母、巡洋舰、驱逐舰、护卫舰等各类舰艇。具体是包括63艘弹道导弹核潜艇、72艘巡航导弹核潜艇、68艘攻击型核潜艇、63艘常规攻击潜艇以及9艘辅助潜艇、8艘航母/直升机航母、3艘基洛夫级核动力导弹巡洋舰、30艘各型导弹巡洋舰、45艘驱逐舰、237艘各型护卫舰；以及其他舰艇，包括42艘两栖登陆舰、425艘各型巡逻艇、扫雷艇、导弹艇等！
Russia's strategy is not consistent with that of the Soviet Union. Russia does not need to maintain such a large navy. Similarly, Russia's national strength cannot support such a large navy.

Therefore, over the past decade, Russia has been selling these ships continuously, including a large number of warships and even aircraft carriers/helicopter carriers to Barat!
By selling warships, the Russian Navy can not only reduce its size, but also recover funds for naval development.

Russia's most powerful aircraft carriers now are the 'Kuznetsov' and the 'Varyag', which are Russia's last two large fleet aircraft carriers.

Today, Russia relies heavily on its land advantages and territorial size to pursue international interests. Its demand for aircraft carriers is far less urgent than it was in the Soviet era, and the aircraft carrier design ideas and legacy of the Soviet era are not suitable for today's Russia.

If it is only for performing amphibious support, rapid transportation and various auxiliary tasks, the popular large-deck multi-purpose aviation support ship will be much more economical than an aircraft carrier.

The current 'Kuznetsov' and 'Varyag' aircraft carriers can basically meet the needs of the Russian Navy.

Just this year, both aircraft carriers made a long voyage, during which they conducted Su-33 take-off and landing exercises.

However, there is also an embarrassing thing, that is, the Su-33 series of each ship-borne regiment was produced in the early 1990s and has been discontinued since then. That is to say, one less carrier-based aircraft is used, and there is no successor.

In recent years, Russia has recovered a large amount of funds by exporting frigates, destroyers, submarines, landing ships, patrol ships, missile boats, patrol boats, aircraft carriers/helicopter carriers. Among them, Bharat is a major customer. Bharat has also invested large sums of money in Russia's naval, air force, and army research and development projects.

After all, given Barat's situation, it is not realistic for it to develop its own weapons.

However, since the outbreak of the economic crisis, Bharat's economy has been hit hard, and it has been in turmoil and has run out of money. Russia wants Bharat to make additional investments, but Bharat cannot come up with the funds, and the research and development cooperation between the two sides has broken down. The sharp drop in energy prices has also made Russia's economy very pessimistic. Although it relies on the European and East Asian energy markets, Russia's economy is not collapsing, but life is not as good as before, and the winter in Moscow seems to be getting colder.

Everyone sees Russia continuously selling weapons and thinks that Russia has lost its ambition to make progress.

In fact, Russia has never given up its ambition to become a superpower again!

For example, in the navy, although Russia is downsizing its navy, it has never stopped developing aircraft carriers.

In fact, Russia has already dug out the information of the Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier from the database, intending to rebuild this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier!

The Ulyanovsk class aircraft carrier, also known as the 1143.7 aircraft carrier, was originally named the Kremlin and later renamed the Ulyanovsk, which was named after the hometown of Soviet leader Lenin, Ulyanovsk. The Ulyanovsk was built at the Nikolayev Shipyard in the Black Sea of ​​Ukraine in 1988. It is the first super aircraft carrier of the Soviet Navy and the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Soviet Union.

The Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier is 302.6 meters long, 39.5 meters wide, has a draft of 11 meters, a full load displacement of 75000 tons, a flight deck 322.7 meters long and 75.3 meters wide, a speed of 30 knots, a crew of 2300 crew members and 1500 flight crew members. The transmission uses a four-axis propulsion system, and the power system includes four KN-4-4 nuclear reactors and four steam turbines with a power of 3 horsepower. It can carry 43 to 4 carrier-based aircraft of various types!
It has been some years since the Ulyanovsk-class aircraft carrier was launched, but its construction has never officially started.

The design data is available, but the embarrassing thing is that Russia is unable to build an aircraft carrier now.

Not to mention large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, even conventional-powered aircraft carriers like the Varyag cannot be built.

Just like Makarov once said in the Soviet era: "The construction of a modern aircraft carrier requires the Soviet Union, the Party Central Committee, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industrial Commission and nine national industrial ministries, 9 related majors, and 600 supporting manufacturers. In short, it takes a great country to complete it!"

"Only a great power could accomplish it, but that power no longer exists!"

This is the fact. Although Russia inherited most of the Soviet heritage, the original Soviet industrial system was no longer perfect when it came to Russia. Even if Russia had a complete set of design data, it could not build a modern aircraft carrier.

Unless Russia rebuilds its aircraft carrier industrial system at all costs.

Seeing China's successive launch of Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Russia's decision-makers are quite unhappy.

In the Soviet era, the Soviet Navy was the second largest navy in the world, second only to the US Navy! At that time, the Chinese Navy was almost negligible. The entire Chinese Navy could not even compare with the Soviet Pacific Fleet, let alone the Soviet Pacific Fleet Squadron.

However, after entering the 80s, the Chinese Navy entered a period of rapid development, and by the 90s it could no longer be underestimated.

As of now, the Chinese Navy has firmly occupied the second place in the world's navy, and its naval power is extremely powerful.

It is true that things change over time, so don’t look down on the young because they are poor!

Compared to the relatively cheap Russian warships, the prices of Chinese warships are very high.

Because Russia sells second-hand old ships, while China often sells new ships or advanced warships that have been tested in actual combat!

Naturally, it can be sold at a high price!

For example, richer countries often do not choose Russia when buying warships, but choose the United States or China!
At this meeting, the issue of aircraft carriers naturally came up again.

Russia now has two aircraft carrier formations, which temporarily meet Russia's needs and are enough to rank third in naval strength!
But there is no doubt that if Russia wants to make a difference, two aircraft carrier formations are not enough!
Russia needs bigger and more advanced aircraft carriers!
And a large nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is Russia's goal.

Only large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers can allow Russia to realize greater ambitions!
To be honest, most of the participants in the conference came from the Soviet era, and facing the current situation of the Russian navy, many people couldn't help but feel sad.

They have worked hard for more than ten years, but Russia's national strength is still far inferior to that of the Soviet Union!

Back then, many people were dissatisfied with the situation in the Soviet Union, believing that Russia was suffering huge losses and it would be better to go it alone.

When the family split up, everyone was basically happy. Since living together brought so many conflicts and dissatisfactions, it would be better for them to break up and live their own lives.

The result is that life is not as good as before!

But it’s easy to break up, but it’s not easy to get back together!
Over the years, some people have mentioned reuniting as partners, but the resistance is huge!

Times have changed!

(End of this chapter)