Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

Chinese zodiac dragon in Wuchen year.

For Tan Zhenhua, 1988 is a slightly special year, because after New Year's Eve, he will usher in the second natal year in his life.

He is a dragon, and Wuchen's birth year is always something special, right?

According to the Book of Changes, the dragon hexagram has: Qian, Yuan, Heng, Li, and Zhen; Tan Zhenhua is the second natal year this year, which is the number of ninety-two. The hexagram is:

See the dragon in the field.

This means that the dragon who just came ashore began to practice breathing air and adapting to human life.

But he is a dragon after all? Between this breath and breath, it will inevitably lead to changes in the wind and clouds, and the mountains and rivers shake!

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I foresee that this year will be more special. Not only Tan Zhenhua alone, but the sailors on the two dredgers "Luban" and "Mo Di" also felt a different atmosphere.

Just after the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Changsong received a telegram from the company asking him to immediately end the spring break and return to Xiangjiang to report. When he returned to the ship, he found that all his comrades had already arrived at odds and ends.

Yes, on the two ships of "Luban" and "Mo Di", the sailors regarded each other as "comrades in arms", because they were all veterans who had retired from the original Huaxia Navy. That special feeling that others can't understand.

Wang Changsong’s current position is the chief engineer of the Luban ship. This is because although he has a disability in his left hand, his basic skills are sufficiently solid, and he particularly cherishes this opportunity. In the process of handing over with the Dutchman, he demonstrated Sufficient learning ability and hard work, so he got this important position, even his salary has risen along with it, now he can get 10,000 Hong Kong dollars every month.

However, Wang Changsong always felt that the money was a bit hot. After a few months, they seemed to have done nothing serious except for handing over with the Dutch people. Well, if they helped to dredge the Victoria Harbour and the chores, it would be considered. I can't say that I didn't do anything, but the work looked like exercises to familiarize them with the operation of the ship, and for that matter, it didn't look like it was worth more than 300 Hong Kong dollars a day?

This kind of day will certainly not last long, there must be some special and important task that needs to be carried out by our two ships.

This is Wang Changsong's guess.

And his guess was quickly confirmed.

The former chief mate of a certain ship of China Ocean Shipping Company and the current captain of "Luban", who was over 60 years old, informed that the first meeting of the New Year would be held in the captain's room. Very few people attended the meeting. Except for the captain, only the "Luban" First officer, second officer, third officer, sailor, equipment chief, and his chief engineer, and when Wang Changsong walked into the captain’s room, he saw the chart spread out on the table, and the chart was clearly The island that was specially marked.

His heart "flickered" to his throat...

When the "Luban" and "Mo Di" had finished replenishing fuel, fresh water and other supplies and slowly left Victoria Harbour, the other two ships also started their voyages.

One of them is the bulk carrier "Zheng Chenggong" commissioned by Tan Zhenhua.

In fact, it is not appropriate to say that this ship is a bulk carrier, because the ship is equipped with a lot of weird equipment-for example, the 517 meter wave warning radar installed on the tall mast looks nothing like it. What a civilian ship should have, and since the day the ship was built and launched, only one special kind of cargo has been transported-the 12 Sea Harriers that Tan Zhenhua purchased from BAE.

This is not the first time that the "Zheng Chenggong" has carried these 12 Sea Harriers out of Karachi. In fact, this is already a routine task that it often performs, and these "Sea Harrier" fighters are often trained on the sea. Take off and land on the "Zheng Chenggong".

To be honest, when this ship first called in Karachi Port, the third brother next door was still very nervous for a while-the navy, but the third brother had the biggest advantage over Pakistan Railways. The local navy has two "carrier strike groups", namely the "Vikrant" small aircraft carrier (formerly the British "Dignity" aircraft carrier) and the "Villat" small aircraft carrier (the original British "Sporting God" aircraft carrier , Is the one mentioned in the previous article, which participated in the battle of Falkland Islands) as the core, each ship is equipped with 8 "Sea Harrier" fighters.

If Pakistan also owns an aircraft carrier, wouldn't this advantage be greatly reduced?

But soon, they were relieved-this is obviously a cargo ship. Although the deck has been modified and reinforced, it can barely operate the "Sea Harrier" in a vertical take-off and landing manner, but compared to the inclination of a regular aircraft carrier, it slides over the take-off deck. The allowable weight difference for the take-off of the fighter plane is too much, the bomb load and fuel load are not the same, and the dispatch efficiency is also a mess. The "Sea Harrier" that takes off from this ship can only serve as a "mast guard" at best. "I just barely protect myself, so don't talk about offenses-I can't fly that far.

It seems that this ship looks like a transport ship customized by China for the transportation of these 12 "Sea Harriers".

And they also inquired clearly that the actual owner of this ship and the aircraft on board is a Chinese businessman. It seems that this is China is trying to obtain an aircraft carrier through this method and is working as a pilot for its first-generation carrier-based aircraft. Of reserves.

Well, I'm afraid it is because of the pressure that China has been under, and it is temporarily inconvenient to take these fighters back to China. Therefore, first put them here for a few days in the Pakistan Railway. This explanation seems to be the most reasonable.

This doesn’t matter much. Although China is one of India’s imaginary enemies, the "examinations" between the two countries are mainly along the Himalayas. As for the maritime confrontation, one is in the Indian Ocean and the other is in the Western Pacific. Ten thousand kilometers, at least for a long time, there will be no intersection between the two.

Therefore, the later policy of the Indians was to keep surveillance of the actions of the "Zheng Chenggong".

Afterwards, some changes on the "Zheng Chenggong" also gradually confirmed the Indian conjecture: just last year, some Chinese-faced pilots boarded the ship and began to pilot the "Sea Harrier" under the guidance of the Pakistan Railway pilots. "Warplanes are training, and they also go to sea from time to time to exercise "Vertical Takeoff and Landing at Sea" and other subjects. In this way, China's aircraft carrier program is in full swing, and their plan is the same as Indy’s own-small aircraft carrier. Sea Harrier fighter.

This is almost the standard equipment of a country that lacks national power but wants to have an aircraft carrier.

The Indians also heard that Dai also has an aircraft carrier plan, which is based on this idea.

However, the situation of the "Zheng Chenggong" leaving Hong Kong this time seems a bit different.

In the past, this ship would definitely turn around after a week of wandering outside at most, and the activity area was also in the waters near Karachi Port, but this time?

After leaving the port, the "Zheng Chenggong" went east without looking back.

This is going to cross the Indian Ocean! Where is it going?

Could it be that Huaxia is ready to officially take over the 12 Sea Harriers carried on this ship?

But where is their aircraft carrier? Never heard of news in this regard?