The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master Chapter 856

Chapter 856 The Varyag returns home

At almost the same time, Chang Haonan attended the signing ceremony of the cooperation project.

Liao Province, Dalian (bushi)…

Ahem—

Lianhai Shipyard.

Under the setting sun, a pilot boat leading two tugboats gradually appeared in the sight of everyone on the shore.

Following the entire fleet, a rusty behemoth gradually emerged from beyond the horizon.

Since it was still prohibited from passing through the Suez Canal, after a long journey of more than nine months, the tugboat team headed by the Nikolay Chikel finally towed the Varyag to the end of its journey. destination.

Even those who have not personally experienced the difficulties and obstacles along the way can tell from the logbook submitted by the mission leader Zhu Yuzhou.

Especially when this behemoth, which has neither power nor rudder, is circling the African continent.

Since the Cape of Good Hope happens to be located at the confluence of the warm Agulhas Current and the cold Benguela Current in Mozambique, rough waves are constant all year round. When the tug fleet passed by, the huge waves almost knocked off the tow rope behind the Nikola Chikel At this time, the fleet had no choice but to hire a second tugboat, which managed to control the course of the Varyag despite the harsh sea conditions and prevent the giant ship from drifting away with the current.

Later, when passing through the Horn of Africa, what everyone was most worried about before the trip happened happened again.

The entire tug fleet is being targeted by pirates, or at least suspicious vessels that appear to be pirates.

Finally, it was rescued by a patrol ship from the Saudi Navy...

Later, he experienced a series of obstacles such as being maliciously blocked in shipping routes and getting permission to pass through the Strait of Malacca before finally returning to the embrace of his motherland.

Just before entering the port, the pilot ship and the tugboat Nikolai Chikel sounded a long whistle at the same time, paying tribute to the nearly 100 navy and comrades in the shipbuilding industry system who were waiting eagerly on the shore.

The crowd on the shore also responded with enthusiastic cheers.

In order to reduce the international impact as much as possible, China did not invite any media to report on this matter.

Only a few comrades from the military newspaper and the shipbuilding heavy industry propaganda department took a few photos from different angles for documentation.

On Pier 1 of Lianhai Shipyard.

Sun Suguang, together with several other colleagues and technical consultants from the Black Sea Shipyard, stood on a high platform and looked at the Varyag, which was slowly approaching the outfitting dock next door.

Among them, of course, is Valery Babbage.

As early as the beginning of the year, he had already arrived in Lianhai under the arrangement of Wu Yifan, and later participated in the technical research of several large-scale shipbuilding projects with other engineers also from the Black Sea Shipyard.

In a consultant capacity, of course.

Until about a week ago, five people, including him, were suddenly notified.

Hand over the project at hand immediately.

Then, just two days later, they were arranged to live in a villa area in the outer suburbs.

Then again, it's today.

“You...should be really planning to continue building this ship, right?”

Babic asked Sun Suguang, who was standing not far away.

Actually, of course he knows the answer—

Although Huaxia has purchased several decommissioned aircraft carriers through different channels before, as an insider who participated in the whole process, he can clearly feel that the situation this time is different.

Technical data on the aircraft carrier itself, relevant personnel from the Black Sea Shipyard and Azov Steel Plant, and the "Nitka" aircraft carrier training facility...

If you don't make up your mind to continue the construction based on the Varyag, then there is no need to spend a lot of money and energy to introduce these supporting things.

There is no need to hurriedly pull over several of their senior technical staff who have participated in the 1143 project.

However, when Babbage really saw this old friend reunited after a long absence after more than half a year, he still couldn't help but ask this question. He wanted to confirm again.

"certainly."

Sun Suguang turned around and looked at Babic, who was trembling slightly with excitement:

“At the beginning of this year, higher-level units and the navy have made this requirement clear.”

“We in China already have the technology and experience to build a large 60,000-ton ship based solely on military specifications, but aircraft carriers are, after all, a complex and brand-new subject.”

“So compared to starting from scratch, continuing to develop on the existing basis will be more efficient and reduce a lot of trial and error costs.”

“This is exactly why we invited you here.”

　　When hearing this answer from the interpreter, Babbage couldn't help but breathe harder.

After a while, he looked back at the Varyag that had docked on the shore:

“If possible, I hope we can organize manpower as soon as possible to start surveying the entire ship.”

At this time, another person next to him interrupted:

“The technical information we got before should contain the design drawings of this ship, right?”

“There should be drawings.”

Babic nodded:

“However, this ship has been idle for nearly ten years, and some equipment has been dismantled several times during this period.”

"In addition, for about five or six years in the middle, the docks of the Black Sea Shipyard were unattended, so there must be some things stolen by people who boarded the ship privately. In these cases, whether it was me or anyone else, , it is impossible to fully grasp it.”

"When you proposed buying this ship two years ago, I also considered conducting an inspection of the entire ship, but I simply couldn't organize enough manpower. This ship has 20 floors and more than 3,000 cabins. It's impossible to rely on just one or two people. Finish…"

After hearing his explanation, Sun Suguang immediately replied:

“Our project team needs to mobilize technical personnel from the shipbuilding industry system across the country, so it is still being formed. The manpower... may not be sufficient at the moment.”

“But the most important ones on the ship should be the cabins related to power, aviation, and weapon systems. I can send about fifty people first, starting from these key positions. After the project team is formally established, I will send some more people.”

Babic suddenly felt a sense of happiness welling up in his heart.

He has not experienced this feeling of organizational support for his work for many years:

"Actually, fifty people are enough... I originally wanted to ask you for twenty or thirty people at first..."

Sun Suguang and several other colleagues looked at each other, and they all saw a little shock in each other's eyes.

Just now, Babic said that he did not have enough manpower in the past few years. They all thought that the other party might need a team of several hundred people.

After all, there are hundreds of people in such a large Black Sea shipyard who were hired by Wu Yifan to earn money from China and who finally passed the review and stayed.

As a result...we couldn't even organize twenty or thirty people?

Obviously, the consequences of a complete collapse of the grassroots organizational structure are beyond the imagination of those who have not experienced it.

Previously, everyone was basically using the massive layoffs in the country in the past two years as an analogy.

But looking at it this way, it seems to be completely different...

Babic looked at the people around him who suddenly fell silent, a little confused.

However, after a slight pause, he continued:

"The other thing is, if you really plan to use an aircraft carrier, then the research and development of carrier-based aircraft...or procurement should start almost at the same time. Otherwise, if there is only one ship, it will not be able to play its role."

“Carrier-based aircraft…”

Hearing this, several people around him smiled:

“Based on my experience over the years, I think what we should be worried about is whether our progress here will be too slow..."

(End of this chapter)

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