Chapter 856 The Varyag returns to China
Almost at the same time Chang Haonan attended the signing ceremony of the cooperation project.
Liao Province, Dalian (bushi)...
Cough cough——
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.
Because it was still prohibited to pass through the Suez Canal, after more than nine months of long journey, the tugboat team headed by Nikolay Chikel finally brought Varyag to The number was towed to the destination of the trip.
Even those who have not personally experienced the difficulties and obstacles along the way can still see something from the logbook submitted by the mission leader Zhu Yuzhou.
Especially when this behemoth, which has neither power nor rudder effect, 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 targeted by pirates, or at least suspicious vessels that appear to be pirates.
In the end, he was rescued by a patrol ship from the Saudi Navy...
Later, he experienced a series of obstacles such as being maliciously blocked in the shipping route and obtaining permission to pass through the Strait of Malacca before finally returning to The embrace of the motherland.
Just before entering the port, the pilot ship and the tugboat Nikolay 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 warm 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 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.
Of course this includes Valery Babich.
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.
It wasn’t until about a week ago that five people, including him, were suddenly notified.
Immediately hand over the project at hand.
Then, just two days later, they were arranged to live in a villa area in the outer suburbs.
Then, it’s today.
"You...are you really planning to continue building this ship?"
Babic asked Sun Suguang, who was standing not far away.
In fact, of course he knows the answer -
Although the Chinese have purchased several decommissioned aircraft carriers through different channels before, as an insider who participated in the whole process, he can clearly feel that this time the situation no the same.
The technical data of the aircraft carrier itself, relevant personnel of the Black Sea Shipyard and Azov Steel Plant, the "Nitka" aircraft carrier training facility...
If you had not made up your mind to ship on the Varyag If we continue to build on the basis of existing facilities, there is no need to spend a lot of money and energy to introduce these supporting facilities.
There is no need to rush over alone to 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.
“Of course.”
Sun Suguang turned around and looked at Babic, who was trembling slightly with excitement:
“At the beginning of this year , superior units, and the Navy have made this requirement clear. ”
"We in China already have the technology and experience to build a 60,000-ton large-scale ship purely in accordance with military specifications, but aircraft carriers are, after all, a complex and brand-new subject."
"So compared to completely building an aircraft carrier from Starting from scratch and continuing to develop on the existing basis will be more efficient and reduce a lot of trial and error costs."
"This is why we invited you here."
When he heard this answer from the interpreter, Babbage couldn't help but breathe harder.
After a while, he looked back at the Varyag, which was already berthed on the shore:
"If possible, I hope we can organize manpower as soon as possible to start investigating the situation of the entire ship."
At this time, another person next to him interjected:
" There should be design drawings of this ship in the technical information we got before, right?"
"There should be drawings."
Babic nodded:
"However, this ship has been idle for nearly ten years, and some equipment has been dismantled many times during this period."
"In addition, for about five or six years in the middle, the docks of the Black Sea Shipyard were unattended. state, so some things will definitely be stolen by people who board the ship privately. Neither I nor anyone else can fully grasp these situations."
"You proposed to buy it the year before last. When I was building this ship, I also considered inspecting the entire ship, but I simply couldn’t organize enough manpower. This ship has 20 floors and more than 3,000 cabins. It is impossible to complete it with one or two people..."
After listening to 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. In terms of manpower... it may not be possible right now. Very sufficient.”
"But the most important thing on the ship should be the cabins related to power, aviation and weapons systems. I can send about fifty people first, starting from these key positions. Once the project team is formally established, I will send some more people."
Babiqi 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..."
Sun Suguang and several other colleagues looked at each other, and each could see a little shock in each other's eyes.
Just now Babic said that he did not have enough manpower in the past few years, and they all thought that the other party might need a team of several hundred people.
After all, in such a large Black Sea shipyard, there are hundreds of people who were profited by Wu Yifan from Huaxia and finally passed the review.
The result...can'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 taking the massive layoffs in the country in the past two years as an analogy.
But looking at it this way, it seems that it is completely different...
Babic looked at the people around him who suddenly fell silent, a little confused.
But after a slight pause, he continued:
"The other thing is, if you really plan to use an aircraft carrier, then for the research and development of carrier-based aircraft...or procurement , it should almost start simultaneously, otherwise it will not be able to function with only one ship."
"Carrier-based aircraft..."
Hearing this, several people around them smiled:
"Based on these years of experience, I think what we should be worried about is whether our progress here will be too slow..."
(End of this chapter)