Dominate South Asia

The cool wind blew over the Nikolayev Shipyard. The Black Sea was a bit cold in winter.

Wrapping themselves in thick coats, the group came to the Black Sea Shipyard.

Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, Defense Minister Ogarkov and others accompanied Muhammad and his group to the slipway.

The tall cranes, steel and welding sparks everywhere, made Muhammad dazzled. As an ordinary person, standing here, it seemed as if he had infinite power to conquer the world.

On the dock on one side in the distance, a large straight-through deck aircraft carrier was being outfitted. The entire deck was flat, and only the leaping deck extending from the front was somewhat raised, showing its arrogance. On the right bridge, something was being hoisted continuously, and the outfitting was proceeding in an orderly manner.

It is now 1987. Muhammad knows that the warship being outfitted is the Soviet Union's great "engineering" first ship "Tbilisi"!

This is a powerful warship that the Red Navy has placed its hopes on. However, its name seems to indicate its future vicissitudes of life. When the project just started, it was first named "Riga", but in November 1982 it was renamed "Leonid Brezhnev" to commemorate the great Soviet General Secretary who had just passed away. This name was kept for five years. In August this year, it was renamed "Tbilisi". In later generations, on October 4, 1990, it was finally named "Soviet Navy Marshal Kuznetsov".

When it was still in sea trials, the great Red Empire had already disintegrated. The Russian Navy almost forcibly drove it away from the Black Sea Shipyard, but the carrier-based aircraft were all left in Ukraine. A few years later. Russia reluctantly equipped it with carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, the warship was still in the outfitting stage. On the largest slipway No. 0, the second ship of the same class was under construction. It was named Riga and later named Varyag. After staying in the Black Sea Shipyard for several years, it was only an empty shell and was bought by a company in Macau. The sailing process was also full of twists and turns, but it finally broke out of the cocoon and became the Liaoning aircraft carrier of the Eastern country! The commissioning of this aircraft carrier has become a symbol of the strength of the Eastern country's navy!

At the same time, a platform with an area of ​​18,000 square meters was built next to the slipway No. 0, and the various parts of the third aircraft carrier, the Ulyanovsk, were being assembled.

This is a masterpiece of the Black Sea Shipyard. The carrying capacity of this platform is equivalent to that of the slipway. When the slipway begins to be built. This platform will be used for pre-welding of the next warship. When the warship on the slipway is launched, the prefabricated section here can be directly hoisted over, which greatly saves time.

When the Tbilisi was being built, the large hull sections of the Riga were assembled on this platform. When the Tbilisi was completed and launched in December 1985, the 24 super-large sections of the Riga, which were 32 meters long, 38 meters wide, and about 13 meters high, and weighing about 1,400 tons, were moved into the slipway by two 900-ton overhead cranes made in Finland and dozens of gantry cranes.

So, although only two years have passed, the hull of the Riga has been almost built. Now, the Riga will be launched in another year. The prefabricated parts of the third ship, the Ulyanovsk, will be moved here.

In later records, the construction of the Ulyanovsk began in 1988. In fact, it refers to the No. 0 slipway. In fact, the construction started three years ago.

When in Pakistan, Muhammad visited his own shipyard. He would have a kind of admiring psychology towards the huge aircraft carrier. Now, looking at the Soviet shipyard, Muhammad is also sighing at the advancement of human technology.

"General Secretary, Mr. Defense Minister, welcome to the shipyard for inspection." Just as Muhammad was sighing, the director of the shipyard, Yuri Ivanovich Makarov, who had gray hair and glasses, said to the top leader of the Soviet Union, then he turned his head and looked at Muhammad: "Welcome Pakistani friends."

The word "friend" was said reluctantly. Muhammad certainly knew that it was difficult for ordinary people to remain friendly in the face of an opponent who had just ended the war, especially the person in front of him, the Soviet shipbuilding giant who was extremely loyal to the Red Empire, Makarov, the father of aircraft carriers!

Muhammad in later generations also admired this person very much. He graduated from the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Academy in 1958 and served as the chief engineer of the Black Sea Shipyard in early April 1976. He began to serve as the director of the Black Sea Shipyard in 1979. He is a person who is very good at technology. Under his leadership, the phenomenon of overstaffing in state-owned enterprises will not occur, and those who are mediocre will be driven away by him.

His greatest contribution is to streamline the manufacturing of Soviet aircraft carriers. The establishment of the prefabricated platform allows the Soviet Union to quickly manufacture aircraft carriers. At the same time, under his supervision, the Kuznetsov was able to complete its manufacturing in 1991. Otherwise, Russia in the future would not have a single aircraft carrier.

The Varyag is the pain of the old man in his later years. When he saw the Russians and Ukrainians arguing fiercely and making a fuss over the subsequent expenses of the Varyag, Makarov knew that this aircraft carrier could no longer be built because that powerful country no longer existed!

After retirement, Makarov stared at the warship on the outfitting dock every day. When the ship was towed away by a tugboat, the old Makarov burst into tears.

Two years later, he died of depression.

These are all things in the future. At least now, Makarov is shouldering the hope of the Red Empire Navy and building the most powerful warship in the world. At this time, although he is over fifty years old, he is still full of youthful vigor.

"Hello, Mr. Makarov, I'm glad to see you." Muhammad said. Muhammad respects this person, and maybe he can get this person to Pakistan in the future. The current low profile also makes Makarov in front of him feel good.

"What we are seeing now is a new aircraft carrier cruiser being built on the slipway, Order No. 106, and the outfitting dock over there is Order No. 105." Makarov said, "Please follow me to visit Order No. 105."

The Soviets have never called their aircraft carriers aircraft carriers, but have always called them heavy aircraft carrier cruisers.

The reason for calling them that is to pass through the Turkish Straits. If the warships shipped from the Black Sea Shipyard do not want to become warships of the Black Sea Fleet and go to other seas, they need to pass through that narrow passage. Aircraft carriers are offensive weapons, while cruisers can be said to be defensive.

Of course, it is not wrong to call them that. The Soviet aircraft carriers are not just aircraft carriers, but are also equipped with a large number of weapons. Without saying anything else, the 12 P-700 Granit long-range anti-ship missile vertical launch devices under the flight deck at the bow are already the most troublesome weapons for the US fleet. This supersonic anti-ship missile can receive target information through satellites and carry out over-the-horizon strikes, with a maximum range of 550 kilometers. The NATO code name is SS-N-19 ship destruction! The name can show the momentum.

The air defense weapons of this aircraft carrier are more powerful. Four groups of 6×8 launch units of SA-N-9 ship-to-air missile vertical launch devices are arranged on the four side platforms on both sides of the flight deck, with a total of 192 missiles. The four side platforms are also equipped with 8 CADS-N-1 combined missile and gun short-range weapon systems, each of which includes 2 6-tube 30mm AK-630 guns and 2 groups of 4-mounted SA-N-11 short-range ship-to-air missiles. It can be seen that so many air defense weapons are enough to fight against saturation attacks. There is a "Sky Sentinel" multi-function phased array radar on the top of the bridge. It is very similar to the "Aegis" ship-borne radar, which can detect, identify and track multiple batches of targets.

The US aircraft carrier needs a formation to be able to exert its strength, and the Soviet aircraft carrier, even if there is only one left, can go forward bravely and fight the enemy.

Of course, the development of later generations confirmed the error of the Soviets' thinking. The most powerful thing about aircraft carriers is the carrier-based aircraft! Too many weapons will make it impossible to arrange more carrier-based aircraft in the limited space of the aircraft carrier, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of the aircraft carrier. In the future, Russia plans to improve the only Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which is to dismantle the anti-ship missile device and double the hangar area.

Since you are here to visit, you must show Pakistan your most powerful strength! Let the Pakistanis know that the Soviet Union did not win the Afghan war not because the Soviet army was weak, but because the Soviets' focus was not on Afghanistan at all!

The Soviet Union focused on Europe. Pakistan, on the other hand, used all its national strength, even including the support of countless Western worlds behind it, while the Soviet Union only used a mere 100,000 troops and did not use more advanced modern weapons. If a full-scale war breaks out, the Soviet army will be able to occupy the entire Pakistan in a few days.

As far as the navy is concerned, Pakistan, which does not even have a large warship, is no match for the Soviet Navy! Oh, by the way, Pakistan still has large warships, the aircraft carrier built in World War II!

The Soviets were all proud of their country. Muhammad saw the pride in their hearts. They did have reasons to be proud. Unfortunately, in the future, this powerful red empire no longer exists.

Wearing safety helmets, everyone climbed onto the Thebes aircraft carrier through the gangway. (To be continued ~^~)