Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 522 The Brawl Caused by Excitement
"Drag it back!" Everyone coaxed and exploded.All the people present except himself began to talk, and then asked Deputy Director Song about the specific situation.All of a sudden, Deputy Director Song and Minister Huang were overwhelmed.Finally, Deputy Director Song shouted loudly: "Everyone be quiet, be quiet, and listen to me first."

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Deputy Director Song breathed a sigh of relief and looked at everyone and raised his voice: "You have asked too many questions, and it would be too troublesome and time-consuming to answer one by one, so I will introduce this to you first. The specific situation of the "HMS Melbourne" aircraft carrier. Then everyone will ask questions, and I will answer them."

Hearing this, everyone was very quiet, and then stared at Deputy Director Song, for fear of missing any details.Deputy Director Song took out a document, looked at it and said, "The aircraft carrier 'Melbourne' is 211.2 meters long, 24.8 meters wide, with a displacement of 1.5 tons, a full load of 2.05 tons, and a draft of 7.2 meters. The first is the United Kingdom Navy's "Prestige", the hull number R77, which belongs to the Giant-class escort aircraft carrier designed by the United Kingdom in World War II. Because it did not catch up with the World War II. Therefore, after the war, because the United Kingdom's economy could not bear the huge military expenditure, Therefore, the naval power was greatly reduced, and only aircraft carriers with large tonnage, good ship condition and great room for improvement were retained. The follow-up equipment installation of the Noble, which had already been launched, seemed to be sloppy.

So the United Kingdom sold the Noble No. 10 to Australia with a favor of 21 pounds, and renamed it "Melbourne", with the hull number changed to R[-], and became the flagship of the Australian fleet.Then Australia spent a lot of money to add advanced equipment such as steam catapults and modified inclined runways to the aircraft carrier 'Melbourne'.The ship has since been in service with the Australian Navy.

But the luck of this ship is always bad, and it always collides with other ships at sea.There have been seven or eight collisions so far, causing hundreds of casualties.Therefore, for this warship that often caused troubles, Australia was very helpless for a long time, and finally had to choose to retire it.In the end, because they did not want to pay high dismantling costs, the Australian Navy removed some key electronic equipment on board.For example, all advanced equipment such as weapons, electronics, power, etc. on this ship, now only the hull remains.Last year, a ship breaking company in our country took pictures of this hull, and now this ship is being towed at sea. In a few days, this ship will arrive in Yangcheng. "

"The hull is also fine. As long as it is in good condition, we can repair and refit it. Soon we will have an aircraft carrier of our own." A naval expert said excitedly.

"Yes." An expert next to him also said excitedly: "We have been looking forward to this aircraft carrier for so many years, and this is a dream come true, hahaha."

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Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Deputy Director Song stopped everyone and said, "I'm afraid this is not possible for the time being. When the hull was photographed, Australia and the United States were afraid that we would use it for military purposes, so they famously named this ship in the contract. It is not allowed to be used for military purposes, and must be dismantled in accordance with the contract."

"What, why did you sign such a contract?" With a few words, the experts became excited, and then Deputy Director Song said.And the more he talked, the more excited he became, only Deputy Director Song could bear the spittle.It's almost time to see everyone get angry.Minister Huang stopped everyone, and then said with a smile: "This contract was not signed by us, but by the local ship breaking company. When we knew it, the contract had already been signed. But we are doing related work now. To see if we can keep this ship from the hands of the ship breaking company. As for whether it will be refitted or researched in the future, we will discuss this later. The purpose of inviting everyone here is to discuss and take a look at this ship. What is the use value of the aircraft carrier? And we are not sure that we can keep this aircraft carrier, so I would like to ask everyone to go up to this aircraft carrier to conduct relevant inspections and research before it is dismantled. What technology or equipment can be used for our research."

"I still suggest that we try to keep this ship. Our navy is really short of large ships, especially aircraft carriers." A naval expert said first.

After listening to this expert, another expert shook his head and said: "Since the contract has been signed, I think the possibility of us staying is estimated to be very low. And this hull also needs a lot of money, not to mention our Does the navy have so much money? Even if it does, we shouldn’t spend our precious military expenses on such a useless iron lump. And this is an aircraft carrier, we have never touched it before. If we rashly get started , I think we are too aggressive. The food has to be developed step by step, and our ships have to be developed step by step. Our navy’s current ships with more than [-] tons have not yet played well. They will suddenly jump to tens of tons. I think This is too risky. Why don't we develop a practical ship."

"What hasn't been touched, have we touched the atomic bomb before, and it was not invented by us, isn't this risky?" Another expert immediately retorted.

"You are making too much sense." The fourth expert criticized: "Can these two be the same? It is not uncommon for you to know how much we have suffered from adventurism, and why you dare to make such mistakes now. For our domestic It’s not that you don’t know about our shipbuilding capabilities. Moreover, building a warship is much more difficult than building a merchant ship. Look at our warships, there are not many of them of one or two thousand tons, and you just want to build them Tens of thousands of tons of things, is this possible?"

"How is it impossible? We are transforming but not directly building." Another expert retorted.

"Is there a difference?" The fourth expert asked: "The transformation of a warship must be a very complex project. We must fully understand and immediately understand the structure and technology on the surface of the transformation. Let's do it now Say, do you think we have such conditions and technical capabilities? Besides, does an aircraft carrier fight alone? It must be equipped with corresponding escort ships to form an aircraft carrier formation. Do you think our current capabilities can equip him with all these capabilities? Is it an aircraft carrier escort ship? And an aircraft carrier formation must have corresponding carrier-based aircraft, do you think we have it now?"

Seeing that the experts were arguing more and more fiercely, Jiang Chen, who had been sitting calmly in the corner, suddenly stood up and shouted at the quarreling crowd, "Well, can I interject a few words."

After hearing Jiang Chen finished speaking, everyone stopped, and then looked at the unusually young Jiang Chen in the meeting room.Seeing this, Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Thank you. I want to say that there is no point in arguing about it now. I think we should go and inspect the ship first, and then we can make a decision based on the actual situation. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)