Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 525 The Shock of Boarding

Seeing everyone's puzzled look, this person looked at everyone with a smile and said: "Hehe, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Zhou Yang, and I am the director and legal representative of this shipyard. I'm sorry, because the workers below construct There was a technical problem, so I have been down to public relations with them for the past few days. I have neglected everyone, please forgive me.”

Seeing that the factory manager Zhou Yang has said so, there must be someone here to express his opinion, after all, he doesn't want to hit people with smiling faces.So Deputy Director Song stood up and said with a smile: "Hehe, we didn't think carefully and came here suddenly, causing you trouble."

"Hehe, what's the matter, welcome the superiors to guide the work of our factory, we are flourishing." Zhou Yang said now as he felt holding Deputy Director Song's hand.

Seeing that both of them were looking at themselves, at this time the secretary over there stepped forward and said to Zhou Yang: "Old Zhou, let me introduce you, this is Deputy Director Song of the Science and Technology Commission, who is the Lead the team."

"Welcome, welcome, welcome to the chief." After hearing about the identity of Deputy Director Song, Zhou Yang became even more enthusiastic.

"This is Vice Minister Lin of the Naval Armament Department,,, this is Mr. Feng, the main expert who came to investigate this time. This,,," When introducing Jiang Chen, the secretary didn't know what to say.

Zhou Yang immediately grabbed Jiang Chen's hand and shook it: "I know, this is the comrade who wants to buy our boat. I said, Comrade Jiang, you can't buy this boat. We have worked so hard to get this boat from abroad. We bought it back and expect it to bring us a certain amount of income, so we can’t just let you snatch it away like this.”

"Hahaha good." Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Jiang Chen was also embarrassed when he heard the words: "Hehe, it was just a moment of anger, don't take it seriously. I was a little emotional at the time, and I couldn't control it well, I'm sorry."

This Zhou Yang waved his hands again and again and said: "No need to apologize, you are right. We have been infested with money for a long time and lost our nature. It was you who woke us up. I think I was also a member of the Navy. Although I have changed jobs, my heart will always be attached to the navy. Don’t worry, we will cooperate with your work and assist you in carefully inspecting this first ship. Even as you said, as long as the ship meets our requirements For the navy, even if we go bankrupt, we will give this ship to the navy."

"Thank you. On behalf of the Navy, I thank you." Vice Minister Lin said with a smile, "With you veterans caring about the Navy, I believe the Navy will get better and better."

As they spoke, the two recalled Zhou Yang's time in the navy. After coming here for a while, everyone got to the point.Although Zhou Yang promised to do his best to cooperate with the investigation and research work of the delegation, he did his best, and he was powerless in some matters.For example, this ship cannot be kept, it must be dismantled, and it cannot be used for military purposes, lest they will pay high liquidated damages and lose their international reputation.In this way, the entire shipyard is likely to go bankrupt.Although Zhou Yang didn't care about anything, there were still many workers in the shipyard.When the shipyard closed down, it became a problem for these workers to eat. For this, Zhou Yang must be responsible for these workers.Another thing is that the ship is now parked on the berth. If it is not dismantled, it will always occupy the space, which will bring a lot of losses and various expenses to the shipyard every day.Therefore, as a result of the final negotiation, it was agreed that the delegation should board the ship for inspection, but it must be done quickly so as not to delay the work progress of the shipyard.Afterwards, the shipyard communicated with the leaders of the Guangdong Provincial Economic and Economic Commission through this phone call with the decision and related explanations, and got their support. In this way, the matter was settled in this way.

Considering that in order not to bring losses to the shipyard, Jiang Chen and the others must speed up the work progress.So early the next morning, the entire expedition team arrived at the shipyard.Under the leadership of the workers, everyone approached the aircraft carrier they longed for.Although this "Melbourne" is very small, it is only 211.2 meters long and 24.8 meters wide, with a displacement of only 1.5 tons and a full load of only 2.05 tons.Compared to other aircraft carriers throughout the period, such as the famous USS Kitty Hawk.Its ship is 323.8 meters long, 76.8 meters wide, and has a total deck area of ​​16592 square meters, which is about the size of three football fields and can carry more than 3 carrier-based aircraft of various types.The ejection runway length of the flight deck is 70 meters, and the landing runway is 80 feet; the aircraft carrier has a draft of 36.5 meters, a standard displacement of 11 tons, and a full-load displacement of 60100 tons.Not to mention some nuclear powered aircraft carriers.Even the Soviet Union, which is not good at developing aircraft carriers, has 86000 to [-] tons of aircraft carriers.Compared with these giants, the 'Melbourne' is pitifully small. It is like a small toy beside these big guys.But this ship is larger than any of our warships in China, and it is much larger, even comparable to one-tenth of others' tonnage.

Looking at the "Melbourne" quietly parked on the berth, a ray of morning light was hitting it at the moment, reflecting the golden light, which intoxicated everyone present.Some experts even said with emotion: "It's really big."

"Yes, this is too shocking. It is really hard to imagine the level of shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the 40s." Another expert said with emotion.

Hearing the comments of the experts next to him, Mr. Feng felt a little sad, but he still waved his hands vigorously and said, "Go, let's go aboard and have a look."

Looking at a group of excited experts, even leaders like Deputy Director Song and Deputy Minister Lin, not to mention these young entourage.Jiang Chen shook his head and followed.Because the whole ship is too big, originally, the workers in the shipyard wanted to make a hole in the bottom of the ship to let them in, but the experts frantically opposed it.They believe that this is destroying the structure and integrity of the hull, which is absolutely unacceptable.So in the end, the people in the shipyard had no choice but to allow the experts to board the ship, the workers found him a long ladder.But this is not enough, the ladder of more than ten meters can only be used for the elevator part of the Melbourne.So everyone decided to climb up first, and then find a way to climb up to the deck.

The ladder is very steep, even the young people and workers in front are struggling.Seeing several old experts preparing to climb up, Jiang Chen originally wanted to give them a hand and help them, but he was thrown away by them one by one, and then began to climb up quickly with a kind of selfless excitement , that speed, that movement, much more agile than the young man in front.

When everyone finally stood on the flight deck of the 'Melbourne' through the hard work of nine oxen and two tigers, they were still stunned.They already knew how big it was, but when they stood on it, they could feel how huge this 'sea monster' really is.

(End of this chapter)