Great warships

Chapter 303 Alarm at the base

Qin Tao doesn't want anything, and this kind of Su-25 is not his favorite. At this time, after hearing Qin Tao's words, Yarmolenko felt very sorry, don't want too much, even if this one gives him ten Ten thousand dollars is fine.

However, he has just negotiated a deal worth 150 million dollars, and he has made a windfall.

Qin Tao didn't look in the grass for a long time. After all, the more he likes something, the more calm he should be, so that he can get it better.

Several people walked back, continued to walk forward through the path opened in the grass, and returned to the dark red deck.

The area of ​​this deck is very large. Qin Tao pointed to the leaping deck and said, "If you come here in winter, you might be able to ski on it."

Yarmolenko nodded. The officers and soldiers guarding the base did do this when they were bored. It was a pretty good ski jump platform, whether it was an airplane or a skier.

He smiled and said, "Yeah, it's nice to ski on it, but when we were testing the catapult, we tied all kinds of things to the catapult and popped it out, which was also very enjoyable."

As he spoke, his finger pointed to the catapult on the other side.

A slender slit appeared on the dark red steel deck. Zheng Ming walked over it with great interest, carefully watching everything below.

In this era, the most mature and reliable is the steam catapult. So far, all steam catapults are used on American aircraft carriers!
Zheng Ming was very interested. It would be great if the steam catapult here could be disassembled!
Qin Tao continued to joke with Yarmolenko: "I heard that Americans like to use steam catapults to catapult their stinky leather boots. What have you catapulted? Is there a toilet?"

"We are not as bad as the Americans. We once ejected a truck." Yarmolenko pointed to the grass in the distance: "After the ejection, the truck flew into the grass over there. That scene was really amazing. Interesting."

The broken truck is still in the grass, but the catapult here is completely unable to work.

"Really? Let's go and see."

Qin Tao walked past Zheng Ming and patted him on the shoulder.

Of course Qin Tao knew what Zheng Ming was thinking, but Qin Tao had no intention of doing this.

In fact, when the scrap steel of the Ulyanovsk was taken away, there were parts of this kind of steam catapult in the scrap steel. After all, before the shutdown of this nuclear-powered warship, these parts had been After assembling it, Qin Tao packed it and took it away.

However, Qin Tao didn't say this, and the scrap steel was thrown directly into the open space of the Mingzhou Iron and Steel Plant.

The steam catapult is already a backward thing, and there is no need for his side to waste time on the steam catapult. Qin Tao trusts the horseman very much. He believes that the horseman will definitely get what he needs to get out.

If the samples of these steam catapults are known, then some people in China may support the steam catapult project just to be on the safe side.

Simply cut off their support, so that they have no choice but to support electromagnetic catapults.

When the catapult was developed, the steam catapult was supported and funded, and the electromagnetic catapult was built by Ma Gong with self-raised funds. In the end, the steam catapult was compared.

Qin Tao didn't want to take a detour in this regard.

Sure enough, after walking over, in the grass, you can see a Maz military vehicle. When it flew up and fell down, the vehicle was completely deformed. After that, it was moved to one side, avoiding the extension line of the steam catapult .

The wind and rain, the entire vehicle is rusty.

Qin Tao walked around it, feeling a lot of emotion. It was a car, but it had a chance to fly. For it, it was both lucky and unfortunate.

"Hey, there seems to be another car over there?" Qin Tao pointed to another car in the grass not far away.

The biggest feature of that car is that it has many wheels. On the side of the car, there are five off-road tires with huge patterns. Therefore, the whole car is longer than the Scud missile launcher!You can tell what this vehicle is for just by looking at it.

In particular, on the top of the car, there is a huge cylinder.

I don't know how many years it has been idle, the off-road tires of that car are all flat, and the body is also rusty, the same color as the surrounding mud.

Yarmolenko glanced over there, and then said naturally: "That is a land-based launch vehicle for R-33 missiles. It was tested at the base more than ten years ago, and then it was thrown away. Here it is."

R-33 missiles?

Qin Tao felt his heart beating inexplicably faster. He never thought that there would be such a good thing!

Speaking of the R-33 missile, it seems to be the name of the air-to-air missile. In fact, the number is the same, not only the air-to-air missile, but also the ballistic missile!
Lao Maozi's ballistic missiles also start with R, and the initial imitation V-2 missile was named R-1.
Now, the R-33 missile in front of him, if Qin Tao guessed correctly, should be an upgraded product of the R-27K anti-ship ballistic missile!
In the 60s, Lao Maozi began to develop special anti-ship ballistic missiles. It was originally modified on the basis of the R-27 missile. The 70 test nuclear submarine has carried out many ground and underwater test launches, and has not really equipped troops.

There are many reasons for this. For example, the accuracy of this missile is not always high, and it can only use nuclear warheads as warheads, which is greatly restricted in actual combat.

Therefore, this missile has never entered service, and Lao Maozi's research has not stopped. On the basis of this anti-ship ballistic missile, they have improved the R-33 anti-ship ballistic missile with more advanced technology!

The length of the two missiles is the same, about 13 meters, but the range of the latter has reached 2000 meters, far more than double that of the former.

This anti-ship ballistic missile developed by the 385th Special Design Bureau is already about to mature.However, due to many reasons, this anti-ship ballistic missile was also abandoned.

Reasons, such as the INF Treaty, this kind of missile needs to be reduced, and another example, the Lao Maozi Navy’s worry, if a few anti-ship ballistic missiles can kill the enemy’s aircraft carrier formation, then it will need its own huge surface ships What is the formation doing?
In short, this innovative weapon system has disappeared in the long river of history. Now, even Qin Tao has never thought that such an anti-ship ballistic missile can be found here!

Didn't you say it was tested at the Kapuskin Yar shooting range?Why did you come here to test?
However, it should not be possible to truly simulate the scene of an anti-ship ballistic missile hitting an aircraft carrier at that land shooting range. It should be more appropriate to find a target ship in the Black Sea to test it here.

Now that you have found it, you must not miss it!

"Our aircraft carrier park needs this kind of big guy. I think it's worth a hundred thousand dollars!"

Yarmolenko was overjoyed.

Just now, he was still regretting the loss of one hundred thousand dollars, but now, this piece of crap is actually worth one hundred thousand dollars?
"By the way, is there a missile in it? If there is a real thing in it, when we show it, we open the launch cover and expose the things inside, that's called domineering." Qin Tao continued.

According to the INF Treaty, these missiles are all in the ranks of destruction, but those destroyed are all in service, and the missiles tested are likely to survive.

Qin Tao's heart was filled with anticipation. If there was only one launch vehicle, the $[-] would be in vain.

"There are probably no missiles in here, but there is still a disassembled sample bomb in the warehouse. If you want, you can take that sample bomb away."

Qin Tao was overjoyed.

A group of people came to the warehouse, and in it, they saw a disassembled sample bomb, with parts everywhere and covered with dust.

It is estimated that it cannot be assembled.

"Qin, if you want, you can take all the things here."

Yarmolenko was very generous, anyway, for him, these things are useless, they are completely discarded.

However, Qin Tao can tell at a glance that the technology contained in these sample parts will also have a great effect.

Among other things, just looking at that fairing can be very inspiring.

The R-27K anti-ship ballistic missile is still a traditional cone, but the R-33 in front of it has become a double-cone structure. This is a huge improvement!

After all, anti-ship ballistic missiles need to continue to adjust their trajectory after re-entering the atmosphere, which requires a special aerodynamic rudder surface to be installed on it.

If it is only a traditional cone warhead, installing an aerodynamic rudder will face the problem of excessive resistance at high speeds, and the double cone structure warhead solves the problem ingeniously: it can form a shock wave, allowing the aerodynamic rudder to hide behind the shock wave The rear, thereby greatly reducing the warhead resistance at high speed, allowing the warhead to be precisely controlled in the atmosphere below [-] kilometers.

Only by allowing the warhead to move quickly and agilely can it perform large-scale maneuvers under the control of precise terminal guidance.

but…

"I guess, the precious metals inside should have been stolen?"

This base is almost abandoned. Even if outsiders cannot enter, the guards of the base can still move around at will, so they may steal the precious metals inside to exchange for money.

There was some embarrassment on Yarmolenko's face, which was true.

"If some parts are missing, we probably won't be able to put it back together."

"Well, it seems that there are still some technical materials and missing parts. You can make them yourself. I'll look for them."

As Yarmolenko said, he opened the warehouse next to him. Sure enough, there were still a lot of documents in it!
"These are useless, if you want, you can take them away."

"Well, the waste paper here is good. According to the price of waste paper, I will take these things away."

It seems that this used to be the most important test site for the R-33 missile, so those technicians brought back all the design data in order to be able to correct the defects during the test at any time.

For Qin Tao, this is completely an unexpected gain!He never dreamed that he could get this kind of thing back easily.

In the past, Qin Tao proposed the idea of ​​anti-ship ballistic missiles with the Navy. However, due to the limited funds of the Navy and the many tasks of the Aerospace Academy, this project is estimated to be at the stage of PPT at most. With all the materials and samples returned, it is estimated that the relevant units will be able to officially enter the pre-research, right?
This kind of weapon should really be produced quickly, and then there will be a big killer for an aircraft carrier!

Qin Tao's heart was filled with a sense of urgency.

The waste paper has come to an end. Qin Tao looked at several nearby warehouses and asked curiously, "What's in these warehouses?"

"These are some parts of our Nitka system." Yarmolenko said: "Anyway, the base is abandoned now, Qin, I can give you whatever you want."

We talked about a $160 million project, and the remaining spare parts in the warehouse are useless. Of course, they can be given to Qin Tao.

"Oh, thank you."

Amidst Qin Tao's thanks, Yarmolenko opened the warehouse next to him, and Zheng Ming, who followed Qin Tao, immediately began to breathe heavily.

what is inside?
A couple of spare T-10K landing hooks, a chunky catapult nose gear, an arresting cable, and a few Fresnel lightboxes...

Although it is useless to throw these things in the warehouse, for the motherland that has never been in contact with an aircraft carrier, these things are of great use, very great!

Self-developed from scratch, and imitation with samples, the efficiency is definitely different.

It's like sending charcoal in the snow!
Zheng Ming was very shocked, Qin Tao smiled: "These things are indeed waste products, but we can't ask for your things for nothing. I think these things are worth..."

Before Qin Tao finished speaking, Yarmolenko shook his head again and again: "No, no, Qin, you have already given me a lot of benefits. If these things are useful to you, then take them away!"

Since Yarmolenko is so firm, Qin Tao is also embarrassed to refute Yarmolenko's face.

"Okay, then I'll accept it. Don't worry, the money will be transferred to your account tonight."

Qin Tao has made a lot of money in recent business deals, so it’s no problem to pay the Navy in advance. Anyway, with Zheng Ming by his side, he can know how much Qin Tao spent. to reimburse.

Just when Qin Tao and Yarmolenko reached an agreement to end this pleasant journey, suddenly, the siren of the base sounded.

"Damn it, which guy is drinking too much?" Yarmolenko said angrily.

What is the emergency in this abandoned base?This alarm was clearly caused by a guy guarding the base who had drunk too much. The sound was so loud that it made people's hearts tremble.

Too much, too much!
"Look, over there!" At this moment, Zheng Ming pointed to the sky.

In the distance, there seemed to be something approaching. Although it was not clear what it was, one could see its tail trailing a trail of black smoke.

When he saw the situation in the sky, Yarmolenko was also taken aback, and then shouted: "Quick, drive the fire truck in our base!"

Although the base has been abandoned, many facilities are still complete. The fire engine is in a corner of the tower. At this time, a few old men's soldiers ran over and started to start the vehicles.

hum, hum!

hum, hum!

Many times in a row, the engine was not started, so an anxious soldier finally rushed to the front of the car, stuffed the crank into a hole in the front of the car, and shook it vigorously with two powerful arms. , One click, two clicks, three clicks, puffs of black smoke came out of the car's engine, and it finally started.

At this time, the roar in the sky also became louder and louder.

Qin Tao looked at the plane in the sky with his hands in front of the sun, and then he couldn't help feeling emotional: "This plane must be quite big, bigger than Il-76!"

It is difficult to determine the size of an aircraft in the sky without something to compare it to, but this one is different.

When it is flying, its huge body can make people feel more spectacular. Now, the black smoke it drags drags across the sky, forcibly dividing the sky into two halves, like combing the earth. A middle score.

The nose is huge, the glass of the cockpit on the top is too small to see clearly, and four engines are suspended under the huge wings.

If he hadn't counted the number of engines clearly, Qin Tao would have thought it was the more heaven-defying An-225!Now this plane, which is a circle smaller than the An-225, should be the An-124.

There was chaos inside the base. Just as the fire engine drove to the side of the runway, the An-124 transport plane with an engine on fire had already come down.

As the plane gradually lowered its altitude, the silhouette became bigger and bigger. Zheng Ming opened his eyes wide and looked at this big guy.

"I guess it's bigger than our Il-76s!"

"No need to guess, you can say for sure." Qin Tao said: "The empty weight of this kind of aircraft is already not much lower than the maximum take-off weight of the IL-76."

Speaking of large aircraft, the An-124 ranks second among various aircraft in the world, with an empty weight of 176 tons, while the maximum take-off weight of the Il-76 is only about [-] tons.

If you put the two planes together, you can clearly see the gap between the two planes.

The Il-76 has a length of 46.59 meters and a wingspan of 50.5 meters, while the An-124 has a fuselage length of 69.1 meters and a wingspan of 73.3 meters.If the latter is erected, it will be a skyscraper.

Now, this skyscraper is rapidly approaching, the whistling wind makes people's ears buzz, if it is not dragging black smoke, it is absolutely perfect enough.

"Can this plane land on this kind of runway?" Zheng Ming was a little nervous.

Although this is also an aviation base, it is mainly used for those small fighter jets. The length of the runway simply cannot take off and land such a large aircraft, right?

"So, they used the Afghan style of landing." Qin Tao said: "You didn't realize that its landing posture is wrong?"

When an ordinary plane lands, the nose is tilted upwards, so that the rear main landing gear touches the ground first, but now, this transport plane dives down directly!
This way, it's like an old white man throwing his bicycle, with his face first hitting the ground.If it's more literary, then, the buttocks are backward, and the title of flat sand and wild goose is good.

"Yeah, this kind of landing posture is very weird. Aren't they afraid of falling to their death?" Zheng Ming sweated for the pilot.

"Of course, don't be afraid. There's nothing the old man can't do."

When the old man was landing, the captain pulled the curtains and performed a blind landing, not to mention the simple Afghan-style landing now.

This landing was not invented by the Afghans, but in the country of Afghanistan. The old man fought there for ten years and needed a large amount of supplies. Therefore, transport planes often need to land at the airport there.

However, the nearby guerrillas quickly changed their shotguns, and there were a large number of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles on hand. If they landed conventionally and took a slow downline, they would be easily attacked by Stinger missiles.

Therefore, they adopted this bold and novel way of landing: descending sharply in a dive attitude, pulling up suddenly when they are about to approach the ground, and then landing.

This method has many advantages. It can greatly shorten the time of the aircraft landing process, reduce the possibility of being attacked by anti-aircraft missiles, and shorten the running distance required for landing. However, the disadvantage is also great: not an experienced crew Personnel, you can't play with it at all, if you are a little careless, you can shoot it directly on the runway of the airport, and the plane crashes and everyone dies!
In later generations, when the Yun-20 flew to a certain country, it also used this method to land to avoid danger to the greatest extent, which fully demonstrated the superb skills of the pilots of the motherland.

Now, this huge plane just landed like a soaring eagle. Before it touched the ground, it quickly recovered. The nose of the plane was going to be pulled up to let the main landing gear touch the ground.

But... it had an engine on fire!

When it turns from a dive to a climb, the change of attitude requires the engine to exert power. Now, the engine is not powerful!
So, before the fuselage was evened out, the plane touched the ground, and the front landing gear first touched the runway. With a loud click, the landing gear broke instantly!
The fuselage slid on the runway, as if a person fell to the ground and continued to slide forward with his face on the ground, looking very embarrassed.

The machine body rubbed against the ground, and terrible sparks came out. The fire engine chased after it with its siren on.

This scene looked so shocking.

Qin Tao and Zheng Ming, along with several subordinates, also followed.

When the two arrived at the scene, the plane had already stopped, and the fire engine was spraying the smelly water over. The fire water in its tank had not been used for several years, and the smell was comparable to stinky tofu.

Several crew members slid out of the emergency passage of the plane. Although these planes looked similar to civil aviation planes, the pilots looked more handsome with helmets and military flight suits.

Several people in suits also crawled down the ground, attracting Qin Tao's attention.

What mission is this plane flying?There should be no busy air routes here, right?

(End of this chapter)