Some things seem to be accidental, but when you dig deeper, there is always an inevitability in them.

The quarrel in the Khrunichev conference room continued, but the struggle for power above was not all there was to it.

Although the Russian economy has suffered extremely serious losses, it is still better than the situation just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The once poor people who went to the streets to sell clothes and military medals in exchange for food are gone, perhaps because the food supply in Russia has improved slightly, or it may be that the number of clothes and military medals is limited after all.

Either way, the people of the former empire are finally struggling to survive.

Moreover, some people are living quite well, and it can even be said that they are beyond imagination.

Dimitrogozin is one such person, as a former official of the defense system, he is the so-called "successful person" who grasped the pulse of the times and changed his life in one fell swoop.

Compared to the original history, Russia's power has been greatly weakened. In the process of coming to power, the Khitans relied heavily on the strength of the army, and they would inevitably continue to rely on the strength of the army to protect their power for the foreseeable time, so they were burdened with heavy financial burdens, and at the same time greatly weakened the power and prestige of the Khitans.

The military leaders have become a group that cannot be ignored politically and economically in Russia.

It was this fact that Dimitrogozin relied on to achieve the reversal of his life.

In 1993, Khrunichev established an international launch service company as a joint venture with the energy company and Lockheed Corporation of the United States to undertake international satellite launch business.

However, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and although the newly established International Launch Services Company can get business through Lockheed, it does not have a rocket that can be used to launch it!

It takes capital to do business, and it takes rockets to launch satellites. It is impossible for satellite service providers to provide funds for the production of rockets in advance, so Khrunichev himself needs to come up with money to produce a rocket, and then collect money from others after hitting the satellite.

But does Khrunichev have this money? Not to mention Khrunichev, even Russia's state finances do not have this money!

What to do?

Dimitrogozin, who was an official of the Ministry of Defense at the time, came up with a solution.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and the United States signed an intercontinental missile treaty to reduce the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

As an important strategic weapon for Russia, the UR100N intercontinental missile allows Russia to keep only 105 units. At this time, Russia has 170 UR100Ns in its arsenal, and another 65 new UR100N ICBMs need to be dismantled, which are almost brand new and unopened.

Instead of destroying these missiles, why not use them to launch satellites? This is a lucrative business.

Dimitrogozin, by virtue of his internal connections, contracted the destruction of these missiles. After gaining control of the missile, he signed a contract with the International Launch Service for the lease and sale of rockets - lease first and then sell. During the period when the missiles were stored, the rockets rented by the International Launch Services Company had to pay another sale fee when they hit the sky.

In this way, Dimitrogozin does not even have to pay for renting warehouses and logistics.

The destruction of missiles begins with a sum of money from the Ministry of Defense, and the lease and sale of missiles takes another sum of money. At the same time, these missiles are stored in the warehouses of the International Launch Services Company, so they are not missiles but rockets, and they can also mortgage their property and borrow money from the bank.

In the course of this empty glove white wolf, Dimitrogozin amassed an astonishing fortune.

Of course, it is not so easy to convert the UR100N ICBM into a commercial rocket. The UR100N is an underground silo launched intercontinental missile, loaded with high-quality nuclear weapons and military satellites, which can fully withstand the acoustic vibrations generated by underground silo launches. However, commercial satellites do not have such good seismic performance, and the launch cannot be carried out from underground silos.

However, with the use of ground launches, the design of ICBMs is considered to be launched from underground silos, and cannot be launched in the open air.

So what to do?

It's easy to do!

With the money from the mortgage, Dimitrogozin transformed an above-ground "silos". The environment of a silo was simulated by enclosing the rocket under the cargo compartment with a steel ring...... It has become a unique above-ground silo in the world. delicacies

The cost of the renovation is only a drop in the bucket compared to the income of his business.

And how many of these are vertical and horizontal, ghostly and intriguing, it is really comparable to a Hollywood commercial blockbuster-like legend.

Did anyone in the Ministry of Defense come up with such a plan? How did he persuade the Ministry of Defense to hand over the business to a private organization? Did anyone within Khrunichev accuse him of the loss of state assets? How did Dimitrogozin subdue himself to the investigation? How did he become a supplier to the International Launch Service Corporation? Isn't the rent-to-sell method a means to manipulate him? You must know that if it were not for the International Launch Services Corporation to admit that these missiles were rockets, not only would Dimitrogozin not be able to leave a single piece behind, but the storage and transportation costs alone would have bankrupted him, and wouldn't it be better for the International Launch Services Corporation to buy these missiles from the bank in the name of bankruptcy estate?

Dimitrogozin is a legend, at least. Under so many impossibilities, he made it possible.

The swords, swords, and shadows, peaks and loops are really exciting.

It's a pity and a pity that such a wonderful story is really unknown to the extreme. I'm afraid that no one but Dimitrogozin will be able to piece together the whole picture of it, and no one will be able to see it again.

With this single operation, Dimitrogozin became a big oligarch in the Russian space field in one fell swoop. After the 65 proton rockets modified from the ICBM were used up, Khrunichev began to use the newly produced rockets to complete the launch operation.

However, it was at this critical juncture that all five successive launch missions failed.

Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin kept an eye on Khrunichev from the very beginning, and issued several instructions in succession, demanding that the launch success rate of the International Launch Service must be guaranteed. However, even so, the failure of these five consecutive launches still dealt a serious blow to Khrunichev's international credit, and for a time the commercial orders of the International Launch Service Company were no longer cared for.

As a state enterprise, Chernomyrdin can be said to have exhausted all means. Auditing, dispatching supervisors, transferring the main figures of the original management, mixing sand to the main business departments, seconding capable business personnel from other units, visiting the site office, almost all the methods that can be thought of have been used.

But the rocket that went to the launch site should fail or fail, as if the proton rocket should not have succeeded at all.

The problem is that the cost of production of these five rockets is all paid in advance by the state. The failure of the launch means that the country's finances have lost all their money, which is really nerve-wracking.

Against this backdrop, another rhetoric began to emerge in the government. Now that Khrunichev has become a financial burden, privatizing it would at least get rid of the burden and get a valuable cash asset, right?

This argument began as a single voice, but with the failure of all five launches, it gradually became mainstream in the media and the system. The Independent and Spark contributed a lot, and Berezovsky even used his own internal connections to put considerable pressure on Melkin.

And it is known that Berezovsky had a great relationship with Gusinsky. As for Gusinsky, in addition to being one of Russia's seven financial oligarchs, he is also a Russian media mogul. The Khitans were able to win the second round of the referendum, and the media war manipulated by Gusinsky played a great role.

You must know that in his heyday, Gusinsky even dared to say that "it is a monkey, and we can make it president if we want!" In any case, the Khitans did not have the courage to offend, and they would not offend Gusinsky from the perspective of interests.

Under such tremendous pressure, Khrunichev's privatization was finally on track. And in Khrunichev's privatization bid, the one with the greatest chance of winning is, of course, Dimitrogozin.

Behind Dimitrogozin stood not only himself. And not just a Lockheed Martin, not just an International Launch Service, not just some top of the Ministry of Defense, not just these hungry oligarchs......

If you want to make Dimitrogozin pay more, Khrunichev and these people actually have no good way.

But for some people, it doesn't have to be worth enough – just make people aware of how much damage they can make. Just like the Tianjin gangsters before the liberation, I can't cure others, can't I still harm myself?

I'll stab myself to see if I'm scared to death you.

"The failure of all the newly produced Proton rockets was obviously a design problem in the process of commercial launch transformation. ”

Garin Gerb, general director of the Khrunichev space center, finally stepped forward, and no one expected him to hit the board on himself: "After our research, the engineers agreed that the most likely problem was the inertial navigation system. If the inertial navigation system fails, then it is clear that these satellites will not be able to appear in the right orbit anyway. ”

"Therefore, after the study of the leadership of the space center, it was unanimously decided to demote Plesetsk, the chief engineer of the inertial navigation system, and to pursue the punishment of commercial civil liability. ”

"It turns out that there are no problems with the Proton rockets we produce, and the Khrunichev space center has always been the pride of the Russian space sector. Our failures are not systematic, they are simply trusting someone who is not trustworthy. ”

"All this is the fault of Plesetsk, chief engineer of inertial navigation systems. ”