"So many? they don't have a long time?" Zheng Yucheng's eyes were like bull's eyes.

Several other bigwigs have seen the world, but when they heard this number, they were also short of breath.

Iraqis are crazy and don't plan to live at all?

Xie Kai was a little disappointed, "It's only more than 2.6 billion US dollars, but it doesn't exceed 3 billion!"

Some are unwilling.

This is a hammer deal, the Iraqis have invested tens of billions of dollars in the construction of the Tikrit Division, and even if you count the equipment sold to the Iraqis earlier, it adds up to only five billion dollars......

If all of them are equipped with Chinese-style equipment, we will be able to clearly see where the performance gap between China and the United States lies and how to avoid these problems.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States fanned the flames everywhere in the world, and whoever was disobedient would beat people with a big stick.

When China becomes the world's second largest economy, and even surpasses the United States in terms of GDP, US imperialism will make trouble......

"How greedy you have to be, use your talents, and say that it doesn't even exceed three billion dollars. Zheng Yucheng was very content, "This year, our country's military spending accounts for more than a quarter." ”

"Don't talk about this troublesome thing. Xie Kai immediately asked Zheng Yucheng to stop.

The old guy probably wants to talk about aircraft carriers again.

"Let's talk about the Iraqis' demand that all weapons and equipment be delivered within two years. The Iraqis are in a bit of a hurry this time, and it stands to reason that they don't have money now, so they won't be like this. Xie Kai's words attracted everyone's attention.

The behavior of the Iraqis is too perverse.

It stands to reason that when there is no money, it is more important to save money.

"Can the delivery be completed within two years?" Zheng Yucheng asked Wang Guilin, who had closer contact with the relevant cooperative units of the entire base and understood the production strength.

"Push hard, you can. Wang Guilin said.

Zheng Yucheng looked at Xie Kai, "No matter what their reason is, it doesn't matter." As long as the money goes into our pockets. ”

"Lao Wang, now there is another order of more than two billion US dollars, aside from the cost and the benefits to the brother units, we have at least more than one billion US dollars, is it enough to build an aircraft carrier?" Qi Zhiyuan did not give up at all.

"There's no time to do it. Wang Guilin didn't let go, and Yang Qian's eyes began to be murderous.

Xie Kai didn't understand why all of a sudden, the base began to discuss the matter of the aircraft carrier.

It looks like it's still eyebrows.

"Our fighter project and the 10th modification of the aircraft project require a large amount of funds, and we must continue to invest. In addition, the 65,000-ton press is also about to start, which is hundreds of millions of ......" Yang Qian said with a cold face, "Comrades, our small treasury seems to be rich, but compared to what we need to invest, this is just a drop in the bucket, and we have to save some ......."

Xie Kai's eyes widened.

Is this a drop in the bucket?

Just kidding!

In the entire base, the annual R&D investment has not exceeded 1 billion US dollars, and the 691 factory can provide tens of millions of profits every year......

"You're talking about aircraft carriers, haven't we already dismounted in China?" Xie Kai asked suspiciously.

Hearing Xie Kai's question, Qi Zhiyuan suddenly came to his senses.

If Xie Kai agrees, it is even more likely that this matter can be done.

"Who told you that our domestic aircraft carrier plan will not be launched?" Qi Zhiyuan's words made Xie Kai even more puzzled.

At the 78 Naval Development Conference, it was determined that the direction of the construction of the Navy was mainly an offshore defensive navy.

Limited funding needs to be used to the best of its ability, and the nuclear submarine project, which has made a breakthrough, although it is not yet in service, is an indispensable part of the country's three-in-one nuclear strategy.

In the absence of long-range strategic bombers in the Air Force, only nuclear strikes by road-based long-range strategic missiles remain.

Therefore, most of the Navy's projects have been discontinued, and all the funds are tilted towards nuclear submarines.

Aircraft carriers are the most expensive in the Navy, and naturally it is impossible to continue.

Xie Kai had never heard of the project of aircraft carriers in the country in the eighties, after all, China did not even have the experience of manufacturing 5,000-ton large warships, let alone tens of thousands of tons of aircraft carriers, plus supporting carrier-based aircraft, escort fleets, etc., this cost made the navy unable to support it without underwear.

"In 69-72, the state launched the aircraft carrier program, and later, for economic reasons, in order to ensure the steady progress of the 718 project, it was discontinued...... Coupled with the many aviation projects that were launched later, one of the most serious consequences is that when an aircraft carrier is built, there are no suitable carrier-based aircraft available in China......"

Qi Zhiyuan briefed Xie Kai on the domestic aircraft carrier program from beginning to end.

"In 77 years, the domestic economic problems were prominent, and for the first time, a comprehensive military project was investigated, and the performance indicators were too high and the national strength could not be supported temporarily, either the performance indicators were adjusted, or the horse was dismounted, and the technology research and development capabilities were retained...... After entering the 80s, many adjusted projects passed experiments, but the cost was too high, did not meet the needs of the country, and the performance indicators could not be reached, so they were adjusted again...... As a project that has been dismounted a long time ago, the aircraft carrier was originally nothing. In the seventies, our country had a good relationship with the United Kingdom, and at the beginning it was to seek cooperation with Britain to build a helicopter carrier with a displacement of 1.5~18,000 tons, with the British Type 42 destroyer or our improved design of the Type 51 destroyer formation, carrying Harrier fighters, mainly used for anti-submarine ......"

"And such a plan?" Xie Kai felt, he knew too little before.

China negotiated with Britain to introduce Type 42 destroyers, Xie Kai knew, but the British asked for a sky-high price at the beginning, but in the Battle of the Falklands, this thing was sunk by the Argentine Air Force, and the Chinese side gave up.

But about the helicopter carrier, Xie Kai really didn't hear about it.

In 83, the media reported in Xiangjiang that there was an imaginary diagram of a continental vertical take-off and landing (CVHG) 20,000-ton aircraft carrier, which was estimated to be used in 85, 190X40X8m, 30kn, 20-25 vertical take-off and landing planes and helicopters, hangar 170X25m, deck 180X30m, one elevator in the front and rear, 8 helicopter take-off and landing areas, and a small beveled take-off deck. On the right side of the bridge is an integrated chimney in the middle, a lattice mast in the rear, and an 8-line anti-aircraft missile launcher in the front and rear of the bridge. At the highest point in front of the chimney is a long-range radar ......"

"Isn't this nonsense!" Xie Kai didn't believe it at all, "Xiangjiang media, it's okay to report on the blood of some wealthy families, can you believe these?"

I don't believe that Xie Kai is killed, if there really is, so it is said that there is a nose and an eye, and now China does not have an aircraft carrier?

Do you need them to intervene?

"It's a fact. The remote control model of the aircraft carrier in the experimental pool of the 702 Institute was photographed ......," Wang Guilin sighed, "It was leaked." Jianjiu was also dug up by the media in Xiangjiang. ”

Xie Kai was dumbfounded.

Sure enough, there are too many truths about history that have been hidden.

China's aircraft carrier program has actually reached the stage of testing models.

"Sea Harriers and Big Lynxes, heavy helicopters, Super Wasps, Sea Javelin anti-aircraft missiles, these were originally for aircraft carriers. It's a pity that the British don't sell the waves, the sea javelin is too expensive, and in 79 they plan to buy helicopters, 70 BEEL212/412, the price is negotiated, the British are not willing to sell, and the price is sky-high, and then the French came in and are willing to provide technology, so in the end, only the super wasp was introduced, and the domestic launch of the Zhi-9......" Zheng Yucheng also told what he knew.

Xie Kai felt that he was still too naïve.

Where have you seen these things on the Internet before?

"In fact, the helicopter carrier is already our second domestic aircraft carrier program, that is, it was launched two years ago. Qi Zhiyuan saw Xie Kai shocked, and his heart was secretly refreshed, "And this time, it is not an aircraft carrier plan, but a pre-research work and project demonstration ......."

"So, you're going to turn this into a research and development project? We can't even build a 5,000-ton warship in China. How to build it? Not to mention anything else, we can only manufacture the steel used for the flight deck of the aircraft carrier? Or can we continue to pay for the welding process that needs to be used in the construction process of the aircraft carrier?

China's aircraft carriers started from the Varyag.

Qi Zhiyuan and the others were lonely for a while.

Xie Kai poured cold water on their boiling blood.

"I know what everyone thinks, but we don't have any foundation in this area, and it's too difficult to do it. Let's wait. Xie Kai is more desperate than anyone else to have an aircraft carrier, "I can't even figure out the structure of the aircraft carrier, how to design it?"

If there is no navy with aircraft carriers, then it can still be called a navy?

Even if you watched Lao Maozi's Kuznetsov sail all over the sky, isn't it? Who dares to say that thing is not powerful enough?

In particular, the picture that Xie Kai remembers the most is also a sad photo for countless people in China - in May 1980, when General Liu, the father of China's aircraft carrier who was then deputy chief of the General Staff, visited the American CV-61 Assault aircraft carrier, the United States, in order to keep secrets, did not allow the Chinese personnel on board to visit the ship to get too close to the equipment, and General Liu was tiptoeing to see the advanced equipment of the US military at the specified distance......

For the sake of just seeing more clearly.

Even so, in the end, General Liu did not board China's own aircraft carrier.

If he has a chance, how can Xie Kai not let the old general board his aircraft carrier, what he wants to see, but if he can't see it, he dismantles the equipment to show him, what are he doing on tiptoe?

"We need money now, buy an aircraft carrier and come back, let's disassemble it, study the ...... surveying and mapping," Qi Zhiyuan said unwillingly.

"Oh?" Xie Kai snapped, "If that's the case, is it all right?" It's not bad to buy a second-hand old aircraft carrier and see how it is structured. ”

"The British Dignity-class aircraft carrier Melbourne, which Australia bought, was decommissioned in '82 and sold to the South Koreans last year for disassembly. The Koreans feel that they will lose money by dismantling and are ready to sell it again......" Qi Zhiyuan looked at Xie Kai, "Their asking price is a bit high." ”

Hearing the Melbourne, Xie Kai was even more energetic.

This is the first time that Chinese designers have taken a closer look at the structure of an aircraft carrier.

"How much?"

"$15 million ......"