France, on the shores of the Atlantic, the military port of Saint-Nazaire. 【Idea Ke-Hand-typed Text Version .net】

Christmas 1985 is still a few days away.

Gu Biao stood on the balcony of a villa with high cliffs on the other side of the port area, feeling the oncoming sea breeze, quite a bit of Napoleonic heroism.

The Loire flows slowly west from the foot in front of him to the Atlantic Ocean. In the "Atlantic Shipyard" in the military port on the other side, a 270-meter-long flatbed ship lies on the outfitting berth, quietly carrying out renovation work.

There is no doubt that this is Gu Biao's new toy for the gambling industry, "Princess Caroline".

The latitude of France is actually quite high, Nantes and Bordeaux are about 46 and 47 degrees respectively, which is equivalent to the northerner provinces of the three eastern provinces in China. (Imagine that the dividing line between the north and south bars is 38 degrees.) 40 degrees to Changbai Mountain. ）

However, because of the warm North Atlantic current, the winter on the west coast of France is not cold, and there are still only occasional snowflakes around Christmas, and most of the time it is still above freezing, which is pleasantly cool.

The warming brought by the North Atlantic Warm Current to the west coast of Europe is very obvious, and some geologists have calculated that if the North Atlantic Warm Current replaces the warming of Western Europe in winter by burning coal, it is estimated that hundreds of billions of tons of coal will be burned every year to achieve the same effect.

This is also why the German army did not freeze to death in Britain, but froze to death in Moscow at the same latitude. In winter, the interior of Europe will be more than ten degrees colder than the Atlantic coast at the same latitude.

This climate makes the sea-view houses around Nantes and Saint-Nazaire somewhat similar to Santorini in Greece and Tuscany in Italy, so that tourists can naturally feel the warmth of a sunshine in their hearts.

It's just that the roof here is red, and the walls are slightly yellowed, not as white as in Tuscany and Santorini, and there are no Eastern European domes that occasionally pop up in Santorini. (Orthodox style house with onion head domes)

Since I came to the west coast of France, the red wine of Bordeaux and the champagne of Picardy can be drunk like water, anyway, I am here for vacation. It's cold and I don't go out, so it's good to get drunk.

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"Cheers, what a spectacular toy, can you take me on the boat then?"

A soft voice came from behind Gu Biao, and he didn't have to look back to know that it was Mina.

Mina flew from Moscow only yesterday to spend Christmas with Gu Biao in France, and by the way to escape the cold of Moscow's winter.

The experience of doing business with Lucia made Mina, who didn't like to drink actively, a little more interested in drinking.

Gu Biao turned around, took the long-necked glass of champagne, and fed each other a glass with Mina in a refined attitude. Then he took advantage of the situation to hold her delicate waist that was rare in the world.

After drinking, Gu Biao softly cared: "From now on, drink less, you also have to pay attention to taking care of your body-what is Suizi doing?"

"Sister Sui, a southerner, hiding in the house to bake the fire, she feels cold in this weather. Mina said indifferently.

Gu Biao didn't ask any more, just lifted the light Princess Mina off the ground, and then leaned on the red sofa on the balcony, hugged Mina and sat on him, everything was silent.

Mina was also very accustomed to this kind of intimacy, and there was no reaction at all, not even blushing or heartbeat, still looking around curiously like a normal person.

Obviously, after getting tired of it, women will also enter the time of a more sage, but this calmness is not because of physiology, but psychology.

Obviously, the attraction of aircraft carriers to Mina is even greater than that of Gu Biao at this moment.

She soon noticed that there was a berth of the same size just further away from the outfitting berth of the Princess Caroline, in the same yard of the Atlantic shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.

And on that berth, there is also a flat-decked ship.

"Don't make a fuss - what is that ship? It looks like an aircraft carrier. ”

Gu Biao felt a little disappointed, so he had to stop the evil hand that soothed the warm fragrance of nephrite, and pointed at the country: "It's not like, it's it." That's the French carrier's active main aircraft carrier, the Clemenceau. You said you, obviously you don't care about this, but when you see it, you feel curious. ”

"People are only curious when they are patriotic, so how can the French know things in advance. Mina pouted and didn't follow, playing a little petty, and she had to take back the bad comment she had just said that she was "ignorant of military politics".

"Yes, yes, my Xiaomina is right, you're just too busy to care. "It's not a big deal, Gu Biao naturally pushed the boat and took it back with the mud, and apologized with a saliva face and took the opportunity to take advantage of it.

In addition to major decisions on right and wrong, how can men reason with their women.

Anyone who only reasoned with women did not end well. Gu Biao has not been a straight man with cancer to this extent.

Mina was a little happier at this time, feeling that her heart was filled with warmth again, and she defended herself coquettishly and seemingly reasonably: "This can't be blamed on people - at first glance, the boat seems to be smaller than the toy you bought, how could they think that this is a French ship in active service, come back to refit it, and think that you have done something like buy one get one free." ”

Gu Biao couldn't help but sweat wildly when he heard this, do you buy one get one free for such a thing as an aircraft carrier?

Not to mention buy one get one free, it's impossible to get half price for the second one.

However, Mina's objective observation is not bad, because don't look at the "Clemenceau-class" aircraft carrier, which was built by the French in the early 60s, and has been in service for 20 years, which is said to be 20 years later than the "Essex-class" of the Americans.

But French goods have always been relatively small in size, so even the "Clemenceau", which was in service in 65, was 10 meters shorter, 7 meters narrower, and 10,000 tons lighter than the "Olistani" that was in service in 50 years.

If the French were to compare with the United States at the same time, it would not be more than ten meters shorter and narrower than 10,000 tons, but at least twice as light. This figure is not an exaggeration, because the "Clemenceau class" is the same as the "Kitty Hawk class" of the Americans, and the "Kitty Hawk class" is not twice as heavy as the full load of 80,000 tons.

"The degree of sophistication of the warships cannot be judged by the size of the warships, and the active main force of the French is a little smaller than the abandoned goods of the Americans, which is true. However, in terms of technological advancement, in addition to the steam catapult, there is no doubt that the "Clemenceau" must have completely exploded the "Olistani" in all directions. ”

Gu Biao followed the common sense of a man to illustrate Mina.

Although the American ships are old, the electronic equipment and catapults can keep pace with the times, and they are loaded on board with new equipment, so it is not surprising that they are more advanced than the new French ships in this regard. It's just that these things must have been dismantled when selling scrap iron, and they won't be brought over by you.

Mina is not ashamed that her common sense is not as good as her husband in this regard, and the girl doesn't care about these things. So she naturally praised as a listener: "Then this time the Clemenceau is here to modernize that steam catapult, how long is it going to stay here, and it won't delay you, will it?"

Gu Biao replied very well with the market: "That's not it, the French haven't developed a new steam catapult, and continue to use old goods." This time, the "Clemenceau" was mainly to dismantle the gun turrets of the ships, and the 4-inch naval guns still have room to play in the environment of modern warfare? The French want to replace all the "Sidewinder" anti-aircraft missiles from the United States.

Then there were some minor repairs, mainly the installation of the 'Sagai' type electronic jamming countermeasure equipment and the 'Siracusa' satellite communicator -- speaking of which, these two improvements, the French should also thank me, that they were all drawn from the British on the other side of the strait during the Falklands naval battle three years ago, the 'electromagnetic compatibility' design was not delicious, so the line of fire was designed in an expedited manner.

If it weren't for the fact that these two things were designed, the French might have docked the Clemenceau for modification a year or two in advance. The 'Sagai' electronic jamming countermeasure system is to enhance the anti-jamming capability of the air defense radar, and the 'Siracusa' is to prevent satellite communications from being interfered with, and even the electromagnetic compatibility standard is the IEC industry standard led by Motorola and Sony.

I inquired about the public information, the ship will be refitted here until September next year, and then the French will let the 'Fuxi' on duty be docked for refit and change the shift with the 'Clemenceau'. ”

Gu Biao played the role of the originator of the "electromagnetic compatibility engineering" industry three years ago, which is still a beautiful talk in the world, and no one dares to steal it.

After all, he took advantage of the fact that after the Breton destroyer "Sheffield" was sunk and the Brittan Admiralty itself did not understand the reason, he preemptively analyzed a wave, and bluntly said that the "Sheffield" was sunk by the "Exocet" because the two systems of satellite communications and air defense radar were electromagnetically incompatible and could not work at the same time because they interfered with each other and could not work at the same time.

Later, the Ministry of Defense of Brittania announced the reasons for the war damage and endorsed Gu Biao, which is equivalent to completely endorsing and writing Gu Biao's academic and engineering prestige in this circle into history textbooks.

"So how do you know so clearly? It's not like something that you can know all about in the open. After hearing this, Mina naturally had some doubts.

"It is not surprising that the French will know that I have come to France to inform Princess Caroline in a grand manner. Gu Biao smiled slightly, and pointed in the direction of the house.

In the desk there, there is still an invitation card a few days ago to invite an electronic engineer from the Tiankun department to participate in a local electromagnetic compatibility system integration academic conference in Nantes.

Of course, Gu Biao himself would not go, but he sent someone.

"The French's 'Saguet' and 'Syracusa', although I can't see the details, but some academic seminars on global integration, my people have attended. The ruler is short, the inch is long, and the tacit communication is not there. ”

When Mina heard this, she secretly felt a little more admiration and pride.

My husband is powerful, and he has resources in everything. Those of us who are engaged in diplomacy can get ties wherever we go.

Mina was indulging in intoxicated pride when the balcony door opened.

Xiao Sui took a big brother who was beeping and handed it directly to Gu Biao: "Princess Caroline's phone, she wants to ask everyone to have dinner in the past two days." It seems that there is something to talk to you about you and the French. ”