Just when the feasibility demonstration of the fourth-generation aircraft would become chaotic because of Lu Wenyuan's fainting, the chief's office on the east side of the eighth floor of the Military Commission Headquarters was terrifyingly quiet, and the ashtray on the desk had already been covered with cigarette butts, but the owner here seemed to have not seen it, still wrinkled his brows, took out a cigarette and lit it silently, and then cast his deep gaze to the gloomy sky outside the window.......

"Lao Jiang, you're not in good health, don't smoke anymore........"

I don't know when, the door of the office was opened from the outside, and Liu Haotian, who was dressed in an 87-style military uniform, walked in quickly, and the three shining stars on his shoulders set off his dark and thin face more calmly and resolutely, but when he saw Jiang Huichuan with a haggard face, the fortitude on his face was replaced by a rapidly rising worry, but before Liu Haotian could finish his worried words, he was interrupted by Jiang Huichuan waving his hand:

"What's the matter with a few cigarettes, there's tea on the sofa, so I won't help you. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When Jiang Huichuan said this, although he had a gentle smile on his face, his pale complexion and emaciated face made it obvious to anyone that this veteran was not as uneasy as he said, and in fact it was true, just two months ago, Jiang Huichuan, who was in charge of the daily work of the Central Military Commission, was hospitalized for treatment due to a sudden heart attack due to overwork.

If this is the only thing, it will not be a big problem, but the problem is that Jiang Huichuan was injured many times during the revolutionary war years, and when he was young, he was nothing, and after entering old age, the hidden diseases in his body were like time bombs, and there was a danger of detonating at any time........

"Before your illness is cured, you start to ........"

Liu Haotian, who was sitting on the sofa, did not make tea as usual, but looked at Jiang Huichuan's almost out of shape face with worried eyes, but just like just now, before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Jiang Huichuan with a smile:

"My own business, my own know, I am sick of the heart, not the lungs, it's okay to smoke a cigarette, alas....... I said, "Why did you start working as a mother-in-law?" Could it be that you are also wearing a white coat and preparing to become a doctor?"

Liu Haotian was not relaxed because of Jiang Huichuan's open-minded joke, but shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed meaningfully at Jiang Huichuan:

"Lao Jiang, I just don't want you to have any regrets!"

Hearing Liu Haotian's words, Jiang Huichuan's smile suddenly froze on his face, others may not be able to hear the meaning of Liu Haotian's words, but Jiang Huichuan can understand, so he stopped the cigarette that was about to be brought to his mouth, glanced at the color photo on the desk of the US anti-submarine helicopter jumping on his feet, and couldn't help muttering a little distractedly:

"Yes, in my lifetime, I must do this, otherwise, I will really die blindly. ”

Seeing that Jiang Huichuan was a little loose, Liu Haotian hurriedly persuaded him: "Therefore, you should take care of your health, you must know that such a major equipment project, the central government must be repeatedly measured, and there is still a long way to go if you want to realize it......."

"It's a long way......." Jiang Huichuan sighed and repeated, his slightly cloudy eyes flashed a hint of gloom: "When will this aircraft carrier road come to an end........

Since the end of the special period, Jiang Huichuan resumed his work, he has strongly advocated China's development of aircraft carriers, for which he has submitted reports to the central authorities more than once, requesting the launch of aircraft carriers, but at that time China had just stabilized, the domestic economy had just started, and there were no objective conditions for the development of aircraft carriers, so he stopped this intention;

However, Jiang Huichuan did not give up because of this, but after being transferred to the commander of the navy, he began to organize relevant personnel within the navy to carry out theoretical research on aircraft carriers, and at the same time sent naval aviation pilots to Argentina, which has experience in the use of aircraft carriers, to learn how to fly carrier-based aircraft.

In addition, in order to further understand the internal structure of the aircraft carrier, Jiang Huichuan took advantage of the honeymoon period between China and the West to take the initiative to visit the "Raider" aircraft carrier during his visit to the United States, and on the other hand purchased the retired Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" in the name of scrap iron recycling, with the purpose of accumulating experience in the development and use of aircraft carriers.

According to Jiang Huichuan's idea, after these basic demonstrations and studies, China's aircraft carrier development work could be formally launched, so in the year when he was in charge of the daily work of the Central Military Commission, he formally proposed to the central authorities the plan for building a 40,000-ton medium-sized aircraft carrier, and prepared to include it in the "Seventh Five-Year Plan." However, he did not expect that as soon as this plan was proposed, it would encounter tremendous resistance from all quarters.

As for the reason, it boils down to nothing more than one word, that is, money, the aircraft carrier is a veritable gold-swallowing beast, not to mention that in addition to the aircraft carrier itself, the supporting carrier-based aircraft, the corresponding escort ships, each of which has to be piled up with money, it can be said that a complete set of aircraft carrier battle groups is a veritable gold mountain.

However, at that time, China's military expenditure was only more than 20 billion yuan, and if it was all invested in the construction of aircraft carriers, the Chinese army would have to drink the northwest wind, and it was unrealistic to increase military spending in the short term.

Jiang Huichuan naturally understood that the reality did not allow the immediate launch of the aircraft carrier project, so he was ready to retreat to the next best thing and take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the turbulent situation in the Soviet Union to acquire the "Minsk" aircraft carrier, which had suffered heavy losses in the Sino-Soviet conflict in the South China Sea, at a low price, and prepare to convert it into a medium-sized aircraft carrier capable of taking off and landing light carrier-based aircraft.

Originally, Jiang Huichuan's curved aircraft carrier plan had a great possibility of being realized, but he did not expect that a Gulf War would suddenly disrupt all his arrangements, and as for the reason, it is naturally well known, that is, the excellent performance of China's "Falcon" air defense missile system in Iraq.

Although the "stealth door" planned by Lu Jiadong has changed the political ecology of the United States and enabled China and the United States to reach a certain strategic balance, the fear of the United States and Britain because of the "Falcon" air defense missile system has not diminished in the slightest.

In addition to the nearly 200 F-16 and F-15 fighters originally deployed in RB and South Korea, the US Air Force has also transferred two F-15E air groups, four F-16 Block 52 squadrons, and an approach reconnaissance group composed of EP-3 electronic reconnaissance planes from the US Air Force to the RB Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.

The US Air Force was busy dispatching troops, and the US Navy was not idle, and the USS Independence, with RB Yokosuka as its home port, was transferred back to its home port before the Gulf War ended; in addition, the USS Kitty Hawk, which belongs to the US Navy's Seventh Fleet in the Pacific, was listed as an "aircraft carrier ready at any time." Cruising between RB and the Philippines, the two aircraft carrier battle groups, equipped with nearly 160 carrier-based aircraft, were like two tongues spitting out a snake letter, spying on China, which was gradually waking up.

Needless to say, RB and South Korea have successively installed F-15J and F-16K fighters since the 80s, and at the same time, the "domestically produced" fighter planes jointly developed by the two countries and the United States are also smoothly advancing, among which RB's performance is the most prominent, and the F-2 fighter plane, which was born out of the F-16, has entered the substantive test flight stage.

First it obtained 120 F-16 fighters from the United States, and not long after, it reached an agreement with France to introduce 60 Mirage 2000 fighters, and with the self-developed IDF "Jingguo" fighters, the number of third-generation fighters in the T region reached nearly 300.

On the other hand, in China, except for the 50 J-9 aircraft that fly and stop due to serious quality problems, they are barely considered third-generation aircraft, and others such as J-7 and J-8 only belong to second-generation or second-generation and half-generation fighters.

Therefore, for a period of time after the end of the Gulf War, the pressure on the naval and air force aviation units has increased dramatically, and in the face of the aggressive encirclement of third-generation aircraft, China urgently needs a usable third-generation fighter plane; otherwise, China, which has lost its air supremacy, will not be able to hold its long coastline and vast strategic depth by relying only on a few sets of so-called advanced air defense missiles, and will eventually become a lamb to the slaughter........

It is precisely in the face of such a real threat that the central authorities have no choice but to readjust the established thinking on the development of weapons and equipment, and to list air force equipment as the focus of the development of the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" and the "Eighth Five-Year Plan." As a result, the aircraft carrier program that has already been put on the agenda has to be thrown into the cold again.

For this reason, Jiang Huichuan cannot say that he has no regrets, but he is also helpless, and the real threat is in front of him; if the problem of air supremacy is not solved, even if there are aircraft carriers, they will not be able to go to sea safely under the eyes of nearly 1,000 third-generation aircraft; after all, contemporary naval warfare still follows the irrefutable truth, that is, if you want to gain sea supremacy, you must obtain air supremacy.

Therefore, although Jiang Huichuan was unwilling, he still put aside his many years of attachment in the face of the overall situation, and began to go all out to operate the development plan of China's fighter planes, striving to let China have truly usable advanced fighter planes in a short period of time.........