Huaxia's strategic plan for the "Star Wars Project", Yang Weiping naturally would not reveal a word to Karenia. He was thinking in his heart at the moment, what kind of treasure should he come back from the Soviet Union this time.

Although Lao Maozi's things have always been relatively solid and rough, in the field of cutting-edge aerospace technology, the Soviet Union is still a bit genuine. At the very least, the Soviet Union's proton rockets for launching satellites, space station technology, and their uranium enrichment technology all had great allures for Mr. Yang.

In addition, the drawings of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk", which the Soviet Union is designing and perfecting, are also good treasures that Yang Weiping is eager to get.

This heavy air defense cruiser, codenamed "Project 1143.7" in the Soviet Union (the former Soviet Union called the Kiev-class aircraft carrier, the Baku-class aircraft carrier, and the Tbilisi, also known as the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier). On November 25, 1988, the construction of the first ship Ulyanovsk began on the Bug River (the location of the South Nikolaev Plant), so it was named "Ulyanovsk". However, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the construction was completely stopped in November 1991, and 45% of the work was actually completed before the stoppage, and the construction of the No. 2 ship of its class had also begun at that time (but it was not named)

The Ulyanovsk has a design displacement of 79,758 tons, a full load displacement of 85,000 tons, a draft of 10.7 meters, a flight deck of 331.9 meters in length, a width of 75.6 meters, a hull length of 331.9 meters, and a width of 39.6 meters. The usable area has already reached 96% of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the US Navy. This type of aircraft carrier uses four KN-3 pressurized water reactors and four steam turbines, with a total guaranteed propulsion power of 179,000 kilowatts. The maximum speed is 30 knots.

The flight deck is equipped with four steam catapults, which can carry 80 aircraft of various types, including Su-33 fighters, MiG-29K fighters, Su-25K attack aircraft and Yak-44E AWACS aircraft, as well as Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopters.

It is planned to install four six-pack SA-N-12 ship-to-air missile launchers, 12 SS-N-19 long-range anti-ship missile vertical launchers, two RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers, one twin SUW-N-1 anti-submarine rocket launcher, and eight 30-mm AK-630 melee artillery systems.

Electronic equipment includes: three-dimensional air/sea search radar and navigation radar, hull sonar, depth towed sonar, etc.

The Ulyanovsk was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier planned to be built by the Soviet Union, and it was on a scale comparable to the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the United States. The collapse of the Soviet Union aborted this plan. On November 1, 1991, the plan for the construction of the "Ulyanovsk" was canceled, and on February 4, 1992, the dismantling began.

Previous life. Yang Weiping coveted this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that was not completed by the former Soviet Union. It's a pity. Even if Huaxia successfully got the "old tile" back to China, there are still many key cabins and pipeline wiring diagrams that are stuck in Lao Maozi's hands. And that's not to mention the entire design drawings of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk", which is more advanced than the "old watt".

As far as Yang Weiping knows, by the end of 1991, Ukrainian shipyards had processed a total of 29,000 tons of steel for the "Ulyanovsk" ship. The atomic vapor generator has been assembled in the workshop. After the collapse of the USSR. Funding disruptions. Construction stopped, and by this time the slipway closing was nearing completion.

In order to prevent the "resurrection" of this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Russia, the US imperialists have acted commercially. In conjunction with a Norwegian company, the "Ulyanovsk" was completely strangled.

At that time, the Nikolaev shipyard was in a difficult situation, and the salaries of the employees could not be paid. At this time, a Norwegian shipping company suddenly came to the door to place an order to build 6 large merchant ships. The ship is very large, and it is necessary to vacate the slipway No. 0 where Ulyyanovsk is located to build, and the conditions given by Norway in terms of price and deposit are very favorable, and the urgency is also very urgent. Not long after, another American metal recycling company sent a vice president to the door to buy a large amount of scrap steel at a price of $450 a ton, several times higher than the market price. So in order to survive, the shipyard began to dismantle the Ulyyanovsk, and when they were about to finish it. The Norwegian shipping company suddenly stopped building ships and paid some liquidated damages. The metal recycling company in the United States also sent someone else, saying that their vice president who came last time did not understand the international market situation, and pushed the price to $150 a ton. At this time, Ukraine knew that it had been deceived, but it was helpless, and sold the scrap steel for $150 a ton.

In fact, we should admire the strategic vision of the West. If it hadn't been designed to be strangled in infancy, then whose aircraft carrier is it now?

A discarded "Varyag" cost China nearly 20 million dollars. So how much does it cost to buy "Ulyanovsk"? Suppose that the "old tile" was transformed into a "Liaoning ship" by Huaxia and brought back by Huaxia and made into an army, who would pose the greatest threat to it?

There is no doubt that if the "Ulyanovsk" had not been dismantled, it would have been Huaxia who would have bought it in the end! Therefore, the Western countries headed by US imperialism have been deeply wary of the rise of China and have been on guard everywhere.

Although North Burma now has the "Baron John Young" conventionally powered aircraft carrier as a model to design and manufacture a newer advanced aircraft carrier, it does not have any sense or experience in designing heavy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Perhaps the ship designers and shipyards in North Burma do have the technical level to design and manufacture nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, but when they will be able to come up with perfect design drawings, Yang Weiping himself is also unsure.

The reason why Yang Weiping decided to cooperate with the Soviet Union in developing an updated aircraft carrier steam catapult device was actually to aim at the "Ulyanovsk", which had just started construction at that time.

Yang Weiping knows very well that even if he has a variety of military-technical cooperation with the United States, it is simply wishful thinking for the US imperialists to come up with their "Nimitz"-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier technology. Therefore, if China wants to have its own nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the future, it can only start with the Soviet Union in the name of North Burma now.

Whether it is the North Burma Navy or the Huaxia Navy, if they want to become a blue-water navy in the true sense, they must have such a "weapon of mass destruction" as a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, so as to form a strategic deterrent to the Western countries headed by US imperialism! Only then can it be possible to wrestle with US imperialism in the Indian Ocean!

Some time ago, the Soviet Union became more and more passive in the development and design of a new aircraft carrier in cooperation with North Burma, and Yang Weiping estimated that the Soviet high-level was wary of North Burma. In this regard, Yang Weiping did not say any more nonsense to the project leader of the Soviet side. After all, the current demand for heavy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in North Burma is not large, and it only needs to be completed in the early stage of technology accumulation, and with the development of industrial technology in the future, it will not be difficult to build a super-large nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of more than 100,000 tons.

To complete the accumulation of aircraft carrier manufacturing technology, Yang Weiping can only stare at Lao Maozi.

Well, now because of the "Star Wars" program of the United States, Lao Maozi really came uninvited and took the initiative to send it to the door. Such a good opportunity to take a bite of big fat meat, if Sir Yang let it go, he would not be Yang Weiping!

Karenia looked at Yang Weiping, who was smoking a cigarette while bowing his head in contemplation, knowing that he must be weighing the pros and cons at this time, after all, if he wanted to take out the blueprint of the "Star Wars Project" that Huaxia participated in compiling, Yang Weiping would definitely have to take a lot of political risks. Therefore, no matter how anxious she was, she didn't dare to show a little bit from her eyes and face.

Of course, Karenia didn't know that Sir Yang didn't think about any political risks at all, and after pondering the "Ulyanosk" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, he was then thinking about how to apply and improve the Soviet Union's Proton-M rocket and space station technology.

As we all know, the "Proton" launch vehicle is a family of large launch vehicles developed by the Soviet Union, which contains several models. "Proton" has been the main carrier of Soviet-Russian launches of large spacecraft since the mid-60s of the 20th century. After the end of the Cold War, due to the abandonment of the Energia rocket, the Proton actually became the most powerful rocket in Russia. However, the Proton uses highly toxic storable liquid fuel, which could cause severe pollution to the area around the launch site if it fails to launch, so Russia has decided to replace it with the newly developed Angara, which uses liquid oxygen/kerosene as propellant.

Proton-M has many improvements over previous Proton rockets. It uses a more advanced Zephyr-M upper stage, a new upper stage that made its first flight in 1999 when the first three stages used the original Proton-K rocket body, and the resulting rocket became known as the Proton-K/Zephyr-M. In total, only 70% of the technology of this improved launch vehicle was inherited from the previous Proton. The rocket with a new rocket body was launched for the first time in 2001, launching a Screen-M communications satellite into orbit. This rocket later became the main force of Russia's international commercial launch service.

If Yang Weiping now comes up with the idea of improving the "Proton-M" launch vehicle, he doesn't even need to think about it, and the old Maozi will definitely rush to proclaim again that "Sir Yang is the most loyal and friendly friend of the Soviet people."

Space station, Yang Weiping feels that North Myanmar is not necessary to use it now. However, if the Soviet space station technology is in hand, and in the future, it will cooperate with China to carry out the "Shenzhou" series of plans, which will definitely play a huge role in deepening the deep integration of North Burma and China. (To be continued......)