The veteran chief attaches great importance to the visit of the US imperialist delegation and has made a great deal of preparatory work for this purpose. www.biquge.info Seeing is believing, and the Americans will definitely come to the secret base to see this nuclear submarine with their own eyes.

In accordance with the request of the old chief, the base has specially arranged a luxurious conference room in the room next to the dry dock where the submarine is located, and the room has a whole transparent floor-to-ceiling large glass wall, through which you can directly admire the Alpha-class nuclear submarine outside, in the hope of giving the US negotiating team a stronger spiritual shock.

"Little Five...... Can you be confident in this negotiation? We're going to put all the treasure on you. Now that the Americans know about this submarine, there is no turning back from this negotiation, and they can only win but not lose. Chen Xu and the old chief squatted on the top of the 10,000-ton dry dock, and the old and the young looked down at the nuclear submarine below in a daze.

Because the old chief elder called Chen Xu 'Comrade Chen Xu', it sounded very strange and difficult for people to get used to, so he asked the old chief to call Chen Xu by his nickname like an elder.

Chen Xu spat on the ground and surrounded an ant who was panicking and wanted to escape: "Old chief, just put a hundred hearts!" This time I must drive the aircraft carrier home, the US imperialists have already stretched their necks over, and see how I chop off their dogs' heads. ”

"You will negotiate with the Americans along the lines we have agreed in advance! Don't make any mistakes on the way, your temperament is too jumpy, don't make a sudden change of mind halfway, so as not to catch us off guard. The old chief still felt a little uneasy, especially when he was close to the negotiation, Chen Xu still looked cynical. He has not even read a word about the content of the negotiations that the national think tank has repeatedly considered. All day long, I either went to the beach to pick up shells or went to someone to play cards to kill time, and there was no sense of urgency at all.

"I will talk as requested, and only when there are variables in the course of the meeting, I will make some temporary responses, and I will try my best to ensure our interests no matter what, and I will not let the Americans take advantage of it."

Chen Xu said this just to comfort the old chief, but in fact, he didn't have any confidence in this negotiation at all. First of all, he has no idea what attitude the Americans will have towards this nuclear submarine, and he has no idea where the bottom line of negotiations on the US imperialist side is.

It is also impossible to know what attitude the US imperialists will take in the face of their own demands, and perhaps the talks will collapse.

In these years, who still doesn't know that the US imperialists are cunning, if they want to fool them and take something out of their mouths, it is not much different from grabbing meat from the tiger's mouth, and it is more difficult to talk about aircraft carriers than to go to the moon.

Chen Xu doesn't need to think about it to understand that the price he needs to pay in this negotiation will not be small. Even if the CIA, the US military, and the president all agree, Congress still has to repeatedly consider whether the aircraft carrier will pose a threat to the United States after it arrives in China, and everything will come to naught if there is a slight resistance.

Therefore, in this negotiation, the US delegation will certainly have representatives from the Congress, the CIA, the presidential office, and the military, and they represent the interests of the United States behind their backs, and it will not be easy to bluff them all.

Chen Xu will never allow this negotiation to fail, so he secretly made second-hand preparations, and if necessary, he will come up with conditions that the US imperialists cannot refuse, so that they can obediently send the aircraft carrier over.

Anyway, what Chen Xu has in his hand is the intelligence of the Soviet Union, which will be rotten in later generations, but in this era, every piece of information is priceless, and the US imperialists can give as much as they want, and they are not afraid of smashing them.

The only thing Chen Xu needs to consider is that the US imperialists have obtained too much advanced intelligence to make countermeasures against the Soviet Union, and what if history is changed.

History has changed, and a large amount of information in Chen Xu's hands is equivalent to invalidation, and sacrificing long-term information in the future for short-term interests is not cost-effective.

In fact, it is not that Chen Xu is entangled in aircraft carriers, there are four aircraft carriers that China has obtained half-bought and half-deceived in later generations, except for the Varyag, which was successfully transformed, and the other three old ships have been made into sea playgrounds. When these aircraft carriers arrive in China, the internal design of the ships has been thoroughly understood by domestic military enterprises, even if it is built according to the mold, there is no problem.

Those old aircraft carriers are very backward, and all the equipment that can be dismantled has been dismantled, such as engines, catapult devices, and so on. There are no carrier-based aircraft, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources and a long time to study if you want to restore combat effectiveness.

There is no doubt that if Chen Xu can get an active US aircraft carrier, which is fully equipped and there is no shortage of carrier-based aircraft on it, the benefits to the country are obvious. Domestic military enterprises only need to carry out large-scale surveying, mapping and mapping of aircraft carriers, and obtain first-hand internal information about aircraft carriers, and in less than a few years, we can copy an identical aircraft carrier.

Twenty years is a short period from the establishment of a research project to the start of construction, and finally to the launch of an aircraft carrier. With such a long construction period, I don't know how much the international situation will change, and the early birth of the aircraft carrier will produce more benefits to the interests of the country.

The aircraft carriers of the former Soviet Union that China imported from abroad after the 90s are in fact just empty shells, and we ourselves lack experience in building large ships, and the amount of work required to restore combat effectiveness is greater than the development of a new aircraft carrier.

If Chen Xu can talk about the aircraft carrier this time, it can save the national military industry a lot of detours, and more importantly, it can save a lot of research and development time.

As for the special steel used in the aircraft carrier, it is not a big problem, Chen Xu has the formula of special steel in his head, and he can produce it just after Baosteel is completed and put into production.

Special steel is the key material for the manufacture of aircraft carrier hulls and decks, and the countries that can produce in the world are none other than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and Japan, among which the special steel produced by the United States and the Soviet Union is the best. And the secret recipe for the steel in Chen Xu's hand came from the Soviet Union, and he didn't have to spend much money to get it from Ukraine. The steel has a yield of up to 1,000 megapascals, is extremely corrosion-resistant, remains as good as new after being immersed in seawater for decades, and importantly is non-magnetic and has very good properties.

If you can get a conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the United States this time, it will be easy to design a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on this basis, because the nuclear reactor of the Alpha-class nuclear submarine itself is a ready-made good thing, and it only needs to be redesigned to increase the power, and it can be installed on the aircraft carrier.

If the reactor power is not enough, then it is enough to install a few more, and the US imperialist Enterprise nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was originally designed to install four nuclear reactors, so that the power of the aircraft carrier will be more sufficient, and even if there is a problem with the reactor, there will still be a spare reactor available. Later, considering that the cost of nuclear fuel was too expensive, and it was time-consuming and laborious to replace the fuel rods, it was reduced to two 130,000-horsepower nuclear reactors, which could also free up more space in the ship for ammunition and aircraft.

The thrust of the BM-550 reactor of the Alpha-class nuclear submarine is about 60,000 horsepower, which is only the narrow internal space of the nuclear submarine, and the reactor has been artificially reduced a lot, resulting in it not being able to exert its full power. If the reactor is increased on land, it can easily exceed 100,000 horsepower, and the limit value is not a problem to 200,000 horsepower.

However, the performance of the BM-550 itself is already very good, and China only needs to enhance the safety of this reactor, and then install four on the aircraft carrier, which can basically reach the power level of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

The problem of aircraft carriers is solved, and the negotiations are only halfway through, and the other half is carrier-based fighters!

It is impossible for Chen Xu to only receive a bare ship back, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier is all on the carrier-based fighters, and the aircraft carrier without aircraft is just an iron coffin floating on the sea.

Speaking of carrier-based fighters, you definitely have to have the F14 Tomcat twin-engine heavy fighter. As for the F15 and F18 Hornets, the US imperialists have just been equipped with the latest weapons, and they are definitely unwilling to sell them.

And the F16 is a light single-engine fighter, Chen Xu really doesn't like it, and the price is not cheap, it is better to buy a few more Tomcats.

Moreover, it is enough for China at this stage to be equipped with only one type of heavy fighter, which is convenient for maintenance and cost-saving. After all, the money in his pocket is limited, and he has to spend it on the blade.

However, it is not impossible to introduce a dozen aircraft for research, provided that the price must be very cheap.

As a cat fan! In Chen Xu's eyes, the Tomcat is the most powerful third-generation heavy carrier-based fighter. At the same time, it is also the first third-generation fighter, because it is an experimental product, so all the performance is somewhat beyond the times, and the performance of the F15 and F16 developed later is inferior to it.

The F14's variable sweep wing can be said to be a god-like design, the aerodynamic performance is simply ingenious, its wing can be rotated in the air, you can imagine how perverted the strength required for rotating bearing technology, and only the United States can take this time to develop.

Chen Xu is optimistic that the F14 can not only be used as a carrier-based fighter, but also as a land-based fighter. This kind of aircraft has good radar performance, long range and fast speed, and with the Immortal Bird air-to-air missile as an interceptor, it is a sharp weapon to protect homeland security, and it is no problem at all to assume the border security of the north.

In the next decade, as China fully turns to the West, the Soviet Union will deploy a huge air force on the Sino-Soviet border and even in Outer Mongolia to threaten and restrain China. Among them, the largest Tu-22 Backfire bomber group, the Soviet long-range aviation force has at least 200 aircraft, China's air force is now full of vulnerabilities, and even the small Taiwan and Gulf air force can easily penetrate the defense, not to mention the powerful Soviet air force.

It is conceivable that once this kind of bomber directly breaks through China's air defense and flies to the imperial capital, the air force will not be able to resist it at all, and such a situation is a very terrifying thing to think about.