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Early the next morning, Ye Kai went to the Military Intelligence Department of the General Staff to see Uncle Li. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This matter was ordered by the second old man, mainly because the defense force at hand was not enough.

It is said that there are a lot of bodyguards around him, from Li Da to Li Wu, plus Feng Tianyi and others later, these are actually his bodyguards, but for various reasons, Li Da, Li San, and Li Si are in charge of Jingshi, Li Er and Feng Tianyi stayed in the Shengwang New District to help him watch the scene, and Li Wu followed Zhong Liyu's side to protect her safety.

In this way, there was no one available around Ye Kai, so the second old man asked him to find Uncle Li.

However, after meeting Uncle Li, Ye Kai himself was a little embarrassed.

It seems that the Military Intelligence Department has become his bodyguard department, and he came again and again, almost emptying Uncle Li's family, and it was also thanks to Uncle Li's good temper that he didn't bother with him about it.

After Uncle Li saw Ye Kai, he also sighed, "Originally, the manpower prepared for you was enough, but you just ran around, and the capital couldn't stay, but it left a mess, someone had to help you guard it, Jiangzhong only went for a few days, and spread out such a big stall, my agents have become your helpers, and you yourself have run to Russia again." By the way, Zhang San and Li Si are still on the Russian side, and I don't know what happened? ”

Ye Kai sat on the sofa opposite Uncle Li, swayed Erlang's legs for a while, and said with a smile, "Uncle Li, it's a bit unkind for you to talk about this, what do they do, as long as you want to know, can you still know?" ”

There must be no problem with what he said, as the head of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Uncle Li has a lot of authority. The chief may not be able to fully control him. So Uncle Li's eyes and ears are all over the world, and he is the first to know, and then the other bigwigs.

As long as it is intelligence that follows the line of military intelligence, it cannot be separated from Uncle Li's control.

So Ye Kai said that Uncle Li was not kind and deliberately pretended to be pitiful.

"Listen to the old man, you went to Russia this time and got more than a dozen nuclear submarines back?" Uncle Li quickly led the topic here.

"Well, there's such a thing. The main thing is that the shells of those nuclear submarines are made of titanium. Recycling scrap iron is also a lot of money, and there is a lot to be earned. Ye Kai's answer was not true.

", I've heard that you still have plans to buy an aircraft carrier." Uncle Li immediately exposed Ye Kai's lies.

"Hey, hey. It's just a matter of thinking about it, in fact, buying an aircraft carrier is not just about spending money, there are many problems that need to be solved, and there is no chance for the time being. Ye Kai smiled and said.

He naturally doesn't need to hide anything from Uncle Li, but this matter is not suitable for rushing, and it is easy to operate this matter when the other party is poor and crazy. It's too early now.

"The aircraft carrier you have your eye on?" Uncle Li asked.

"Naturally, the newly built one, the Varyag." Ye Kai replied honestly.

"Oh, that's good." Uncle Li nodded.

The Varyag is the most powerful aircraft carrier ever built by the Soviet Union, but the Soviets call it an aircraft carrier, but an aircraft-carrying cruiser.

In fact, when Ye Kai accompanied Ye Ziping to visit the Soviet Union last year, the main structure of the Varyag had been basically completed, and more than 60 percent of the hull had been installed in place.

And according to the current intelligence feedback. Now the Varyag is ready to be launched, and in the past few months, the Varyag has completed two sea trials, both of which turned out to be very good.

"If you want me to say it, you're ripe for a move now." Uncle Li said to Ye Kai.

"What do you recommend?" Ye Kai asked rhetorically.

"According to my intelligence, Ukraine is now in a very unpleasant situation with Russia. Because of the financial reasons, Russia must have refused to pay for this aircraft carrier, and it was parked in the dock, occupying the manufacturing resources of Ukraine's civilian ships, so the Ukrainian side already planned to dismantle it, but the employees of the shipyard resolutely opposed it, thinking that it was too tyrannical to do so. Uncle Li explained, "Therefore, now the Ukrainian side is also scratching its head, and always wants to find a way to solve this problem." ”

"I see, that's the case......" After Ye Kai heard this, he immediately fell into deep thought.

In 1962, the Soviet Navy began to build the first generation of Moskva-class aircraft-carrying cruisers (helicopter carriers), in 1970 the construction of the second-generation Kiev medium-sized aircraft-carrying cruiser (medium aircraft carrier), and in 1982 the construction of the third-generation heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, now the Russian Kuznetsov, began.

In early 1983, Marshal Gorshkov, then Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, proposed the idea of building a second type of aircraft-carrying cruiser, which was supported by the then Minister of Defense of the USSR Uschinov.

In December 1985, the construction of the "Riga" was officially started at the Black Sea Shipyard.

In view of the experience of construction and testing of the "Kuznetsov", after complex calculations, the slip deck was improved from 12 degrees of the "Kuznetsov" to a Type 1 aircraft-carrying cruiser launched on November 25, 1988, when the main structure of the hull was completed.

According to the original plan of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the "Riga" was supposed to be the No. 2 ship, but the Soviet Navy believed that by this time there had been a new development of shipboard electronic equipment, and the original design should be improved.

In June 1986, the plan was approved, the main content of which was to improve the radar system: the "Hwasong-Tradewind" phased array radar of the "Kuznetsov" was replaced by the latest "Form" anti-aircraft warning radar, and other electronic equipment was also greatly improved at the same time, with a total of more than 150 improvements in the comparative model.

However, it was the renewal plan that delayed construction by nine months from the scheduled schedule. In July 1990, "Riga" was officially renamed "Varyag".

It stands to reason that the Varyag should have been built and put into service a long time ago, but it is a pity that because the Soviet economy was in trouble, especially after the outbreak of the Gulf War, oil prices plummeted, which dealt a fatal blow to the Soviet Union's oil exports, and the foreign trade of the entire Soviet Union fell into an incorrigible state, and the funds dried up and could not continue to invest.

For these reasons, the contractor of the Varyag, the Ukrainian Black Sea Shipyard, could only put the ship there first and maintain the shipyard by undertaking the construction of some large civilian ships.

"When I went over last year, the Ukrainians said that they were in financial difficulties, but I didn't expect that in this year's time, they could continue to invest and build aircraft carriers, which is really rare." Ye Kai said.

"Now I finally can't support it." Uncle Li said to Ye Kai, "Not only is the ship under construction unable to support it, but the two ships in service are also very problematic on the Russian side, the Kiev has plans to retire, and the Minsk is already unusable, and it is okay to use it, only Ukraine can overhaul it, but the cost of overhaul is something that the Russian Navy cannot afford." ”

"That's ......" After Ye Kai heard what Uncle Li said, his mind suddenly began to spin.

In fact, he paid more attention to the Varyag, because this aircraft carrier was an aircraft carrier that was officially commissioned in the Navy of the Republic after being towed back, and he paid much less attention to the aircraft carriers Kiev and Minsk, but he had the impression that there seemed to be two aircraft carrier theme parks or something.

For this reason, he did not carefully understand the situation with the aircraft carriers Kiev and Minsk, which can be described as an omission.

At this time, Uncle Li mentioned this matter, so he asked Ye Kai to carefully consider this matter from beginning to end.

The Kiev is the lead ship of the former Soviet Union's "Kiev" class aircraft carrier, built in 1970 and completed in 1975, it is the flagship of the Northern Fleet of the former Soviet Union, and was once the symbol of the former Soviet Navy.

The USS Minsk is the second aircraft carrier of the Kiev class of the former Soviet Union, commissioned in 1978 and transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1979.

At that time, the Minsk was quite glamorous, and its arrival put an end to the history of the former Soviet Union without large capital ships in the Far East. In particular, the home port of the Minsk is located in Vladivostok, which is only more than 200 nautical miles from Japan, and in the 80s of the Cold War, Japan was very close to the Minsk.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Minsk had no logistics support base, because the Ukraine that produced it was already **, and the aircraft carrier was in the hands of Russia, and it was okay to repair it, but it was necessary to give dollars, and the Russian Navy, which also could not open the pot, had to be left to its own devices.

"Recently, the South Koreans have been very interested in the Minsk, and there should be a shadow of the Americans behind this." Uncle Li said to Ye Kai, "It is said that the South Korean defense department and US intelligence officials are very curious about the design ideas of the Minsk, and they have considered buying it back for research." ”

After hearing this, Ye Kai smiled and said, "You can see at a glance what the idea of Gaoli's stick is playing, but we also have such considerations, so it's not good to laugh at others, otherwise it would be fifty steps and a hundred steps." ”

Having said that, this matter also attracted Ye Kai's attention, and he began to consider the possibility of taking these three aircraft carriers at the same time, but if this happens, the test of his own funds is really not ordinary.

Although the cost of directly purchasing an aircraft carrier is not very high, it can be done within tens of millions of dollars, and it can even be exchanged for materials without a penny, but the follow-up problems are more troublesome.

Should we do this now? (To be continued)