Chapter 1061: Eventful
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"I'm always out of the horse, there shouldn't be anything that can't be done, right?" Fan Wuxi's heart was also uncertain.
Let's be honest. This kind of stealing intelligence, he is not very repulsed, after all, everyone is doing this, you must know how many countries' satellites are eyeing this sea area over the Barents Sea now, and even the fleets of nearby countries are not here for sightseeing.
In fact, the technology carried on the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine of Russia has made everyone feel excited, and they would rather take a little risk than get the most critical technical information.
To say that the most beneficial thing for Fan Wuxian this time is that he has a good personal relationship with Putin, and he has obtained permission to shoot salvage activities at close range, and others, including Russian TV stations, are not qualified to do so, which is the basis for him to get close to the Kursk.
The second is that there is now an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, because the surrounding area is full of intelligence personnel and various spies from Western countries, so the key targets of Russia's defense are them, and they can completely take advantage of this loophole and take advantage of their unpreparedness to get some benefits.
However, Fan Wuxian also has some concerns in his heart, that is, considering the issue of secrecy, once this news leaks out, then Putin will immediately know who is doing the trick, and then his investments in Russia may be affected. This is the most headache for Fan Wuxi.
In fact, it is good to have access to these technologies, but if the relationship between China and Russia is affected by stealing this information, it is better to do it, which is a typical mistake because of small mistakes.
Although the Kursk has made many people feel excited, the most important of them, such as the storm torpedo technology, has been mastered and equipped with the navy in advance more than ten years ago, and other missile technologies may not be able to play a too important role in China's reference.
After all, now China is also engaged in nuclear submarine bionics research, and a breakthrough in this part is a matter of time.
However, since the high-level is so concerned about this matter, then Fan Wuxian also needs to design it well, see if there is such a possibility, get some skin samples, and complete this matter, after he goes back, he will also have a bright face, except for Mr. Fan himself, who else can do this?
In addition to explaining that Fan Wuxian was dealing with the skin of the Kursk, the high-level also provided him with some help, for example, several of the CCTV employees who came casually this time were excellent agents of the intelligence department, the kind of all-round agents, who could go up the mountain and down to the sea. He can also fly airplanes, and his firearms skills are also the best of the best, and his mobility is first-class.
With the backing of this aspect, Fan Wuxian felt that there was still a chance this time, but it definitely wouldn't work now, because the Kursk was still at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 100 meters, and there was no chance on his side, so he would only have that chance when it was officially salvaged.
In the end, there is no doubt that the Kursk will be pulled up from the bottom of the sea through a pontoon.
According to the salvage plan currently drawn up by Russia, the Netherlands, and Norway, divers first drill and measure in the nuclear power compartment of the hull to make sure that the nuclear reactor is not leaking, and then use a giant remote-controlled underwater chainsaw to cut the bow of the Kursk from the hull, and finally fish out the hull and pull the Kursk to the surface with a tugboat.
On the one hand, this can ensure safety and prevent accidents, because the bow compartment of the Kursk is stored with torpedoes and cruise missiles, and it is not yet certain whether all of these high-power weapons have exploded; on the other hand, these torpedoes and missiles are the most advanced weapons at present, and Russia is ready to salvage them itself in the future to ensure that core national defense secrets are not leaked.
The Kursk nuclear submarine is like a timed nuclear bomb lying in ambush on the doorstep of the Northern Fleet. Let the officers and men of the Russian Navy not be in peace at all times. President Putin said that from the perspective of ecology and environment, it is also wise to salvage the Kursk nuclear submarine, and the two nuclear reactors on the submarine must not be left on the bottom of the sea forever.
The most dangerous moment of the operation to salvage the Kursk nuclear submarine is the stage of pulling the hull from the bottom of the sea, if the steel cable connecting the hull breaks, the nuclear submarine may re-enter the sea and hit the bottom of the sea again.
In such a situation, there has been a concern about whether the nuclear reactor inside the ship will explode or there will be a nuclear fuel leak. However, Russian experts say that even if this happens, the nuclear reactor on the Kursk nuclear submarine will not explode.
They explained that when designing nuclear submarines, the designers took into account not only the usual failures of nuclear reactors, but also the various situations that may arise after a nuclear submarine is attacked by enemy weapons in a naval battle, and took corresponding protective measures. In addition, at the time of lifting, even if the remaining torpedoes in the boat are detonated, the energy generated by the explosion will not be greater than the energy released by the two explosions that led to the wreck of the Kursk last year, so the safety of the nuclear reactor is guaranteed.
However, in this salvage operation, the most interesting first module will remain on the bottom of the sea, and the Russian Navy plans to rely on its own forces to salvage it ashore next year to avoid the leakage of important technology.
It is not an easy task to salvage such a behemoth from the bottom of the sea, and it is very complex and difficult in terms of technology, equipment and organization, and it is quite difficult.
However, since the sinking of the Kursk, the level of trust in the authorities of the Russian population has decreased. Then. Putin has promised that the Kursk will be salvaged, and only a successful salvage can further enhance the prestige of the Russian authorities and restore the trust of the Russian people in the Russian authorities.
In addition, after the sinking of the Kursk, the cause of its wreck has not been ascertained.
For a year, around its sinking, there have been various speculations about the cause of its sinking in various countries around the world. Only by salvaging it can the mystery of the wreck be completely unraveled, the cause of the wreck can be truly found out and the corresponding conclusions can be drawn.
If it is found out that the Kursk nuclear submarine was sunk due to its own technical problems, then the Russian Navy will be able to make technical improvements to the existing nuclear submarines according to these reasons, which will help improve the safety performance of the existing nuclear submarines and provide an effective technical basis for the future development of new submarines.
Second, the nuclear power plant, submarine-launched missile launcher and torpedo on the Kursk submarine are all information that some NATO countries are trying to obtain. If it is not salvaged, these countries may obtain the above-mentioned confidential information at a certain time, which is also very worried about the Russian authorities and navy. In fact, during the current salvage process, warships of certain NATO countries have been conducting tracking reconnaissance.
However, salvage is indeed more troublesome, first of all, the problem of funds, the entire salvage work requires about 80 million US dollars, including the purchase and rental of salvage equipment and equipment, the purchase of anti-radiation clothing, the payment of various fuel costs, the payment of training costs, and so on. This is a large number for Russia, which is not in a good economic situation, otherwise Putin would not have borrowed money specifically from Fan Wuxi.
The second is the technical preparation and organization work, and there are many institutions, personnel, and equipment involved in this salvage work. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, it is necessary to meticulously organize, effectively command, and adopt various measures such as technical, meteorological, hydrological, security, radiometric, logistical, and medical support.
To this end, the salvage agency studied every detail and organized the salvage team to train for several months.
In mid-July, Russia completed a survey of the first compartment of the nuclear submarine using unmanned remotely operated diving equipment, and confirmed that the first compartment was free of torpedoes. In late July, the sludge and marine organisms that had adhered to the cutting site were removed, and holes were drilled in some of the compartments, after which the silt was removed from some of the compartments. At the same time, dismantle part of the equipment in the cabin.
Cutting has already begun, and they will be drilling holes in the hull to allow for the installation of salvage cables.
Probably in early September, the hull will surface, and at that time, there will be a chance to get the tissue part of the outer skin from the hull, so the opportunity for Fan to do it is only a few days.
After calculating that it is only the end of August, it will be at least half a month before he can wait for the opportunity, so Fan Wuxian decided to return to China first, so that he could communicate with the high-level about these situations and arrange the whole operation.
There is another point, which is a major event that Fan Wuxi has been paying great attention to, I am afraid that it is about to happen, and he needs to make some arrangements in advance, so as not to be caught off guard and tired of dealing with it at that time.
When Fan returned to China without illness, it was already August 26.
After getting off the plane, Fan Wuxian directly contacted the top brass to express his attitude towards the Kursk incident and analyzed the feasibility of operating this matter, because he had thought more about it, so the top brass of the Central Military Commission felt that the previous request seemed to be a little underconsidered.
However, overall, Fan Wuxian still tends to take advantage of the advantage if he can find an opportunity, but he can't go too far, so as not to anger the polar bear, then there will be too much trouble in the future.
After discussing for a long time, the details were agreed, and someone from the country was sent over to take charge of the command and arrangement.
Fan Wuxian is definitely unwilling to get involved in this matter personally, otherwise he will be arrested and lose any face, let alone go to Russia to meet Putin again.
If it was done by the underneath, Fan Wuxian could also casually talk about two reasons, such as the underneath was nonsense, or it was a commercial spy infiltrated by external forces or something. It's okay to say anything, but it's unwise to get involved in it yourself.
In the end, the high-level also agreed to Fan Wuxi's proposal, believing that his consideration was thoughtful and meticulous.
After finishing these things, after returning home, her mother Zhang Mei said that her father Fan Heng went to the south to inspect the work.
"In such a hot weather, go to the south to inspect the work?" Fan Wuxian felt a little surprised, usually Fan Heng went out to inspect the work not very often, most of the time, he was in Beijing, after all, as the executive vice premier, there are too many things to deal with.
"Alas, a while ago, there was a mining disaster in the south, and the people below concealed it for nearly a month, and the whole country shook after the news was revealed, and this time it was to deal with the aftermath in the past." When my mother mentioned this, she said with some emotion.
Fan Wuxian was not in the country for a while, but he didn't pay attention to the news, so he asked what was going on.
"Speaking of which, this matter still broke the news from the Internet-" said her mother, Zhang Mei.
In late August this year, a simple news appeared on the Internet, the most modern means of communication, that it was rumored that a major flooding accident had occurred at the Danlajiapo and Longshan mines in southwest Guangxi, and a large number of miners had died.
Unlike the usual major accidents, this time it was not the authorities but the news media that were the first to receive information.
Two days before it was spread on the Internet, a number of news units in Nanning received telephone reports of the same content.
Soon, journalists with a sense of responsibility, justice, and professional sensitivity, including reporters from central news units stationed in Guangxi, rushed to Nandan, nearly 500 kilometers away from Nanning, to conduct on-the-spot investigations.
This extraordinarily serious accident, which was later confirmed to be a shocking case, has been covered up for 20 days, and according to state regulations, all extraordinarily serious safety accidents must be reported to the State Council within 24 hours.
From the very beginning of the investigation, the reporters strongly felt the strength of the other side's power and the despicability of their means, and a fact that was almost fantastical but absolutely true was that almost all the reporters who went to the field to verify the results were followed, watched, blocked, and threatened by the party responsible for the mine accident to varying degrees, and some reporters were even chased and coerced by criminal syndicates with murder weapons.
The difficulty of the reporters' verification lies in the fact that, on the surface, there is hardly any sign of the accident.
On the one hand, the authorities in the area where the mining accident occurred always answered this surprisingly consistently, saying that they had never heard of a major accident or of a dead person.
On the other hand, the owner of the accident mine and his subordinates also insisted that the accident had already been suspended for rectification in accordance with the instructions of the superiors, and that underground production had not been carried out at all in the past one or two months.
However, there was a breakthrough in the fact that the miners and the families of the victims survived the accident.
When the reporters learned about this from the periphery, carefully videotaped and collected evidence, and reported the results of these investigations to the leaders of the autonomous region and the central authorities, things took a decisive and dramatic turn.
In mid-August, the People's Daily's emergency report on the Nandan accident was reported to the central government in the form of a special information report.
"This kind of thing—" Fan Wuxian shook his head again and again after hearing this, in recent years, with the increasing number of private individuals entering the mining industry, as well as the development of the Internet and the abundance of information channels, there will be more and more news about mining disasters that could not run ten miles before.
Local cover-up methods for mining disasters will become more and more complex and changeable.
In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the economic interests and achievements of local officials.
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