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Fan Wuxian received the summary information about this Politburo meeting in a timely manner, although it was only a few words, but the most important issue has been solved, and there is another important point, the two people who spoke to blame Wu Fukuan received Fan Heng's attention, and naturally entered Fan Wuxie's eyes.

Beware of potential opponents, understand potential opponents, and master the ability to balance the opponent, this is what Fan Wuxian has always insisted on pursuing, if he can't ensure these abilities, then it is very risky to always fight at a very high level.

Fan Wuxi knows very well what Fan Heng lacks most, not ability, not strength, but relationship, in the absence of forming a small group that has his own right to speak and dominate, it is difficult for a person to fight a group of people, even if it is the leader of the generation of the year, it can be said that it is a great power that has not been produced for a hundred years, but after being set aside, he couldn't even make his voice in the capital, and he was forced to go to Shanghai to issue a big-character poster of his own, setting off a huge movement.

It can be seen that it is difficult to speak alone, which is a taboo for politicians, making friends, and protégés and disciples are all over the world, which is the royal road.

This time, after learning the names of the two committee members, he immediately mobilized his various intelligence networks to conduct a thorough investigation of them, starting with the social relations before his development, in the hope of obtaining more information and having a comprehensive understanding of them.

This kind of thing is difficult to do, but if you have the heart to do it, it is not impossible.

However, on the morning of 14 August, Fan Wuxian suddenly received news from the Russian side, saying that something had happened on the Russian side and that a nuclear submarine had sunk.

"Kursk nuclear submarine—" A name immediately appeared in Fan Wuxian's mind.

For the next period of time, the sinking of the Kursk caused an uproar* in the world, and everyone was concerned about how Russia would react to the sinking of the nuclear submarine. What will the young President Putin do?

The Russian Kursk multipurpose campaign missile nuclear submarine was designed by the Russian ace weapons design bureau, the Ruby Design Bureau, and many of the design schemes on the submarine are unique in the world.

The boat was launched in May 1994 and officially joined the service of the Russian Northern Fleet in 1995, and is one of the latest strategic nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy and one of the largest nuclear submarines in the world today.

The Kursk nuclear submarine is 154 meters long, 18 meters wide, has a draft of 9 meters, has a displacement of 140,000 tons, is powered by two nuclear reactors, has a deep-sea sailing speed of up to 28 knots, a surface sailing speed of more than 19 knots, a endurance of 120 days, a maximum diving depth of 300 meters, and a maximum of 135 people.

The Kursk nuclear submarine was designed specifically to attack aircraft carriers and was once hailed by the Russian media as an aircraft carrier terminator. The boat is equipped with a Granite missile launcher, embedded in a non-pressurized shell, and carries twenty-four latest supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles.

At the moment, not a single fleet in the world has found effective weapons against such missiles.

The boat is also equipped with four 533-mm and four 650-mm torpedo tubes, including anti-submarine missiles launched from torpedo tubes, for a total of thirty-two advanced tube-launched weapons.

The boat can be used to launch torpedoes and controllable anti-submarine missiles, which greatly increases the self-defense and attack capabilities of missiles and submarines. The submarine is one of the most modern large multipurpose nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy to date, designed specifically to attack aircraft carriers.

According to Jane's Defense Weekly, an authoritative British military research organization, a Kursk submarine can sink an aircraft carrier and other ships of an aircraft carrier group, and by the way, it can also attack enemy submarines.

It is said that the Kursk carries Russia's most classified new weapons and armaments, and 24 of the latest cruise anti-ship missiles can carry high-explosive warheads or nuclear warheads, each of which is equivalent to two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

In addition, new sonar systems have been installed on the submarines, which are considered top military secrets by Russia and have not been disclosed to NATO and Western countries.

However, due to an unexplained explosion on board, the boat sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea at a depth of 150 meters on 13 August, killing all 118 people on board, including its crew, senior generals and assistants of the fleet.

After what happened to Russia, countries around the world were very nervous, because it was not clear whether the Kursk was carrying a nuclear warhead, and whether there would be a reactor leak that would cause huge environmental pollution. Even some countries are worried that if they carry nuclear warheads, will they fall into the hands of terrorists and become a great enemy that threatens human society.

The billion-dollar Kursk nuclear submarine, Russia's most advanced defensive weapon, exploded and sank so inexplicably, which made the Russians very nervous.

The Kursk has two nuclear reactors, and the submarine is six stories tall and more than twice the size of a jumbo jet. And the Kursk has a unique double-hull hull and nine waterproof compartments, which will not sink even if it is hit directly by a torpedo.

But what is the reason why such a super-nuclear submarine actually sank, and what made this crisis develop so quickly that the submarine did not have time to surface?

In the aftermath of the Kursk disaster, a Chechen news agency made even more astonishing statements. The newspaper reported that in support of Islamist forces in Chechnya, a crew member blew up the Kursk.

However, this statement is worth speculating, first of all, who can get into the front of the submarine? Who has the motive to plant the bomb? There were two people on board the boat from the Islamic region of Russia, one of whom had access to the torpedo compartment, and his name was Gatiev.

But the Russian Navy investigated Gatiev's background in detail, he was very loyal to the Navy, and it was absolutely impossible to have an organized terrorist attack.

The Russian Navy believes that the Kursk sank because it had collided with a foreign submarine.

On the day of the incident, the Northern Fleet was not the only one in the Barents Sea, but at least two NATO submarines were monitoring Russian exercises, a game of deceit that often turned into an accidental underwater collision.

In the last 30 years, the Russian Navy has recorded 25 submarine collisions, and even the British Navy believes that the Kursk sank as a result of the collision, and the first thing they thought was that the Kursk may have been hit and sunk by an American submarine in the Barents Sea.

Then, the Russian Navy released a satellite photo of the American submarine USS Memphis, which was parked in a military port in Norway, taken seven days after the sinking of the Kursk.

Russia believes that the photos are enough to prove that the American submarine was damaged, while the American side categorically denies that the Memphis had a collision.

The Russian Navy did not show weakness, they held a press conference, and in the published image material, there appeared to be a huge cut in the side of the Kursk, which they insisted was evidence of the collision, and the culprit was either Memphis or other submarines, perhaps British submarines.

For a time, the Kursk became a thorny political issue.

The British Ministry of Defense believes it is necessary to explore the theory of the collision, and since NATO submarines have been condemned, they must also know the truth.

But then, NATO countries were finally relieved when a Norwegian seismic research institute announced that they had detected an unusual tremor in the Barents Sea when the Kursk went missing.

The British government obtained this important information and handed it over to seismic experts, who compared the seismic map with other seismic signals, and it did not conform to the pattern of submarine earthquakes or submarine collisions, but it was fully consistent with the known pattern of underwater explosions.

In this way, NATO got out of the woodwork, and the hardliners of the Russian Navy had to admit that the cause of the sinking of the Kursk was not a submarine collision.

All in all, there are different opinions, and no one can be sure what the real cause of this accident is until the Kursk is salvaged.

However, the young President Putin is said to be planning to approve a bold salvage plan to pick up the Kursk from the bottom of the sea and set aside $130 million for the salvage operation.

This makes the Russians feel dumbfounded, you must know that Russia is now poor, the annual budget of the entire Northern Fleet is less than 100 million US dollars, and it will take 130 million US dollars to salvage a nuclear submarine that has been sunk and cannot be reused, which is really a bit too exaggerated.

Therefore, soon Fan Wuxian received a call from Putin, and Mr. President asked him if he could provide himself with 1300 million US dollars as soon as possible, so as to help him bypass the budget and operate the matter as soon as possible.

"Is this kind of thing okay?" Fan Wuxian couldn't help but be a little surprised after hearing this, and said in his heart that foreigners really don't know what politeness is, but they don't know what can be mortgaged or exchanged this time?

However, Putin replied very happily, "It's really hard to say this time, mortgages or exchanges are easy to cause me to be passive, so I think it's best to provide free funding, and it's a big deal to find a chance to repay this favor in the future, right?" ”

Fan Wuxian scratched his head, all kinds of investments he cooperated with the Russian side now have very rich returns, and in a few years, the 50 billion US dollars invested in it will not only be able to return to the capital, but it will also be easy to earn another 250 billion US dollars.

But he doesn't want to let Putin take the money so easily, what should he do if he develops a bad habit?

So Fan Wuxian had an idea, and came up with a compromise solution, "It's okay to do this, but you have to hand over the full broadcast rights of the salvage Kursk to me to operate, this request is not excessive, right?" ”

"I agreed to your request." Putin thought for a moment and immediately agreed.

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