Chapter 1678 The Voice of the World

The news that the British are going to sell the aircraft carrier "Invincible," which is on a mission in the Middle East, is like a shot in the arm for the Indians, and this is definitely unexpected good news for the Indians, who are interested in strengthening their maritime combat and deterrent forces

After the retirement of India's "Vikrant" aircraft carrier in 1997, India fell into the dilemma of having only one old "Virat" aircraft carrier in service, and this situation is absolutely unacceptable to India, which aspires to dominate the Indian Ocean and seek to become a great power, or at least a regional power.

In order to enhance its maritime combat strength and deterrence, India has actually begun negotiations with Russia since 1996 to buy and sell the 35,000-ton "Admiral Gorshkov" medium-sized aircraft carrier, which has been decommissioned by Russia, in order to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of India's aging aircraft carrier "Vikrant."

But Russia's greedy polar bear can also be regarded as the key point of the Indians' eagerness to enhance their maritime combat forces, and when India has no choice but to accept the blackmail of the damn old Maozi, this statement of the British gives the Indians who are extremely unwilling to be blackmailed by the old Maozi and have to accept this helpless situation, an excellent opportunity to turn the tables.

In fact, when they heard that the British, the suzerainty of India, were going to sell their "Invincible" aircraft carriers in exchange for military spending and saving naval expenses, the Asan was so excited that they couldn't help but jump

On the other hand, after hearing the news that the British were going to sell their aircraft carriers, Lao Maozi, who immediately realized that his plan to blackmail India Ah San was going bankrupt, had to urgently convene a meeting to discuss this matter: for the Russians, the reason why they were holding a shelf before was because they knew that the Indians had no other choice but themselves, but now the situation is different, judging from the good relations between India and the British, if India wants to buy aircraft carriers from the British, It is highly likely that the British will sell the aircraft carrier "Invincible" to the Indians, but this news is completely unacceptable to the Russians.

So the depressed old Maozi had to adjust his strategy.

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"Yes, India is very interested in the British aircraft carrier "Invincible", for India, the "Invincible" aircraft carrier is a very good choice, if you can, why say no?" India's president, Abdullah, who has only been in office for less than a year and a half. When confronted with a reporter's question about how India views Britain's decision to sell the "Invincible" aircraft carrier, Karam made no secret of India's "covetousness" for the British "Invincible" aircraft carrier.

"However, Mr. President, isn't your country negotiating with Russia about the purchase of the Russian aircraft carrier 'Admiral Gorshkov', and if India is interested in buying the British aircraft carrier 'Invincible', does that mean that India has given up its plan to purchase the aircraft carrier 'Admiral Gorshkov'?" The journalist from Russia's Ta Novosti news agency continued to "aggressively" respond to Abdullah. Karam "asked".

"No, quite the opposite," as India's "father of missiles", Abdullah. How could Karam be stumped by such a simple plan to sow discord? He glanced at the Russian reporter quietly and replied skillfully, "For India, the most reasonable composition of naval aircraft carriers is a maritime combat force with three aircraft carrier formations as the core, but India's military spending on the purchase of aircraft carriers is limited, and under the premise of limited funds, India hopes to do as much as possible with the least amount of money." ”

"What Mr. President said about it...... Whichever offer is low, India will buy the aircraft carrier? "Russian journalists continue to be unrelenting.

"You can say the same thing." Abdullah. Kalam smiled and gave an answer that left the Russian journalist dumbfounded.

The journalist, who is also a correspondent of Russia's Ta News Agency and an agent of the Russian Federal Security Service, did not think of Abdullah for a while. Kalam actually gave himself such a strong reply, and stood stupidly on the spot.

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Although it is uncertain whether the British aircraft carrier will be sold, and even if it is really sold, it may not be sold to India, Zhang Lan understands that if the British aircraft carrier is really sold to the Asian region, it will have a huge impact on Asia's regional security and stability, and for India, a country that has always sought to become a big country and a strong country, the international environment they face is much more peaceful and stable than China's, and once the Indian Navy really forms a maritime combat force with three aircraft carriers as the core, That would have a huge impact on China's national security and strategic interests.

So Zhang Lan definitely can't take it lightly, this is definitely not what Zhang Lan wants to see.

"Indians, that's kind of interesting." The various reports and speculations in the media about the British "Invincible" aircraft carrier, as well as the Indians' jumping up and down in it, made Zhang Lan can't help but pay attention to this matter: the trend of history has changed, and Zhang Lan remembers very well that before he returned, Britain absolutely did not report that it was going to sell the "Invincible" aircraft carrier.

So, is this incident a ploy by the British to ask the Americans for favors, or is it a contradiction between the British government and the military, or is it really Britain's economic situation that has reached such a difficult situation? Zhang Lan wasn't sure, but in any case, before figuring out the truth behind this matter, Zhang Lan had to pay the most attention to this matter.

"If India buys a second aircraft carrier, whether it is the British 'Invincible' or the Russian 'Admiral Gorshkov', it will not be good news for China...... It's not good news for us either, and it's time to figure it out. Xiao Chenxi's expression couldn't see much fluctuation, but the slightly frowning brow still showed how much this girl paid attention to this matter and how tricky it was.

"Hmm." Zhang Lan nodded slightly, of course, there is no doubt that this matter is not good news for the Alice Group, "How long will it take for Ellison's gambling ship aircraft carrier to be able to conduct sea trials?" ”,

It doesn't take long to build an aircraft carrier, even for a behemoth like the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier in the United States, if the funds and various construction materials are sufficient, the construction period is only about 2 years, and the sea trials usually take much longer than the construction period.

The latest "Nimitz"-class aircraft carrier of the United States, the "Ronald Brown" with the designation CVN-76, is the latest class of the United States. For example, the "Reagan" Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier started in February 1998 and was completed in March 2000, but the official service time was December 31, 2002, which means that the construction time was only two years and one month, but the two years and nine months from March 2000 to December 31, 2002 were in the stage of sea trials, and the sea trials took longer than the construction period

The same is true of the gambling ship aircraft carrier that Alice Group built for Ellison's guy, because it is not purely built according to the standards of military ships, but the construction standards of mixed military and civilian, so the construction period is only a little more than a year, but even so, the sea trial cycle will take up to 2 to 2 and a half years.

Do not think that the quality of aircraft carriers built with mixed military-civilian technology is not good, Thailand's "Chakri . The aircraft carrier "Royal Princess of Nalute" and the Spanish aircraft carrier "Prince of Asturias" were both built using mixed military and civilian technology, and were built strictly using military technology and standards in key and core parts such as power systems, transmission systems, management and damage systems, weapons systems and command systems, while civilian technologies were used in some less important places such as living quarters and residential areas.

It has been proved that this construction scheme can effectively reduce costs, and the Spanish plan to build the "Juan. The aircraft carrier Carlos I, the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, and the French Mistral-class cool-air dock landing ship with a full load displacement of 21,000 tons have all adopted mixed military-civilian technology to reduce costs.

Of course, this is because the United States still builds according to the traditional aircraft carrier construction standards and schemes, and the US Navy has calculated that if a "Nimitz" class aircraft carrier is built with the latest modular technology, the construction period will be shortened by about 25 to 1/3, that is, if God gives face, the construction time of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier built in the open dry dock can be shortened to one year and five months at the earliest.

Alice Shipyard has already begun to improve modular shipbuilding technology, and Ellison's bet ship carrier will be launched a little earlier than scheduled. Zhang Lan asked this question at this time because he understood the impact of this incident on Britain's sale of the "Invincible" aircraft carrier: If it is convenient, even as long as there are two or three more months, Ellison's aircraft carrier can be officially tested at sea, and once the sea trials officially begin, this aircraft carrier, which is about the same size as the Nimitz-class large aircraft carrier of the United States, but is built with mixed military and civilian technology, will surely attract countries around the world that are interested in improving their maritime combat strength and urgently need to obtain aircraft carriers.

So when Zhang Lan asked this sentence, Xiao Chenxi immediately realized the meaning of Zhang Lan's words, and pondered for a while, "If other construction forces are transferred over, it can be completed in two months." ”

"Two more months? So fast" Zhang Lan's face was full of joy, because of excessive excitement, his face flushed, "Well, I don't know how many people in the world are watching the performance of this gambling ship aircraft carrier, although the country has not said anything, but I believe that their attention to this matter is definitely not much lower than our own, for them, if we can really build a modern aircraft carrier, then for them, A new way to break the economic blockade and military blockade of the European and American national teams has been found. ”

"In that case, let the network department post a message on the Internet, saying that in two months, the aircraft carrier built by Alice Shipyard for Mr. Ellison, the president of Oracle, will be officially launched for sea trials." Xiao Chenxi's decision was quite decisive, and after Zhang Lan said this, she immediately made a decision.

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"Do the most with the least amount of money?" Watching Apudullah on TV. Kalam's words, Putin angrily threw out the delicate pen in his hand: threatened that this is a naked threat to Russia, what does it mean to "do the most with the least money"? It is not to imply that Russia had better lower its offer for the aircraft carrier "Admiral Gorshkov", otherwise they India will buy the British "Invincible".

But for Russia, which is now mired in the quagmire of the Chechen war, either they will decisively withdraw their troops from Chechnya, let Chechnya fall into the hands of those damned "rebels", and clean them up in the future; Either that or grit your teeth and get through this most difficult of days

As far as the Chechen war, which has been in a stalemate, Putin, who has always been tough, does not want to give up at this time, and if he gives up, it means that he has always been tough and bows to these Chechen "separatists." For Putin, who is actually full of the idea of "Great Russianism" in his bones, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Touching the door of his head, it seems that there is still some pain there.

The pain in the head was still the last time I was flying the SU-27 fighter plane on the Chechen border to boost morale, and the Chechen people at that time seemed to know that the SU-27 fighter was sitting in the Russian president, and all kinds of surface-to-air missiles were desperately launched into the sky as if they didn't want money; if it weren't for the fact that the escort pilots carried forward Huang Jiguang's spirit of seeing death as if they were at home in blocking the machine gun holes, and used their own landlines to help Putin block the incoming surface-to-air missiles, the current Russian president would have changed. The menacing surface-to-air missile scared Putin almost out of his body at that time

Although Putin landed safely on the ground after paying the lives of six excellent fighter pilots, Putin, who had been frightened by his weak legs and weak feet, fell directly from the cockpit of the fighter plane when he stepped out of the cockpit, and immediately smashed his head into a big hole and a slight bone crack in his upper left arm.

Fortunately, it is a fighter jet, and the cabin is only about three meters above the ground, and if it is a little higher, his good partner, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, can already take over his shift.

Touching the forehead, which had been treated by the best surgeon in Russia, there was no scar at all, and it seemed that there was still pain, and the scene of the near escape that day seemed to appear in front of his eyes again. ,

No, you can't laugh at yourself for the damned Chechens, Putin can already imagine how arrogant and despicable the damned Chechens, who absolutely deserve to hell, will laugh at themselves if they make the decision to withdraw their troops from the Chechen battlefield.

"Inform the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Minister of the Interior, Head of the Federal National Security Service, Minister of Defence, Minister of Finance, Minister of Economic Development and Trade to immediately come to the conference room for a meeting." Putin, who had made up his mind completely, pressed the call button of his own secretariat.

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Naturally, the news that the British were going to sell the "Invincible" aircraft carrier serving in the Middle East could not reach the ears of the Americans, and as soon as the news reached its own ears, the US Government, which has always been not afraid to ponder other people's intentions with the worst intentions, immediately began to analyze the meaning behind the news.

"Damn the British, want to sell the aircraft carrier 'Invincible'? What exactly do they mean? Are they pressuring us in this way to give them a little more favor? Almost without thinking, the Americans, who had always been accustomed to being robbers, immediately thought of this possibility first.

Although they also know that the British economy has not been very prosperous in recent years, the unemployment rate has remained high, and the once glorious "empire on which the sun never sets" has no longer regained its former glory, they absolutely do not think that the current British have been reduced to the point where they need to sell their aircraft carriers to get by.

As for the disputes between the British government and the military, and several other possibilities, they have long been ruled out by the think tanks of the US government, and in their view, the British, who relied on maritime hegemony to achieve the glory of their "empire on which the sun never sets", will definitely not fail to see the impact of a strong navy on Britain's international status and discourse.

In this case, does it need to be said about the meaning behind the British approach?

"It's a great possibility, but for us now, can we ignore the voices of the British? On the battlefield in Iraq, the British are our most solid allies, even if it is for others to see, we have to ......" Rice stopped talking, believing that President George W. Bush understood what she meant.

Of course, Bush Jr. understands, and he also knows that even if the British are asking for benefits from themselves, in the current international situation, when there are fewer and fewer allies with the United States and more and more allies who are separated from Germany, can he ignore the despicable and shameless "blackmail" of the British?

On the contrary, not only could not, but he had to pretend that he could not see the small tricks of the "selling aircraft carriers" farce made by the British, try his best to win over the British, and by the way, make an attitude to other allies: Look, as long as you follow your boss and me honestly, your boss and I will never ignore the difficulties you encounter, and I will never let you suffer

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