"General Wang, why did you call me over in such a hurry?"

In the naval aviation headquarters, Lin Hongfei quickly glanced at it, in addition to the commander General Wang Xu, the political commissar, the chief of staff, several deputy commanders, the director of the equipment department, the director of the logistics department and other bigwigs of the naval aviation unit were all present, seeing this scene, Lin Hongfei's heart suddenly became more and more serious: HNA let me come over, what is it for?

Yes, two days ago, General Wang Xu, commander of the HNA Army, got in touch with Lin Hongfei and hoped that Lin Hongfei would come over to attend a "discussion meeting."

Although I don't know what the content of this "seminar" is discussed, Lin Hongfei is not good not to come, the only fighter under the second group of HNA and AVIC: the only customer of the FBC-1/JH-7 "Flying Leopard" fighter-bomber, in the face of the invitation of the big customer, Lin Hongfei's impact on not coming is not small.

"There is something very important to discuss with Mr. Lin," General Wang Xu looked cautious, "Mr. Lin, do you remember the plan of the large aircraft-carrying amphibious assault ship you mentioned last time?" ”

While General Wang Xu was speaking, the chief of staff had already closed the door tightly...... This action made Lin Hongfei, who originally entered the door and saw so many bigwigs of the HNA army present, pay more and more attention to the content of today's seminar.

"Of course I remember," Lin Hongfei nodded, how could he not remember how long it had been? He asked, "How?" Our Navy has already decided to develop such a type of warship? ”

As the person in charge of the most important military industrial enterprise in the Republic, HNA's idea is inseparable from Lin Hongfei's support, General Wang Xu nodded and said, "That's right, our navy has discussed this idea of Mr. Lin within itself. We agreed that Mr. Lin's suggestion was very constructive and forward-looking, and a recent incident made our Navy decide to conduct some preliminary research on this project. ”

Lin Hongfei absolutely did not expect that when he and General Wang Xu said that he was considering the idea of developing a type of heavy ground attack aircraft that can carry a strong-6 low-speed propeller, a Z-9X high-speed helicopter, and a Z-13X heavy high-speed helicopter carrier/large amphibious assault ship, he was listened to by General Wang Xu, not only General Wang Xu, but also the entire navy.

Although it's 1997 now, let's be honest. Not to mention that compared with the four major hooligans of the United States, Russia, France, and Britain, even compared with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the equipment of the Republic Navy is much behind, and the firepower of the eight C-801 anti-ship missiles and eight Haihongqi-7 ship-to-air missiles (24 spare bombs) of the most advanced missile destroyers No. 112 and 113 is really insufficient. The leadership of the Navy is anxious!

Yes, that's right. We have two Hyundai-class missile destroyers that we have just ordered with Da Mao and are known as "aircraft carrier killers". But the problem is that the contract has just been signed, and the warship has not yet arrived?

Seeing that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Americans who were looking for opponents in the world of Manchurian turned their eyes on us, the external living environment of the Republic of China, which is getting worse and worse, and the South China Sea problem is becoming more and more serious. It pointed out a direction for the development of the navy of the republic, especially with the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, an incident that made the navy completely calm.

"One thing? What's up? Lin Hongfei keenly grasped the main point of General Wang Xu's words. Immediately asked.

"Citing the economic crisis, the South Koreans are interested in selling the Minsk aircraft carrier they bought from Russia at a low price." General Wang Xu and the political commissar glanced at each other, and said in a deep voice, "We are wondering, can we buy this Minsk aircraft carrier back for research and research, and convert this aircraft carrier into the warship that is similar to the American Wasp amphibious assault ship that you said?" In this regard, we would like to hear your views on Mr. Lin. ”

"The South Koreans are interested in selling their aircraft carrier Minsk?" Lin Hongfei's whole body was shocked, and then he was full of chagrin: Damn, how could you forget such a big thing?

At the end of 95, how could Lin Hongfei not know about South Korea's purchase of the Minsk aircraft carrier from Russia? At that time, this incident not only caused a lot of noise in the country, but also caused a very bad trend of thought in the country, and the Daewoo Group, which purchased the Minsk aircraft carrier, was even more ambitious to "bring the Minsk back to life" and realize the South Korean aircraft carrier dream.

Even Lin Hongfei knew the future fate of this aircraft carrier, but if it weren't for General Wang Xu's reminder, Lin Hongfei, who was busy with his heel hitting the back of his head during this time, would have completely forgotten Minsk: Because of the impact of the Asian financial crisis, South Korea, which has changed from one of the "Four Little Dragons" to one of the "Four Little Worms", no longer has the ambition to "bring the Minsk back to life", but sold the Minsk to us at a price that is more than the price of scrap iron. But now, it seems possible that the future fate of the Minsk will be different from the original history?

"That's right, our people just got the news from Daewoo Group, because of the impact of the financial crisis, Daewoo Group's financial situation has been extremely bad, and it has to sell assets to ease the situation, we estimate that about 6 million to 7 million US dollars will be able to take down the Minsk......"

"Not six or seven million dollars, five million dollars is enough!" Lin Hongfei suddenly interrupted Wang Xu's words, and said in an extremely affirmative tone.

"$5 million?" General Wang Xu was stunned for a moment, a little incredulous, "Will the Koreans be willing?" ”

"Believe me, up to $5 million, there will be absolutely no problems, the only problem is that the South Koreans may irreparably damage the internal situation of the Minsk, and I even suspect that in order for us to lose access to information about the aircraft carrier, the Americans even simply used explosives." Lin Hongfei nodded affirmatively.

We once spent $5.3 million on the Minsk, but it turned out that we had spent a lot of money in vain, and the Koreans once complacently said, "We will sell even $3 million," which means that we spent nearly twice as much. Listening to the meaning of General Wang Xu's words, it is obvious that we have made a lot of money by six or seven million US dollars, and Lin Hongfei is really worried that if he says the price of 3 million US dollars, he will directly scare General Wang Xu away.

"So that's the case, then don't worry, we have long thought of this, the Americans will definitely not watch us get the Minsk and do nothing, for us, the Minsk is more about borrowing and comparing with reality, to see how much reference we can learn from this kind of amphibious assault ship that can carry aircraft. And......" General Wang Xu breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated, and lowered his voice to Lin Hongfei, "In the early years, we obtained a full set of design and process drawings for the Minsk from Russia. ”

"What?!" Lin Hongfei was shocked, "When did it happen?" ”

"For a few years, just a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we spent $500,000 to buy it back as waste paper," Wang Xu smiled bitterly, "At that time, I didn't expect it to be able to be used so quickly, I just thought that a country as big as ours must not be able to do without aircraft carriers, even if it is to make some preparations for the development of aircraft carriers in the future." ”

When General Wang Xu said this, he immediately changed the topic, obviously unwilling to say more about this matter, "Mr. Lin, how feasible do you think it is to discover a large amphibious assault ship based on the Minsk?" ”

After a deep sigh, Lin Hongfei said, "I don't know much about naval ships, but judging from the difference between the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship and the medium-sized aircraft carrier in the world, these are two things at all, right?" Although the amphibious assault ship can carry aircraft, the huge dock and garage in the ship basically make this thing have no hangar in the ship, and most of the aircraft can only be placed on the deck...... Does our Navy want to develop a type of amphibious assault ship, or does it want to develop a medium-sized conventionally powered aircraft carrier on the basis of the Minsk? ”

Several HNA bigwigs glanced at each other and asked Lin Hongfei in a deep voice, "What if we plan to develop an amphibious assault ship that can be converted into a medium-sized aircraft carrier at any time?" ”

"An amphibious assault ship that can be converted into a medium-sized aircraft carrier at any time?" Lin Hongfei was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to say, "Ridiculous! How is this possible?! But then he smiled bitterly, he understood the helplessness and grievances of the navy: isn't it all because we are not strong enough? At present, our strength is not enough, we can only develop a large aircraft-carrying amphibious assault ship, even if it can carry the Qiang-6 propeller-powered heavy attack aircraft, but it is only an amphibious assault ship mainly for amphibious operations, which is much smaller than the controversy caused by medium-sized aircraft carriers;

But in the same way, our country will not always be so weak, when our country's strength has developed to a certain level and there is no need to be afraid of people's words, it seems a pity to directly abandon such a warship, it can be easily directly converted into a medium-sized aircraft carrier, and it can be "wasted".

"If that's the case......" Lin Hongfei pondered for a long time, and finally spoke, "I really have an idea." ”

"Tell me!" General Wang Xu and others, who had been staring at Lin Hongfei all the time, were overjoyed when they heard Lin Hongfei's words!

Naturally, Lin Hongfei doesn't need to say much about the structure and design of the warship, there are experts in China in this regard, and there is no need for Lin Hongfei to talk about it at all, what they need is actually more of a whimsy in Lin Hongfei's head, originally thought that this would be an impossible idea, but I didn't expect Lin Hongfei to have an idea so quickly?

This was an unexpected surprise! (To be continued......)