"The modernization of the army cannot be bought!" Deng Feng calmed down his mood and recalled; "In order to cooperate with the transformation of the country's economic system, millions of Chinese [***] industrial workers were laid off in tears and became self-employed, and one after another state-owned military factories became the private property of factory directors and managers. The army went to the sea to do business, and the Chinese did everything possible to go to their own well-off. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Americans, who had tasted the iron fist of the Chinese people in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam, began to make a move against China again. Constantly testing China's bottom line. We will have the ability to protest by imposing economic sanctions on China today, bombing Chinese embassies abroad tomorrow, and ramming Chinese patrol planes the day after tomorrow.

Deng Feng took a sip of water and continued: "Can US imperialism not bully us in this way!" Can the small countries in Southeast Asia be blamed for carving up China's marine resources in the South China Sea? Fortunately, after tasting the setbacks of purchasing again, I woke up, and in the end I had no choice but to return to the road of self-reliance, and I still used the spirit of 'two bombs and one satellite' to build an early warning aircraft, which made up for a little early mistake to a certain extent. The debt to the army and navy will not be paid until the beginning of the next century. ”

The leaders of the party and the state present at the enlarged meeting of the military need to have a strong enough heart to listen, Deng Feng's calm but powerful speech, sharp words like lightning pierced the air in Huairentang, so people held their breath to realize that this was a change in China that had already passed for Deng Feng and them, but for the young republic, it might be the future of China, so that they could feel China's "future history" in advance.

Deng Feng continued: "The purpose of what I say here is to remind everyone that at all times and under all circumstances, China's national defense construction must always be based on the foundation of self-reliance. At any time and under no circumstances can the soul of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which overpower the enemy and never be subjugated by the enemy, be discarded. Without the soul of this nation, the army will be modernized, and it can only be a rabble without a soul and vulnerable. ”

As soon as Deng Feng's words fell, Lin B immediately took over and said: "[***] Thought is the beacon of human progress, the sharpest weapon of the world revolution, and the universal truth that can be applied everywhere. It is the soul of our party, our army, and our nation, and the practice of the Chinese revolution has proved that if we adhere to the revolutionary line, China's revolutionary cause will flourish and advance courageously. If we deviate from the revolutionary line, the revolutionary cause will suffer major setbacks and losses. ”

The supreme chief smiled and said, "Any truth is relative, conditional, and not universal." The so-called MZD ideology is a summary of the lessons learned by the Chinese people in exchange for countless blood and lives, and is the result of the collective wisdom of the Chinese people. ”

President [***], who was presiding over the work on the front line, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case at the front door, lit it with a "click", and then shook the match in his hand to extinguish it and put it in the ashtray, and said with a summary surname: "We are a socialist country under the dictatorship of the proletariat and a large country with a large population, and we must not rely on foreign forces to carry out our socialist construction in China." Relying on others will not lead to socialism. Only by holding high the great banner of MZD, proceeding from China's actual situation, and relying on the creativity of the Chinese people, can we do a good job in China's affairs and make our country invincible in the ever-changing world. ”

Because of the special experience of Deng Feng and others, it will sometimes directly affect the original consciousness of these politicians. Deng Feng was afraid that what he had just said would cause misunderstanding, and he said, "I am not opposed to the introduction of foreign advanced technology and equipment, but this kind of introduction must be based on the independence and self-reliance of reading power." To build national defense, we need international cooperation and cooperation, and we need to introduce some foreign technology, which is for better development, but we must not rely on these ready-made things from foreign countries. Such introductions must not be built on the basis of harming China's own defense industry. ”

Discussing how the aircraft carrier came to this, Deng Feng thought that these politicians only talk about principles, not specifics, and first make their political positions clear when they encounter problems. He sorted out his thoughts a little, and led the topic to discuss the specific matter of aircraft carriers, he continued: "We must engage in aircraft carriers, since the Yongle of the Ming Dynasty in China, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China's maritime strategy is only one, that is, 'forbidden sea and closed retreat', and as a result, the sea is not banned, and the sea is not closed." The imperialist powers of the West still came from the sea, causing the Chinese nation to suffer the humiliation of land reparations for more than 100 years. We must reformulate China's naval strategy, and the Chinese people's navy must change from 'coastal defense' to 'coastal defense', and must change from 'coastal defense' to protect China's overseas assets and protect China's interests in the world. Forge the Chinese Navy into an important force that protects China's core interests and fears our enemies. Turn China's yellow-water navy into a blue-water navy. ”

"To achieve these changes, it is absolutely necessary to build an aircraft carrier," Liu Yalou said after Deng Feng: "We know that the take-off of fighter planes from land airfields is affected by the combat radius, and now the general combat radius of our fighters is only a few hundred kilometers, and the J-10 and J-7 of later generations at the base are a little farther away." If the combat radius of an airplane is several hundred kilometers, assuming that the battlefield is several hundred kilometers, when it flies there, it will stay for a few minutes at most, and then it must hurry back, otherwise it will run out of fuel. After flying back and forth for more than 1,000 kilometers in this way, the time of the battle is only a few minutes, which is obviously not possible. If we have aircraft carriers, we can go to the battlefield hundreds of kilometers away, and we can continue to fight there for an hour or two. It is equivalent to saying that the time for aircraft patrols and operations has increased, so it is said that aircraft carriers are an extension of the air force on land and coastal coasts in the direction of the ocean, and the aircraft carrier fleet, as a maritime mobile force of our army, will drive the aircraft carrier fleet wherever there is an incident. This will have a great deterrent effect and will make our enemies dare not act rashly. ”

"I strongly support the chairman's grand naval strategy." Marshal Peng Dehuai said very seriously: "Now we have taken Shannan and established the Shannan Special Economic Zone, making China a country that straddles the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca are China's maritime gateways to the world, the maritime arteries between Chinese mainland and Shannan Special Administrative Region, and the safety and unimpeded passage of this artery must be ensured at all times! It certainly won't work without a strong navy. US imperialism will not easily give up its maritime supremacy, and this is due to their imperialist roots. So the one that should be on must be on. ”

"Liu Jun, you have been focusing on the construction of military equipment, aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft are high-tech and intensive military system engineering, and the conditions for later generations are so good, and after so many years, that is, a "Varyag" was refitted. Do we have the conditions to do it now? Wang Kunpeng asked Liu Jun in a low voice.

"How do you say that? This is to see if you want to do what you want to do, if you want to do it, and if you want to do it, you will come up with the spirit of 'two bombs and one satellite,' and if you have the conditions, you will have to do it, and if you don't have the conditions, you will have to do it, and there will be nothing that can be done. If you don't want to do it, it's just that nothing is bad, and you still can't do it for many years. Liu Jun replied to Wang Kunpeng in a low voice: "Besides, what kind of state of mind and motivation this person is now?"

"What are you two muttering?" The prime minister smiled and said to Liu Jun and Wang Kunpeng: "If you have something to say, let's listen to it together." ”

"Ah, that's right, Chief of Staff Wang Kunpeng asked me just now if we have the conditions to build an aircraft carrier," Liu Jun replied to the premier.

The prime minister waved his hand and said with a smile: "Then you can tell everyone about this situation." It also makes everyone have a number in their hearts. ”

"If you want to talk about the conditions, Prime Minister, you know better than me that aircraft carriers are high-tech and intensive military systems engineering, and the areas involved are too big and too many. Deng Feng and I and some comrades also visited China's first aircraft carrier in the future, and at that time, I and more than a dozen station directors also participated in a discussion on the logistics support of aircraft carriers and the management of aircraft carrier stations. If we want to say that there is definitely a difficulty in building an aircraft carrier, I think it is mainly a problem in these aspects, the first is the technical problem of catapult take-off. This problem exists regardless of whether we choose a heavy, medium or light aircraft carrier. ”

"How are the United States, the United Kingdom, solving this problem now?" Navy Commander Xiao Jinguang asked.

"Aircraft carriers in the United States and Britain have always used steam catapult systems, and the steam catapult is a British patent that was later bought by the United States." Wang Kunpeng switched the picture on the big screen to the schematic diagram of the steam catapult and explained the diagram by comparison: "The steam catapult is actually a large steam cylinder and a steam control system. The energy of high-pressure steam is converted into kinetic energy for ejection, and the power of ejection comes from high-pressure steam. Produced by the ship's propulsion boiler, stored in an ejection pressure tank. The steam input and pressure regulation of the pressure tank are controlled by the steam input valve. It's a very old, very traditional old mechanized system, and although it is not a high technology, it is very practical. Now only the United States and Great Britain are able to manufacture. Some say that the sealing of the open cylinder is the key, some say that the open cylinder is very difficult to manufacture, and some say that the machining accuracy of the catapult is very high, and the tolerance required for the machining accuracy of the cylinder and the whole piston is calculated in mil units, that is, with the accuracy of one thousandth of a millimeter, otherwise, the steam escape will be very powerful and so on. Whatever it may be, it's a difficult thing to do. ”

"How do we solve this technical problem?" Chairman Liu asked.

"We haven't experimented with this question, but as far as I know, it's very difficult," Liu Jun replied. For example, when France was building medium-sized aircraft carriers, it talked to the United States and hoped that the United States would provide steam catapult technology, but the United States refused to provide it, and later only sold the French a set of C-13 catapults. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia also developed for more than ten years, did not crack the technology of steam catapult, solved the problem of steam escape, and did not make a steam catapult, and finally had no choice but to use the jump downhill deck technology, using MiG-29 or Su-33 carrier-based aircraft, by increasing the thrust-to-weight ratio of carrier-based aircraft. ”

Chairman Liu frowned and asked, "Then can't we also use the jump downhill deck technology?" ”

"Okay, but this solves the problem of the thrust-to-weight ratio of carrier-based aircraft. Even solving the problem of the thrust-to-weight ratio of carrier-based aircraft is only an expedient measure. Deng Feng took over this question from Chairman [***] and said: "China's development of aircraft carriers is not for the sake of having aircraft carriers, for the purpose of building aircraft carriers, nor for showing the status of a great power. It is to maintain China's absolute strength in the maritime areas for the foreseeable years to come. The mode of jumping, landing, and taking off cannot meet this strategic requirement, and does not meet the requirements for aircraft carriers to carry medium-sized and above early warning aircraft. Medium-sized and above AWACS aircraft cannot be lifted off on an aircraft carrier that takes off in a jump-downhill type. Without large-scale battlefield monitoring by early warning aircraft, it will be impossible to effectively carry out condescending 24-hour monitoring of the battlefield, and it will be impossible to detect the incoming enemy planes in a timely manner. With the development of missile technology and the enhancement of long-range strike capabilities, a large aircraft carrier fleet that cannot be hidden can easily become a ghost under the knife of enemy fighters and long-range missiles. That's one of the problems. The second is that the speed of catapult take-off is about twice as high as that of the jump and downhill take-off, which is conducive to emergency take-off operations and self-defense of aircraft carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, if China wants to develop its own aircraft carriers, it must solve the technical problem of catapult take-off. Only by solving this difficult problem can we carry medium-sized and above early warning planes and enhance our ability to deal with long-range missile strikes and stealth fighters in the future. ”

There was silence in the room for a while, and no sound could be heard except for the sound of "hissing, hissing" smoking.

"I don't think it's better to use some patented technology and the United States or Britain to exchange their steam catapult technology, and then slowly digest and absorb it," Li Dawei broke the silence.

"Here's a question of whether the Americans and the British can exchange with you, that is, if you exchange with you, he will add too high, can you do it?" Deng Feng said; "I think it's better to emancipate our minds a little and directly carry out the development of electromagnetic catapults."

"No, no! It's too difficult. Li Dawei said repeatedly: "That is a technology that the United States will only adopt in the next century after nearly 30 years." ”

(To be continued)