Severodvinsk, now or Molotovsk, is more appropriately called, since the Soviets have since June 1 raised its administrative rank to a regional city, named after Comrade Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The original town on the coast of the Arctic Ocean has increased its population tenfold in a few years due to the construction of the 402nd Northern Shipyard, and now it is now an industrial city with a population of 100,000 that has emerged around the shipbuilding industry. A few years ago, a construction team of tens of thousands of people carved out two giant reinforced concrete docks 300 meters long, 42 meters wide and 7.5 meters deep in the impregnable Arctic granite, all for the "Soviet" class battleships.

For the sake of these two red giants, the Soviets have done everything they can, and the "Soviet" class is responsible for the dream of all Soviet seafarers: to let the red sickle hammerhead flag fly high in the vast ocean!

In June, the coast of the White Sea has just entered early summer, and the train is lined with forest tundra on both sides, and the temperature during the day is more than 10 degrees. The warmest July temperature here is on average in the mid-10s (that is, it can reach more than 20 degrees during the day and a few degrees above zero at night). The real summer doesn't belong here, although there will be short daylight days.

When he was a child, Lin Jun would look forward to winter every year, because in winter he could see the rare ice and snow in the south of the Yangtze River, but in this life he began to hate ice and snow: once winter arrives in Russia, it seems that there is no end, and the cold weather is annoying. In order to adapt to the bad weather, every household even has a special equipment - a small man-pulled plough to make it easier to carry things in winter, and children can also use that kind of play to pull them out, because in winter the streets are basically thick ice, which is the result of the snow being compacted. It is impossible to sweep the snow away in the general neighborhoods of Russia, so the common people came up with this method, and in the countryside there are more "special equipment" in winter.

But it's summer, and the tundra forests are already full of wildflowers that are unique to the area, and you can see them clearly through the car window.

At this time of year, Stalin usually went to Sochi on the Black Sea coast for a vacation office, and if it were not for the "Soviet", he would not have run north at this time. Yesterday Stalin asked when he planned to go to the Caucasus for recuperation this year, but poor Lin Jun didn't have time to break himself in two.

The warm sun and the sea, it's all so charming - Lin Jun has become more and more like a Russian, and has begun to yearn for a warmer climate.

At 8 a.m. on June 10, the armored train arrived in Molotovsk, and Lin Jun, like everyone in the car, got up early. In fact, the water surface can become bad during this season - the further north the train goes, the longer the daylight becomes, and last night was a white night (the sun goes down and it doesn't get dark, and after a while it becomes daytime again. There is no sleepiness at all, and the spirit is relatively bad.

The launching ceremony of the "Soviet Union" took place at 10 o'clock in the morning, and since the itinerary of the armored train was classified as top secret, the train went directly to the 402 shipyard without stopping at the Molotovsk railway station. The entire factory was heavily guarded, and the guards and Cheka agents who had arrived some time ago protected it like an iron bucket.

Today's Lin Jun is not the protagonist of the "inspection", but he is almost the same - today he is "not" the head of the armament department, but one of Stalin's bodyguards, dressed in an incomparable gorgeous uniform and shining medals, standing next to Stalin and Kalinin, who are dressed plainly, as conspicuous as he wants.

Stalin, Kalinin, Voroshinov and Orlov got out of the car one after another, followed by Lin Jun, who had been standing on Stalin's side with Snolnik. In addition to the leaders of the party committees of the Arkhangelsk region (to which the city of Molotovsk belongs) and the city of Molotovsk, they were greeted by Deputy People's Commissar of the Navy Ivan Stepanovich Isakov, who arrived in advance, and Romuald Adamovich Muklevich, head of the General Directorate of the Shipbuilding Industry and deputy People's Commissar of Defense Industry.

Factory 402 is very large, and the rails lead directly to the dock, but it is impossible for the special train to go directly to the edge of the dock (although this can be done, but this is too petty. and had to be replaced with a car.

In order to coordinate the construction work at close proximity, the temporary resting point of Stalin and others was placed in the conference room on the fifth floor, and here you can see the "Soviet Union" and the "Red Ukraine" built in parallel in the two dockyards.

The "Red Ukraine" will be launched in two months, and the two giant ships in the dock are still only the light turbulent hulls with complete power systems, and all the armament needs to be completed in the outfitting stage, but this does not prevent them from telling everyone that they are powerful.

Today's launching ceremony is really just a formality, because the "Soviet" will not be "wet" for several months. If it were ship designers and shipyard owners from other countries who saw the two huge dry docks in front of Lin Jun, they would definitely go crazy with envy! -- Large warships in various countries in the world are generally built on slipways, because the construction cost of dry docks and manpower and material resources are much more than those of slipways, and in order to save the time occupied by slipways, special outfitting docks are generally built. However, Molotovsk currently has no other major shipbuilding plans, and the two battleships can continue to occupy the dry dock until the main equipment, including the turret, is installed, and then the dock is filled with water, and the warship can be driven directly to the sea, and then to the outfitting dock for the final outfitting of the internal accessories.

If Stalin wanted to, they could have been finished and then watered (the supports at the bottom of the dock were designed for empty loads. But this is obviously a violation of the rules of large ship construction, so the final installation of seats and benches will be placed after the actual launch.

More than two years of construction had already created a smooth construction system on the dockyard side, and it was clear that the completion of most of the work here was in line with the Soviet situation, which would have greatly accelerated the progress of the project, and if the traditional steps had been used, the completion of the warship would have been delayed by at least one to two months.

When you go into the water, you have to have a salute flower and a big colored ball hanging on the bow of the boat, but today there is nothing, everything is for secrecy. In Lin Jun's opinion, this is a bit unconventional, Stalin can wait for the day when the warship is actually launched, and it is estimated that he can't wait.

The huge hull of the "Soviet Union" can give people a sense of oppression, and the length alone is 90 meters longer than the "Marat" that Lin Jun has seen, reaching 270 meters, and the displacement is more than one and a half times that of the "Marat". Before the construction of the "Yamato" in small Japan, it was the world's largest ship.

The Pacific theater in history was basically the stage of the air force, and the gloomy North Atlantic Ocean and the vicious Arctic Ocean also broke out in the dignified battleship battles, iron and blood, will and faith turned into the roar of giant cannons -- this is the real naval battle that sailors yearn for!

"I must go back to the sea, to the lonely sea and the sky." -- Not including the roar of aircraft carriers, Columbus's quote can give Lin Jun a sense of what supports the sailors' beliefs, although he would prefer to send all the enemy ships to the bottom of the sea with bomber formations, as he thought in Spithead Bay in South Strip last year.

Sometimes it is fantasized that these two "Soviet" class battleships would have a dignified battleship battle with the German "Bismarck" and "Tirpitz", but it is still the reality that the British home fleet and the German battleships will fight a fierce battle: the "Soviet" class is prepared for the future, not to fight to the death with the German navy.

"Andrey, when it is built, it will be the flagship of the Red Navy fleet."

Of course, the commander of the Red Navy will not move his own headquarters from the shore to the "USSR", it is the commander of the Northern Fleet who will actually take it as a car, it will be the nominal flagship of the Red Navy, and the home port will be the ice-free port of Murmansk, where the command of the Northern Fleet is located.

"When are you going to let those guys in the west know about their existence?"

"On the day we actually launched, we sent an official note to the countries, which until now thought that we had installed the power plant imported from Switzerland on the aircraft carrier in Leningrad."

"This is thanks to the comrades at the Kharkov Turbine-Generator Plant, otherwise I would not have had enough turbines."

In order to transport those huge steam turbines and oil-fired boilers, the comrades of the railway department also put a lot of thought into it, and even specially designed special flatbed cars.

"By the way, the matter of this warship still needs to be discussed after returning to Moscow, the timing is very important, and a bad one will have unexpected negative effects."

Lin Jun's consideration is necessary, all major actions should be carried out after the outbreak in Europe: battleships will seriously stimulate the nerves of various naval powers, especially old naval powers such as Britain and France. Lin Jun didn't want to change the direction of history because of these two battleships. When Britain and France declared war on Germany, then no matter how many battleships the Soviets had, it would not affect anything, and it was more likely to give a warning to Hitler, who always wanted to go eastward.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the launching ceremony took place in the dock, and Stalin gave an impassioned speech - no champagne, no other traditional ceremonies.

The ritual was all conceived by the British, and everyone usually "observed" this habit, and many times it was considered unlucky that the champagne bottle smashed into the bow of the ship was not broken, and the launching ceremony without champagne was unthinkable. But not today, to hell with these old rules!

The north of Russia is synonymous with difficult conditions, and a group of people also boarded the ship to visit after the simple launching ceremony, Lin Jun was the shipyard "supervisor" and was relatively familiar with the construction of warships, so he was not as focused as others, but cared about the treatment of the shipyard workers.

The shipbuilders of Factory 402 received the highest wages among the Soviet shipbuilders, and the living facilities were also the best, which made Lin Jun very satisfied.

In history, these two docks were carved out of granite by tens of thousands of prisoners, and many people died for this, many of them were falsely accused of "rebellion", and there were small changes in history, which made Lin Jun very pleased.

Stalin and others stayed only one night in Molotovsk and will return to Moscow tomorrow. That night, Lin Jun reported to Stalin his thoughts on when to disclose the time of the "Soviet" class, and Stalin, who was extremely politically sensitive, also noticed this, and ordered that the giant ship should be delivered to the Red Navy after it was built, and that it was necessary to maintain absolute secrecy without clear instructions from Moscow.

This means that it is possible that the "Soviet" will stay in the inland sea for some time to train, which makes Orlov a little depressed, but there is no way. Lin Jun did not have the trouble of the naval commander, and considering the speed of construction and the development of the world situation, it was estimated that the time would be just right.

"Andrey, I heard Orlov say that you want to go to Arkhangelsk?" Stalin asked.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin. I want to go and see the training of the "Belarus", which is now being repaired in the port, and will go to sea for training next week, and I would like to go to sea together. ”

"I heard from the comrades of the navy that the take-off and landing of planes on this ship is completely different from that of ordinary airports, so don't be careless."

Stalin knew that love would be an itchy hand.

"Don't worry, I'll be on the safe side."

The take-off and landing of this carrier-based aircraft is no better than that of land, and if it is not good, it will be dangerous, and Lin Jun himself is not sure at all: this is a new challenge for him.

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Early the next morning, Lin Jun and Orlov arrived at the port of Arkhangelsk, 50 kilometers away, and saw the "Belarus" after a two-year absence. Now it's no longer the ugly monster on the slipway, but a real steel battleship. If it were not for the hull structure, the high-efficiency propellers had just been replaced this year, and the aircraft carrier with a maximum speed of 27 knots could have been classified as a fleet aircraft carrier. Of course, if you have to incorporate it into the first-line fleet, you can also do it, but its sinking resistance is somewhat inferior to that of ordinary fleet aircraft carriers.

Whether it is a fleet type or not, it is not visible from the appearance at all, the displacement of more than 20,000 tons is already a big guy, and the facilities are complete, once the new aircraft is on the ship, its combat effectiveness will be very considerable.

But today's Lin Jun is a little unhappy, because if the air force pilot wants to fly on the ship, he must go through three months of intensive training on the shore, that is, he must also go through one month of training, which is still given special care.

He had a month to spend here, and he had to dispel the idea of piloting the plane to the ship. The naval pilot proposed that Comrade Andrei could take off and land on the ship on a training plane piloted by a pilot of the Red Navy's carrier-based aviation unit after going to sea the day after the aircraft carrier, but Lin Jun flatly refused.

"It's all self-esteem."

Lin Jun knew very well what was going on. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )