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As the largest shipyard in the Soviets, the Nikolaev shipyard has a unique advantage, compared to St. Petersburg, it is not open, which is conducive to secrecy, and the climate in the Black Sea region is relatively pleasant, even in the coldest January, the temperature will not reach below zero, but the cold wind blowing from the north is a little tough.

Since the construction of the first generation of Moskva-class helicopter carriers here, the Nikolaev shipyard has accumulated extensive experience in the creation of large warships, and now, with the start of the construction of the second generation of anti-submarine cruisers of the Project 1143 project, the Nikolaev shipyard has entered its most glorious era.

On July 21, 70, the construction of the ship "Kiev" began, and on December 26, 72, the "Kiev" was launched, and on the same day, the Black Sea Shipyard began to build the ship No. 02 of the same class - "Minsk".

In 75, the Kiev began sea trials, and the Minsk, after being launched in 75, would have been able to complete sea trials in 77 and enter service in 78.

But now, the situation has changed a lot, and due to the war in the Far East, the Minsk, almost at the end of the sea trials, again went to the slipway and underwent an operation.

Feeling the cold wind in the north, Andrey, who rushed from Moscow, stood on the slipway of the Black Sea Shipyard with Marshal Gorshkov and others.

At this time, it was already 78 years, and just after New Year's Day, Andrei came here before he was about to go to the Far Eastern Military District to take office.

"Our experience in the Far East last year confirmed the inability of the Yak-36 to meet the tasks of our Navy's maritime escort and the seizure of air supremacy." Gorshkov and Andrei are now familiar with each other as if they were good friends. Although there is a difference of dozens of years in age, I think of last year's experience. Gorshkov was also extremely emotional.

If there is no Andrei's intervention, then. This Minsk is still mainly equipped with the Yak-36, and the 3rd and 4th ships are also of the same configuration.

And now, as it turned out, the Yak-36 was purely chicken, and after many discussions, the Soviet carrier-based aviation finally ushered in a new era of gliding and take-off fixed-wing aircraft!

The Minsk in front of you. It can't be changed drastically, so it's almost the same as the Kiev that Andrei saw, but in the head of the beveled deck, it's already being upturned. It's just like the jumping deck that Andrei fooled the Americans and deliberately used scaffolding to make it, just. This is a real leaping deck made of special steel!

It seems that it is even more nondescript, the space in the head is wasted, and the huge anti-ship missiles still exist. And the sides, like the Invincible class, stick out of a raised deck.

"We got ideas for improvement from the Nevsky Design Bureau. The beveled deck part of this aircraft carrier was cut off in one piece. Re-welded up to the Leap Deck. At the same time, in order to withstand the impact of the landing of carrier-based aircraft. We've strengthened the entire flight deck. "The chief engineer of the Black Sea Shipyard on the side, Yuri Ivanovich Makarov. He introduced to the senior officials who came: "We can only modify the second ship in this way, and at the same time, we have accumulated experience for the improvement of the first ship when it returns to the factory for overhaul, and the upper stage of the third ship will be rebuilt." ”

Makarov! When he saw this somewhat obese chief engineer, Andrei was still a little excited, in later generations, the situation of this buddy was very sad, the huge Soviet empire collapsed, the Black Sea shipyard became a motherless child from then on, and the entire shipyard became a tattered in later generations, and this Makarov, when the Varyag was dragged away, his heart died.

And now, the Soviets are still developing vigorously, and in September 76, Makarov was appointed chief engineer of the Black Sea Shipyard and began his brilliant and legendary life.

Under his strong push, the Black Sea Shipyard adopted a segmented construction, which greatly accelerated the construction of warships and put the Soviet aircraft carrier construction on a fast track.

And now, with Andrei's intervention, the situation has changed again, and the Minsk has already deviated from history. And the third ship, when the upper deck has not yet been outfitted, obviously has more opportunities to be rebuilt.

Ship Three? Looking at the No. 3 ship on the slipway, Andrei found that it had really changed a lot, unlike the beveled deck of this one that acted as a leaping deck, the bow of this No. 3 ship was upturned!

"According to the renovation documents of the Nevsky Design Bureau, we have almost made significant changes to the bow of the No. 3 ship, which has a jumping deck, and at the same time, the take-off area and the landing area are separated, which will greatly facilitate deck operations." "This has had a big impact on our construction schedule, but we're working overtime now to get the job done as planned," Makarov said. ”

Compared with the second ship, which was only modified with a beveled deck, Andrei was obviously more interested in the third ship, so accompanied by Marshal Gorshkov and others, Andrei stepped on the third ship.

The volume of the ship island is still very large, but the messy things in the bow of the ship are all gone, and the flat deck in the rear and the leaping deck in the front give Andrei the same impression as the later Indian wronged boss who picked up the Gorshkov aircraft carrier for nothing, and then spent a sky-high price to refit it.

"This aircraft carrier is good!" Andrei said to Gorshkov: "Marshal, our Navy needs such an aircraft carrier!" In the case that our catapult is not enough, the way of taking off with a glide jump for the time being is also more powerful than those Yak-36s! But what's the opening underneath this? ”

Walking up to the deck, Andrei noticed that there were openings in the front deck, and although the steel plates were tightly combined, it was still possible to find something underneath.

"It's our anti-ship missiles, and in order to free up space on the deck, we have placed anti-ship missiles below." Makarov explained from the sidelines.

Or anti-ship missiles! Andrei was a little speechless in his heart, aircraft carriers, the most powerful force is carrier-based aircraft! Make every cent of space for carrier-based aircraft! And the Soviet Union is clinging to anti-ship missiles, and the space in front of it must be wasted! If you open up the hangar, you can put twice as many carrier-based aircraft!

However, anti-ship missiles are a tradition of the Soviet Navy, and it will take time to get these people to accept their views, and Andrei knows that Marshal Gorshkov next to him is also a supporter of missiles.

After a few more wars, they will definitely change their views if they thoroughly understand the powerful role of carrier-based aircraft.

"It would be best if the first and second ships were changed to the third ship!" Andrei said with a sigh.

"That's more complicated than building a new aircraft carrier." Makarov instantly rejected Andrei's proposal.

Thinking of the later generations of Ah San, Andrei knew that Makarov was right, the reason why Russia has repeatedly raised the price is also because the modification is really more complicated than the new construction. (To be continued.) )