A cold wind, blowing at the Nikolaev shipyard, the Black Sea in winter, somewhat cold.

Wrapped in a thick coat, the group came to the Black Sea shipyard.

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Defense Minister Ogarkov and others accompanied Mkhamad and his party to the slipway.

The cranes standing tall in the sky, filled with steel and welding sparks, made Mhammad dizzy, and as an ordinary person, standing here, it was as if he had infinite power to conquer the world.

On the pier on the far side, a large aircraft carrier that goes straight to the deck is being outfitted, the entire deck is flat, only the leaping deck sticking out of the front end, some of it is upturned high, showing its own rebelliousness, and on the bridge on the right, something is constantly being hoisted, and the outfitting is carried out in an orderly manner.

It is now 87 years, and Mhammad knows that this warship being outfitted is the Soviet Union's great "Project 1143.5" lead ship "Tbilisi"!

This is a powerful warship that pinned the hopes of the Red Navy, however, its name, seems to show its future vicissitudes of fate, when the project just began, it was first named "Riga", but in November 1982 it was renamed "Leonid Brezhnev", in honor of the great General Secretary of the Soviet Union who had just died, this name remained for five years, in August of this year was renamed "Tbilisi", and in later generations, on October 4, 90 finally named " Marshal of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov ".

While it was still in sea trials, the great Red Empire had already collapsed, and the Russian Navy almost forcibly drove it away from the Black Sea shipyards, but the carrier-based aircraft remained in Ukraine a few years later. Russia is barely equipping it with carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, the warship was still in the outfitting stage, and on the largest slipway 0, the second ship of its class under construction, No. 1143.6, was named Riga. In later generations, it was named the Varyag, and after staying in the Black Sea shipyard for several years, it had only an empty shell, which was bought by a company in Macau, and the process of sailing was also full of twists and turns, but it was finally reborn and became the aircraft carrier Liaoning in the eastern country! The entry into service of this aircraft carrier. It has become a symbol of the strength of the navies of the Eastern countries!

At the same time, a platform with an area of 18,000 square meters was erected next to slipway 0, and the components of the third aircraft carrier, the Ulyanovsk, were being assembled.

This is the masterpiece of the Black Sea shipyard, and the carrying capacity of this platform is comparable to that of the slipway, and when the construction of the slipway begins, this platform is pre-welded for the next warship. When the warship on the slipway is launched, the prefabricated section on this side can be directly hoisted over. Significant time savings.

At the time of the construction of the Tbes, the assembly of the large hull section of the "Riga" began on this platform. When the Tbes finished its slipway assembly and was launched in December 85, the 24 sections of the "Riga" were 32 meters long, 38 meters wide, about 13 meters high, and weighed about 1,400 tons. It was moved into the slipway by two Finnish-made 900-ton cranes and dozens of gantry cranes.

So, although only two years have passed, the hull of the Riga, almost built, now. Riga will have another year to be launched, and the prefabricated parts of the third Ulyanovsk will be moved.

In later records, the construction of the Ulyanovsk began in 88, in fact, it refers to slipway No. 0, but the construction began three years ago.

When he was in Pakistan, when Mhammad visited his shipyard, he would have a sense of looking up at the huge aircraft carrier. And now, looking at the shipyards of the Soviets, Mhammad is also lamenting the advanced technology of mankind.

"General Secretary, Mr. Minister of Defense, welcome to the shipyard for inspection." Just as Mhammad sighed, the director of the shipyard, Yuri Ivanovich Makarov, with gray hair and glasses, said to the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, and then he turned his head and looked at Mhammad: "Welcome friends from Pakistan. ”

The word friend is said very reluctantly, of course Mhammad knows that in the face of an opponent who has just ended the war, it is difficult for ordinary people to remain friendly, especially the person in front of him, the Soviet shipbuilding strongman who is extremely loyal to the Red Empire, the father of aircraft carriers Makarov!

Later generations of Mhammad also admired this man very much, graduated from the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute in 1958, and in April 1976 became the chief engineer of the Black Sea Shipyard. In 1979 he became the director of the Black Sea Shipyard. He is a person who is very technologically proficient, and under his hands, the phenomenon of people floating in state-owned enterprises will not happen, and people who do nothing will be driven away by him.

His greatest contribution is to streamline the Soviet Union's aircraft carrier manufacturing, the establishment of the prefabricated platform, so that the Soviet Union can quickly manufacture aircraft carriers, and at the same time, under his supervision, the Kuznetsov can be completed in 91 years, otherwise, the future of Russia, there will be no aircraft carrier.

And the Varyag is the pain of the old man in front of him in his old age, when he sees the Russians and the Ukrainians arguing with red ears and making trouble to pay the follow-up costs of the Varyag, Makarov knows that this aircraft carrier can no longer be built, because that powerful country no longer exists!

After retiring, Makarov looked at the warship on the outfitting dock every day, and when the ship was towed away by a tugboat, the old Makarov burst into tears.

Two years later, he died of depression.

This is all a matter of later generations, at least for now, Makarov bears the hope of the Red Imperial Navy, building the most powerful warship in the world, and at this time, although he is over fifty years old, he is still full of youthful vitality.

"Hello, Mr. Makarov, it's a pleasure to meet you." Mhammad said that Mhammad respects this person, and maybe, he can get this person to Pakistan in the future.

"What we're seeing now is a new type of aircraft-carrying cruiser under construction at the slipway, Order No. 106, and the outfitting dock over there is Order No. 105." Makarov said: "Please follow me to order 105. ”

The Soviets never called their aircraft carrier an aircraft carrier, they always called it a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser.

It is called so, naturally, in order to pass through the Turkish Strait, the warships that leave the Black Sea shipyards, if you want not to become the warships of the Black Sea Fleet, to go to other seas, you need to pass through that narrow passage, aircraft carriers are offensive weapons, and cruisers, which can also be said to be defensive.

Of course, it is not wrong to call it that, the aircraft carrier of the Soviets is not only an aircraft carrier, but also equipped with a large number of weapons, and there is no need for anything else, just say that the 12-seat vertical launcher of the P-700 Granit long-range anti-ship missile below the flight deck of the bow is already the most headache weapon for the US fleet. This supersonic anti-ship missile can receive target information through satellites and carry out over-the-horizon strikes with a maximum range of up to 550 kilometers. NATO code name, it is SS-N-19 ship wreck! The name shows the momentum.

The aircraft carrier has more powerful anti-aircraft weapons. A total of 192 missiles were installed on four sets of SA-N-9 ship-to-air missile vertical launchers with 6×8 launch units on four broadside platforms on both sides of the flight deck. The four broadside platforms are also equipped with eight CADS-N-1 projectile and artillery short-range weapon systems, each consisting of two six-barreled 30mm AK-630 guns and two sets of four SA-N-11 short-range ship-to-air missiles. It can be seen that so many anti-aircraft weapons are enough to fight a saturation attack. At the upper end of the bridge there is a "Sky Sentinel" multifunctional phased array radar. It is very similar to the "Aegis" shipborne radar, which can detect, identify and track multiple batches of targets.

The aircraft carriers of the United States need a formation to be able to exert their strength, and the aircraft carriers of the Soviets, even if there is only this one left, can move forward bravely and fight against the enemy.

Of course, the development of later generations confirmed the error of the thinking of the Soviets, the most powerful aircraft carrier is the carrier-based aircraft! Too many weapons will make the aircraft carrier limited in space and unable to deploy more carrier-based aircraft, resulting in a greatly reduced effectiveness of the aircraft carrier. In later generations, Russia planned to improve the only Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which was to dismantle the anti-ship missile installation and double the hangar area.

Now that you're here to visit, you have to show Pakistan your most powerful power! Let the Pakistanis know that the USSR did not win the war in Afghanistan not because the Soviet army was weak, but because the center of gravity of the Soviets was not in Afghanistan at all!

The focus of the USSR was on Europe. Pakistan, on the other hand, used all its national strength, even including the support of countless Western worlds behind it, while the Soviet Union only used a mere 100,000 troops and did not use more advanced modern weapons. In the event of a full-scale war, Soviet troops would be able to occupy the entire territory of Pakistan in a few days.

As far as the Navy is concerned, Pakistan, which does not even have a large warship, is not an opponent of the Soviet Navy at all! Oh yes, Pakistan still has large warships, that aircraft carrier built in World War II!

In the hearts of the Soviets, they all have a sense of pride in their motherland, and Mhammad saw the pride in the hearts of the other party, and they did have reasons for pride, but unfortunately, in later generations, this powerful red empire no longer exists.

Putting on hard hats, everyone passed the gangway and stepped onto the aircraft carrier Tbes. (To be continued......)