A week later, the Nevada tender was held as scheduled, and this time it was different from the last time, not just Nevada, but with two other states, three states, and it was decided by a bidding meeting.

Originally, the three states originally held separate bidding meetings, and the reason why they were tied together was nothing more than to reduce the trouble that Xiao Yang and them might bring when they all won the bid.

After all, if you win one or two, there may be no problems, but if they win every game, then someone will definitely find trouble, after all, Colt is not the only light weapons company in the United States.

Colt led the team to the bidding site, and just like last time, before the bidding meeting officially began, Xiao Yang received a message, and after he forwarded the news to Colt, they won the bid.

When the results came out, most people reacted that Colt had a tacit understanding with several states, and they were angry but could only accept it, after all, in the past, why didn't they tackle key problems first, and then conduct bidding?

This is different this time, it was taken down by Colt.

There must be complaints, and there must be some small actions in private, but after all, they are all people in the circle, as long as they are not enemies of life and death, they will not do anything to upset the bottom, and in the end, after a little turmoil, Colt finally won the order of the four states.

Of course, these small turmoil will be a few days later, Xiao Yang's side, after getting the news of winning the bid, put the focus on the aircraft carrier, because at the same time as the bidding meeting, the tugboat dragged the aircraft carrier into the Gulf of Aden, no more than fifteen hours, about to arrive in the Kutos waters.

To fix the aircraft carrier on the reef island, the project is not to wait for the aircraft carrier to arrive before it begins, but there are some related preliminary preparations, after the last California bidding meeting, the construction party has already gone to the reef to carry out preliminary preparations, Xiao Yang and Oman and others have a lot of trivial things, so they have not seen it in the past, and waited until noon on this day to take a helicopter over, when they saw the completely changed reef island and was startled.

Originally, only at low tide would be exposed in the place now there are three concrete and steel shelves, the diameter of the three shelves is not more than two meters or three meters, and the height is also more than 20 meters.

Rise from the ground!

The helicopter put down several people on the platform, and soon took off and returned to the Kutos base, and a person in charge of the construction party soon ushered in.

"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Kuhl......"

He had been in charge of the wharf project of the port base before, Xiao Yang waved his hand to him, "Old Duan, they are all old acquaintances, you are welcome, what about Qin Gong?" ”

Lao Duan pushed his glasses, smiled at a few people, and then pointed to a few ships under the steel frame a few hundred meters away, "Qin Gong has done the final inspection, and the aircraft carrier will be pushed into place immediately...... There must be no accidents in the preparatory work in the early stage, otherwise, we need to temporarily fix the aircraft carrier, and then strengthen the base, which will be a great waste of time, manpower and material resources......"

I heard that I should go back to the water platform, and Xiao Yang didn't plan to take a boat again, so he pointed to a few steel frames and asked Lao Duan, "I said Lao Duan, this thing is used to fix the hull of the boat?" Why did you erect it so quickly, it's too fast? ”

The platform is a temporary engineering headquarters, the outside is not a place to talk, Lao Duan asked a few people to sit inside, and said while walking: "This is indeed used to do auxiliary fixation, it is actually very easy to erect, but the difficult thing is only the underground base, in fact, these bases, since the monsoon stopped, we began to get it, but we didn't come to do this thing, after all, there are only so many engineering equipment, and the port also needs to use it...... The steel frame was also prepared at the port, just shipped over and then installed......"

Didn't that start more than a month ago? Xiao Yang glanced at Aman, remembered that Zhang Zijian had told him about this before, and patted his head, "Mr. Zhang mentioned it to me once, but I forgot, it turned out that it had been prepared a long time ago, I said that in a week, this thing will be erected, where will it be so fast." ”

"A week, how is that possible." Lao Duan said with a smile, "No country in the world has such a fast speed, and under limited conditions, our speed is already the fastest." ”

"I'm not in your industry, so it's normal if I don't understand." Xiao Yang laughed.

After chatting for a while, Qin Gong came back, just saw the helicopter, he knew that it was Xiao Yang and they were coming, and when he saw a few people, there was no surprise, and there was no need to ask, he chatted a few words, and took the initiative to turn the topic to the steel frame.

"Before, our work was fine, but now it depends on the placement process, but fortunately, there is no wind and waves today, which can greatly improve our success rate......"

"Qin Gong, can you give us a brief introduction to the placement process?"

"No problem, first of all, after the aircraft carrier comes, entering our predetermined position is the first step, and then ......" Qin Gong and a few people explained in detail the process of placing the aircraft carrier, waiting for the introduction to be completed, it was already half an hour later, and in this matter, news came from the walkie-talkie, and the aircraft carrier coming from the north could already be seen on the sea.

"Coming?" Several people looked at the time and found that it had indeed reached the scheduled time, so everyone came to the platform.

The surface platform is used for offshore operations, it itself has no power, it needs to be dragged by ships, originally in the operation, it needs to be fixed on the sea surface, but now it is not time for operation, so it still relies on ships to tow, temporarily fixed near the reef island, and wait until the initial placement of the aircraft carrier is completed, which will enter the position closer to the reef island and start the operation.

The platform is now located on the south side of the steel frame, standing on the platform, just blocking everyone's view to the north, and not seeing the aircraft carrier from the north at all, Qin Gong saw this, beckoned a few people to climb on the top of the crane, the crane was nearly ten meters higher than the platform, just more than the height of the lower end of the steel frame, and at a glance he saw the behemoth that was coming slowly in the distance.

"That's far enough, it will take at least ten minutes to come." After a glance, little Ivan immediately said.

Xiao Yang took the telescope that Lao Duan found and looked at it, "Why does that thing look so shabby?" ”

Aman took the telescope from his hand and looked at it, and nodded, "It's a little old, it's rusty on the outside, how long can this thing be left at sea?" It's not going to turn into a pile of dust in three or two years, right? ”

"Not really." There is only one telescope, little Ivan waited for them to finish reading before getting his hands, and when he looked at it, he understood a little, "It's not that it's shabby, but they got rid of the outer coating, which doesn't affect the anti-corrosion, according to my information, this aircraft carrier originally had a certain stealth ability, above the waterline, it should be coated with a layer of stealth paint, which is a very normal treatment method after retirement, even if this material is not too advanced, they will not fall into the civilian market." ”

"Just scraped off a coating?" Xiao Yang took the telescope again and looked over, but unfortunately the distance was too far, and the telescope in his hand was not advanced enough, so he still couldn't see clearly.

"Definitely." Little Ivan nodded affirmatively, "I have also seen the one that Ukraine sold to China, that one is uncoated, and there is already a layer of rust on the outer layer, compared to this, it is completely different, you look at the rust on it now, in fact, it is not, but the color is somewhat the same, and when you get closer, you can see it." ”

Seeing that he was so sure, Xiao Yang and the others no longer doubted, waited for a little two minutes, and looked over again, the color and rust were really a little different, and they were sure that it was not rusty, so they were relieved, and they looked at it that they were coming over soon, so they got off the crane and prepared to get on the boat.

The inertia of the aircraft carrier in the sea is huge, and from a long distance, you can see that the tugboat began to slow down, and waited for about ten minutes again, and it was almost a nautical mile away from the reef island, and it completely stopped, and the other tugboat began to communicate with the tugboat prepared by the construction party in the public channel, and soon the two tugboats on this side began to move and went to the aircraft carrier.

"The waiting process must be very slow, considering the wind direction and other issues, so it takes multiple tugboats to cooperate, our three steel frames do not give too much clearance distance, in order to put the aircraft carrier in position smoothly, this process is somewhat difficult......" Qin Gong is the commander-in-chief, and he has already entered the working state at this time, and Lao Duan is responsible for explaining to them with the identity of several people.

"How big is the gap?" Little Ivan asked.

"No more than six meters from the widest point on both sides of the deck."

No more than six meters? Xiao Yang and the others looked at him in unison.

How wide is an aircraft carrier?

This is a medium-sized aircraft carrier in country Y, the size of the data and the first aircraft carrier in China is about the same, that is to say, the width is about 70 meters, if it is on land, a width of 70 meters, a length of more than 300 meters of big guy to enter a width of no more than 80 meters of space, it must be no problem, the distance on land, in terms of the current level of science and technology, can be accurate to the millimeter, but this is the sea.

The sea water is constantly flowing, and it is also possible that the wind may change direction at any time, and coupled with the inertia of the aircraft carrier itself moving in the sea water, it may be wrong to move by about ten meters if it makes a mistake in the course of traveling.

Six meters, if this distance is divided into two sides, that is, three meters, it is equal to an error of more than three meters, which is equivalent to failure, and this difficulty is not ordinarily small.

"It's at sea, not on land, and there's no special equipment, so it's not as difficult as you say, isn't it?"

Lao Duan shook his head with a relaxed face, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, we have already gone through many simulations, and this kind of similar task has been more than once, it is a little difficult, but it is not much." ”