Chapter 1048: Tricking Brother San

Kiev, the first real aircraft carrier of the Soviet Navy! The result of many years of hard work by the Soviet Navy! Historically, this aircraft carrier was just a useless aircraft carrier that could take off and land vertical aircraft. After a few years, it no longer carried the Yak-38 and became a pure helicopter carrier.

However, this is related to the Soviet strategy at the time. The Kiev is not an offensive aircraft carrier. Its main task is to protect its own nuclear submarines, eliminate enemy nuclear submarines underwater, and prepare for the launch of nuclear bombs. It can be said that this type of aircraft carrier is just a nanny for submarines.

Now, after Andre's improvements, it has completely become an offensive aircraft carrier. The bow of the angled deck is upturned, allowing the MiG-23K to take off by ski jump. At the same time, there is an arresting cable at the tail, allowing for conventional landing. Although it carries fewer aircraft, it also has very strong attack power.

However, this is a modified aircraft carrier after all. The bow is still equipped with a large number of weapons. At the same time, the bridge is tall and the parking area is very small, making deck operations and scheduling of the aircraft carrier very difficult. In fact, this aircraft carrier is only a true aircraft carrier of the Soviet Naval Aviation, that is, it is just a substitute before the appearance of the Soviet Union!

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Now, with the new aircraft carriers being built one after another, the inconvenient Kiev will eventually be retired! This kind of large warship has high operating costs and no comparable combat power, so the navy has no objection to Andre's sale of this warship. If this one is sold, there will be new warships to join! They are more looking forward to the latest 80,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The size of the Pacific Fleet can only have two aircraft carriers at the same time.

However, if this aircraft carrier is dismantled after retirement, it would be a waste. Sell it? In fact, the Soviet Union should also see which country needs it. After looking around the world, only India is the most suitable! Indians are in urgent need of a new aircraft carrier!

It was almost an instant deal, now it just depends on whether Indians can accept it!

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200 million rubles, this price is definitely not expensive! Even if you take the ship to a shipyard and dismantle it and sell it for scrap metal, you can still sell it for 50 million rubles! For Indians, it's like picking it up for free!

General Kumaramangalam glanced at Rajiv and saw him nod. Then, General Kumaramangalam said, "If the price is 200 million rubles, we can consider accepting it."

"We will never treat our Indian friends unfairly," Andre said. "It's just that there are some weapons on this warship that involve our military secrets, so we have to remove them. For example, we need to remove the P-500 anti-ship missiles placed on the front of the warship. Moreover, the operation of this weapon is complicated and requires the cooperation of the satellite system. If we give it to you, you won't be able to operate it."

After all, the Kiev-class aircraft carrier is a treasure of the Soviet Union. It has many top-secret weapon systems. Among them, the most important is the anti-ship missile with a range of more than 550 kilometers. This is a killer weapon specially tailored for the US aircraft carrier formation!

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This kind of weapon cannot be handed over to India. Even if it is handed over to them, they will not be able to operate it.

General Kumaramangalam's eyes flashed with disappointment. In fact, of course they wanted this missile! However, it was a top-secret weapon of the Soviet Union. How could it be exported to India at will? If the anti-ship missile launcher and the reloading device at the front were removed, wouldn't the bow of the ship be empty?

Thinking of this, General Kumaramangalam suddenly had an idea in his mind. In this case, he might as well make some modifications, and the combat effectiveness would be improved to a higher level!

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The Soviets did not call this warship an aircraft carrier, but a heavy aircraft carrier cruiser. From the right side of the warship, it is completely a cruiser! Now, the weapon system is removed from the bow of the ship, and a ski jump deck is built on the bow, just like the third ship of the Kiev class!

The biggest advantage of this is that the take-off area and the landing area are separated! Move the ski jump deck on the angled deck to the bow. In this way, when an aircraft lands on the angled deck, it does not affect the take-off of aircraft in the bow area, and the combat effectiveness will be improved!

It will definitely work if we modify it according to the appearance of their ship No. 3!

Thinking of this, General Kumaramangalam said, "Marshal Andre, if we remove those weapon systems, can we request some modifications to the aircraft carrier? For example, remove the ski jump deck on the angled deck and move it to the bow? At the same time, expand the hangar area below to accommodate more fighter jets."

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The Indians are really smart! I was thinking about how to lure the Indians to operate on this aircraft carrier, and then take the opportunity to blackmail them. Now, the Indians have proposed it themselves!

"Well, of course there is no problem with this. Do you mean to change it into the appearance of our ship No. 3?" Andre said.

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If it could be modified, the Soviet Union would have modified it long ago. Why sell this aircraft carrier! Modification is not a simple matter. It is not a matter of cutting a few steel plates and welding a few steel plates. This kind of modification is almost equivalent to building a new ship! Soviet experts have long evaluated that it is not cost-effective to modify this warship according to the standards of the third ship, so they added a leap deck to the angled deck and used it temporarily.

Now, if Indians want to change, of course we have to give them this opportunity!

"Right now, our Black Sea Shipyard is quite full," Andre said. "If you want to renovate it, you can just do it at Kawasaki Heavy Industries on the island country. The last renovation was done there. Let them evaluate how much it will cost. It shouldn't be too much."

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First, fool the Indians. As long as they pay the initial 200 million rubles, they can continue to add funds to them! If they don't add more, then pull this horribly dismantled ship back! The initial funds will never be returned! This method is the same as the process of Russia cheating India in the future.

Andre was already imagining Ah San's expression in two or three years. It must be quite sad!

"Marshal Andre, once this aircraft carrier joins our Indian Navy, we can't continue to operate the outdated MiG-23K carrier-based aircraft." Just when Andre thought that the project had been discussed, General Kumaramangalam spoke again.

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Is the MiG-23K behind? Actually, not at all! The twin-engine modification has a very strong thrust-to-weight ratio, and the variable swept wing design gives it a wide flight envelope and excellent performance! Moreover, the constantly improved electronic equipment also keeps the MiG-23K at the forefront. Apart from anything else, in its own internal confrontation exercises, the MiG-23K even repeatedly defeated the MiG-29, leaving the Mikoyan Design Bureau confused.

And now, India actually says that the MiG-23K is backward!

"What kind of plane do you want?" Andre asked.

“We want a third-generation aircraft,” General Kumaramangaram said, “like your latest carrier-based aircraft, the Su-33.”