Chapter 1313 Yang Ming Sends the Aircraft Carrier to China!

This shipbreaking center is not just about recycling resources and turning waste into treasure. In fact, it is a very large industrial chain.

It is this industrial chain that can feed a large population, bring a large number of jobs and increase a large amount of tax revenue for Hong Kong.

In Yang Ming's view, shipbreaking is not as simple as the recycling industry.

Historically, Hong Kong gave up on its own initiative and developed a single deformed real estate industry, which was wrong in Yang Ming's view.

It is different now.

Now, building this place into the world's largest shipbreaking center will not only bring more wealth to the Empire Group, but also the entire industrial chain.

Now Yang Ming and others are looking over from a high place. He saw many workers cutting the steel of old ships, and a large number of various old metals were sorted and recycled.

When the big guys from Su Lian come over, Yang Ming thinks it may be more spectacular.

Of course, why did Su Lian not dismantle it himself, but sold it to the Empire Group at a low price? In fact, it is because now Su Lian, Goose Country, and Ukraine actually do not even have the ability to dismantle ships. Moreover, even if they dismantle them, they do not know how to recycle them, let alone who to sell the recycled resources to. It is better to sell them directly to the Empire Group.

Historically, these were also sold to other countries by them, but now they are all packaged by the Empire Group.

Yang Ming and others watched there for a long time.

Before leaving Huangpu Dockyard.

Back to the villa in Repulse Bay.

. . .

Half a month later.

Yang Ming received a call from Huangpu Dockyard. The ship he valued most, the most significant ‘Vagrian’, had been towed back to the port near Huangpu Dockyard.

Historically, this aircraft carrier was indeed sold to China under very tortuous circumstances.

Now the Empire Group easily bought it from Su Lian, and then spent some money to Ukraine, and directly towed it away from the Black Sea, spent nearly three months, and then towed it back to Hong Kong.

When Yang Ming heard that it had been towed back, he wanted to go and see it.

When Yang Ming and others came to the port near Huangpu Dock again, Yang Ming had already seen a huge monster there. Although in Yang Ming's opinion, it was still a little different from a real aircraft carrier, it was still very scary when he looked at it from a close distance.

"Sir, this ship is really big."

Yingla was also shocked.

Alina looked at this aircraft carrier and her mood seemed a little different.

Although she used to be a Soviet, she no longer had any feelings for the Soviets.

The Varyag aircraft carrier, in its overall design, follows the design features of the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier. Its ship type features, size, displacement, power plant, etc. are basically the same as the No. 1 ship. It has made major improvements in superstructure, air defense weapons, electronic equipment, and carrier-based aircraft equipment.

Its design parameters are: 304 meters long, 281 meters at the waterline; 70.5 meters wide, 10.5 meters draft; flight deck: 300 meters long, 70 meters wide; hangar: 152 meters long, 26 meters wide, 7.2 meters high.

Design displacement: 55,000 tons (standard), 59,000 tons (full load); speed: 30 knots; endurance: 8,000 nautical miles/18 knots, 15 days of self-sustaining capacity at sea; crew: 2,100+500 (aviation personnel); the hangar on the ship is 183 meters long, 29.4 meters wide, and about 7.5 meters high, and can accommodate up to 18 Su-27K "Flanker" aircraft. There are two side-type aircraft elevators on the starboard side.

The bow uses a ski-jump take-off deck, with a runway lift angle of 12 degrees and an angled deck angle of 7 degrees.

The flight deck is equipped with 4 aircraft landing arresting cables and 1 emergency arresting net. The bridge island building is located on the right side of the flight deck, with an elevator in front and behind to go back and forth between the deck hangars.

The Varyag aircraft carrier was originally designed to carry more than 50 carrier-based aircraft, 26 Su-33 carrier-based fighters, 20 Ka-27 "Snail" anti-submarine helicopters, and 4 Ka-31 early warning helicopters.

In addition to carrier-based aircraft, it is also equipped with powerful anti-ship, air defense, and anti-submarine weapons. The ship-to-ship missile system is arranged in the center of the front of the flight deck.

However, in history, in April 1998, Haojiang Chuanglu Tourism and Entertainment Company bought the aircraft carrier for US$20 million. Before delivery, Ukraine was forced to dismantle the ship-borne weapons and power systems on the "Varyag" under pressure from the United States.

The "Varyag" is left with only a rusty steel shell: all electronic systems have been dismantled or destroyed, there is no power at all, even the main shaft has been cut off, and even the rudder has been dismantled.

Afterwards, the tugboat hired by Chuanglu Tourism and Entertainment Company towed the "Varyag" and set sail.

When the ship arrived in the Black Sea waters in northern Turkey and prepared to pass through the Bosphorus Strait controlled by Turkey, "at the reminder of a third country", Turkey refused to allow the "Varyag" to pass on the grounds that "the hull was too large and affected the normal navigation of other ships in the Bosphorus Strait", and forcibly ordered the "Varyag" to return to the Black Sea.

Then in August, the "Varyag" tried to pass through the strait again and was blocked by Turkey again. The "Varyag" was blocked in the Black Sea and had to return to its original port after drifting for a long time.

On August 25, 2001, after a year and a half of negotiations between China and Turkey, Turkey agreed to let the "Varyag" pass through its strait.

Now, unlike in history, Yang Ming had it bought, and it was actually well protected, but it was not really finished, so it still had to be towed back by ship.

Now, Yang Ming and others went on board and saw that the shipborne weapon system and even the power system were well protected, and a lot of information was also brought back.

In other words, this is just an unfinished aircraft carrier, but it is still very new.

After all, it was launched in 1988, and it has only been three years.

If Su Lian had not had such a thing, it should have been completed and put into service under normal circumstances.

It is really big inside.

The shipborne weapons left on the deck also look very scary.

In fact, many countries should still like such an aircraft carrier.

However, Yang Ming did not sell it, but towed it back to Hong Kong.

If the country does not want it at that time, he will have people continue to complete it and then sell it to the big dog owners in the Middle East or South American countries.

That night.

People from the country have already been sent.

It is obvious that the old man and Mr. Jiang in China took this very seriously after knowing about it. When they learned that it had arrived in Hong Kong, they had already sent a team of dozens of people, including engineers from various fields.

When their leader came to Repulse Bay to meet Yang Ming and had a secret talk with Yang Ming.

"Mr. Yang, we are willing to buy this aircraft carrier no matter how much it costs."

"You should go and see it first."

Yang Ming sent someone to take them to the dock near Huangpu Dockyard to see the aircraft carrier.

When these people saw this aircraft carrier for the first time, they were excited.

Compared with the warships that the Empire Group sold to China before, they felt very different when they saw this one.

They found that it was still very new and well protected in all aspects.

At this moment, they knew that they had to buy it anyway.

That night, some of these people went back to report to the old man, Mr. Jiang and others, and some stayed in Hong Kong.

Yang Ming bought this aircraft carrier from Su Lian and Uklan for a total of nearly 8 million US dollars. Of course, it was not cheap in the early 1990s.

However, for China, this is indeed very worthwhile.

Yang Ming does not want to make money from China. If China is satisfied, he can directly give it to China as a National Day gift.