"Death before the master is successful, and the hero is in tears!" This is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu praising Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period.
Zhuge Liang devoted his life to the Northern Expedition and the restoration of the Great Han Dynasty. However, he eventually fell ill and died on Gojohara.
These two sentences are often described in later generations as heroes and good men who have not been rewarded.
However, in early 1992, the aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk, a superweapon that was supposed to make a remarkable contribution to world peace, also suffered the fate of these heroic heroes.
Let me tell you his story.
(Renderings of the aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk")
Ulyanov, the name of Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union. The weapons named after him were naturally full of hope for the Soviet people.
And indeed it is.
Both the Soviet Union and its early Tsarist Empire were traditional land powers.
Although as early as the 18th century, Peter the Great said that Russia had only two friends — the army and the navy. But until the 20th century, the Soviet Union was unable to build a strong navy.
(Peter the Great)
During World War II, many naval soldiers wearing sea soul shirts, even carrying "Bobosa" submachine guns, fought german fascists on land with their army brothers.
After World War II, Khrushchev, then the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, was a layman militarily. During a debate with nixon's kitchen with then-Vice President Richard Nixon, he boasted unashamedly that "Soviet missiles were built like sausages."
(Khrushchev and Nixon's kitchen debate)
At that time, Khrushchev's eyes were fixed on the terrifying atomic bomb and the intercontinental missile with amazing carrying capacity.
Together, these two weapons, with just one, can wipe the target from the earth.
Simple and crude, it is indeed very much in line with the thinking of Khrushchev, the leader of the miner's background.
To this end, the Soviet Union also set up a special strategic rocket force to compete with the United States.
On the ocean side, big, stupid aircraft carriers can easily be live targets for missiles. Khrushchev was not at all impressed by this.
On the contrary, a nuclear submarine that can launch missiles underwater can arouse the interest of this guy.
(Soviet strategic nuclear submarine)
It was not until the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the Soviet Union, in the absence of the assistance of the ocean-going navy, was awakened by the fact that the Soviet Union's little brother in Central America, Cuba, was slapped in the face by the United States.
A package of naval development plans was then put on the table.
Although, it was not possible to produce an aircraft carrier like the production of sausages. But soon aircraft carriers such as Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Kuznitsov, etc. entered the sequence of the Soviet Navy.
During this period, Soviet aircraft carriers were far inferior to American aircraft carriers in both technology and numbers.
The Soviets, who did not accept defeat, soon put the plan to build a new generation of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers on the agenda.
In 1988 the "Ulyanovsk" was officially manufactured at the Nikolaev Shipyard on the shores of the Black Sea.
(Nikolaev Shipyard)
The new aircraft carrier is 327.5 meters long, the flight deck is 75.5 meters wide, the full load displacement is 79,000 tons, and the maximum speed is more than 30 knots. It can carry more than 70 fighters, fighters and early warning aircraft of various types at the same time.
Excellent ejection systems capable of carrying the most advanced Su-33 fighters, in front of them, the American F-14D and F/A-18C/D fighters have no power to fight back.
(Su-33 carrier-based aircraft)
The advanced "mythical" satellite reconnaissance system has equipped the aircraft carrier with clairvoyance. With the help of far and near-Earth military satellites floating in outer space, he can lock on to multiple targets at the same time.
In addition, he has a arsenal of weapons. The 16 "granite" warship missiles and a number of anti-aircraft guns, even without the protection of the carrier-based aircraft, can still beat the enemy's nose and face swollen.
Such superweapons were once introduced. The superiority of the U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will be lost.
(Nimitz-class aircraft carriers)
December 25 is Christmas in the West. On this day in 1991, however, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev gave the West one of its greatest gifts: the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was divided into 15 countries. When the countries landed, they fell into chaos. The economy has been on a slippery slope, the ruble has been desperately depreciated in the international market, and the banknotes in the hands of the people have quickly become a pile of useless waste paper, and the bread on which they depend for survival cannot be eaten.
(Collapse of the Soviet Union)
Reluctantly, the Nikolaev Shipyard, a once heavily guarded military stronghold that was difficult for even agents like 007 to access, had to take the initiative to open the factory door to take on production orders from other countries.
Just after the New Year's Day in 1992, a Norwegian company came to the door and claimed to order six 100,000-ton freighters, accompanied by a large deposit.
(Ocean Freighter)
Yesterday it was the enemy of the East-West camp, and today it has become a win-win trading partner. Faced with the act of sending charcoal in the snow, Makarov, then director of the shipyard, did not hesitate to sign the contract.
But the problem is, the only thing that can produce such a huge ship is The Zero Platform. At the moment, the 30 percent-complete Ulyanovsk aircraft carrier is quietly docked there.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, although Ukraine occupied the aircraft carrier, the technical aspects were all in the hands of Russia. Both countries are poor at this time, and neither country can continue to build aircraft carriers.
(Ulyanovsk under construction)
To build a new ship, it is necessary to move the old ship, but how to move it and where to move it is another big problem.
Just then, a representative of an American company came to Makarov.
They came to buy scrap steel on the aircraft carrier. As soon as it came up, a high price of $450 a ton was marked. If the recovery is successful, it will be a significant amount of income. Remember that in 1992, a dollar could buy half a room of bread.
As a sign of sincerity, they also paid a generous deposit in advance.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union would not have trusted the Americans under any circumstances.
Now, of course, this is a different story.
Driven by interests, the Ukrainian side and the Russian side happily agreed to the demands of the Americans.
"Hunger is also a motivator", and the dismantling work ended quickly.
The magnificent steel giants of yesteryear were cut into a pile of scrap steel, shining dazzlingly in the reflection of the sunlight.
(Aircraft carrier dismantled into steel)
Surprisingly, the Americans defaulted.
They claimed that due to the mistakes of their original work, they did not investigate the international steel price in time. Unilaterally cancelled the contract and promised to compensate in accordance with the compensation signed on the contract.
The Ukrainian side and the Russian side are unwilling, but what is the use?
The Americans haggled all the way, pushing the price point of $150 per ton to take away the scrap steel.
However, what happened next, the other Ukrainian side and the Russian side wanted to cry without tears. The Norwegian company then cancelled the contract and only paid the indicated compensation.
This is clearly a "serial set"!
The Americans are drunk and do not care about the joy of dismantling the Ukrainian ships.
By the time the Ukrainian and Russian sides suddenly realized, it was already too late.
(Angry and corrupt expression)
A generation of super weapons is so fragrant and damaged, before it comes out, it is stillborn.
Even more tragically, the naval dreams of the former Soviet states, such as Russia and Ukraine, also passed away with the dismantled "Ulyanovsk" aircraft carrier.
Why does the United States care so much about this unfinished aircraft carrier, preferring to stand up to international credibility rather than perform this oboe drama with Norway?
With a sharp weapon, it kills everywhere. Russia and Ukraine were in chaos. But when the Red Giant stood up again, with miraculous productivity and creativity, he was able to quickly manufacture these semi-finished products and mass produce them. At that point, it's time for the United States and its allies to lament.
In the unlikely event that the United States also encountered the Soviet Union's solution, these weapons would become the sword of Damocles that could fall at any time.
(Sword of Damocles)
The United States has made a far-sighted plan to make this decision, and what it wants is to "take advantage of your illness and ask for your life."
Afterwards, many commentators gave their opinions.
Some people say that if the Ukrainian ship is sold to an interested third country, will the Ukrainian ship be able to avoid the fate of being dismantled?
First of all, the Ukrainian ship is only a semi-finished product that is only 30% complete, and even if the republics of the former Soviet Union are still as willing to share technology and production processes as before, the cost of continuing to build is astronomical.
Secondly, the development and production of satellites, radars, carrier-based aircraft, escort fleets, and nuclear power units supporting Ukrainian ships is an astronomical number.
Finally, the training of an aircraft carrier formation of combatants and the daily maintenance of the carrier formation is still an astronomical amount.
Looking at the world, there are only a few countries that can do it. Therefore, it is very remarkable that we in China can now have a strong aircraft carrier formation.
(Carrier Battle Group)
Some people also say that the Ukrainian ship will be removed from the Zero platform and continue production when conditions are available?
The Soviet Union had just collapsed, domestic politics were in turmoil, and the economy collapsed. The top priority for ordinary people is to fill their stomachs.
Since the Soviet Union had always emphasized the development of heavy industry, light industry and agriculture were terrible. After the depreciation of the ruble, the purchasing power of the member states in the international market was very low.
It is precisely because the Americans have seen this that they have taken advantage of the psychology of the Ukrainian and Russian sides to put down the pot of rice and set a trap and invite the king to enter the urn.
In that case, even if the Ukrainian side and the Russian side can identify the treacherous plan of the Americans, there is still nothing they can do in the face of the choice of survival or death.
So it's a must.
It has been exactly 20 years since the United States, with its strong economic, military and political power, has launched a series of wars in the international arena.
(People's Liberation Army propaganda photo)
While lamenting that "but making The Dragon City fly will be in place, and not teaching Humadu YinShan", we should work harder to build our motherland. Only when the country has great strength can we enjoy a good life.