"Because there is not enough time to waste us. According to the news I have received, our Navy will have a considerable demand for amphibious assault ships in the future, especially large amphibious assault ships. If you are not interested..."

Xie Kai pulled Nikola Mipodorov aside and revealed to him the future needs of the navy with a mysterious look on his face.

Amphibious assault ships, this is definitely needed.

As for whether you bought it from Red Star Shipyard, Xie Kai doesn’t care, right?

Nicholas's eyes lit up instantly, "Really?"

Xie Kai gave him a blank look, "Do you think I will lie to you? That is the future development plan of our navy. Now, my country has no ship design research unit to design advanced large-tonnage amphibious assault ships, and no shipyard can build this, and even the supporting systems are not perfect enough..."

"This is our opportunity." Nicholas understood Xie Kai's thoughts.

He instinctively believed that this was Xie Kai's hope to start accelerating the upgrading of the manufacturing capacity of the Red Star Shipyard now, and to start cooperating with the development of amphibious assault ships now.

In this way, when the Chinese Navy began purchasing, the possibility of them getting orders was almost the greatest.

Other domestic enterprises in China cannot produce.

What can be produced internationally will not provide the most advanced ones.

At the same time, they are amphibious assault ships developed in cooperation with Hudong Shipyard, and the possibility of obtaining orders has been further increased.

Soon, Nicholas's brain ran rapidly and countless calculations appeared.

Whether to build a new aircraft carrier is not that important for the Damao Navy.

Their main purpose is to regain the capacity for building large warships and integrate ship research units that are increasingly unable to survive in China.

"So, the general can think about it carefully. Of course, this news is only internal news at the moment, and I hope the general will keep it confidential. If we do not cooperate, we will also draw technical forces to design and develop large amphibious assault ships. In this regard, our country is almost blank. Internationally, we will not be willing to sell it to us."

Xie Kai deliberately emphasized that it is just internal news now.

It is still in the confidentiality stage.

Nikolai Mipodorov naturally understood.

They need to go back and communicate and get authorization from bigwigs who can approve the cooperation plan.

"Now is the best opportunity. Everyone, please don't forget that we need amphibious assault ships more urgently than them. If we cannot build ourselves, the arrogant French will blackmail us a lot!" Faced with the doubts from our subordinates, Nikolai Mipodorov reminded them why they were negotiating with the people of the Hongqi Group here.

The Damao Navy was revived, but there were few large surface ships.

The Kiev-class aircraft carriers are not in line with the future development of their navy.

This aircraft carrier that has relatively strong attack power and can carry a certain number of carrier-based fighter jets is not a powerful cruiser like the Kirov class that can perform many tasks alone.

No matter how powerful the aircraft carrier has, it still needs to escort the fleet.

The cost of escorting a fleet of aircraft carriers is much higher than that of aircraft carriers themselves.

This does not require too much consideration for the Damao Navy, which is lacking in funds.

The Kirov-class nuclear-powered missile cruiser is indeed suitable, but there are already three such huge warships, which is enough for the Damao Navy.

This is also why Da Mao even sold the last Kiev-class aircraft carrier, the Gorshkov.

For a shortage of money, a huge fleet is too expensive.

However, any navy, due to the diversity and complexity of its mission, must be equipped with dedicated warships with various functions.

Amphibious assault ships are very different from aircraft carriers.

The amphibious assault ships play a very important role in the future development of the Damao Navy.

"Those damn Frenchmen!" Victor Grishkin cursed in a low voice, "If it weren't for them, would we be angry with that boy?"

"Victor, the Chinese actually understand better than anyone else, so they would rather go hungry and develop their economy. How much anger did they suffer when introducing various technologies before? But they endured it. Now, the industrial system has been gradually improved and even has a great breakthrough..." Alexander Yuldashev sighed.

His words made everyone silent.

Once upon a time, when Chinese people wanted to obtain their technology or equipment, they were so arrogant.

Now, there are fewer and fewer things they can appreciate for Chinese people.

It’s not that their technology has declined, but that they are not as fast as China’s technology. If they can build it themselves, they won’t care about their own.

"The Varyag is not that great for us. The Kuznetsov is enough. Without the power system provided by Ukraine, it would be difficult for us to complete the construction of more than 4,000 tons of advanced warships. Just so happens that China is a potential choice for us."

Nikola is now inclined to accept Xie Kai's proposal.

The Varyag, to them, is really not that important.

But large amphibious assault ships, they really need them.

Since the implementation of the naval revival strategy, the Damao military has conducted a detailed and complete investigation and statistics on the naval combat effectiveness.

Attacking nuclear submarines is the most proficient thing they can do, but this thing cannot perform tasks that large surface ships need to perform.

This is related to the development of the entire navy for a long time in the future.

"As Xie Kai said, in a short time, it will be difficult for our country to complete all industrial system supporting facilities, and we do not have enough funds. Those capitalists will not be willing to invest in projects that require a long time to recover their investment without sufficient profits..."

Alexander nodded in agreement with Nicholas’s statement.

"But the price of 1.6 billion US dollars is too high. I knew that the two Type 956 warships should have quoted higher prices." Victor was not satisfied with the price.

Damn it, if it were not demolished, the Varyag would only take less than 600 million US dollars to complete all the work and deliver it to them.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

Unless it was done before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Kuznetsov has not completely solved all the problems.

"If the price is too high, will they still buy it? The Chinese can even design and build aircraft carriers themselves. At most, they will only wait a few years. Once they design and build it themselves, we will not make any profit."

Alexander sighed again.

He can now fully understand the feeling that when the Soviet Union sold equipment, A San's officials had to drink even if they never touched wine.

People are the slaughter.

"We should pay more attention to the future. Their electronic technology can effectively make up for our shortcomings. However, our machinery and materials are no longer able to maintain their advantages. They can even make large multi-axis linkage CNC equipment by themselves..."

Hongxing Shipyard needs those large-scale CNC equipment.

Victor no longer objected.

Alexander could only accept the fact that they needed Chinese help to build large warships.

After several major officials reached an agreement, there were naturally no major problems.

Detailed transformation plan, the upgrade and transformation cooperation of Hongxing Shipyard, jointly developing and designing large amphibious assault ships, etc., reached a preliminary cooperation intention with the Hudong Shipyard and further discussion, Nikola and his group returned to China with a contract.

As long as it is approved, this cooperation will be completely fine.

"They didn't even make a counter-offer this time." Zheng Ming was also surprised to get the news.

Xie Kai didn't say anything.

Zheng Ming knew better than him why.

"You really don't plan to take over the management of 404?"

"When did you care about this?" Xie Kai was surprised.

"Qi Zhiyuan is retired soon. There is no suitable successor. Maybe you can join in the same party first?" Zheng Ming looked sinister.

Qi Zhiyuan is responsible for the business in the entire 404 Naval Equipment field.

If Xie Kai was in charge of this, many things would be easy to solve.

At least, the internal resistance will be very small if you invest in naval equipment.

Xie Kai rolled his eyes directly, "It's easy to leave, I won't send you off."

After asking several times in a row, seeing that Xie Kai was still firm in his attitude, Zheng Ming didn't say much about this, "Why don't you work hard in the direction of the big black fish?"

"That's going to be overwhelmed! We have done all kinds of business, so we won't give other brothers a way out?"

Xie Kai has no good attitude towards Zheng Ming.

He actually fooled them into the direction of the big black fish again.

That thing is even larger than the technology and capital required by aircraft carriers.

After understanding Xie Kai's attitude, Zheng Ming stopped talking.

After talking about cooperation with Da Mao, he said goodbye and left.

Not long after, Qi Zhiyuan came over.

"What did Cheng Rui say?" Qi Zhiyuan was indeed talking about this, but he didn't want Xie Kai to be responsible for his work, nor did he want to invest in the big black fish.

"He doesn't want to. He is not particularly familiar with the military industry." Qi Zhiyuan sighed, "It's also our fault. We were afraid of problems back then, so we were too ruthless in seizing power."

"You can't say that. If it were like this back then, would there be the 404 today?" Xie Kaike didn't think Qi Zhiyuan's view was correct. "You always sold the Varyag, signed the contract for the Red Star Shipyard and retired, it's almost the same."

"Varyag's contract has been signed for 1.5 billion, but they can only provide 300 million US dollars in cash in advance, and the rest will be returned with crude oil."

Qi Zhiyuan's words did not surprise Xie Kai at all.

Damao cheated on the third brother's money and bought two 956 destroyers. That little money was just a drop in the bucket for Damao, who was short of money everywhere in China.

"It's good that way."

"I'm afraid that their economy will have problems at that time, just like the 707 aircraft carrier of the Thai Navy, it will be left on our side..." Qi Zhiyuan was a little helpless, "The Navy looks down on the 707 aircraft carrier."

"You haven't communicated with the Thai government anymore? They really don't plan to ask for this aircraft carrier? The economic crisis has been so long, their navy should have money, right?"

Xie Kai was a little helpless.

The current 707 aircraft carrier should have belonged to the Thai Navy.

But the problem is that they still have a lot of money to pay.

The 4 053H3s that were escorted have already driven away.
Chapter completed!