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Chapter 1058 Salvage the Kursk

., Erbian personally sent Martha and Kajia back to Russia. Not only because he expressed Liu!... Erbian's attention, but also because Russia began to officially salvage the Kursk.

In order to ensure the smooth salvage of the Kursk nuclear submarine, the Russian Ruby Central Navigation Design Bureau has formulated a large-scale simulated salvage test plan. According to an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and president of the Krelov Central Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Varenkinpashin, previously revealed that the simulated salvage test has ended.

Pashen said that before, experts from the institute used a large number of Kursk nuclear submarine models to conduct simulation salvage tests, and these models with two or three meters lengths were all made according to the test requirements.

Krelov Central Academy of Sciences has its own nautical base, where experts completed the fluctuation simulation operation of the Kursk nuclear submarine. In addition, they have also recently checked whether the traction devices and transportation equipment of the salvage nuclear submarine are firm and reliable.

In May this year, Russia and the Dutch Mamut Company formally signed an agreement to salvage nuclear submarines. According to the agreement, the salvage work will end before September 20 this year.

This time Fan Wubing sent Martha and Kajia back to Russia, and happened to visit the cooperation team of CCTV and New Silk Road Entertainment, which had already started in the Barents Sea, to see how the actual situation of salvaging the Kursk was.

As a major Russian creditor and the funder who salvaged the Kursk this time, Putin attached great importance to Fan Wubing's arrival, especially because he specially sent his two daughters back. This favor must be paid back.

So Putin specially invited Fan Wubing to the Kremlin and sent a special person to send him to the salvage site of the Kursk.

Submarines are often remembered because they carry a wealth of advanced military technology, and salvage of crashed submarines is definitely a great opportunity to get close to core military secrets. Therefore, during the salvage of crashed submarines, open or secret military technology and stealing struggles often occur.

Last August, the Junros nuclear submarine Kursk unfortunately died under the Barents sea, and none of them survived. In order to retrieve the bodies of the victims and protect the secrets of the ship, Russia decided to salvage the crashed submarine and announced that the salvage work will be launched through international bidding.

Western countries were overjoyed when they heard the news. The Kursk was Russia's most advanced missile nuclear submarine and they usually didn't have the chance to see the true face of Mount Lu. If you have good luck in this salvage, you can get a lot of valuable information.

Speaking of which, Western countries have been coveting the Kursk for a long time.

One is the details of the sound-absorbing material on the surface of the hull. A unique sound-absorbing material is laid on the surface of the hull, which can greatly reduce the noise during submarine's submarine and enhance the concealment. However, what kind of material is this and what effect it can achieve, the details are unknown to outsiders.

The second is the granite long-range sound anti-ship cruise missile. This is the most troublesome aircraft carrier killer steel weapon that the Americans have. It can fly at a cruise of more than twice the sound, attacking surface ships within a range of 20 to 550 kilometers. Its anti-interference and penetration capabilities are no exception.

The third is the storm high torpedo, which is the prototype of the blizzard torpedo created by Fan Wubing. In the eyes of Westerners, this perverted weapon is simply an underwater missile, which can fly underwater at a height of over 100 knots. When attacked by it, ships may not even have time to respond, and no country is unmoved by such advanced torpedo technology.

Russia has taken great pains to keep the secret.

The Northern Fleet was ordered by Putin to dispatch more than a dozen ships made up of the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser of the Peter the Great and the Marshal Uskinov cruiser, as well as a huge mixed fleet of five armed helicopters of the Navy aviation and two transport aircraft into the designated area. Under the invisible waters, there were also eyeing attack submarines.

Russian President Putin also spoke out that the crashed sea area of ​​the Kursk nuclear submarine is a prohibited navigation zone. If anyone dares to trespass, Russia will be unceremonious. In order to make the country with ulterior motives take its own words seriously, Russian President Putin also ordered the Northern Fleet to repeat this information to countries on a regular basis via radio, and authorized its warships to carry out preventive blasts in the prohibited navigation zone regularly, hoping to blow up the Godynian area.

Despite the Russian riots, there are still people who break into the penalty area.

Once, General Kolavchenk, chief of staff of the Russian Navy, took a helicopter to inspect the salvage work. When the helicopter flew over the anti-submarine ship of the Normolsk, which was on guard in the operation area, a foreign naval helicopter actually passed by the general's landline.

It was obvious that the helicopter was using the general's landline as cover to conduct aerial reconnaissance on the salvage work of the recess. The general was very angry at this. He remembered the boldness of a foreign reconnaissance ship and a sonar detection ship at sea not long ago. The two ships ignored the warning and got closer to the sinking sea area of ​​the recession. The Russian frigate drove out again and again until the naval gun was pushed to their foreheads, and the two ships left reluctantly.

With these criminal records, Russia has become more concerned about the Kursk nuclear submarine, and ordinary people cannot get close to it at all. Even the joint filming crew of CCTV and Fan Investment Group, which have obtained the right to interview, must strictly abide by Russian regulations. Close shooting is obviously not allowed.

Two days after arriving at the destination, the Norwegian deep-sea salvage mother ship, Regalia, who was riding on, finally arrived at the scene of the sinking of the Kursk submarine.

The weather is good and the sea is calm. Fan Wubing and others have the opportunity to see the absolute protagonist of this salvage operation that has attracted the attention of the whole world for the first time.

Russian, British and Norwegian divers, in addition to Russian military divers, Norwegian divers come from Herabton Oil, a Norwegian branch of the American oil company.

During the interview, Russian diver Petrovsky took the lead in speaking his thoughts, "The difficulties and dangers we face are too great. Who can say that they are not afraid of being lies?

According to Petrovsky, divers from Russia, Britain and Norway dive in batches, with each three people, two Russian divers and a foreign diver. Their first mission was to cut open the thick wall of the Kursk submarine and forcefully open a passage to the inside of the submarine.

This is not an easy task. Unlike other large nuclear submarines in the West, the Kursk nuclear submarine has two thick hulls, filled with rubber 20 centimeters thick in the middle. The purpose of this facility is to absorb the mechanical sound from the submarine and make it difficult for the enemy's sonar system to capture.

However: no plan undoubtedly adds great difficulty to divers. Divers can only cut the boat hull by taming high-pressure water guns and diamond steel drills, and then use the crane on the water surface to force the rubber protective layer torn apart.

On the surface, the purpose of this salvage operation is of course to salvage the bodies of the officers and soldiers who died in the Kursk.

Whenever a diving team is operating under the sea, other divers stay in the pressurized chamber of the mother ship Regalia, so that they can dive in shifts or deal with sudden dangers at any time.

Divers breathe a helium mixed gas when working under the sea. This gas will affect the sound effect of people, so the sound that divers send back to the water surface during working under the sea is particularly sharp and a bit strange.

However, what divers fear most is not the difficulty and various dangers of salvage operations, but the psychological test they face, and meet the dead in the submarine unexpectedly in the darkness.

Petrovsky told the interview reporter, "Think about it, in the darkness where you can't see your fingers, you suddenly face to face with the corpse that was soaked in the sea water and was blown away. What should you feel? Then, even if you drag, carry or hold the corpse out of the submarine, it's not finished yet, because you need to take these corpses to the water surface and relieve pressure bit by bit. If they float too fast, the corpse will be crushed by the pressure inside them. Think about all this, and you will know what kind of psychological endurance the divers need."

British divers said, "There are some experts who think it is impossible for us to find the bodies of the soldiers who died. Why do you say that, because looking for a corpse in a dark submarine cabin is like looking for a needle in a haystack. To put it specifically, the light on each diver's head can only shine four or five meters away, and the size of the Kursk is 10,000 cubic meters. More importantly, two-thirds of the 118 soldiers on the Kursk stayed in the weapon room and control room of the Kuweiwei. They were killed on the spot when the explosion was alive, and the bodies were probably also blown to pieces, so the divers were most likely to recover about 20% of the bodies."

Before cutting the hull of the Kursk boat, the most important task of divers is to find out whether the Kursk is safe, that is, whether the two nuclear reactors on the boat have leaked.

If there are radiation marks in the submarine, it means that the plan to salvage the bodies of the victims is completely abandoned.

To this end, the divers drilled a small hole in the sturdy hull of the eighth cabin of the Kursk submarine, which is the nuclear reactor compartment, and then put the camera and radiation detection needle in it.

The scene captured by the camera made the divers and the commanders on the scene breathe a sigh of relief. The nuclear reactor compartment equipment was intact and there were no abnormalities. The results of the radiation detection needle detection showed that the radiation level was normal.

The Norwegian spokesperson said, "From the preliminary test results, the water samples obtained in the eighth cabin show that there is no leakage in the nuclear reactor, but it cannot be ruled out whether there is any leakage in other cabins."

The Russian spokesperson said, "The water sample extracted from the eighth cabin shows that the sea water inside is pure sea water and there is no danger."

The divers collected water samples in small containers and handed them over to two Norwegian radiation experts on the mother ship for identification. Judging from the identified fruits, it is obvious that hole drilling operations can be carried out.

According to the operation plan, if you want to explore the 154-meter-long hull of Kursk, you have to drill at least seven holes on the Kursk submarine, each hole is two meters square on average, and it takes at least fifteen hours for each hole to be cut.

However, today's action to cut the outer boat hull was very smooth. The outer boat hull took only ten hours to cut a big hole two meters square. Due to the anxious reasons of some reporters, media around the world have reported that divers can enter the Kursk at a glance, but the actual situation is still far apart.

The weather the next day was cloudy and a storm broke out at the sea, and the divers had to suspend the cutting of the boat hulls. The smooth cutting of the outer boat hulls made the divers and the Russian naval commanders at the scene excited. They were ready to cut the inner boat hulls of the Kursk in one fell swoop.

A Russian naval officer who had participated in the construction of the Kursk submarine at the scene, watching the TV footage from the seabed, told Fan Wubing, "The divers are so amazing. You should know that the inner shells of this kind of submarine are made of specially reinforced steel. Under normal circumstances, it is not easy to drill the inner shells in the shipyard, but they have already drilled ten centimeters. It is amazing."

Fan Wubing smiled and didn't say much. In fact, he felt a little disagreeable. After all, it is easy to destroy and difficult to build. People always have many ways to deal with damage.

When it was just dark, General Velic, head of the Russian Northern Fleet rescue department, announced that he would temporarily stop night operations because the wind had been strengthened enough to threaten the lives of divers.

So far, divers have completed one-fifth of the cutting task. It seems that it will take some time to cut a hole that allows divers to enter and exit safely. The divers left the cutting machine on the submarine hull before returning to the water.

The third day was another cloudy day, and there were storms at the sea, and the commander of the Russian Navy reserved the right to cancel the operation at any time.

However, the suspension of the operation provided a joint crew of CCTV and Fan's filming team with an opportunity to interview Russian Navy Commander General Vladimir Kuroyedov, giving them a better understanding of how great the dangers the divers face.

Due to the violent explosion, most of the internal structure of the Kursk submarine has been blown to pieces, and most of the heavy equipment in the cabins at the stern have been shocked everywhere, which makes it feel like entering a maze when divers enter the submarine, and every step forward may be fatal.

When they are fumbled forward in a submarine that is unable to see their fingers, the broken submarine equipment and sharp iron frames may break the pressure suits on the divers or cut off their air supply pipes at any time. Any danger will kill the divers.
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