Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Navy inherited its mantle and still possesses considerable resources.

However, due to lack of funds, some older warships had to be retired prematurely. The Kiev had long been decommissioned, but the Gorshkov was the mainstay of the Northern Fleet!

The Kuznetsov is larger, but it is only one warship and has no carrier-based aircraft. For a long time, it has had little combat capability. The Gorshkov is the mainstay!

Unfortunately, last year, while it was running, the boiler exploded with a loud bang! The 28 engine room crew members were instantly cooked in the sweltering heat. The Gorshkov was grounded from then on.

However, this doesn't mean Russia is going to sell the Gorshkov. After all, it's the strongest warship besides the Kuznetsov. Russia's idea is to repair it. The boiler exploded, so they'll repair the boiler! They don't have the money now, so they'll repair it later!

However, just a year later, Russia realized that it did not have the ability to do so and could only sell the Gorshkov, but that would be next year.

This year, forget about the Gorshkov, only the Kiev will do! The Northern Fleet's goal is to use the money from selling the Kiev to repair the Gorshkov! The price will definitely be very high!

Upon receiving this news, Chetri and Kumar were both disappointed and helpless.

After a long silence, Chetri finally spoke again: "General Khmelnov, we need the design drawings. Could you please give us another copy?"

Putting everything else aside, at least get the design drawings back first. It's just a CD, you can just burn another copy.

"This... is a bit difficult. The original disc has already been sent to the relevant departments, and the Northern Fleet is keeping a close eye on it. Without a special reason, it's hard to get it out again. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

“Unless we reach a cooperation agreement, we will have a valid reason to acquire the original disc.”

Cooperation, and more cooperation!

If we want to cooperate, we have to keep spending money to build relationships, otherwise... we won't even have the design drawings!

Therefore, their plan to achieve phased results has completely failed!

Chetri and Kumar exchanged a few glances, both deeply disappointed. This trip to Russia had accomplished nothing, and they had only spent millions of dollars! Could they possibly convince the Navy to continue funding them when they got back?

“There’s another way,” Khmelnov continued.

Both of them were overjoyed: "What's the plan?"

"Is Qin still in the Far East? I'll go back and ask him for another copy!"

Their hopes turned into disappointment once again.

I originally thought that I had already used Qin Gong and wouldn't need him again, so I didn't leave him any money for plane tickets or hotel rooms. He didn't have money for a hotel and had already gone back!

Should we go to the East to find Engineer Qin again?

We can go ourselves, but it's useless; only Khmelnov can go! But how could a high-ranking officer like Khmelnov just go to the East?

If I had known, I wouldn't have gone so far!

It would be good if Engineer Qin could stay for a few more days!

Seeing the expressions on their faces, Khmelnyov chuckled to himself. This Indian is really not very smart; he's been completely fooled by us. We only said that because we knew our nephew had gone back!

Now, the Indians have no choice but to send another two million! My nephew was right, those Indians are indeed foolish and rich!

Kumar and Chetri originally planned to return as soon as possible, but with things turned out this way, they had no face to go back. They stayed in Moscow to wait for an opportunity to contact the Northern Fleet and see what they had to say!

At sea, container ships were also sailing through the waves, from the east to India, unloading some containers and loading others, and then continuing westward. Finally, on April 20, they set sail for Europe, loaded the containers onto trucks, and headed to their respective destinations.

Issoval Factory.

"Mr. Piantoni, our steel has arrived!" Albert personally escorted the goods, after all, this shipment was extremely valuable, and now that it had reached its destination, he could finally rest assured!

“Okay, get it to our forging press right away. We’re just waiting for this batch!” Piantoni greeted them personally.

"Shouldn't you settle the remaining payment with us by now?"

"Inspect the goods first. As long as there are no problems with the goods, the final payment will be made. This has to go through Airbus's procedures and will take about a week. Don't worry, we will definitely not delay the final payment."

Albert blushed slightly. What did that mean? Was he implying that we Indians weren't going to pay the final payment?

The container was opened, and a forklift pulled out the steel ingots and then sent them to the die forging press.

It was wrapped in plastic film on the outside?

“Previously it was air freight, this time it's sea freight. To prevent the steel from being corroded by sea moisture, we added extra packaging,” Albert proudly explained. “When it comes to landing gear steel, we Indians are the most professional!”

Piantoni nodded: "That's right, this packaging is excellent!"

Fortunately, they didn't ask us to unpack it from the East, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to wrap it so securely! Albert thought to himself with satisfaction.

Soon, the unpacked steel was placed on the forging press. With the experience from the previous times, the forging press was started up to the maximum pressure.

Boom!

Boom!

A strange sound rang out, and then something flew off the workbench and shot into the distance.

Snapped!

A piece of the glass window was broken; if it hit someone, it would at least cause minor injuries!

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Stop!" Piantoni shouted, walking towards the workbench of the forging press. The gleaming steel had already cracked countless times under the hammer blows of 6.5 tons! Some of the cracks were still broken, where fragments had broken off!

This……

Normal steel, when forged and pressed in this furnace, will at most be flattened, but it will never crack. So many cracks are enough to show that the quality of this steel is completely substandard! This can't even be called steel; it's more like pig iron, something smelted in a blast furnace!

Piantoni's face darkened instantly: "Mr. Albert, are you sure you're not mistaken? Have you mixed up these pig irons produced from the blast furnace with high-strength steel?"

“No!” Albert’s heart began to race. “I’m certain this batch of steel is the one we’ve never…”

Laiyang Factory’s words were on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them back. He couldn’t say it, absolutely couldn’t say it was obtained from Laiyang Factory, that it was produced by our Indians themselves!

The packaging, the container number... there's no way there could be a mistake! Unless...

“Let’s take another piece apart and try another one!” Albert’s face turned pale, and his voice trembled as he spoke.

The second piece was removed. This time, it wasn't placed on the worktable of the forging press. Instead, it was cut off directly with gas cutting and sent for inspection.

"The carbon content is 4.5%, the sulfur content is 0.1%, and the phosphorus content is 1.2%. Even for pig iron, it's not up to standard." Holding the report, Piantoni's tone was meaningful: "Mr. Albert, you must have made a mistake. You sent pig iron from your blast furnace!"