50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 870 Next Stop Tokyo

In addition to the massive No. 42 indoor dock workshop, the Severodvinsk shipyard also houses the world's largest shed-style slipway.

With a total area of ​​over 10 square meters, it provides ample space for the manufacture and repair of various types of ships.

The entire shipyard covers an area of ​​300 acres, stretching as far as the eye can see, which made it difficult for Sun Zhiwei to find the database.

But he could only patiently search among the various buildings in the shipyard.

Finally, just before dawn, he discovered a heavily guarded building in the northeast corner of the shipyard, where the level of security was completely different from the rest of the factory area.

He didn't approach from a distance, but instead relied on spatial scanning to confirm that the small building was indeed the shipyard's database.

The way the archives were stored here was very similar to that of the Admiralty Shipyard. He successfully found the design drawings for the "Komsomol" and "K-123" at the bottom of the archives.

Even the blueprints for the Akula-class nuclear submarines and the Project 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruisers that he wanted were in this small building.

Unfortunately, the design blueprints for these two types of ships were incomplete, because there were ships of the same type under construction in the shipyard, and the engineers would often borrow a portion of the original design blueprints to review.

Sun Zhiwei successfully obtained the design drawings for the "Communist Youth League Member" and "K-123" aircraft.

The blueprints for the Akula-class nuclear submarines and the Project 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruisers were easily discovered to be missing because engineers frequently came to access them.

In order not to alert the enemy, he had no choice but to give up.

If you do this kind of blueprint theft too often, you need to be careful, because it can easily trigger a chain reaction.

If any missing drawings are discovered, the KGB will definitely require a thorough investigation of all drawing storage, which will uncover a huge number of them.

This is such a slap in the face that the KGB will definitely continue to investigate, which will be very detrimental to the family's ability to use these technologies in the future.

He was still envious after seeing the design data for the Akula-class nuclear submarine and the Project 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruiser.

But it's just envy, not an urgent need. Now is not the best time to get them. It will be much easier to get them in the early 1990s.

The next day, Sun Zhiwei took a short-haul flight to Murmansk, a city more than 500 kilometers away.

Murmansk Port is one of the largest naval ports in the Russian Empire and even the world, as well as the largest fishing port and the largest commercial port in the north of the Russian Empire.

Because it is located outside the Arctic Circle, every winter from December 2nd to around January 18th of the following year, the sun is always below the horizon, while the North Star hangs almost vertically in the sky.

The sky that Sun Zhiwei sees now is very similar to the polar night he experienced in the Arctic.

It is located 50 kilometers upstream from the mouth of the Tuloma River and remains ice-free year-round due to the influence of the North Atlantic Current.

This is the largest city within the Arctic Circle and the only ice-free natural harbor in the Arctic region, as well as one of the core bases of the Northern Fleet.

The Murmansk naval base housed two-thirds of the Soviet Union's nuclear submarine force and was also the main port for handling decommissioned ships.

Sun Zhiwei's last target, the Type 661 titanium alloy cruise missile nuclear submarine "K-222", was quietly floating on a small dock in the corner of the port.

Many other decommissioned surface ships are also moored in this corner, and the hulls of many of them are severely rusted.

Under the polar night, there was not a single person within a radius of several kilometers in this corner of the base. This must be where the Northern Fleet disposed of abandoned ships.

The 106-meter-long hull of the "K-222" was also covered in moss, making it inconspicuous among the old, large ships. Because information about the "K-222" was highly classified, Sun Zhiwei doubted that anyone in Murmansk still knew of the submarine's existence.

But this "K-222" is the world's first titanium alloy nuclear submarine and the world record holder for the fastest nuclear submarine.

Underwater, most torpedoes in the world can't even travel as fast as it.

With an underwater speed of 44.7 knots, no nuclear submarine, past, present, or future, can surpass it.

As an experimental submarine, it has completed its mission, but there are still many traces of technological improvements on this submarine.

Many of the submarine technologies of the Russians can now be traced back to this, and its research value actually exceeds that of the three titanium alloy submarines that Sun Zhiwei has already obtained in his space.

Just as Sun Zhiwei had predicted, the reactor on the "K-222" had been removed.

But that doesn't matter anymore, because the super speed of "K-222" was born out of the consistent principle of the Russians: miracles happen with great force.

It actually achieves its maximum speed by relying on two pressurized water reactors and two steam turbines working together.

Neither the V/B-5P pressurized water reactor nor the GTZ/ZA-618 steam turbine is proprietary to this submarine; they are also used on other submarines.

Sun Zhiwei quietly stored "K-222" into his spatial storage and then began searching for the data room in the base.

If no one at this base truly knows anything about the "K-222," then he should also dispose of its port entry information, and ideally, it should simply disappear from the scene.

It's better if nobody remembers it; it saves a lot of potential trouble.

It took him two days to finally find the port entry information for "K-222" in the administrative office building of the Northern Fleet.

The document was surprisingly simple, lacking even crucial information about the ship, and it didn't even specify that it was a nuclear submarine.

Looking at the signature of the person in charge, Sun Zhiwei found that person in the office's employee list.

That was just a young clerk, not even thirty years old. Sun Zhiwei was completely relieved.

He pulled out the document for "K-222" from the registration information and then left the naval base.

The next day, a flight to Moscow took off, carrying a relaxed-looking Sun Zhiwei.

After a long journey of nearly two months, he finally achieved his goal and acquired all four titanium alloy submarines from the Russian family.

The remaining issue is how to smuggle these things back to China openly.

Even the intact Sierra-class nuclear submarine "Costroma" was something he wanted to send home for basic maintenance.

On the plane, he thought about it and remembered that he had once instructed the group headquarters to go to Xiao Rizi and find the bankrupt Sanguang Shipping to acquire ships.

I don't know how things are going. If we successfully acquire 10 large lake-type bulk carriers of 5 tons, then the transportation problem for these submarines will be solved.

Once we send another group of trustworthy crew members from Subi Island to operate the ship, the submarine transportation will no longer be a problem.

(End of this chapter)