.※Fan Wubing received the general custom of Guan Ganqi at the Politburo meeting in a timely manner. Although it was just a few words, the most important problem had been solved, and there was another important point. Yan's two people who held Wu Kuan accountable received Fan Heng's attention and naturally entered Fan Wubing's eyeliner.

Beware of potential opponents, understand potential opponents, and master the ability to balance the opponent. This is what Fan Wubing has always insisted on pursuing. If these abilities cannot be ensured, then it is very risky to always hang out at a very high level.

Fan Wubing knew very well what Fan Heng lacked most, not ability, not strength, but relationship. Without forming a small group with his own voice and dominance, it was difficult for a person to fight a group of people. Even a leader of that year could be said to be a powerful person who had talent for a hundred years. However, after being overthrown, he did not even make his own voice in the capital. He was forced to leave Shanghai before his own big-character poster, setting off a huge movement.

From this we can see that being alone and unable to roar is a taboo for those who govern. Making friends and disciples all over the world is the kingly way.

This time after he learned the names of the two committee members, Li Xuan mobilized his various intelligence networks to conduct a thorough investigation of them, starting from the social relations before, in order to obtain more information and have a comprehensive understanding of them.

It is certainly difficult to do such things, but if you want to do it, it is not impossible to do it.

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However, on the morning of August 14, Fan Wubing suddenly received a message from Russia that something happened to Russia and a nuclear submarine sank.

"Kursk nuclear submarine" A name appeared in Fan Wubing's mind.

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In the next period of time, the sinking of the Kursk caused an uproar in the world. Everyone was concerned about what kind of reaction Russia would react because of the sinking of nuclear submarines? What will the young President Putin do?

The Russian Kursk multi-purpose combat missile nuclear submarine was designed by the Russian Ace Weapon Design Bureau and the Ruby Design Bureau. Many of the design plans on the submarine are unique in the world.

The boat was launched in May 1995 and officially joined the Russian Northern Fleet in service. It is one of the latest strategic nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy and one of the largest nuclear submarines in the world today. It is affiliated to the 41st cruise missile nuclear submarine brigade of the Northern Fleet, with a hull number.

The Kursk nuclear submersible picobody is 154 meters long, 18 meters wide, 9 meters draft, and a displacement of 140,000 tons. It is powered by two nuclear reactors. The deep-sea navigation can reach 28 knots and the water surface can last for 19 sheep. The endurance is 120 days, and the maximum dive depth is 300 meters. It can carry up to 135 people.

The Kursk nuclear submarine is specially used to attack aircraft carriers. It was once hailed as the aircraft carrier terminator by Russian media. The boat is equipped with a granite missile launcher, embedded in a non-pressure-resistant shell, and carries twenty-four latest sound anti-ship cruise missiles.

At present, no effective weapon is found in any fleet in the world to deal with such missiles.

The boat also has 4 mamm and kettle millimeter torpedo tubes, including anti-submarine missiles fired by torpedo tubes. There are a total of 32 advanced tube-fired weapons.

The boat can be used to shoot torpedoes and controllable anti-submarine missiles, thereby greatly improving the self-defense and attack capabilities of missiles and submarines. The submarine is one of the most modern large multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy to date. It is specially used to attack aircraft carriers.

According to the authoritative British military research organization Jane's Defense Weekly, a submarine Kursk can sink an aircraft carrier and other ships in an aircraft carrier formation, and can also attack enemy submarines.

It is said that the Kursk is carrying Russia's most confidential new weapons and arms. Twenty-four latest cruise anti-ship missiles can carry high-explosive warheads or nuclear warheads. Each warhead's power is equivalent to two atomic bombs dropped from Hiroshima, Japan.

In addition, new sonar systems were also installed on the submarines, and these arms were regarded as the highest military secret by Russia. They have not been disclosed to NATO and Western countries.

However, due to an unknown explosion on the boat, it sank on August 13th on the bottom of the Barents Sea, a depth of 150 meters. All 118 people on the boat, including crew, fleet-level senior generals and assistants, were killed.

After Russia had this incident, countries around the world felt very nervous because they were not sure whether the Kursk carried nuclear warheads. Will reactor leakage occur and cause huge environmental pollution? Some countries even worry that if they carried nuclear warheads, they would fall into the hands of terrorists and become a great enemy that threatened human society?

The Kursk nuclear submarine, which cost $1 billion, is Russia's most advanced defensive weapon, but it exploded and sank in such an unknown way. This made the Russians feel very nervous.

The Kursk has two nuclear reactors, the submarine is six-story high, and the volume is twice that of a large jet-type sturdy , and the Kursk has a unique double-boat and cabin. It will not sink even if it is directly hit by a torpedo.

But such a class nuclear submarine sank. What exactly caused the crisis to unfold so quickly that the submarine didn't have time to surface?

After the Kursk disaster, a Chechen news agency made a shocking statement. The agency reported that in order to support the Islamic armed forces in Chechnya, a crew member blew up the Kursk.

However, this statement is worth pondering. First, who can enter the front of the submarine? Who has the motivation to place bombs? There are two people on the boat from Islamic areas in Russia, one of whom can enter the torpedo compartment, his name is Gadiev.

However, the Russian Navy has investigated Gatiev's background in detail. He is very loyal to the navy and it is absolutely impossible to be an organized terrorist attack.

The Russian Navy believes that the Kursk sinks because it once collided with a foreign submarine.

On that day, the Barents Sea was not the only northern fleet, at least two NATO submarines were monitoring Russian exercises. This kind of intrigue game often evolved into unexpected underwater phenomena.

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In the past 30 years, the Russian Navy has recorded twenty-five submarine collisions. Even the British Navy believes that the Kursk sinks due to the collision. The first thing they thought was that the Kursk might have been sunk by a US submarine in the Barents Sea.

Then, the Russian Navy released a satellite photo of the US submarine Memphis, which was parked in Norway's military port, seven days after the sinking of Kursk.

Russia believes that the photos are enough to prove that the US submarine was once damaged, while the US side flatly denied that the Memphis had had a collision accident.

The Russian Navy was not outdone. They held a press conference. In the released image data, there seemed to be a huge cut on the side of the Kursk. They insisted that it was evidence of the collision, and the culprit was either Memphis or other submarines, or perhaps British submarines.

For a time, the Kursk became a thorny political issue.

The British Ministry of Defense believes it is necessary to explore the theory of collision. Since NATO's submarine has been condemned, they must also know the truth.

But later, NATO countries were finally relieved because a Norwegian earthquake research institute announced that when the Kursk disappeared, they detected an abnormality in the Barents Sea.

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The British government obtained these important information and handed it over to earthquake experts, comparing the seismic wave map with other seismic signals. It does not conform to the pattern of submarine earthquakes or submarine collisions, but it is fully in line with the known underwater explosion patterns.

In this way, NATO got rid of the predicament, and the Russian Navy's hardliners had to admit that the reason for the sinking of the Kursk was not the submarine collision.

In short, there are many different opinions. Before the Kursk was salvaged, no one could determine what the real cause of this accident was.

However, it is said that the young President Putin intends to approve a bold salvage plan to fish the Kursk from the sea and allocate $130 million in special funds for the salvage operation.

This made the Russians feel confused. You should know that Russia is poor now and has a short ambition. The annual budget of the entire Northern Fleet is less than 100 million US dollars. It would cost 130 million US dollars to seize a nuclear submarine that has been sunk and cannot be reused. This is really a bit too exaggerated.

So soon Fan Wubing received a call from Putin, and the President asked him if he could provide him with a funding of $1300 million as soon as possible to help him bypass the fiscal budget and operate the matter as soon as possible.

"This kind of thing is OK?" Fan Wubing couldn't help but feel a little surprised after hearing this, thinking that foreigners really don't know what they are, but they just don't know what else can be used for mortgage or exchange this time?

But Putin's answer was also very happy. "This time it's really hard to say. Mortgage or exchange can easily cause me passiveness, so I think it's better to provide free funding. At worst, you can find an opportunity to repay this favor in the future, right?"

Fan Wubing scratched his head. The various investments he had cooperated with the Russian side now have very generous returns. In a few years, the 50 billion US dollars invested can not only make a profit. It is also easy to make another 50 billion US dollars. It has affected everyone's relationship in order to make a billion US dollars, and it is indeed not worth it.

But he didn't want Putin to take away the money so easily. What should he do if he develops bad habits?

So Fan Wubing had a sudden inspiration and came up with a compromise solution, "It's okay to do this, but you have to hand over the full broadcasting rights for the Kursk to me. Isn't this requirement too much, right?"

"I agree to your request." Putin thought for a moment and immediately agreed.
Chapter completed!