21st Century Necromancer

Of course, the original Kiev-rank aircraft carrier didn't have luxurious facilities like an indoor swimming pool. Although Soviet Typhoon-class nuclear submarines had such amenities for relaxation for the officers and crew, this was not the design for the Kiev-rank.

In fact, due to the need to install numerous equipment and weapons inside the vessel, the interior of the Kiev-rank was extremely narrow, whether in terms of cabins or corridors, far from comfortable.

Yet the Kiev-rank was still a powerful warship. Although it didn't serve the Red Navy for long before it was quietly retired under the backdrop of the Soviet Union's dissolution, never fully realizing its excellent performance, and was mocked by the West as useless, considering its design unreasonable — a compromise made by the Soviets to circumvent international treaty limitations.

Some people compared it to Western-designed aircraft carriers, feeling that the forty-thousand-ton Kiev-rank was doing the work that a ten-thousand-ton Western light aircraft carrier could do, considering it mere cannon fodder for the nuclear submarine force, and believing such warship design had no practical value — a negative lesson in the history of world aviation.

This perspective isn't entirely wrong. As an aircraft carrier, the Kiev-rank's hangar was simply too small, only able to change the carrier aircraft it carried according to the combat mission, lacking flexibility in composition and having too few carrier aircraft.

In fact, this was the design approach of Western aircraft carriers as well. The United States built a vast fleet of aircraft carriers, making it the country with the most aircraft carriers in the world. Their carriers were basically designed to make every effort to free up space for planes. Without carrier aircraft, carriers were practically only good for drying fish, with their protection largely dependent on escort fleets.

But what if we change our perspective? What if the Kiev-rank wasn't an aircraft carrier, but a cruiser?

The Soviets initially considered the American Kitty Hawk-rank's design for the Kiev-rank, but this design was rejected.

Apart from the international treaty limitations at the time, while there was some consideration of appearances, the main reason was that the Soviets didn't actually intend for the Kiev-rank to be an aircraft carrier carrying carrier aircraft.

The Kiev-rank's designation in the Soviet era was a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser. Although the Soviets needed a vessel that could carry fixed-wing planes when they designed it, and indeed accumulated carrier-building experience and technology through the Kiev-rank, its designation was still not a true aircraft carrier.

The Soviets designed the Kiev-rank to fulfill the role of an anti-submarine cruiser, with carrier aircraft primarily aiming to achieve this goal and provide air defense support to the fleet simultaneously.

To put it plainly, what the Soviets created was actually a heavy cruiser capable of carrying helicopters and fighter planes, not a light aircraft carrier loaded with numerous weapons.

If considered as a cruiser, the evaluation of such warship changes completely, for as a cruiser, the Kiev-rank was the most powerful cruiser built in the history of human navy.

Not only did it possess the firepower of a standard missile cruiser, but it also had excellent anti-submarine capabilities, outstanding single-ship cruising ability. It didn't need to rely on carrier aircraft or an escort fleet, with even just one Kiev-rank able to have good survival capabilities.

Judging a cruiser by aircraft carrier standards is of course unqualified.

However, Chen Yu didn't care much whether the Kiev-rank was an aircraft carrier or a cruiser, because what he needed now was just a luxury yacht.

Restricting a demigod's military power is evidently meaningless, so when building this ship for Chen Yu, the Russians simply configured its weapon system according to the original Kiev-rank's armament, even thoughtfully replacing and optimizing with current Russian Navy's active-duty equipment.

This undoubtedly made Russian Navy officers more envious, jealous, and resentful. After all, even the Kiev-rank, after modern modification and upgrading, could still serve as a fleet flagship just like during Soviet times, with powerful combat capabilities.

The Kiev-rank's formidable combat strength and cruising ability were sufficient for the Russian Navy, now shrunk to only protect Russian coastal waters, to return to blue sea.

Though there's still a long way to go compared to the era when the Red Navy could confront the US military on the ocean directly, for the Russian Navy which has not touched a new ship over ten thousand tons in thirty years, it was enough to make them salivate with envy.

Especially now that Russia's only aircraft carrier, The Kuznetsov, was down and out, having a large warship capable of serving as an aircraft carrier being built in its own shipyard made the Russian Navy eager to take it for themselves.

But they didn't dare.

Whether from instructions from high above or the demigod's deterrent force, these several Russian officers had no intention of causing trouble even after drinking too much vodka.noveldrama

After all, although the ship was built by Russians, it was funded by the United States. The very fact that the United States paid Russians to build a warship as a yacht was enough to deter everyone.

So in the conference room at this time, although the participating Russian Navy officers were variously envious, they still sat obediently, just watching Chen Yu listening to the designer's introduction and confirming various materials and styles for decoration with extremely envious eyes.

"Sir, are you sure you want to use solid wood flooring in the cabin?" The designer flipped open the brochure in his hand, turning to the part introducing floor materials and colors, and confirmed with Chen Yu.

Although Admiralty Shipyard had rich shipbuilding experience, their expertise was in submarine construction, with no experience building luxury yachts, so the designer now introducing to Chen Yu was actually a yacht designer they hired.

Similarly, the brochure in the designer's hand was from their yacht company, seeming to be because this yacht company mainly had small yachts, the designs in it were mostly pictures of small yachts.

Chen Yu didn't mind this, looking at Jounouchi Hiromi for her opinion: "Honey, what do you think?"

"Well, the wood flooring is nice, but perhaps carpet should be laid, right? When Little Yixi plays on the floor in the future, having a carpet would be better." Jounouchi Hiromi put Little Yixi on the conference table, glanced at the designer's brochure, considered and said.

Upon hearing this from Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu then turned to the designer and said, "Then use solid wood flooring for the floor, teak for the main cabin, oak for other cabins. Additionally, I need some long-pile carpets for the main cabin, fit for kids to play on..."