"Your Highness, Bahrain and Qatar are both buying warships, and we should also strengthen the ......construction of the navy," Lafata reminded His Highness.

Bahrain is too much with Qatar!

So two small countries, with a combined number of troops, are less than 10,000 people, and they actually bought two such powerful warships!

Think they're rich?

"How much did Bahrain buy?" asked Xie Kai with a serious expression on his face.

"This ......" Xie Kai looked embarrassed, "Your Highness, you know, we need to keep our customers confidential......"

"Xie, a five-billion dollar order!" Lafata looked disdainful, Xie Kai, a person who is more undisciplined and shameless than the author's gourd, revealed the news himself, and actually said that he kept it confidential for the customer.

"Two ......" Xie Kai only struggled for a moment, for the sake of this $5 billion order, shameless, don't be disciplined, anyway, when the delivery is completed next year, the whole world will know that it is impossible to keep it secret.

"When will the two ships be delivered?" and what is the living environment on the warship?" the prince continued to ask.

"It's been a year, and now I've just started laying the ......keel," Xie Kai was a little worried, if the big dog also asked them to deliver it within the same time, what would it be!

After all, this kind of warship belongs to the design and modification while producing.

The two ships are not a big problem, there are some problems, and the loss will not be big if you re-produce new equipment and systems.

If you produce several ships at the same time, when something goes wrong, the fun will be great......

"Then bring me ten!" Wang Ye's words made Xie Kai almost vomit blood, worried about what would come, "It must all be delivered with them...... Also, the performance can't be worse than theirs......"

"Your Highness, your country's coastline is very long, but it belongs to the long and narrow sea area, once you purchase too much, it will cause changes in the situation in the entire Middle East, especially Israel......" Xie Kai hurriedly dissuaded. "Your country is a regional power in the Middle East and the leader of the Arab world...... Building up national defense capabilities is not a problem, but a sudden increase in military strength will worry other countries and affect regional peace and stability......"

Xie Kai didn't want to care whether the Middle East was peaceful and stable.

He is more worried about the simultaneous construction of 12 Type 053H3 warships, which will worry the whole world.

The flower growers have always been slamming the door to the extreme, and the United States and Soviet satellites are all staring at it, and at the same time building so many warships, what do you want to do?

More importantly, Saudi Arabia and other countries have always been unable to buy advanced warships, and it is Europe and the United States that want Israel to maintain its superiority over the entire Arab world......

"We must maintain an overwhelming advantage over them...... Wang Ye said.

"Your Highness, the combat strength of the fleet is not in the number of numbers, but in the combination of firepower...... A conventional fleet also needs to have submarines...... Xie Kai said, "I think as long as there are four frigates, two submarines, and two large supply ships, it is enough." ”

A 053H3, sold for $200 million, $800 million went.

A 035 submarine with anti-submarine capabilities that can launch Yu-3A electric self-guided anti-submarine / anti-ship torpedoes poses an effective threat to both frigates and submarines will have to be sold for 3~400 million US dollars, plus two Type 905 supply ships, it will exceed 2 billion US dollars.

In this way, don't you meet the other party's conditions?

It's not that Xie Kai's heart is not black enough and he doesn't want to sell more, but if he sells too much, it will cause a lot of trouble.

"What do you want a supply ship for?" the prince did not want a supply ship, "we only need to protect our oil tankers in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf." ”

Xie Kai didn't know what to say.

Don't we want to sell too much?

"Your Highness, Bahrain and Qatar have always had friendly relations with your country, and if their two countries are fighting, your country should mediate from it, and in the Mediterranean, even if your country has only one warship, they will not make trouble...... The country is small, and a few missiles can solve their ......"

Saudi Arabia should be more worried about Persia from across the Persian Gulf.

Persia could easily blockade the entire Persian Gulf.

"Then come five ships and make two fleets...... However, the 035 submarine in your country is a bit noisy and cannot launch missiles......"

!

Xie Kai almost made a move.

This thing really can be imagined that they actually want conventionally powered submarines equipped with missiles.

That's impossible.

It's not possible in a lifetime.

The lifeblood of the world's oil traffic, if this kind of big killer exists in this region, it is strange that there is no chaos.

Xie Kai struggled with all kinds of metaphors, all kinds of guarantees, and finally dispelled this idea of the prince.

In 82, China successfully developed the Julang-1 submarine-launched missile, which was equipped on the Type 031 submarine, although the range of that thing was only 1700 kilometers, it was really sold, not to mention that national defense and security were threatened, and the whole world would be dissatisfied - submarines are not easy to monitor, the world is running around, and the survivability is much higher than that of surface ships.

It is already very good to be able to give Saudi Arabia a submarine that can put heavy fish.

"Okay, just two, whether it is a warship or a submarine, the living environment of the officers and soldiers must be improved...... "The prince has no opinion on the price proposed by Xie Kai, "The delivery period, all 5 warships must be delivered within 18 months, and the submarines must be delivered within 30 months......"

"Your Highness, you really don't plan to come to a large supply ship? The price is cheap, the firepower for self-defense is sufficient, as long as there is one, your country can form an ocean-going fleet that can sail around the world......" Xie Kai did not give up, he still hoped to sell a 905 large supply ship to Saudi Arabia.

In that case, the new generation of large supply ships for aircraft carriers will have funds for research.

"No! There is no need for us to build an ocean-going fleet. Lafata directly rejected Xie Kai, "Unless you have large amphibious landing ships." ”

Xie Kai looked embarrassed, that China itself didn't have it.

In the end, he could only dismiss the idea of selling supply ships.

was fooled by Xie Kai, the prince purchased so much naval equipment, and the king may not be easy to explain!

This kid is really not a thing, he sold warships and supply ships.

The Saudi coast is full of ports, what supplies are needed?

What's more, the budget of $5 billion given by the king is almost enough, and the naval equipment they didn't think about, five warships, and 2 submarines, the total price is $1.7 billion......

"Xie, when can you sign a formal contract here?" Lafata asked Xie Kai when he sent Xie Kai away, "Your Highness hopes that your order can be delivered to most of them before the delivery of the DF-3 is completed......"

"No problem!" Xie Kai knew that it would be very difficult, but still agreed, "We will prepare a formal contract immediately." ”

He was also worried.

Because it is not far from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States is the only one, and naturally there is no need for China to help involve the Soviet Union.

Then, the paragon of peace ended......

You must know that the United States, when the Soviet Union saw the eggs, not only broke off cooperation, but even made the embargo against China even more serious.

At that time, Saudi Arabia may cut off cooperation with China because of its own interests.

"Your Highness, spending this money to build a navy is not in our national interests!" After Xie Kai left, Lafata worriedly persuaded the prince that he had not signed a formal contract, and it was too late to regret it. "I'd rather spend less than spend indiscriminately. ”

Prince Sultan looked at his most trusted assistant and shook his head, "We should build a strong navy. Especially in the Persian Gulf, we must have our navy to escort the oil tankers! The evil Persians and the damned stupid big wood are frantically attacking the oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, but we have no way to protect our oil tankers! His Majesty the King is also considering purchasing frigates to escort the ......"

Ship raids in the waters of the Persian Gulf intensified.

From the beginning when the two sides were just fighting lip service, to 84 when Iraq took the lead in attacking ships, it has become even more intense.

In particular, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, countries that have nothing to do with the war, are also targeted by the damned Persians because they support the war of Silly Damu.

In '84, 69 tankers and cargo ships were attacked, in '85, 52 merchant ships and tankers were attacked, last year the number rose to 106, and this year it is even more crazy......

Fatally, the Persians even began to lay mines on the main shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia can transport oil through the Red Sea lanes, but the cost of transportation of oil extracted from the numerous oil fields in the Persian Gulf needs to increase......

All countries are beginning to arrange for fleet escorts, and as a major local player, Saudi Arabia is unable to participate in it.

Lafata understood the prince's thoughts.

No one knows how long the Iran-Iraq war will last, but Saudi Arabia, as the largest oil producer, wishes that they would fight as long as possible, and even wish that the more oil tankers were bombed, the better......

In that way, it is more in line with their national interests.

"In any case, we should also have our own escort fleet, even Bahrain, which has a small territory and even has an American garrison, has purchased two frigates!" Wang Ye said calmly.

Bahrain only allowed small U.S. fleets to build naval bases in their own country, far from the scale that later allowed the U.S. to station the entire Fifth Fleet aircraft carrier formation.

In recent years, in order not to pinch the Middle East, even the Soviet Union's military presence in the Middle East was not very high.

Even so, the Saudis do not have warships that can escort them!

Small patrol boats are simply not able to face threats from the air.

On the one hand, Bahrain bought warships to fight with Qatar, but not to expand its escort capacity? Their entire country's oil exports still need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz!

"How is it?" After Xie Kai came back, Zheng Yucheng and the others asked eagerly.

"Agreed, 5 053H3, 2 Type 35 submarines......" Xie Kai handed a brief list to Zheng Yucheng and Long Yaohua, "The entire contract price is 4.83 billion...... Originally, it was planned to sell them another 905 supply ship to make up $5 billion, but they didn't want to ......"

Speaking of this, Xie Kai looked regretful.

"You really sold it?" Li Mingshan, who was waiting here, didn't believe it anyway, "What do they want warships for?"