Because of the appearance of suspected F-14 fighters in China, and China's rejection of the F-16/79 sold by the United States, the U.S. high-level saw the twin-engine version of the Super -7B project displayed by China.

These matters have not yet been resolved.

Returning from the South China Sea, Xie Kai was listless all day.

Even Mo Qi was mysterious and secretive many times, but Xie Kai didn't pay too much attention to it.

Until he came back for almost a month, Xie Kai was still in that state, studying in school every day.

"What's wrong with this kid? I went to the South China Sea, and when I came back, the whole person changed......

"What else, I originally thought that in the name of the Saudi Navy, I could do a big deal, you know, the weapons and ammunition on their training ship were replaced with live ammunition before they went. Zheng Yucheng naturally knew about Xie Kai.

Although Xie Kai is not a soldier and engages in weapons, who doesn't want to see his weapons and equipment crush the enemy fiercely?

"What do you say about the Thai side's bidding? Let him go and relax?" Wang Guilin asked Zheng Yucheng.

"That's not good, right? Foreign intelligence services are collecting information about him everywhere. Zheng Yucheng shook his head and said.

For Xie Kai's safety, he sees it more than his own life.

"Mozzi is in this situation, you should also go and relax, the scenery over there is good. Let's just increase security......" Wang Guilin felt that Xie Kai should be allowed to go to Thailand to relax.

Holding it all day, when the time comes, something goes wrong, and it is the loss of the entire base.

In the past, they thought that Xie Kai was not doing his job all day long, but now Xie Kai is reluctant to talk to people all day long, and he no longer buys his ideas, and he doesn't even think about selling weapons everywhere, which is even more worrying.

Otherwise, the two old guys wouldn't have been here at all at this time.

"Why are you here?" Xie Kai came back from class, looking at Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin's application for solemnity, he was shocked, could it be that something happened?

"It's a bit of work, to send people to Thailand to bid, they need two frigates in the navy. Wang Guilin said, seeing Xie Kai's lack of interest, he hurriedly said, "You don't need to participate, you should go to Thailand for a vacation." ”

"What's so good over there, if you want to talk about the sea view, it's not as beautiful as the islands in our South China Sea!"

The two old guys looked at each other and finally understood the crux of the problem.

The navy did not agree to build on several islands and reefs that the Vietnamese did not seize, and Xie Kai feared that the Vietnamese would stealthily seize the islands.

When the time comes, it won't be easy.

With little military spending, it is hardly very realistic for the Navy to keep a fleet in the Spratly Islands for a long time and keep an eye on the Vietnamese.

There are no naval bases around, and supply ships can't always supply the fleet, so it all costs money.

"Let's put down the matter in the South China Sea, we are not at war, we are just weapons design and production units. You kid too, since you are so interested in these things, why didn't you enter the military academy in the first place?" Wang Guilin looked at Xie Kai and said dissatisfied.

"How long does it take to start from a graduated lieutenant, it's better to be in our base, I'm like me, I'm also a major general, isn't it?"

Military industrial units belong to the military logistics department.

Zheng Yucheng, this is a real major general.

It's just that the old guy is usually very low-key.

It's impossible to hang around in military uniforms when you come out.

"Uncle Zheng, I'm thinking these days, why don't we contract those islands for development? The people in our base can only be in Qilian Mountain, or we can only contract Jinghong Island and build a sanatorium, and the people from our base take turns to go to the sanatorium for vacation, what do you think?"

Xie Kai really didn't give up.

The Battle of Nansha did not start, and although the Vietnamese had now retreated, it was absolutely impossible to give up just like that.

The navy is reluctant to garrison troops to defend the island now because of financial reasons, and when the time comes, it will be snatched away by the Vietnamese, and it will be almost impossible for the Vietnamese to take the initiative to return it in the future.

"Are you crazy?" Zheng Yucheng was taken aback.

It's a crazy idea.

Even Wang Guilin felt that Xie Kai's idea was too crazy.

"Military spending is tight, if the navy wants to garrison troops, the first thing is to build on the island, transport building materials from the country, this is definitely not a simple matter, it requires a lot of funds; at the same time, with the garrison, the navy has to often go to the island to replenish, there is no fresh water on it, there is no land to grow vegetables or anything, everything has to be transported from the mainland......," Xie Kai said.

Under the current circumstances, in order to alleviate the problem of shortage of funds, not only military industrial units have begun to produce civilian products to make profits when there are no military orders, but even the military can do business.

This is also because of the shortage of funds, and there is no way to do it.

If we keep those islands and don't have to pay for them from the navy, this should be easier to do.

"It's not easy to do, there's no precedent for contracting islands. ”

"We're going to build a naval maintenance point over there...... Xie Kai has been thinking about this these days.

In his original world, after the outbreak of the naval battle, the Vietnamese army took the initiative to evacuate Jinghong Island, and the surrounding Daxian Reef was controlled by the navy.

As long as there are people on these islands, it will not be easy for Vietnam to occupy them again.

"This can't be. Zheng Yucheng shook his head.

"What about the special operations brigade? Isn't the special operations brigade going to be organized into a land, sea, and air amphibious brigade, and how good it is to set up a training base there? "Xie Kai's plan, that's a set, anyway, he has no intention of giving up like this.

An island, even if it is only the size of a pinpoint in the sea, and the national flag is planted, that is the national territory.

What's more, such a large island is already garrisoned by hundreds of people.

"Don't think about it, the Vietnamese on Jinghong Island have not completely evacuated at all...... Once we are going to land, it will inevitably cause conflicts, and then it will be troublesome. Zheng Yucheng sighed.

He knew Xie Kai's purpose, but this matter was really difficult to operate.

Wang Guilin saw that Xie Kai was silent again, and was about to pull the topic back, and said: "Let's talk about the Thai Navy's procurement of frigates, Xie Kai, this is the first time that a domestic military industrial unit has participated in the international defense bidding project, and they have no experience, especially the Hudong Shipyard ......."

"What kind of frigates does Thailand procure?" Xie Kai really had no interest.

No matter how many warships are sold, they don't really build an island.

What's more, it was originally China's own island and its own territory.

"The 053 level is mainly to escort their aircraft carriers. ”

"Do the Thais have aircraft carriers?" Xie Kai thought it was a joke.

The Thais do have an aircraft carrier, but the helicopter carrier that was only purchased from Spain in the nineties, and this thing has a standard displacement of 7,000 tons, and a full load displacement of only 11,450 tons.

"No, it is also during the inspection, but they need to build a fleet of frigates for the aircraft carrier first. Wang Guilin introduced the situation, "It is also thanks to this incident in the south, the Thais feel that it is more appropriate for our frigates to escort their light aircraft carriers......

"Can they afford it?"

It's not that Xie Kai looks down on Thailand, but relatively speaking, 053H3 is too expensive.

The price of one made him sell for a sky-high price of $200 million.

Xie Kai remembered that the Thais' aircraft carrier orders were not even looked down upon by the large shipyards of European and American countries, and finally Thailand signed a contract with the Spanish shipyard, and the contract price of an aircraft carrier, excluding supporting auxiliary weapons and carrier-based fighters, was only 360 million US dollars.

After this thing was bought back by the Thai Navy, it was not even equipped with carrier-based fighters in the back.

There is no other reason - poverty!

The aircraft carrier is not something that small countries and poor countries can afford to play with at all, it is too expensive.

Xie Kai once saw from an article on the Internet that the Liaoning aircraft carrier, the oil tank is full of oil, and it needs to refuel 8,000 tons at a time, even if it is 3,000 yuan a ton, the aircraft carrier needs 24 million to refuel once.

This is why Xie Kai is reluctant to touch the aircraft carrier project.

Even if the technical problems have been solved, the problem is that there are all kinds of equipment for the aircraft carrier, and when the Navy has no money, they have to pay for it themselves.

It's not worth it.

"You kid, we were worried about not having an order before, but now that we have the opportunity, we have to catch it, right? The frigates in the shipyard have been produced, and what are they producing?" Wang Guilin knew that Xie Kai was still thinking about the island issue in the South China Sea, and he was not interested in these things.

"Actually, I didn't let you go to Thailand for this purpose, but just for you to take Moqi out for a good time. Over the years, you have been running around for the affairs of the base, and the base has nothing to give you......" Zheng Yucheng almost said that he missed his mouth.

If it weren't for Wang Guilin glaring at him, he might have really said something he shouldn't have said.

How to deal with that matter now, Zheng Yucheng and they didn't come up with doctrines.

"There's nothing interesting over there in Thailand. Mozzi didn't want to go out either. Xie Kai shook his head, he knew that Mozi was not willing to go abroad.

Every time I go abroad, I basically don't have a good time.

It's better to stay in the country.

"It's not a good thing. Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin came out of Xie Kai's room, both frowning.

"I can't tell him right now, he's not old enough. Wang Guilin was also worried.

At first, they were looking forward to this happening, but now, they are worried that it will affect Xie Kai's future.

"It's not okay not to tell him, and the more you go to the back, the more you don't deal with it. ”

The two old guys frowned.

Xie Kai also frowned after Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin went out.

"Although Thailand's economic development has been good in recent years, it is not realistic to raise an aircraft carrier at all. In 88 years in history, Thailand ordered two 053H2 from China, but the price was not high, far from the level of 200 million US dollars, and they couldn't accept such an offer at all...... "Xie Kai is also analyzing, whether Thailand can accept a warship like 053H3.

It's too expensive.

053H2 is an order contract model, the price of one is 46 million, according to the current exchange rate, it is more than 12 million US dollars, and it must not be at that price.

Even if it is 30 million dollars a H2, the profit is not low.

Xie Kai wants to sell H3 or even higher-level warships.

The Chinese side does not know the specific thinking of the Thai side.

Thailand does want to expand its naval capabilities, and the fact that they are near the sea, where islands are rampant, and the threat from the Vietnamese navy make them even more desperate to improve their naval capabilities.

Unlike Western countries and Southeast Asian neighbors that have seized China's islands, Thailand's top brass began to become distracted when they learned of the news.

China's advanced frigates and willingness to export them give a better option to many countries in the world that rely on buying weapons to augment their defense forces.

Weapons and equipment, both Soviet and American, have a whole host of political strings attached.

Small countries either do not buy, or agree to their terms.

As one of the four Asian tigers representing a new round of economic growth, Thailand's economy has grown rapidly in recent years, the domestic economic structure has improved significantly, and the electronics industry and automobile industry have developed rapidly. There is even a faint tendency to overwhelm several other economic tigers.

However, while the economy is growing, the Thai government is becoming more and more worried.

For no other reason, the strength of national defense cannot match the results achieved in their economic construction.

At present, there are many pirates near the coast of Thailand, and some of these islands are formed by the remnants of the Khmer army, some are established by domestic warlords in Myanmar to raise funds, and some are caused by unfair competition by neighboring countries.

The larger pirates were disguised by the Vietnamese Navy.

The Vietnamese Navy has a lot of armed transport ships, and flying the national flag is the navy, and if the flag of the navy is hoisted, it is a pirate.

The small tonnage of the Thai Navy's warships makes it impossible to compete with the Vietnamese Navy.

Moreover, when the United States invaded Vietnam, it leased many military bases in Thailand, and a large part of the millions of tons of bombs that the United States put into Vietnamese territory were transported from Thailand.

Inside the Thai Ministry of National Defense building, Chief of Staff Thongtong Khon Sompong Phong is looking at the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Commander Chawalit Yongchaiyu, waiting for the commander's reply.

But the commander just smoked silently and didn't answer, and the chief of staff waited a little anxiously: "Commander, the Vietnamese retreated when they looked at the new frigate of the Chinese Navy, this is the news we got from the CIA, as long as we have two, it will be enough to change the status quo......"

Commander Chawalit Yongchaiyu frowned and said, "Although their warships are advanced, they are too expensive!"

"We don't have to choose the one like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and the one that appeared in the South China Sea is not the one ordered by Saudi Arabia and Bahrain......" Shuntong Khon Songpong still has great respect for the commander who single-handedly promoted himself, "The warships of Western countries are more expensive. Are we again inviting the American fleet to base in Thailand?"