Chapter 473: Prologue
The EMP bombs made using 3D printing technology do not require any sensitive military raw materials, and Chen Xin only needs to buy them in the civilian market, and the cost of each one adds up to less than 100,000 yuan.
I am afraid that such a low-cost weapon of mass destruction is the only one in the world, and there is no other semicolon. (EMP bombs are extremely expensive to manufacture for the average country.)
In the following period, every four or five days, Chen Xin would use the Dream Aerospace Aircraft to transport the electromagnetic pulse bombs made at the Longshoushan underground base to Mogadishu, and then secretly transfer them to the waters off the Indian Ocean by ship and equip them on Typhoon-class cruise missile nuclear submarines.
The pressure of war has not disrupted the reconstruction of Somalia, and infrastructure construction in major Somali cities such as Mogadishu, Hargeisa and Kirimayo is in full swing.
The only exception is the Somali Air Force.
Under the close monitoring of the E-3 "Watchtower" early warning aircraft, the unmanned fighter units deployed in Mogadishu and Hargeisa have maintained a sortie rate of more than 90 percent almost every day to guard against a surprise attack by the Arab League forces on Somalia.
The deterrence of these more than 300 planes has also made the Saudi-led Arab coalition forces cautious, and they dare not make the slightest drastic move except for occasionally sending a few drones into Somali airspace to test it.
But the probing did not yield much results, as the drones were detected and shot down by patrolling fighter jets within five minutes of crossing the Somali border, and eventually disappeared from the radar screen, without any useful intelligence information.
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Dubai, Arabian Star. Inside the Royal Suite on the top floor of the Burj Al Arab.
The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Al Maktoum, threw the intelligence document in his hand on the desk with the golden gilt pattern in the Arabian style, looked at the Saudi Crown Prince Salman, who was sitting opposite him, and sneered: "Your Highness Salman, can you be so cautious in dealing with these?" You must know that they don't even have a formed army unit, even if they have more than 300 fighter jets, but we have the entire EU and NATO behind us, and slowly play a war of attrition with them, we can also consume all these planes, and what will they fight with us. ”
Salman said, "His Highness Maktoum." Never despise our enemies. Don't forget why we started this war. This Somali Air Force, which is composed of unmanned fighters, has extremely high combat efficiency and management mode, and its combat effectiveness has been shown in previous tentative operations. So far, the Americans have not dared to attack them directly, and can only achieve their goals through our hands, not to mention. They also have China across the street. ”
Speaking of China. Al Maktoum's originally lazy expression suddenly collapsed. sighed: "China and Russia are indeed a trouble, and I don't know what shit luck they have taken to make such a thing as a golden dragon battery." This time, I'm afraid we're going to bleed. ”
Crown Prince Salman was silent, this is not just a matter of hemorrhage!
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Golden Dragon battery had too much to do with it, and it already involved the foundation on which the Gulf countries depended, neither Salman nor Al Maktoum would be willing to be enemies of such an opponent who did not know the details.
Both for their own sake and for the sake of the Arab world, they had to go down on Somalia.
Fortunately, the Arab world is not alone, they have the support of the entire Western world, and Crown Prince Salman and Prime Minister Al Maktoum are convinced that if they slowly build up their strength and build up a military force capable of holding Somalia down in a short period of time, they will be able to win the war.
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Chen Xin's desire for victory is no less than that of Crown Prince Salman and Prime Minister Al Maktoum.
In addition to electromagnetic pulse bombs and Changjian 10 cruise missiles, during this time, the Somali government imported a large amount of aviation fuel and weapons and ammunition from China, such as air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, air-to-ship missiles, laser/satellite-guided bombs, etc., and they even imported eight battalions of Hongqi-9 anti-aircraft missiles from China, which were deployed near two air bases in Mogadishu and Hargeisa.
Of course, these weapons have been intelligently modified by steel hammers to be able to attack autonomously.
If it weren't for the tight schedule, Chen Xin would have even planned to install two more high-powered laser weapon systems at the two air bases to defend Somalia's airspace.
Compared with Chen Xin's actions, China's support has not dragged on in the slightest.
In the three days from 27 November to 29 November, the "Julong" and "Shuguang" aerospace planes respectively carried out three actual combat flights and preliminarily completed the global deployment of 20 Beidou navigation satellites.
Although the media was not informed of these missions, the news was confirmed by space agencies around the world and revealed, and the world was immediately shaken.
Europe, in particular, has been upset by this news.
Just a few months ago, China and Europe were fighting to the death over the frequency of Beidou and Galileo, who would have thought that this time China would actually engage in such a big battle, directly through the Guò aerospace aircraft to complete the global deployment of the Beidou satellite navigation system.
In this way, the frequency battle between Galileo and Beidou has completely divided the winner and loser, and after the GPS navigation system of the United States, China's Beidou navigation system will become the second largest satellite navigation system in the world.
But what is really surprising is the important role played by aerospace aircraft in the process of deploying the Beidou net.
Even in 2011, the world carried out more than 70 space launches, and China carried out 19 space launches, sending 21 satellites into space.
And this time, with the help of aerospace aircraft, Chinese astronauts sent twenty Beidou navigation satellites into space in just three days.
You must know that according to the long-standing tradition of the space industry, the cost of launching a satellite into space by rocket is at least about 100 million US dollars.
Single-use rockets account for the lion's share of the cost.
In order to reduce the cost of space launch, SpaceX has developed partially reusable Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, which reduce the cost of rocket launch to one-tenth of the original cost.
But compared to a real aerospace aircraft, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.
Chinese astronauts used an aerospace plane to send 20 Beidou navigation satellites into space in three phases, and the cost of each flight was only one million US dollars in fuel costs, compared with the previous Long March rockets, the price was simply one heaven and one underground.
Such an efficient and inexpensive space flight activity not only created the history of human spaceflight, but also opened a new scene for mankind's future space activities. (To be continued......)