The Great Elder smiled slightly and said slowly, "This business has indeed been done. ”

As soon as his words fell, the originally slightly solemn atmosphere in the conference room was suddenly relaxed.

Chen Xin also breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at the Great Elder: "Chief, on behalf of the war situation, I would like to thank the Chinese side for their assistance. ”

The Great Elder smiled and said, "It is natural to repay the favor. ”

As a matter of fact, a clear decision was made at yesterday's meeting on the resolution to support the war situation.

After all, if you are willing to take action against OPEC countries, it will greatly hit the strength of the oil country camp, and it may have an unexpected effect on the promotion of Golden Dragon batteries.

The Great Elder waited for Chen Xin to come over today, but they just hoped to use another way to support the war, after all, this time the main battlefield was in the Middle East, and the Changjian-10 cruise missile did not have global combat capabilities, so it was pointless to ask for a thousand cruise missiles in the war.

Originally, the elders were already preparing to provide short- and medium-range ballistic missiles to Somalia to deter Saudi Arabia and other countries, but no one expected that Chen Xin would propose to help China complete the global deployment of the Beidou satellite positioning system ahead of schedule at this meeting.

In this way, China will no longer have a reason to refuse to provide a thousand cruise missiles to the war.

Chen Xin turned his head to General Li Yuanqing, head of the General Armament Department, and said, "General Li, time waits for no one, I wonder if the Chinese side will provide us with a thousand long swords10 within a month?"

"Within a month?" Admiral Li Yuanqing hesitated, "According to our production capacity, we want to gather a thousand long swords within a month.10 I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. ”

Chen Xin frowned and said: "Time waits for no one, now the Middle East countries led by Saudi Arabia are in full swing to prepare for war, if they really fight with us, the more than 300 planes in Somalia alone may not be able to keep the enemy out of the country, so I hope that these thousand cruise missiles can be in place as soon as possible." ”

The Great Elder said, "Lao Li, how many long swords does the Second Artillery have now?"

General Li Yuanqing looked at Chen Xin and said, "At present, a total of four hundred and ninety-six have been deployed!"

The Great Elder said: "Then hand over all these four hundred and ninety-six pieces to the War Sudden Bureau, and order the relevant enterprises to complete production within a month!"

Admiral Li Yuanqing was taken aback, and hurriedly got up and said, "Yes!"

There was a pause. He looked at Chen Xin again and said, "But." Mr. Chen, all of our weapons are land-based cruise missiles, and if you want to equip them on the Typhoon-class nuclear submarines, I'm afraid you will need some modifications. ”

Chen Xin smiled and said, "This is no problem. We can do it ourselves. ”

General Li Yuanqing said: "That's good!"

Chen Xin said with a smile: "The problem of cruise missiles has been solved. Then let's talk about the problem of the Beidou satellite navigation system!"

The faces of everyone in the conference room suddenly became solemn.

The importance of GNSS is undeniable. As early as the 90s of the last century, the United States completed the deployment of the global satellite positioning system (GPS) network with its strong national strength.

In the following ten years, whether it was the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the GPS system played an extremely important role.

There are even reports that GPS can increase the combat effectiveness of the US military by 100 to 1,000 times.

This is not without reason.

According to the concept of "force multiplier" in modern military doctrine, the GPS system can be used to calculate the improvement of combat capability through the guò mathematical model.

For example, air tankers can greatly extend the air patrol time of fighters, and the patrol mission that used to require 8 fighters to complete now only needs 4 fighters to complete. In this case, air tankers have doubled the effectiveness of the existing force.

Satellite navigation plays a very huge role in the accurate scheduling and deployment of the military, and the previous inertial navigation and map interpretation methods are incomparable with satellite navigation in terms of accuracy and convenience.

For example, at a cost of about 10,000 yuan, an aerial bomb with an optimal throwing accuracy of only 30 or 40 meters can be converted into a GPS-guided bomb with an accuracy of about 5 meters.

The combat effectiveness of a GPS-guided bomb is equivalent to forty or fifty ordinary aerial bombs, and considering the impact on the number of aircraft sorties, it can be said that the GPS-guided bomb has increased the effectiveness of the air force by more than 1,000 times when it strikes against point-shaped solid targets on the ground.

Of course, this simple calculation does not hold true in all cases, because in addition to GPS-guided bombs, there are now laser-guided, television-guided bombs, etc.

In China alone, GPS has monopolized the satellite navigation market of up to 500 billion yuan, and the booming smartphone industry has contributed to the development of satellite navigation systems.

Because of this, China, the United States, Russia, Europe and other countries have launched their own satellite navigation systems, such as China's Beidou satellite navigation system, the United States' GPS system, Europe's Galileo system and Russia's GLONASS navigation system.

At present, the GPS system of the United States is unique in the global satellite navigation system, occupying most of the market in the civilian field.

China's Beidou satellite navigation system has to mention the grudge and revenge with the European Galileo system.

In 2003, Europe was permeated with anti-US and anti-war sentiments, and the United States insisted on pursuing a unilateralist foreign policy and brazenly launched the Iraq War in disregard of the opposition of the international community.

Then-French President Jacques Chirac advocated the establishment of a "multipolar world," and his voice was firmly supported by then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Against this backdrop, the EU decided to include China in the "Galileo" program, which the EU had launched in 2002, and China became the first non-EU participant. The news spread, shocking the United States.

For a long time, the United States' global satellite positioning system GPS is unique in the field of civil navigation, while Russia's GLONASS system has a short working life due to unstable work, and only 12 satellites in orbit.

The "Galileo" global satellite navigation program launched by the European Union is regarded as the most powerful challenge to ending the situation of US "monopoly." By design, Galileo will cover the world with a total of 30 "medium orbit" and "static orbit" navigation satellites, and its positioning accuracy exceeds that of GPS, and it is also superior to GPS in terms of compatibility and accuracy. In order to break the monopoly of GPS, the frequency to be used by the "public management service" system of "Galileo" deliberately chose a frequency similar to that of the American GPS, and such an arrangement may dilute the channel effect of GPS and make Americans restless.

At that time, the "Beidou" system was still in the development stage, and its technical parameters lagged behind GPS, and also lagged behind the "Galileo" system that the European Union decided to launch in 2002, and more importantly, the "Beidou" No. 1 was only regional, and its commercial value was not high. Against this background, the Europeans took the initiative to "invite" China to join the GNSS, which the Chinese side gladly accepted, and the two sides hit it off.

Europe's inclusion of China has not only enabled the leaders of some European countries to earn enough political capital, but has also greatly alleviated the overstretched financial situation of the "Galileo" plan, and has also laid the foundation for "Galileo" to enter China's attractive market.

At the end of 2003, China and the EU initialed the cooperation agreement after China actually completed the Beidou-1 regional navigation system. In 2004, China and the EU formally signed a technical cooperation agreement, and China pledged to invest a huge amount of 230 million euros, and the first payment of 70 million euros was quickly transferred to the European account.

China's cooperation with the EU has both strategic and practical benefits. Some people have commented that the cooperation between China and the EU in high-end technology has essentially broken the US-led European arms embargo on China, which is equivalent to abolishing the EU-US Arms Trade Regulations (ITAR) for specific countries such as China, and has opened a door for the eventual lifting of the arms embargo on China from the legal level. Because satellite navigation is playing an increasingly important role in modern warfare, the United States has even threatened to destroy the "Galileo" satellite if it feels threatened. (To be continued......)