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Li Mo, who was buried behind his desk, suddenly raised his head and exhaled. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After giving himself two days off and returning to work, Li Mo learned the fact that it is not easy for high-ranking officials to do, especially for a high-ranking official who works hard.

Not to mention anything else, it's that everyone else will almost go home from work to accompany his wife, but he still has to read at night, alone in the office to deal with the backlog of documents in the past two days.

Don't look at a small Somalia, tens of thousands of troops, but the work is the same as those of those countries with millions of troops, there are key tasks, and there are miscellaneous work. Because of the last time he beat the impure Chief of Staff Hussein, there will only be some levels in the whole army, who doesn't know about this? Now, in order to ensure his status in the eyes of the superiors, he desperately tries his best to make some work problems and tricks and report them to the General Headquarters.

These reports are not for the commander-in-chief of the three armed services, everyone knows that President Yusuf is only hanging a commander-in-chief of the supreme armed forces, and in fact, the entire floor of the fifth floor of the Ministry of National Defense is under the jurisdiction of Li Mo, the deputy commander-in-chief?

Under the instructions of the General Headquarters, the three departments of the General Staff Department, the General Logistics Department, and the Ministry of National Defense focused their efforts on the reorganization of the troops during this period. The second disarmament operation in Somalia has arrived. According to the instructions of the higher authorities, the main targets of this disarmament are the infantry brigades. Age will be further used as a red line to screen out some soldiers who are not suitable for professionalism. This part of the officers and men who have been laid off and retired from military service will also be retrenched, and they will all enter the police departments in various localities to enrich the police force.

The top document in front of Li Mo, even if the disarmament plan report submitted by the three departments, will wait for Li Mo to review and submit it to the National Defense Commission for approval, and then it will be formally implemented.

In the disarmament plan, there are three steps, and the Somali mechanized infantry brigades and armoured brigades are not included in the scope of the reduction, which is the infantry brigade. In the first step, each infantry brigade will be reduced from 5,000 to 4,000 men, and the three-three system will be adopted, and 7,000 soldiers who do not meet the requirements can be eliminated at one time. This not only reduces military expenditures, but also meets the needs of the Somali state. A country with an area of less than one million square kilometers and a population of less than 13 million does not need 70,000 regular troops except for the reckless use of military force. Somalia's rival, Kenya, is a little smaller than Somalia, but its population is more than three times that of Somalia, with more than 40 million people, but its regular army has less than 30,000.

Speaking of which, Kenya's foundations are much stronger than Somalia's.

The reduction of 7,000 army officers and soldiers is only the first step, the second step is specifically aimed at mechanized units. The establishment and organizational structure of Somalia's mechanized infantry brigades are not in line with international practice. A mechanized infantry brigade has only 48 infantry fighting vehicles, called a regiment, and in fact there is only one battalion of someone else. In addition to the 1,000 men of the infantry regiment, the remaining 4,000 men were organized into two infantry regiments, and the main tools were military trucks and jeeps. Moreover, because of economic reasons, only the 1st and 3rd mechanized infantry regiments of the five mechanized infantry regiments were equipped with 300 vehicles of various types, and the other regiments basically only had about 100 vehicles.

Now Li Mo still has a sum of money in his hand, 700 million US dollars from the sale of silicon-uranium alloy to Huaxia, in addition to 100 million US dollars to support education and other expenses, there is still 500 million left. Part of this money will be used to purchase 'Defender' tanks, but this matter will have to wait for a while, and it will be the end of the year at the earliest, because the production capacity of the 2nd Armored Vehicle Plant is insufficient, and it can only produce for the three countries at present, and the Somali army will be equipped with tanks to the back.

The reorganization of the second step of the mechanized infantry brigade is mainly to increase the number of equipped vehicles. In addition to two infantry regiments with 48 Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicles, the plan is to have an armored regiment equipped with 48 'Defender' tanks. And in the original formation, a battalion with 24 107mm 24-barrel rocket launchers, an anti-aircraft missile battalion was added.

After the completion of the reorganization, one infantry brigade will have 96 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 tanks, 24 multiple rocket launchers, and 12 anti-aircraft missile vehicles. The comprehensive combat effectiveness is several times stronger than that of today's infantry brigades, and the enhanced assault capability, artillery suppression, and low-altitude air defense capability.

From some secret agreements reached between Li Mo and Huaxia. The 107mm MLRS will be produced in Somalia, with Huaxia providing technology and production equipment. The anti-aircraft missile is the Hongqi-7 surface-to-air missile system that is directly purchased from the Chinese army.

Because the plan for the second step of reorganization is too large, there is currently a lack of a large number of heavy weapons and equipment. It is therefore estimated that the integration time will take two years.

The third step of the reorganization plan is about the armored brigade, in which in addition to the 1st armored brigade will be completely replaced with 'defender tanks', a mechanized infantry regiment will be added. It consisted of two armored regiments and one infantry regiment. And to upgrade a mechanized infantry brigade to an armored brigade at any time as it is practically necessary.

The entire integration plan is expected to take three years. The plan, which involves only the army, is expected to reduce the number of officers and soldiers of the Somali Defence Force to 50,000 troops and 11 brigade-sized units. Among them, 1 armored brigade, 5 mechanized infantry brigades and 5 infantry brigades.

According to the estimates of the three departments, if the plan is fully completed, it will require $3 billion. In addition to the cost of purchasing arms from Huaxia, other expenses are also calculated from the Xingchen Group at cost price, in addition to the cost of troop training.

$2 billion is a small amount, and compared with the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the military of those big countries, this figure is not even comparable to a single arms purchase. But in Africa, how many countries can spend $2 billion on refitting their troops in three years? In Africa, there are many countries that spend less than $100 million a year on their military.

Li Mo took a sip of the coffee in his hand, although he likes to drink tea, but when it comes to staying up late to relieve fatigue, except for cigarettes, tea is still not as refreshing as coffee.

After signing his name at the end of the document, Li Mo found that his hand holding the pen was trembling a little. It's not a few hundred, it's a $3 billion plan. And most importantly, this plan is aimed only at the Army. In the overall plan in Li Mo's mind, the object of this reorganization plan is not the focus. Li Mo wants to build the strongest air force in Africa that can control the Gulf of Aden, a major transportation route. Compared with the Army, the Air Force is the real money-guzzler.

Of course, the most expensive thing is the navy, so Li Mo was self-aware and directly excluded the navy. Li Mo can't afford to play that thing, and he doesn't have the time to play it. A strong blue ocean navy is not just about how many advanced warships and submarines it is equipped with. The 100-year-old navy is not just a casual talk, and there is a reason why this sentence can be used as the motto of the navy by all countries.

Casually throwing aside this "Army Reorganization Plan", which had been thinking about for a long time and making up his mind, Li Mo looked at the last unprocessed document on the table.

This document is the chief instructor of the Air Force Assad? Sent by Colonel Ekenzis. In the report, Colonel Assad mentioned that the 30 pilots who returned from China were of excellent quality and were qualified to serve as the main pilots of the Somali Air Force.

In Somalia, I am afraid that only Assad vaguely understands that the boss Li Mo pays far more attention to the Air Force than the Navy and Army. Although the size of the Air Force is currently the smallest, as long as the boss is willing to invest, sooner or later the Somali Air Force will become a force to be reckoned with in the international community.

Therefore, Assad took the initiative to submit this report, first praising the group of pilots who had received training in China, and then asking his superiors to discuss with Huaxia again and send a second group of pilots to China for higher education training.

At present, the Somali Air Force has more than a hundred pilots. Less than 40 of them were highly educated, including the 30 pilots who had returned from China.

Perhaps because he heard about the army's reorganization plan, Assad also briefly mentioned in this report that he is working on a 'five-year development plan for the Air Force'.

Assad's few words had already made Li Mo wipe his nose.

"One is more ambitious than the other, am I the one who opened a bank?" Li Mo couldn't help but laugh and scolded.

It just so happened that the door of the office was opened, and Fan Qingqing, who had just gone to rest for a while, walked in with a cup of hot coffee. Hearing Li Mo talking to himself alone, Fan Qingqing couldn't help but feel curious.

"Xiao Mo, what makes you so angry?" Fan Qingqing came to Li Mo's side, leaned his head and asked.

"You see, this is the report of the chief instructor of the Air Force, Assad. These people are all when I am a big capitalist, a big plutocracy, a financial oligarch, an oil tycoon? Opening your mouth to ask for money is more ruthless than the other. If it goes on like this, I don't have to look at anything else, as long as I take people all over the world to rob, I'm afraid it won't be enough for these people to consume. ”

Fan Qingqing chuckled, picked up the document in front of Li Mo and looked at it, she could tell that Li Mo was not really angry.

"Ah...... $10 billion...... Or is it just a minimum estimate? Is this Assad crazy? Fan Qingqing couldn't help but open her ruddy little mouth and let out an exclamation. You must know that Somalia's GDP is expected to be less than $10 billion this year, and this guy is talking about $10 billion, which is only a preliminary estimate.

In the 'Five-Year Development Plan of the Air Force,' it is necessary to invest $10 billion in five years to train 1,000 regular pilots and 1,000 reserve pilots who have passed higher education aircraft training and tactical training. Train 30,000 Air Force logistics personnel and corresponding reserves. In five years, the Somali Air Force will have 100 main third-generation fighters in active service, with a bomber force and transport force of appropriate size.

These are just some of the general references in this report, and if Li Mo knows, Assad would have wanted to write that in five years there will be more than 500 aircraft of all types, and that he will have a long-range bomber force that will threaten the entire Middle East and the European continent.

From this report, it can be seen that Assad slashed Li Mo not too hard, and he left a breath under the knife. Moreover, Assad's initial budget is really correct, and if he wants to complete his so-called 'five-year development plan for the Air Force', I really don't know if 10 billion dollars is enough.

The last time Li Mo purchased 24 Su-27 fighters from Ukraine, plus the cost of modification, it was only more than 600 million US dollars. This is because the service life of these fighters is too long, and even if they are modernized, they will only increase their retirement life, and the gap between them and today's main fighters will be shortened a little. But there will be no such sellers in Ukraine in the future. Ukraine itself does not have that condition to continue to sell 'cheap' aircraft to Limo. And purchasing from Russia is not only easy and thoughtful, but the surname of the fighter is also suspicious. Moreover, the purchase of a hundred aircraft, even Russia, will take several years to produce.

(To be continued)