"The terrain in the south is muddy, swampy, and densely covered with water networks, but there are not many countries bordering each other, and the main direction of defense should come from the sea, so a medium tank like the Longwei can be upgraded to meet the needs of national defense. And in the north, in the face of the enemy's huge armored group, the terrain is flat, the ground strength is higher than in the south, and only with heavy tanks can it meet the needs of national defense. What's more, heavy tanks can't be equipped with too many of them, a few hundred of them are enough for sharp knife troops. Liu Yijiu continued to promote the scheme of high and low matching various weapons to the two.

The bigwigs of the republic are all experienced, however, because they have experienced too many wars, they do not see the future very clearly.

To put it bluntly, it is conservative.

Just as the national army is desperately trying to develop artillery units, as well as strategic forces.

It has a lot to do with the country's defense policy. They forget that the best defense is offense.

Only with a strong offensive capability can we ensure security in the field of national defense. It is not that if we have offensive capabilities, we will invade other countries, but if we don't even have offensive capabilities, and we just blindly build up defensive forces, there will be no obstacles to the invasion of enemy countries.

In the later stage, the United States bullied China, which is to seize this point.

Anyway, even if a war breaks out, it will be in China's homeland, and China cannot pose a threat to the US homeland.

Fighter planes can't fly, and the sixth master, who has carried the flag for half a century, can't drop bombs on the mainland of the United States.

The only thing that can deter the United States is some strategic missiles.

In terms of the number of these things, the United States has a lot of economic power. More than China, once it falls to the back, it will be the same time. China will be hurt even more. After all, on the later conflicts. No one will be mad enough to use a nuclear bomb until the last minute.

Regarding what Li Yunlong and Long Yaohua said about their attitude towards leaking state military secrets at this exit, Liu Yijiu was not worried.

"Alright, don't sell your plans anymore. It is impossible to change the basic national policy. We can only prepare for war, but we can do it by seeing. Slowly move the troops in that direction. Speaking of the navy, what do you think? Do you want to allocate one or two more scientific research institutes and production units to you? Long Yaohua didn't want to hear Liu Yijiu say the most.

Instead, the topic shifted to naval construction.

"Chief, spare me! That thing in the navy is too expensive, and we can't afford to play in the Ninth Academy. And. Warships are more difficult to build than airplanes, and we don't even have much experience in airplanes, so if we go to build a navy, isn't this forcing the Ninth Academy to death......" Liu Yijiu shook his head resolutely.

"Pakistan is currently in talks with the United States to purchase their mothballed Iowa-class battleships......," Li Yunlong said suddenly.

"Hopeful?" Liu Yijiu's eyes lit up immediately.

"Negotiations are going well, but given the current international situation, the Americans have put the Iowa and the USS New Jersey back into service. The remaining two have no clear purpose, and it is basically impossible to buy both of them, but to buy one. If the price is right, the problem is not very big......" Li Yunlong said lightly to Liu Yijiu.

"Missouri and the Wisconsinstar? Maybe Wisconsin is a little more likely. And the price they will open their mouths, and the money from the sale of one will be used to modernize the other. Most likely, the main turret will also be dismantled! If it is on our side that Pakistan does it, we can buy two of the last. Even if you can't, tell them. Don't have a main gun! Liu Yijiu licked his lips and said.

The Iowa-class is the ideal thing to retrofit a heavy missile cruiser.

Once it is back, the main gun on it is useless at all. Iowa-class battleship. There are only four ships in the United States, two of which will be on active duty this year, and two more will be returned to service in '84 and '86.

In modern warfare, a battleship is just a huge moving target, and although the huge main gun has a long range, it cannot threaten the missile cruiser and carrier-based fighters that launch missiles from a distance of 100 kilometers or even 1,000 kilometers.

The Iowa-class battleship has a total of three triple main turrets, each with a rotating part weighing 1,730 tons, and two are arranged in a backpack direction in the bow direction and one in the stern direction. Each turret is operated by 77 officers and men, and the entire structure of the turret can be divided into six layers, namely the turret fighting room, the rotating disk, the power room, the upper ammunition supply room, the lower ammunition supply room, and the medicine pack room.

Once the main turret was removed, a lot of space was freed up.

On top of these airbornes, vertically launched ballistic missiles and even intercontinental missiles are installed. This was Liu Yijiu's initial idea.

As for the secondary artillery, that thing is also dispensable, and if Pakistan does not even want the secondary artillery, the Americans will obviously be suspicious. Without artillery, why should they fight India with only their shells? Even the Americans will kindly persuade the Pakistanis to leave at least one main battery.

What Liu Yijiu wants is just the shell of Iowa.

The USSR was able to counter the US aircraft carrier fleet with four Kirov-class missile cruisers and the huge Ticonderoga missile ship group, and China had two that would be enough. One in the South China Sea and one in the East China Sea.

"Two ships are not possible. We can't afford to raise it, and at the beginning, Pakistan could only stop in Pakistani waters without a complete turn of face with the US military. Long Yaohua dispelled Liu Yijiu's fantasies.

The construction capacity of the Chinese Navy is too poor, even worse than that of the Air Force.

The Centennial Navy, not a joke.

The Chinese have never had experience in building large warships, and warships are not comparable to transport ships. Even if the Chinese can build hundreds of thousands of tons of transport ships, they will not necessarily be able to build tens of thousands of tons of battleships.

The huge recoil generated when a cannon with a caliber of several hundred millimeters is fired will have a fatal effect on a ship with unreasonable structural strength.

This is also why the American battleships were able to have combat capability after half a century. Even a hundred years later, it has been modernized.

"Then get one first, our navy needs to learn. Experience required! ”

"The military has no money, and the Americans are asking for a bit of a high price," Long Yaohua said with a frown......

"How much?" Liu Yijiu also frowned.

If the price is too high. It's better to throw this money at the Department of Naval Armament, even if it can't reach that level. It will also allow the navy to have a strong construction capacity.

Li Yunlong smiled bitterly, "Their offer was 400 million US dollars, and when they first built it, it only cost more than 100 million points. We only need a shell, and the cost is done. If it is converted into a missile cruiser, equipped with hundreds of missiles, plus the renovation project, there is not much possibility without three or four billion dollars. ”

Liu Yijiu was dumbfounded.

Americans' hearts are really TM black!

They don't have that much money in their hands right now.

Even if there were, you can't throw all the money on the navy. The big plane is about to stop completely. They have to prepare funds to engage in Yun Shi, and they have to increase investment to make Yun Shi an eagle in the sky of the land of China.

"No more than $100 million at most, and if it's more, there's no need for it." Liu Yijiu shook his head and sighed helplessly.

He is not familiar with the navy at all, and the republic is poor in this regard, so he can't spend money on it.

Army equipment, Air Force equipment. This must be prioritized. Especially for the equipment of the Air Force, with the Yun-10, it is possible to develop a new type of war bombardment on the basis of the Yun-10, so that the Sixth Master will no longer continue to carry the banner.

"Otherwise. Let's not buy it, you will divide the funds of 100 million dollars to the Department of Naval Armament? Special funds, let's use this 100 million funds to conduct technical research? Long Yaohua sinisterly suggested that Liu Yijiu throw the money on the navy.

"Chief. Don't help the Admiralty with our funding ideas. All this money is useful. The Navy even has a hundred million dollars. And how? The foundation is too poor, and I can't study anything famous at all. Rather than that. It might as well be used to develop a fighter with a longer range and greater combat effectiveness. When the time comes, find a larger road in the South China Sea and build a military base, at least there will be no problem with defense. ”

Liu Yijiu casually proposed the idea of building an air base in the South China Sea, staring closely at the two bigwigs.

The attitude of these two bigwigs, to a large extent, represents the attitude of the military.

"You want to build a military base in the South China Sea? Is this possible? That side is not the mainland, and without the protection of a strong navy, it can only become a target! Li Yunlong was immediately dissatisfied.

On the South China Sea side, the Republic has not had much ability to intervene.

His own territorial waters are constantly occupied by other countries, and there is no way to do anything but protest.

It is also because relations with the United States have improved, and many countries that have followed the United States have gradually weakened their occupation of China's islands.

"The war between us and the Vietnamese is not over until now, will Vietnam give up its occupation of our islands?" Liu Yijiu said speechlessly.

"The problem is that our fighters do not have a high enough range and insufficient deterrence!"

"What about building a missile base? The air base and the missile base are all in one! There are not many islands in the South China Sea that can be built. It's too small......"

The Republic waited until the beginning of the 21st century to begin building a base on Woody Island in the South China Sea, and did not station fighter groups and rarely deployed missiles on them. It's because of the protests in the United States and internationally.

The South China Sea is China's inland sea!

That side was originally China's territorial waters, and it has been since history. This is internationally recognized.

The Americans are arrogant over there because the strength of the Chinese navy is too poor and the planes of the air force cannot fly that far. Aircraft carriers and warships can run and roll in the small ponds of the South China Sea at any time, which is an insult to the entire Chinese!

"You also said that the area over there is too small, and some are not suitable for building a base......

"Reclamation! If the military agrees to build, we will pay for it! "It seems that it is not easy to buy the shells of battleships from the Americans, then, it will be necessary to build bases on the South China Sea.

An aircraft carrier that can't move!

At the very least, it can safeguard China's interests in the South China Sea.

"Now, our relationship with Vietnam is known to the whole world. The Vietnamese, with the support of the Soviet Union, are expanding their hegemony throughout Southeast Asia, and the Americans will not stop us from building bases on our own territory, whether civilian or ......military," Liu Yijiu continued to agitate the two bigwigs.

As soon as this idea comes up, it makes people crazy.

The Paracel Islands are coral reef islands, and it is not too difficult to create land from the sky and the sea there.

The Soviet Union still has less than ten years to live, and within ten years, Liu Yijiu believes that the Ninth Academy will come up with a lot of big killing weapons. At least, there are no problems with an advanced fighter. How the Navy, he did not dare to guarantee.

At that time, it was not so easy for Americans to bathe in a small pond in the South China Sea.

"I'll have to go back and discuss this......

"Comrade Xiao Liu, can you tell us why you are so interested in the affairs of the South China Sea?" Long Yaohua did not go back to discuss it as Li Yunlong said, but asked Liu Yijiu why he was interested in the South China Sea.

Liu Yijiu can't tell them that he is preparing to expand China's sphere of influence and to extract oil in the South China Sea in the coming decades without being disturbed, right?

This kind of thing is incomprehensible to the bigwigs in front of them.

They have always been cautious, fearing that they would arouse international opposition and disrupt China's economic construction plans.

"We have a territory of 9.6 million square kilometers, which we have in our primary school textbooks. However, who in the republic realizes that our territorial waters are also very vast? According to international law, a country's territorial waters, with a land baseline extending by 12 nautical miles, belong to the territorial waters, and the other 200 nautical miles are the exclusive economic circle of a country. This can also be seen as territorial waters! Even if it's just a pinpoint-sized island that sprouts out of its head, the surrounding 12 nautical miles belong to the territorial waters, and there is an exclusive economic circle within a radius of 200 nautical miles......" Liu Yijiu said through gritted teeth.

In addition, the big guy was stunned for a moment.

In China, it seems that not many people are aware of this problem?

"And the South China Sea has been our territorial waters since ancient times, and during the puppet government, the sea area was defined internationally. The relationship between us and Taiwan is an internal contradiction between the people, and Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and other countries around the South China Sea are constantly encroaching on our islands. We are being invaded! Liu Yijiu simply said.

"Only by building a strong military base in the South China Sea and extending our fighter combat capability to the south can we effectively protect our national interests! This is a matter that belongs to the field of defense! I've been thinking about this since I was in school, when I first saw a map of the South China Sea, and from the first time I ate seafood. Without aircraft carriers, we can only build bases ......"

The two bigwigs fell silent.

After a long time, Long Yaohua said something to Liu Yijiu that Liu Yijiu couldn't think of: "The military will give you an explanation as soon as possible." However, in terms of construction, only you, the Ninth Academy, can come forward. Anyway, you're building a research base over there, and as long as you don't run to the gates of other countries, you don't have a problem with which island you want to build......" (To be continued......

PS: Why didn't Mao see the monthly pass? Although we don't compete for the monthly ticket list, at least, there are more monthly passes, it looks more comfortable, and the gourd can be more motivated!