Chapter 014: The Arms Race Begins
Wang Wenbin and a few people looked at the row of self-propelled guns above and asked Zhang Yifan, "Are you going to load these things?" Listening to Wang Wenbin's words, the eyes of several people next to him suddenly fell on Zhang Yifan's body, not only on the saber-toothed tiger's side, but also on the ship, all of which were missiles, and the only bullets used were rifles. Could it be that the saber-toothed tiger wants to organize armored troops? This is intriguing news.
Zhang Yifan didn't hide anything here, smiled and waved his hand and said, "We don't use these, but some of our friends use these things." This thing can be known just by thinking about it, and Zhang Yifan is also preparing to let some people in China come over to train these guerrillas. After the past few years, if you understand the guerrillas supported by Zou Heming as a ragtag army, you are mistaken, and now these guerrillas are on a par with the Indian army in terms of light weapons, and they are portable anti-tank missiles, which makes the Indian armored forces even more frightened. It's enough for these things to fight ambushes or something, but if you want to fight head-on, you'll need some heavy equipment.
As soon as he heard Zhang Yifan say that his friend used it, Wang Wenbin understood after thinking about it, it was those guerrillas! Liu Fangting next to him asked: "How many of these things are you going to want!" ”。
Zhang Yifan listened and said: "Then it depends on your price, all including tanks, artillery and self-propelled guns, I estimate that it is between two billion and three billion!" ”。
Looking at the things listed on the list, Wang Wenbin said: "That's not a big problem, but it's only limited to our export products, and we don't sell them for our own use."
Zhang Yifan listened and nodded. Anyway, they are not used by themselves, and the quality of the army weapons exported domestically is still very good.
The atmosphere of the discussion between the two parties was good. But the atmosphere in the U.S. was not very friendly. The early ventilation meeting will be held in the Pentagon.
"Gentlemen, your stuff is far beyond the defense budget, and I think it will be difficult for Congress to pass this ship-building plan!" The politician with glasses said to the generals, and after speaking, he swept around: "I think it is possible to cut these projects in half and still pass!" ”。
"How is this possible! Excuse me Mr. Larry! Have you ever faced the ships of the Star Fleet? You know how it feels to have their fleet running at fifty knots on the sea, and we don't have a single ship that can keep up with anyone else! An admiral immediately stood up from his chair and said loudly to the politicians in suits: "Do you know that the accuracy and range of their missiles exceed the missiles on our warships, that is, the DD100 of the export version of the air-to-air combat missile is a great threat to us, look at how many countries in South America are not equipped with these missiles." Is it so difficult that as soon as our air force goes out, it can only be sent to death! The general said loudly. In fact, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that it is sent to death. There is still a gap between the early warning aircraft sold by Jinhu and the arrival of the AWACS aircraft, and at that time, it was really dangerous for the Americans to rely on the Air Force to carry the current missiles.
A politician next to Mr. Larry, whom the general called, said: "It would save a lot of money by building a new number of new ships and upgrading some of the existing ones."
Another general stood up when he heard this: "It is still difficult to exceed the speed of forty knots in how to change all the warships now, and half of the new ships are far from enough for us!" The Navy now wants big ships. And it's a nuclear-powered ship. Now the tonnage of surface ships is too small. Not enough for a sudden war! Now our mission is no longer an offshore battle, but a decisive battle in the ocean! The opponent we are facing has quite a strong surface force, and now this force is almost equal to us! ”。
"Have you seen the report we sent to Congress? Our F35 has no advantage over the Gray Fox except for the high price, but we only have a war from time to time, and our air force is facing their own sabers! Although there are constant reports of such fighter crashes, the saber-toothed tiger did not say anything about changing into a gray fox, and we can't rely on our own guess to say that the saber is not as good as the export-type gray fox! And now we have only more than a hundred F22s, and how many Sabres are there now" The Air Force general in a neat military uniform gestured with his fingers: "More than three hundred and twenty, from the satellite photos, it seems that all the airports are lined up with fighters, if there is an air battle, our F22 can have a little technical advantage, but there is no advantage in numbers!" ”。
A few officers jumped out, it's not that these soldiers are tossing around, it's really when facing the Star Sea Fleet and the Saber-toothed Tiger, the Americans don't have an advantage in science and technology, in the past, whether it is technology or quantity, the Americans think they have the advantage, but now the military feels that this technological advantage is not there, and there is no advantage in this fatal number, how can this take air supremacy! Without air supremacy, what is there to talk about winning the war!
Next, the two sides decided whether to cut the submitted supplementary military spending bill by half or by one-fifth. The argument goes on and on.
A general in his fifties suddenly got up from his seat, took off the white military cap on his head, threw it on the table in front of him at once, and then ripped off his military uniform on his upper body, and the golden buttons were stretched open, revealing the shirt inside: "Fake! I'm gone! I don't want to watch my own lads go for nothing because of the mistakes of you politicians to send their lives to the barrels of their opponents! ”。
"I'm not doing it anymore!"
"Fack! Let you politicians die! Bastard! Another general also threw his military cap on the table and ripped off his collar.
Suddenly five or six generals stood out of their chairs. Seeing these generals get up and walk directly towards the door, several politicians hurriedly stood up, and at this time, the personnel of the White House hurriedly said to these generals: "Gentlemen! The final result is not yet out, what are you doing here! ”。
"We don't want to sign our names because you signed the defeat book, we are soldiers of the United States of America, and our mission is to defend the interests of the country! We want a rifle to fight an opponent who already has a rifle, and you want to tell us that all we need is Changyu! And our answer is: no! One of the generals pushed open the door to the conference room, and when he heard this, all the generals got up from their seats and walked towards the door. All that remained were these politicians looking at the backs of these generals and smiling bitterly. Fortunately, this happened in the Pentagon, and if it came to Congress, all the generals would come like this, it would be really fun to watch!
The door of the conference room suddenly opened, and the officers who were in the corridor looked at the iron-faced generals in front of them in surprise, the military caps on their heads were gone, revealing gray hair on their heads, and the originally neat and straight military uniforms on their bodies had also broken off their buttons. Hurriedly flashed to the side, letting these menacing generals pass. There are many speculations in my heart: what is wrong with this! It's not like this if the talk collapses!
In fact, when formulating this plan, the military had already prepared Congress to cut it, but this time the Congress cut it too hard, directly cutting two-thirds of the number of warships and fighters, and maintaining the most of the research and development projects at the next level, this is not the bottom line of the military, the military's bottom line is to maintain these research and development projects while ensuring at least two-thirds of the number of ships and the manufacture of fighters. How can you play with the Star Ocean Fleet without these things! Drive out and eat the waves after following someone else's ass?
Don't look at the United States F22 is said to be the most advanced technology, even when it was manufactured at that time, it was not the most cutting-edge technology developed by the United States, why the Americans have maintained the top level of the world's new technology before, it can be said that the entire world's fighter military is following the big strides of the Americans, because of his strong research and development capabilities. Not only at home, but also in the past, when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, the Soviet Union also played cards against the Americans, and was finally played to death by the Americans. Because he occupies the commanding heights of the world's science and technology, there is a reason why he can always lead the world. The most cutting-edge and cutting-edge technology has not been taken out, and the things that have been taken out are the first in the world, so do I need to take out the things at the bottom of the box? And the United States every ten years or so there will be a big progress in technology, the American approach is to concentrate on the level to create a comprehensive project, just like raising a hen that lays golden eggs, and the US government does not care if it succeeds and completes, let it lay eggs to engage in the next one, then the advanced technology used in this project slowly expands from the military, and when these technologies expand to make enough money, then the next generation of golden egg hens in the United States comes out again, so that the cycle is of course a continuous source of money.
In the past, there was no trouble, and no country was qualified to disrupt this step of the United States, and they all followed the stick of the United States, so the Americans did it a little carelessly, and it took a little longer. But now that Jin Hu has come out, then the technology of the United States to press the bottom of the box will be taken out! Improve the warships of the US military, and these things are not very easy to sell, all of them are the core technology of the United States, and they must be kept secret from their allies. In this way, everyone will know what your forefront is! Other countries can get up and catch up after a short period of time.
The generals' failure to do so was only a threat to express the military's anger, and the politicians finally relented and accepted the military's bottom line. As a result, Congress has had to spend nearly $100 billion in additional military spending to build new military industries and to conduct research and development of next-generation military technologies. All of a sudden, the American shipyard was lively, and the steel company followed suit, and one after another battleships were put on the slipway! All the important shipyards were started. The Pentagon spokesman ambitiously declared that after the commissioning of these warships, the gap between the US fleet and the rest of the world's fleets will gradually widen.
And after receiving this news, the Star Sea Fleet announced its new warship plan a week later, several dreadnoughts continued to enter service, and there was news of aircraft carriers. In addition, the so-called jointly developed stealth bomber Tianhuo with the domestic will also be delivered to both sides as soon as possible.
At this moment, most of the headlines in the world media were: A new arms race has begun. (To be continued......)