Chapter 46 Economic Crisis

The impact of the military operation in Kaivor was undoubtedly enormous.

This is the first time since the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution and the NATO military operation to intervene in the civil war in the North Soviet Union, and the coalition forces have suffered large-scale casualties.

Although this war was adopted by the Security Council and conforms to the relevant provisions of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, it is not a war of aggression, but a just war.

However, fifty-one people were killed in one day, which is still too huge.

How long and how many months will the war in the North Soviet Union last? Maybe for years, as in the case of the Iraq war.

Fifty-one people a day, a month, and a year, how many people will die.

It's like another one. Fight.

When the news was transmitted to the United States, it immediately caused an uproar, and many people and newspapers accused that the political axe should not interfere in other countries' civil wars, and should not make the people of the United States pay the price of their lives for the interests of other countries.

The lives of the soldiers of the United States are very valuable.

Some media have even pointed out that this is another mess left by President Jonathan to his successor before next year's election year.

According to the latest opinion polls, President Jonathan's domestic approval rating dropped from about 45 percent to more than 30 percent in an instant.

But even in the midst of such one-sided public opinion and accusations, the military operation continued.

After all, the war has already been launched, and it is still the Congress that passes the proposal and supports it.

……

"Smart homing missile?"

In Kaduli, Yang Tian, who was always following the war in White Nile State, also learned about the latest response methods of the coalition forces.

In the new round of military operations, the coalition forces obviously gave up cleaning the surrounding villages, and no longer dispersed their forces, and still focused on conquering towns.

In response to the Wolf attack vehicles of the rebels in White Nile State, the coalition forces used thermal homing missiles, unmanned fighters and other means on a large scale to avoid unnecessary casualties.

This kind of intelligent homing missile has only been equipped with the US military in recent years, and it is not large, and the length of the largest model is only 40 centimeters, which is equivalent to an RPG missile.

However, it is intelligent tracking, there are many models, not only infrared tracking types, but also high-speed camera tracking, thermal imaging tracking and other means.

The most important thing is that it is cheap, no more than tens of thousands of dollars per piece, and can be launched by individual soldiers, mainly used for close combat against vehicles, lightly armored infantry vehicles and other targets.

Although the flexible surname of the Thunder Wolf attack vehicle is very high, it is still a little insufficient in the face of intelligent tracking of small missiles.

In addition, with the firepower of such a small missile, it is enough to blow up the Wolf attack vehicle.

At the same time, the coalition forces also used a large number of attack helicopters, such as the dexterous Bird helicopter and the powerful Apache.

Finally, there are drones equipped with intelligent homing missiles, which can search for Wolf attack vehicles in a wide range of suburbs.

All these means are to avoid a large number of casualties caused by the dispersion of soldiers.

Of course, this method was effective, and in just a few days, more than 20 Wolf attack vehicles were destroyed by different means.

Although a way was found to restrain the Owl attack vehicles, the war did not make it easier.

The attack on the coalition forces was thwarted, and the White Nile rebels quickly changed tactics and dismantled the automatic grenade launchers for the defense of the town.

On March 8, International Women's Day, during the assault on the southern town of Kusti, the automatic grenade launcher caused great problems for the coalition forces, although the early missile bombardment caused a large number of casualties among the rebels.

Of course, this automatic grenade launcher designed by Yang Tian can also be connected to a support frame and used as a machine gun.

In the ground street fighting, the coalition's strategy of using tanks and armored vehicles to clear the way seemed to be correct, but the rebels with armor-piercing shells still achieved good results.

Despite the fatal flaw of the armor-piercing projectile with an acceleration distance of 500 meters, the rebels can always find a suitable position to attack the coalition tanks from a distance.

Moreover, the suppression of grenade fire at close range also caused a lot of trouble for the coalition forces.

The battle against Kusti lasted a day and a night before the rebels were driven out of the town.

While hundreds of rebels were killed, the coalition forces also paid for more than 20 casualties, more than 60 casualties, as well as the destruction of five tanks and the loss of more than a dozen light armored vehicles.

Zhou Kai, who was sitting opposite Yang Tian and was dealing with the documents, had just put down the newspaper and said with a teasing smile: "How about it, your wolf attack car is useless." ”

Now for Yang Tian and Zhou Kai, daily life is very simple.

As the current leader of the internal affairs department of Kaduli, Zhou Kai has to deal with a large number of documents and hold various meetings every day to coordinate the local economic development.

Yang Tian, on the other hand, lived in a simple house, and the affairs of the army were still handed over to Said and Saleh, and Pellokov and others were assisted to conduct basic military skills training for the First Army and the Second Army.

Every day, they either test and test new weapons at the ABC production base and do some research, or they hide in the municipal axe building, watch Zhou Kai process documents, and pay attention to news reports and intelligence sent from various channels.

Now the outside world has made the equivalent of accusing Yang Tian of not selling weapons to the rebels, causing huge casualties among the coalition forces.

Yang Tian considered whether to hold a press conference to respond to this accusation, but for safety reasons, he still did not hold it, and only asked Li Dongcheng to make a statement on behalf of ABC, indicating that ABC is a commercial company, weapons are commodities, and there is no reason not to sell them because the other party is a bad person.

However, Li Dongcheng's influence is still a little smaller, and now many pacifists are still all kinds of terrorist tycoons, and the hats are buttoned directly on Yang Tian's head.

Yang Tian pursed his lips, put down the newspaper, and retorted: "You don't want to think about how much a wolf attack vehicle is, how much is a tank, and helicopters and drones. ”

Of course, Zhou Kai also understands this truth, the cost of a Wolf attack vehicle equipped with an automatic grenade launcher is only 12,000 US dollars, but what about an M1A1 main battle tank and a helicopter, it can cost millions or tens of millions of US dollars at every turn, not to mention, the lives of US soldiers are more valuable.

Even if you destroy one tank with ten Wolf attack vehicles, in terms of cost, it is worth it.

Modern warfare is fought against the consumption of weapons and on the economy.

Just looking at the Afghan soldiers, it can be seen how much the United States has paid for the use of broken AKs and home-made mines.

In the short term, the United States has indeed used various high-tech weapons to contain the rebels in White Nile State, but the war will not be fought for a day or two, but for several months, or even longer.

Throughout White Nile State, millions of Warrabs are enemies of the coalition, and Yang Tian can even sell automatic grenade launchers and Wolf attack vehicles to the rebels like AKs.

With an automatic grenade launcher in hand, and Wolf attack vehicles everywhere, the coalition forces caught in the sea of the people's war will definitely pay a heavy price.

And the best thing is that Yang Tian was only responsible for peddling arms, or in the name of ABC Group, a commercial company, and did not directly participate in the war.

Just like the United States at the beginning of World War II, he believed in reading doctrine and peddled arms all over the world, who would wage war against him because the United States sold the German [***] fire.

Yang Tian can make a statement at any time, saying that whether it is the rebel army or the political axe army of the North Soviet Union, as long as you want, I can sell arms to you.

Of course, whether Yang Tian will sell it is another matter.

From now on, it seems that the coalition forces cannot directly attack Yang Tian just because Yang Tian sold the rebel arms.

The statement of the military control zone is still meaningful, the existence of a nuclear bomb, and the appearance of the Black Mamba missile, do not dare to let the coalition forces easily attack Yang Tian.

"So what's next? Continue to sell the Owl Attack Car, the White Nile rebels are poor jingle bells, and we can't even recover the cost. Zhou Kai asked with a headache.

Whether it is the anti-aircraft artillery and radar sold to the Red Sea State, or the Black Mamba missiles in North Kordofan, plus the current Wolf attack vehicle, they are all sold at a discount, not to mention the profit, and they can't even get back.

As for Kaduli, the economy is only just improving, and there is not much benefit for the time being, and the most likely income is still the local oil field, but there are others, and the construction progress of Total is not fast, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to reap the benefits until the middle of 15 years at the latest.

However, the construction of several production bases, hospitals, communications, and other living infrastructure has cost a huge investment.

In addition to the military expenditure of the First Army and the Second Army, the huge military and police system pointed out that the spending of money is not like flowing water, but like a flood.

"Short of money?" Yang Tian's brows furrowed, money is a big problem at all times.

Zhou Kai nodded: "You are used to being a big shopkeeper, you don't care about anything, do you know, now there are less than 300 million dollars left in your Swiss bank." ”

This was the first time Yang Tian had heard this number, and he was suddenly startled.

One billion dollars, more than 700 million was spent in less than a year, what loser is more powerful than this?

"And that's not all." Zhou Kai snorted lightly and said, "Don't forget, we still owe Huaguo aid, and although we have repaid some now, there is still a gap of 17 billion." ”

"Seventy-seven billion!" Yang Tian rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Shaking his head, Yang Tian still waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't bite if you have more lice, don't worry if you have more accounts, pay it back slowly." ”

Regarding Yang Tian's irresponsible attitude, Zhou Kai expressed deep contempt and said: "In my opinion, we can consider selling the Black Mamba missile and the Experimental Type 1 radar to Huaguo, you should know that Huaguo has been contacting us and wants to introduce these things." ”

The export price of a black mamba missile is at least $600,000, and exporting hundreds or even thousands of missiles can also severely alleviate the financial pressure.

The second is the Experimental Type 1 radar.

The cost of the radar itself is not high, about a million dollars, and when it was sold to three in the Red Sea Prefecture, plus a bunch of anti-aircraft shells, a total of two million dollars was sold, which is simply a big loss.

In essence, the export price of the Experimental 1 radar considered by Yang Tian was ten times or even more than the cost price.

Think about it, a set of Aegis system has an export price of three or four billion US dollars, and the monitoring effect of the experimental 1 radar is definitely stronger than that of the Aegis system.

But the problem is that the cost of the radar itself is not high, and the high value is the technology applied in it, but the technology was stolen by Yang Tian from the alien museum, and not a penny was spent, of course, it can be ignored.

And Aegis is a complete system, not just a single radar, the cost will be so high.

Coupled with the defects of the radar monitoring range, Yang Tian estimated that a single radar can be sold at an export price of tens of millions of US dollars.

Although there is no one in the world who has this thing, and it is okay for Yang Tian to open his mouth, you always have to consider that the price is too high, and whether people are willing to buy it.

Just imagine, Yang Tian opened his mouth to ask for 100 million US dollars per warship, how much will the cost of building a warship increase, and whether it will be loaded, I'm afraid you have to think about it.

Huaguo has not received Yang Tian's offer, if it knows that the radar is 10 million US dollars, and the monitoring range is only 200 kilometers, I am afraid it will have to be weighed carefully.

"Forget it, the Chinese side is just trying, not really trying to buy it, let's wait for the end of the civil war in the North and the Soviet Union, and our weapons will be tested in actual combat. And who said that we just have such a little background, there are many things that my brother didn't take out, which is enough for Brother Mi to drink a pot. Yang Tian shook his head, still denying the plan to sell things to Huaguo for the time being. (To be continued.) )