In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

With the silence of the Mi army, China's oil drilling platforms in the South China Sea are operating, no longer see Vietnamese people coming to intercept them, China's fishermen go deep into the southernmost part of the South China Sea, and there is no Philippine money to expel them, and in the waters of the Diaoyu Islands, although the planes of the island countries often appear, but the number of patrols has decreased a lot, even if they see our planes during the flight, they also maintain restraint, and do not intercept and expel these actions that want to entangle, just as if they did not see it.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the island countries have formally proposed negotiations on the issue of natural gas in the East China Sea to Japan.

When he received the news, Xu Ziling only felt a kind of relief in his heart.

The people of the United States have made a move behind the scenes! Let their dogs back down!

With such a result, he really wanted to look up to the sky and smile, but in addition to being happy, he was also vigilant in his heart, the people of the United States are not the kind of people who are easily discouraged, and they are relaxed here, maybe they will think of some crooked tricks from other places.

It's a pity that this kind of thing is not something that can be known by staring at one or two people, the lion has the greatest ability, and there are certain restrictions, otherwise he will let the lion go out and monitor the people of the country, in that case, you can know what the people of the country have planned.

"You think I'm omnipotent, ordinary trivial things, carriers can't limit my calculations, but I now have to monitor millions of people in the entire Star City, and I also have to help the laboratory to conduct simulation operations, remote monitoring of Makura, and some other small things, if you want me to monitor the government of the United States, it will take 24 hours to monitor, how much computing speed does it take? I can support it, but you don't have such a carrier for me. This is what the lion said to Xu Ziling at that time.

After saying something, Xu Ziling's mind of monitoring the people of the United States was disappointed, and in the end, he could only let the lion monitor the heads of several intelligence departments of the people, in the hope of discovering something.

With the current level of science and technology, it is difficult not to say that it is difficult not to say that they are already in the leading position, and there is no need to think about how many years they will surpass the United States, and the most important thing now is to start improving other armaments.

After the delivery of the aircraft carrier program, he officially began to build large aircraft, and even the B-2, a big killing weapon, was put aside and did not care about it.

In his opinion, it was time to get a large transport plane.

The reason why he was so urgent was a phone call Tang Jiannian gave him the day before.

"It was decided to set up a naval base in Sansha City." When Tang Jiannian got the news, he didn't know what was going on, so he immediately thought of Xu Ziling.

"Guam, the building of our nation?" Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought of the Mi Army's Guam military base in the South Pacific.

Compared with these two countries, our country has obvious drawbacks in the South China Sea, that is, the distance is too far, how many ships are there in the South China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Maritime Surveillance?

Faced with two million square kilometers of South China Sea, what can these ships do?

It is precisely because of this that the Philippines and Vietnam know that even if they do something in the South China Sea, our country's law enforcement ships will not react so quickly and will be so unscrupulous.

At the time of the establishment of Sansha City, the Jiangnan Military Region only set up a garrison unit on the island, and the garrison unit has always only been responsible for the city's garrison tasks, and in the special city of Sansha, such a force is obviously not enough; once a naval base is established, Sansha will become the southernmost supply base of our navy, and ships carrying out tasks in the South China Sea will no longer need to return to the fleet port when they need to be restocked.

Sansha is nearly 600 kilometers away from the port of the South China Sea Fleet, and a round trip is more than 1,000 kilometers, and at a speed of 25 knots, this distance can save almost a day and a night.

In times of war, every minute and every second is extremely important, and if one day in the future the South China Sea will be recovered by force, how useful will it be to establish such a base?

Undoubtedly, the importance of this base is enormous.

"Yes, the whole project is planned to be two years, and in addition to upgrading the existing terminal, a new large terminal will be built." Tang Jiannian was smiling when he spoke, and he could imagine that he must have felt unusually comfortable at this time.

You must know that once this base is established, it will be under the jurisdiction of his South China Sea Fleet, and the benefits to their South China Sea Fleet will be too great.

"Oh? Large marinas? How big is it? Xu Ziling was on the phone, raising his eyebrows.

"Hehe...... Tang Jiannian smiled proudly, "250,000-ton wharf." ”

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Xu Ziling immediately understood, this time the above wanted to build Sansha into a comprehensive naval base, which could not only provide supplies for destroyers and frigates, but also dock aircraft carriers!

"Aircraft carrier supply base, submarine supply base, aircraft supply base?" Thinking of these, Xu Ziling was a little excited, especially the fighter, when Sansha was established, the runway had been built, which was fully able to support the landing of medium-sized passenger aircraft, which for fighters, in addition to large transport aircraft, heavy fighters like "Flying Eagle" can be fully supported.

Once a supply base is set up here, it will increase the combat radius of 600 kilometers for the fighters, and once there is a war in the South China Sea, the fighters of the South China Sea Fleet can completely fly over from the mainland and use Sansha as a transit station; in a sense, this is no different from an aircraft carrier.

"An aircraft carrier that doesn't move!"

Strategically significant!

After chatting for a while, Xu Ziling learned from Tang Jiannian that the construction of this base would start in May, and he realized that the idea of establishing a naval base in Sansha was not a matter of three or two days, and that in order to build such a comprehensive military base on such a reef island, it was necessary to take into account many problems such as climate and geology, and that without a year or two of preparation and preliminary exploration work, it would absolutely not be possible to start construction.

Since the above has decided to start construction next month, it must have done all this preliminary work.

Considering that Sansha is 300 kilometers away from the South Island and 600 kilometers away from the South China Sea Fleet, once the war starts, the transportation of materials will become a very real problem.

Small transport aircraft, the throughput is too small, obviously there are too many restrictions on the transportation of materials, the supply ship can transport a lot of things at a time, but this thing is too slow, it can still be used in ordinary times, modern warfare, once it starts, the fight is time and backup, you can't always run out of fuel on the fighter, there are no shells on the warship, and you have to stop there waiting for the arrival of the supply ship.

If that's the case, the war is over, and the supply ships haven't come yet, such a war is still a fart.

As a result, Xu Ziling felt that it was time for a large transport aircraft to come out.

For example, Xu Ziling saw the C-17 at the Dubai Air Show, we want to buy it, and the United States does not sell it, and other countries in the world have only a few capable of producing large cargo aircraft, which has caused the fact that China has been dependent on the Russians in this regard.

Of course, this time he made up his mind to make a big plane, not for this single reason, but because of a recent incident that forced him to speed up the start of the large aircraft project:

The existing domestic tanker and transport aircraft, in addition to the Il-76 and other models purchased from Russia, are only self-produced heavy aircraft, whether from the posture of a great power, or strategic needs, the military and civilian cargo airlift, in urgent need of large aircraft to support.

It is precisely for this reason that China intends to spend huge sums of money to buy transport planes and tanker aircraft such as the Il-76 from Russia, but what I did not expect is that Russia feels that we can only find such a seller as them in the world, and the quotation has increased by 30%.

This kind of thing, for some people, is quite faceless, so it is not reported in the domestic media, but it is obviously impossible to hide it from Xu Ziling, because even if he doesn't pay attention to these, someone still informs him.

Before participating in the Dubai Airshow last year, I thought about the big plane from a private jet, and at that time I was thinking too much about making money, and I said it in front of Zheng Wenzhong, the big aircraft project is closely related to Shen Fei, and as soon as he received the news that Russia raised the price, which led to the cancellation of the purchase order, he contacted Xu Ziling at the first time.

While telling Xu Ziling about this matter, he also asked Xu Ziling about the plan for the big plane from the side.

It's just that Xu Ziling was still busy with some things in his hands at that time, so he answered Zheng Wenzhong vaguely, and didn't give him an exact message, but now that he encountered the matter of Sansha Naval Base, under the combination of the two, he felt that the large aircraft project should be officially approved.

In this way, after talking to Tang Jiannian on the phone and delivering the aircraft carrier plan in his hand, he put his mind on the heavy transport aircraft.

The last time at the Dubai Air Show, he "stole" the C-17, a transport aircraft called Globemaster III by the Mi Army. And the heavy transport aircraft he wants to get himself is derived from the optimization scheme of this transport aircraft.

The C-17 was chosen because it is the only transport aircraft in the world that can be adapted to both strategic and tactical tasks. In terms of load capacity, it is not as big as C5, but it is very flexible, and it has a very big advantage in take-off and landing.

Of course, the advantage is not only this, but also in terms of range, the C-17 is 3,000 kilometers more than the C5, and nearly 4,000 kilometers more than the C130 Hercules.