Chapter 723: War Preparation and Planning II
For Wu Chen's judgment and analysis ability and strategic vision, President Park Kim has almost blind trust, if it weren't for his existence, whether he could take over this heavy burden, that's another story!
If it weren't for his existence, Russia's current situation would be very difficult, and the debts of the Paris Club alone would have kept him awake at night, and he almost lost the South Kuril Islands, or the oil and gas resources of Siberia!
If it weren't for his existence, the Russian Navy would have declined step by step, and even conventionally powered aircraft carriers would have lost their ability to act, not to mention the construction of a 90,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a steam catapult, as well as the world's most advanced Borean ballistic missile nuclear submarine and Yasen-class attack nuclear submarine.
"Since the teacher wants to repeat the previous war in Afghanistan and drag the United States to death in the form of guerrilla warfare, of course I will fully support it, the Russian army has accumulated about 1.5 million troops of former Soviet equipment after large-scale disarmament and reorganization, and this amount alone is enough to support the Taliban in Afghanistan."
"If you want, Russian military enterprises can continue to produce these conventional equipment, in addition, the Russian army is massively replacing new weapons, focusing more on high-tech content, these former Soviet weapons and equipment I only have a part of the standing stock, the rest of the support for the mercenary operation in Afghanistan." Park Kim said with a smile.
The former Soviet Union and the United States used to be the two superpowers on the planet, but now only the United States remains, Russia has inherited most of the legacy of the former Soviet Union, and also aspires to reach the glory of the former Soviet Union, but the problem is that Russia has not only obtained the former Soviet Union's terrifying arsenal of nuclear weapons, countless modern weapons and equipment, but also inherited the collapse of the former Soviet Union's economy, no country can survive on the arms trade, mercenaries are a special case.
The former Soviet Union launched the Afghan war in order to realize its strategic ambitions, and as a result, it suffered heavy losses, and there was a factor of US government intervention, and now the United States wants to fight Afghanistan, and the mercenaries have formulated an Afghan strategy to support the Taliban government and the US military to fight guerrillas, and Russia must of course participate!
There is no money to support, but Russia is not short of those weapons and equipment in the former Soviet Union, and it is still having a headache for the storage of these things, such as shells, mines, grenades, bullets, etc., all have a shelf life, and if the time is too long, it will be invalid.
"The Taliban and the U.S. government are not a level contest, I dare say that it only takes a month for the U.S. military to take control of most of Afghanistan's cities, and the early abandonment will bring victory later, and the amount of conventional weapons and ammunition needed in this process is a very terrible number." Wu Chen said.
"I am full of confidence in this, no one knows better than me how scary the weapons reserves of the former Soviet Union are, first of all, the AK-47 assault rifle, the first choice for guerrilla warfare, the former Soviet Union used to manufacture and use a large number of them, up to now Russia has more than 20 million stocks, 70 percent of which are brand new, never entered active service, belonging to the former Soviet Union's war reserve weapons, this type of assault rifle alone has 6 billion rounds of bullets, as well as various types of sniper rifles of millions of rounds, hundreds of millions of special bullets."
"There are more than 20 million anti-infantry mines and anti-tank mines left over from the former Soviet Union, more than 10,000 portable missile launchers, more than 100,000 anti-aircraft missiles, more than 20,000 old-fashioned artillery pieces of various kinds, tens of millions of artillery shells in reserve, more than 50,000 anti-tank missile launchers, and hundreds of thousands of missiles. Although a large part of it is sold to mercenary corps, most of them are now in good storage and will be scrapped if they are not used again. Park Kim said proudly.
This is definitely not Russia's hole card, Wu Chen knows very well that the former Soviet Union secretly stored a large number of weapons and equipment in many military bases in order to compete with the United States for world hegemony, and after the disintegration, it was too chaotic, some records have been lost, and even Russia has not found out how many there are.
Of course, even with the current amount, Park Kim was ambushed, which shows what a terrible number the number of weapons and equipment manufactured in the former Soviet Union would be, and in that crazy era, I don't know how many secrets have not been exposed!
Fortunately, he doesn't have to worry about these things, a secret army under Marcus is still continuing to search for money from those abandoned military bases in the former Soviet Union, and he may make an unexpected discovery at any time. Moreover, the arms provided by the Russian government are enough for the Taliban government and the US army to carry out guerrilla warfare, especially those mines, which will make the US military too late to cry.
"The mercenary corps will benefit from the war between the United States and Afghanistan, and I will pay for the weapons and ammunition you mentioned, and when the time comes, let the logistics people calculate the value and give me a discount." Wu Chen said.
The principle of mercenary organizations is the supremacy of money and profit, and the many enterprises and logistics bases located in Afghanistan, especially those oil refineries and gas stations, department stores and grain and oil stores, hospitals and drug sales stores, may not be effective in peacetime, but when the war starts, they will become the key to the logistics supply of the US military. The U.S. military is a world-famous tyrant army, and the mercenary corps will get huge economic benefits.
The mercenary corps will get these former Soviet weapons and ammunition from Russia, and the Taliban's combat effectiveness will definitely be enhanced, and the consequence will be that the greater the casualties of the American army, the end of the war will be far away, which is a strategic plan to kill many birds with one stone.
The big names of the Russian government or the military, or rather Park Kim, will not fail to see this, obviously! So there are some things to say in the front, it's much better than settling accounts after the fact, according to Park Kim's character and the relationship between the two parties, why don't you make a two or three folds?
"Russia is indeed facing financial difficulties now, and I, as president, also need to give an explanation to the military generals, so you support Russia's two Boreas-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, two Yasen-class attack nuclear submarines, help Russia build six advanced destroyers, materials and shipyards we will provide, design and engines are provided by mercenaries, what do you think of the price?" Park Kim said with a smile.
The Boreas-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines are about one billion dollars each, and the Yasen-class attack nuclear submarines also belong to this price range, and the design and power system of the six advanced destroyers require at least 1.2 billion dollars, that is, the mercenary corps will have to use 5.2 billion dollars in exchange for this batch of weapons and ammunition.
This price is definitely worth it, just the 100,000 portable anti-aircraft missiles plus launchers, a set of 50,000 US dollars, and anti-tank missiles, and those guns, ammunition and mines that are worthless in unit price, and the number can make up for it?