Chapter 808: Strategic Foresight

1. "Do you know why I spent so much money to build another forty-five nuclear submarines after buying more than a hundred second-hand nuclear submarines from the United States and Russia?" Do you know why I spent tens of billions of dollars to upgrade those hundreds of strategic bombers, and I still want to continue to build expensive stealth strategic bombers? Do you know why I am building thirteen aircraft carrier battle groups and still producing 10,000-ton stealth destroyers and arsenal ships? ”

"I know very well that you are secretly manufacturing nuclear missiles at the secret missile production base in Ukolan, do you know why I let it go? I expanded my army to more than two million people, half of which was made up of mercenaries, do you know why? There is only one answer, and that is oil! ”

"For a long time, oil was an irreplaceable source of energy, and I seized so many oil and gas fields so that the Golden Triangle Federation would not be short of oil, and also to provide the funds needed for construction and development in the future. Everyone wants to look at the oil and gas resources in our hands, but this is the wealth that I have obtained at the expense of tens of billions of dollars under special circumstances, and if anyone wants to snatch meat from my bowl to eat, I will beat him all over the ground and look for teeth, and it will not work to engage in nuclear deterrence, and 1,730 nuclear warheads are enough to protect our security. Wu Chen said lightly.

This is the level of the boss of the mercenary legion, from the beginning of the establishment of this team, Wu Chen has been playing this move in secret, saying that he is the world's No. 1 tattered king, who knows that behind the large-scale purchase of second-hand equipment, there is such a purpose hidden!

The power exerted by more than 100 nuclear submarines, even if they do not launch nuclear missiles, will scare the hostile countries half to death, and torpedoes and cruise missiles are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, so there is no need to use intercontinental ballistic missiles. In addition, the mercenary corps also has strategic bombers that can launch strategic cruise missiles, especially the H-1B stealth strategic bomber, which is also a worrying killer feature!

Let's put it this way, as long as the countries of the world get the fact that the mercenary corps have nuclear missiles, there will basically be no full-scale war, at most a local war, and no one can afford the consequences of a nuclear war, which will be a disaster for all mankind.

The mercenary regiments are now not on strategic duty, and the only ones carrying live ammunition are six Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, each armed with twenty submarine-launched ICBMs based on the American Trident model, with a range of 13,000 km, and if fully loaded, the range of these ICBMs will drop to 9,000 km, with an accuracy of sixty meters using the Atlantis satellite navigation system.

This submarine-launched ICBM, known as the new Satan, can be equipped with 12 nuclear warheads with an explosive yield of 100,000 tons of TNT, and can also be equipped with eight 500,000-ton super nuclear warheads. The 200 nuclear missiles are a total of 1,440 nuclear warheads, but this is only temporary.

According to Wu Chen's request, the submarine-launched ICBMs used on the Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines and the Atlantis-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines in the future will all be single-warheads, that is, the number of missiles will be increased without the increase of warheads, and the Typhoon-class will use 200 nuclear warheads, and the 15 Atlantis ships will use 360 nuclear warheads, and all the rest will be stored or equipped with some air-launched strategic cruise missiles.

In order to manufacture these nuclear missiles, Marcas spent all the profits from the Russian oil and arms trade, and also embezzled a part of the military expenditure from the navy, and it is estimated that the total cost will not be less than 70 billion US dollars.

"Boss, now that the extraction cost of crude oil is very low, I suggest that you can reserve a batch and sell it when the price of crude oil rises in three years, which can alleviate the financial pressure to the greatest extent." Marcas made his own proposal.

"Some things you know, some things you don't know, not only do I restrict the oil exploitation of Atlantis Mineral Resources, but I am also secretly buying, this is a strategic reserve and oil hoarding, the purpose is not to make money, but to save money."

"With the development of the economy, there will inevitably be inflation, the production cost of crude oil in the future is much higher than the current selling price, the US government reserves 100 million tons of crude oil in order to protect the economy, then I plan to reserve 1 billion tons of crude oil, in addition to a batch of refined oil. In fact, as early as the Asian financial crisis, the project began to be launched, and the funds went to the secret account of the Swiss bank, and you don't know about it. ”

"Atlantis Mineral Resources took advantage of our relationship with the Gulf countries to buy 200 million tons of crude oil directly from the local area, which was only 70 US dollars a ton at that time, half of which was transported to the Sudan Titan Base Reserve, and half to the Atlantis Sea State Reserve.

"My plan is that in ten years, the Atlantis Sea State will have 300 million tons of crude oil reserves, which will be extracted from Iraq and the six Gulf countries, 100 million tons of crude oil will be stored in the Golden Triangle Federation, which will be transported directly from the oil fields of Bangladesh, 200 million tons of crude oil will be stored in Africa, which will be completed by Angola and Algeria, 100 million tons of crude oil will be stored in Ukolan, and 300 million tons of crude oil will be stored in Iraq, or refined oil."

"The cost of 35 US dollars per ton, we can still afford it, the oil fields in various places can be sold to the outside world, can make up for the financial investment, time is money, at most in another three years, the price of crude oil will be more than seven times this number!"

"Wait for five or six years, if all these billion tons of crude oil can be sold, at least hundreds of billions of dollars will be earned, of course, this kind of thing is impossible, crude oil reserves are the strategic guarantee of the Golden Triangle Federation, unless it can be guaranteed that it can be replenished at any time in sufficient quantities, it is better not to use it." Wu Chen said with a smile.

Marcus almost stared out his eyes, his gaze looked dull, he was completely stupid by this matter, he really deserved to be loyal to the death, in his mind like a god-like figure, open his mouth is the number of one billion tons of crude oil reserves, which is ten times the US strategic crude oil reserves!

According to the maximum consumption of the Golden Triangle Federation, Ukolan and the major brother countries, it is about more than 500,000 tons per day, which is a ten-year strategic reserve, of course, this is only a current data, and the consumption will be larger and larger in the future, and the consumption of the United States in a day is more than 2.6 million tons of crude oil, what is this concept, more than 18 million barrels of oil!

It does sound terrifying, but things are not fantastical, Wu Chen, the boss, has too many oil resources, it is not difficult to do this, as long as he is given enough time, there are more than 20 billion tons of crude oil reserves in northern Iraq alone, there is really no horror, the world consumes more than 10 million tons of crude oil every day, and one billion tons is a hundred days' reserves.

Wu Chen is now selling oil and storing oil, relying on the money from selling oil to pay for the cost of stockpiling crude oil, the life of the mercenary corps may be very difficult in the next few years, but in the long run, it is very necessary to do so, after all, anything can happen, what if there is an oil crisis?