Coming to the console and glancing at the total amount of base funds that had dropped to eight figures, Li Lan shook his head.

He didn't look away, his eyes still fixed on the ever-changing amount of money.

At present, the daily capital income of the base is less than 3 million, and if the import of ore from abroad is not resumed as soon as possible, this situation will gradually decrease until the base itself has its own capital output, that is, the base capital of 1.8 million yuan obtained every day after deducting the gold, diamond and rare ores obtained from mining.

For Li Lan, who has been harvesting more than 5 million yuan a day for a long time, 1.8 million yuan is a very sad day. There is no way to start all the construction work of the base, especially the navy, which eats a lot of money, and with an income of 5 million yuan per day, it can only barely build a two-aircraft carrier battle group every two years, which is still the construction of conventional aircraft carriers.

If it is restored to 1.8 million yuan per day, then it will take at least five years for Li Lan to build a single aircraft carrier battle group, after all, the aircraft carrier battle group is a war group that involves a wide range of areas, and the naval and air forces need to be perfected, plus the air force and army are also waiting to be strengthened, the space-based satellite system must also be constantly improved, and many of the country's industries and economies also have to rely on the base. 1.8 million base funds, in terms of the highest value, is no worse than hundreds of millions of dollars. But even if it is 100 million US dollars, it is really not enough for Li Lan.

Fortunately, after the war was over, Li Lan could continue to buy ore from abroad, especially ore from China. At the beginning, Li Lan did not receive a penny of the weapons and equipment purchased from him, but discounted all of them into the most valuable iron ore. It is a five-year contract for refined iron ore.

As for the efficacy of the conversion, this is not so easy to solve. The construction units of the base are constantly building ore refineries on a daily basis. With the joint efforts of the three sub-bases, if no other construction units are built, there will be six ore refineries a day, and there are only two ore refineries that can really recover funds, and the other four ore refineries produced by the sub-bases can only smelt all kinds of ores and produce various steel and smelting products.

Therefore, the real constraint of the base's capital income is that the ore refinery is not enough, after all, the funds that an ore refinery can obtain every day are limited. In addition, the construction speed of the base is limited, even if there is a large amount of ore imports, it is still difficult to make great progress in the current capital income.

Fortunately, if he can recover to the income of more than five million base funds per day, it will be enough for him to use.

In the next stage, Li Lan will be very busy for a while, Somalia has just stabilized, and it is time to expand international exchanges. He will also be running around the world for a while, and the car is ready. Now is just waiting for the time to come. Before that, he needs to fully implement the construction work of the base.

The construction of the tank page, he has already arranged, except for the Red Alert unit in the main base. The construction of vehicles at the other two sub-bases has also been selected, and with the support of funds, a steady stream of tanks and various vehicles will be produced every day.

There's a lot of construction work left. The bigger the family business is, the more things will naturally be.

During this time. He has completed the formulation of the basic military development framework, and now it is necessary to complete these frameworks.

Sit on the console. The first thing that opens is the Navy page.

In addition to all kinds of combat and support ships, there are also many civilian ships, which are similar to the major categories of vehicles, and have both military and civilian use. Previously, Li Lan had focused his energies on military types, and the number of aircraft carriers produced was four, which seriously delayed the development of other types.

At present, the navy of the base already has a good foundation, destroyers and Aegis destroyers can basically meet the needs of the navy, the Somali navy with two aircraft carriers is basically enough, and among the remaining units, the number of scorpions is already nearly 30, and this number is also enough to meet the current situation. Giant squid and dolphins also don't need to build too much.

Therefore, the next focus is that Li Lan will put funds on other units, and this time the framework for the future development of the navy will be formulated according to the evolution and outcome of the war. In this naval battle, although the Somali side did not fall behind, the number of combat units was very uncoordinated.

There is no doubt about the strength of the two-aircraft carrier battle group, and its combat effectiveness has also been tested in actual combat. However, in the underwater battlefield, the performance of the Red Alert Navy was not very satisfactory.

This is not to say that the achievements and merits of the submarine forces are denied, but due to the limitation of the number of submarines, they did not pose much of a threat to the coalition forces. This is the reason why Li Lan did not think enough about it before, and he does not blame the navy personnel themselves.

Because of the sudden arrival of construction work and funds, Li Lan considered that the submarines had to cooperate with the aircraft carriers to go to sea to fight, and all of them produced attack nuclear submarines with an underwater displacement of tens of thousands of tons, and indeed had very strong combat effectiveness, but there were only four submarines from beginning to end, and in the face of a sea area of tens of thousands of square kilometers in a theater of operations, the existence of four submarines was too few. The role is also extremely limited.

The cost of an attack nuclear submarine is 60 million base funds (the first 20 million cost is obviously wrong, and the setting is 60 million. The construction time is six months, and the price and time of this price and time are nothing compared to the combat effectiveness brought by tens of thousands of tons of submarines. At that time, it was mainly due to the lack of shipyards and financial constraints, coupled with insufficient consideration, that it was only a little more than a year, and only four submarines were launched.

Now, he has a more definite construction plan, because of the factor of submarines cooperating with aircraft carriers, the Typhoon conventional-powered submarine, which has been ignored by him, has also been proposed by Li Lan today as a construction plan.

Typhoon conventionally powered submarines:

The main combat unit of the Navy, the construction price - 27 million base funds, the construction time to service - three months. (300,000 consumed per day)

Description: A conventional submarine powered by fuel cells, diesel-electric propulsion + closed-cycle propulsion system (AIP). It is a quasi-nuclear-powered conventional submarine capable of sustaining underwater for more than twenty days. It can be far away from offshore patrol vigilance. It is also capable of blockading the sea.

Simple data: 4200 tons of water displacement, 5100 tons of underwater displacement. The normal underwater speed is 22 knots, and the cruising range at low speed on the surface is 5000 nautical miles. The underwater diving distance is 600 nautical miles. Six-barreled 533-mm torpedo launcher with a crew of 78 people.

Equipped with: active and passive sonar systems, high-frequency active lightning protection sonar, search and attack periscope systems, radar interception systems, combat systems, combat data links, electronic warfare systems.

Special note: It is capable of submarine-launched anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, and a total of 24 bombs are available with torpedoes.

Suggestion: Cheap and practical. A true oceanic black hole. A good horse with a good saddle, please don't be stingy with a high-performance torpedo for it.

In light of the scale of the submarines and the direction of their future development, and in light of the efficiency of the recruitment of the bases and arms, Li Lan's idea is also very simple: to complete the construction of four conventionally powered submarines and two attack nuclear-powered submarines every year. The scale of six submarines a year, this speed and efficiency, in peacetime, can be called the first in the world.

In the field of symmetric warfare, the role of submarines is to transform symmetry into asymmetry, so countries will compete to develop aircraft carriers. Especially Japan and the United States. One is to launch one every year and then mothball, while the United States is even more straightforward, all of them are nuclear-powered submarines, and none of them are conventionally powered.

Any one of the great powers. Or a small country, in considering the development of the Navy, the highest priority. Or submarines, because submarines are a lower value. But it can create high-value weapons. It is also the most unpredictable underwater weapon for the enemy.

The choice of conventionally powered submarines is also a question that Li Lan has been thinking about for a long time. His situation is completely different from that of the United States. The U.S. Navy is currently the only global control navy in the world, equipped with 11 aircraft carrier formations under normal circumstances, emphasizing global control of all important strategically important sea chokepoints such as Malacca, and basing itself on a decisive battle in the ocean.

In order to deter and fight, it is common to carry out long-distance raids and maneuvers of tens of thousands of nautical miles, so the overall cruising speed of the aircraft carrier group is between 20 and 30 knots, and all ships must be able to keep up with the speed of the fleet, so high-speed, long-endurance nuclear submarines have become the only choice, and conventional submarines cannot meet the operational requirements of the aircraft carrier fleet at all.

Before the advent of nuclear submarines, conventional submarines specially developed fleet-type submarines in order to adapt to the fleet's long-distance voyages, emphasizing surface speed, underwater navigation performance and combat capability, and nuclear submarines disappeared soon after their appearance. In addition, after World War II, the US Navy established its maritime supremacy in one fell swoop, and no opponent could pose a substantial threat to the US coastal waters, and the duty of the US Navy was to attack and attack again, and the pressure to defend the territorial waters was very small, and the conventional submarine did not have the ability to resist the Soviet submarine, so after 1958, the United States never built a conventional submarine.

Because of the disappearance of the Soviet Union, now the U.S. Navy has no equivalent maritime opponents, and the focus of operations has gradually shifted to coastal support operations, but with the emergence of AIP and other technologies, the performance of modern conventional submarines has flown over, and they have the qualifications to compete with nuclear submarines in the near sea, and nuclear submarines are in a weak position because of their huge size, concealment and seaworthiness in shallow seas, so the U.S. Navy has been conducting an internal debate about how much combat effectiveness conventional submarines have in wartime. And whether the US military should procure a part of conventional submarines for itself.

This radical proposal is based on two pressing reasons: First, the U.S. Navy may not receive sufficient appropriations to maintain a force of forty or fifty attack nuclear submarines in the future. Second, the quietness of modern diesel-electric submarines puts nuclear submarines in a very disadvantageous position, especially in the near sea.

To solve this problem, eight years ago the U.S. government leased a Swedish submarine (Sweden has only five submarines in service) and its crew to help train the U.S. anti-submarine capabilities and assess the combat capabilities of conventional submarines, and conduct preliminary research for the resumption of conventional submarine programs.

The results are still unknown, but one thing is certain: the United States has no technical obstacles in the field of conventionally powered submarines, and the only factor is whether the construction of conventionally powered submarines is in line with the future strategy of the US Navy.

And the development of conventional-powered submarines and nuclear-powered submarines is not a problem at all for the Red Guard Corps.

The Red Guard Corps needs both a submarine force capable of following aircraft carriers in ocean-going operations, as well as a conventionally powered submarine capable of carrying out coastal defense operations, especially in the area where Somalia borders the Gulf of Aden.

The real strategy of this submarine has several places, the endurance can advance to the Indian Ocean exit of the Strait of Malacca, it can also go to the Persian Gulf to blockade the shipping lanes, it can also go to the western part of the Red Sea to assist the Air Force in blocking the Suez Canal, and it can also pose a huge threat to many strait passages from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean.

In terms of cost and combat effectiveness, conventional power is definitely more cost-effective than nuclear power, and in terms of offshore performance, AIP submarines are also better than nuclear-powered submarines. Therefore, in consideration of the needs of future operations and the strategic pace of the Navy, it is necessary to build this conventionally powered submarine.

In cooperation with aircraft carrier operations, this requires nuclear-powered submarines to carry out, and in other aspects, AIP submarines can fulfill a lot of combat needs. Four ships a year is a very fast construction speed, but in order to quickly build combat effectiveness and fulfill the technical needs of the navy, the Red Guard Corps needs at least sixteen such AIP submarines. In other words, at this rate, it will take four years to build.

In the deep ocean, nuclear-powered submarines are also needed to form an effective lethality, or deterrent. This is also the reason why Li Lan did not give up the construction of nuclear-powered submarines, after all, when fighting in the ocean, AIP submarines are still much worse than nuclear-powered.

The speed of construction of two ships a year is also enough, after all, there are already four foundations, and when sixteen AIP submarines are completed, there will be twelve nuclear-powered submarines. The demand for nuclear-powered submarines, the Red Guard Corps did not reach the scale of the US military, after all, the construction of so many submarines at that time was a product of the Cold War, and it is now difficult to imagine why so many nuclear-powered submarines should be built.

The nuclear-powered submarines currently under construction will not only be able to travel to the deep ocean on their own to carry out operations, but will also be used as a supporting submarine for the new aircraft carrier battle group in the future.

Under the developed tactical framework, Li Lan quickly completed the assignment of the construction of submarines, and three shipyards were drawn out to begin to choose the order and number of constructions.

On the premise of developing his own naval strength, he also left a construction position when there are military purchase orders in the future. (To be continued......)