Chapter 118: A New Source of Funds for the Base
Anti-aircraft artillery: a mid-level defense unit, construction price - 10,000 base funds, construction time of six hours
Description: This defensive weapon has the characteristics of intelligent photoelectric aiming device, (periscope, television camera, laser) sight, low-light camera, computer and other characteristics, so that the capture and tracking of targets and the calculation of shooting elements have been automated and accurate. It is completely human-free and can be integrated with all reconnaissance systems. It can be controlled by itself or from the base console.
Note: When the Commander's privilege is upgraded to Advanced, the anti-aircraft gun can be upgraded to an anti-aircraft unit with a projectile and laser.
Special note: The value of an anti-aircraft gun lies in the shell, which can not only fire conventional shells under normal conditions, but also special ammunition - smoke screen shells, air floating shells, ionized shells, artillery guided shells, Ahed shells, etc.
Suggestion: Its existence is not without the slightest significance, even if it is a shijie with rampant missiles, it still has the value of its existence. Because your enemies can't all be high-performance fighters.
Underneath the description of the anti-aircraft gun, there is also a long column about its performance, firing high, firing low and all angles, as well as the golden angle. Li Lan is not a very professional military person, and he can't understand a lot of these data, but he can understand the general performance.
This air defense unit, the caliber of the weapon is not very large, perhaps in pursuit of the rate of fire, the caliber is only 76 mm. But its powerful rate of fire, with the combination of four such anti-aircraft units, is able to cover a large area of airspace in two seconds.
With an effective range of eight thousand meters, this distance is effective against most of the Shijie aircraft, especially those that enter the attack state. It also has a strong lethal power. As long as it is not like the fourth-generation fighter, it can maintain supersonic cruise. Once within its range, especially on the air defense position. That will be very difficult to escape.
The lethality of drones and helicopters is even more obvious, under the air defense artillery group, if the drone hits it stupidly, it will definitely die.
This time, the predator Li Lan faced, according to the ability of the anti-aircraft cannon, was enough to kill the predator several times, but. Now is not the time for him to do it. If you want to survive in this shijie, you still have to pretend to be cowardly when you should be.
After all, people in the United States are also sneaking in now, and they do not enter the sky above the territory openly during the day. If the United States were to come with a Global Hawk, relying on the Global Hawk's long endurance and high-altitude cruising capabilities, Li Lan would be unable to do anything about it.
However, the United States has not yet deployed such a good thing as the Global Hawk in Africa. Of course. If the United States needs to, it can also mobilize Saudi Arabia or the Middle East, anyway, this voyage is for the Global Hawk. It's like being on the doorstep.
At present, Li Lan has not yet reached the point where the United States attaches so much importance to it. This emphasis refers to military strength. For the United States. Now it is enough to maintain a certain level of surveillance action, and there is no need to use such advanced drones. To is with Global Hawk. It is a good choice to monitor the Lower Gulf of Aden. It's just that at the moment the United States has not done this.
As far as the various actions of the United States are concerned, although they are not high-profile, they have already made Li Lan maintain a high degree of nervousness. Since the beginning of the past few days, Li Lan has used all the construction arrangements for the base vehicles and the Red Police unit to develop the military, and the two new scientific and technological oil drilling wells, plus the previous 12, have all been ordered to be recovered into base funds.
The current throughput of the ore refinery is 180,000 base funds per day, plus 14 high-tech oil wells, the base can generate 250,000 funds per day. In addition, Li Lan also thought that this speed was slow, so he built several ore refineries, and asked engineers to assemble all the mining equipment imported from China, and erected mines on two aluminum mines 45 kilometers away from the territory.
The ore refining plant can not only recover the ore brought back from the ore extraction pit and the mining truck, but also if Li Lan has other minerals, it can also be recovered manually. In the past, he lacked equipment and manpower, but now, equipment can be purchased from China, and manpower, and the least lacking in the current territory is manpower.
The inhabitants of the territory, as long as they have wages, can get a large amount of labor in a short time, not to mention mining, even if they are allowed to take up arms and fight, there is no problem in the slightest. Some people with a high popularity index even need one sentence.
At present, according to Li Lan's fastest state of violence, he needs more than 300,000 base funds every day. One Rhino tank and two multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles and supporting ammunition alone will consume 200,000 base funds per day. Moreover, there are 96 Chinese soldiers every day, that is, nearly 50,000, and the cost of individual weapons and equipment has exceeded 100,000.
And the walls and defense units, Li Lan also has to be built, which also requires a lot of money. It is absolutely not enough to rely solely on ore refineries and technology to drill oil wells.
Therefore, after the construction of the territory has entered a relatively stable stage, Li Lan has to consider how to speed up the acquisition of funds for the base base.
It is a very good choice to buy ore on a large scale with money, whether it is China or Russia, you can sell it to him. Although China has a huge demand for mineral imports, there are still a lot of ores that can be exported, and ore refining plants are not afraid of any ore.
Internationally, the price of ore has not been very high, according to the international market of iron ore, in recent times, due to the significant reduction in China's demand for iron ore, resulting in the price of iron ore has plummeted in the past two years. Li Lan also made a detailed investigation on this issue, and the current price of iron ore per ton is about $110.
According to the recovery price of the ore refining plant, a mining vehicle carries ten tons of ore, and its recovery price is 1250 base funds. This means that if you buy a large amount of iron ore and then build a large ore refinery to recycle it, the recovery capacity of the base capital will increase significantly.
However, this also brings obvious problems, one is tariffs, the other is freight, and the most important thing is that Li Lan does not have his own port and wants to buy a large amount of ore from the outside world for recycling. It's a very profitable deal, but in terms of ports. Li Lan had to make a decision. Otherwise, no matter how much ore he buys, it is estimated that he will not be able to reach the base.
According to Li Lan's calculations. At the current transaction price of national ore, one dollar can buy a little base capital at that time. This is definitely more profitable than doing anything, because the gold content of the base funds is not comparable to the US dollar.
Ten dollars is equal to 10 base funds, and if you take these 10 base funds and make bullets, it is 400 rounds of ammunition, and according to the price of the recent arms deal, the value of these 400 rounds of ammunition still reaches 3,000 dollars. That's equal to ten dollars. As soon as it changed hands, it was exchanged for 3,000 dollars. With three hundred times the profit, is there a more profitable business on shijie than this?
The cost of a Rhino tank is 80,000 base funds, which is equal to 80,000 US dollars, just imagine, a third-generation tank, only 80,000 US dollars. What kind of concept is this, even if it is the cheapest third-generation tank in Shijie, the T-90S sold to India, it has reached two million dollars a piece.
China's latest Type 99 main battle tank. The cost alone reached $2.57 million. This is a price that can make the arms market collapse in an instant, as long as Li Lan is willing, he can sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the third shijie country. will not let go of his thighs, competing to hug them.
Even the mainstream countries of shijie will be very excited. It is completely possible to challenge the arms trade of the United States. You know, once the value of the base funds is leveled. After the high-level authority, the impact of the base's sea, land and air weapons on the entire Shijie weapons market. No one will be able to resist it, not even the United States.
However, the core problem now is that there is no port in the territory, even if he buys countless ores, it is difficult to transport them back. Whether it is Bossaso or Somaliland, it will not be easy for Li Lan to transport the ore back.
Needless to say, Bolsaso said that Somaliland's attitude towards Li Lan was not friendly, especially under the pressure of Ethiopia, France, and the United States, even if Somaliland had a great favor for Li Lan, it would not dare to offend the three appellants. Not to mention, the Somali official did not have much of a good impression of Li Lan in the first place. However, although he did not have a good feeling, he did not be hostile to Li Lan, to put it bluntly, the relationship was dull.
At present, the number of equipment supporting Li Lan in China is not large. And all of this equipment was shipped back before China openly supported Li Lan. Now, with the sudden change in the international situation, the port of Berbera has begun to be a little unwelcome to the goods sent to Li Lan.
On the one hand, the United States asked Ethiopia to assist the Bossaso government army, and on the other hand, it also had to strictly restrict Li Lan's development.
In this regard, Li Lan, who does not have a very good way, can only open his own mine at present. However, the pace of self-mining is not very slow, and according to the engineers' estimates, as long as there are enough people in the two mines, the maximum mining capacity can be reached soon.
Both of these aluminium mines are very rich and are located in the Surud Mountains at an altitude of just over 200 meters, making them very easy to mine. According to the engineers' estimates, these two aluminum mines, if they continue to introduce foreign mining equipment, can reach an annual output of 800,000 tons.
If it is based on the price of iron ore recovery, the annual output of 800,000 tons can bring Li Lan 100 million yuan in base funds within a year. However, unfortunately, the price of bauxite recycling is really not good, only half of that of iron ore.
However, after Li Lan fully satisfied the balance between the mining volume and the recovery speed, these two bauxite mines can bring Li Lan nearly 130,000 yuan of base funds per day. The only difference between mining trucks and ore refineries is that Li Lan has to pay his salary and have enough trucks to carry the ore. Of course, these expenses are insignificant compared to the daily capital income of 130,000.
PS: This chapter, the code lasted a full three hours, and when it came to data, I couldn't get up fast if I wanted to.
After finishing the 10th watch at noon yesterday, I went to sleep directly and got up at 11 o'clock in the evening. It may be that I have slept for too long and my head is a little foggy.
After reading this chapter, it is estimated that many book friends will ask, in this way, isn't the base funds worthless? Don't worry, read on. (To be continued......)