Chapter 340: Crafting a Turtle Shell
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Three days later, the first leadership election in Somalia was held under the watchful eyes of the world community, and for this reason, Li Lan specially invited representatives of many international justice institutions and many countries to supervise the counting of votes based on the new Somali Constitution. Originally, he wanted to ask the United Nations to intervene, but because the new Somali regime had not yet formally joined the United Nations, he did not open this mouth.
Voting is held for one week, and after the polls have ended, the ballots are counted under supervision, and the results are announced on the tenth day of voting. On the eleventh day, Somalia's first supreme leader took office.
There will be no parliamentarians and no parliamentary body, and there will be only one party in Somalia in the future, and that will be the Somali Freedom Alliance party.
The election is a relatively long process, and in order to avoid accidents, the military will cooperate with the local police to carry out an operation to maintain the security of the election, and monitor the entire voting site.
As candidates, Li Lan, Mohammadi, and Farah did not do any propaganda in the form of canvassing votes, nor did they engage in any activities, they were just doing their own things.
With the new regime in power, there is so much to do, and Farah and Mohammadi don't have the mood or the time to do anything to promote their elections. Even if they still have the name of a founder of the Freedom Alliance.
And Li Lan naturally can't be relaxed, the task of reunifying Somalia has been completed, and part of the future plan has been completed, but there are more things waiting for him to do next. In particular, the Japanese were so anxious that they were willing to be severely extorted and wanted to get the warship back. Let him see the urgency of war.
Recently, the United States has made frequent moves and has carried out cooperation with Japan in many fields. In addition, Japan signed a cooperation bill with Japan to jointly respond to the terrorist situation overseas. With this bill, Japan can use the name of counter-terrorism. Sending troops overseas to help the U.S. military jointly fight against the terrorist force. Of course, if the U.S. military does not need Japan's help, then Japan still has no way to take the initiative to send troops overseas.
In this context, Japan is in a hurry to get the Myoko back, and Li Lan is not a fool, so he can naturally see the twists and turns inside. In addition, the United States has recently shot down the F-22, even if it is not to save face, it is necessary to avoid the outflow of advanced technology.
He believes that in the next period of time. The military actions of the United States and Japan will become more frequent, and some countries in Europe will also be involved. When all this subsides, then the war will really come.
And what he has to do now is to postpone the US military move as much as possible, because the Somali regime is just beginning to be established and needs a stable phase. The most important point is that Li Lan needs to improve the defense of the base as much as possible.
In his opinion, it is not surprising that the United States is determined to send troops to Somalia. Think about it a little differently. If I had stood in the shoes of the United States, the war would have broken out long ago. He would never allow anyone to threaten his position.
However, the war did not break out so quickly, and this war was definitely not fought against Iraq. And the United States, which has already suffered a significant loss in Iraq. It will no longer be easy to send troops, and even if it has to be sent out, it will inevitably go through more detailed preparations. lest the tragedy of the Iraq war be repeated in Somalia. The main point. Li Lan's military strength has already made the United States quite jealous.
The United States and Britain used 300,000 troops to fight Iraq. The U.S. military is 255,000 and the British are about 45,000. The U.S. and British armies have more than 1,650 tanks, about 600 fighter/attack aircraft, and seven aircraft carrier battle groups. Ohio-class nuclear-powered missile submarines with heavily modified submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
An army of 300,000 troops. With seven aircraft carrier battle groups, plus a variety of advanced weapons and equipment, this is an extremely asymmetrical war.
Li Lan knew very well that he was not Saddam Hussein, and if the coalition forces led by China and the United States came to attack, the amount of force they used would definitely not be less than that of the Iraqi attack in the past.
And how much strength do you have? Li Lan naturally knew very well that since the high-level authority, the strength he possessed had been increasing every day, but the time was too short after all. At its current position, the total strength of the Red Guard Corps is only approaching 110,000, but every soldier is the backbone of the operation. This is different from the original Anglo-American coalition forces that needed a strong logistical supply force, once the war broke out, the Red Guard Corps was a local operation, and did not need too many supply personnel at all.
In terms of weapons and equipment, Li Lan can only get his hands on two aircraft carrier battle groups, an amphibious combat formation, and two Aegis combat formations. Giant scorpions can also form an offshore anti-submarine minelaying formation to defend themselves in the near sea.
In terms of the air force, the land-based side has only four formed air wings, and there are only about 400 fighters, but they are all fourth-generation fighters, and their air supremacy is not weak.
On the army side, Li Lan has nothing to worry about, even if it is a first-class Apocalypse tank, it is not weaker than the Abrams of the US army. In terms of helicopters, although the base only has two helicopters, it will not be muddy.
The missile unit will be Li Lan's most important counterattack unit, and the V-1 series missiles will be an important bargaining chip for the victory of the war.
However, there is a requirement in all this, that is, at the beginning of the war, when the two sides carry out long-range strikes against each other, Li Lan must avoid suffering too much loss in the military strength under the attack of the other side.
In the early days of the war against Iraq, the US military used more than 500 Tomahawk missiles, 2,000 precision-guided bombs, long-range bombers, and various long-range precision strike weapons. The Iraqi army suffered heavy losses under such an asymmetrical blow.
Of course, Somalia is not Iraq, and Li Lan is not Saddam. The defense capability of the base covers the entire Bagua City, with a holographic projection of two hundred kilometers and a warning range of four hundred kilometers. As soon as the US missiles arrive, the base can complete early warning, command, interception, and destruction within a range of 400 kilometers. The ring of caution covers the Gulf of Aden to the southeastern coastal land of Yemen, to the end of the Horn of Africa in the east, to Galcayo in the south, and directly to Hargeisa in the west.
In this area, the base is able to achieve early warning, not to mention non-supersonic missiles, that is, hypersonic concept missiles with 20 times the speed of sound, and the base is fully capable of reacting and intercepting in a flight of more than a minute at 400 kilometers.
As a martial arts student said, before learning to beat someone, you must first learn to be beaten. You punch someone ten times, and others don't do anything, but you can't stand it when someone punches you, how can this work? Therefore, what Li Lan wants to pursue now is his ability to resist attacks, especially his ability to resist saturation strikes.
In the face of hundreds of missiles attacking at the same time, at the very least, it is necessary to ensure that these missiles do not fall on their own vital parts. In the face of the base's powerful early warning capability, he also has many more diversified interception methods.
Including high, medium and low, long, medium and near interception capabilities, from the small multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle and the air defense tracked vehicle on the integrated artillery dense system, to the Patriot missile unit V-1 series of air defense and anti-missile missiles, as well as the laser defense unit interception, such as the Guangling Tower and the Guangling tank, together to form a powerful regional high-density air defense fire network. This air defense network is what Li Lan called the base's "shield to the sky" network, commonly known as the turtle shell.
At this moment, Li Lan is upgrading the base's first air defense unit in the base console, which comes to the anti-aircraft gun of the Soviet camp in the game.
This defensive unit, when the intermediate authority came out, Li Lan had built a lot, and like the sentry cannon and the machine gun bunker, a lot of it was built in order to complete the advanced authority index.
It's just a pity that this anti-aircraft gun didn't really come in handy, approaching a defensive unit built at a high price, and it didn't need human resources to control it, and Li Lan was never willing to give up.
Mainly because the firepower of this defensive unit can be upgraded, after all, it is the main air defense force of the Soviet camp in the game, and the base has not snubbed this good defensive weapon in the game.
In the description of the anti-aircraft artillery unit there is a note.
Note: When the Commander's privilege is upgraded to Advanced, the Anti-Aircraft Gun can be upgraded to an Anti-Aircraft Unit with Shells and Lasers.
The air defense artillery base with intermediate authority has reserved room for upgrading, and only needs to pay the funds of an air defense gun to upgrade the air defense gun into an air defense weapon unit based on laser air defense.
This is a bit like the air defense capabilities of the Gwangneung Tower and the Gwangneung tank, but the power is about the same as that of the Gwangneung tank. It requires a precise synchronization position irradiation time of more than three seconds to ensure devastating damage to incoming aircraft and missiles.
The cost of the anti-aircraft artillery is 10,000 base funds, and the current 10,000 base funds can only be regarded as a drizzle for Li Lan. The upgrade time is also very short, and an anti-aircraft gun can be upgraded in an hour. At present, there are 60 anti-aircraft artillery defense units around the base, and after the Guangling Pagoda defense array is fully arranged, Li Lan will continue to build and upgrade at least 60 anti-aircraft artillery units.
It is estimated that 1.8 million base funds, which is equivalent to one day's capital income of the base, will be invested to complete this initiative.
The upgrade has already begun, and an hour later, the first anti-aircraft gun has been upgraded.
The upgraded anti-aircraft gun, under the operation of Li Lan, is projected in real time in the base console. In the past, the anti-aircraft gun was just a simple turret-like base, and a retractable barrel lay quietly in the turret. Once an attack is taken, the barrel sticks out of the turret.
The first anti-aircraft gun, after the completion of the upgrade, has already exposed the barrel. On the originally monotonous barrel, there is an additional cuboid device, which is synchronized with the direction of the barrel. On the firing device, a hexagonal concave prism covered with colored halos can aggregate lasers such as the thickness of the barrel to achieve maximum destructive power.
Just a simple glance has already made Li Lan feel that the 10,000 base funds are worth spent! (To be continued......)