Chapter 407: Nineteen Five-Five
Five or five years of the Ming Empire, still maintain a fierce development, five years of GDP has equaled Britain, become in addition to the United States, the world's second largest economic power, of course, this does not include the Soviet Union, the latter has never counted such boring things, as for the growth rate is far ahead of other countries, that is, West Germany can barely keep up.
Petrochemical, Electronics, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Machinery Manufacturing......
In almost all fields, they stand at the commanding heights of the world's technology, and even the technological advantages of steel and aluminum, which have been accumulated by the United States for more than half a century, have been easily surpassed by Daming in ten years.
This has to make the whole world jaw-dropping.
Especially when the United States silently purchased a batch of high-strength steel plates from Shuntian Special Steel to build their latest bonito-class nuclear submarines and enterprise-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the whole world was stupid.
Is there any mistake?
What about your U.S. Steel, what about your Bas Steel?
However, the United States is also quite helpless, because the strength of the steel plate is not enough, the maximum depth of their Nautilus nuclear submarine is not enough to catch up with the Qinglong-class conventional submarines that have been sold by Yang Feng, you must know that the Nautilus has an underwater displacement of four or five thousand tons, and it is not enough to catch up with a small conventional submarine with a displacement of more than a thousand tons, which is also too embarrassing. In addition, the first generation of strategic missile nuclear submarines of the Ming, Britain and France partnership is about to start construction, and the new generation of high-strength HY80 steel in the United States is still in the development stage.
As for Yang Fengken's readily selling this kind of strategic-grade steel to the United States, this point was not expected by the outside world, and it was completely in line with his style of making money and not dying.
The economic prosperity has made the living standards of the people of Daming flourish. Because you never have to worry about housing. Medical. Education and pensions, growing salaries, so that they can buy what they want to buy to their heart's content, private cars have been completely popularized, private yachts and even private jets are no longer surprising, which can be seen from the emergence of several private aircraft manufacturers in Daming.
A real private aircraft manufacturer is not the vest of the Führer.
In fact, the living standards of the people of Daming have surpassed that of the United States, if the per capita GDP is calculated. Basically, it should be the first in the world, after all, those oil tyrants have not yet reached the point of hanging, and European countries are still in the revival stage.
The superior standard of living is making this country a paradise for the people of all the surrounding countries.
It's a pity that His Excellency the Führer always insists on the purity of the Chinese state, and unless he can prove that he has enough Chinese blood, it is basically a dream to get a citizenship card of the Ming Dynasty. That is, some scientists of other nationalities, or those who made war exploits for the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield, and some others who devoted their lives to friendship with the Ming Dynasty, these can only join the Ming Empire after the special approval of the Führer. But the nationality has also been directly changed to the Chinese from then on. But for those who have fled from the north or elsewhere, even beggars, as long as they are indeed Chinese. Then you will receive your registration immediately.
This bloodline test was carried out by the Führer's personal guards, and the eight Führer's personal guards were in charge of this work full-time, and a large number of guys who wanted to be confused were directly kicked out.
In short, the Ming Empire in five or five years, in all respects, has reached the ideal country in the heart of Yang Yuan.
Satisfied, he finally ended his single life, and married Miss Countess Clement in the sad tears of countless maidens all over the world, and it was broadcast live on television, and then broadcast to the world, and the scene was so luxurious that it was said that the crown of pearls on the head of the Führer's wife alone was worth a cruiser. The guests who attended the wedding were all heavyweights, even the Queen of Britain and his wife attended in person, like Hollywood stars or something, they all belonged to small roles, and even like Hebald, Comrade Li and others sent congratulatory gifts. In response to the goodwill released by Yang Feng's sale of steel plates, Secretary of State Dulles also attended the wedding in person, and acted as a witness for them at the subsequent Western-style wedding.
Although Führer Yang is not a Christian, the Führer's wife is an Anglican after all, and it is essential to have a Western-style affair after the Chinese wedding.
This also made the relationship between Daming and the United States completely return to normal.
Anyway, even if it is not normal, the construction of the Cam Ranh Bay base of the people of the United States has been basically completed, the Sihanoukville base of the Ming army, the Vientiane base, the high-grade highway from Bangkok to Vientiane, and the railway from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh have all been completed, and there are no problems in terms of military deployment or material supply channels.
This means that the confrontation between the two sides has been established, and with North Vietnam eyeing each other, no one can be stupid enough to make a move against the other.
And in this year, the military power of the Ming Dynasty continued to increase.
After a series of reorganization, the army finally had ten armored brigades and sixteen mechanized infantry brigades, and all the tanks were replaced with Leopards, a total of more than 2,000 tanks that still maintained the most advanced level, and a new generation of 155 mm self-propelled guns also began to enter service, that is, Yang Feng's version of the M109, but his Cheetah self-propelled anti-aircraft guns still need some time, after all, the technical level is a little too high.
In addition, there are twelve air assault brigades, that is, similar to the 101st Airborne Division of the United States, one brigade has a Cobra attack helicopter battalion, two Pixiu helicopter airborne battalions, an elephant helicopter battalion, and an anti-aircraft missile and anti-aircraft artillery mixed battalion and an artillery battalion, the former is actually equipped with vehicle-mounted short-range anti-aircraft missiles like the Avenger.
Such missiles are also equipped in armored brigades and mechanized infantry brigades.
It's just that the missile contained in it is not a stinger, and the indium antimonide seeker is still something that needs to be kept secret, and it is difficult to really keep it secret like this army weapon, so this missile still uses the same refrigerated lead sulfide seeker as the Air Force Sidewinder missile, and the prototype of the missile is Sam 7B, something that showed great power in the Fourth Middle East War, although Yang Feng can also pretend to be red-eyed, but this is guaranteed by actual combat records.
Red eyes are not stingers after all.
In this way, the main army combat force of the Ming army is these thirty-eight brigades, plus some other troops, with a total strength of about 300,000 people, which is the standing army of the Ming Army, as for the reserves, needless to say, in fact, Yang Feng still adheres to his concept of almost all soldiers, that is, women must also receive regular military training every year, and junior high school students must be pulled to the training ground to shoot live ammunition, as long as he wants, millions of troops are also an order.
In this year, the navy commissioned the third batch of Qi Jiguang-class destroyers and Hanqi-class frigates, increasing the number of these two types of warships to 12 and 18 respectively, and there is a fourth batch under construction on the slipway, Yang Feng's ultimate goal is 24 Qi Jiguang-class destroyers and 24 Hanqi-class frigates, and after the completion of the fourth batch of construction, the latter will also turn to the construction of Qi Jiguang-class destroyers.
In addition, two more dock landing ships have been commissioned, which were originally a batch of four, but the first two have started early, and two amphibious assault ships that are under construction at the same time are expected to be completed in the second half of next year.
In this way, Yang Feng's future navy will basically become clear.
The Navy has three heavy aircraft carriers, two amphibious assault ships, four dock landing ships, twenty-four Qi Jiguang-class destroyers, twenty-four Hanqi-class frigates, and among the other old warships, the Huaxia Yanhuang II and three large light cruisers will continue to serve, namely the Hongwu and Yongle, plus the captured Soviet cruisers, but others, including the Kaohsiung and the Prince Eugen, will be gradually decommissioned, and the latter he intends to give to the West German Dang Museum.
Let the people of West Germany have nothing to do and often remember their former glory.
A total of eight Qinglong-class submarines have been served, and they are still under construction in the future, and Yang Feng plans to have more than twenty-four submarines.
The progress of the air force is particularly significant, at this time the Ming Air Force has become the world's third largest air force, the technical level is the world's first, and its fighter aircraft are more advanced than the United States.
The five air squadrons have a total of 10 fighter wings and 30 fighter groups, with a total of 700 Tiger Sharks and more than 400 two-seat Chasers. A small number of unsold piles are piled up in the warehouse waiting for the seller, and if no one buys them next year, they will all be demolished, because of environmental restrictions, it is difficult for the Ming Air Force to engage in any aircraft cemetery, and the cost of mothballing fighter jets in this kind of rainy place for more than half of the year is too high, anyway, Yang Yuan has the Voyager, he wants to urgently replenish the fighters, and it is estimated that a wing can be built in one night.
There are a total of five wings of bombers, because of the addition of the Flying Leopard, Canberra has begun to retire, but because of the production speed limit, this bomber will continue to serve in the Ming Air Force before 60 years, the first batch of retired Canberra was sold to the Persians by Yang Feng, and Pakistan and South Africa also booked a batch.
There are five wings of attack aircraft, usually one wing is subordinate to two Thunderbolt brigades and one pirate brigade, but because of the production problem, there are still some fighter-bombing types that are currently using the wind chase, and it is expected that all of them will be reequipped by the end of next year, and each aviation team also has a special attack aircraft brigade, which is mixed with air gunboats and small dragonflies.
The rest is transport planes, trainer planes, reconnaissance planes and the like.
In short, at this time, the Ming Air Force in this area is completely the same existence as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, even if the US military is here, it has to be a man with its tail between its legs, from the Ming army fighter plane flew to Cam Ranh Bay without incident, but it can be seen from the fact that no US fighter dared to fly to Sihanoukville.
Of course, the current strength of the US military in Annam is not capable of doing this, but the Khmer government has said that it has invited the Ming army to help defend the airspace, and the Ming army has the right to shoot down any intruder, and the Tiger Shark fighter jets and ground anti-aircraft missiles in Sihanouk City are not easy to provoke. (To be continued.) )
PS: Skip five or five years, and then start to make a big one, and there will be two chapters tomorrow, and it is estimated that it will return to normal the day after tomorrow