Chapter 478 Nuclear Proliferation
"The hearts of the people are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead!"
Yang Yuan hugged his cat in his arms and sighed very deeply.
In fact, what hurt NATO the most was not De Gaulle's blatant separation, but the European early warning aircraft just launched by Airbus Space Systems, as well as the Mercury data link system, these two sets of things are the European version of the watchtower early warning aircraft and the data link system of the Ming army. The internal core is all provided by Pentium Electric as a supplier of accessories, because of some hands and feet in software, these two sets of things together with various subordinate terminals completely form a closed whole, unless it can decipher its core program, it is impossible for other terminals to access.
This also means that as long as you don't install the same set of terminal weapon systems, you can't enter this system, of course, it is impossible for the weapons of the Mi people to install this set of data links, the core of this set of data links is in the hands of Yang Feng, who wouldn't do anything about leaving the back door? Once you fight with Yang Fengzhen, if people want to play with them, it's really the same as playing.
Similarly, the data link system they are developing is even less likely to fit into this system.
And they can't pull the European allies with the same thing, they are completely backward in everything, and the EC121 is even less likely to be on a par with the European AWACS aircraft in terms of AWACS, which has been tested in war, and the performance on the battlefield has the most right to speak. Their data link is not complete, and even if it is completed, it is not as good as the Mercury system, from the processor to all kinds of terminals, the latter is actually the LINK11 data link, in addition to the naval version of LINK14, and the Mi people are developing their predecessor LINK4 data link. In other words, the development of the United States is actually a generation behind.
How can this be used by European allies?
People are not stupid!
The various terminals that are also within this system. That is, those fighters and anti-aircraft missiles. It is also far more than the United States, which has also been tested in actual combat, and the Ming-Australia War has proved with real combat results that from ghost fighters to Tiger Shark fighters, plus Thunderbolts, lightning air-to-air missiles, and even Hawk surface-to-air missiles, all of which are superior to the corresponding weapon systems of the United States.
The countries of Europe had to face the land threat of the Soviet Union, and they had the best. And there will be no political conditions attached, and even a large part of it is produced in their own country, and there is such a choice not to buy the much worse ones of the rice people?
Are people stupid?
The war machine of the Warsaw Pact is pushing us in the first line, and even our allies have to think about our own urgent needs first.
The end result is that the European Air Defense Command has become a military command system parallel to NATO, and it is also a system that is composed entirely of European countries without the participation of the United States, although NATO is still very important, but at least it is not the only one, at least in terms of air defense, this system is far more effective than the United States Air Force stationed in Europe. This has long been proven by numerous confrontation exercises between the two sides.
But this still does not work, conventional weapons are not nuclear weapons after all. As long as the people of the United States always hold the nuclear umbrella, those small countries in Europe cannot go too far.
Sell nuclear bombs? Take a few Yi missiles with two megaton Qing bombs for sale?
You don't have to dare anyone to buy it!
Although the nuclear bomb is good, it does not mean that everyone is qualified to have it, of course Britain and France are fine, but if Belgium also has nuclear missiles, this is too exaggerated, the first one in the United States will not agree, they will casually throw some aid, or threaten to give some economic sanctions, these small countries can only be honest, after all, they are not Britain and France, and they are not qualified to bargain with the United States.
But what if uranium enrichment plants are built in these countries?
Well, Yang Feng knew it was time for his European uranium enrichment company to go on the move.
"This company is very simple, it is to provide civilian nuclear materials for nuclear power plants, low-concentration uranium-235, will definitely not be used to make weapons-grade, because if you use centrifuges, this company will be large after all, tens of thousands of centrifuges are possible, only in this way can we meet the growing demand for civilian nuclear energy. So there will be multiple production plants under this company, and these production plants will be scattered in many different countries, let's say one in West Germany, one in the Netherlands, one in Spain, one in Belgium, and my goal is to put in at least 30,000 centrifuges, 5,000 centrifuges per plant, so that's almost enough. ”
Yang Feng quickly summoned envoys from several countries and then said.
Several envoys looked at each other, these were real old foxes, of course, they immediately smelled the anomalous smell, among the four nuclear bombs tested in Gaul, only one was a plutonium bomb that they produced raw materials through the reactor, and the remaining three were all uranium bombs, and the uranium used to make these atomic bombs was all separated by centrifuges. So far, de Gaulle has installed a full 10,000 centrifuges for his uranium enrichment plant, which will continue to produce high-enriched uranium-235 for the manufacture of atomic bombs, while Yang Feng has to invest 30,000 centrifuges in Europe. Although these centrifuges are not used to separate highly enriched uranium-235, it is only a matter of whether to produce or not, and these 30,000 centrifuges can produce countless weapons-grade uranium every year if they are determined to do so, which means that with these factories, European countries can produce atomic bombs in a very short time if they wish.
Of course, none of them would do that.
But this does not mean that this company is not important, there is such a company, not only can solve a large number of employment problems and increase taxes, but more importantly, it can end the weak position of these small countries in the face of those nuclear powers, that is to say, in the future, when fighting for their own interests, they have the bargaining power with others, for example, one day the United States will threaten to remove Western Europe and the nuclear umbrella like threatening Gaul, then they can use their own nuclear bombs to fight back.
How to make the atomic bomb is not an unattainable technology, to put it bluntly, the difficulty lies in the lack of materials, but the European Uranium Enrichment Company can solve this problem!
Another point is that in this way, their nuclear power plants have nuclear fuel, these small countries in Western Europe understand that building nuclear power plants is their inevitable choice, although crude oil is cheap at this time, but they do not have their own oil fields, they must buy crude oil from those oil-producing countries, they are not Yang Feng who simply look at where there is crude oil to grab, it can be said that they work hard to make money, the final result is still to feed those oil giants, and nuclear power plants are their best choice.
At this time, the nuclear power plant of Daming has been running continuously for many years, the Calderhall nuclear power plant in Britain has also been in operation for more than two years, and the Xipinggang nuclear power plant in the United States has also been connected to the grid for power generation.
"Your Excellency, since it is the production of civilian nuclear materials, then of course we welcome it very much."
Ambassador Netherlands said immediately.
"So everyone is okay?"
Yang Feng looked at the others with satisfaction.
Everyone, including the West German ambassador, nodded.
"Okay, so let's talk about equity next."
Yang Feng said.
The future of the European Uranium Enrichment Company, the world's largest supplier of nuclear fuel, was thus determined, with its headquarters in Rotterdam and the first plant to begin construction in the Netherlands, with the aim of commissioning six plants in the Netherlands, West Germany, Belgium, Spain, Denmark and Italy, each with 5,000 gas centrifuges in the next decade. The centrifuges will be produced by Suncheon Special Machinery and the licensed Siemens company, and Daming Nuclear Power and Siemens will form a joint venture to form the European Nuclear Power Engineering Company, which will be responsible for the construction of nuclear power plants in European countries.
And the company immediately received its first order to build a nuclear power plant for Denmark based on Daming Nuclear Power's pressurized water reactor technology.
"That's it."
Yang Feng is very satisfied with this result, the money is earned, the nails are buried for the people of the United States, and the market is opened to the Daming nuclear power equipment manufacturing industry, in short, it is a lot of things for him, and the depression of the people of the United States is none of his business.
"Führer, do we still lack one thing?"
Wu Zurong said cautiously.
"What's that?"
Yang Feng said.
"Attack nuclear submarines?"
"Attack nuclear submarines."
Yang Feng groaned a little tangled, this thing does have to be there, at present, the Daming submarine force is all composed of Qinglong-class conventional submarines, and the total number of submarines of this kind of 209-class has increased to twenty-four, and it is selling well in the international arms market. But this is an ordinary diesel-electric submarine after all, in the case of Daming, a nuclear-powered attack submarine is the most suitable, after all, he basically uses the entire Indian Ocean as a footbath now, and in such a vast area, it is definitely not possible to leave a nuclear-powered submarine.
But he's struggling with which one to build.
He now has two options, one is easy to obtain from a low starting point, based on the American-made Sturgeon-class attack nuclear submarine, the power system of this submarine is the same as the Xia-class nuclear submarine, but it is much smaller, only more than 4,000 tons in total, he is easy to build, it is estimated that it will be done in two years, and the performance is definitely much stronger than any of the current ones, and it is no problem to barely mix it for 30 years, and the people of the United States have been using it until the 21st century.
One is a relatively high starting point, that is, to build a large attack nuclear submarine directly based on the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, which will definitely take him more time, because he has to develop a completely new power system, and the Los Angeles-class is much larger, and it is estimated that it will take him five or six years to build.
But the benefit is also obvious, that is, he can basically use this submarine until the end of his life. (To be continued.) )