Chapter 324 Comprehensive Upgrade
As for how much blood Nehru finally bled this time, it depends on the efficiency of diplomats at the negotiating table, anyway, two billion dollars is the bottom limit, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, 10,000 square kilometers and 100 million dollars is certainly not much!
And the question of whether the Tianzhu people can afford this compensation......
This is not a big deal, Yang Yuan has long thought about it, he can provide a part of the loan to Nehru, anyway, the Ming Imperial Bank now holds a lot of US dollars, and there has been a serious foreign trade surplus over the years, plus with the increase in economic prosperity and fiscal revenue, there is less and less need for Yang Yuan to subsidize from his own income, resulting in the Ming Imperial Bank Yang Yuan earning more and more dollars and the people exchange more and more dollars.
Anyway, it is impossible for the government of the United States to exchange it for gold.
In that case, what are you doing with it?
Give Nehru a loan, and then let him take the loan and pay the reparations, whether he gives it to Jinnah or the Assamese, and finally goes back to the Ming Imperial Bank, Jinnah owes the Ming Imperial Bank a loan of 500 million US dollars so far, and the Assamese have a loan of 300 million US dollars, and they are all waiting for this reparation to be repaid!
But of course, the loan to Nehru cannot be given in vain, how can there be such a good thing, not to mention that there must always be collateral.
For example, iron ore or coal mines.
Although Yang Yuan has taken the Pilbara Iron Mine, but because of labor problems, the cost of iron ore there is higher, and because of the long infrastructure construction cycle, the output growth rate still cannot keep up with the development speed of the steel industry, after all, Yang Feng is now not only to supply domestic steel mills, but also to other Chinese consortium steel mills in Southeast Asia have to rely on him to supply.
In addition to this, there is not enough coal.
Although Sumatra and Borneo are both important coal producing regions. But coal mining is also a strenuous job. The growth rate of production has not kept pace with the pace of economic development.
So the sources must be expanded.
And Tianzhu is precisely the most important production area of these two things. Similarly, Tianzhu is also the least short of cheap labor.
Let Nehru take out a few large iron mines and coal mines to Huaxia Mining, and Huaxia Mining will guarantee his loans, and by the way, he will ask for tax incentives or something, so that it is almost okay, even if the blood vessels of the Ming Empire's economy are inserted into the people of Tianzhu, coupled with the preferential tariffs of Ming products, so that while taking cheap raw materials, dumping cheap industrial products......
Yes. How wonderful life is in economic colonization!
"Führer, here are the statistics of losses from this war."
Chen Hu carefully handed it to Yang Yuan, who was smiling happily.
The two-year war in Southeast Asia and South Asia caused losses to the Ming army, and the army finally exceeded 10,000 killed and missing, and more than 30,000 were wounded, including nearly 10,000 disabled, and the reason why there were such heavy casualties was mainly because there were too many new troops, whether it was the new army he exchanged from Comrade Li or the new army adapted by Li Bai's subordinates, the casualty rate was much higher than that of the genuine Ming army. In fact, the number of people killed in this battle of the genuine Ming army is not as large as in the last war!
The reason for this situation is that the training level of the new army cannot keep up. When they were first put on the battlefield, many people did not have body armor for a very important reason.
Don't underestimate this kind of thing, although Kevlar body armor can't really block bullets, and the Ming army doesn't have the luxury of a full set of modern American soldiers, but it can make the casualty rate plummet, it can turn death into serious injuries, serious injuries into minor injuries, and light injuries into no injuries, and the medical level of the Ming army ensures that as long as they are not killed directly on the battlefield, basically the vast majority can be rescued.
This is the most important thing about body armor.
As for the loss of equipment......
Yang Fuhrer generally does not look at the loss of equipment.
However, this time he was a little surprised by the loss of six Leopard tanks, and all six of them were destroyed by Soviet imitation RPG7s, and it was obvious that his simplified version of Chobham armor was not thick enough to withstand the attack of eight or five mm armor-piercing shells, so it seemed that the Leopard tank still needed to be armoured. The explosive reactive armor will not be used for the time being, but the gap armor can be added, which is the kind of the original Leopard 1, which can increase the weight by up to two tons, but it can greatly enhance the ability of anti-armor-piercing shells.
In addition, there is also the Centurion that also needs to be improved, this tank is not ready to be retired in the short term in the future, and the Leopard tank is used to replace Xie Man's head team.
The Ming army was previously equipped with nearly 500 Centurions, including those purchased and donated by the British, and most of them were reequipped with 105 guns and upgraded to the level of MK7, but they still lost more than 50 in the battle.
The front-line generals love and hate this kind of tank, love its thick armor, artillery and advanced sighting equipment, and hate its tragic mobility, especially the Ming army has been completely accustomed to the attack combination of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, but it is completely impossible to let the centurion keep up with the infantry fighting vehicles.
So this tank also had to be changed.
It's okay to change it to Schott, the star of the Yom Kippur war, the legend of the T55 and T62, change to a high-power engine, strengthen the transmission system, and just protrude the pi strands, which is not too difficult, but it is enough to ensure that it can barely accompany the infantry fighting vehicle.
There are also self-propelled guns.
M40 has fallen behind, not the artillery is backward, but this self-propelled artillery with a steamed bun chassis can also not keep up with the speed of the mechanized troops of the Ming army, because of the service of the Leopard tank, all the heavy equipment of the Ming army must be speeded up, and the self-propelled rocket artillery is no problem, it was originally the 85 type of the People's Liberation Army, and the infantry armored transporter is the chassis, and the speed is the same as the Leopard tank.
But self-propelled artillery is not good, you have to change to a new self-propelled gun, Paladin is on the line, M109A1 is on the line, the fastest speed is more than 50 kilometers, the maximum range of the gun is 18 kilometers, which fully meets the needs, and there is no need for new self-propelled guns in the future.
There are also self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
Now the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun of the Ming army is the M19 of the Mi people, that is, the Xiafei tank chassis plus the Bofors 40 anti-aircraft gun, the mobility is enough, but the protection performance is basically negligible, and the degree of automation is insufficient, it is no longer suitable for future air defense, and even the Mi people themselves have begun to change to M42. This must also be replaced with a new one.
Since his tank was designed on the basis of the Leopard 1. Then this self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, naturally, was also designed on the chassis of such a tank. That is, the modern Cheetah double-three-five self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, which is famous for its high price and high-end, is the world's first anti-aircraft gun that integrates all systems, including radar fire control, into a single vehicle.
Although the performance of this self-propelled anti-aircraft gun in the seventies is too advanced, it is still okay if it is not for sale as a self-propelled product for the Ming army, and now that it is being developed, it will basically be about the same for five or six years, even if the computer level is almost there, it doesn't matter, anyway, the Ming army does not expect self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery to air defense.
After all, the future is the era of missiles.
The armored cluster air defense still has to rely on missiles, and the Hawk being developed by the Kunpeng Aerospace Division is nearing completion. It also has the ability to move in mobile combat, can move with armored travel, and when it comes to wartime, it can be equipped with portable missiles such as Stingers, which is enough to provide a reliable air defense barrier for ground troops.
Besides, Yang Fuhrer generally does not let his armored troops fight without air supremacy, and fighter jets to protect the sky is the real royal way.
However, this time the air force losses are not small, the number of pilots killed in light is more than 300, it is not that the air combat losses are large, the Tianzhu Air Force is not so capable, even if they have MiG-15 in front of the Ming Air Force, they only barely have the strength to parry. Whether it is chasing the wind or the Kunpeng version of the saber, the performance has a huge advantage over the MiG-15. As for the combination of two-seat wind chasing and Thunderbolt missiles, it was even more overwhelming, and the number of these two fighters lost by the Ming army in the real air battle was less than 50. But the downed MiG-15 is close to three hundred, which is why these two fighters are currently on sale.
What's more, the Ming army still had an overwhelming numerical superiority.
Together with those in the hands of his allies, Yang Feng invested more than 1,200 Kunpeng Sabres and Chasing Wind on the battlefield.
And Nehru and Musseau got less than 600 MiG-15s before and after, so how can they fight him?
In fact, the vast majority of the tasks of the Ming Air Force and Naval Aviation are ground-based, especially low-altitude dive bombing, because those who participate in this kind of operation are rookie pilots who have just left the aviation academy, so the loss rate in the battle is far greater than that of the real main force.
Another very important reason, which has been urgently addressed, is the lack of specialized ground attack aircraft.
Unlike the Ming Army's fighter troops, which are proud of the world, the Ming Army's bombers and ground attack aircraft can only be regarded as improvised, except for Canberra, there is nothing else that can really be handled, Lincoln-style, Liberator, Mustang, Bottle, Spitfire, and Corsair are all World War II level propeller aircraft, although the performance is not too outdated, but it already belongs to another era.
Moreover, none of the ground attack missions are really special attack aircraft, all of them are modified with fighter jets, because they are basically almost eliminated, and the modifications are mainly cheap, and at most they add some titanium alloy armor to finish the job.
Jet ground attack aircraft are also known as Meteor and Vampire, both of which are not designed for ground attack at all, especially the plywood-skinned Vampire, which is directly vulnerable to ground fire.
In other words, Yang Feng urgently needs a heavily armored special ground attack aircraft.
Fortunately, there is a thunderbolt that can be solved in this one, and his thunderbolt is expected to serve in about the same time as the flying leopard.
But Thunderbolt is a land-based attack aircraft, in his combat system, the carrier-based attack aircraft is still a blank, although the Tiger Shark can be part-time, but this carrier-based aircraft has a short combat radius and a small bomb load, and it is not suitable for the attack aircraft to be used, that is to say, he needs a full-time carrier-based attack aircraft, the bomb load is large enough, the combat radius is far enough, and there must be a heavy-duty pylon, which can carry heavy bombs, as for the anti-ship missile, it is not needed, and this ability should not be used during the service period of this carrier-based attack aircraft.
Well, Yang Feng immediately thought of what he could use.
A7 Corsair, a crushed crusader, as a single-engine carrier-based aircraft, its bomb load can reach nearly seven tons, and even when three and a half tons of ammunition are hung out, it can reach a combat radius of more than 1,000 kilometers with only the fuel in the aircraft, which is almost no different from the Canberra bomber, and can also be used as a part-time interceptor, and the air combat performance is not inferior to the fighter of this era, plus the Thunderbolt air-to-air missile is even more perfect.
What's more, this carrier-based aircraft uses the Spey engine authorized by the United States, and this engine is the same as the Flying Leopard, which means that although the project started late, it can be completed simultaneously with the Flying Leopard, because the technical level is relatively low, and it can even be in front of the Flying Leopard. There is such a carrier-based aircraft, basically used until the early seventies without pressure, although he can build the same period of A6 or Marauder and other heavy carrier-based attack aircraft, but his aircraft carrier is not a Nimitz-class thing after all, if you want to take as many aircraft as possible, you can only choose a smaller one.
The double-haired A6 and Marauder are good, but the huge size is a hard wound.
In addition, he also needs a special jet trainer, intermediate trainer, and the training system of Ming Army pilots in the future also needs to be standardized, and it can no longer be played as before, propeller primary trainers, jet intermediate trainers, and two-seat trainer fighters can form a complete system.
He has a primary trainer plane, the AT6 purchased from the United States, many people use this thing now, even the bald guy uses it, although it is shouted that it is a senior trainer aircraft, but it was during World War II, and now it can only be used as a primary trainer to train pilots who go to the sky for the first time.
As for the intermediate training aircraft, he is not ready to build it himself, this can be purchased from the outside, after all, to do business, there must be contacts, Daming can not just sell planes to make money, but also have to buy planes from the outside, if you don't buy other training planes, you should always buy it, anyway, this kind of thing is not worth much.
And his goal is to buy from the United States.
Or joint research and development.
T37 tweets.
The new generation of jet trainer aircraft that has just begun bidding in the United States has been used in the nineties, although it has become the lowest-end primary trainer in the later period, but it also shows that its performance is no problem.
Of course, tweeting isn't a good thing, it's a ground attack type, that's a good thing.
In the next short term, it is difficult to have an enemy of the same level who will provoke the Ming Dynasty, but in the sphere of influence, Zhen will have more work to suppress the guerrillas, such as the imminent Indochina problem, as well as the chaos that will inevitably appear in Tianzhu after the war, interfering with the life of the Japanese and the like, so an anti-bao aircraft suitable for low-intensity operations and mainly used to bully people is very useful.
The little dragonfly is undoubtedly the best of this kind of aircraft.
Its majestic posture of hanging four on one side and five auxiliary fuel tanks on the other is enough to make people respect. (To be continued.) )