Chapter 283: We Want an Aircraft Carrier
A Pakistani plane was flying on the sea, and their destination was the United States.
On the plane, the most excited is Lilith, now, Lilith has become the president's wife, and she also has to share her husband's worries, and when she goes abroad, Lilith needs to maintain the image of the country.
And this time, it's to the United States, which is the country where I grew up!
The plane landed in Washington, the capital of the United States, and was greeted directly by Vice President George W. Bush and Secretary of State George Schultz.
Amid the solemn national anthem, Mhammad inspected the Americans' guard of honor, and after the ceremonial ceremony at the airport, the group arrived at the White House.
The White House, a building that doesn't look very glorious on the outside, but it is the heart of the Americans, where Mhammad walks in, but he always thinks about the scenes of the later generations when he was terrorized by bearded people.
US President Ronald Wilson Reagan cordially received the Pakistani delegation in the lobby of the White House.
"The West is our loyal ally, and in our war against the Soviet Union, on the front lines in Afghanistan, the West is our steady support, and this time, I feel very honored to be able to come to the United States and communicate with the President of your country." Mhammad said.
"Pakistan stood on the front line of anti-Sovietism, and in order to drive out the Soviets, it shed blood and sacrificed, and our support was all deserved." President Reagan said with a smile.
"But now, we are being accused to death by the damned Indians." "We want to devote ourselves to fighting on the Western Front, we want to support the Afghan Liberal Party government and continue to push south, but we are constantly being held back by the Indians," Mhammad said. ”
India and Pakistan are at odds, even though Mhammad is already the de facto ruler of Pakistan. However, Mhammad's words still could not contain the anger in his heart.
"Not long ago, the Indians, relying on the superiority of their navy, actually dispatched a large number of warships to conduct a military exercise off the coast of Karachi. This is a naked show-off! ”
Showing off, indeed, the Indians wanted to show off their force and develop their self-confidence, but the result also came out, and they were slapped hard by the Pakistani Air Force, and then went back.
In the end, it was India that was not interesting. And President Hammad in front of him, why did he come up with this again?
"Your country's air force is already very strong." U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberg said: "With the use of a powerful air force, you successfully drove the Indians away, and I heard, you also broke their glass?" ”
Flying at supersonic speeds on the sea, shattering people's glass with a sonic boom, only the Pakistan Air Force can do this. And the aircraft carriers of the Indians are also so unbeaten. Why is even tempered glass so fragile?
"However, it was driven away by us when it reached our coastline, and we did not have sea-based aviation, so the combat radius was very short." "We are worried," Mhammad said. The next time there is a large-scale conflict with the Soviets, the Indians will not only contain us on land, but also at sea. ”
Mhammad said solemnly: "Now the General Secretary of the USSR Andropov is dead, and his successor is Chernenko. It's only short-lived, he is too old, and he doesn't have much energy, the top level of the Soviet Union is brewing candidates for the next term, and once the next general secretary comes to power, he will definitely be the same fanatic as Brezhnev, and at that time, the war in Afghanistan may deteriorate again. ”
What Mhammad said is all in the analysis of the American think tank, and moreover, Mhammad's analysis is completely correct, Chernenko is just an excessive figure, and the next general secretary of the Soviet Union will be a ruthless character.
The current calm on the battlefield in Afghanistan is only temporary, and when the new leader of the Soviet Union comes to power, there will be another round of fighting.
Mhammad is deliberately exaggerating the threat, in fact, after the next Gorbachev came to power, what this guy did was like he was sent by the CIA, and he successfully collapsed the Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this guy won the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was complacent, and he went out to make a speech or something when he had nothing to do, and lived freely.
Now, of course, Mhammad is going to play up the threat.
"And what do we need to do with our Pakistani brothers? Why don't we send aircraft carriers over? President Reagan said.
"That's not necessary." "You don't have a military base in South Asia, and if you deploy at sea all year round, it will be too expensive, and we just want to lease or buy a few warships from you," Mhammad said. ”
Pakistan has limited military strength, so it prefers to lease from the United States, and Pakistan cannot afford to buy decommissioned and unwanted warships from the United States, so it can only lease them and serve in the Pakistan Navy for another few decades, and then return them to the United States.
"And what warship do you want?" Weinberg said that everyone here knows the character of this Mhammad, and he is not shocking and endless, and when he speaks, he wants the most valuable things.
It won't be an aircraft carrier, right? National Security Advisor Poindecker also thought in his heart that now, the most recently decommissioned by the US Navy is the USS Roosevelt in 77, this warship has been dismantled in 78, but the aircraft carrier Oriscany, which was decommissioned in 76, has been mothballed.
Even if the refurbishment of this warship is expensive, and if it is leased to Pakistan, it can make a lot of money, but the United States will not sell or lease the aircraft carrier to Pakistan, which is a powerful attack weapon, and Pakistan cannot possess such a weapon in the US strategy.
"We want to lease the aircraft carrier Oriscani." "If we have an aircraft carrier, we can patrol the entire Arabian Sea, and the aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy is definitely not our opponent," Mhammad said. ”
Sure enough, it's an aircraft carrier! And he also fell in love with the mothballed Oriscani! All Americans were stunned.
The USS Oriscani is the seventeenth ship of the Essex-class aircraft carrier, which was built in large numbers by the United States during World War II, but it did not catch up with World War II, and the warship was launched two months after the end of World War II.
With a full load displacement of 36,000 tons, a maximum speed of thirty-three knots, and a two-seat steam catapult, it is possible to take off an aircraft of the A-7 class, however, the heavy F-14, for sure, will not be able to take off.
Although Mhammad preferred the Roosevelt, however, the aircraft carrier was dismantled after it was decommissioned, and Mhammad was not given a chance at all, and even if it was this aircraft carrier, it was not known whether it could be reached, and Mhammad was just a negotiation technique.
Mhammad said earnestly: "Only by keeping the Indian navy from stepping into the Arabian Sea can our air force be able to deal with the threat of the Soviets with all its might." ”
"No, the state of mothballing of this aircraft carrier is too poor." "The hull is starting to corrode, and it would cost more than half a billion dollars to rebuild it," Weinberg said. ”
"In order to kill the Indians at sea, we in Pakistan have to scrape together the money for this repair, even if we tighten our belts." Mhammad said.
In the past, 500 million US dollars might have become a burden for Pakistan, but now, all it takes is to get some diamonds back from the battlefield in Angola.
"This warship has a small displacement and limited steam catapult power, which does not allow it to catapult Tomcat fighters." Poyndexter said.
"Against the Navy of the Indians, those backward Sea Hawks, where can you use Tomcat fighters, it is enough to have A-7 attack aircraft." Mhammad continued: "Our Tomcats, mainly against the air force of the Soviets. ”
Seeing that Mhammad insisted on leasing and was determined to spend a lot of money to buy it, and several excuses from the United States were rejected by Mhammad one by one, US President Reagan finally spoke: "I'm sorry, our most sincere friend, we understand your country's eagerness to teach the Indians a lesson at sea, but the aircraft carrier formation is not so easy to control, and that old aircraft carrier has broken down many times and cannot be exported to you, and we in the United States cannot agree to this plan." ”
President Reagan directly cut off the other party's request, and all kinds of reasons are not reasons, in short, the United States just cannot export aircraft carriers to Pakistan, even if it is a backward aircraft carrier.
Mhammad looked at Reagan fixedly, his eyes full of loss: "Then how can we fight against the aircraft carrier group of the Indians?" ”
"Against an aircraft carrier formation, you don't necessarily need an aircraft carrier." "For your navy, destroyers are enough," Weinberg said. ”
"Can you support a few destroyers in our navy?" Mhammad asked.
"Absolutely." Weinberg said that as long as there is no aircraft carrier, everything else is easy to do, and the aircraft carrier has refused, and it is not too much to ask for a missile destroyer.
"Then we ask to lease us the Kidd-class destroyers, which the Iranians have paid a deposit for, but have not left." Mhammad said.
Kidd-class destroyers! Actually, this is what Mhammad really aims for! If you want an aircraft carrier, it's just a pretense, if it's coming, it's best, if you don't, that's normal.
The Americans have already rejected themselves once, can they refuse again?
The Kidd-class destroyer, with a full load displacement of 9,000 tons, is almost half a cruiser, and it is a series evolved from the hull of the Spruance-class destroyer. Equipped with a standard anti-aircraft missile system to replace the Spruance-class short-range anti-aircraft missiles, this warship has gained valuable medium-range air defense capabilities, and, after the revolution in Iran, the US Navy itself received, equipped with Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and has the ability to attack the sea, and it itself has strong anti-submarine capabilities, so that this warship has a balanced air defense, anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities, and is only second only to the Aegis warship! (To be continued......)