Chapter 439: Type 82 Destroyer
The contract has come to an end! The cause of this incident was that Britain sold fighter planes to India, which damaged Pakistan's interests, and Pakistan would not watch such a thing happen, so it originally planned to stop making a fortune in Hong Kong, but now, it has sniped at the pound sterling.
India owes billions of debts to Pakistan, and now, it can only be a few million debts, and I don't know that it will take the year of the monkey for India to be able to pay off.
"The five million US dollars are Rajiv's plan to import fighters, and now, India has no money, and I hope that Britain can allow them to equip a few first, and Britain, who is now in a hurry to ask for funds, does not agree with India to do this, the contract between the two sides is stranded, and the British use India's breach of the contract as a reason, and the unfrozen wealth has not been returned to India, and it has been returned to the British treasury."
The British are now short of money, and the unfreezing of that wealth only needs a reason, and now, this reason is sufficient, when the liquidated damages are collected.
The self-confidence of the empire where the sun never sets at the beginning is long gone, and the current Britain is almost the same as a begging for food.
"This wealth belongs to us in Pakistan, and we will continue to pursue this wealth." Mhammad said. Although the British will certainly not vomit again, it is still okay to disgust the British.
"What about the second thing?" Mhammad continued.
"There are serious problems in the British economy, and in order to save their economy, the British Parliament passed a resolution to reduce the military spending of the British army, and the British Navy decided to eliminate a number of warships ahead of schedule, including Type 82 destroyers." Musha'af said.
Type 82 destroyer! Mhammad's eyelids jumped.
Once, after World War II, Britain was also an ambitious country, and sea power was a symbol of a country's military might. At that time, the British launched the program of a large aircraft carrier CVA-01 with a maximum displacement of 65,000 tons, two steam catapults, 35 aircraft, and 5 helicopters. Although this kind of aircraft carrier is a little worse than the giant aircraft carrier of the United States. However, it is also a fairly powerful aircraft carrier. At the same time, in order to protect the aircraft carrier, they also proposed to build 4 Type 82 destroyers to adapt to the regional defense tasks of the new aircraft carrier formation of the CVA-01 class.
Unfortunately, Britain is no longer the empire on which the sun never sets, and its overseas colonies continue to shrink, leaving only the island country, the British finances. Unable to maintain such a huge military expenditure, this new aircraft carrier was cut by the British Congress, if the British Navy had not used its brains to develop the Invincible-class aircraft carrier with anti-submarine terms, the British Navy would probably not have a large warship.
The aircraft carrier is gone, and the project for the Type 82 destroyer is going to be terminated, after all. This kind of destroyer is a large thing with a displacement of nearly 8,000 tons, and it is expensive to build. It's not something that Britain can afford, Britain needs to develop a warship with a displacement of about four thousand tons, that is, a Type 42 destroyer!
However, in order to allow the Sea Javelin anti-aircraft missile and the Ikara anti-submarine missile system, which have been developed for many years, to be tested and evaluated on board as soon as possible, the British Royal Navy finally decided to build a Type 82 destroyer: "Bristol". This warship also became the largest destroyer in British history.
This destroyer. What Mahmad admires most is the Sea Javelin anti-aircraft missile!
At present, Pakistan has reached an agreement with the United States to equip its warships developed by Pakistan with US Sea Sparrow air defense missiles. At the same time, the countries of the East also have options for the Sea Sidewinder, however, these are short-range missiles and can only be the final stage of defense. Pakistan lacks regional anti-aircraft missiles.
Mhammad took precautions and began to reverse map the Patriot missile, but the success of this missile mapping will take several years to develop into a real Aegis system, and it will take more than 10 years.
And now, looking at the whole world, in addition to the standard missiles of the Americans, it is this Sea Javelin! The performance of this shipborne anti-aircraft missile, even in later generations, is completely not outdated.
In the Falklands War of 82, Sea Javelin missiles shot down five Argentine planes and one helicopter. In the Gulf War, the Sea Javelin missile successfully intercepted an Iraqi anti-ship missile, creating the first anti-missile combat example.
This is an area anti-aircraft missile with a maximum range of 70 kilometers, a combat altitude of 10 to 22,000 kilometers, and a maximum speed of 3.5 sounds.
Although it needs to be warmed up for one minute before use, it reflects the shortcomings of slow reaction speed, long preparation time, and poor interception ability of low-altitude targets in actual combat, but it is still an excellent shipborne anti-aircraft missile.
At one time, the Chinese army was also very interested in this missile, in 80, the desire to directly introduce Type 42 destroyers failed, and in 81 began to choose the Sea Javelin missile to be equipped with the newly developed Type 051 destroyer, and a formal agreement was reached as a regional air defense system for the fleet. If the project at that time could be achieved, in the nineties, the country would not need some point air defense Sidewinder to prop up the façade, until the arrival of the modern class, it got rid of the dilemma.
Unfortunately, then the Falklands War took place, and the Royal Navy lost two Type 42 destroyers, two Type 2L frigates. Although the U.S. Navy's analysis believes that the fleet's early warning distance is insufficient, resulting in significant losses due to very small coordination errors. There is no evidence that the performance of the "Sea Javelin" system is insufficient, and the fact that it can react in such a short early warning time shows that this system has performed very well in combat. However, in China, it was attributed to the fact that the Sea Javelin system had serious flaws. And the domestic Hongqi 61 has a performance higher than that of the sea javelin.
In this way, the Chinese Navy missed the Sea Javelin missile.
Mhammad didn't make such a mistake, and when the opportunity came, he knew he had to take it.
In fact, the Type 82 destroyer also has many shortcomings, for example, the power of this warship adopts a unique combination of steam turbine and gas turbine, so that even the chimney is unique in the world, there is a large front chimney and two smaller rear chimneys side by side in the middle of the bridge, the steam turbine exhausts smoke through the front chimney, and the gas turbine exhausts smoke through two rear chimneys. When sailing, you can sometimes see billowing smoke from the chimney in front and light smoke from the chimney in the back, which is the reason.
At the same time, the power system of the ship often fails, especially the steam boiler, in 72 years, just launched for sea trials, the boiler was broken, as a result, relying on the power of the gas turbine, the trial task was completed, and two years later in 74 years, there was a fire in the steam turbine room, the steam turbine was almost scrapped, this bad, that is, three years, the warship was completely propelled by the gas turbine, until the final overhaul before going to the slipway to open the knife, which is also a great innovation.
The ship is large, the engine is complex, and the single ship is classified, the operation and maintenance are very difficult, and it requires 30 officers and 367 non-commissioned officers to operate, which makes the Royal Navy very dissatisfied.
In history, in 87 years, this warship has been retired from the first line and has become a training ship of the British Navy.
And now, due to the depreciation of the pound, the British economy is in difficulty, and it can be supported by American aid, but the United States suddenly broke out in the stock market crash, so that Britain finally has a serious economic crisis.
Britain began to cut defense spending, and this large warship was naturally eliminated, and it was not retired to the ranks of training ships, and it was planned to sell it at a high price in the global arms market, which could be regarded as a contribution to Britain's finances.
At present, the Pakistan Navy is still the lone aircraft carrier, and the escort warships are still under construction, and it will take several years to become an army.
In particular, on this warship, there are also regional anti-aircraft missiles such as the Sea Javelin.
Looking at Mhammad's reaction, Musha'f knew that Mhamad was indeed tempted, so Musha'f said: "President, if you think it is good, we will send someone over now to negotiate with the British and bring in this warship." ”
The British are going to sell it anyway, and Pakistan will simply buy it.
"Nope." "We can't buy it now, and if we buy it now, the British will definitely think that we are wronged and slaughter us," Mahmad said. ”
Can't you catch up with the British, the British have always been that kind of stinky face, the last time they made a serious protest, the British ignored it, this time if they go to the British to buy a warship, they still have to open their mouths?
"So what do we do?" Musha'f asked, knowing that Mhammad had too many ideas.
"Tomorrow, we'll go to the shipyard and have a look." Mhammad said.
Shipyard! Now, the shipyard is carrying out the construction of Pakistan's own domestic destroyers in accordance with the drawings of Huaxia's design, mainly equipped with Huaxia's C-802 anti-ship missiles, Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missiles, sonar systems from France, and American-made LM2500 gas turbines. The main design is similar to that of Huaxia's 052-class destroyers, except that the superstructure uses more stealth design and a more concise appearance.
This is almost synchronous with China's domestic, and a lot of new things have been adopted, so although it is now under construction, after the construction is completed, it will take a long time of sea trials before it can be put into use.
There are countless experts from China, and Pakistan to cooperate in the construction, because Pakistan invested more funds, the construction of ships is faster, in China, in 88 years in the shipyard started, and now, in 87 years, Pakistan's destroyers, has begun to lay keels. (To be continued......)