Chapter 378: Building a Destroyer
This kind of thing can't happen again! After all, the state's funds are limited, and they cannot all be consumed in this bureaucratic form, and the limited military spending is mainly used to modernize the army!
The biggest threat to China is the powerful polar bear in the north, and the rolling torrent of armor seems to be ready to fight at any time.
However, to everyone's surprise, it was the polar bears fighting in Afghanistan that hardly took much advantage, and why? It is because of Pakistan's great air power!
As a result, the top leaders in Huaxia have clearly seen that they must have strong air power and replace the advantage of quantity with quality in order to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with polar bears! The concept of the top level has changed, and it is necessary to take concrete action to reduce the army, take out the expenditure, and carry out modernization!
This is a matter that offends people, and no cadre wants to be dismissed, but for the entire army, almost everyone is faced with the choice of advancing, retreating, going, and staying, and being chosen, and this is a "three-dimensional shock" from top to bottom and from the inside to the outside; after effective reform, 600,000 cadres in the army have been listed as "supernumerary," and a quarter of the formed units of the army units have to be abolished, including those units that have a glorious history of several decades and have made outstanding military achievements.
Of course, those organ cadres, Mhammad does not need them, that kind of person is not capable at all, he only knows how to mix, under the system, mixing is a kind of happiness.
What Mhammad needs is capable grassroots fighters who have been laid off.
"Yes, our army needs to be reformed, our army size is reduced, and our combat effectiveness is reduced. On the contrary, there will be a better improvement. Deng Gong said: "Many people have to make sacrifices, many people have dedicated half of their lives to the army, and now, the army has driven them away." I don't know how many people poke my backbone in the back and scold me. ”
Deng Gong's words, with dialects, humor and wry smiles, this is a necessary choice as a last resort.
"Deng Gong, we in Pakistan need some people with excellent military skills, as instructors, we hope to hire some demobilized personnel from your country. To our army, to help us train the army, at the same time, the Free Afghan Army also needs some, the total, we hope to be around 10,000 people. Mhammad said.
About 10,000 people!
In order to disarm millions, the government also needs to settle the lives and jobs of the departing officers, which the army owes them. This matter is also a great headache for the government, and now. Pakistan proposed that it needs 10,000 people as instructors, which can just solve a big problem for its side, and it can divert 10,000 people!
Where is Pakistan asking for help, it is simply Pakistan helping itself! Many people have become accustomed to the life of the army, after entering society. It's hard to change, and now, let them continue to go to a new country, to be an instructor in the army there, still in the barracks. They will be more adaptable.
"Okay, we must select the best soldiers who have retired and go to your country to help train the army." Deng Gong readily agreed.
Although Pakistan's army has more modern weapons, Mhammad keenly found that his army still lacks such a kind of blood, which can only be cultivated after the long-term and arduous battles of the founding war, Pakistan lacks these, and in the armies of the Eastern countries, this bloodiness has been inherited.
Therefore, Muhammad asked the instructor, in addition to teaching the army the basic combat skills, more importantly, to cultivate the bloodiness of the army!
Another purpose is to establish grassroots party branches.
Relying on this time, while introducing the team of instructors, we will also reorganize the military institutions, set up party branches at the grassroots level of the army, and completely turn the Pakistani army into the army of the Democratic Party under its own leadership, so that the army will know that they are not only the country's army, but also the party's army, and loyalty to the party means loyalty to the country, so that no one will shake their position, and those family forces, let them eat.
"The second thing is that we in Pakistan are preparing to start building our own destroyers, and we need to integrate a lot of our own things, so I hope you can provide technical support." Mhammad said.
The subsystems imported from the United States, such as the most important LM2500, were for the construction of warships, and the foreign exchange looted from India was enough for Pakistan to start building its own destroyers.
"We fully support it, and this is progress together." Deng Gong said: "How do you plan to build it?" ”
"Modeled after your 052-class destroyer, the hull is the same, using the same engines, but there are some changes to the weapon system on the upper level." Mhammad said.
Now, in China, in addition to continuing to build the first generation of the brigade class, the construction of the second generation of destroyers, the brigade class destroyers, has also begun.
Because it is still in the honeymoon period with the United States, this kind of destroyer has received technical support from the United States, including the engine, using the most mature LM2500 in the United States.
Pakistan can get more equipment from the West, for example, although it does not have access to more advanced standard anti-aircraft missiles, the Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missile can be mounted, and the eight-pack box launcher can provide the fleet with an 18-kilometer protective circle, which is much farther than the Sea Rattlesnake on the brigade Shanghai class.
Other fire control, torpedo, sonar and other systems are very advanced.
Pakistan hopes to acquire the 052-class hull technology and build it in its own country, along with a large number of Western weapons, to give its warships more modern combat capabilities.
It would be even more perfect if the technology of the Patriot missile could be digested and absorbed, and a similar Aegis system could be developed on this basis, and now Pakistan can only be an idea.
"No problem at all." Deng Gong said that the military cooperation between the two sides is very close, and there are a large number of Chinese personnel in Pakistan's shipyards to help them refit aircraft carriers and build large oil tankers at the same time.
This second thing, Mhammad quickly agreed, the specific details, is the following technicians are in charge, last time Mhammad layman to guide insiders, hoping that the slip jump and ejection used together, it was a mistake, this time, Mhammad will not continue to make the same mistakes, the specific operation, by professional personnel, Mhammad only provides reference advice.
And this third thing is a kind reminder.
"Our intelligence officers have received information that the Taiwan side is negotiating with Argentina in the hope of obtaining two Argentine TR-1700 submarines." Mhammad said.
On the Taiwan side! Hearing this, Deng Gong's eyes suddenly lit up.
At the beginning, if the Kuomintang had been driven out, if it had not been for the Americans' intervention at a critical time, the mainland would have decided to cross the Taiwan Strait and settle the Taiwan issue, and then the Korean War broke out at that time, so the Taiwan issue would have been left behind.
Later, due to the development of the international form, the United States established relations with the mainland, and for the purpose of confronting the Soviet Union, it even put forward a plan for a large arsenal, wanting to arm the Chinese army against the Soviet Union, but unfortunately the ambition was too great and was rejected by the government.
Although the United States is very close to the mainland, for certain purposes, they are still supporting Taiwan and have provided Taiwan with a lot of weapons, and the Taiwanese want to make some improvements in submarines, but they have no way. Because all the submarines of the United States are nuclear submarines, there are no conventional submarines, and Taiwan will definitely not get nuclear submarines.
Taiwan is only supported by a few outdated submarines, and has long wanted to obtain advanced submarines, and as a result, it has set its sights on these two Argentine submarines.
In South America, Argentina once had the most powerful military power, with a navy of advanced warships, including aircraft carriers. At the same time, they also wanted to have modern underwater submarines, so they took a fancy to German submarines.
The TR-1700 is a conventional diesel-electric submarine built for the Argentine Navy at the North Sea Shipyard of the German ThyssenKrupp Group Company. In World War II, Germany had the best submarine technology, and after World War II, submarine technology is still developing, and this kind of submarine has excellent performance.
With a displacement of 2,160 tons on the surface and 2,264 tons under the water, and a maximum diving depth of more than 300m, it is the largest submarine built by Germany since the end of the war. Its power system is 4 MTU diesel engines, 4 generators, Siemens electric motors propelled the submarine to speeds of up to 25 knots, making it the fastest conventional submarine, while 8 groups of 120 batteries were also installed. The self-sustaining power has been extended from 30 days for ordinary submarines to up to 70 days. The armament consisted of 6 533-mm torpedo tubes, 22SST or MARK37 torpedoes, the automatic reloading system of the torpedoes could be reloaded in 50 seconds.
This advanced submarine, when ordered in 77, it was planned to build six, 2 by the German Thyssen North Sea Shipyard and four in Argentina.
Unfortunately, after the Falklands War, Argentina experienced a severe economic crisis, with the first two submarines delivered in 1984 and 1985 respectively, while four were halted due to the Argentine economic crisis. Only 52 percent of the construction of the third ship and only 30 percent of the construction of the fourth ship were completed. The Argentine Navy does not have the capacity to continue building and hopes to sell it to other countries. (To be continued......)