After opening a new sub-base, Qi Yiming was given the right to build a facility from the crushing crane in Red Alert 3. It's just that this version of the crushing crane is different from the original one, the new crushing crane is no longer mainly used to crush ordinary units, and then as a small base to increase the production sequence, but has become a crushing equipment and then replaced with resources, and has become an equipment manufacturing factory integrating a chariot factory, an air command department, and a shipyard.

Originally, Qi Yiming hadn't figured out how to use this thing, but at this moment, when he mentioned those old ships in the navy, he couldn't help but light up.

Although the crushing crane can no longer add a construction production line, it is equivalent to a weapons production line, which is equivalent to three naval docks with a monthly output of 20,000 tons for the current PLA. What makes Qi Yiming feel that it is even more important that the old ships are recycled and then turned into new ships, which can not only reduce the investment of their own base resources, but also effectively improve the quality of the navy's combat power.

Those small naval ships of only one or two hundred tons will not play much role in the future development of the navy, both in terms of level and function, but maintaining and operating them requires a considerable part of manpower and funds. In the future, when more and more large and medium-sized destroyers and frigates will crowd out the navy's funds, although these ships do not cost much, they are still an obstacle.

After Qi Yiming asked the navy to pull a series of ships with small tonnage and backward performance to his Huludao sub-base, the navy showed extremely strong execution, and immediately drove Qi Yiming's first batch of old ships to Huludao from the three fleets, and the sailors and officers were not allowed to ask any questions, and then put the ship down, boarded the passenger ship prepared for them by Qi Yiming, and then went to the nearby naval base to wait for the next order.

In charge of supervising the implementation of this "trade-in" mission was a senior colonel of the Navy Staff named Zhang Jiushao. Originally, it was postponed to 88 because of the matter of the million-dollar disarmament, but because of Qi Yiming's "obstruction," some units that were finally determined not to be greatly disarmed, such as the navy, air force, and intelligence units, were restored in advance in advance. The Army's recovery is likely to go hand in hand with disarmament and will require more planning.

Zhang Jiushao has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he used to be a submariner, so his skin is very white. He followed Qi Yiming's side, looking at the Huludao base, which was already highly camouflaged, the sub-bases here were completely underground, and the power plants and other buildings were also camouflaged and not much different from normal factories, and the two shipyards were huge closed dry docks and gantry cranes and other things, and there was no sense of science fiction at the Linuoer base.

He said to Qi Yiming: "We have got all four Type 01 frigates, five Type 065 frigates, plus those two 053K frigates these days, and most of the rest are the previous 125 frigates (Shanghai class), early models of 037 frigates, minesweepers like 058 and 312, and torpedo boats such as 025." The Navy weighed it and thought that 051 was not in a hurry to let them retreat so quickly, or mainly to remove the idea of building a large ship by removing small boats. ”

Qi Yiming smiled slightly when he heard this, in fact, for most countries that are not very financially good, it is inevitable that they will encounter the choice of large-scale or small-sized when developing their navy. However, under normal circumstances, the big ship faction will generally overpower the small boat faction, and only when the financial resources are really very bad, it is mainly to provoke the navy with small ships such as missile boats.

Zhang Jiushao also said: "When we built a series of small boats such as torpedo boats, frigates, and minesweepers, the main reason was that we lacked the ability to manufacture large ships with strong comprehensive combat capability, and we also had a great headache in the face of the harassment of the KMT reactionaries along the coast in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, it is necessary to give priority to the development of these boats. Now, on the one hand, it is unlikely that a small-scale naval battle near the coast of ours will take place, and it will be difficult for the Taiwan military to press us to our doorstep again, so the hundreds of such ships we built before are basically wasted, and we can't go any farther, and no one will fight with us when we get closer, so it is best to replace them all with this opportunity now. On the other hand, after receiving the Type 056 corvettes provided by you, our navy found that this kind of small warship can be anti-ship, can have limited air defense, can drive out targets on the sea, and can also be anti-submarine and anti-mine, at least within a radius of 1,000 nautical miles, it can be deployed and operated freely, and even if it is put into the South China Sea, it can also form a combat capability. Therefore, the Navy now has an idea to equip a large number of corvettes of more than 1,000 tons in order to completely replace our small ships of less than 500 tons. ”

Qi Yiming nodded, and thought he was right. 056 is a corvette with mature technology, modular design, multi-purpose and high cost performance, and it is no problem to put it in some small countries as a capital ship. The firepower is relatively complete, the air defense has short-range anti-aircraft missiles Hongqi-10 and the close-in defense system, the anti-ship has 4 YJ-83 missiles, the anti-submarine can carry a helicopter, the rear hatch can support an anti-submarine sonar, and it also carries 6 324mm torpedoes. The 76mm gun is capable of dealing with non-traditional threats such as piracy, as well as providing limited inshore fire support.

Although the radar avionics system is not as powerful as the 052A and 054A, it is still a small sparrow, with better detection capabilities than frigates of the same tonnage or even larger tonnage in this era. The level of electronicization and automation is relatively high, and the whole ship only needs a crew of 60 people to operate.

Compared with the old warships with poor living environment and difficult conditions, although the 056 is small, the per capita space utilization is much better, and the living facilities on the ship are relatively complete, so it is more suitable for long-distance voyages and sailors to maintain combat effectiveness.

So although 056 cannot be the main combat ship of the PLA Navy, it is still placed in a very important position.

"So this time you guys are trading in the old and planning to mainly replace the 056 corvette?"

Zhang Jiushao nodded, and said with emotion: "If it is purely about combat power, I am afraid that several Type 051 destroyers are not as good as these 056, so Commander-in-Chief Liu considers that before the fleet receives the main destroyers and frigates, the 056 light frigates should be stationed, and strive to master them as soon as possible to form effective combat effectiveness." Therefore, just twenty or thirty 056s are estimated to be able to compare with all our current naval ships. In addition, although some parts of 056 are still very advanced for us, but thanks to that modularization, the cost of maintenance and overhaul is not particularly high, not to mention that you can help us do some here, so the priority of 056 is relatively high. ”

Qi Yiming deeply felt the pragmatism of the navy's arrangement, although the destroyers were big and strong, but it was really not so easy to master them quickly, otherwise he would have equipped one of the ships with full of Red Police sailors in order to maintain combat effectiveness, and the other ship could be used as the main training platform.

And 056 is not particularly complicated to get started, and the electronic equipment has not advanced to any place, it may be that systems such as data links need to be paid more attention to, but there is no problem in assigning some red police sailors to play with this ship.

After a month of recycling and rebuilding, 20,000 large and small obsolete or old ships can finally be converted into 20 Type 056 corvettes required by the Navy. It seems that the navy intends to equip each of the three major fleets with six ships at a time to ensure the rapid formation of combat effectiveness.

Because of the addition of this crushing crane, the Navy made certain modifications to the indicators of the shipyard in the second month of construction.

The basic configuration of two zones and two guards is still retained, and most of the remaining 20,000 tons of quota are allocated to submarines, and then some auxiliary vessels.

Qi Yiming has provided the navy with a total of 100,000 tons of warships of various types for two consecutive months, and Qi Yiming has no interest in participating in the intensive training activities launched by the navy. When he didn't cross the country, he didn't have anything to do, and he didn't take a plane to return to China from the United States, but boarded a bulk carrier and tossed around the sea for more than half a month. Since then, although Qi Yiming still loves the navy, he has a sense of fear for long-distance sailing, and when he participated in the trial voyage of the Harbin ship before, he only took a turn around the coast to experience the sailing performance of the new ship, and returned to the shore immediately after completion.

He had been in Huludao long enough, and he had other work to take care of in addition to the affairs of the navy, so he handed over and took a special plane back to the capital first. However, as soon as Qi Yiming arrived in the capital, he was intercepted by Liao Huairen.

"Brother Yiming, hey, I finally bumped into you, and pies fell from the sky again, brother, I specifically called you over to pick it up." Liao Huairen said to Qi Yiming with a smile.

Qi Yiming was confused and asked, "Pie in the sky, where does this come from?" ”

Liao Huairen compared to the sky and asked, "Guess?" ”

"I can't guess, just tell me."

Seeing that Qi Yiming did not cooperate and did not seem to be in a hurry, Liao Huairen could only admit defeat in discouragement and said frankly: "The Pakistani side has taken a fancy to our Thunder Dragon fighter and offered us to buy it, because our Thunder Dragon fighter is a prototype at your Dalinor base, and the Air Force does not, so Commander Wang Hai and Minister Hong of the General Logistics Department have called me to come over and ask for your opinion." ”

Qi Yiming couldn't help but pause after hearing this, and realized that this world really has full inertia. Originally, the Thunder Dragon was developed due to the needs of Pakistan, but after he wore it back, he took the lead in cheapening the Iranians.

"How did Pakistan remember to buy the Thunder?"

Liao Huairen said excitedly: "You, why is the news so closed, and the sea breeze blowing in Huludao is confused?" The fleet we sent to Iran has been in the limelight in the international arena for a while. I see that if this continues, not only Pakistan will want to buy from us, but other countries will definitely want it too! ”