"Lao Liu, what do you think about this matter, is there a plan?" Vice Chairman Li didn't expect Mr. Liu to raise such a major question today, and he didn't have much preparation in his heart, so he asked directly.

"Very simply, my initial consideration is to build an open military industrial system with Chinese characteristics based on the arms production system of the United States, with the existing state-owned military enterprises as the mainstay, and at the same time support 2-3 large private military industrial enterprises as supplements, so that the military industry will have stronger vitality, in addition to nuclear weapons, aircraft, artillery, tanks, warships and other conventional weapons can be open to production and design, and the army will choose the best."

Old man Liu's words were amazing, which made the three bigwigs present a little shocked, this step is not an ordinary big step, and it is simply a new change for the domestic military industry.

Because this means that in the future, the military market will no longer be a monopoly market, but a market with limited competition. This change is so big that even if a few of them are already the top figures in the domestic military, they can't decide. Although General Yang Jianguo has promoted the mechanism update of the military industry somewhat, he has not thought so far-reaching and thorough as Old Man Liu, so he was silent after hearing this.

It is estimated that this kind of major matter will have to be fully discussed at the enlarged meeting of the Politburo before it can be handed over to the Nine Elders' Council for decision-making. So the topic that Mr. Liu is talking about today is too big.

"Of course, this idea cannot be completed overnight, and as far as I think at this stage, Duch Heavy Industries has the potential to enter the field of ground conventional weapons production, if they are allowed to produce it." Old man Liu also knew that it was impossible to receive any results in this matter today, so he just ventilated a few insiders first to see if the opinions of the military's own people could be unified, so he immediately received it and returned the topic to a specific matter.

"Because I always feel that the potential of this little guy Duke is not only reflected now," Mr. Liu said, "It's a pity that I have tried him several times, but he refuses to join the military, otherwise we will see more and more of these new equipment today, everyone has seen that in terms of conventional weapons hardware, after we have solved the problem of raw materials and processing technology, we can be completely inferior to any country today." ”

"But there is still a big gap in our software, and the combat power of the same weapon is completely different after the modification of the electronic warfare auxiliary system under the leadership of Duke, and before that, some of us may be complacent about making great progress in conventional weapons, and may only lag behind the world's advanced level by 5 to 10 years, but the results of these recent exercises show that the impact of the gap in electronic systems on combat power is far greater than we initially imagined.

In this respect, we are still at least 20 years behind the world, and only after all the main battle equipment has been upgraded and installed with the electronic systems developed by Duke, as well as the new generation of main battle equipment produced by a new production process and raw materials, we can cautiously say that it is 5 to 10 years behind the world's advanced level.

To be honest, it seems that I am afraid for a while that I have been holding so many confrontation exercises, but fortunately there has been no major war in the past few decades, otherwise according to the level of our equipment, we would have been pulled out to meet several major opponents, and it would have been possible for the tragic situation of Yugoslavia and Iraq to reappear. ”

Modern warfare is no longer the era of millet plus rifles, and the real goal is to dominate the enemy thousands of miles away, and if the strength is inferior to others, it will be a completely one-sided ending, just like what about Iraq's hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of tanks, hundreds of aircraft, thousands of artillery pieces, hundreds of missile launchers and missiles, basically they were killed without touching the enemy's side, which completely shocked the military observers.

After all, there are already some precedents in China, such as a certain private enterprise producing a certain type of wheeled armored vehicle for export. It is much simpler and feasible in terms of policy to allow the development, production, and sales of a certain type of weapon for Dushi heavy tools than for full opening up.

The most important thing is that Duke has such a demonic existence as Duke. Old man Liu's wishful thinking is that since you don't want to join the military directly, then turn the military product into a commodity, you have to earn this money, even if Duke basically has no concept of money except for a number now, but the ordinary people below can't stand it to make this money.

In this way, when Duke enters this special market, it is natural to use its ability to develop competitive new products. And in this way, it is equivalent to putting a fresh catfish into the original system, and it is difficult to form one of the leaders that activate the vigorous development of the entire military industry.

"However, although Dushi Heavy Industries has advantages in software research and development, raw material research and development, and production and processing technology, it is equal to zero in the field of weapon design, and even if the policy is opened, they may not be able to develop any advanced products on this basis."

Although Admiral Yang was a little moved after listening to this more reliable suggestion, he has been engaged in this industry for decades, and he knows in his heart that without long-term experience accumulation, it is more difficult to come up with a good product than to ascend to the sky.

"They can build nuclear reactors, how many tanks or something is more difficult for them than nuclear reactors? Moreover, I don't plan to let them start from scratch, but I plan to directly open up the existing design foundation and experience to them. Old Man Liu smiled and explained.

"Not only tanks, but also drones, I think they can also open up for them to try. Of course, these things are not given in vain, all of them should be converted into shares of the new company as intellectual property rights, for this new company, we don't care about R&D and production, let them play, but sales and quality control should be responsible for us. ”

In this way, several bigwigs feel that this plan is becoming more and more reliable, but there are still some problems, for example, General Yang thought of a very critical question, "If the research and development progress is not under our control, in case they do not complete the research of new equipment as scheduled, then our entire armament program will be very uncertain?" ”

This is indeed a problem, but Mr. Liu has already considered it, "They did theirs, how did we do it before, and now we still do it, both sides go hand in hand, and when the time comes, whoever is easy to use will use whomever it is." ”

Admiral Yang frowned, this method of competition looks good, but it is too cruel for one of them, if a certain party is not selected at that time, it is equivalent to a huge investment in research and development.

As if he had seen through his thoughts, Mr. Liu continued, "Actually, everyone doesn't have to worry too much about competition, competition is a good thing, everyone looks at the dispute between the MiG and the Soviet series in Russia, as well as the dispute between Boeing and Loma. ”