Chapter 718: Bright Sword

If China only makes economic moves, even if it announces a series of high-profile bilateral economic and trade agreements, the US side will be shocked and nervous, but it will still feel that there is no room for recovery, because it feels that it is not once or twice that it has relied on its military and economic power to dominate the world and force other countries to comply.

In this regard, they have extremely rich successful cases and experience, and if they plan to be soft and hard, if they can't be moved, at most they will only come to a god in those disobedient countries, or go directly shirtless and use military means to change the dynasty, and then change some obedient people to come up and control them, so they will not worry about not being able to solve these problems.

Although it is much more laborious, requires more resources, more things, and a huge investment. But the hundreds of overseas military bases and hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the US military around the world are not just for these things.

But the new information that the US side received gave them the impression that this time China was not only using its economic strength, but was also determined to use military means to ensure the effective implementation of these agreements.

This is because the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has signed secret bilateral military cooperation agreements with Seychelles and Tanzania in a very low-key manner, and is preparing to build a military base in each country.

Among them, a large military port will be built in Seychelles to provide a garrison and supply logistics base for the PLA Navy to carry out military activities in the Indian Ocean.

Before that, because Pakistan defeated Ah San, China took the opportunity to upgrade the level of relations with the Maldives when Ah San had no time to take care of it, and upgraded the temporary supply port of call on Lahsf Island to a standard military port, which was originally Duke's private property, but with the continuous improvement of Duke's importance, Duke basically has little chance to return to this beautiful place.

As a result, this small overseas island has gradually become a production base and a naval supply port for Duke Maldives, and now two nearby islands have been developed, and more than 3,000 people live and work on these three islands all year round.

In addition to the two military ports established earlier in Pakistan and Colombo, the PLA has quietly completed its layout in the Indian Ocean and found four places for its ocean-going navy to settle in the Indian Ocean, giving the PLA Navy a solid foundation for its military activities in the Indian Ocean.

Although these activities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have been handled in a very low-key manner, in the eyes of the United States, which has been paying close attention to China's every move, China's actions have continuously broken through the upper limit of the US estimates of China, especially the agreement on the Tanzanian military base, which means that China's strategy has completely entered a new stage, indicating that the PLA is no longer satisfied with territorial air defense and has begun to go global.

In this military cooperation agreement with Tanzania, China leases about 10 square kilometers of land near the port city of Tanzania at a rate of 100 million yuan per year, and is preparing to build a military airport and army camp on this land, preparing to become the first overseas base of the PLA Army, and the two sides have agreed to lease for a period of 49 years.

Calculated according to the scale of the land leased by the Chinese side, the US side estimates that after the completion of this base, the scale of accommodating one integrated army infantry brigade and two main air force regiments of the PLA in this base in the future will be more than enough. Judging from the military strength of the PLA today, such a military force is enough to sweep most countries in Africa, if there is no foreign military intervention.

After the Chinese side has completed this military deployment, it is obvious that China's voice in Africa will be completely different after having this garrison. With such strength, the PLA is fully capable of dealing with the challenge of China's interests from the insatiable local warlords in Africa, and has considerable deterrent power.

Of course, the premise for the PLA to effectively complete this military deployment is that the PLA Navy can gain a foothold in the Indian Ocean under the attack of the US and the A3 Navy and ensure a steady stream of logistical support for the Tanzanian military base.

In the eyes of some military observers, China's strategy is a bit too crazy, and it is obviously powerless to face the four to six Nimitz-class aircraft carrier battle groups that the US military may assemble in wartime due to the military strength of the PLA Navy's two Varyag-class aircraft carrier battle groups, which lack effective military support from the mainland.

Therefore, this African base of the People's Liberation Army does not have the strong support of the navy, and it is very likely to become an orphan.

However, after several tough contacts with the PLA, the US military's top brass no longer sees it that way; if the PLA is building several military ports in the Indian Ocean, most of these are still for logistical supply and temporary stationing, and they do not have permanent troops; although the US military feels a little uncomfortable like eating a fly, it can still be patient, but the PLA's strong army is also preparing to step out of the country for the first time to stay in Africa, then this taste is completely different.

This means that China, which has had an impressive economic performance in recent decades, has finally begun to no longer be satisfied with just expanding economically everywhere in the world, but has begun to defend its interests by military means, which marks that China has always adhered to the territorial defense strategy has begun to have a huge change, and militarily go global, although it is still the first step, but the People's Liberation Army, which is becoming more and more confident militarily, is bound to continue to take the second and third steps and constantly challenge the US military's military superiority in the world.

Therefore, the US side attaches great importance to it, and after the news broke, all the staff of the White House and the Pentagon were forced by these actions of the Chinese side to start running frantically all night, and the CIA has gone all out to activate its intelligence network on the Chinese side, and has invested the greatest force to find out what the Chinese side wants to do.

The next action of the People's Liberation Army seems to echo these tense actions of the US military, the two new 100,000-ton aircraft carriers of the People's Liberation Army quietly passed the sea trials and began to join the active service, the first ship was No. 10, and the ship name was "Běi Jīng", so it was later called the Běi Jīng class aircraft carrier, and the Chóng Qìng and Tianjin built earlier were called the Marshal Kuznetsov class, which was similar to the Liaoning obtained in the early days except for the larger displacement, and the main design was similar, and Běi The Jīng class is a 100,000-ton large aircraft carrier newly designed by the PLA. Its lead ship, the aircraft carrier "Běi Jīng", joined the Pacific Fleet and became the flagship of the Pacific Fleet.

The second Běi Jīng-class aircraft carrier with the number 11 and the name "Shanghai" joined the South China Sea Fleet and became the new flagship of the South China Sea Fleet. In this way, the PLA Navy's Pacific Fleet and South China Sea Fleet each have two aircraft carriers, plus the No. 16 Liaoning ship, the PLA Navy has five aircraft carriers that can go to sea at any time to fight, and if it is equipped with powerful carrier-based aircraft, the strength of the PLA's aircraft carrier battle group will be very amazing, but if there are no suitable carrier-based aircraft, the PLA aircraft carriers are just a few sea targets with large displacement.

Although the People's Liberation Army already had a J15 carrier-based aircraft before, this kind of typical third-generation aircraft based on the Su33 still has a certain gap in terms of radar and stealth effect compared with the Super Hornet FA18EF modified by the US military with the ANAPG79 radar. At present, the gap between the PLA's carrier-based pre-Jǐng aircraft and the empty JǐNG2000 is still a bit large, which makes the J15 fighter still weak against the U.S. military's main carrier-based aircraft, the Super Hornet.

Not to mention the stealth fighter F35AB against the US military. In addition, the number of J15 that the Varyag-class aircraft carrier can carry is limited, and the typical configuration of the Liaoning can only carry 2 groups of fighters, that is, 20 J15 carrier-based aircraft, and the Chóng Qìng and Tianjin have been transformed and enlarged, and the number of carrier-based aircraft has been greatly increased after the use of electromagnetic bombs, but it can carry up to 60 fighters in this case, in addition to other types such as anti-submarine fighters, pre-Jǐng aircraft, etc., the fighters that can be carried are actually 4050, Far lower than the number of fighters carried by the Nimitz-class of the US military, the number of fighters carried by more than 80 fighters.

The Běi Jīng-class aircraft carrier will catch up with the Nimitz-class in terms of the number of carrier-based aircraft, but if it is only J15, it will be at most on par with the Nimitz-class Super Hornet, and if it is compared with the F35AB, it is still difficult to gain an advantage, but the US military soon found that soon after the PLA's Běi Jīng-class aircraft carrier entered service, its main carrier-based aircraft turned out to be the long-rumored new generation of carrier-based aircraft Red Eagle J18, which is a new type of vertical short take-off and landing stealth fighter with a certain stealth effect. Almost the same as the U.S. military's F35B.

According to the internal simulation of combat battles, the J18 Red Eagle fighter is fully capable of defeating the same number of US F35AB fighters after cooperating with the theater joint combat tactical system under the command of the air pre-JǏNG aircraft.

This makes the Běi Jīng-class aircraft carrier fully equipped with the combat capability to compete with the air power of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the US military, with the newly completed and commissioned four new nuclear-powered 052E large destroyers with a full load displacement of 10,000 tons, six Type 054B frigates with a full load displacement of 4,000 tons, as well as two 7,000-ton Type 097 large attack Xìng nuclear submarines and four 5,000-ton Type 041B new Yuan-class strike nuclear submarines. The combat strength of the PLA Navy seems to have been reborn all of a sudden, and it has entered the world's advanced level.

In particular, the main ships of the Běi Jīng-class aircraft carrier and the Type 052E large destroyer all use the China Aegis II type improved by the Aegis Aegis system, this new air defense system uses the super small computer computing cluster system manufactured by Duke's G2G3 CPU, and the computing Xìng can be improved by an order of magnitude compared with the previous China Aegis, coupled with the improved new radar hardware, now the Chinese Aegis II has fully surpassed the capabilities of the captured Aegis. During air defense, more than 1,000 air targets can be identified and monitored at the same time, and the most dangerous 16 targets can be automatically selected to strike at the same time.

In this way, the China Aegis II type cooperates with the brand-new 32-unit 64-unit universal vertical launch system and the Haihongqi 16C short-range air defense missile Haihongqi 15B long-range air defense missile to form an air defense system that combines far and near, providing the aircraft carrier battle group with an air defense capability that is not inferior to that of the US aircraft carrier battle group.

When these new warships are successfully integrated, the PLA Navy will be fully equipped to conduct ocean-going operations in the Indian Ocean, and the PLA has demonstrated its ability to protect the normal conduct of these economic and trade activities after the currency war launched by the Chinese economic and trade department.

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