"Familiar plot."

Chen Nian looked at the chart that Chen Guo projected on the screen, and said with a little emotion.

The area of this exercise is exactly the same as he remembered in his previous life, but due to the difference in the number of ships, the arrangement is still relatively sparse.

However, modern warfare is not an infantry hedge in the Middle Ages, and the density of combat units does not represent anything, and strike coverage is king.

"Familiar?"

Chen Guo asked a little confused.

"Well, I always feel like I've seen similar Bingtui on some forum."

Chen Nian casually found a reason to perfunctory the past, and Chen Guo wouldn't ask anyway.

"That's not surprising, it's a pretty standard tactical layout."

Chen Guo nodded in reply, and then continued:

"However, it's just a deterrent now—but some voyage diversions are also inevitable, and it's a shock to the tiger."

"Is it a big impact?"

"It's not big, you can see from the reaction of the airlines, and most smart people can still see our intentions."

"This wave of superiors is more thoughtful, and it can be said that it has pushed the process forward a big step."

"After that, we're much more relaxed."

Hearing Chen Guo's words, Chen Nian nodded approvingly.

In fact, after thinking clearly about the stakes, he was actually not in favor of completing the grand strategy at this point in time.

There is only one reason, the cost is too high, which affects the scheduling of one's own resources and the layout of future development.

In a word, it doesn't matter if you can get it at the moment, as long as the enemy can't get it.

——

However, we can calculate this, and the opponent can't fail to calculate.

So, Chen Nian opened his mouth and asked:

"What did Lao Mei say? Is there a reaction? ”

"Nope."

"No?!"

Chen Nian was shocked.

How could it be that there was no response?

Although in the current environment, the opponent can make few countermeasures, but in any case, they have not finished playing the cards in their hands.

Just because of the threat of a few member states, they are going to shrink to the bottom?

That's unreasonable, isn't it?

——

Or is there something going on in the exercise ground that you don't know yet?

Before Chen Nian could continue to ask, Chen Guo preemptively said the answer:

"We intercepted two YJ-21s."

".055D intercepted?"

"Yes, it's the Haihongqi-29."

"Reasonable."

At this moment, Chen Nian was completely relieved.

Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh:

"There's a lot of work to do now, and it seems that I'm slowly getting fatter."

"Isn't it? Now the richest is the navy, and a third of the Spark's annual budget is eaten by them. ”

Chen Guo's tone was a little disgusted, after all, he was born in aircraft design, and he was still more emotionally inclined to the Air Force.

——

Of course, this is just a joke, as the head of Starfire, he can take care of the priorities better than anyone else.

"There's no way, the navy is the most expensive type of service, and there is no one."

"However, the 096 project is almost complete, and the follow-up may burn a little slower."

At this time, it was already March of 10 years, and nearly 8 months had passed since the start of the 096 project.

According to the planning of the project at that time, about the end of next month, the most advanced nuclear submarine in human history will be launched.

"The .096 is over, and the 002 project is about to officially start construction again."

"As mentioned above, although most of the technical problems have been solved, we still have to allocate some money to support the construction of the 002 project."

"After all, this 002 is a flat-deck aircraft carrier, and there are some technical details, which are still different from 001."

Chen Nian has no objection to this.

Since its birth, it can be said that Xinghuo has intercepted most of the country's resources, and at the beginning, all the projects under the group almost completely relied on the blood transfusion of the central government, and in the most difficult time, even millions of funds had to be supplemented by relying on foreign arms sales.

At that time, in order to support Xinghuo's research projects, the central government even stopped a large number of sub-projects under pressure, relying on administrative power to ensure the operation of Xinghuo.

Now that the conditions are good, it is also appropriate to give some feedback.

However, support is support, and follow-up core projects must ensure sufficient resource investment.

"We're going to start a fusion project this year, and I conservatively estimate that we need at least 200 billion of a budget, can you guarantee it?"

This figure is not something that Chen Nian said casually, in fact, he was referring to the total investment in domestic nuclear fusion projects in the previous life.

Several key projects, including the Shenguang series and the circulation series, add up to the total capital consumption at this level.

Chen Guo calculated a little in his heart and replied:

"It's basically enough, accounting for 30% of the total package, which is about the same level as our original preset."

"That's fine."

Chen Nian nodded with satisfaction.

That's the strength of a mature team.

You just need to ask for money, and you don't need to think about where the money comes from

And just when Chen Nian and Chen Guo were calmly exchanging the details of the follow-up technical development, on the other side, Bob's already angry muscles were about to burst out.

The retreat on all fronts, knowing that the enemy was in front of him, but he did not have the confidence to make a move, this was the most aggrieved situation he had encountered in his career.

How so?

If they return a few years ago, they may indeed choose to back down and avoid, but the reason for making such a choice must be to ensure the maximization of benefits.

And not as it is now, purely because of "lack of strength".

It made him extremely painful and angry.

It is the powerlessness of oneself that suffers, and the indecision of the above that is angry.

——

Originally, there was still a chance for the side.

If the situation is pushed to the point of eruption before the other side organizes the exercise, the allies will have no time to react and will have to choose to side with their side.

But it was only those days of "discussion" and "consideration" that made the last opportunity for oneself.

Now that the wood has been completed and the other side has completed its strategic deployment, how easy is it to achieve a breakthrough?

Thinking of this, Bob clenched his fists and asked through gritted teeth:

"So they mean, that's the end of it?"

"We're not going to react anymore and let them run wild?"

The assistant on the side nodded helplessly and replied:

"Judging from the latest communication, this is indeed what it means."

"We don't have to."

"It's not unnecessary! It's just that they're afraid! ”

Bob interrupted the assistant with a roar and slammed his fist on the desk.

"We should not retreat, we should not show weakness, the consequence of the military collapse is a total economic and diplomatic collapse, this is the foundation on which we stand, how can we give up?!"

"But we had to give up."

The assistant silently handed Bob a stack of papers, and then spoke:

"In fact, we're already starting to fall apart."

"Four years have passed since the economic crisis, but our economic situation has not improved in the slightest."

"We have not been able to grow for four years in a row, confidence in financial markets has hit rock bottom, and the previous big gamble in the military field can be said to have been declared a complete failure."

"Actually, I'm not surprised that Congress made such a choice."

"They just want to stop the loss, unlike us, the first thing they need to ensure is to keep people alive."

Hearing this, Bob's originally indignant emotions suddenly cooled down as if a bucket of dry ice had been splashed.

"Is it that serious?"

He asked subconsciously.

In fact, as a military commander, the only thing he was concerned about was military spending.

In the past few years, no matter how bad the economic environment is, military spending has not shrunk in the slightest.

Therefore, he always thought that the potential of this country was far from being squeezed out.

But now, listening to the assistant say this, it seems that this is not the case?

"Perhaps, more serious than you think."

The assistant then unfolded the document and began to explain Bob point by point.

Internal and external debt has reached its highest level in history, even to the point where it is almost unsustainable, in other words, the state is no longer able to borrow money from any open market, and the only way to keep the economy afloat is to constantly overdraw the credibility of the currency at the expense of long-term inflation for the stability of the present period.

This is pure drumming and passing flowers.

Banks' balance sheets are on the verge of bursting, and several major banks have issued clear warnings to the Fed for further policy support.

But the question is, what can the Fed do?

Further interest rate hikes to maintain the overall oxygen supply, or cut off part of it and lose the pawn to protect the car?

In the case of deep involvement of capital, no policy is so easy to implement.

In addition, the manufacturing industry is not optimistic.

By February this year, the manufacturing PMI recorded 45.3%, expected 47.5%, and the previous value of 47.7%, which is already the 14th consecutive month that the PMI has been below the withering line, breaking the record in the United States in this regard.

It's a miracle to be able to hold on until now.

As a result, new orders, export orders, and imports all fell by more than 3 percentage points, which also reached the largest decline in a single statistic.

The most terrifying thing is that the non-performing loan ratio of overseas companies in the United States has also reached a new high, which means that not only can they not make money at home, but even their overseas market position has gradually been replaced by a certain country.

Of all the data, perhaps the only thing that looks good is the unemployment rate.

4.7% and has continued to decline in recent months.

Bob breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"The unemployment data seems to be quite positive, which may be a sign of the resilience of our economy."

"We have a chance to fight again"

"It's fake."

However, before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by the assistant, who then explained:

"In six months, the unemployment rate has continued to fall, the number of employed people has increased, but the industrial electricity consumption has almost halved."

"Mr. Bob, do you know what that means?"

What does that mean?"

"It means that our industrial sector has been psionically driven."

“.”

It's not such a funny joke at a moment like this.

But looking at the mocking look on the assistant's face, Bob really realized the seriousness of the problem.

——

If a set of apparently unreasonable data is still allowed to be released, it means that there is no way to maintain public confidence in the country other than to publish false data.

No wonder Congress is so hesitant

Wait a minute.

Bob suddenly came to his senses.

The original strategy was to drag the opponent into the quagmire.

But in fact, what is really being dragged into the quagmire seems to be.

We??

(End of chapter)