The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 299 9-meter-long 'Eagle Strike' anti-ship missile

Sleep until you wake up naturally.

When Liu Tao woke up, he looked at his watch and it was already noon.

After washing up, Liu Tao went to the cafeteria to eat.

Holding the lunch box, queue up to get rice and vegetables.

In the cafeteria, there was an auntie wearing a red armband patrolling around.

If anyone wasted food and was caught by these aunties, they would be criticized and punished. If it was a little more serious, the leader would be called in. In serious cases, the whole factory would be criticized and the worst case would be fired directly.

These aunts are definitely the most feared existence for many people.

This also means that there is almost no food waste in the cafeteria.

Everyone gets an appropriate amount of food according to their appetite.

These aunts have all experienced the famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they know only too well how precious food is.

Even though most of their food is now traded from Southeast Asia, they still do not allow food to be wasted.

Liu Tao found a seat, sat down, and chatted with the workers while eating.

This is also one of his ways of taking the mass line.

It is said that the eyes of the masses are sharp, and Liu Tao firmly believes in this.

He has also always emphasized that whether a leader is good or not depends on the evaluation of ordinary workers, and gold and silver cups are not as good as the workers' reputation.

The camp is made of iron and the soldiers are flowing water.

Now many of the workers in Panshan Machinery Factory have been replaced.

But Liu Tao has always insisted on doing so, listening more to what the workers care about and what they do, and listening to which leader they praise and which leader they scold.

Leaders who are praised by everyone are very likely to be good leaders. After checking if there are no problems, Liu Tao is willing to promote them. If there are problems during the inspection, it means that they are hidden very well, so we have to be cautious.

Leaders who are scolded are most likely bad leaders, and Liu Tao will also investigate. If the leaders are scolded because they are serious and demanding, Liu Tao will be very pleased and will cultivate such leaders. If they have problems with their work style or are corrupt, they will be investigated by the relevant departments and the bad apples will be cleared out.

All the cadres who have been dealt with in recent years have had solid evidence, and none of them have been wronged.

After finishing his meal and leaving the cafeteria, Liu Tao came to the place where the tanks and armored vehicles were placed.

一辆辆80式主战坦克、80式自行高炮、81式轻型坦克、81式中型坦克、81式水陆两用坦克、81式步兵战车等等排列得很整齐。

Liu Tao didn't even need to think about it, he knew that none of the cars here could meet his standards, and there were many problems with each piece of equipment.

However, in order to deliver the task, this is the only way. If there is any problem, he will solve it.

The problems with the equipment were solved one by one, and by the time all were solved, it was already evening.

After his inspection, the Type 81 light tanks, Type 81 medium tanks, Type 81 amphibious tanks and Type 81 infantry fighting vehicles will be shipped out soon.

The others were first transported to the Malone training base and delivered to the combined brigade.

When it is time for delivery, these foreign trade versions are either shipped to the ports of Western Region Province or to Yangcheng Port.

The routes heading to the Western Regions are by land, mainly for trade with Pakistan, Persia and other countries, with relatively small volumes. The really large volumes on this side come from the foreign trade working group of the China North Industries Group Corporation and daily necessities.

For the Southwest weapons industry, the port with the largest volume is Yangcheng Port, which exports to the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

With the Falklands War, the Exocet anti-ship missile and the Eagle Strike anti-ship missile became famous overnight and became best-sellers in the world arms market. These two anti-ship missiles are not difficult to sell.

The 'Exocet' anti-ship missile is a legal weapon, which often contains many conditions, such as being bundled with the 'Super Etendard' or 'Mirage' fighter jets, or having additional political and economic conditions.

But the Eagle Strike anti-ship missile is different. As long as the deal is done, there will not be any additional conditions attached, which naturally makes it more popular.

West Germany purchased in Europe, Libya, Egypt, and South Africa purchased in Africa, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Persia purchased in the Middle East, Pakistan purchased a batch in the South Asian subcontinent, and Mexico, Brazil, and Peru purchased in Latin America.

Argentina also took the initiative to contact Liu Tao, but now Argentina has no money and is heavily in debt. They wanted to buy on credit, but Liu Tao directly refused.

As for Liu Tao's proposal to use mines, agricultural products, gold, etc. as transactions, Argentina was still hesitant and did not give him a clear answer.

Although the total order for Eagle Strike anti-ship missiles is only 1,500, the total contract is only US$2 billion, which is not as large as the order in the Middle East.

But this opened up the way for him to obtain guns, bullets, cannons, and artillery shells.

Liu Tao felt that the foreign trade working group should treat him to a good meal.

Because most of the other orders here are given to the foreign trade working group.

In the production workshop, Liu Tao is assembling the "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missile with parts.

Based on his understanding of the Eagle Strike anti-ship missile, he redeveloped a larger Eagle Strike missile.

However, many parts are the same and shared.

It's just that the 'Eagle Strike' anti-ship missile he was going to assemble was larger in diameter and longer.

For such a big thing, Liu Tao has to use tools, such as a crane!

As Liu Tao assembled it, an 'Eagle Strike' anti-ship missile gradually took shape.

However, unlike the previous Eagle Strike-7 anti-ship missile, the Eagle Strike anti-ship missile in front of Liu Tao is 9 meters long and has a diameter of 1.2 meters. It is much larger than the previous one and is also two meters longer.

The combat head weighs 1200 kilograms, and the entire missile weighs more than 3 tons.

"So many questions?" Liu Tao frowned slightly.

He saw a virtual panel at the corner of his eye, which displayed the entire model of the missile. Each red color represented a problem.

It's not a problem with the parts, but a problem with the aviation power.

In other words, this missile may not be able to be launched.

He was somewhat speechless about this.

He originally thought that his attainments in the field of anti-ship missiles were already very deep, and he was probably the best in the world. Now all he had to do was to increase the diameter of the missile, lengthen the body, and enlarge the solid rocket engine based on the original "Eagle Strike" missile. That should be it.

I didn't expect this situation to happen.

This reminded him of when he first started working on the Eagle Strike anti-ship missile. It was pretty much the same as it is now, or even more outrageous.

And it is impossible to test-fire this thing, so you have to build more of it to earn upgrade points, and then upgrade it again and again to eventually reach the desired performance requirements.

"It looks like I have to upgrade again to solve these problems." Liu Tao muttered to himself.

Fortunately, he has a golden finger, otherwise it would often take a professional technical team several years or even more than ten years to develop an anti-ship missile, and then it would take decades to improve it step by step to enhance its performance.

(End of this chapter)