The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 343: Type 022 missile boats and torpedo boats regarded as treasures
The first Type 054 frigate and the first Type 052 destroyer are under construction in full swing.

It has to be said that China's shipbuilding industry is really not that good now, and can only be considered third-rate in the world.

The order flow of the global shipbuilding industry has experienced a shift from Western Europe to North America, then from North America to Western Europe, and then to Western Europe to Japan. Currently, Japan is the country with the strongest shipbuilding capacity in the world.

From 1965 to the present, Japan's total shipbuilding volume has continued to account for more than half of the world's total shipbuilding volume.

However, affected by the two oil crises and the rise of South Korea's shipbuilding industry, Japan's shipbuilding industry is not as prosperous as before.

In 1975, South Korea's shipbuilding market share was the same as China's, accounting for about 1% of the world market share. However, now South Korea's shipbuilding market share has exceeded 15%, while China's shipbuilding market share is only 2%.

This shows how rapidly South Korea's shipbuilding industry is developing.

Liu Tao attaches great importance to the shipbuilding industry. The construction of Type 054 frigates and Type 052 destroyers is not only to enhance the strength of the Chinese Navy and improve China's warship research and development level, but also to improve the overall level and strength of China's shipbuilding industry to compete for more market share in the shipbuilding industry.

The shipbuilding industry is a modern comprehensive industry that produces and sells shipbuilding products and provides technical equipment for industries such as water transportation, marine development and national defense construction. It is also a labor-, capital- and technology-intensive industry. It has a strong driving effect on the development of upstream and downstream industries such as mechanical and electrical, steel, chemical, shipping, and marine resource exploration. It is of great significance to promote employment of the labor force, develop export trade and ensure coastal defense security.

As long as China occupies about 50% of the world's shipbuilding market share, it will be possible for China to have at least 30 people employed in the shipbuilding industry alone. Shipyards do more than just build ships. They also repair ships, dismantle ships, and provide supporting services. There are at least 50 jobs directly related to these aspects alone.

As for the mechanical and electrical, steel, chemical, shipping and other industries that it has driven, there are at least 120 million jobs.

As for whether he would seize the opportunity of South Korea's shipbuilding industry, Liu Tao just sneered. He would rather die than let his friend die. As a Chinese, he naturally has to consider China.

As for the Korean shipbuilding industry, what does it have to do with him!

As for Liu Tao's method, it was also very simple, which was to let the Far East Shipping Group place orders with the mainland's shipyards. Although large merchant ships could not be built, ships of several hundred tons or a thousand tons would not be a problem.

At the same time, we provide technical support so that these shipyards can produce world-class merchant ships.

Another thing is to rely on the construction of warships to cultivate and improve the supply chain and industrial level of the shipbuilding industry, so as to develop step by step and accumulate reputation.

The cost of building the first Type 052 destroyer is so high, isn't it because it carries the heavy burden of training workers and improving the industrial chain?

Dalian Shipyard.

Six Type 022 missile boats and three Type 022A torpedo boats were lined up there.

These missile boats and torpedo boats were built by Dalian Shipyard, Hudong Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard, China Shipyard, Wuchang Shipyard and others.

At this time, they gathered at Dalian Shipyard and were handed over to Liu Tao for inspection.

These missile boats and torpedo boats were inspected one by one.

At this time, the crews of the missile boats and torpedo boats sent by the North Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet were waiting eagerly.

At present, the Type 022 missile boat is China's strongest missile boat, and it can even be said to be the strongest ship. According to war game simulations, the Type 022 missile boat can easily kill the Type 051 destroyer and the Type 053 frigate.

After all, the Type 022 missile boat is fast, maneuverable, very flexible, and has an advanced thermal power system. It is very likely to be sunk by the anti-ship missiles of the Type 051 missile boat before the Type 053 destroyer and the Type 022 frigate find it. If it is sunk by the anti-ship missiles of the Type 022 missile boat, both the Type 022 frigate and the Type 053 destroyer will definitely not be able to resist and will definitely be sunk directly.

And there is another reason why the Type 022 missile boat is so popular with the navy, that is, the Type 022 missile boat is very suitable for guerrilla warfare in the near sea.

Guerrilla warfare is the favorite of Chinese soldiers and it has a fine tradition that is ingrained in every soldier's bones.

This batch of missile boats and torpedo boats were allocated to the North Sea Fleet and the East Sea Fleet.

The North Sea Fleet is the newest force in the Navy and the strongest and best-equipped of the three major fleets of the Navy. Its maritime defense zone is the Yellow Sea north of Lianyungang and the Bohai Bay. Its main task is to guard the maritime security of the capital.

The first Type 051 destroyer and Type 053 frigate are both equipped with the North Sea Fleet.

The East China Sea Fleet is responsible for protecting the security of China's eastern coastal waters, and its importance is self-evident.

But in the past, everyone was very poor and had no equipment. The navy was so weak that it could only use wooden ships as warships. Many of them were even warships from the Republic of China era or even the Beiyang era in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. They were already outdated.

Now that we can use new missile boats and torpedo boats, it is like a big year for the navy.

Moreover, not everyone can board a missile boat or torpedo boat. There are educational requirements and one must pass a strict political review.

For a Type 022 missile boat, one almost always needs a college degree.

Liu Tao looked at the desire in the eyes of these naval officers and soldiers and sighed in his heart. They were just missile boats and torpedo boats, but these naval officers and soldiers regarded them as treasures.

Think about it, thirty or forty years from now, China's coast guard ships will be tens of thousands of tons.

One by one, the crew members headed towards the missile boats and torpedo boats. There were three Type 022 missile boats each in the North Sea Fleet and the East Sea Fleet, two torpedo boats in the North Sea Fleet and one in the East Sea Fleet.

This is different from the South China Sea Fleet. The South China Sea Fleet faces pressure from the south. A squadron of the Soviet Pacific Fleet is stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, and the Annan Navy is not weak either. It has 2 destroyers, 7 frigates, 2 American "Kochin" class fleet minesweepers, 6 Soviet SO-1 class anti-submarine ships and 135 various light ships. The most advanced of them are 11 missile boats, including 8 Soviet "Wasp" class and 3 "Hornet" class. The largest number is the frigate, with a total of 62 Type 55 and 38A, followed by torpedo boats, with a total of 4 P-6, P-28 and "Turia" class.

In addition, there are about 50 American patrol boats, 2 'Jurkat' class minesweepers and 5 Polish-made 'K-8' class minesweepers.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is even stronger than China's South China Sea Fleet.

It is for this reason that the Type 022 frigates and Type 022A torpedo boats produced by several shipyards in the south are equipped with the South China Sea Fleet to strengthen the strength of the South China Sea Fleet.

The entire Annan navy, plus the Soviet Pacific Fleet branch stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, is stronger than the entire Chinese navy combined.

Although the two sides still have a tacit understanding and maintain a certain degree of restraint, it is ultimately not as good as the tacit understanding between the air forces of both sides.

No one knows in which direction the future will develop, but there is no doubt that we must always prepare for the worst, just in case, rather than being caught off guard.

(End of this chapter)