The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 769 Al Laihua
In order for this short-range/vertical fighter to reach the level of a third-generation fighter or even a third-generation and a half fighter, it must have a powerful aircraft engine, and it must be a vector engine.

But by that time, what China needs is not a light aircraft carrier, but a medium or even a large aircraft carrier.

By that time, there will naturally be more advanced carrier-based aircraft.

Medium and large aircraft carriers have longer flight decks and can carry more aircraft, so they are naturally not subject to as many restrictions as light aircraft carriers.

For example, the J-10 fighter and the J-11 fighter can even be developed into carrier-based versions.

However, advanced carrier-based aircraft are not urgent for China at present.

What China really lacks now are strategic bombers, electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, and transport aircraft.

All of these take time. It takes time to train technicians, and it also takes time to train pilots.

Even though universities have been expanding their enrollment in recent years, the cultivation and accumulation of talent takes time and cannot be achieved overnight.

Just like Liu Tao can use the golden finger to shorten the development process of the J-10 and J-11 fighter jets, saving a lot of development time and a lot of development funds, but the flight of the fighter jets still requires pilots to fly the fighter jets, and he cannot replace the pilots.

It takes almost five years just to build a test flight team and get it on track so that it can operate independently.

Training test pilots and pilots also requires huge investment and time.

Now that the Gulf War is over, although the situation in Europe is tense, Liu Tao knows that there is no chance of a war.

The United States is not prepared for the S3 season, and the current situation in the United States does not allow the United States to play the S3 season.

Similarly, although the Soviet Union now seems very aggressive, in fact the nuclear power plant issue has tied up a lot of the Soviet Union's energy, material and financial resources. In addition, the international crude oil price has been suppressed to below US$25 per barrel, which is also a big blow to the Soviet Union's oil revenue.

At a price of $25 per barrel, the Soviet Union could still make a profit, but the profit was far less than before.

As for China, it is wholeheartedly seeking development and pursuing peace and development. Now, all the content of China's talks with any country revolves around "peace and development", and it has become an important force for world peace.

China only wants to develop its economy, enhance its national strength, and let its people live a good life.

As for war, it is too cruel, and there is no need for China to go towards war now.

China's external environment has greatly improved compared to more than ten years ago. Except for East Asia and the north, there is no threat from other directions.

The situation in East Asia has already been greatly eased, and in the north, China and the Soviet Union have already achieved normalization. The exchanges between the two sides are increasing, and bilateral trade has reached new highs.

This is why, in the previous party group meeting, Huaxia Southern Ordnance Group Corporation did not receive any funds from the headquarters, but instead asked to prepare for hard times. The other group companies, at least, were allocated a large sum of 500 billion yuan.

After more than ten years of development, from the perspective of the weapons industry system, the production capacity of Panshan Group in the weapons industry alone has surpassed the total production capacity of the national weapons industry system before 1979. And the surpassing is not just a little bit, not to mention the surpassing in quality.

Moreover, in terms of missiles, the Thunderbolt series of missiles, the Aegis series of air defense missiles, the Eagle Strike anti-ship missiles, etc., have already formed a complete set of supporting equipment. Once production is released, the output will still be very impressive.

After staying in Guifei Group for three days, Liu Tao returned to Panshan Group headquarters.

Beijing.

Liu Tao hurried to the capital.

Seeing Al, he looked tired and had white hair.

Liu Tao said: "Al, my good friend, I am glad that you are visiting China!"

The two have been friends for more than 10 years and have kept in touch over the years. Many of Panshan Group's businesses in Iraq rely on Al. Al and Rashid are the backers of Panshan Group's business in Iraq, helping to solve some problems.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. When Panshan Group, a strong dragon, arrived in Iraq, it had to rely on the bigwigs in Iraq if it wanted to get ahead. The two sides had to cooperate, and only cooperation could lead to a win-win situation.

"Liu, my good friend, we in Iraq need your help now!" Al didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

The current situation in Iraq is as dire as it can be.

Almost all the schools in the country were bombed and destroyed, as well as the hospitals. Now there is not a single decent hospital in Iraq.

As for the formerly prosperous shopping malls, they have all become ruins.

There was no place where government agencies and units had offices that was not bombed.

According to preliminary assessments by relevant Iraqi parties, the war caused direct economic losses to Iraq exceeding US$2500 billion.

The huge losses and huge civilian casualties made Iraq hate Americans immensely.

What's even worse is that Iraq's oil wells have been bombed and are now unable to produce oil. Some of the oil is even burning and Iraq is unable to put out the fire.

"Al, we have never frozen the money you deposited with us from the beginning to the end! You can withdraw the money at will without any obstacles." Liu Tao said, giving Al a guarantee.

Iraq’s assets in Europe, the United States and Japan have long been frozen.

Even now that the Gulf War is over, these frozen assets have not been unfrozen.

According to the current public opinion in Europe and the United States, these countries want to take Iraq's frozen assets for themselves, on the grounds that they will be used to compensate the dead and injured and the soldiers who have suffered psychological trauma.

Anyway, given the nature of Europeans and Americans, they have plenty of reasons and excuses to confiscate these assets.

Iraq has a total of 350 billion US dollars in deposits with him.

Liu Tao naturally coveted the money, but he couldn't do such a thing.

Al said: "Liu, we have great faith in your credibility, and we are very grateful that you can keep your promise."

"But now, we want you to help us put out all the oil field fires!" Al said, "This is the most important thing now. As long as you can put out all the oil field fires, we will give priority to you in our reconstruction work."

Iraq was hit hard in this Gulf War.

The navy and air force were completely wiped out, the army was severely damaged and lost a large part of its equipment.

Rebuilding the army costs a lot of money.

But rebuilding the army is not the most urgent thing; the most urgent thing is post-war reconstruction.

Now Iraq relies on purchasing supplies from China to prevent its people from starving and freezing. Various tents, food, noodles, instant noodles, mineral water, etc. are continuously shipped to Iraq.

Therefore, the most urgent issue facing Iraq now is the post-war reconstruction project.

European and American consortiums all wanted to get these post-war reconstruction projects.

However, Iraq still considered Panshan Group because the asking price from Europe and the United States was too high.

(End of this chapter)