The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

2022 is destined to be an extraordinary year and a year that will go down in world history.

First, China hosted the Winter Olympics, allowing the world to witness the high level of the Winter Olympics hosted by China.

Then came Russia's massive military buildup and its resolute choice to use military force.

Military power has always been an important indicator of a country's national strength. It not only ensures national security, but also enhances a country's voice and influence in international affairs. Secondly, military power is essential to maintaining national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. It can protect a country from external threats and achieve political goals through war when necessary.

In China, the saying "war is the continuation of politics" is well known.

This time, Russia personally demonstrated the importance of military power and what it means that "war is the continuation of politics."

The outbreak of geopolitical conflicts directly caused a sharp drop in US and European stock markets, a surge in international oil and gold prices, and the three major sectors of gold, energy and food all soared.

Anything related to war is rising sharply.

The world's concerns about the outbreak of a world war have increased greatly. In Europe, there was even a large-scale propaganda campaign on radiation protection knowledge and guide manuals in the event of a nuclear war. Chemical protective suits, iodine tinctures, etc. were all sold out.

For most countries, this sudden military conflict seemed abrupt and unexpected. But they were far away from the battlefield and were just spectators.

But for European and American countries, all of them are involved in it.

NATO seems to be no longer "brain dead" and is functioning normally. Even the NATO Secretary-General claims that Europe is more united than ever before. However, doubts about whether the European coalition can replace NATO and protect Europe's security continue to arise and are greatly questioned.

The operations of Switzerland, Sweden and other countries are astonishing and have broken everyone's cognition.

Where is the neutral country you promised?
That's it! ?
Because of these operations, Switzerland and Sweden have been questioned and a large amount of funds have left. After all, they are no longer neutral, and many funds will lose trust and abandon Switzerland and Sweden.

Liu Tao kept paying attention and found that on the first day, 6000 Chinese and overseas Chinese students evacuated.

Liu Tao sometimes feels that this world is really a huge makeshift team.

Many times, a war is not an accident, but the result of a game between various parties.

Just like this war, Russia, Europe and the United States used this place as a chessboard, and eventually this war broke out.

As for the chessboard, they think they are chess pieces or even chess players.

Millions of people fled to Europe, providing Europe with a large amount of cheap labor. Even Europe's red-light districts prospered and prices were driven down.

The United States is baring its bloodthirsty fangs and reaping Europe.

Trillions of dollars fled Europe, with much of it heading to the United States.

Energy, gold, and food: these are where America’s advantages lie.

U.S. military stocks have seen their biggest increase in nearly two decades.

When it comes to making money from war, we have to look to the United States.

The United States took this opportunity to not only reap the benefits of Europe economically, but also to disintegrate Europe politically, attack the Franco-German alliance and the "European coalition" led by the Franco-German alliance, and redirect the attention of European countries from the "European coalition" to the NATO military group.

The divisions within Europe are particularly evident.

Liu Tao did not stay in Europe for long. What followed was nothing more than the fermentation of the situation and how to use this opportunity to gain benefits. As for the war, it would definitely not affect China, because this war had nothing to do with China and was too far away from China.

Liu Tao turned his attention to Serbia. The Americans were stirring up trouble here, intending to detonate the powder keg here, thereby exacerbating regional conflicts, forcing European capital to flee to the United States and reaping the European economy. At the same time, they wanted to reintegrate Europe and unite Europe around the United States.

The United States led NATO to launch the Kosovo War, which resulted in the collapse of Yugoslavia and the heavy price paid by Yugoslavia. The European economy was also hit hard, and the euro depreciated sharply.

Now the United States wants to repeat the same old tricks.

It has to be said that the United States has been working in Europe for many years, and the whole of Europe has really been infiltrated like a sieve.

Although the number of US troops stationed in Europe is not large, the US influence in Europe is still very huge.

The United States has too many means and chips to do something in the direction of Europe.

On this day, the Y-30 plane landed in Serbia.

This is the air defense missiles and various weapons and equipment that Serbia ordered from Panshan Group.

There are a lot of orders from Serbia, but the prices are not expensive, which makes them seem to be good value for money.

And this is just the first batch, there will be several more batches to come.

A batch of 10 Y-30 transport aircraft delivered at least 1300 tons of weapons and equipment to Serbia, and this is the power of strategic air transport capabilities.

The air force mission this time was very urgent. The Y-30 fleet basically took off and returned immediately after unloading supplies and refueling without making any stops.

This includes a modern long-range air defense battalion.

The equipment of a modern long-range air defense battalion is very large. In addition to conventional radar vehicles and missile launchers, there are also a large number of support vehicles, spare missiles, spare parts, etc. Most of these equipment are large and heavy equipment, which must be loaded with enough heavy transport aircraft. Generally speaking, a standard modern long-range air defense battalion includes at least 1 fire control radar vehicle, 1 command combat vehicle and 4 missile launchers, which basically takes up the carrying capacity of 3 Y-30 aircraft at a time.

In addition, each missile launcher will be equipped with a missile loading vehicle and a power supply vehicle. In addition, there are more than one radar vehicle, including long-range warning radar, fire control radar, and low-altitude blind radar system. An air defense battalion is equipped with at least 16 air defense missiles at a time, and its missile loading vehicle is also equipped with 16 spare missiles. In addition, at least 1 to 2 times the full complement of missiles must be stored, so an average air defense battalion will be equipped with at least 64 96 air defense missiles.

In fact, this time Serbia purchased 8 short-range air defense missile battalions, 4 medium-range air defense missile battalions and 2 long-range air defense missile battalions from Panshan Group!

Panshan Group rarely agreed to Serbia's loan. Not only was the price unprecedentedly favorable, but the freight was also covered. Serbia only paid a quarter, and the remaining three quarters were paid in an interest-free loan.

Even Serbia was unable to form combat effectiveness immediately. For this reason, Panshan Group agreed to let Serbia hire mercenaries so that weapons and equipment could be used immediately upon arrival and combat effectiveness could be formed immediately.

If NATO wanted to fight the Kosovo War again, the weapons and equipment purchased alone could shoot down at least 600 aircraft.

It is in this way that Serbia deters NATO from taking military action rashly.

In fact, not only Serbia, but also the Middle East and South America have purchased long-range air defense missiles from Panshan Group. Over the years, Panshan Group's air defense missiles have already had an excellent reputation.

In the past, Panshan Group was very cautious in exporting long-range air defense missiles and did not export them easily.

This time, Panshan Group broke with its usual practice and agreed to export long-range air defense missiles.

The massive increase in war risks has caused Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries and South America to worry about the outbreak of war. Coupled with the sharp rise in energy prices, food prices and gold prices, they have all chosen to import long-range air defense missiles.

As for short-range and medium-range air defense missiles, these countries have no shortage of them due to their previous purchases, but what they lack are long-range air defense missiles.

The reason why Panshan Group now agrees to export long-range air defense missiles is naturally because these long-range air defense missiles are no longer of any use to itself!
Liu Tao went to Hong Kong at the end of February.

This year's regional integration conference was chosen to be held in Hong Kong.

As an international metropolis and one of the core cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong has become increasingly prosperous after the integration of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Financial services, tourism, foreign trade, high-end manufacturing and biomedicine jointly support Hong Kong's economic prosperity.

The seven-day conference attracted global attention.

Everyone is curious about what this conference will bring to the world given the current world situation.

To everyone's surprise, the most important news of this regional integration meeting was the official establishment of the ASEAN coalition forces.

When the blueprint for building an ASEAN joint force was launched, it attracted a lot of attention. As a result, after so many years of continuous advancement, the blueprint for building an ASEAN joint force was finally completed.

The ASEAN Joint Forces has established a general headquarters, which is under the jurisdiction of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

The total strength of the ASEAN coalition forces consists of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with a total strength of 120 million, including 50 in the Army, 30 in the Navy and 40 in the Air Force!

The Army’s land rapid reaction force is composed of 42 combined brigades and 2 combined divisions.

The Navy consists of four major fleets: the Western Indian Ocean Fleet, the South Indian Ocean Fleet, the Eastern Pacific Fleet, and the South Pacific Fleet, including four aircraft carrier formations with a total of 4 ships. The Eastern Pacific Fleet's home port is in Luzon, the South Pacific Fleet's home port is in Dongdi Port, the South Indian Ocean Fleet's home port is in Coconut City Port, and the Western Indian Ocean Fleet's home port is in Dagon.

The Air Force is mainly divided into aviation, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missile, airborne, radar and other arms. It will have more than 4000 combat aircraft, including thousands of third-generation aircraft, about 200 bombers, and about 20 early warning aircraft!
This construction achievement also means that the ASEAN coalition forces have become a powerful world-class military force.

This also means that in terms of regional integration, after completing economic integration, there has been another major breakthrough, achieving milestone construction significance and ushering in military integration!

Regional integration, the most important of which are political integration, economic integration, and military integration. Now that economic integration and military integration have been completed, only the most important political integration remains.

As long as the most important political integration is completed, we can basically declare that regional integration has been completed and it will become the world's first true regional integration.

These two integrations were completed earlier than Europe.

Even in terms of political integration, it is moving more smoothly, faster and more steadily than Europe.

Europe is still a mess. Although there is a Franco-German alliance, it still cannot unite the whole of Europe. In addition, the rapid growth of the right-wing camp in France, the end of Merkel's political career in Germany, and the fact that the interests of France and Germany are not completely consistent have made Europe's political integration bumpy.

As for Eastern Europe, this regional integration conference did not focus on discussing it, but instead called on all parties to resolve their differences through political consultation and achieve regional peace.

The entire regional integration conference focused on peace and development, and Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Russia were invited to participate in the conference together for the first time.

This is also seen as the connection between China + ASEAN regional integration and Northeast Asian economic integration.

Geopolitical conflicts have focused everyone's attention on Eastern Europe.

It seems that Americans have suddenly stopped talking about "returning to the moon" and have stopped talking about the aerospace field. It seems that aerospace is no longer important and NASA seems to have been forgotten.

Faced with the booming space travel and the wave of advancement into space, Americans seem to have given up.

In the past few years, facing the pressure from Jewish capital, the United States started the path of selling, selling, selling.

And this time, the United States is reaping Europe and trying to reap the whole world.

In Europe, the ESA's originally planned manned space flight has been postponed!
On this day, Europe and the United States joined forces to drive Russia out of the International Space Station.

The Russian module of the International Space Station has separated from the International Space Station, and Russia has also announced that it will no longer cooperate with Europe and the United States on the International Space Station. The International Space Station had previously announced a delay in its retirement, but now it has to face retirement.

Before this, it was Russia's cargo spacecraft and space shuttles that transported supplies and astronauts to the International Space Station.

As for the United States, although manned space flight is not a problem, NASA does not dare to rashly allow private aerospace companies to transport astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station, because rendezvous and docking could lead to a major disaster if not handled with care.

In just a few days, facing huge changes, the International Space Station announced the end of its mission.

On this day, the various modules of the International Space Station separated.

This means that the International Space Station has officially come to an end, and there will no longer be an International Space Station.

China's "Tiangong" space station has become the only active space station in Earth's space.

It was also on this day that the Panshan spacecraft came within a dozen meters of the Russian space capsule.

There was no rendezvous and docking because the two sides had different standards and it was impossible to carry out rendezvous and docking.

Russian astronauts, tied with a space rope, performed a space walk and were then brought to the Panshan spacecraft by a robotic arm.

In just one hour, the Panshan spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with the Tiangong space station. Two Russian astronauts followed the Chinese astronauts into the Tiangong space station. The astronauts at the Tiangong space station welcomed the arrival of the two Russian astronauts and held a celebration ceremony for them.

These two Russian astronauts are also very famous all over the world.

The two Russian astronauts were also amazed because the food in the Tiangong space station was so good and the variety was very rich. What surprised them most was that there was wine in the Tiangong space station!

You know, when they went to the International Space Station, they secretly brought alcohol up there, but they finished it soon after.

Russia is not only a fighting nation, but also a nation that loves to drink. (End of this chapter)