The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 917 Type 071 Amphibious Landing Ship
The Chinese Navy's amphibious ship force has continued to grow along with the development of the Chinese Navy since the establishment of the Chinese Navy.

The different times also show different construction characteristics.

In the 50s and 60s, the focus was on coastal areas, the army was given priority, and single-unit delivery was used. In the 70s and 80s, the focus was on offshore areas, from boats to ships, the navy was the main force, and the delivery was carried out in an organized manner.

With the escort in the Persian Gulf, China's naval strategy began to transform from near-sea defense to far-sea defense.

The development of frigates and destroyers is okay.

However, the development of amphibious ship forces is seriously lagging behind. Now the Chinese Navy's amphibious ship forces have only a dozen tank landing ships with limited functions, and each ship can only carry a maximum of 10 tanks or 200 officers and soldiers.

The amphibious ship force has a very large shortage of force projection capabilities.

The Type 072 tank landing ship is the largest landing ship designed and built by China. It is China's earliest attempt to build a large tank landing ship and also the first amphibious landing ship with ocean-going significance.

However, the full load displacement of the Type 072 tank landing ship is only tons, and it can only carry eleven tanks and two personnel and vehicle landing craft at most, but cannot carry helicopters.

Now the navy is in urgent need of an advanced large landing ship. The navy named this amphibious landing ship Type 071, with a target of no less than 9000 tons.

The task of building a new type of amphibious landing ship fell on the country's largest shipyard, Yangcheng Shipyard.

There is no way. Yangcheng Shipyard is the largest shipyard in the country and also the most advanced shipyard, with the strongest ability to build warships.

Even the Yangcheng Shipyard can build aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines.

This task was more accurately given to Liu Tao than to Yangcheng Shipyard.

After Liu Tao returned to the Yangcheng Shipyard, he began to build the amphibious landing ship.

Liu Tao completed the design in just one month.

The Type 071 can carry four large air-cushion landing ships, four to six "Ray Sculpture" helicopters, hundreds of marines, and more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles.

The stealth design has a smooth and simple appearance. Although it is not a true stealth warship, its radar reflection area is greatly reduced.

Although the radar reflection area is small, the interior of the Type 071 dock landing ship is quite impressive. The giant dock landing cabin at the rear section has a total length of meters, which is enough to play basketball and other things in it. It can also berth a large number of air-cushion landing craft, personnel and vehicles.

Two 730 close-in defense systems and a 76mm rapid-fire gun are the main weapons of the Type 071. After all, it is also a combat ship and needs some armament.

Liu Tao then arranged for the Yangcheng Shipyard to prepare to build the Type 071 amphibious landing ship.

The Chinese Navy needs about ten Type 071 amphibious landing ships.

Now we need to build the first Type 071 amphibious landing ship to achieve a breakthrough from 0 to 1.

The situation in Somalia has further deteriorated.

The peacekeeping forces withdrew from Somalia and the Somali government took over power, but was unable to control the situation. Instead of improving, the situation spiraled further out of control.

There are at least hundreds of warlords, big and small.

The one with a gun is the boss.

Liu Tao had to make a decision to give up half of his industries in Somalia.

These industries are all located in the territories of some forces with European and American backgrounds. They are still in chaos now, and they will definitely be attacked later.

Instead of doing this, it is better to quit while the chaos is going on.

Of course, Liu Tao would not let the Westerners get away with the power stations, factories, etc., and would blow them up before leaving.

To be honest, it's a pity about the situation in Somalia. He has made efforts, but unfortunately the internal and external situations in Somalia are too complicated, and he has no way to turn the tide.

To the extent that, with the situation having developed to this point, he had to make the decision to give up half of his industry, knowing that the losses would be huge.

The loss is as high as 1 billion RMB, but this part of the industry can bring in 200 to 300 million yuan in revenue every year.

But now, the industry is gone, not to mention the profits. After Liu Tao made the decision, Somalia began to implement it.

In a gold mine, after the mercenaries escorted the workers away, the remaining few mercenaries were setting up explosive packs.

They are professionals in this area.

It is easy to evacuate people, but it is difficult to evacuate mining equipment and smelting equipment.

Since we are going to retreat, we cannot give our opponents any advantage and have to destroy everything.

If they were not forced to do so, the mercenaries would be reluctant to blow up the gold mine, because it is a large gold mine that Somalia had previously sold to the mercenaries in order to import guns and ammunition, but now the warlords here no longer recognize the deal.

In a war-torn place like this, laws, contracts, etc. are all false; only armed force is real.

If a warlord sets his sights on your property, there are hundreds of ways to take it away from you.

After placing the explosive pack, a mercenary presses the button.

Boom boom boom~~
One after another, the explosive packs exploded, destroying the gold ore and smelting equipment, and the entire mine was blown up.

To resume mining, it would require an investment of at least hundreds of millions of dollars and would take at least three years.

This is because the mercenaries had already repaired the road. If there was no road, it would take much longer.

At the same time, a hydroelectric power station has already released all the water.

The mercenaries set up the explosive packs.

Since we are leaving, there is naturally no need for this place to exist.

If the mercenaries had a conscience and did not bear to blow up the hydroelectric power station when it was full of water, the water would have been enough to flood a large area downstream.

The mercenary got on the helicopter. After the helicopter took off, the mercenary pressed the button. Boom boom boom~ explosions occurred almost simultaneously, and the huge hydropower station was destroyed.

Large areas were suddenly without power.

"FUCK!"

Dozens of warlords were stunned.

They all planned to take over these industries once the situation stabilized, but they didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, these industries were gone.

And they will suffer heavy losses.

You have to know that those assets amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. Now not only are they losing hundreds of millions of dollars, but it has also caused huge impacts.

It's like a hydroelectric power station was blown up, how are they going to replenish the electricity?

There is absolutely no way!
Even if Somalia rebuilds an identical hydroelectric power station, it will take at least ten years with its efficiency.

All of a sudden, countless warlords regretted cooperating with Westerners.

Now I am like a dumb person eating bitter herbs, unable to express my pain.

These warlords caused dissatisfaction among many people, and the territories they had just conquered were already in jeopardy.

However, these warlords did not dare to send troops to hunt down the mercenaries at this time, because these mercenaries were well-trained, equipped with advanced weapons and equipment, and had strong combat effectiveness. Even if they joined forces, they might not be their opponents.

On the sea, fishing boats are fishing and everyone is in a good mood.

Somalia has no way to deal with these poachers because it has no navy and can do nothing to them.

(End of this chapter)