Chapter 684 Reaching Out to the Gulf of Aden (for the Leader "Zai" 10 More

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As soon as the sea scorpion test was over, Cai Ruichen sent Gertney away directly, and then he returned to the base immediately.

Immediately after he left, the two sides dispatched professional teams to discuss the content of bilateral maritime security cooperation.

After the general intention came out, the two teams mainly conducted sea trials to discuss the details of cooperation.

As long as the cooperation is signed this time, the maritime warships of the security company in the future will be able to act together with the US Navy.

The specific places of cooperation are currently limited to the jurisdiction of the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy.

This area happens to be the most tense place in the world for piracy and anti-terrorism at sea. The focus of the work is to protect the busy sea traffic in this area.

After all, 40% of the world's crude oil transportation has to pass through these places. If there is no safety guarantee, it will directly affect the global crude oil market.

However, in the recent global crude oil transportation industry, due to the price of crude oil, a large number of crude oil exporting countries are all hoarding crude oil. The global crude oil transportation volume has reached the lowest level in two decades.

But this does not mean that the security guards have no security problems at all.

And Cai Ruichen's favorite place is not the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea, but the east coast of Africa.

From the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and then to the coastal line of Somalia and south to Kenya, the sea traffic on the ground is what he is most interested in.

In the international game, Africa has gradually become a new focus for countries to compete for interests. This new focus is not much worse than the period when the Middle East oil was exploited in large quantities.

It was once predicted that Africa will inevitably become the last point of rapid economic and profit growth for human development on the earth.

Africa, which has not yet been developed, has interests that all countries are extremely keen on. Once Africa is fully developed, it will definitely drive new growth in the global economy.

The current global economic aggregate is only 600,000 to 700,000 US dollars, and there has been no significant growth for many years.

The inherent economy, assets, and manufacturing industry have all reached a stage of saturation, and the economy that can be developed has also reached a certain bottleneck in both developed and developing countries.

In addition to the high-tech economy, it can be said that there are no new economic growth points in the traditional manufacturing and energy fields.

And facing a continent that has never been really developed, there will naturally be countless eyes focused on it.

This is true of the five gangsters, and it is also true of many developing and developed countries.

Cai Ruichen is no exception. Africa is a place that can still be called a virgin land. Although the resource division is uneven, it is still a primitive environment. Once developed, the economic benefits and value it brings can completely make any country greatly benefited.

At present, the eyes of every mainstream country in the world are all shifting their future development opportunities to Africa, and countries are also fighting openly and secretly in terms of African resources and development qualifications.

Among them, Russia, the United States and China are the most intense.

Russia is returning to Africa after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, China is developing the African environment from scratch, and the United States is expanding its original interests in Africa.

Britain and France were originally the traditional suzerain countries in Africa. The two countries are still in Africa, and even still have some colonies under their control.

Both Britain and France have many permanent military bases in Africa and the United States, and have a strong sense of military presence in Africa.

In addition, African countries generally do not have strong armed forces, and most of the countries are constantly under attack, and the government is often subverted and changed day by day.

If it weren't for someone with certain strength, it would be completely unbearable in a land like Africa.

Although Cai Ruichen doesn't have the energy to do anything in Africa yet,

But everything needs a process.

Just because you don't have the energy to do something now doesn't mean you can't do something in the future.

The preparations and plans in the early stage can now start planning.

The currently feasible way to travel from Iraq to Africa is to travel by sea.

In the future, it is entirely possible to go from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, and then across the Suez Canal to enter the African continent.

However, this idea cannot be completed at present, and the sea is very convenient.

Go directly down from the Arabian Sea and enter the Indian Ocean region. A little further down is the Gulf of Aden, then the Somali Sea, and here is Africa.

At present, future transport fleets often pass through the Gulf of Aden, mostly along the coastline of Africa, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope, and heading directly to South America.

If a cooperation agreement is reached with the United States, warships can be dispatched directly to the Gulf of Aden for escort.

Even if it is not a sovereign country, it is still no problem to use the name of the United States to go to the show of the Gulf of Aden, a global naval country.

However, it is still a bit early for the escort in the Gulf of Aden.

After all, relying on the sea scorpion alone, going there is at most the US Navy's compensation. There is no supply ship, and there is no certain large warship. The sea scorpion can only walk around there, and then needs to return immediately.

The sea scorpion's displacement itself limits its ability to sail at sea for a long time, and the compact weapon layout does not allow the space inside the warship to be very large.

Such a warship is doomed to be unable to sail alone without the company of a supply ship, and the duration of continuous sailing at sea will also be relatively short.

This may be a shortcoming of the sea scorpion, but the displacement is so much, and it is almost a common shortcoming of warships of the same level.

However, as long as there are supply ships and large ships to accompany them, it is still possible, and it is not going to the center of the ocean, near the sea, there is no problem with sea scorpion activities.

In order to achieve this goal, Cai Ruichen told Gertney bluntly that the Future Security Company is currently building a destroyer with a displacement of about 6,000 tons. It is estimated that in about three months, the outfitting will be completed for sea trials.

Speaking of the existence of the multi-purpose destroyer, Cai Ruichen also felt that after three months, the outside world would know about it, and there was no need to hide it from the United States now.

However, Gertney was not surprised when he heard it, but only said that he already knew it.

In the follow-up detailed exchanges between the two sides, they also focused on the issue of escorting the Gulf of Aden and conducted in-depth exchanges.

The U.S. Navy naturally did not refuse the security company's request to escort the ships of its own transportation company in the future.

However, the U.S. Navy also requires that this kind of escort must also protect merchant ships from other countries. This kind of protection is compulsory and there will be no protection fee income.

In particular, the protection of American ships and those large fishing vessels of European NATO allies off the coast of Africa.

The Future Technology Group did not reject this, although Cai Ruichen was also very clear that those fishing boats fishing along the coast of Africa were actually fishing illegally.

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