Chapter 1225 Lao Chen's Ambition

"Heng didn't continue the conversation because the investment in this kind of thing was really overwhelming, and he couldn't be generous enough to spare his son's money. After all, although Fan Wubing's Fan Investment Group was huge, it had to support millions of employees, and the daily consumption was not a small amount. It was impossible for him to help the navy build a full set of equipment for nothing.    Besides, the tax paid by Fan Investment Group every year was an astronomical figure. You can't always ask others to add countless burdens in addition to reasonable tax payments, right? What's more, Fan Investment Group has already invested a lot in public welfare, and Fan Heng didn't think there would be much spare energy to tap.

The most important point is that Fan Investment Group is a unique existence. It is a completely private multinational company and has no obligation to provide weapons and equipment to any country's armed forces. This is the key issue.

"You may not be very clear about some situations. "Since this matter has been mentioned, Fan Wubing naturally had to explain it clearly, so he thought for a moment and said to Chen Guangyi, "At present, Fan's has some cooperation projects with the military, but none of them have been made public, so it is normal that you don't know about them. For example, aircraft carriers, submarines, and shipboard fire control systems and defense systems have been in the laboratory for a long time. The reason why there is no equipment is that some equipment still has defects, and the other is that the top management has their own considerations and is unwilling to rashly set off a new arms race in the Asia-Pacific region. "

After hearing this, Chen Guangyi was indeed a little surprised. He was not a core member before, so he naturally didn't know that Fan's laboratory was already working on these projects. He didn't know much more, such as Fan Wubing brought back a batch of technical information on aircraft carrier projects from Russia.

The domestic navy has always been relatively weak. In the sea area under China's jurisdiction and resource sovereignty, the southeastern part of the country borders the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. It has a vast sea area, a coastline of more than 18,000 kilometers, and more than 6,500 islands scattered along the coast. It is directly connected to the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean through the First Island Ripple and the Strait of Malacca.

All of this not only has the benefits of navigation and trade, but also contains extremely rich biological and mineral resources. Therefore, making full use of and developing marine resources and ensuring maritime trade are the fundamental interests of the country and the nation.

But the matter is In fact, the Chinese Navy, which was established before the Republic, has faced a harsh living environment since its establishment in Baima Temple, Jiangsu. In addition to the admirable courage brought by starting from scratch, the small European, American and Japanese ships left by the Kuomintang Navy were messy, dilapidated and old.

After finally accepting a British light cruiser "Chongqing", it had to sink itself due to the crazy bombing of the Kuomintang Air Force. One of the heavy lessons brought by the Battle of Kinmen is the almost blank in terms of sea and air combat capabilities.

For this reason, the top leaders of the Republic of China made a painful decision and shouted the slogan of building a strong navy and air force. They also set out to reach an agreement with Britain through the China Merchants Group established in Hong Kong to purchase a number of ships, including light cruisers and destroyers, which were not backward at the time, and prepared to attack Kinmen and even Taiwan after a short period of hardship. Soil.

In order to complete the great cause of national reunification.

However, the early outbreak of the Korean War broke up this plan.

As the US Navy's Seventh Fleet entered the Taiwan Strait for patrol, the ship purchase plan that had been basically agreed with the British side was also thrown out of the window. In order to counter the US military's bombing of the Volunteer Army's logistics supply lines on the Korean battlefield, and to protect the security of important energy and industrial bases in the Northeast, the country spent a huge amount of money to import more fighters, attack aircraft, light bombers and other air force equipment from the Soviet Union than previously planned.

This meant that the already very limited funds had to be used for the construction of air force equipment. The equipment funds for the army are unshakable and occupy a key position.

In addition. Considering the degree of threat, since the Soviet Navy was still in the Lushun base at the time, the United States did not want to launch a maritime attack on the Northeast, so the equipment of the Republic Navy The construction had to remain on paper.

However, the navy did not sit idle because of this, but actively tried to win over the Kuomintang navy to revolt and surrender. In addition to the urgent need for equipment replenishment, these professionals who received relatively formal education also used their professional expertise to serve as seeds for future formal training, established naval schools, and carried out the construction of logistics support forces, quietly waiting for the arrival of the big development stage.

After the end of the Korean War, the young republic began to formulate a standardized national defense strategic plan as a whole, and the regularization of the navy also started at the same time. At first, the main enemy was the Kuomintang and its supporters, the US Navy and Air Force. By the early 1960s, due to the Sino-Soviet conflict, the former Soviet Navy and Air Force also became the main enemy. During this period, we were attacked from both sides and it was quite dangerous. At this time, the main strategic concept was to prevent hostile forces from carrying out large-scale landing operations on our coast.

In the early 1970s, Western countries, led by the United States, adopted the strategy of uniting with China to defend against the former Soviet Union in order to contain the threat posed to their sphere of influence by the former Soviet Union, whose military power was close to its peak at that time, out of consideration for their own interests. They provided China with certain limited and conditional support in the military field, and the two sides also carried out relatively active cooperation. At the same time, the threat to our territory in the direction of the ocean was greatly reduced, and the strategic policy formulated by the Chinese Navy during this period was also adjusted accordingly to focus on the former Soviet Union.

In the 1980s, with the commissioning of a batch of new equipment and the deepening of exchanges with the navies of Western maritime powers, the naval strategy has generally entered the near-sea defense stage.

It should be noted that during this period, the government has shifted its main focus to economic construction, the national economy has recovered and strengthened, and the corresponding demand for energy has also expanded.

It is precisely at this time that the aftermath of the energy crisis is in the late stage, and various countries have shown unprecedented attention to the rich biological resources, minerals and other energy sources in the ocean. Therefore, the territorial disputes with neighboring countries in the ocean direction that were previously concealed have been magnified into a real problem. Therefore, in addition to the former Soviet Union, the imaginary enemies of the navy also include these countries in the above-mentioned regions.

After entering the 1990s, the main purpose was to fight against separatism and defend sovereignty, and then to defend the security of national maritime channels and economic order. In terms of the attitude towards domestic new weapons, the navy pragmatically seized some opportunities that were lost at a glance to obtain a small amount of funds and developed some new equipment that seemed to have low technical standards but was usable to fill the gap.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the establishment of the Navy Equipment Demonstration Center, which is not valued but very important. Naval equipment construction is an extremely complex system engineering. From the perspective of the development of weapons and equipment systems, demonstration and research are the first priority. If modern technology is to be applied to the field of naval construction as soon as possible, a professional institution is needed to conduct research.

In fact, naval construction has taken many detours and suffered great losses. It is precisely because the top leaders are aware of this that they have spared no effort to vigorously support the development and demonstration center, making it a think tank for the decision-making level. Because of this, the navy has taken the least detours in equipment construction and development among the three services.

At the same time as the changes and development of weapons and equipment, due to the dual influence of foreign exchanges and the naval equipment demonstration center, the construction of the Chinese Navy battlefield system at that time also improved significantly. With the commissioning of new ships such as missile destroyers and nuclear submarines, the construction of large-scale ship bases has become an outstanding task. Some of these ship bases are large cavern projects, while others require the construction of multiple deep-water berths. Coupled with a large number of supporting projects, the scale of the project is quite large, and the naval engineering guarantee has been raised to a new level.

At the same time, a number of command and communication projects such as command posts, long-wave stations, reconnaissance stations, radar stations, observation and communication stations, hydroacoustic stations, and navigation stations were successively started and constructed. Among them, the construction of long-wave stations occupies a prominent position. Its completion and commissioning have played a key role in the formation of the combat effectiveness of nuclear submarines.

At the advent of the new century, the situation faced by the Chinese Navy has become more complex and acute.

In the South China Sea, especially within the sovereignty of the Nansha Islands, the countries surrounding the South China Sea have continuously challenged our maritime sovereignty and plundered the rich oil and fishery resources in the sea area. In the East China Sea, Japan and South Korea have also occupied marine territories in the Diaoyu Islands, Chunxiao Oilfield and other waters, and stepped up the construction of naval forces to achieve the purpose of armed confrontation. Of course, behind the various opponents, there are also various forms of strategic suppression of China by the US Navy.

At the same time, it happened that during this period, my country's economic strength had experienced nearly three decades of high growth, and the ice that stretched across the Western world was gradually melting with the wave of global economic integration, and the world factory was slowly formed in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. Due to the rise of the manufacturing industry, a large amount of energy and raw materials need to be imported or a large-scale commodity export, and the most convenient and cheapest way of transportation is sea transportation.

In recent years, my country's national production and foreign trade have relied heavily on ocean transportation day and night. It is necessary to have a strong maritime armed force that can carry out missions in the ocean to ensure its smooth flow.

On the other hand, Chinese capital is increasingly integrated into the world financial system, and investing in various commercial projects abroad has also been a hot topic in recent times. With the continuous increase in the scale of investment, more and more overseas interests are also calling for a strong ocean-going maritime armed force to escort it.

Therefore, building a strong navy is already a top priority, far exceeding the expectations for the army and air force.

It is precisely in view of this that Chen Guangyi hopes to contact Fan Wubing through his own promotion to build a strong navy, so that the Chinese Navy can truly hang a license plate that matches the image of a great power in the world.

At the very least, the Chinese Navy must also surpass the second-rate countries such as Britain and France in quality, right?