ps: ps: I just forgot that tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I didn’t say a few auspicious words to the readers. I will not modify the VIP chapter, so I will send an extra chapter to everyone as a mooncake. I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!!
In addition, I would like to thank "Ride a Shark and Cut a Turtle" for giving me a mooncake, which makes me feel so satisfied. Now, in addition to my own family, I also have readers thinking about it. It feels really good...
The reason why we agreed to help the Soviet Navy establish a submarine base and authorize the production of these two types of submarines was because due to differences in values and world views, the Soviet Navy in the future will definitely become an opponent of Western countries, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
Liu Fu understands the truth very well, not to mention that the future Soviet Navy will mainly
The sphere of influence is in Europe, far away from the South China Sea Federation. For at least ten years, the maritime power of the Red Soviet Union will not expand to Asia. Liu Fu is still waiting to see European countries being disturbed by the Red Soviet naval submarines day and night.
Otherwise, the South China Sea Federation would not have provided so many low-interest loans to the Soviet government.
Moreover, when selling these submarines, the South China Sea Federation had signed a secret memorandum with the Soviet government, and the memorandum clearly stipulated that these submarines and submarine technology must not be used to expand its Pacific Fleet. Of course, any agreement will be torn up.
that day, but at least for now
Before, the Soviet government had no intention or strength to tear up this agreement. This was enough for the South China Sea Federation. As time goes by, these old submarines will no longer pose a threat to the federal navy. At that time, this agreement
Whether or not it is torn up is of no practical significance to the Federal Navy.
Soon, the 120 submarines stored by the Federal Navy were sold out. In order to meet more needs, the Federal Navy also deliberately requisitioned more than ten submarines that were being used for teaching and training, made necessary modifications, and sold them together.
It was transferred to the Italian Navy, and then more than ten "Shark-class" submarines, which were in service and had been built for the longest time, were withdrawn from active service and delivered to the Naval Logistics Department to replace the original teaching submarines.
After this large sale of submarines, the Federal Navy received more than 100 million US dollars in funds or supplies. In addition, navies from more than ten countries need to receive submarine training from the Federal Navy. And in the next many years, these purchases from the Federal Navy
Countries that have submarines also need various accessories, torpedoes, overhauls and other services. These are also huge amounts of income, and the follow-up services are definitely not cheaper than buying a submarine.
Although Liu Fu didn't care about the money, he was still impressed by the high profits, powerful influence and far-reaching significance of the arms trade. No wonder in the future, American and Russian arms dealers would go around with all kinds of advanced weapons.
Fire sales can even help some countries get loans. It turns out that it is not just about money. The series of influences generated by this are the real big profits.
For example, if a country purchases a federal submarine and its own country does not have the ability to overhaul or update it, then congratulations to this country, it will be trapped by the South China Sea Federation from now on. Unless it cuts off its wrist and endures the pain, it will continue to
Influenced by the Federation Navy.
Why do you say this? There are many reasons. First of all, after purchasing a federal submarine, you will receive training from the federal navy. In other words, your first batch of submarine units will be trained by federal instructors.
And these submarine officers and soldiers who have been educated by federal instructors for several months or even years will naturally be taught by federal naval instructors.
influence, and after they gradually stepped onto the stage of their own navy, this influence began to show its power. Whether it was from personal feelings or from the theoretical knowledge system they were instilled, these first batch of submarine officers and soldiers would be more inclined to
The federal navy, this invisible tendency is a basis for further arms sales in the future.
Secondly, the use and maintenance of a weapon is not just a matter of a few people or a few factories. It is a system, such as a unit of measurement. In this era, there are mainly two units of measurement, the imperial system and the metric system. Due to the strength of the United Kingdom,
Countries around the world mainly use imperial units. For example, the caliber of naval guns is inches, and the tonnage of ships is also long tons or imperial tons. However, the South China Sea Federation uses the metric system.
After you purchase the weapons and equipment of the South China Sea Federation, you must become familiar with the metric units used by the Federation. This does not matter in a naval power like the United Kingdom, because they do not intend to buy the submarines for direct service, but for research.
. But those countries with small navies are different. They finally scraped together some money to buy a few submarines, not to use them as samples for research, but to put them into service as soon as possible. So, if they want to put them into service as soon as possible, they must be familiar with these submarines.
parameters and structures. Therefore, these parts and parameters produced in metric units will slowly be mastered and used by some naval personnel of this country. Then, these habits will be further deepened as the number of uses and repairs increases.
It is deeply engraved in your mind that if you are suddenly asked to switch to a submarine produced and operated in imperial units at this time, you will feel very uncomfortable and have resistance, if the performance of the two submarines is similar.
Finally, since each federal submarine has been purchased, each country must have a maintenance and repair factory or dock at the end, and the equipment of these factories and docks will also change their equipment according to the size of the parts of the federal submarine to adapt to the federal submarine.
The technical requirements of submarines, and this kind of transformation also costs money. If there is no major change, the navies of various countries will not be able to change these equipment back. In this way, many British-made things, these repair shops and shipyards cannot
Once it is used, it is a kind of exclusivity.
In addition to these technical impacts, the diplomatic relations between the purchasing country and the South China Sea Federation will also change, because after purchasing a submarine, unless you can quickly develop various replacement parts, torpedoes, power systems, etc.
Wait, otherwise, you will have to continue to obtain these things from the Federal Navy. If the relationship between the two countries deteriorates, then these parts and ammunition may lose their sources. Of course, it is impossible to obtain these things from the Royal Navy and the Italian Navy, which have research and development capabilities.
Let's just ignore it.
As for a disposable submarine without parts and ammunition, how much combat capability does it have left? It won’t be long before it becomes a useless piece of trash, even worse than trash. You can just throw away trash.
, you don’t have a place to throw this thing away, storage, parking, and dismantling all take up resources.
Therefore, most countries that have purchased South China Sea Federation submarines will pay more attention to the relationship between the two countries, and will not blindly follow other big countries to make noises like before. On some issues that do not have a great impact, these countries are likely to
Will choose to support the opinions of the South China Sea Federation, and this small change has really affected the influence and voice of the South China Sea Federation in the world.
Liu Fu learned a lot through the South China Sea Federation's first sale of arms, so he searched the Federation's weapons arsenal to see if there was anything else that could be sold to the outside world, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find it.
What suitable weapons and equipment meet his conditions? According to Liu Fu's requirements, first of all, this kind of weapons and equipment cannot be too fragmentary and too cheap. Secondly, this kind of weapons and equipment cannot too affect the scientific and technological level of various countries in this era. Finally, this kind of weapons for sale must not be too fragmentary or too cheap.
The equipment must not pose an obvious threat to the future of the South China Sea Federation.
According to this condition, first of all, the Army's firearms are excluded. Although the semi-automatic rifles, flamethrowers, mines, mortars and other weapons equipped by the Federal Army are very advanced, once these weapons are sold to other countries, it will be easy
It was copied and mass-produced, and finally used against the federal army in future wars. In this situation, Liu Fu would rather not make money than let it happen.
Although the armored vehicles and tanks equipped by the federal army are relatively advanced, this level of advancement depends entirely on the design concept and driving device. Once these vehicles are sold to foreign countries, it is easy for others to absorb this concept, imitate high-power diesel engines, and then
Relying on their strong industrial capabilities, they can imitate armored vehicles and tanks that are the same or even better, so these equipment cannot be sold.
The Army's equipment cannot be sold, but what about the Air Force's aircraft? Liu Fu's answer is: It cannot be sold. As we all know, the most important things for an aircraft in this era are the engine, aerodynamic structure and design concept. The engine and aerodynamic structure have been developed through research prototypes
, it is not difficult to crack, and the design concept is, to put it bluntly, a
A layer of window paper can be broken with a poke. Aircraft researchers from developed countries don’t even need to dismantle federal aircraft. As long as they can get close contact with these aircraft, they will be able to understand many federal aircraft in a few days.
The secrets on the body, so the plane cannot be sold. (To be continued...)
