Xiao Jinlang felt that the business of refitting fifty 037s was good, and Director Liu, who was in charge of arms sales and refitting of the Navy, also felt that this was a good opportunity to clear out inventory.
When Zhou Qingfeng's request was delivered to the lieutenant colonel, the director who was responsible for selling modified arms to small countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America was overjoyed.
In recent years, the equipment of the PLA Navy has been updated rapidly. One new ship after another has been launched into service, and a large number of old ships have been sealed. As a result, more and more waste has been docked at the shipbreaking yard port.
Nowadays, there are no major maritime wars in the world, and the consumption of equipment is slow. The local tycoons in the Middle East have money, and they will definitely not want retired waste. They never buy the right ones, only sell the expensive ones. And the poor people in the third world
I have no money in my pocket, and I am so poor that I can’t even afford second-hand retired goods.
The PLA wants to clear out the old goods in its hands, but there are too few people in the world like India who take advantage of them. The retired weapons in their hands don't even need to go to places like shipbreaking yards, they can be used as targets, or
Rotting in some unknown corner.
Although flower growers are rich nowadays, the Navy is really a money-burning service. A modern destroyer can be invested with billions casually. If it is an aircraft carrier, including carrier-based aircraft, hundreds of billions will be prepared. If you can get some back
The cost is also good, and one more frigate can be built.
Overjoyed, Director Liu began to wonder how to do this job. He called several people from the Naval Equipment Research Institute with one phone call. As a result, two people came from the research institute. Several ship repair yards who learned the news from the research institute sent
People crowded over.
"Chu Liu, leave this modification task to us."
"Liu Chu, don't bother others with this small task, we'll take care of it."
"Liu Chu, we are not greedy, just give us ten points."
"Liu Chu, we haven't had any work for half a year. If we don't have any more tasks, the team will collapse."
A small matter like modifying 037 was not kept secret, and the news spread easily. As a result, Director Liu's office was crowded with seven or eight people, all of whom came to ask for the task.
I think back when the navy was poor, it was engaged in "air-submarine speed", and the "fast" refers to small boats such as speedboats. This kind of shipbuilding task with no technical difficulty supported many people. However, the navy now does not look at ships with a weight of less than 1,000 tons.
gadgets, and suddenly there were a lot of military-industrial companies waiting for them.
In recent years, military industrial enterprises have also been engaged in divestment of backward production capacity similar to "shutdown and transfer". Inevitably, a large number of factories and personnel with poor technology have to find their own way. But to find a way out, you also need money. A penny can stump a hero.
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Large shipyards such as 'Jiangnan' looked down on the modified mosquito meat of '037', but many people there thought it was a rich delicacy. Liu Chu suddenly had a headache on how to allocate this task, and those who wanted to take the cake
There are just too many.
Seeing a bunch of people below staring at him with red eyes, the dignified naval lieutenant colonel could only find a way to contact Xiao Jinlang again, and wanted to ask the customer behind him - we have more than a hundred '037's here, how about it?
There are hundreds of smaller speedboats and torpedo boats. Should more be modified?
The price is very cheap!
This inquiry reached Zhou Qingfeng's ears, and he thought about it - the Havana Shipyard's modification capabilities are limited, the supporting industrial system has not yet been established, and there are very few experienced workers. It took more than a year to
Not many suitable boats have been produced.
The various forces in the Caribbean and South America cannot afford big ships. Even ships of 500 tons are too big for them. 100-ton patrol boats are the best. Think about the long coastlines of Central and South America, which are fragmented.
There is still a market for arms.
The key is to be cheap. The forces in the wasteland are all poor. Not even the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave can be called wealthy.
Liu Chu, who was on the other end, had been feeling uneasy after he passed on his idea. He secretly wondered whether his reckless request would scare the customers away. Not many people are willing to pick up rags these days, so they must be cherished.
After waiting restlessly for a day, Liu Chu received a reply from the mysterious customer. When he opened the file and took a look, he jumped out of his chair like a monkey - the new order greatly expanded the business, and was no longer limited to '
037', but even old decommissioned torpedo boats are required.
A torpedo boat of dozens of tons removes the launch tube, equips it with cannons and machine guns, installs a small radar and a complete radio, and then repairs and repairs the power system, then it can be sold for money!
Similar speedboat patrol boats are also modified in the same way, completely according to the needs of the Coast Guard. And the number has soared from fifty to one thousand in '037', the cake has greatly increased. The key is that the entire modification requirements are not at all
Difficulty, there are too many old assets that can be converted.
The PLA Navy accumulated a large number of small boats in the first fifty years. It is pitiful to say that it is one of the five gangsters and a superpower with a population of more than one billion. Its long coastline is protected by a bunch of mosquito boats.
The nine-dash line on the South China Sea map of the flower growers was drawn to the doorstep of other countries, but they did not have enough strength to declare sovereignty. At that time, even countries like Vietnam dared to compete with us for islands, and even countries like Brunei dared to compete with us for oil and gas.
It’s so irritating!
Zhou Qingfeng considered that his army's industrial capabilities were still too weak and the demand was not small, so he placed an order for a thousand ships without a cap. This alarmed the entire PLA Navy, and Liu Chu was not the only one who was happy that he could not find Bei.
, even senior officers at the commander level were surprised.
Some people even came up with the idea: It is not difficult at all to refit a thousand boats or something, so quickly ask the other party for a deposit to seal the business. This kind of rip-off actually has no upper limit. Even if we clear out our own second-hand goods, we can still go to other places.
Countries that use scrap products to modify them.
Everyone in the flower gardening family is really obsessed with money. They can't walk when they see the small money. And Zhou Qingfeng also has special requirements for his orders. He just wants it to be cheap, and cheaper and cheaper. For example, a ship of several dozen tons
For an old torpedo boat, the modification cost is only 800,000 yuan.
With only 800,000 yuan, you want to install radar, radio, machine guns, and repair them like new? In the end, the task of modification planning fell on Liu Chu. The lieutenant colonel in charge of selling second-hand goods racked his brains and pressed calculations.
The weapon, finally gritted its teeth and admitted it.
"After the job is done, we don't have too many machine guns in stock. There are civilian versions on radars and old models on radios. There is still a 25% profit."
You must know that when the Navy was doing business when it was poor, it also disposed of some decommissioned torpedo boats to the private sector. Not to mention the amount that could be disposed of was small, and it was also easy to cause corruption problems. Now it is difficult to find someone to do it all, and the Navy simply turns a blind eye.
For the sake of purity, just pull it away.
Zhou Qingfeng is quite satisfied with this. He does not have high requirements for the performance of these ships. Anyway, they are performing coastal patrol and anti-piracy tasks, as long as they can be used.
The Navy was even more satisfied. This was equivalent to clearing out a large amount of its inventory that could only be used as scrap metal, and selling a large number of expired weapons and ammunition. It also obtained funds to revive several small shipyards, and thousands of workers had jobs.
, the pension funds of a large number of old employees have been settled.