Dominate South Asia

The contract has fallen through! The cause of this incident is that Britain sold fighter jets to India, which damaged Pakistan's interests. Pakistan will not watch such a thing happen, so it originally planned to make a fortune in Hong Kong and then stop. Now, it has launched a heavy attack and sniped the pound.

India owes Pakistan billions of dollars in debt. Now, it can only collect millions of dollars. I don't know when India will be able to pay it off.

"This five million US dollars is for Rajiv to import fighter jets. Now, India has no money. I hope Britain can allow them to equip a few first. But Britain is now in a hurry for funds and does not agree with India's doing so. The contract between the two parties is stranded. The British used India's breach of contract as an excuse, and the unfrozen wealth was not returned to India, but was taken back to the British treasury."

The British are now short of money, and the unfreezing of the wealth just needs a reason. Now, this reason is sufficient, and it is taken as liquidated damages.

The confidence of the former British Empire has long been gone. Now Britain is almost like a beggar.

"This wealth belongs to us Pakistan, and we will continue to pursue it." Muhammad said. Although the British will definitely not spit it out again, it is still okay to disgust the British.

"What about the second thing?" Muhammad continued to ask.

"The British economy has serious problems. In order to save their economy, the British Parliament passed a resolution to cut the military expenditure of the British army. The British Navy decided to eliminate a batch of warships in advance, including the Type 82 destroyer." Mushaaf said.

Type 82 destroyer! Muhammad's eyelids jumped immediately.

Once, Britain after World War II was also an ambitious country, and sea power is a symbol of a country's military power. At that time, Britain launched the plan for the large aircraft carrier CVA-01, with a maximum displacement of 65,000 tons, equipped with two steam catapults, carrying 35 aircraft and 5 helicopters. Although this aircraft carrier is a bit worse than the giant aircraft carrier of the United States, it is also a very powerful aircraft carrier. At the same time, in order to protect the aircraft carrier. They also proposed to build four Type 82 destroyers to adapt to the regional defense mission of the CVA-01 class new aircraft carrier formation.

Unfortunately, Britain is no longer the empire on which the sun never sets. Overseas colonies are constantly shrinking, leaving only island countries. The British finances are unable to maintain such a huge military expenditure, so this new aircraft carrier was cut off by the British Parliament. If the British Navy had not used its brain. Using the anti-submarine theory to develop the Invincible-class aircraft carrier, the British Navy would probably not have a large warship.

Without an aircraft carrier, the plan for the Type 82 destroyer is also going to be terminated. After all, this type of destroyer is a big guy with a displacement of nearly 8,000 tons. It is expensive and not something that Britain can afford. Britain needs to develop a warship with a displacement of about 4,000 tons, that is, the Type 42 destroyer!

However, in order to allow the Sea Dart air defense missile and Ikara anti-submarine missile system, which have been developed for many years, to be tested and evaluated on board as soon as possible, the British Royal Navy finally decided to build a Type 82 destroyer: "Bristol". This warship. It also became the largest destroyer in British history.

The most attractive feature of this destroyer is the Sea Dart air defense missile!

Now, Pakistan has reached an agreement with the United States to equip the warships developed by Pakistan with the Sea Sparrow air defense missiles of the United States. At the same time, Eastern countries also have Sea Sidewinder as an alternative. However, these are short-range missiles and can only be used for defense in the final stage. Pakistan lacks regional air defense missiles.

Muhammad prepared for a rainy day and began to reverse map the Patriot missile, but. It may take several years to successfully map this missile. It will take more than ten years to develop into a real Aegis system.

And now, looking at the world, in addition to the American standard missile, there is this Sea Dart! The performance of this ship-borne air defense missile is completely up-to-date even in later generations.

In the Falklands War in 1982, the Sea Dart missile shot down 5 Argentine aircraft and 1 helicopter. In the Gulf War, the Sea Dart missile successfully intercepted Iraqi anti-ship missiles, creating the first anti-missile war example.

This is a regional air defense missile with a maximum range of 70 kilometers, an operational altitude of 10 to 22,000 kilometers, and a maximum speed of 3.5 speeds of sound. These data are enough to make other anti-ship missiles pale in comparison.

Although it needs to be preheated for one minute before use, it has reflected its shortcomings of slow reaction speed, long preparation time, and poor interception ability against low-altitude targets in actual combat, but it is still an excellent ship-borne air defense missile.

Once, the Chinese army was also very interested in this missile. In 1980, the desire to directly introduce the Type 42 destroyer fell through. In 1981, the Sea Dart missile was selected to equip the newly developed Type 051 destroyer, and a formal agreement was reached as the fleet's regional air defense system. If the project at that time could be achieved, in the 1990s, the country would not need those point air defense sidewinders to support the facade, and it was not until the arrival of the Modern class that it got rid of the dilemma.

Unfortunately, the Falklands War later occurred, and the Royal Navy lost two Type 42 destroyers and two Type 2l frigates. Although the U.S. Navy's analysis believes that the fleet's early warning distance is insufficient, resulting in very small coordination errors, causing heavy losses. There is no evidence that the performance of the "Sea Dart" system is insufficient, and it can react within such a short warning time, indicating that this system performs very well in combat. However, in China, it was concluded that the sea dart system had serious flaws. The performance of the domestic Hongqi 61 is higher than that of the Haidarin.

In this way, the Chinese Navy missed the Haidarin missile.

Mhamad did not make such a mistake. When the opportunity came, he knew that he had to seize it.

In fact, the Type 82 destroyer also has many shortcomings. For example, the power of this warship is a unique combination of steam turbine and gas turbine. In this way, even the chimney is unique in the world. There is a larger front section in the middle of the bridge. Chimney and two smaller rear chimneys side by side, the steam turbine exhausts smoke through the front chimney, while the gas turbine exhausts smoke through the two rear chimneys. When sailing, you can sometimes see thick smoke billowing from the front chimney, while the smoke from the rear chimney is very light. This is why.

At the same time, the ship's power system often failed, especially the steam boiler. In 1972, just after it was launched for sea trials, the boiler broke down. As a result, the ship's sea trials were completed relying on gas turbine power, and two years later in 1974 In 2008, there was another fire in the steam turbine room, and the steam turbine was almost scrapped. This failure lasted for three years, and the warship relied entirely on gas turbines for propulsion. It was not until the final overhaul that the ship went to the slipway for surgery, which was considered a remarkable feat.

The ship has a large hull, complex engines, and is a single ship. Its operation and maintenance are very difficult, and it requires 30 officers and 367 non-commissioned officers to operate it, which makes the Royal Navy very dissatisfied.

Historically, in 1987, this warship had already retired from the front line and became a training ship for the British Navy.

Now, due to the depreciation of the pound, the British economy is experiencing difficulties. It could have been supported by aid from the United States, but the sudden stock market crash in the United States finally caused a serious economic crisis in the United Kingdom.

You can't rely on others, you can only rely on yourself. Britain began to cut defense spending. This large warship was naturally eliminated. Moreover, it was not retired to the ranks of training ships, and it was planned to sell it at a high price in the global arms market. , which can also be regarded as a contribution to the British finance.

At present, the Pakistan Navy is still that lone aircraft carrier, and the escort warships are still under construction. It will take several years to form an army. If during this period, there is such a nearly 8,000-ton destroyer escort, it can be regarded as a Not a bad start.

In particular, this warship also has regional air defense missiles such as Sea Dart.

Seeing Mhamad's reaction, Mushaaf knew that Mhamad was indeed tempted, so Mushaaf said: "President, if you think it is good, we will send someone over now to follow The British negotiated to introduce this warship."

The British want to sell it anyway, so Pakistan might as well buy it.

"No." Mhamad said: "We can't buy it now. If we buy it now, the British will definitely think that we are taken advantage of and kill us."

I can't chase the British. The British have always been that bad-mouthed. Last time I made a serious protest, the British ignored them. If I go to the British to buy a warship again this time, they will not be able to do it. Open your mouth?

"Then what should we do?" Mushaaf asked. He knew that Mhamad had too many evil ideas.

"Tomorrow, we will go to the shipyard to have a look." Mhamad said.

Shipyard! Now, the shipyard is building Pakistan's own domestic destroyer according to the drawings designed by China. It is mainly equipped with China's C-802 anti-ship missiles, Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, sonar systems from France, and the US-made LM2500. gas turbine. The main design is similar to China's 052-class destroyer, except that the superstructure uses more stealth design and the appearance is simpler.

This is almost in sync with China's domestic, and many new things have been adopted. Therefore, although it is already under construction, after the construction is completed, it will require a long period of sea trials before it can be put into use.

There are countless experts from China here, cooperating with Pakistan to build the ship. Since Pakistan has invested more funds, the ship construction speed is faster. In China, the shipyard only started construction in 1988, and now, in 1987 At that time, Pakistan's destroyers had already begun laying the keels. (To be continued ~^~)