The Goddess Shines on America

The president and the Ministry of Defense have put aside their words, and let Alice serve as a consultant to make suggestions for the new naval system. Such a matter, of course, cannot be formed by just talking about it, so on the night when the matter was decided, she immediately started working bravely in the hotel room and wrote long reports.

This is related to the combat system of the entire U.S. Navy for at least two decades after the end of the Cold War. It is the largest organizational reform since World War II. Therefore, from the White House, down to Capitol Hill, to the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Defense, and many generals in the Navy and Air Force systems, there are countless joints that need to be opened up. In addition to normal network management, it also has to rely on high-quality report documents to make it work.

As for how to write this report, Alice is very clear.

After the end of the Cold War, the threat of the former Soviet Union to the United States' ocean dominance decreased sharply, but regional conflicts increased day by day. The new threat of the United States, the Chinese navy is still in the construction period, and still does not have the ability to fully compete with it. Therefore, the US Navy's strategic approach naturally needs to gradually evolve from the Cold War's oceanic naval warfare to land-based force projection to deal with turbulent regional conflicts.

Therefore, what Alice first wrote was the strategic white paper "From Sea to Land" that was supposed to be issued in September 1992 by the Commander of the US Navy, the US Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commander of the US Marine Corps.

The content of this white paper mainly focuses on the ability to project force against coastal targets, control coastal and inland strategic routes leading to the ocean, and project force on the ground, including strengthening the coordinated operation of the naval fleet and the Marine Corps, and establishing a maritime expedition. The joint operations of the army, the army and the air force, etc., have greatly revised the policy of anti-submarine and competition for sea dominance in the cold war era.

The second document is "Research on Destroyer Technology in the 21st Century", which is matched with the concept of "21st Century Surface Warfare" and combined with the concept of "Frontier-From Sea to Land" to integrate near-shore operations and support for ground attacks. Navigating is one of the main tasks of the navy, specifically requiring the fleet to be able to support ground forces that penetrate 100 nautical miles into the land, and put forward new concepts such as "presence at the front", "deployment at the front", and "combat at the front".

After doing this, Alice's first job was declared completed, two large documents were handed in, and then she could do whatever she was supposed to do.

If you think about it, you know that Bush Sr. and others couldn't have imagined that they could write so many things in one night. Therefore, as long as the content of the report is accurate, and it fits the current background of the times and not just copying it from 1992, it is impossible for people in the military not to be guided by her thinking!

After the documents are completed, the work is submitted, which is something that can only be done tomorrow. Alice sat in front of the computer and turned her head to check the time. It was still a while before dawn. If she didn't do anything else, her little heart, which had just started to turmoil, would not be able to calm down.

Then design specific weapons and equipment.

Umbrella Security Company basically has the qualifications of an arms dealer, at least now it can provide the Ministry of Defense with Grizzly armored vehicles, but the output is limited.

There is a good saying that an arms dealer who does not cheat the Pentagon is not a good businessman.

In the same way, it is a fool to give the state what is really cutting-edge.

In the past six months, Northrop Grumman has been integrating with Alice's corporate system. For example, its latest shipyard is a joint venture with Hutchison Whampoa, and its location is located somewhere in California. As an experienced warship manufacturer, submarine manufacturer, radar supplier and military aircraft developer, it is definitely capable of completing many design products proposed by Alice as a benefit of starting a small business.

The imagined arsenal ship has many shortcomings. Although its firepower is extremely powerful, it relies heavily on the comprehensive reconnaissance system. If she wanted to make it perfect, Alice asked herself to pass the design ability, but the price of selling it to the US military was undoubtedly unacceptable. Therefore, in line with the principle of external supply of second-rate products, she thought about it and felt that it would be more reliable to directly manufacture Zumwalt-class products.

After reviewing the engineering quantities of the various components of the ship, she first drew the advanced naval gun system on the computer. That is, the design drawing of AGS.

Since entering the era of aviation and missiles, the main task of the navy in projecting force to land has been on aircraft and missiles that can accurately strike enemy targets at long distances. Traditional naval bombardment has been shelved due to the decline of combat ships. However, there are several occasions where the use of expensive and relatively rare missiles is not sufficient or is not cost-effective.

For example, when encountering a large-scale fortification facility of the enemy's land force, rather than a target such as a radar station, it is often not suitable to use a missile that is good at "pointing points" because its single unit value is not high enough. At this time, large-caliber naval guns that can quickly pour a large amount of ammunition into an area are more in line with mission characteristics and cost-effective. Moreover, shells are smaller in size and have a higher firepower density than missiles, allowing more firepower to be stored on board.

The current naval guns of the US military have a problem of outages. In the just-concluded Gulf War, the nine cannons of the battleship Missouri were fired twice, and the Iraqi fortifications on the shore were declared completely destroyed. The status of the substitute.

Alice knew that before the birth of Zumwalt's AGS naval gun, the Admiralty spent many days looking for a replacement. If you think about it, you know that from discovering problems, to analyzing problems, to proposing solutions, to solving problems, and finally solving problems, even if the whole process is formed at once, those bureaucrats will have to spend years.

So, let her just save that time.

Design drawings start.

AGS uses a polygonal turret with a highly stealth design. The empty weight of the entire turret is 87.5 tons. It uses a 155mm barrel with a diameter of 62 times. The chamber capacity of the gun chamber is 29.5 liters. 10~12 rounds/min, which is equivalent to the total firepower of six Army 155mm artillery.

At the same time, the initial kinetic energy of the AGS projectile ejected from the muzzle is three times that of the US military's replacement after the Missouri cannon. Moreover, it has the ability to bomb multiple shells at the same time, that is, through different launch parameters, 4 to 6 shells of one gun can land at the same time at a distance of 75 nautical miles. In this way, a Zumwalt ship equipped with two AGS can make 8~12 shells land at the same time, and the firepower is equivalent to a US Marine Corps artillery battalion composed of six M-777-155mm howitzers!

The entire design took an hour to complete, and the time was stuck at 23 o'clock in the middle of the night, and Alice sat softly on the computer chair with extreme satisfaction.

Well, the people in the Admiralty will be crazy about it.

But before providing this technology, it is necessary to affirm Northrop Grumman's production capacity in the field of naval guns.

Although the basic industrial level is unquestionable, the soft power of engineers and product production experience still needs to be tested.

Oh, by the way, there is also the design of the shell magazine.

I just wanted to continue, but considering that it was already late, Alice decided to wash up and go to bed.

In this way, a late night passed quickly.

The first thing Alice did when she woke up the next day was to drive to the Pentagon and deliver the documents she had written overnight. Fat people are not made in one bite. It will take a while just to let the military personnel digest the contents of the document, and then let them fight with the people on Capitol Hill. Let the politicians handle the affairs of the politicians. Alice walked out of the Pentagon with her front feet, then rushed to the nearby Washington Airport, and took off towards the sky.

But not to Los Angeles.

Across the Atlantic, the Boeing 747 headed for London.

Time to go public.

Now that she has boarded the ship of building a new navy, she will have more places to spend money in the future, especially for the Gulf War, the batch of arms she purchased is also expensive, and this is the time when loans are flying all over the sky. If you lack money, you need financing. Thinking about the recent development results of Umbrella, it is also expected that it will be listed.

In line with the intention of not putting all eggs in one basket, let it be listed in London.

On the plane, Alice had sent a series of documents from Roswell Building.

Up to now, Umbrella has acquired and established 17 pharmaceutical factories, including three in the UK and a total of 14 in other European countries. After all, the establishment of the European Union is just around the corner, and if the British fail to secure enough people, they will make a fuss about Brexit one day in the future. It is a wise choice to put a large force in the core area.

The company's current flagship product in the pharmaceutical field is still the weight-loss drug Soma. As for the market size and revenue, just estimate the number of obese patients in Europe, and then divide it by a ratio that you take for granted, and you can really get it.

Medicines have always been a product that the public cannot do without, but is far away from the public. How many people would care about which company produces soma? It’s really hard to say, because most people only recognize soma itself, just like many Chinese people like Jiuzhitang and Tongrentang’s medicines and health products, and know the background of these two time-honored brands, but how many of them will investigate and pay attention to their business conditions and What about the scale of the industry?

This is an interesting question.

The listing of a company is a process of raising funds from the public, that is, it is taking the public route. Like Apple, its peak market value of 800 billion is purely supported by mobile phones. I wonder if anyone who lacks love will be really crazy, but it is so high. Looking back at Lockheed, obviously those F-35, F-22 and various missile satellites are all top-level products, but its company's market value is only about 30 billion yuan.

The reason for this difference is simple - that is, the public does not care about you.

Alice knew that if she let the former Blackwater, now Umbrella Security Company go public, it would be considered good if she could raise a market value of one billion dollars. But if it is about umbrella medicine...

Well, it should not be difficult to exceed 100 billion, right?

Just wait for the anti-cancer drugs to come out.

Alice really believed in the application potential of the I virus.