Chapter 916 Amphibious landing ship?

Turkey finally did not choose to fight the Arab League, so the Turkish army chose to fight the Afghan coalition.

After a war of words between the two sides, Turkey announced that the Turkish army would withdraw to Turkey after completing the task of "clearing the Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas in northern Iraq."

This time, Turkey lost face.

The warships of the Afghan coalition blocked the port, affecting import and export trade, and then because of the emergency withdrawal, they were ambushed by the Kurds, lost thousands of people, and lost a large number of weapons, equipment and supplies.

It can be said that Turkey has become a laughing stock in the world.

This also makes Turkey very dissatisfied with NATO.

What happened to the promised joint defense?

Turkey was so angry that it cursed NATO for being "brain dead" and had to consider the option of withdrawing from "NATO".

The international crude oil futures market has returned to stability.

Under this wave, I don't know how many people have made a fortune, and I don't know how many people have suffered heavy losses.

There are many people who want to go all in for war, and these people are the biggest losers.

Another major event happened in the Middle East. The negotiations between the United States and Persia broke down again. The two sides parted ways unhappily again. The United States announced that it would take economic and trade sanctions against Persia again: cutting off all investment and trade relations between the United States and Persia, and strictly prohibiting American oil companies from conducting any oil transactions with Persia.

Liu Tao smiled when he saw the news that the negotiations between the two sides broke down again.

The Americans began to loosen up Persia in the middle and late stages of the Iran-Iraq War, not wanting Persia to lose to Iraq and lead Iraq to gain hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

At that time, the Americans provided several interest-free loans. By 1991, the relationship between the two sides had been almost repaired, but with the new US government taking office, the wind direction began to change. Persia hoped to obtain a large loan for post-war reconstruction, and the Americans were naturally not philanthropists. They could ask for a loan, but they had to accept the American conditions.

The American conditions were simply unacceptable to the Persians.

The gap between the conditions of the two sides was too big, and no matter how they talked, it would not work out.

Now that the Americans have announced this measure, it is undoubtedly forcing the Persians to surrender.

But Liu Tao knows that this will only backfire.

Persians have their own stubbornness. The more you force them, the tougher they will be.

Anyway, the situation of Persians is very bad now, but how bad can it be?

In this case, Persians will definitely pay more attention to cooperation with Panshan Group.

American oil companies are not allowed to trade oil with Persians, but China Petroleum Group Corporation can.

Whether it is trading in US dollars or RMB, it is no problem, even barter is acceptable.

The market of Persia is not small.

A large market of more than 30 million people!

Moreover, Persia has abundant oil and natural gas. As long as it can be developed, there is no need to worry about lack of money.

China's development is too fast, resulting in the need to import a large amount of oil and natural gas.

Eggs cannot be put in the same basket, and the same is true for oil imports. Oil must be imported from different countries. Only in this way can the diversified strategy not let people be tied to death and be greatly affected.

China Petroleum Group Corporation is not only supplying China's oil and natural gas, but also refining crude oil into finished oil and exporting finished oil and petrochemical products to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Not to mention that Singapore's petrochemical strategy was greatly affected and almost declared a failure, even the scale of Japan and South Korea's original refineries has not increased but decreased.

However, Liu Tao had to admire the US government, because the US government has been profitable for a long time, and the scale of US debt has not increased but decreased, achieving "two lows and one high", that is, low unemployment, low inflation and high economic growth.

In terms of economic development, the other party is indeed excellent, much better than his two predecessors.

No matter what kind of provocation it faces, the United States has shown amazing strategic determination, will not use force, and has been cutting military spending every year.

Although this approach has caused great dissatisfaction among vested interests, it has also made the general public very satisfied with him, and the public support rate has continued to set new highs.

On this day.

Liu Tao attended a meeting, which was a meeting of the Navy on the new generation of amphibious landing ships.

As the Navy changes its guns and guns, strategic adjustments are inevitable.

From near-shore defense to near-sea defense, and then to the current far-sea defense, this is a huge strategic adjustment and an important change in the Navy's thinking.

The importance of sea power is becoming more and more prominent.

The so-called sea power is a kind of ability with the nature of comprehensive national strength, which takes national interests as the core, grand strategy as the starting point, war, law, negotiation or cooperation as the means, maritime strength as the basis, and control of the ocean as the purpose.

The gains and losses of this ability directly affect the rise and fall of a country, especially a great power.

With the development of China, it is constantly absorbing the sea power thought and deepening the understanding of marine issues.

The vast overseas interests need to be maintained by China, and the navy is an important means to maintain overseas interests.

At present, for China, the growth of the navy is not enough, but far from enough.

After having 022 missile boats, 022A torpedo boats, 054 frigates, 052 destroyers, 039 new conventional submarines, new minesweepers, new reconnaissance ships, and 001 light aircraft carriers, 093 nuclear submarines and 094 nuclear submarines, the demand for amphibious landing ships is more urgent.

Amphibious landing ships, also known as landing ships, are ships specially used for marine landing operations. There are many types, including landing ships, landing craft, transport ships, amphibious assault ships, amphibious command ships, amphibious cargo ships, etc.

Its function is to transport landing troops, landing tools, combat vehicles and other weapons and equipment. Landing ships and landing craft both have direct landing capabilities and are the main types of ships used for small-scale landing operations. Transport ships, amphibious cargo ships, etc. do not have direct landing capabilities and are used for long-range, large-scale landing operations. Amphibious assault ships are used to transport landing troops for landing.

Amphibious command ships are used to command the entire landing formation during landing operations.

If the most famous landing operation in history is to be said, it is probably the famous Normandy Landing in World War II.

In modern warfare, landing ships will play a huge role in marine landing operations.

The Chinese Navy has a great weakness in the development of amphibious landing ships. This is mainly because the demand for amphibious landing ships was not so urgent under the strategic thinking of "nearshore defense" and "near-sea defense".

This makes the main amphibious landing ships in the Chinese Navy currently 7 Type 072 Yukang-class tank landing ships and several Yuting-class, which are also small and medium-sized landing ships with average performance, and naturally cannot meet the needs of the navy.

Even the navy has already looked down on its own amphibious landing ships, and it is disgusted no matter how it looks at them.

Now the navy needs a large amphibious landing ship with advanced performance.