Chapter 917 Type 071 Amphibious Landing Ship

Since the establishment of the Chinese Navy, the amphibious ship force of the Chinese Navy has been growing with the development of the Chinese Navy.

Different times also show different construction characteristics.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the focus was on the coast, the army was prioritized, and single-unit delivery was carried out. In the 1970s and 1980s, the focus was on the near sea, from boats to ships, the navy was the main force, and the system was delivered.

With the escort in the Persian Gulf, the strategic transformation of the Chinese Navy began, from near-sea defense to far-sea defense.

The development of frigates and destroyers is okay.

However, the development of amphibious ship forces has lagged seriously. Now the Chinese Navy amphibious ship force has only a dozen tank landing ships with limited functions, and each ship can only carry a maximum of 10 tanks or 200 officers and soldiers.

The amphibious ship force has a very large shortage of force delivery capabilities.

The Type 072 tank landing ship is the largest landing ship designed and built by China. It is China's earliest attempt to build a large tank landing ship and the first amphibious landing ship with ocean-going significance.

However, the full load displacement of the Type 072 tank landing ship is only 4,200 tons, and it can only carry eleven tanks and two personnel and vehicle landing craft at most, but not helicopters.

Now the navy urgently needs an advanced large landing ship. The navy named this amphibious landing ship the Type 071, and the indicator is not less than 9,000 tons.

The task of the new amphibious landing ship fell on the largest shipyard in the country, the Yangcheng Shipyard.

There is no way. The Yangcheng Shipyard is the largest shipyard in the country and also the most advanced shipyard. It has the strongest ability to build warships.

Even the Yangcheng Shipyard can build aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines.

Rather than giving this task to the Yangcheng Shipyard, it is better to say that it was given to Liu Tao.

When Liu Tao returned to the Yangcheng Shipyard, he began to work on the construction of the amphibious landing ship.

In just one month, Liu Tao got the design done.

The Type 071 can carry four large air cushion landing ships, four to six "Ray Sculpture" helicopters, hundreds of marines, and more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles.

The appearance of the stealth design is smooth and simple. Although it is not a real stealth warship, the radar reflection area is greatly reduced.

Although the radar reflection area is small, the interior of the Type 071 dock landing ship is very impressive. The giant dock landing cabin at the rear section has a total length of 80 meters. There is no problem playing basketball in it. It can berth a large number of air cushion landing craft, personnel and vehicles.

Two 730 close defense systems and a 76mm rapid-fire gun are the main weapons of the Type 071. After all, it is also a combat ship and needs some weapons.

Liu Tao arranged for the Yangcheng Shipyard to prepare to build the Type 071 amphibious landing ship.

The Chinese Navy needs about ten Type 071 amphibious landing ships.

Now it is necessary to build the first Type 071 amphibious landing ship to achieve a breakthrough from 0 to 1.

The situation in Somalia has further deteriorated.

The peacekeeping forces withdrew from Somalia, and the Somali government took over the power, but it was unable to control the situation. Not only did the situation not improve, but it got further out of control.

There are at least hundreds of warlords, big and small.

Only those with guns are the boss.

Liu Tao had to make a decision to give up half of Somalia's industries.

These industries are located in the territories of some forces with European and American backgrounds. They are still in chaos now. They will definitely take action against these industries later.

Rather than doing so, it is better to withdraw during the chaos.

Of course, Liu Tao will not let the power stations, factories, etc. be cheap to Westerners, and will blow them up before leaving.

To be honest, it is a pity for the situation in Somalia. He has made efforts, but unfortunately Somalia is too complicated both internally and externally, and he has no way to turn the tide.

So that, with the situation developing to this point, he has to make a decision to give up half of the industry. You know, the loss here is huge.

The loss is as high as 1 billion yuan, and this part of the industry can bring 200 to 300 million yuan in revenue every year.

But now, the industry is gone, let alone the revenue.

After Liu Tao made the decision, Somalia began to implement it.

In a gold mine, after the mercenaries escorted the workers away, the remaining mercenaries were setting up explosive packs.

They are professional in this regard.

It is easy to withdraw people, but it is not easy to withdraw mining equipment and smelting equipment.

Since they have to withdraw, they can't give the opponent an advantage and smash them all.

If they were not forced to do so, the mercenaries would not be willing to blow up the gold mine, because this is a large gold mine, which was sold to mercenaries by Somalia in order to import guns and ammunition, but now the warlords here do not recognize it.

In such a war-torn place, laws, contracts, etc. are all false, and only armed forces are real.

If the warlords set their eyes on your industry, there are hundreds of ways to take your industry away.

After the explosive packs were arranged, a mercenary pressed the button.

Boom boom boom~~

The explosive packs exploded one by one, destroying the gold ore and smelting equipment, and the entire mine was blown up.

To resume mining, at least hundreds of millions of dollars will be invested, and it will take at least three years.

This is because the mercenaries have already repaired the road. If there is no road, it will take more time.

At the same time, a hydroelectric power station has already released all the water.

The mercenaries set up the explosive packs.

Since we are leaving, there is no need for this place to exist.

If the mercenaries had not had a conscience and could not bear to blow up the hydroelectric power station when it was full of water, otherwise, if they had blown up the hydroelectric power station when it was full of water, it would have been enough to flood a large area downstream.

The mercenaries got on the helicopter. After the helicopter took off, the mercenaries pressed the button, and the explosions almost occurred at the same time, and the huge hydroelectric power station was blown up.

And a large area was suddenly in a power outage.

"FUCK!"

Dozens of warlords were dumbfounded.

They all planned to take these industries when the situation stabilized, but they didn't expect that these industries would be gone in a blink of an eye.

And they will suffer heavy losses.

You know, those assets are as much as hundreds of millions of dollars. Now not only will they lose hundreds of millions of dollars, but they will also have a huge impact.

Just like a hydroelectric power station was blown up, how can they make up for this part of the electricity?

There is no way!

Even if they rebuild a similar hydroelectric power station, it will take at least ten years with Somalia's efficiency.

At this moment, I don't know how many warlords regretted cooperating with Westerners.

Now they are dumb and can't say anything.

These warlords caused dissatisfaction among many people, and the territory they had just taken was already in turmoil.

However, these warlords did not dare to send troops to hunt them down at this time, because these mercenaries were well-trained, equipped with advanced weapons and equipment, and had strong combat effectiveness. Even if they joined forces, they might not be opponents.

In the sea, fishing boats were fishing, and everyone was in a good mood.

Somalia had no way to deal with these fish-stealing people, because Somalia had no navy and could do nothing to them.