Dominate South Asia

"The Military Commission has issued a message, saying that you need to build a new destroyer and let us provide technical support." Mr. Pan sat down and said to Mhamad: "So, I won't hide it anymore, our new destroyer The destroyer is indeed in the drafting and design stage.”

The Luda class is still under construction, but the design of the new destroyer has indeed begun. In later generations, in 1988, the keel of the Luhu class began to be laid. The design of this warship naturally started two or three years in advance. .

"Our negotiations with France are ongoing. We will introduce France's Sea Sidewinder air defense missile system, TAVITAC combat system, TSR 3002 Sea Tiger air/sea search radar and other related equipment will be equipped on our new destroyer,” Mr. Pan said: “Our warship is 148m long and has a width-to-width ratio of 9.25. The main engine is planned to be the American-made LM2500. Gas turbines. There are also 100 mm main guns and other equipment. If Pakistan is willing, we can export the technology to Pakistan at the same time and build this warship in Pakistan.”

Mr. Pan did not lie. After all, military cooperation between Pakistan and China has developed to a new level.

"Even the Sea Sidewinder is only a point-blank air defense missile. It is far from enough to deal with future maritime air defense threats." Mhamad said: "Especially the ability to resist saturation attacks is even more insufficient."

Hearing Mhamad's words, Mr. Pan nodded: "Yes, this is also our last resort. After all, our Haihongqi 61 is outdated and cannot meet our needs. The Sea Rattlesnake is the most advanced technology we can obtain. At the same time, the product is cheap and the technology is available at the same time.”

A very important condition for China's various military equipment is that it must be able to obtain technology and imitate it yourself. It is not possible to rely solely on imports like Asan. Only by digesting and absorbing it yourself can you meet your own needs. In future generations, . The Sea Rattlesnake is equipped with a variety of warships, which is the result of its own digestion and absorption.

Hamad has been asking the Americans for a Kidd-class destroyer because he is interested in the standard anti-aircraft missiles mounted on it. Unfortunately, the Americans have been stubbornly refusing to let go. If the Americans export this kind of destroyer to Pakistan, then The first thing Pakistan did was to imitate the standard missiles above.

Only when an air defense missile system similar to the American Aegis system is developed can it resist saturation strikes.

"Our Pakistani warships plan to introduce the American Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile system." Mhammad said to Mr. Pan: "The specific details. We will have specialized technical personnel to negotiate with you."

Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missile! Mr. Pan's eyes also lit up. The maximum range of the Sea Rattlesnake is only 13 kilometers. The Sea Sparrow is more than twenty kilometers away, and the latest Sea Sparrow missile has a strong attack capability against sea-skimming missiles.

Now relying on the relationship with the United States, if we want to, we can definitely buy from the United States, but. The price offered by the United States is definitely quite high. Moreover, the United States only exports finished products but not technology. This is unacceptable to itself, which means. If a war comes and the anti-aircraft missiles are quickly consumed, we will have to buy them from the United States. If the United States turns against us, we will no longer be able to buy them. Then it becomes scrap metal.

The tragedy of the Argentine Navy cannot be repeated on our own side.

"Of course. As long as we get it, it means you have it. We hope that both of us can jointly study and fully understand this missile." Mhamad said.

Mhammad's words made Mr. Pan immediately happy. This sentence is very correct. What Pakistan has is equivalent to what it owns.

Back then, Pakistan had just equipped the F-16, so we could go over to visit this advanced third-generation aircraft. Bai Xue, who had been silent next to him, felt excited after listening to Mhamad's words.

The relationship between the two parties can no longer be described as friends, but as if they were comrades in the trenches.

"This is only temporary." Mhammad said: "We must make great strides forward to develop an air defense system composed of four-sided phased array radar similar to the American Aegis system, and equip our warships so that we can respond future threats."

Hamad's words made everyone stunned. Are you studying a system similar to the American Aegis system?

American technology is simply like alien technology. When the Soviets began to advocate the theory of missile victory, they believed that the American aircraft carrier formation was of no use at all. In the face of omnipotent missiles, the aircraft carrier formation was a living target.

And the Soviets did do this. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed many kinds of anti-ship missiles, including powerful and ultra-long-range supersonic anti-ship missiles. The outstanding representative is the P-700Granit long-range anti-ship missile. The missile, NATO codename SS-N-19, is an anti-ship missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers. When it flies over, its target is the US aircraft carrier formation.

When dozens of missiles flew over, it was a huge test for the US fleet air defense system. In order to deal with this threat, in the late 1960s, the US Navy believed that the reaction time, firepower, and operational efficiency of existing warships in various environments were not enough to cope with the saturation attack threat of a large number of Soviet anti-ship missiles. So a proposal for an "advanced surface missile system" was put forward, and in December 1969 it was named the Air Warning and Ground Integration System. The English abbreviation is just the Aegis of Aegis in Greek mythology, so it is called the Aegis system.

The four-sided SPY-1 phased array radar can monitor all targets in the air in all directions. At the same time, through efficient computer calculations, it can guide its own missiles. Because it is vertically equipped in the MK41 launch unit, the launch efficiency is also very high, and it can attack a large number of targets at the same time.

It was not until 1981 that this system was officially developed. In 1983, it was equipped on the new missile cruiser. After years of development, the Aegis system has the function of intercepting ballistic missiles, which is very powerful.

Even in later generations, there are almost no similar systems. Europe has directly introduced the Aegis system from the United States, saving the high cost of its own development. Even the Aster 30 air defense missile developed by Europe does not use a four-sided phased array radar.

As for the current Soviet Union, even the nuclear-powered ballistic missile cruiser Kirov class is just equivalent to stacking various air defense missiles together, without realizing efficient computer unified command and joint air defense. It is just divided into three levels of long, medium and short distances, each defending its own.

Only the Chinese Aegis used in China has a prototype similar to the Aegis, but unfortunately, that was twenty years later.

Now, Muhammad has proposed to develop an Aegis system similar to the Americans. How can everyone not be shocked?

What the navy lacks most is the air defense problem. If this system is developed, the air defense problem will be solved, and it will jump to the top of the world, which is simply worth celebrating.

Unfortunately, it is too difficult. It took China 20 years to build a Hongqi 61. A large number of equipment for the new destroyer were purchased. It is a pipe dream to want to develop an Aegis system by ourselves. Even when he was sleeping soundly, Mr. Pan had never dreamed of having such an air defense system.

If the person speaking in front of him was not the President of Pakistan, but someone else, he would probably be reprimanded by the leaders present. In the past, there were not many examples of being out of touch with reality and putting forward too high indicators, which resulted in the failure of the development. Don't be too ambitious, be down-to-earth!

The first problem is the four-sided phased array radar. The American technology is quite advanced and can produce that kind of radar. Only phased array radar can achieve the goal of resisting saturation attack. Although there are also large radars like mountains in China, they are used to provide long-range early warning.

There is also the central computer system, which is the core of defense. With the domestic technical strength, how can it be developed?

"We in Pakistan now have the Patriot missile system of the United States. We can do a reverse development based on this Patriot missile system." Muhammad said.

There is no way to obtain the Aegis system of the US Navy. In later generations, the first foreign user of the Aegis system was an island country, which was also after the 1990s.

The United States did not even want to provide Pakistan with a Kidd-class missile, because it was afraid that Pakistan would obtain medium-range air defense missiles.

However, due to the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles, in order to help Pakistan fight the Soviets, the United States provided Pakistan with several sets of Patriot missile systems, which were originally operated by Americans. As a result, after a period of time, it was gradually released and Pakistanis could also operate them. Americans just need to take their salaries and go back to the big city to be free and easy.

Muhammad had long wanted to use these Patriot missiles.

In the United States, due to system reasons, their navy and army do not intersect with each other. The Army's Patriot system has nothing to do with the Navy's Aegis system, but it is also very likely to transform the land-based Patriot into a sea-based missile.

At the other end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union. Almost all of the navy's ship-borne air defense missiles were modified from land-based missiles. Even the later Chinese Aegis was developed on the basis of the land-based S-300. The Sea Red Flag 9 is the naval version of the Red Flag 9.

The Patriot missile also uses a phased array radar and the same box-type missile. The technology of the Patriot missile was digested and absorbed, and it took ten years to develop a similar system for our side! Ten years to sharpen a sword! (To be continued ~^~)