Li Min decided to experience the life of American farmers and change jobs. While shoveling horse manure, he smiled and asked, "Think impassability?"
"It’s not unexpected, it’s a little too much."
"God, this more than 90,000 dollars is not only for this military aid. It can be seen that this year’s activities outside the hospital have been added up by more than four new friends and old friends, and the average number of people per head is not much. Now we can barely calculate that a local government has great resistance to military aid. They have to help us do a lot of work."
Li Min put the shovel aside and then said, "Actually, it is more important than this political support for military aid. It can be said that without their acquiescence, we will keep the status quo in the six provinces worse. They also have a steelyard in their hearts that will give us a reward through it, such as promoting logistics and trade policies for US troops stationed in Vietnam."
Buddhists are making trouble. Washington is increasingly dissatisfied with the current government. Ruan Gaoqi and his "left and right hook action" have issued a strong challenge to the top of the Jialong Palace National Army. The situation in South Vietnam is getting more and more chaotic. Wu Tingyan may collapse at any time. Obviously, the boss should prepare for the more complicated situation.
The day reacted and said, "Mr. Li, during the field investigation in the fourth tactical area, I contacted several pilots of the air force. They hoped to equip new models instead of listing these backward propeller planes."
"Who doesn’t want more advanced equipment? The key is not what we want."
Li Min hit the tap and washed his hands. He got up and smiled. "The Pentagon and the Military Aid Command will first consider a realistic demand problem when providing military aid. Even if the North Vietnamese army has not yet developed, even a few MiG fighters dare not fly over the 17-degree north latitude line to equip us with’ swords’. Who will it hit?
Second, they should fully consider the feelings of Saigon.
Anyway, the Saigon government is the legitimate government of the Republic of South Vietnam, and the national army is the government army of South Vietnam, and they bear the main pressure of the Vietnam War. If our equipment is much better than the national army, it will inevitably affect the morale of the national army. "
Li Min dumped them, took the towel and wiped it out of the stable. He continued, "Because we can equip a relatively advanced Kilin-class destroyer with a large tonnage, we do have this need, not only to ensure the safety of the industrial base of Fuguo Island, but also to prevent the Soviet-Russian camp from transferring materials to Vietnam, and to ensure the safety of offshore oil fields and to keep the long coastline of six provinces."
Because Americans seem to have social stability and healthy economic development in the Golden Gull Peninsula, they can save money for them and bear part of the responsibility for them, that is to say, no matter how nervous we are with Saigon, we should pay as much as we can to the Ministry of Finance, and whether it can be more or less. "
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Americans are not as efficient as they think. The Pentagon is a huge bureaucracy.
Despite the help of General Taylor, even the Secretary of Defense McNamara personally greeted the four Keeling-class destroyers, which still didn’t go well and were stuck by the Admiralty.
Zhang Xingjian, a naval representative of the Defense Equipment Requirements Committee, gnashed his teeth. This group of civilian officers who master naval policy, command and administrative logistics are 100 times more difficult than active officers.
"Sorry, we have just received an application for refitting. The refitting plans for dd26 (Agerholm) and dd25 (Carpenter) are temporarily closed to dd5 (Chevalier) and dd3 (Euster G Small) have been included in the foreign aid negotiations. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be handed over to the Republic of Korea and the Republic of China respectively."
People have to bow their heads under the eaves.
Zhang Xingjian secretly scolded and said enthusiastically, "As far as I know, Mr. Monk, the modification of dd26 and dd25 is not very urgent. The whole plan is still on paper, and Congress has not allocated corresponding funds for dd5 and dd3. Although they have been included in the negotiations, they have not been settled."
The Yankee adjusted his glasses and said in surprise, "Dude, you are well informed!"
Why don’t the county magistrate take charge of Zhang Hangjian and say, "Yes, sir, I also know that if you have no problem here, then there will be no problem."
The Keeling class is not the John Butler class, nor is it the Cannon class escort destroyer.
The full displacement is 34 tons, the length is 1192 meters, the width is 125 meters, the draft is 31 meters, and the speed is 32 knots, which is second only to cruisers. South Korea, Taiwan Province and the Philippines have long been eyeing these newly retired destroyers, and even Greece and Brazil have expressed great interest.
Monk’s charge in this field is very hot. I don’t know how many times I have been invited to attend the reception of the national embassy in Washington since last year. How can I hand over the warship to South Vietnam so easily?
He dug out a list from the drawer and mused, "Dude, these four destroyers are naval property, and I am responsible for the navy. Since you really have maritime defense needs, why don’t we make a change?"
"How to be flexible?"
"How about changing to avp35, avp24, sf3 and de54? Besides, I can help you win two torpedo boats and six tank landing ships."
What a joke!
Zhang Xingjian, the first naval instructor of the Reserve Officers Training Team of Fuguo Island University of Technology, has been dealing with US naval consultants since 1955. He knows all about the ships in the US naval battle sequence and knows exactly what he is talking about.
Avp35 and avp24 are the main long-range patrol boats of Panai Jiate small water jet, and the fuel plane and pilot accommodation.
The standard displacement is 1,766 tons, the speed is only one fire, and it is not very good to equip a single k3127/3x extension gun, two K42mm Erikon guns, two 1mm k2 mortars and four machine guns. After the end of World War II, the seaplane has been eliminated. The only advantage of this small waterplane is that it is relatively cheap to maintain.
Sf3 is worse than avp35. It is a minesweeper with a standard displacement of 65 tons. de54 is a "Ladero class" escort destroyer with a full displacement of 17 tons.
Zhang Xingjian shook his head without hesitation. "Mr. Monk, please forgive me for accepting this proposal. I still insist on my former point of view."
What can you do if you don’t give it to you
The Pentagon has Pentagon rules, and the Admiralty has Admiralty procedures. A civilian official like Monk is not worried about what the company will think of him. He shrugs his shoulders and says with regret, "Well, you’d better reconsider and communicate with your company again."
When the news reached the farm in New Jersey, I was so anxious that I couldn’t help saying, "Mr. Li, why don’t you call Minister McNamara again or simply go to Washington?"
Li Min put a newspaper and smiled casually. "God knows this is the United States, not Vietnam. No matter what game you participate in, you must follow the rules of the game. There is nothing you can do about this small bureaucratic pressure."
"Is there any way to bribe?"
"He is not qualified yet."
Li Min took out a newspaper that Sun Ningyu had just received, and Gherardini said, "The people who went to the naval shipyard just finalized the modification plan. Shipyard experts suggested dismantling two five-mounted 533mm torpedo tubes at the stern, installing a flight deck and a small hangar, and equipping the ship with 5d anti-submarine helicopters.
At the same time, the weapons control and unification will be upgraded. Two 127mm triple naval guns will be replaced by three k32 double 5-inch high-level two guns, and the original radar will be replaced by advanced sir radar. At the same time, the sea sparrow anti-missile that has been successfully developed but not accepted by the navy will be installed. "
"How much will it cost?"
"It takes a lot of money under normal circumstances, but whether we refit the experimental anti-submarine helicopter can the destroyer take off and land safely or not? Is the sir radar as good as the equipment manufacturer said? Whether these need to be verified or not, we don’t mind them doing this test."
Sun Ningyu said with a smile, "There are more than 13 keeling-class destroyers in the US Navy. It is a big business for shipyards, anti-submarine helicopters, sir radars and sea sparrow anti-missile manufacturers to modernize and refit the department."
They give us a price, and we let them do a modification experiment. If the experiment is successful, they can take the order. In other words, they will ask lobbyists to go to Washington to help us lobby those small bureaucrats without our headaches. "
Li Min nodded slightly and smiled thoughtfully. "But as that monk said, we really need landing ships, not only tank landing ships, but also larger dock landing ships."
"Will they give it?"
"It shouldn’t be a big problem for her to move again when she goes to Washington on a green day."
Miss Li can go in and out of the White House at any time, including the first lady and the wife of a senior official. It’s not a big problem to add her hand.
It’s not awkward to say with smile, "It seems that I made my husband laugh with a false alarm."
"Laugh at what you see is less contact. It’s nothing here. You go with Qingqing to get to know more people and get to know a familiar face."
Chapter two hundred and thirty-three "research" new headquarters
Saigon United Industrial Company is located at No.2 Tuanjie Avenue, Pingdong Industrial Village, covering an area of more than 17 mu.
The layout of the factory area is different from that of the surrounding enterprises. There is a square in frontispiece, and then there is a new five-story office building. Behind the office building, 9 rows of steel structure factories and warehouses are neat, and each row is planted with various flowers and trees, and the greening is very good.
The innermost part is a row of four-story buildings. The dormitory style of industrial village staff is very common. frontispiece faces north and faces the industrial investment platform of Endeavour Avenue. The factory is separated by a wall. On the left is the industrial village newspaper office and the telephone company. On the right is the "Xingyue Automobile Transportation Company" transshipment warehouse
In terms of floor space, it is second to none in the whole industrial village.
However, this Vietnam-Hong Kong joint venture company, which was registered and established the year before last, was put into operation only this year, with cars coming in and out. It seems that the benefits are very good, but it has never recruited employees from grandpa, and its employees rarely deal with outsiders.
However, the industrial village has been closed for three steps, one post, five steps and one whistle. One wall after another, not only the industrial village security team, but also the industrial village police who are independent from the security team, and the security guards of the companies themselves are so chaotic that people are used to ensuring that Ann can’t wander around.
Besides, there are so many classes to export and sell orders to make money. Who will know what’s going on in this new company except those workers who want to take advantage of recruitment opportunities outside?