Chapter 1408 – The Task Force

The call to sit down and talk is nothing more than my Great Britain’s base maneuver as a permanent member of the United Nations, it doesn’t mean anything, on the contrary Britain is looking for the time to intervene.

Public opinion on this Indo-Pakistani war is considered one of the few public opinion frenzies in recent years, and the direction of the war in the former colonies involves every move of British citizens.

“It’s really hard to get through, and I don’t know what news will emerge, whether the Pakistani government forces have pulverized the Indian attack, or the Indian army has made a breakthrough, or still in a stalemate.”

Alan Wilson rare with a hint of nonchalance, he still think India will dominate, just do not know how many days Pakistan can hold out. The situation is clear, Bengal is surrounded on three sides by Indian territory, Pakistani defenders only three divisions of 90,000 people, the attacking Indian army is three armies of more than 200,000 people.

Bengal area is not large and no depth, Pakistan’s garrison is very isolated, this is not a special military operation of the old Maoist, 200,000 people will have to swallow 600,000 square kilometers, 400,000 defenders of Ukraine.

India is the dominant side in this war, in every sense of the word.

“Egypt wants to buy the production line of the Chieftain tank!” Seeing the supreme authority long sigh, Makins had to open his mouth to change the topic, talking about the Egyptian side wants to get Britain’s help in the construction of the army, this is an order, the same Egypt also need to get technical support.

“Oh? I think about it! It’s not really a big problem. But convincing the cabinet is harder.” Alan Wilson frowned slightly, indicating that this was something that could be talked about.

If he remembered correctly, Egypt, as the longtime number one military power in Arabia, in fact, it could not be completely counted on the surface light, the military industry was considered high in the Arab countries, and there was still an Abrams production line in the hands of the twenty-first century.

“In this way, the first catamaran missile boat technology transfer to Egypt, first stabilize Egypt, the rest we are thinking of ways. Tanks are not a big problem, ceramic composite armor is pinched in our hands, we don’t have to worry about those homogeneous armor tanks becoming a threat to us one day. Look at the Soviet Union’s support for Syria and Yemen, Egypt doesn’t hold the advantage in terms of the number of tanks, it’s not impossible to want a production line.”

Whether it’s Syria or Yemen, there are now huge armored forces, after the war the Soviet Union is the world’s strongest land power, the Soviet Union supported countries are also a water of ground forces are mainly, randomly take out one in the data are very scary.

That’s something that countries with good relations with the USSR had in common. Could the UK have done the same thing as the USSR and stacked Egypt with tanks? It’s a joke to think that way, can the UK compete with the USSR in terms of who can afford it?

In the case of the Soviet Union can not compete with the number of cases, to the Egyptian production license to establish a tank production line, is a viable option. Stingy, who will follow the UK in the future?

“You are the secretary general of the cabinet, this is all your job, the shipbuilding plan has been listed, and I will send it to you this afternoon.” Taking a sip of black tea, Makins finished enjoying a pleasant working meal.

Alan Wilson nodded, then the two left the dining room, about my Great Britain original 022 catamaran missile boat, equipped with the Egyptian Navy, has been over for several years.

Because the British shipbuilding industry by the Japanese competition, led to the respected female richest man opened to save the British shipbuilding industry, took over two shipyards Pamela Mountbatten, on the supreme authority of no one knows more about shipbuilding than I do, give the design drawings as the first step of the shipbuilding industry on the power.

To be honest, just give this batch of ships to Egypt, the richest woman has not been ridiculed because of this, whether it is the United States side or the United Kingdom’s local shipyards, are to gloat about the deal.

Shipbuilding colleagues in both countries agreed that even in the myth of laudable wealth, success could not be achieved in any industry, and the debut of the richest woman’s shipbuilding career began amidst a chorus of friendly remarks about only being able to build a poor country’s navy.

Alan Wilson didn’t have much time to console his wife at the time, what with their lack of knowledge that this was a near-shore naval powerhouse.

If Britain hadn’t had its own aircraft carriers in service, he would have been tempted to talk about the concept of saturation attacks and carrier killers.

It would have been so, Britain and the United States is there is a big navy naturally look down on missile boats, but for the air-submarine fast type of navy, close to fifty knots of missile boats, surely can not just participate in speedboat races.

Fortunately, the Egyptian side did not dislike these missile boats, then again what can be disliked, Egypt can also dislike British products? Do not look at what level they are!

Makins sent over the shipbuilding program for the Royal Navy to replace the old frigate program, the first is the Tiger cruiser-based blueprint to replace the Kokang class destroyers.

The second is an enlarged version of the County-class destroyer, Alan Wilson recalled as if there was a British 82-class destroyer that could match the indicators in front of him, only that only one was built.

As for the frigate portion, but also can also be seen, but in Alan Wilson’s mind, this time can be discarded part, do not know if the frigate is not the prototype of the Sheffield class, but if the Cabinet of Ministers is not too happy with the size of the shipbuilding program, then the frigate portion can be cut to eight kiloton destroyer class destroyer to build a general-purpose destroyer.

This is also Alan Wilson’s bottom line, two Eagle-class, two Queen Elizabeth-class, five Queen Victoria-class Royal Navy, can not build the destroyer fleet of stingy, that like it? Aircraft carriers nuclear submarines are not in short supply right now, and it’s totally unreasonable to be stingy on escort ships.

“Makins, why is the quote for the vertical launch system so high when the Defense Department argues that a hull reduction doesn’t serve as a cost-saving report? It’s not like it’s a radar system, Pamela has a shipyard too, I’ll ask her when the time comes.” Taking the documents of the shipbuilding program, Allen Wilson took the phone and instructed Makins.

Unfortunately, Pamela Mountbatten went back to Perth, or he could talk to the richest woman, how to minimize the cost in the case of quality assurance, that is, to persuade his wife not to make money.

Comparison of the United States with the same level of ships, this shipbuilding program is not satisfactory, he remembered that the Sheffield class cost $ 200 million, Ticonderoga class cruiser is $ 1 billion, although the tonnage is far from the same, but even with the same tonnage, can not go straight to the U.S. Navy’s cost to go, half is more or less the same.

Now is the time to submit the shipbuilding plan, considering that we do not yet know the specific direction of the war, this can wait.

Every time I come to Hepburn’s home, the supreme authority is always on fire in my heart, every piece of furniture here, are as thick and sturdy as the house, and also contains a kind of ancient flavor; the golden sofa is covered with a layer of corn-colored velvet cushions, that kind of soft and dense touch, and everywhere there are two people with good memories.

Of course there was no shortage of complaints, Hepburn grumbled with an air of having suffered a great loss, “It’s all my fault that I was young and didn’t think things through, and you caught me in a soft spot, and now that I think about it you took advantage of it.”

“I never denied that.” Alan Wilson bowed his head to express his apology, not mentioning that he was busy lately because he received German guests, and spoke, “As you know, war broke out in South Asia, and the cabinet was busy.”

“You always have a reason, in counting it is as if I am overly petty.” Hepburn accepted the man’s explanation, expressing his own open-mindedness.

But Alan Wilson was not satisfied, he felt it was better to solidify the relationship, take out the photo albums of the two, and the ball flower reminiscent of the whole process of dating, wedding photos and maternity photos are good memories.

“Where are the video records, take them out.” Alan Wilson hugged Hepburn’s body, arousing Ballflower’s wary mind, “Which one?”

“Just that one.” Supreme authority was rarely a prayer, but in private, it wasn’t too much to ask to see Hepburn’s first time in the sea movie, the risk went both ways, after all, the leading man was him.

Alexeyev met Alan Wilson when he was tormented by the uncertainty of the direction of the situation in South Asia, Alan Wilson, who had already adjusted his state of mind from the ladies of the same status as Ho’s wife, was no longer as annoyed as if he had been playing Red Alert without a panoramic map, “India’s plan to attack East Pakistan, was it not formulated by your Soviet Union, especially the airborne operation. ”

“Absolutely nothing of the sort.” Arikseyev denied it flatly, looking even more determined than Suo Zhongtang did when confronted with the questioning.

Alan Wilson gazed at the good Dahl’s expression, then muttered, “Then there is, and class enemies like you can’t be trusted.”

Class enemies? Alexeyev was speechless, isn’t this something he should say, how come the other party said it so mellow? How did he know that his cheap father was an existence that practiced God’s power in reverse.

Washington, the capital of the United States, Kissinger’s face gravely suggested that the United States must deter India’s adventurous moves, “to give the Indians a signal that the U.S. Navy can appear anywhere in the world. Our warships should be present off India and delivering supplies to Pakistan from Iran, Turkey and Jordan.”

Before coming to the White House, Kissinger had just met with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin for a frank exchange of views and an acknowledgment that the U.S. and Pakistan had some kind of special relationship.

Nixon was caught up in the middle of his thoughts and finally nodded, “Well, that crazy woman has to be made to pay.”

The crazy woman in Nixon’s mouth was Indira Gandhi, who had previously visited the United States, and that one negotiation between the two was very unpleasant, and now looking back on it all made Nixon choke on his throat.

Nixon expressed his support for Kissinger and ordered the formation of a task force, including the “sole nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, the amphibious assault ship Tripoli, and guided missile destroyers King, Decatur, and Parsons. Destroyers Bowser, Lake Charles, McKean, and Anderson. Ammunition replenishment ship HMS Harley Arak, fleet replenishment ship HMS White Plains, and a nuclear attack submarine.

It is safe to say that this task force could send any nation’s navy to the bottom of the ocean in one day, with the exception of the Royal Navy and the Red Navy of the Soviet Union.