Chapter 676 Air Force Road Development Plan

Li Mo, who buried his head behind his desk, suddenly looked up and exhaled.

After giving himself two days off and returning to work, Li Mo knew the fact that it was not easy to do high-ranking officials, especially a high-ranking official who worked hard.

Among other things, other people almost go home from work to accompany his wife, but he still has to read at night and deal with the backlog of documents in the office these two days alone.

Although it is a small Somalia with tens of thousands of troops, the work is the same as the national affairs of those with millions of troops. There are key tasks and miscellaneous work. Because the last time I hit the impure Chief of Staff of Staff of Hussein, as long as there are some levels in the whole army, who doesn't know this? Now, in order to ensure his position in Shangguan's mind, he desperately made some work problems and tricks to report to the General Headquarters.

These reports are not for the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Everyone knows that President Yusuf is just a commander-in-chief of the Supreme Armed Forces. In fact, the whole five floors of the Ministry of National Defense are under the jurisdiction of Li Mo, the deputy commander-in-chief?

Under the instructions of the General Command, the three departments of the General Staff, the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense have mainly focused on the reorganization of the troops during this period. Somalia's second disarmament action has arrived. According to the instructions of the superior documents, the targets of this disarmament are mainly infantry brigades. Further, the age will be the red line, and some of the unprofessional soldiers will be eliminated. This part of the officers and soldiers who have been laid off from military service also have a place. They will all enter the local police departments to enrich the police force.

The last document in front of Li Mo, even if the disarmament plan report reported by the three departments will be reviewed by Li Mo and submitted to the National Defense Commission for approval, and then it will be officially implemented.

In the disarmament plan, there are three steps. Somalia's mechanized infantry brigade and armored brigade are not within the scope of abolition. The scope of abolition is the infantry brigade. In the first step, each infantry brigade will be reduced from 5,000 to 4,000. With the three-three system, 7,000 soldiers who do not meet the requirements can be eliminated at a time. This not only reduces military expenditure, but also meets the needs of the Somali country. A country with an area of less than one million square kilometers and a population of only 13 million does not need a regular army of 70,000 except for the poor soldiers. For example, Kenya, the enemy of Somalia, although its area is a little smaller than that of Somalia, its population is more than three times that of Somalia, with more than 40 million people, but the regular army is less than 30,000.

Speaking of which, Kenya's foundation is much stronger than that of Somalia.

The abolition of 7,000 army officers and soldiers is only the first step, and the second step is specifically for mechanized troops. The organization and organizational structure of the mechanized infantry brigade in Somalia are not in line with international practice. A mechanized infantry brigade has only 48 infantry fighting vehicles, called a regiment, but in fact there is only one battalion of others. In addition to 1,000 people in the machine step regiment, the remaining 4,000 people are organized into two infantry regiments. The main tools are military trucks and jeeps. Moreover, for economic reasons, of the five infantry regiments, only the first and third regiments are equipped with 300 vehicles of various types, and the other regiments are basically only about 100. Usually, they use these more than 100 military vehicles to run back and forth, or temporarily requisition civilian vehicles.

Now Li Mo still has a fund to sell 700 million US dollars of silicon uranium alloys to Huaxia. In addition to supporting education funds of 100 million US dollars and other expenses, there are 500 million US dollars left. This money will take out part of the purchase of 'defendant' tanks, but this matter will take some time, and it will be until the end of the year at the earliest. Because the production capacity of the 2nd Armored Vehicle Factory is insufficient, it can only be produced for the three countries at present, and the tanks equipped by the Somali army will be at the back.

The reorganization of the second step is mainly to increase the number of equipped vehicles. In the plan, in addition to two infantry infantry fighting regiments equipped with 48 Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicles, there will also be an armored regiment equipped with 48 'Defensor' tanks. In the original formation, a battalion with 24 107mm24 rocket battalions and an anti-aircraft missile battalion were added.

After the reorganization is completed, a walking brigade will have 96 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 tanks, 24 multiple rocket launchers, and 12 anti-aircraft missile vehicles. The comprehensive combat effectiveness is several times stronger than that of today's aircraft brigade, with enhanced assault capabilities, artillery suppression, and low-altitude air defense capabilities.

Some secret agreements have been reached between Li Mo and Huaxia. The 107mm multi-barre rocket launcher will be produced in Somalia, with technology and production equipment provided by Huaxia. The anti-aircraft missile is a Red Flag-7 surface-to-air missile system that directly purchases the equipment of the Chinese army.

Because the plan for the second step is too large, there is a large shortage of heavy weapons and equipment at present. Therefore, the reorganization time is expected to be 2 years.

The third step of the reorganization plan is about the armored brigade. In the plan, in addition to replacing all the 'defolder tanks' of the first armored brigade, it will also join an infantry regiment. It consists of two armored regiments and one aircraft regiment. And with actual needs, upgrade a walking brigade to an armored brigade at any time.

The whole reorganization plan is expected to last for 3 years. The plan only involves the army. It is expected that after the completion of the plan, the number of officers and soldiers of the Somali Defence Army will be reduced to 50,000, 11 brigade-level units. Among them, 1 armored brigade, 5 infantry brigades and 5 infantry brigades.

According to the estimates of the three departments, if the plan is fully completed, $3 billion will be needed. In addition to the cost of purchasing arms from Huaxia, other expenses are also calculated from Star Group at cost price, and other expenses such as troop training are included.

Although the 2 billion US dollars is very small, compared with the hundreds of billions of dollars of military spending on those big countries, this figure is not even comparable to a arms purchase. But in Africa, how many countries can spend 2 billion US dollars to redress their troops in three years? In Africa, there are also many countries where the annual military expenditure is less than 100 million US dollars.

Li Mo took a sip of the coffee at hand. Although he likes to drink tea, when it comes to staying up late to relieve fatigue, except for cigarettes, tea is still not as refreshing as coffee.

Signing his name at the end of the document, Li Mo found that his hand holding the pen was a little trembling. This is not a few hundred yuan, but a huge plan of 3 billion US dollars. Most importantly, this plan is only for the army. In the overall plan in Li Mo's mind, the object of this integration plan is not the focus. Li Mo wants to build the strongest air force in Africa that can control the traffic arte of the Gulf of Aden. Compared with the army, the air force is the real money-consuming one.

Of course, the most expensive one is the navy, so Li Mo knew it and directly excluded the navy. Li Mo can't afford to play that thing, and he doesn't have time to play it. A powerful Blue Sea navy is not just equipped with advanced warships and submarines. The Centennial Navy is not casual. Naturally, there is a reason why this sentence can be used as the motto of the navy by all countries.

Put aside the Army Rectification Plan, which had been thought about for a long time, and Li Mo looked at the last unprocessed document on the desktop.

Is this document Assad, the chief instructor of the Air Force? It was sent by Colonel Ekenz. In the report, Colonel Assad mentioned that the 30 pilots who returned from China were of excellent quality and were already qualified as the main pilots of the Somali Air Force.

In Somalia, I'm afraid only Assad vaguely understands that the boss Li Mo pays far more attention to the air force than the navy and army. Although the current size of the air force is the smallest, as long as the boss is willing to invest, the Somali air force will sooner or later become a force that cannot be ignored internationally.

Therefore, Assad took the initiative to submit this report. First, he praised the group of pilots trained by Huaxia, and then asked his superiors to discuss with Huaxia again and send the second batch of pilots to Huaxia for higher education training.

At present, the Somali Air Force has more than 100 pilots. Less than 40 of them have received higher education training, including the 30 pilots who returned from China.

Perhaps to hear about the army's reorganization plan, Assad also briefly mentioned in this report that he was working on a 'five-year development plan for the air force'.

Assad's few words have made Li Mo wipe his nose.

"It's really more ambitious than one. Am I a banker?" Li Mo couldn't help laughing and scolding.

It happened that the door of the office was opened, and Fan Qingqing, who had just gone to rest for a while, came in with a cup of hot coffee. Hearing Li Mo talking to himself alone, Fan Qingqing couldn't help but feel curious.

"Xiao Mo, what makes you so angry?" Fan Qingqing came to Li Mo's side, leaned over his head and asked.

"You see, this is the report of Assad, the chief instructor of the Air Force. Do these people think I'm a big capitalist, a big chaebol, a financial oligarch, and an oil tycoon? Open your mouth to ask for money one by one. If it goes on like this, I don't have to look at anything else. As long as I take people all over the world to rob, I'm afraid it's not enough for these people to consume.

Fan Qingqing smiled and picked up the file in front of Li Mo. She saw that Li Mo was not really angry.

"Ah... 10 billion dollars... or is it just the least estimate? Is this Assad crazy? Fan Qingqing couldn't help but exclaim with his big rosy little mouth. You should know that Somalia's GDP is expected to be less than 10 billion US dollars this year. This guy's mouth is 10 billion US dollars, which is just a preliminary estimate.

In the 'Air Force Five-Year Development Plan', 10 billion US dollars should be invested in five years to train 1,000 regular pilots and 1,000 reserve pilots through higher education aircraft training and tactical training. Train 30,000 air force logistics personnel and corresponding reserves. Five years later, the Somali Air Force will have 100 active third-generation fighters, a bomber force and a transport force of the right size.

These are only roughly mentioned in this report. If Li Mo knew, Assad originally wanted to write that he would have more than 500 aircraft of all kinds in five years, and have a long-range bomber force that is enough to threaten the entire Middle East and the European continent. What do you think?

It can be seen from this report that Assad's Li Mo was not very ruthless, and he took a breath under the knife. Moreover, Assad's preliminary budget is really correct. If he wants to complete his so-called 'Air Force Five-Year Development Plan', I really don't know if 10 billion US dollars is enough.

The last time Li Mo purchased 24 Su-27 fighters from Ukraine plus the cost of modification, which was only more than 600 million US dollars. This is because the service life of these fighters is too long. Even if they are modernized, it only improves their retirement years and shortens the gap with today's main fighters. But there are no sellers like Ukraine in the future. Ukraine itself does not have the conditions to continue to sell 'cheap' planes to Li Mo. Purchasing from Russia is not only easy to be thoughtful, but also suspicious of the surname of the fighter. Moreover, it will take several years to purchase 100 aircraft, even in Russia.

(to be continued)