Chapter 851 Formation of Airborne Forces and Development of Tactical Transport Aircraft

On February 24, 2009, the 76th meeting of the National Defense Commission adopted the resolution on the Formation of the Somali Airborne Forces, because the Somali Air Force does not have a military transport aircraft at present, and in order to test the technical level of the aviation field of the scientific research department of the Star Group, after the General Staff, the Equipment Department, After discussion, the Logistics Department, the Air Force Command and the Aviation Research Department of Star Group decided to launch the 'YSK-01' plan, which is the development plan of the Air Force tactical transport aircraft.

Since Li Mo's last inspection of the industrial park and proposed to promote the research of some key projects, Star Group Airlines has made relevant preparations. A large number of technicians in aviation and corresponding fields have been summoned to form a research and development team.

However, when the development plan of 'YSK-01' reached the scientific research department of Star Group, it still caused a great response among the middle and lower-level technicians.

Many people did not expect that the first officially focused research project they received was a military transport aircraft, rather than some kind of fighter/bomber speculated by many technicians in private.

Throughout the world, there are more than 100 types of fighters/bombers in service, but only 20 to 30 aircraft used to carry out strategic/tactical transportation. This is not because the military use of transport aircraft is not as good as that of fighters. On the contrary, with the change of the current international situation, especially the change of the new mode of war, The role of transport aircraft is becoming more and more important. Air transportation, airdrop and airborne aircraft, both strategic transport aircraft and tactical transport aircraft have played an extremely important role in modern warfare.

Modern warfare is about logistics, and with the progress of military technology and the increasingly blurred concept of geography, the scope of combat is no longer limited to the surrounding areas, and even tens of millions of miles away.

At this time, in order to ensure the victory of the war, the immediate replenishment of logistics materials, and the key points of tactical and even strategic airborne attacks on the enemy at critical times need to be implemented by transport aircraft with greater load and longer range.

In local conflicts and small-scale raid missions, the role of the transport aircraft is even more obvious. It can drop some soldiers and materials to the most urgently needed places in a very short time, thus reversing the outcome of a conflict.

Now most countries in the world are equipped with transport aircraft, more or less with long-range delivery strength. Somalia, as a rising country, needs long-range delivery capabilities when it conflicts with other countries, so as to attack the enemy's hinterland.

According to the discussion of several departments, the research and development mission was finally assigned, 'YSK01', of which 'SK' is the code name of the Somali Air Force, because Li Mo is Chinese, and in many code names, Chinese habits are used. 'Y' represents the transport aircraft, while '01' represents the first transport aircraft. The complete 'YSK01' is a small tactical transport aircraft. The Air Force requires that the take-off weight of this tactical transport aircraft should not exceed 75 tons, the load should reach 20 tons, the maximum range should reach 4,000 kilometers, and the speed should reach 700 kilometers. It is necessary to have the ability to take off and land at short distances at small and medium-sized airports on the front line.

This is the development requirement issued by the Air Force Command. Compared with the current small and medium-sized tactical transport aircraft, there is no particularly strict or prominent place, but for an enterprise that has never developed such a large aircraft, this is undoubtedly a very severe test.

After a strict and detailed discussion with experts in the aviation field of the scientific research department, Abick put forward a request to Li Mo, that is, to ensure all the needs of this research and development team, which means that it is not only airlines that should do their best for 'YSK01 Service, even other departments, including the boss Li Mo, should also do everything possible to serve the success of 'YSK01'. The deeper meaning of the words is that Li Mo, as before, when the research and development team lacks certain equipment or technology, Li Mo needs to find a way to get it, whether to buy, steal or rob.

This requirement is big and small, but Li Mo readily agreed. In his opinion, this is not a requirement. In any case, he must do everything possible to create better conditions for Star Group's first transport aircraft.

... On this day, Li Mo attended the departure ceremony of the second batch of Somali officers and soldiers in the camp in the southwest corner of Mogadishu in the capital military region.

With the outbreak of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, Gaddafi has felt a sense of urgency, not only from the internal opposition and dissatisfied people, but also from outside forces peeping around. Therefore, in private and in the Third Economic Council, Libya has repeatedly proposed to step up the expansion of the "Third Fast Anti-Force".

This time, it is the departure of the second batch of 500 army officers and soldiers in Somalia. They will take a boat to Bengazi, Libya, for a one-year 'cross-border service'. These 500 officers and soldiers are all elite troops from the four major military regions of Somalia, and each soldier represents the real individual combat effectiveness of the Somali Defense Force. For Gaddafi, an 'important ally', unlike Tunisian President Ben? Li Mo made great efforts when Ali was driven abroad like that.

At the ceremony, Li Mo did not talk about the sense of national mission and honor. He just said that if everyone did not want to return to their ancestors who were oppressed by the West, they would work hard to prevent the arrival of this end. Li Mo also mentioned that if he went to Libya to join the 'Third Fast Anti-Force', his salary during his service would be doubled. This alone makes many soldiers have no resistance to serving in Libya.

According to the economic adjustment report released by Somalia last year, Somalia's GDP in 2008 was $493, while the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers of the Somali Defense Forces was $120. If they double their salary during their service in Libya, each of them can get $240, which is $3,000 a year. Yuan. This is a very good treatment in developing countries.

But what they don't know is that half of the so-called double salary is paid by Libyan political axe or Gaddafi, and Somali political axe is still only responsible for the original $120 monthly salary.

At the end of the ceremony, Li Mo returned to the Ministry of National Defense. Naturally, someone was responsible for what happened after that. Li Mo attended just to show a sense of importance, so that there were fewer complaints in the hearts of the soldiers who went to serve abroad.

At the same time, the three-party secret negotiations in London, England, had a preliminary result. The American political axe agreed to pay the ransom for the 16 American crew members, but because of the complete monitoring system and laws of the United States, it is impossible for the American political axe to let Congress to pay this through taxpayers' money alone. The road is the ransom of Somalia's 'extortion', so the American political axe said that the annual loan assistance that can be made by the African Development Bank in Africa will be tilted like the Somali political axe, which is also guaranteed by the British political axe.

African Development Bank is the largest international cooperation institution in Africa established by the Financial Conference of African countries in 1964. Its purpose is to provide loans to African institutions, strengthen the use of human resources in Africa and promote the development of member countries. Provide financial and technical assistance for economic cooperation and trade expansion projects of member countries.

It can be said that the original intention of the African Development Bank was to gather African forces to serve those regions in Africa that urgently need foreign aid to improve economic development and economy. Similar to the establishment of the Special Zone in Huaxia, it is equivalent to gathering priority resources, developing first, and then driving it from this point to improve the overall development level of Africa.

However, at the beginning, the main source of funds of the African Development Bank was the funds of those rich countries and some international floating capital. Later, due to political and economic reasons, the African Development Bank, which was originally an institution in Africa, had to be opened to Western countries. Now more than 20 developed countries such as Europe and the United States Joining the African Development Bank not only brought the lack of funds to Africa, but also the beginning of the African economic invasion of Europe and the United States at that time.

But most parts of Africa are too poor. In the eyes of many people, in order to solve this serious problem, even if foreign capital such as Europe and the United States enter Africa openly, there is no way to start to control and influence the African economy.

In the face of survival pressure, everything else can be compromised.

That's why the American political axe came up with such a way to 'compensate' the compensation for the Somali release of the "Jewel" cargo ship and the American crew through the 'influence' of the American political axe of the African Development Bank to increase loans and assistance to Somali economic development.

After discussion, the Somali political axe agreed unanimously. Li Mo did not object to it. He issued a certificate for the seizure of the 'Jewel' freighter this time in order to dig a piece of meat from the United States, but he wanted to kill the American political axe.

In this negotiation, the Somali political axe has also received some guarantees from the British political axe, such as liberalization of some ** technology export restrictions, the British political axe will increase investment in Somalia, strengthen bilateral trade and cooperation, reduce some of the Somali foreign debt held by the United Kingdom, and so on.

Among them, except for the relief of foreign debt, which is indeed the goodwill of the British political axe, other aspects are a win-win cooperation, and there is no difficulty for the British political axe at all.

After getting what he wanted, Somalia's political axe then released the 'Jewel' freighter and the crew on it, and notified the outside world, saying that according to the investigation of the relevant Somali departments, it was found that the charge of the 'Jewel' freighter colluding with pirates was falsely accused of pirates. As for other smuggling crimes, Soma The political axe has reached an agreement with the American political axe, which will be handed over to the American political axe to deal with.

The sensational 'Jewel' seizure incident was easily solved in this way, making people who paid attention to this matter drop their eyes on the ground. Many people can't help pondering that in the past week, the Somali political axe and the American political axe have reached some kind of agreement to solve this matter peacefully.

The 'contency' of three U.S. naval warships and the Somali navy and air force gathered in the Gulf of Aden also ended with the release of the Jewel.

(to be continued)