What worries Jiexuan is not just the two attack nuclear submarines, but also the two ballistic missile nuclear submarines, that is, strategic nuclear submarines.
The "Blue Whale" class nuclear submarine has an underwater displacement of more than 12,000 tons and has four torpedo launch tubes and four missile launch boxes.
It can carry twelve torpedoes and six "Polaris" intercontinental missiles with a range of 7,000 kilometers. It is considered the first strategic nuclear submarine officially put into service by the Ming Empire.
The cost of a "Blue Whale"-class strategic nuclear submarine is twice that of a "Great White Shark"-class attack nuclear submarine. Of course, its strike capability is also beyond imagination.
Each "Polaris" intercontinental missile can carry a payload of 500,000 tons, with a pi error of no more than two kilometers.
Theoretically, one "Polaris" can destroy a large city in the empire with a population of one million, and six can directly wipe out the opponent's population of at least three million.
Emperor Haojing plans to equip the navy with twenty "Blue Whale" class nuclear submarines within thirty years. Once the missile head technology is mature, they can be upgraded with nuclear weapons.
In this way, twenty "Blue Whales" can carry 120 intercontinental missiles and launch at least 360 submissive warheads, which can destroy most of France's remaining cities in one go.
The Ming Empire not only had sea-based nuclear strike means, but also land-based and air-based strike means.
The land base includes launch silos, launch cars, and launch trains. The Air Force mainly delivers bombs through bombers.
The bomber that can undertake nuclear strike missions is the "Fire" strategic bomber that has just entered service.
With a take-off weight of 55 tons, it can achieve super-subsonic flight. With a maximum bomb load of 19 tons, the range can reach 7,000 kilometers.
Instead of using the complicated variable-sweep wing design used in the prototype, Zhu Cixiang turned the bomber into a fixed wing that was set back forty-five degrees.
This facilitates logistical maintenance and improves reliability. It doesn't matter if it travels at subsonic speeds. Anyway, we don't intend to let the "Fire" carry out high-altitude penetration.
As long as the ceiling is large enough, even at high altitudes, using the parabolic principle, bombs can be dropped on one's own side, thereby destroying the enemy's remaining border cities.
The Ming Air Force plans to purchase 600 aircraft. Of course, it will take about ten years to equip the troops, otherwise the procurement budget will not be enough.
After the three propeller bombers "Hercules", "Flying Fortress" and "Avenger", the Ming Air Force finally obtained a jet bomber.
But Zhu Cixiang does not intend for the Air Force to buy so many "Fire" strategic bombers, because the more advanced "Wrath" strategic bomber, that is, the next generation model is close to being successfully developed.
Its prototype is the Tu-160, which has a range of 10,000 kilometers and can carry more than thirty tons of ammunition. Although the cost is high, you get what you pay for.
The bulk of the procurement is the "Wang Jiu" fighter jet, because there are still a large number of "Avenger" bombers in service, and the Ming Empire's demand for strategic bombing is not very pressing.
The bombers only perform routine combat readiness patrols once a week, and the rest are under maintenance. What really needs to be updated are the fighter jets that are frequently dispatched.
The "Wang Jiu" fighter jet, like the "Scissored Kite" attack aircraft, was jointly developed by the Air Force and the Navy, with the purpose of reducing the purchase price as much as possible.
The Navy plans to purchase 600 "King Eagles" because the Navy has a limited number of aircraft carriers that can take off and land this heavy fighter.
The "King Vulture" fighter itself is also very large, cannot fold its wings, and occupies a large hangar area. The Navy can only reluctantly use the "Scissored Kite" to make up the number.
The air force is a land base. Even if the airport is located on an island, there is no need to worry about the "King Eagle".
Considering its 3,000-kilometer range, 18,000-meter ceiling, 1,700-kilometer-per-hour speed, and seven-ton bomb load, these epoch-making performance parameters should be something no foreign fighter can come close to in the short term.
The Air Force plans to purchase at least 5,000 "King Vultures" to replace the old models. The remaining gaps will still be matched with high and low aircraft, and "Scissor Kite" attack aircraft will be used to fill the holes.
Another procurement focus is the "Global King" strategic transport aircraft, which can transport up to 50 tons of materials and fly 6,000 kilometers.
The purchase price of a "Scissor Kite" attack aircraft is 3 million yuan, while the "Wangjiu" fighter jet is close to 12 million yuan.
The price of the "Fire" strategic bomber reached 35 million yuan, and the price of the "Global Overlord" strategic transport aircraft exceeded 50 million yuan.
The cost of the Aegis cruiser is as high as 500 million yuan, and the cost of the 80,000-ton Type 5 aircraft carrier rises to an astonishing 2.6 billion yuan, not counting carrier-based aircraft.
The net financial income of the Ming Empire in 1800 was 735.1 billion yuan, and military expenditure accounted for 10%, which was about 73 billion yuan.
The navy was allocated 22.4 billion yuan, leaving about 6 billion yuan for shipbuilding. Even with compound growth, it would only amount to 60 billion yuan in eight years.
The procurement cost for the four aircraft carriers is 10.4 billion yuan, the carrier-based aircraft is 2.3 billion yuan, and the 16 Aegis ships are 8 billion yuan.
The total cost for the two attack nuclear submarines is 4 billion yuan, and the two strategic nuclear submarines are 8 billion yuan.
These four main combat ships alone account for more than half of the total shipbuilding budget. Together with some destroyers, frigates, and conventionally powered submarines with a displacement of less than 7,000 tons, the total amount exceeds 40 billion yuan.
This does not take into account the possible impact of future inflation. Otherwise, we will have to cut off some ships with larger displacements to ensure that the shipbuilding plan can be successfully implemented.
If the cost of nuclear submarines does not soar by then, Emperor Haojing plans to start construction of ten or more nuclear submarines in the twenty-sixth batch.
Since then, the Ming Empire's nuclear strike force has been mainly land-based, with air-based ones as auxiliary, and sea-based ones as the icing on the cake.
At present, there is no rush to purchase nuclear vehicles, because land-based launch silos are cheap and the maintenance costs are lower than those of bombers and nuclear submarines.
What's more important is that according to Ming's agents' inquiries in other countries, other countries have not yet touched the door of this industry.
Zhu Cixiang estimated that with the current national strength and military expenditures of various countries, it would be enough to maintain conventional weapons arsenals.
Add more nuclear weapons, unless gold mines with tens of thousands of tons of reserves are really discovered...
Even if the Ming Dynasty agents did not find the uranium enrichment plant that was already in operation, it would be twenty or thirty years before they could save the first letter.
By then, the Ming Empire's nuclear strike capability will reach a new level. It is estimated that there will no longer be nuclear bombs with a yield of less than 50,000 tons, or they will be upgraded to hydrogen bombs.
As long as the accuracy of the missile hitting the target is continuously improved, the yield of the letter will be indirectly increased.
How to improve accuracy?
Take advantage of GPS!
There are roughly four categories of military artificial satellites - meteorology, reconnaissance, communications, and navigation!
The Global Positioning System is a space network system composed of navigation satellites, which can provide real-time coordinates of the locator.
The original version launched thirty-two satellites in the early stage and seventy-seven in the later stage, becoming the most famous and most used positioning system in the world.
The Ming Empire's global positioning system included 300 satellites, which were launched into space in three batches.
Since the technology is not as good as the original version, 10,000 kilometers of tracks are used, and the number is larger than the original version.
Fifty of them have been launched so far, and the remaining ones will be deployed within twenty years.
The launch vehicle used is the "Seven Fairies" series of launch vehicles. The early prototype is the "Diamond" and the later prototype is the "Ariana" series.
The "Diamond" is a derivative of the German V-2 ballistic missile, and the "Beifeng" ballistic missile developed by Daming is also a derivative of the V-2, so the two can be regarded as distant relatives.
The "Seven Fairies"-5 that has been successfully developed is the "Ariane"-5 launch vehicle. Since the fuel and materials are not as good as the original version, the low-Earth orbit and synchronous orbit can only reach less than half of the prototype. That's ten tons and five tons.
But this is basically enough. When the fuel technology is upgraded, it can also deliver construction materials to Ming Dynasty's space station.
Is it more important to land on the moon first or to build a space station first?
Zhu Cixiang believes that the latter is more important, because he already basically knows what happened after the moon landing.
Even if you are not an astronaut who landed on the moon, you can still get a rough idea. Anyway, there is definitely no Guanghan Palace and Chang'e.
As for the strong calls for a moon landing below, we have already told them that the space station is the second step to the moon landing.
After the space station is built, the third step can be taken, which is to launch a rocket to the moon.
The Academy of Sciences' plan is to build a space station in fifty years and use aircraft to carry enough fuel to the space station.
Then let the space station serve as backup and insurance to ensure that when the moon landing plan goes wrong, that is, when the moon landing rocket runs out of fuel or malfunctions, it can be rescued.
The current "Seven Fairies"-5 carrier rocket cannot reassure Zhu Cixiang. Because it has exploded twice, such a big mission as the moon landing cannot be entrusted to this rocket for the time being.
The probability of success of a combination of launch vehicle and aviation aircraft is much greater than using the former alone, not to mention that the fuel level does not meet the standards of the 1990s.
Driven by Emperor Haojing, the gap between the technological level of the Ming Empire and that of later generations after World War II was uneven.
Computers, home appliances, mobile phones, and cars have reached the level of the 1990s.
Chemical fiber, oil refining, engines, and electric motors have reached the level of the 1980s.
Those that have reached the level of the 1970s include aircraft, alloys, machine tools, satellites, pharmaceuticals, and steam turbines.
Those that have reached the level of the 1960s include rockets, missiles, aircraft, drilling, construction, nuclear submarines, and advanced fuels.
Generally speaking, the more sophisticated military technology is, the more it lags behind what it was in the 1990s.
Of course, it is not that there are no advanced areas, but it has nothing to do with technology.
For example, comics, newspapers, magazines and other publications are almost the same as those in later generations after 2000.
There are also various reality shows on TV, which make the audience very happy and shout "Sword" on weekend nights.
There are countless competitions such as football, basketball, racing, horse racing, track and field, and dance, and almost all of them are held there.
There are also props competition programs such as "Win the Prize" that ordinary people love to watch and can participate in.
TV series and movies have covered ancient costumes, modern times, martial arts, military and many other contents. As long as you want to watch, there are even mukbangs!
And mining, a job that has been around since ancient times, started when Zhu Cixi was supervising the country...
The less technical the work, the easier it will be to keep up with future generations.
The shortcomings in science and technology are not intentional by Zhu Cixiang, but require a large group of professionals to work hard to succeed.
In order to consolidate its leading edge in science and technology, Guangming Sike already has 30 institutions of higher learning, 24 of which are science and engineering schools, and one is a medical university.
There are about 500,000 students in school, and these college students have also become one of the main consumer groups of Mingsi Land, especially the top customers of Internet cafes.
The monthly salary of local wage earners in Minsk is about 300 to 500 yuan, and the imperial government's monthly subsidy for each college student enrolled in the unified recruitment is 30 yuan.
The expanded admission fee for college students is 15 yuan. Those who go to school at their own expense do not have this benefit. Their families should not be short of this money.
Students with excellent academic performance can also receive scholarships, and those from poor families can receive student loans and work-study opportunities.
There is no way out for those who are not good at studying. After graduating from junior high school, you can go to a technical secondary school and learn a trade.
If you can drive an excavator or loader, you can go directly to work in a mine after graduation.
The monthly salary will not be less than three hundred yuan, and you don't have to worry about being fired unless you make a big mistake.
The monthly salary of college students who graduated from universities in various parts of the Ming Empire is actually not high, far less than that of technical secondary school graduates in the same period, because the latter have been working for four years and are no longer rookies with no experience in the enterprise.
However, if you can enter a scientific research institution, you can still get a stable income, which is guaranteed in the three major aspects of medical care, education, and housing.
The treatment received by college students who can enter public institutions is considered to be the second level, and the last is private enterprises.
Private enterprises are a place where relationships and capabilities are compared. If relationships are not good, you have to rely on capabilities, otherwise you will only become a marginal person.
It is not easy for college students to stay and work in Minsk after graduation. The number of local enterprises and institutions recruiting is limited, and the benefits of private companies are not as good as those left in other big cities.
The branches of companies from various countries in Ming Sike are willing to recruit related households. Originally, these companies were used to maintain import and export relations with the Ming Empire.
This makes it easier for other cities, especially the eight western states, to accept college graduates from Minsk. After all, the quality is relatively high and the education they receive is the best.
Because Emperor Haojing believes that there is no need to expand enrollment in colleges and universities on a large scale for the time being, and the Ming Empire is not particularly short of college students, the expansion will only target some students who are very close to the unified admission score.
If you are about a hundred or ten points short of the college entrance examination, you'd better work early, otherwise you will have to waste four years of college tuition and living expenses, and you still have four years of good time...
If you don't want to study, you can join the army. As long as you pass the interview, written test, physical fitness test, and health check-up, you will be eligible to join the army.
Particularly outstanding college students can also serve in the army with better treatment, and then the army will provide them with the opportunity to be promoted to non-commissioned officers or even officers.
