"Your Highness, Bahrain and Qatar are both buying warships, so we should also strengthen naval construction..." Rafata reminded Your Highness.

Bahrain and Qatar are too much!

In such a small two countries, the total number of troops is less than 10,000, and they actually bought two such powerful warships!

Think they have money?

"How much did Bahrain buy?" the prince asked Xie Kai, with a very serious expression on his face.

"This..." Xie Kai looked embarrassed, "Your Highness, you know, we need to keep our customers confidential..."

"Thank you, the order of 5 billion US dollars!" Lafata looked contemptuous. A person like Xie Kai, who is more shameless than the author Hulu, revealed the news himself and even said that he kept it confidential for the customer.

"Two ships..." Xie Kai only struggled for a moment. For the order of 5 billion US dollars, he was shameless and did not be honest. Anyway, when the delivery was completed next year, the whole world would know that it was impossible to keep it confidential.

"Are two ships? When will they be delivered? What is the living environment on the warship?" the prince continued to ask.

"In a year, I just started laying the keel bones..." Xie Kai was a little worried. If the big dogs also asked them to deliver within the same time, what would happen!

After all, this kind of warship is designed and modified while producing.

The two ships have little problems, and some problems arise. If they re-produce new equipment and systems, the losses will not be great.

If several ships were produced at the same time, if something went wrong, the fun would be great...

"Then give me ten ships!" The prince's words almost made Xie Kai vomit blood, and he was worried about what he would come. "We must deliver them all together... In addition, the performance cannot be worse than theirs..."

"Your Highness, your country's coastline is very long, but they all belong to long and narrow waters. Once too much purchase, it will cause changes in the situation in the entire Middle East, especially Israel..." Xie Kai hurriedly dissuaded. "Your country is a regional power in the Middle East and the leader of the Arab world... Building national defense forces is not a problem, but suddenly increasing too much military force will cause other countries to worry and affect regional peace and stability..."

Xie Kai didn't want to care about peace and stability in the Middle East.

He was even more worried about the manufacture of 12 053h3 warships at the same time, which made the whole world worried.

The flower planters have always been extremely stingy. The United States and Soviet satellites are all staring at them. What do you want to do when you build so many warships at the same time?

More importantly, Saudi Arabia and other countries have never been able to buy advanced warships, which is because Europe and the United States want to keep Israel's advantage over the entire Arab world...

"We must maintain an overwhelming advantage over them..." said the prince.

"Your Highness, the combat strength of the fleet is not about the number, but about the combination of firepower... A conventional fleet also needs to have submarines..." Xie Kai said, "I think it is enough to have 4 frigates, two submarines, and two large supply ships."

A ship of 053h3 sold for $200 million, and $800 million went there.

A 035 submarine with anti-submarine capability and can launch the Fish-3 Type A electric self-conducting anti-submarine anti-ship torpedo poses an effective threat to frigates and submarines, will have to be sold for US$300 million to US$400 million. With two Type 905 supply ships, it will exceed US$2 billion.

In this way, will the other party’s conditions be met?

It’s not that Xie Kaixin is not bad enough and does not want to sell more, but that if he sells too much, it will cause a lot of trouble.

"What do you want to do with a supply ship?" The prince didn't want a supply ship. "We just need to protect our tankers in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf."

Xie Kai didn't know what to say.

Don't we want to sell too much?

"Your Highness, Bahrain and Qatar have always had friendly relations with your country. They have fought each other, and your country should mediate from it. In the Mediterranean, even if your country only has one warship, they will not be chaotic... The land area is small, and a few missiles can solve them..."

What Saudi Arabia should be more worried about is Persia from the other side of the Persian Gulf.

Persia can easily block the entire Persian Gulf.

"Then let's come five ships to form two fleets... But your country's 035 submarine is a bit noisy and cannot launch missiles..."

grass!

Xie Kai almost took action.

This guy really can imagine that they actually want to equip missiles with conventional power submarines.

That is impossible.

It's never possible in a lifetime.

The lifeline of oil transportation in the entire world. If there is such a killer in this area, it would be strange if there is no trouble.

Xie Kai tried hard to make all kinds of metaphors and guarantees, and finally dispelled the prince's idea.

In 1982, the Julang-1 submarine missile was successfully developed in China, equipped with the Type 031 submarine. Although the range of that thing is only 1,700 kilometers, it is really sold. Not only is the threat of national defense security, the whole world will be dissatisfied - submarines are not easy to monitor, and they are running around the world, and their survivability is much higher than that of surface ships.

It is already very good to be able to give Saudi submarines that can release heavy fish.

"Okay, there are only two ships, whether it is a warship or a submarine, the living environment of officers and soldiers must be improved..." The prince had no objection to the price proposed by Xie Kai. "During the delivery period, all five warships must be delivered within 18 months, and the submarine must be delivered within 30 months..."

"Your Highness, do you really not plan to come with a large supply ship? It is cheap and has sufficient self-defense firepower. As long as you have one, your country can form an ocean-going fleet that can carry out global navigation..." Xie Kai did not give up, but still hoped to promote a large 905 supply ship to Saudi Arabia.

In this way, the new generation of large supply ships that provide aircraft carriers can continue to study.

"No! There is no need for us to build an ocean-going fleet." Rafata directly rejected Xie Kai, "Unless you have large amphibious landing ships."

Xie Kai looked embarrassed, and he didn't even have that China himself.

In the end, he could only dispel the idea of ​​selling the supply ship.

After being fooled by Xie Kai, the prince has purchased so much naval equipment, and it is not easy for the king to explain it!

This kid is really not a thing. He even sells warships and supplies ships.

There are ports everywhere along the coast of Saudi Arabia. What supplies are needed?

What's more, the budget of 5 billion US dollars given by the king is almost the same. The naval equipment, five warships, and two submarines that they had never thought of, were all $1.7 billion...

"Thank you, when can you sign a formal contract?" Rafata asked Xie Kai when she sent Xie Kai away, "Your Highness hopes that most of your orders can be delivered before the delivery of Dongfeng-3..."

"No problem!" Xie Kai agreed even though he knew it was very difficult, "We will prepare a formal contract right away."

He was also worried.

Because it is not far from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union has collapsed and the United States is dominant, so naturally China does not need to help involve the Soviet Union.

Then, the peace example ended...

You should know that when the Soviet Union saw that it was over, the United States not only interrupted its cooperation, but even made a more serious embargo on China.

At that time, Saudi Arabia may interrupt cooperation with China because it considers its own interests.

"Your Highness, spending this money to build a navy is not in our national interest!" After Xie Kai left, Lafata persuaded the prince worriedly that he had not signed a formal contract and it was too late to regret it. "I would rather spend less than spend money indiscriminately."

Prince Sultan looked at his most trusted assistant and shook his head, "We should build a powerful navy. Especially the Persian Gulf, we must have our navy to escort the tanker! The evil Persians and the damn silly Damu were attacking the tanker wildly in the Persian Gulf, but we had no way to protect our tanker! His Majesty the King is also considering purchasing frigate escorts..."

The ship attacks in the Persian Gulf waters are becoming more and more intense.

From the beginning of the two sides just quarrels, to the first time Iraq launched a ship attack war in 1984, it has become increasingly fierce.

Especially Kuwait and Saudi countries that have nothing to do with the war, their tankers were also listed as targets by the damn Persians because of their support for the war in Shadamu.

In 1984, 69 oil tankers and cargo ships were attacked; in 1985, 52 merchant ships and oil tankers were attacked; in last year, the number rose to 106, and this year it became even more crazy...

The worst thing is that the Persians even began to lay out mines on the main channel of the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia can transport through the Red Sea waterway, but the transportation costs of oil produced in many oil fields in the Persian Gulf need to increase...

All countries are starting to arrange fleet escorts, and as local big players, Saudi Arabia is unable to participate.

Rafata understood the prince's thoughts.

No one knows how long the Iraq-Iraq War will take, but as the largest oil-producing country, Saudi Arabia hopes that the longer they fight, the better, and even hopes that more tankers will be bombed, the better...

In this way, it will be more in line with their national interests.

"In any case, we should have our own escort fleet. Even Bahrain, which has a small territory and even US troops, has purchased two frigates!" said the prince calmly.

Bahrain only allowed small American fleets to build naval bases in their countries, which was far from the size that later generations allowed the United States to station the entire Fifth Fleet aircraft carrier formation.

Nowadays, in order not to fight in the Middle East, even the Soviet Union's military presence in the Middle East is not very high.

Even so, Saudi Arabia has no warships to escort!

Small patrol boats can't face threats from the air at all.

Bahrain bought warships, on the one hand, to fight with Qatar, and to expand its escort capabilities? Their entire country's oil exports still need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz!

"How is it?" After Xie Kai came back, Zheng Yucheng and others asked anxiously.

"Agree, 5 053h3, two 35 submarines..." Xie Kai handed a brief list to Zheng Yucheng and Long Yaohua, "The entire contract price is 4.83 billion... I originally planned to sell them another 905 supply ship to raise 5 billion US dollars, but they didn't want to..."

Speaking of this, Xie Kai looked regretful.
Chapter completed!