Chapter 676: Natural military port (for the leader "child" 2 more

The arrival of the commander of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, Gertney, is not a trivial matter for Cai Ruichen.
Although they are currently forming an alliance with the United States, so far, apart from the issue of counter-terrorism, the two sides are actually not at one heart.
However, Cai Ruichen also believes that Gertney's intention is also good, because the area under the jurisdiction of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet is actually very large.
Subordinate to the Fifth Fleet of the US Central Command, the entire jurisdiction includes the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and many waterways close to the Pacific Ocean.
With such a huge area, the main energy of the Fifth Fleet is still in the Middle East.
Coupled with the fact that the current Fifth Fleet has entered an era without aircraft carriers, the pressure on the Fifth Fleet has surged.
The absence of an aircraft carrier is equivalent to the loss of a patrol area with a circumference of thousands of nautical miles. For the Fifth Fleet, which is stretched, the pressure on Gertney is very huge.
Now, the U.S. military has launched a multifaceted cooperation in the Middle East and the Future Technology Group. For counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East and the coast of Africa, the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet has always needed allies.
However, NATO's allies cannot assist the US military in completing such a huge maritime security task, and the burden has always fallen on the US Navy.
The U.S. Navy has always been looking forward to the construction of naval vessels by the Future Technology Group.
Here in the Middle East, the Air Force already has the cooperation of the future security company. Under the same defense budget, the Air Force’s military expenditures in the Middle East have been reduced by nearly 40%.
The navy's military expenditures in the Middle East have always been increasing unabated, which puts tremendous pressure on the Navy Department.
The United States, which is undergoing a strategic eastward move, currently focuses its main naval expenditures on the Far East.
To put it bluntly, the current Fifth Fleet has a hard time. It doesn't even have an aircraft carrier. There is only one amphibious strike group left in the main fleet, which is not a main fleet at all.
Although the Fifth Fleet does not have a decent opponent here in the Middle East, the counter-terrorism tasks facing Iran and from the Middle East to the eastern coast of Africa are even more onerous.
Fighting against piracy, coupled with combating maritime anti-terrorist transportation lines, is not an easy job.
Seeing that the Air Force has a Future Technology Group to undertake daily combat tasks, the US Navy will naturally have its own ideas.
The Ministry of the Navy also agrees with the idea of ​​the Fifth Fleet. If the Future Technology Group can be used to help, the Fifth Fleet can be much easier, and can save a lot of military expenditures at least every year.
After all, even if a warship is sailing on the sea without problems, the daily fuel consumption and personnel supplies are a huge expense.
Now the annual budget of the US Navy is tight. If it can save a little, it is natural to save a little.
As soon as the four sea scorpions appeared, combined with the combat effectiveness of this warship, Gertney did not want to wait any longer.
When he left Bahrain and came to Basra, he was authorized by the Central Command, and both Congress and Washington agreed to the Admiralty's plan.
After all, there is now military cooperation with the Future Technology Group, and it is not bad for the navy to deepen some cooperation.
If the Future Technology Group can be built into a broader cooperation object in the future, it will be of great benefit to the future of the US military.
However, this is also based on the military development of the Future Technology Group, which has always been under the control of the US military.
Cai Ruichen's enthusiasm for Gotney's arrival has already been seen when Gotney just boarded the naval port of the Future Security Company in Umm Qasr.
In the lonely military port, you can see pictures of construction being carried out everywhere. Gotney, who just walked off the port’s red carpet, saw Cai Ruichen waiting here.
Although it was the first time for the two to meet each other, it was like two good friends who had been separated for a long time. They hugged very cordially, and then under the leadership of Cai Ruichen, reviewed the naval guard of honor of the future security company.
Accompanied by the military music of the US Navy, Gotney, accompanied by Cai Ruichen, also participated in the flag-raising ceremony of both sides.
Gotney, who arrived on the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, took Cai Ruichen on board after the welcome ceremony on the shore and visited this old and robust guided-missile cruiser of the US military.
For lunch, Cai Ruichen was still on the cruiser, having a meal with the US Navy officers and soldiers, and experiencing the sumptuous lunch on the US Navy warship.
After lunch, it was a time for the officers and soldiers of both sides to communicate. Although the Future Security Company is not a country, the US Navy still conducted exchange activities with the Navy officers and soldiers of the Future Security Company at the level of national etiquette.
Cai Ruichen did not participate in this kind of grassroots activity. At this time, he had already brought Gothic ~EbookFREE.me~ to the unfinished military port for post-lunch dispersal.
The two walked on the beach on the shore, looking at the beautiful U-shaped bay in the distance, chatting about various topics.
Especially when he saw the huge U-shaped bay around him, Gertney had shown satisfaction more than once.
"Umm Qasr, this is the most natural naval port. It enters the port for 3,000 meters and has a width of 1,100 meters. It is all deep water. There is no shore reef underwater. The water depth is 100 meters. No need to build the embankment.
If Kuwait was allowed to be occupied by Iraq, then it would become the core port of the Iraqi navy. There will be no problem with stopping the five aircraft carrier battle groups in the future. If it is artificially expanded, there will be no better ports in the world than here. "
With regret on his face, the port in front of him, with his current professional vision, if this place becomes a military port, it will inevitably be more suitable for the stationing of large buildings than Bahrain.
You don’t even need to invest too much cost to build it. A huge U-shaped harbor is surrounded by mountains. Whether it is building defense facilities, or considering issues such as the military port’s climate and tsunami, it is definitely the most suitable military port. .
The reason why the Iraqi navy didn't use this place was because of Kuwait. Umm Qasr is only one or twenty kilometers away from Kuwait. It is impossible for a military port to be placed so close to the second country.
As Gertney said, if Saddam had successfully merged Kuwait into Iraq, with the buffer of Kuwait, then this would be the best military port in Iraq.
However, regret is regret. It is past tense. For Cai Ruichen to take advantage of this place, Getney is still very optimistic about everything here.
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