"Deploying long-range missiles? We don't have enough funds. Short-range missiles are too risky. So tell , how should we defend against Japan now? If they dare to provoke us once, they'll dare to do it again."
"Surely we can't deploy massive forces every ti, right? What if next ti they get serious? Our fleet support definitely won't be fast enough to react," a Russian Navy Admiral said agitatedly in the eting room.
This ti, Russia had to mobilize four fleets plus air force support just to suppress the Japanese Mariti Self-Defense Force's show of force. If this were a real battlefield, the Northern Fleet's aircraft carrier, the Ulyanovsk, probably wouldn't even have launched yet, and their Russian Pacific Fleet would likely be annihilated by the Japanese Mariti Self-Defense Force. This weakness is absolutely fatal. Although it's currently peaceti, we absolutely cannot lack a sense of vigilance.
General Grilov, the Minister of Defense, rubbed his throbbing temples, long since accustod to the "noisy argunts" of every eting.
"Yuna, has Mavi arrived?" General Grilov asked his secretary standing by. Their appointnt was for 2 PM. It was now 1:50, so it was almost ti.
"Minister Grilov, I just spoke with him on the phone; it seems he's arriving soon. Should I go out and et him?" Yuna had only inford Minister Grilov that Mavi could solve the missile deploynt issue. Therefore, the other high-ranking officials present were unaware.
"Mm, go ahead," General Grilov said, his face sinking as he rubbed his temples.
If every difficult problem at the Ministry of Defense had to rely on Mavi for ideas and plans, then hiring so many "good-for-nothings" was simply a waste of national resources. It would be better to just invite Mavi to be the Deputy Minister of Defense...
Eight minutes later, Mavi, dressed in a black suit, appeared at the eting room door, led by the female secretary, Yuna.
"Minister Grilov, Mr. Mavi has arrived," Yuna announced in a pleasant voice for everyone to hear.
"Mavi, thank you for taking the ti to co and attend this eting. I heard from Yuna earlier that you have a solution for this issue of deploying missiles against Japan?" Grilov welcod Mavi's arrival while loudly asking him.
His question instantly caused the high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defense and the military bigwigs in the eting room to turn their heads. They looked at him with curiosity and surprise.
From their eyes, it was clear they were very interested in Mavi's so-called solution. After all, everyone had been discussing it all morning without coming up with anything concrete. The ideas were either hugely expensive or too aggressive, or simply incredibly bizarre approaches targeting Japan, like sending mine-laying ships to lay mines outside Japan's waters...
As soon as Mavi stood at the door, he saw the table full of bigwigs all turning their heads to look at him again. It was practically identical to the last Ministry of Defense eting.
"Ahem! Minister Grilov, the solution is actually quite simple... we can develop new dium-range missiles and then deploy them in the Far East," Mavi said directly in front of everyone, not beating around the bush.
"New dium-range missiles? Did I hear that right? Are you suggesting we proactively withdraw from the INF Treaty? How can we do that?" Before Minister Grilov could speak, so high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defense around Mavi asked him with great surprise.
There was good reason for their excitent, because if they could develop dium-range missiles, they would have had scientists working on it ages ago. They wouldn't be stuck with this problem now.
Furthermore, unilaterally tearing up the INF Treaty would bring more harm than good for Russia. Their dium-range missiles couldn't reach the US mainland. But if the US were to fall out with Russia and deploy dium-range missiles in neighboring countries to constrain Russia, the consequences would be unimaginable...
Seeing the agitated high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defense, Mavi smiled, shook his head, and said, "Actually, we don't need to unilaterally withdraw from the INF Treaty. The treaty we signed with the United States covered the destruction of missiles with a range of 1000 to 5500 kiloters. We can completely skirt the edge by developing short-range missiles with a range of 900 kiloters and dium-range missiles with a range of 5800 kiloters."
Mavi suggested this to the Russian Ministry of Defense officials based on his mories from his previous life. The person who ca up with this idea originally was definitely a clever one. This way, the problem of deploying missiles against the Japanese archipelago is directly and easily solved.
They could completely use a few other land-based silos or vehicle-mounted intercontinental ballistic missiles to incidentally monitor and target the Japanese region first. Once the dium-range missiles are successfully developed, they can then be directly deployed to the Far East base. It saves trouble and money, and most importantly, it cleverly bypasses the INF Treaty signed with the Aricans. It's simply killing multiple birds with one stone...
"Mavi, you really are a talent!" Minister Grilov exclaid happily, standing right up! If it weren't such a serious, formal occasion, he'd probably want to go over and heartily slap Mavi on the back to show his excitent.
"This... this thod... how did we not think of this?" The high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defense couldn't help but look at each other. They were all stunned and enlightened by Mavi's words, like soone waking them from a dream!
They could only bla themselves for being too rigid in their thinking initially. They were fixated on the limitations of the INF Treaty and thus didn't consider that direction. In fact, with just a little flexibility, the problem wasn't a problem at all.
Seeing the room full of happy-faced Ministry of Defense officials and military bigwigs, Mavi didn't beco overly proud or smug. This idea of his was also borrowed from previous generations; he hadn't co up with it himself.
dium-range missiles can not only serve as strategic weapons to attack enemy military bases, transportation hubs, power stations, and other important infrastructure during warti, but their deterrent capability is also astounding. Once a significant number are deployed, their precision strike capability would make even six US carrier strike groups hesitate to provoke them easily.
This is similar to China's thousands of Dongfeng series missiles, which aren't afraid of any surface combat unit.
However, considering that the vast majority of countries in the world have joined non-proliferation treaties against missile spread, if the Russian Ministry of Defense wants to develop new dium-range missiles, they can only fund it themselves; they won't be able to do business by selling them...
After celebrating for quite so ti, General Grilov, the Minister of Defense, and the high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Defense gradually realized a problem.
That was, after Russia signed the INF Treaty, they destroyed all their dium-range ballistic missiles and related production equipnt. If they want to re-develop these, the cost involved won't be a small amount at all! It would an investing funds for a complete set of research and developnt equipnt and production equipnt... this is yet another headache-inducing problem.
(End of Chapter)
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