50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 842 Oolong
Sun Zhiwei followed the monkeys and civilians along the path, and soon returned to Annam.

He didn't do anything to these people along the way. Although monkeys were no good, it wouldn't make sense to deal with these commoners.

On the contrary, keeping them around will give our villagers who live nearby another way to make money.

After all, the monkeys do have some good things. For example, the rice they grow is very cheap, and their fragrant rice is quite delicious.

Let them turn around and give them some plastic slippers and cigarettes; that would be a way to revitalize the local economy.

More importantly, starting this year, the bear family has stopped sending money to the monkeys, and the monkeys have also quieted down since then.

Upon entering the monkey's home, his first stop was Haiphong Port.

Haiphong Port is located on the lower reaches of the Red River. It is a dual-use port for military and civilian purposes. The main channel of the port has a depth of 15 meters and can accommodate ships of 10,000 tons or more year-round.

During World War II, Haiphong Port became an important transit point for Allied aid supplies to China.

Haiphong naval base is also the location of the monkey's naval headquarters.

When he arrived at Haiphong Port, he searched for a long time but couldn't find the naval base. Instead, he discovered an air force base.

This surprised him a bit, as naval bases usually don't hide themselves because there's no need; naval bases are always equipped with land-based defense forces of the same standard.

It's practically impossible to launch a surprise attack on a naval base; in most cases, you'll have to launch a direct assault to capture it.

Finally, he expanded the search area, examining the inland waterways as well, before finally discovering a naval base deep within the inland waterways.

The size of the base was completely different from what he had imagined; it was only a medium-sized base, and he did not find a large number of large warships.

Only then did he realize that the size of the four major naval bases he had thought existed was actually based on information from later generations.

Moreover, those data were based on data from the 1990s. It's only the 1980s now, and the naval base at Haiphong Port has not yet undergone the large-scale expansion of the 1990s. The so-called Haiphong Port naval base is actually just so-so.

The largest warship moored here is a 1000-ton Petya-class corvette; the other vessels are missile boats and torpedo boats, each around 100 tons.

The dozens of warships, each over 1000 tons, that they had captured from America in their early years had long been abandoned due to a lack of spare parts and maintenance.

That's how warships are; they're very precious. They're constantly submerged in seawater, and if they're not regularly maintained, they break down very quickly. If left unattended for just a few years, they'll be unusable.

Come to think of it, the largest warships the Monkey family currently has are only three Petya-class corvettes. The so-called four major naval bases don't even have enough for one ship per base, so where would they get large warships?

Although Sun Zhiwei felt a little embarrassed for scaring himself after figuring it out, he was also relieved to know that they were no good.

However, just to be on the safe side, he still made some changes to the only "Bejia"-class frigate in the naval port.

He did it very discreetly, using spatial cutting techniques to make several incisions inside the sealed outer shells of the two gas turbines on the frigate.

It works fine at low speeds, but once it starts running at high speeds, these two tampered gas turbines will crack, leak, or even explode due to increased pressure.

This covert method of sabotage effectively rendered the Petya-class corvette useless. What use is a corvette that can only operate at low speeds? Is it just an old car?

That was the end of the monkey naval base in Haiphong. Before leaving, he also took hundreds of missiles stored at the base. He had captured quite a few missile boats, and he couldn't do without ammunition supplies. After leaving the naval base, he didn't leave immediately, but instead crossed back through Haiphong city to head to the air force base on the other side.

He discovered this by chance during his daytime search. The location is several dozen kilometers west of Haiphong City, which is theoretically no longer under the jurisdiction of Haiphong City.

But inside that nameless air force base, dozens of MiG-21s and many other types of fighter jets were hidden in the hangar.

That should be a frontline secret base of the Monkey Air Force, located more than 100 kilometers from the border, which is the perfect distance for the first wave of fighter jets to react.

When Sun Zhiwei arrived near the suburban air force base, it was already dark. The area around the air force base was deserted, with patrol teams on patrol.

Instead of continuing to approach from the ground, he used the old method of digging forward. Only when he got close to the base underground did he use his spatial ability to carefully examine the situation of the base.

There aren't many people here; the number of pilots in the accommodation area is only ten.

Compared to the number of aircraft at the base, the pilot configuration is clearly problematic.

This is a front-line air force base. In the event of a battle, what can ten pilots do?

But then he thought about the current state of the air forces on both sides, and he understood.

The monkeys are also single, and they know that planes flying over there will only be food for them. There is no need to station many pilots here. Ten pilots are enough for emergencies.

Considering that Thang Long Palace is not far away, the number of personnel here is probably quite large.

Annam is a large country, but they only have a few hundred pilots in total.

With so many airports across the country, and considering that flight schools also need instructors, it's not a small number to have ten pilots per airport.

When he checked the status of the aircraft in the hangar, all he could do was laugh.

Most of the aircraft at this base were in a sealed-off state, without loads or fuel, and wrapped in tarpaulins to keep out dust.

Such aircraft are referred to as "stored" or "reserved." To get a stored aircraft into service, it must undergo at least one comprehensive overhaul.

A full overhaul of an aircraft requires at least several skilled logistics personnel to work for several days. If war breaks out, by the time the stored aircraft are ready to take off, it will be too late.

There are only two combat-ready aircraft at the entire airport that can take off immediately; the rest are mostly transport planes and helicopters.

He also inspected the hangars where the warplanes were stored. The locks on the hangar doors were rusted, and he didn't know how long they hadn't been opened.

What else is there to say? Resources that monkeys don't cherish can't be wasted. He directly put all the sealed MiG-21s into his space, exactly 30 in total.

Along with the aircraft, a large number of unopened spare parts from the hangar maintenance room were also taken into custody.

He had already decided that these fighter jets would still be shipped back home. The MiG-21 is equivalent to the J-7 in China, and each one costs $200 million.

(End of this chapter)