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Chapter 246
"Your Highness, do you think we should take action to sanction Lockheed Martin?"
Wang Haishan, the foreign minister, said.
Based on his understanding of Xiao Yunhai, he certainly didn't want such a scoundrel to stir up trouble behind the scenes.
To his surprise, Xiao Yunhai shook his head; "No need."
"Don't bother with Lockheed Martin for now, let them jump."
"General Electric has already shipped more than 20 engines here, which is enough to produce more than 10 verification aircraft."
"Right now, it's still not easy to fall out."
A company of a clown who jumps off a building will be completely trampled down in no time. Xiao Yunhai is too lazy to vent his anger now. It's not worth it to fall out with the Americans.
Besides, even if they fall out now, it's useless. The aircraft has only just made its maiden flight and has not yet been finalized.
Although he doesn't plan to fall out with Lockheed Martin for this matter, Xiao Yunhai has a heavy memory of Lockheed Martin in his heart.
"Right."
Xiao Yunhai suddenly thought of something.
"How is the contact with Ermao? Are you willing to sell the An-124 transport aircraft?"
I almost forgot about this.
The An-12 "097" 4 transport aircraft is very important for long-range delivery of heavy weapons.
This time, the delivery of a heavy-duty combined battalion to Longguo showed the weakness of Xinhan in this regard. It can only deliver 40-50 ton heavy tanks by relying on C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, and Xinhan only has 8 of them, but it has a lot of C-130 Hercules.
If we can buy a few An-124 transport aircraft, we can say that they are imitations when we launch them.
"Your Highness, we have already negotiated with Ermao. They are willing to sell, but the price is very high, 150 million US dollars. The military is still negotiating with Ermao to see if they can lower the price further."
Xiao Yunhai shook his head: "No need to bargain slowly. The most urgent thing is to buy 10 ships first. In addition to using them for the Air Force, they will also facilitate reverse research at the Military Research Institute."
"In this way, you can contact Ermao again and ask them to directly fly 10 of the current An-124 transport aircraft to Xinhan. We will immediately pay them 1.5 billion US dollars."
Compared to the remaining tens of millions of dollars, Xiao Yunhai cares more about the goods.
Tens of millions of dollars are just a matter of tens of minutes for him, and his company can earn them for him.
There is no need to bargain for the price and end up not buying the goods.
In fact, he still wanted to copy the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, but after copying it, it is very likely to affect the relationship with the United States, so he did not rush to vigorously promote the copy transport aircraft project.
But Ermao does not exist. As long as the thing is in hand, he can let it go. Anyway, the two countries do not have much business exchanges at the economic level.
Even if he protests everywhere, it is useless.
In addition, the An-124 transport aircraft is indeed larger.
It is very suitable for transporting heavy main battle tanks or tracked infantry fighting vehicles.
What else can Wang Haishan say?
It can only be said that his own crown prince is arrogant.
Don't care about the tens of millions of dollars, or even one or two hundred million dollars.
With Xiao Yunhai's order, the military and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted Ermao through their own channels, expressing their willingness to purchase Ermao's 10 active An-124 transport aircraft at a price of 150 million US dollars.
Right now, Ermao's economy is very poor.
After losing the Crimean Peninsula, it completely broke off relations with its former big brother, the Russian bear, and lacked external capital investment. Europe was also full of empty talk, and there was not much substantial help. Foreign exchange was very scarce.
After seeing that Xinhan agreed to buy it at a price of 150 million US dollars per aircraft, he immediately agreed to fly the aircraft to Xinhan.
After selling 10 aircraft, Ermao would only have 16 An-124 transport aircraft left.
But money can save the Antonov Bureau.
Avoid bankruptcy due to lack of orders.
August 25.
Ten An-124 transport aircraft landed at the military airport in Jiangdu County.
As soon as they landed, Ermao was eager to ask for money.
Air Force Commander Huang Zhenxing and Military Equipment Procurement Director Ding Lingfeng, who came to take over, were speechless.
I really want to ask if it is necessary to do so?
But it didn't take too long.
After a preliminary inspection, the money was transferred to the designated account.
Soon, this group of Ermao soldiers received a call from their superiors.
Immediately took a plane and left Xinhan.
Soon, news about the large number of An-124 transport aircraft in Xinhan spread on the Internet.
It is speculated whether Xinhan bought it from Ermao.
But even if it was purchased, it could have been a new transport aircraft, and there was no need to buy a second-hand one.
However, what they didn't know was that since the incident on the Crimean Peninsula, the production of the An-124 transport aircraft had been suspended because some parts needed to be purchased from Russia.
Under such circumstances, it is estimated that it will take ten years to produce a new aircraft.
Besides, Xinhan and Russia have always had disputes.
And Xiao Yunhai was just looking for a reasonable excuse for the subsequent imitation of the An-124 transport aircraft.
So, whether it is a new aircraft or not is really not important.
After the delivery of 10 transport aircraft, Xiao Yunhai asked the Air Force to fly one of them to the Military Industry Research Institute for disassembly and research.
The actual object combined with the drawings will undoubtedly be faster.
September 3.
A live-fire shooting training and mobility test were conducted at a military training ground in Jiangdu County.
The "White Tiger" tracked infantry fighting vehicle and the "Xuanwu" main battle tank were recognized by the army.
And placed an order on the spot. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
Purchase 336 "White Tiger" tracked infantry fighting vehicles at a price of 13.46 million Chinese Yuan per unit.
Purchase 17.1 million Chinese Yuan per unit224 "Xuanwu" main battle tanks were purchased.
Including the ammunition, the total order amount reached 8.873 billion yuan.
After the purchase, it will be used to equip two heavy composite brigade units.
Since then, plus the previous order from the Air Force, this year's 10 billion yuan domestic military expenditure order has been divided between the Army and the Air Force. As for the money earned by the Navy from purchasing submarines and later selling warships to Shaluotuo, it also purchased 4 "Yinglong" class destroyers, which is an additional military expenditure budget of 0 .....
In addition, after the Air Force purchased a large number of fighter jets and armed helicopters, there was still 44 US dollars left for foreign procurement, which was used as the Army's foreign procurement budget.
With a budget of 44 US dollars, and it had to be spent in full, it could not purchase domestic weapons, and had to buy imported ones. This made the Army a little distressed. Who doesn't know how to spend money? The main reason was that the previous bidding, wanting to purchase equipment was rejected by Xiao Yunhai, and there was a shadow.
There was no other way. Under the instigation of their colleagues, Zhang Mingchen and Xing Tianming, the two army commanders and deputy commanders, had to come to Xiao Yunhai to consult his opinions.
In other countries, it is actually the military leaders who have the final say on what equipment to buy.
However, Xinhan is an exception. The crown prince has a lot of involvement in the military, which has led to them passively receiving equipment.
In short, Xiao Yunhai says what to buy, and then they are responsible for receiving the equipment and training it into an army.
After listening to the two, Xiao Yunhai thought for a moment and said, "Did we buy the Longguo PLZ-45 self-propelled howitzer before?"
"Yes." Zhang Mingchen: "We bought 500 before."
"Well, let's buy some more from Longguo, but this time we ask them to transfer the production line. It's okay if they suffer a little loss. Anyway, the production line and technology are transferred."
"In addition, I see that they have developed a more advanced Type 05 self-propelled howitzer? It is said to be 54 caliber, and it can reach 100 kilometers with extended-range shells? Let's buy it from them and see if they will sell it."[]
If they sell it, the Type 05 can be equipped as a brigade artillery battalion, and used with long-range rockets as a strike force.
"This Type 05 is Longguo's own artillery. Are they willing to sell it?" Xing Tianming hesitated.
"Whether to sell or not, we'll talk about it later. 0.6"
"Everything is possible."
"Besides, we are so close to them now, we have to show some support. I think if we strongly request, they will most likely sell, and even provide local production line construction, as long as the price is high enough."
Based on his understanding of Longguo, although it is against the rules to sell military service weapons, Longguo has done so before.
Even the service warships were transferred to Cambodia the next second.
This shows that as long as it is in the interests of Longguo, the statement of not selling active equipment is not absolute.
Besides, Xiao Yunhai believes that Xinhan is more important than other partners of Longguo.
And the territories of the two countries do not border each other.
This will not happen, after Xinhan was equipped with the Type 05 self-propelled howitzer, it posed a threat to the army of Longguo.
Therefore, he believed that Longguo would most likely sell it to Xinhan.
After all, Xinhan is still very important to Longguo now.
Whether from an economic or strategic perspective, Longguo needs to win over Xinhan.
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