Among the several companies that originally bid for the US military's "Vanguard" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft project, only Company H has the ability to provide advanced UAVs, and the others were only pulled by the US military for legal reasons.

Since it is a separate business, Company H is naturally not in a hurry, as long as the Tengfei factory delivers the goods before the end of the year, and then hands it over to the US military for testing.

Everything seems to be going well, and even Company H itself feels that this list is in the bag, and does not continue to invest in it, but goes all out to break the problem of bundling the "Attacker" drone with South Africa.

There is no way, the old man Lindeman has a large number of second-hand equipment for the US military in his hands, and if he does not sell it, the old man will go bankrupt.

Because of this, when South Africa ordered a large order of 2,500 "Raider" drones for the performance of the Angolan civil war, Lindemann immediately instructed Liszt to bundle 76 M48 tanks, 26 105mm howitzers from the Vietnam War era, and other types of light and heavy equipment into this list.

The total value is more than four million dollars.

This amount is not much for South Africa, it is completely affordable, not to mention that the price of the "Attacker" drone offered by Company H was 5 million US dollars before, and now the increase of this 4 million is nothing more than a return to the original price, South Africa is based on the budget made by the original price of the "Attacker" drone, so it is not beyond their ability.

But the problem is that if Lindeman's equipment is in good condition, it can be bought back and put into Angola to fight the tribal army by surprise, but in fact, these equipment are either old or lack of maintenance, and some of the guns and guns are almost worn out.

As for the various types of equipment inside, it is even worse, rusty, rusty, not to mention pulling it back to participate in the war, even if it is sent to the steel mill to return to the furnace, people think that the road fee is expensive.

South Africa is not a big dog, as long as it is happy, it is like any jelly beans to scatter dollars, and its own money is not blown by the wind, how can it be cheated by the Americans.

As a result, the two sides had differences, and if there were differences, they had to sit down and have all kinds of arguments, and this kind of argument lasted for more than a month.

In the end, the two sides finalized the contract for this batch of old equipment for 2.4 million US dollars, but there was no way, the "Attacker" drone was really fragrant, and South Africa was ready to buy it back for in-depth development, so it had to bow its head.

And Company H is also in a hurry to reach this order, otherwise this year's performance will be a little too ugly, so both sides take a step back and complete the deal of more than 70 million US dollars.

South Africa got what it wanted, Company H performed well, and Mr. Lindemann finally returned the funds, and all three parties were happy.

However, before Liszt and Lindemann could celebrate, a notice from the US military's "Vanguard" drone project office was like ice water in winter, and the joy of the two was washed away.

Particle-Accelerated Aeronautical Systems, backed by General Motors of the United States, joined the bid for the Pioneer UAV project.

The notification is simple, but it shocks.

It's not that this aviation system company is bull~~, but the signboard of General Motors is too big, as one of the largest American giants, General Motors is a leader in many fields, especially in aero engines, and it is the strongest among the world's three giants.

But because of this, GM wants to rely on its own aviation development advantages to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry, so as to open up the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain in the aviation field and form a real three-dimensional super hegemon of sea, land and air.

It is a pity that the US aviation monopoly group is very vigilant against this move of GM, and has repeatedly joined forces to snipe at GM's aircraft manufacturing dream, but has simply blocked this barbarian from the door of aircraft manufacturing.

Although GM did not achieve what it wanted, it did not give up completely, but hibernated, slowly looking for a breakthrough, and as long as the time is ripe, it will explode all the power accumulated over the years.

Soon GM discovered the flashpoint they had been searching for for years, and that was the drone!

In particular, after Company H successfully bid for the Ministry of Justice, the disdain of the major aviation giants made General Motors discover that this appendix-like aircraft, which is regarded as immature by major airlines, may really become an excellent springboard for General Motors to enter the aviation field.

So without saying a word, he immediately used his strong resources to begin to integrate UAV R&D institutions and manufacturers in the United States, and soon established the Particle Acceleration Aviation Systems Company, and then joined the "Pioneer" UAV project through the relationship of the US Air Force and participated in the bidding.

This is enough to make Lindemann and Liszt feel shocked, you must know that in the past 30 years, GM has accumulated a large number of talents and technologies in order to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry, and once these resources are utilized, its explosive energy is huge.

However, GM felt that this was not enough, and brought the Israeli company IAA into the joint development of a long-endurance drone platform.

In this way, Lindemann and Liszt were not suddenly shocked, but really began to panic, knowing that they had been preparing to cooperate with IAA before, but due to a series of changes, the cooperation finally failed.

The problem is that before the termination of the cooperation, the company H was very inauthentic and cheated the IAA company, not only several drone patents were swallowed by the company H, but even the valuable unmanned production line was unceremoniously put into its own pocket by the company H.

IAA was so angry that they went to the United States to sue Company H without even thinking about it, and the result can be imagined, how could Company H, which has the little fox Liszt and the old fox Lindemann, let IAA, an outsider, sue down, IAA not only did not win the lawsuit, but also had to compensate Company H $600,000 for violating the current laws of the United States.

It's not a lot, but the point is that it's disgusting.

So when the particle company came to the door to seek cooperation in order to defeat Company H in the bidding, IAA agreed without thinking about it, as long as it could get Company H down, IAA would not hesitate to cooperate with Particle Company, even if it danced with the devil.

Lindemann and Liszt knew the strength of IAA, and they knew their monstrous hatred of H, so this bid was really an endless battle.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and just when the two were still thinking about how to deal with this strong combination, Mike, the head of the defense department of Company H, suddenly switched to General Motors.

This is like a bolt from the blue for Lindemann and Liszt, you must know that when the two broke the contract with the South Africans, the "Pioneer" project of Company H has always been docked between Mike and the military, so the performance of the UAV platform of Company H, Mike can be said to be clear.

He jumped to General Motors, which was tantamount to handing over the hole cards of Company H to the Particle Company, which was too big a blow to Company H, so Liszt would be in a hurry to let Zhuang Jianye hurry up and deliver the goods, not for anything else, but to make some improvements in electronic equipment before the bidding, otherwise it would be difficult for Company H not to be beaten down!