Now in Africa, on this amazing continent, not only dollars, gold are money, diamonds are also money, and many times weapons can also be used for money.

Even...

There are a few countries where you can still sell people, not human trafficking in the modern sense, but the slave trade, and it's legal to fuck it! For example, in Mauritania, slavery is still there, and it has not been abolished at all.

Slaves are always in demand in a small number of areas, but this weapon and ammunition are proper hard currency.

Out of smoke, grab a few rounds of ammunition to exchange for two packs?

Of course, not to mention cigarettes, it's no problem to change cornmeal, and it's no problem to change the goats to go back and improve the food.

The most common bullets can be used for money, not to mention grenades and rockets, anyway, an ordinary grenade in southern Africa can be used for about two or three dollars, which is equivalent to half of their manufacturing cost at most.

There are proxy wars everywhere, and the black buddies are working hard, so the price of this equipment has to be lowered.

The price of ordinary goods is low, but the "Stinger" and SAM-7 are high-end individual shoulder-fired missiles, and the price in Black Africa is very high, at least higher than the factory price - and the market of ordinary ammunition is reversed, because of its deterrent power!

Sasha has seen "Stingers" in Afghanistan, not only a very small number of physical objects captured by the Soviet army, but also once chased and spanked in the ass by this damn missile!

If it weren't for his superb flying skills and good luck, and the infrared decoy bombs he installed were also powerful, it is only two to say whether he would have survived that time.

In fact, it's not just the "Stinger", Sasha also high-speed Alyosha before: in Afghanistan, he has seen the Huaxia "Red Ribbon 5", which may have flowed in from Afghanistan, and it is easier to deal with the Mi-24 equipped with infrared decoy bombs than the Yankees' "Stinger".

Sasha looked at the Stinger missile boxes lined up in front of him, and then at the American contractors in the warehouse. After listening to Alyosha's words, Sasha was a little emotional, touched the missile launcher in the box and said: "In those four years, the United States gave the Afghan guerrillas at least five or six hundred such missiles, and we suffered a lot of losses.

When we withdrew the year before, we estimated that at least 50 to 100 Stingers were still unused. Later, Andrei said that the CIA had a brain pump and whimsically wanted to buy back the 'Stingers' left in Afghanistan at a high price of $80,000 each, but it was said that only a few were bought back.

Afghanistan was a nuisance, and there was nothing but sand and rocks and a bunch of mountain people. We've been unlucky there for ten years, we've dragged on enough, wait, we're gone, and it's not going to be absolutely safe there!"

Afghanistan has not been stable for thousands of years!

It is a misfortune to be born on that part of Afghanistan, because for thousands of years, the people there have always encountered one or two wars in their lives, without exception!

The big boss of the guys is not here, otherwise if Zhang Nan hears this, he may wonder if this Sasha is a time-traveler.

In fact, as long as you stay in Afghanistan for a few more years, everyone will have Sasha's thoughts: that place is born with a rush, poor mountains and bad waters, and whether or not there is such a thing as a bad people depends on the actual situation.

In four or five years, after the rise of those Taliban, Afghanistan will continue to be in chaos, and then Uncle Ben will come into play....When it is the turn of the United States to follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, those "stingers" will have to pay tribute to the American GIs.

The American product is very interesting, and there is also a friend or foe identifier on it, and the American missile cannot attack the US military aircraft, because the friend or foe identifier is likely not to ignite.

The Taliban in the future have been drilling the ravine for many years, but not all of them are unskilled and uneducated, and the problem of friend or foe identifiers can be solved, of course, these are all later stories.

Now don't talk about those American guys in the warehouse, even Sasha doesn't care about the fate of Afghanistan, what is that place love!

It's the money that cares!

"How much is this missile worth?

How to sell?"

Everyone's unanimous question, I didn't think Guan Xingquan knew.

"Some time ago, I watched a program on our own TV station that said that in '83 the U.S. military bought about 2,600 'Stingers', and at that time they averaged $36,000 each.

In 88, the U.S. military bought 20,000 pieces, with an average of 35,000 pieces each, but these were all internal prices in the United States, and in the same year, Switzerland bought 2,500 pieces, and the average cost of each piece was 126,000 dollars, which was 90,000 dollars.

Moreover, the US military uses more microprocessors than the exported models, which are a little more advanced. I don't remember the prices of other years, but last year, the US military bought a batch cheaper, about 33,000.

Thinking that the cost of these missiles is still 20,000 dollars, and the production enterprises are not welfare institutions, they have to make some money..."

Why is the arms business profitable?

You have to make some money from your own military orders, and if you buy it from a foreign country, you can earn three or five times the price.

“… There are 12 pieces here, if you don't find them in other places, these may be kept for your own use, that is, there will be a little bonus from the company, and I can't say how much you give, but it's estimated that one or two thousand shots are no problem.

It's not easy to sell this thing by yourself, you know the rules.

Two years ago, the company wanted to apply to the Ministry of Defense to buy a batch of 'Stingers', not to mention the price, Washington would not sell it to us at all!

I'm stingy!

But this trip can take a look at the excitement on the SPLM, and if they offer a high price, we can sell them some, but I think it's cheaper than Washington selling the Swiss..."

Washington takes such light missiles as "Stinger" and "Tao" very seriously, and is afraid that it will become a big trouble if it flows into the mainland!

The "United Forces" used to use Chinese goods to prop up the façade, but now they have begun to obtain a large number of advanced Soviet missiles, and they have no special desire for the "Stinger," which is no longer the most advanced individual air defense missile.

It's still a hassle to keep it in your hands, just have a two-shot to get familiar with it, this thing is not a super treasure for the combined forces.

To the People's Movement?

If you think about it, it doesn't seem to be a particularly strong demand, because they have their own air force and missiles, and the Soviet Union should have given them an earlier generation of Sam-7s, and now South Africa is too busy to take care of itself, and the SPLM will not face much air threat, and it is not an urgent need for the "Stinger".

“… Even if you want to sell, you have to rely on the company to engage in the arms business, and those people find a good buyer, and everyone's share is indispensable. But don't think about being able to divide a million, these add up to $200,000 for the company, and you have to support a large group of people with a big business, otherwise your salary will be upside down by the boss?

Don't think too pretty!"

Everyone laughed: the military contractor company is not a charity, and the salary that is usually comfortably earned by the rest of the company is also earned by the rest of the company.