"What?"

Xie Kai really felt that poverty limited his imagination.

$5 billion!

Is this a joke?

Originally, he bragged in front of his superiors, saying that he had no ability if he didn't sell $5 billion, because he knew that Dongfeng Express sold $3.5 billion, and the rest, selling $1.5 billion, was enough.

Who knows, the prince of Saudi Arabia seems to know his thoughts, regardless of the price of Dongfeng Er's kicking, he has to purchase 5 billion US dollars on conventional equipment to be willing, less than 5 billion US dollars, they are not happy!

How?

China does not have too many high-priced weapons and equipment, and some of them are strategic weapons that cannot be sold.

If you want to sell mushroom bullets, you can't ask for a few of them at this price!

The problem is that it must not be sold, although China has not yet joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but as a major country in charge, it is absolutely impossible to sell this thing for money, not even a little technology!

Regular gear?

That's the number of Saudi troops.

Xie Kaimeng.

"What's going on?" Zheng Yucheng saw that Xie Kai and the Saudi colonel both had serious faces, thinking that the other party was dissatisfied, and the negotiation collapsed, so he asked.

There is no Arabic translator here, and Zheng Yucheng, who does not understand Arabic, has no idea what these two people said.

There was no quarrel either!

Xie Kai was weak, and when he saw that Lafata didn't speak, he just stared at him seriously, and took a few deep breaths before telling Zheng Yucheng about it.

"MMP! Big dog, really rich, this procurement is far more than our country's military budget for a year!" Zheng Yucheng couldn't help but burst out foul language.

The country has disarmed one million, and there is still a scale of more than 3 million troops, involving the two branches of the navy, land and air artillery, and the equipment is two kicks or something, which is three or two purchases a year to ensure that the scientific research system and the production system do not starve to death!

Whether it is the army, navy, or even the air force, the purpose of production is to support the core backbone manufacturing plant, and the procurement of all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment is extremely rare, but it is only for the purpose of using it for combat experiments.

It's good now, a small country, as soon as it makes a move, is 5 billion US dollars, or only buy conventional weapons and equipment!

Whether it is these missiles, defense systems, or even weapons and equipment that they look down on, the PLA that has no money is not equipped now!

"It's not that we embarrass you, it's that the purchase of too many quantities will cause unease in neighboring countries and affect regional stability, after all, we are only used to defend ......," Lafata explained. "Originally, when purchasing Dongfeng-35, the king approved five billion US dollars, and the remaining 1.5 billion US dollars, this time His Royal Highness the Prince went back, and the king allocated 3.5 billion US dollars again!"

What else can Xie Kai say besides scolding the big dog in his heart for having more money and burning bags?

"Does it have to reach $5 billion?" Zheng Yucheng's voice trembled a little.

$5 billion.

If it's done, I won't have to worry about funding for many years to come.

"It can be more than 5 billion dollars, absolutely not less than that!" said Lafata, "otherwise, it will only bring endless trouble to our prince......

As soon as he said this, Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng didn't understand.

Lafata didn't stay long before going back, leaving Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng staring at each other.

"The current situation seems to be that if you want to worry about 5 billion US dollars, you can't sell anything else!" Zheng Yucheng took a deep breath, "Do you want to sell fighters?"

"Can we come up with a fighter with better performance than the F-15?" Xie Kai shook his head with a wry smile, don't even think about it. "It must only belong to our unit, and the top things of other units in the country are the mainstay of national defense and cannot be sold. ”

Zheng Yucheng shook his head.

The country even included the J-8II, which has not yet been successfully developed, in the list of prohibited exports, which is the best in the country.

Their super seven or two models are also looked down upon.

"We don't have any better missiles to sell. Zheng Yucheng said.

"Yes, there are no missiles to sell, unless the Dongfeng-5, that is impossible, it is estimated that we have not yet put it forward, we will be slapped to death by our superiors, that is the country's killer weapon, absolute strategic deterrence!" Xie Kai shook his head.

Dongfeng-5, that is an absolute and absolute killer weapon, the strongest line of defense for national defense, and the only confidence in strategic deterrence.

Without long-range strategic bombers, the performance of nuclear submarines is not good, and the trinity of nuclear strategic deterrence can be guaranteed by Dongfeng Express!

Once the technical parameters are leaked, this killer feature will lose its strategic deterrent capability.

No matter how ignorant Xie Kai is, he won't joke about this thing.

The Dongfeng-31 leak case caused a lot of damage to the country, and only people in the military industry know.

"But why are they so obsessed with this number?" Zheng Yucheng was puzzled.

"Eating kickbacks?" Except for this, Xie Kai couldn't think of any other reason, "Ibrahim has heard Ibrahim say before that in arms procurement in the Middle East, people with rights in various countries are very good at eating kickbacks. ”

At the beginning, Ibrahim took the initiative to ask Xie Kai for kickbacks, which involved tens of millions of dollars.

In the end, he gave a large part of the interests of Africa to the old guy, and he was still a little unhappy.

The princes of Saudi Arabia hold huge power in their hands, and the arms dealers of European and American countries like to sell high-priced weapons and equipment to Middle Eastern countries and give high kickbacks.

It is reported that in a large arms deal, those nobles in charge can get hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks at a time.

Xie Kai and they will never use this to get orders for the future of 404.

Otherwise, they can sell more weapons and equipment.

They belong to the state-run military-industrial complex, and once the matter leaks out, it will make the whole country lose face.

"No, this matter must be discussed with the above, you first think about what we have to sell at a high price, and I will report to the General Logistics Department and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Zheng Yucheng felt that this matter was too big, and he still had to discuss it with the above. "You go over there and make sure. ”

After receiving a call from Zheng Yucheng, Li Mingshan and Long Yaohua both put down their hands and said that there was something wrong and came here.

Xie Kai went to the prince again and personally confirmed from him that the entire contract must reach $5 billion.

Wang Ye also made it clear to Xie Kai that the signing of the $5 billion contract was not to let the Chinese side give them benefits and not eat kickbacks.

"It can't be a joke, right?" Li Mingshan and Long Yaohua couldn't believe what they heard.

$5 billion in equipment, say buy it.

Coupled with the east wind of express delivery, it is already 8.5 billion US dollars, and China's huge defense system has a military budget for a year and a half!

"I have just confirmed that Prince Sultan made it clear that this is to strengthen the defense of the entire country. Xie Kai shook his head and said. "The Middle East is now at war at every turn, and if the national defense force is not strong, the sense of security will not be strong. ”

"The problem is that what you sell is the best of the same type in our country, and it is also the ...... with the highest price" As an important person in charge of the unit's logistics system, Li Mingshan really couldn't imagine what weapons and equipment were worth anything.

Long Yaohua nodded in agreement with Li Mingshan's statement.

Tanks, 404 is currently the best in the country, of course, compared to the third-generation tanks that the country is researching, this is not advanced, but that thing is impossible to sell.

The missile defense system has also integrated a set of short-range defense systems on the 404 side, such as Counterattack No. 1 and Counterattack No. 2, which have all been dismounted and turned into pre-research. The Hongqi-9 system, which has a longer range, is still under development!

Tactical missiles?

It is only 404 that cooperates with aerospace to improve the Hongqi-2 anti-aircraft missile, which is too expensive and not cheap to fire......

What else can be sold?

"Could it be that they are deliberately retaliating?" the two bigwigs couldn't think of any conventional weapons that could be sold.

At the beginning, more than 2,000 tanks of the 617 were sold, and it was only about 1 billion dollars.

There is still a shortage of nearly $2 billion in weapons, how can conventional equipment achieve this value on a small scale?

Li Mingshan thought that it might be Xie Kai's condition that the Patriot missile defense system was a condition, "Communicate well, there shouldn't be much of a problem, right?"

"Chief, that's not the case. Saudi Arabia is ruthless this time, thousands of ground-to-ground missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers, and 400 ground-based Hongqi-2 with a range of 480 kilometers, they want to increase their defense to the maximum!" Xie Kai shook his head, "After all, now the Persians and Israel are threats to them!"

Xie Kai still has a question that he didn't say, that is, Saudi Arabia wants a big brother in the Middle East.

Silly Damu bought hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and equipment for the sake of Big Brother in the Middle East!

Even when he had no money, in order to maintain the size of his armored forces, he still purchased more than 2000 tanks from China and 59 tanks, and more than 500 tanks in 404!

"Then what other advanced equipment do we have to sell?" Long Yaohua couldn't help it.

The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense understands the science and technology of the entire country's defense system, and no conventional weapon or equipment can be sold more expensive than the 404.

"Wheeled armored vehicles, they don't need them, 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, they are also not interested, even the 359 tank, they only purchased two regiments of the size of the Flying Shield-359 to cover the flying shield-359......"

Not to mention that Xie Kai and Zheng Yucheng are worried, the two bigwigs are also worried.

Saudi Arabia wants to build a defense system, and it has the money, and it doesn't care about the high price at all.

"In this situation, there is no high-priced army equipment to sell; they can't afford to sell air force equipment; they have bought all the missiles that can be sold; and the rest is only war......ships," Long Yaohua said faintly.

Li Mingshan immediately retorted, "They can look down on the performance of our warship?"

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Xie Kai has always made a fuss about their weapons and equipment, and has not even considered naval equipment.

The naval equipment is really too poor.

But the 052 ship under development is not too bad, and the 053H3, which also has air defense and ground systems, is not backward!