Chapter 309: Acquisition of a Top Space Airline
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As for the Bugatti car company, the most famous car in Henry's impression is the Bugatti prestige. However, the car has not yet been designed. Henry injected $1 billion into the Bugatti car for development, and after receiving this huge investment, the company hired a large number of designers and engineers to design and develop the Bugatti car!
The Bugatti Veyron is also Henry's favorite car, and the Rolls-Royce and Bentley have been driving for a long time, so they can only be fresh when they change their drives.
At this time, Brent Gus, CEO of the Bank of America of the California consortium, finally replied to Henry, telling Henry that the California consortium had finally agreed to sell Lockheed and Martin Marietta to Henry, but that after the merger of Williams Galaxy and Bank of America, Henry would have to stand on their side against the Eastern Consortium!
When Henry received the news, he was overjoyed and immediately agreed. The Eastern Consortium was originally its main competitor, and it was best to unite with the California Consortium to confront it, so how could it refuse!
However, the prices of Lockheed and Martin Marietta are a bit high, requiring a total of $40 billion.
It's easy for Henry to make money, so $40 billion isn't a big deal for him!
If Lockheed Martin is sold to China after the merger of the two companies, even if it costs an additional $10 billion, the Chinese government will buy it even if it smashes the pot and sells iron!
The military power of the United States, Lockheed Martin accounts for a large proportion. Lockheed Martin's products basically represent the most advanced weapons in the United States!
Henry didn't bargain with the California consortium. $40 billion is $40 billion.
First, Williams Bank merged with Bank of America. The new company is called "Williams Bank of America", and Henry holds 40% of the shares. Becoming the bank's largest shareholder, California holds 27.5 percent, with several consortia in the east holding a total of 23.5 percent, and the rest being divided among other investment institutions or companies.
The Eastern consortium insisted on its reluctance to merge, but the influence of the California consortium was still there, and the merger plan was finally approved, and Williams Bank of America became the largest bank in the United States, with a market value of $200 billion. Total assets in the trillions of dollars!!
Subsequently, Henry completed the acquisition of two arms companies, Lockheed and Martin Marietta, to form Lockheed Martin.
And this series of big moves has caused a huge sensation in the United States!
"The merger of Williams Galaxy and Bank of America has become the largest bank merger in the history of the United States," the American newspaper said. The new bank, Williams Bank of America, became the largest bank in the United States, of which Henry Williams personally held 40% of the shares, becoming the largest shareholder, and a well-deserved super-tycoon in the global financial world!"
"Henry Williams, a legend in technology and finance, is now the world's arms chief!"
"Henry Williams' dream of space never stops. SpaceX was built before, and now there are two space airlines, Lockheed and Martin Marietta!"
"The earth's resources are becoming more and more impoverished, and the hope of mankind lies in outer space, one day. Henry Williams will lead humanity out of the earth!"
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After Henry completed the acquisition of Lockheed Martin, the new company was headquartered in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland. At this time, the total number of employees in the new company was 165,000. It is the world's largest fighter jet manufacturer and controls the production and launch of all U.S. military satellites. And in terms of missiles. Also the main manufacturer of ICBMs in the United States!
Originally, Lockheed was still producing civil aircraft until 1984. However, the competition with McDonnell Douglas Company lost both sides and died at a loss, so the civil aircraft project was cut. Henry also did not intend for Lockheed Martin to restart production of commercial aircraft. If you specialize in the art industry, you should still focus on fighter planes, transport aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, satellites, space shuttles, spacecraft, rockets and missiles.
It's just that Henry also has a Sky Exploration Technology SpaceX company, so all things considered, Henry has carried out a drastic restructuring of Lockheed Martin.
Henry will merge satellites, space shuttles, spacecraft, launch vehicles, and other space projects into SpaceX, and Lockheed Martin will specialize in the production of arms and weapons in the future! However, the technology of the two companies can be used in each other, and the two companies can also cooperate closely, and Henry will hold 100 percent of the shares anyway.
Henry's main assignment to SpaceX was to study launch vehicles and satellites, spacecraft followed by space shuttles, and finally space shuttles.
The Space Shuttle is an aircraft that travels between the Earth and Earth orbit, and NASA originally conceived the idea that the Space Shuttle would be reusable and thus reduce costs and eliminate the need to build a new launch vehicle every time it was missioned. However, NASA did not expect that spacecraft are expensive to manufacture, costing $2 billion per R&D, and have a low safety factor, with a launch cost of more than $500 million, which is much more expensive than launch vehicles. In addition, the space shuttle is aging much faster than expected, and the flight mission has been forced to shrink significantly!
In other words, the development of the space shuttle is a huge pit! However, the accumulation of technology is necessary, and once the technology is mature, perhaps the space shuttle will be able to be used at a low cost and safely!
Manned spaceflight is not a dream, and it is not a dream to start a space tourism company, science and technology are developing, and sooner or later it will be realized......
Spaceships, on the other hand, are used to fly between outer spaces to explore the mysteries of the universe and perform various tasks, such as mining, searching for aliens, and many other tasks!
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Henry then injected $20 billion into SpaceX and $10 billion in Lockheed Martin to invest in technology research and development, while also accelerating the pace of mergers and acquisitions. What technology do you like, which company you like, go directly, money is not a problem!
In the previous life, after the merger of Lockheed Martin, it did not stop, but continued to merge other companies.
Now, Henry has his eye on a company, or rather, he has been salivating over it.
It's called Hughes Aerospace & Communications!
In 1995, Hughes Aerospace & Communications became the world's largest satellite provider, and in 2000, 40 percent of the world's satellites in service were produced by Hughes. Boeing later acquired Hughes Aerospace & Communications, which was able to compete with Lockheed Martin in the space field, and Raytheon also acquired a part of Hughes Aerospace & Communications, thus becoming one of the top aerospace companies in the United States.
Why is Hughes Aerospace & Communications so hanging?
Here, we have to mention the name of one person - Howard Hughes, the most legendary figure in the United States (except, of course, Henry), the prototype of the real Iron Man!!
At the age of 18, he lost his parents and took over his father's company, became the chairman and director of the film company at the age of 21, set a world flight record of 567 kilometers per hour at the age of 30 by piloting an airplane designed by himself, flew over the Americas in 7 and a half hours at the age of 32, set a 91-hour round-the-world flight record at the age of 33, and then spent 5 years building an aircraft designed to carry 750 passengers and flying one mile. 45-year-old reclusive, is the controlling shareholder of 78% of Universal Company!
An American aeronautical engineer, entrepreneur, film director, and a genius who combines myth and weirdness!
Stan Lee, the original author of the comic "Iron Man", once admitted that the characters in the comics are based on Howard Hughes, and Hughes Aerospace and Communications is the company established by Howard Hughes.
The world's first geosynchronous satellite was Hughes Aerospace & Communications!
The world's first geosynchronous meteorological satellite was Hughes Aerospace & Communications!
In June 1966, an unmanned spacecraft from the United States landed on the moon for the first time, attracting worldwide attention. The builder of that spacecraft was none other than Hughes Aerospace & Communications!
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Numerous firsts belonged to Hughes Aerospace & Communications, however, after Howard Hughes died, there were no heirs and no heirs. Subsequently, Hughes began to decline and became a sweet spot in the eyes of countless people.
When Howard Hughes died, General Motors bought his company for $5 billion. In other words, if Henry wants to buy Hughes Aerospace & Communications, he must find General Motors. Fortunately, General Motors sells cars, otherwise it would not have sold Hughes Aerospace and Communications to Raytheon and Boeing in the future.
SpaceX, despite the annexation of Lockheed Martin's space division, is not strong enough and must be stronger in order to accelerate the development of historical technology!
"I'm coming, I'm going to change the world!" Henry has ambition in his heart, he is not willing to be calm, he wants to do the feat of changing the world, he wants to make space technology advance by leaps and bounds, he wants to do things that are difficult for the whole of America to accomplish! (Reader: You are so good, why can't you go to heaven?Henry: Don't worry, you will be in the sky one day!The next chapter will be half past eleven o'clock in the evening...... )
[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better!] (To be continued.) )