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There are two main types of "buyers" of arms dealers: governments in war-torn areas, armed or guerrilla organizations, and international terrorists. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For the former type of buyers, arms traffickers tend to respond to their needs, both by selling arms to government forces and by not "disadvantageously" by ** the armed forces, because the longer the war between the two, the greater the profits of the arms traffickers.

Arms traffickers have no qualms about the latter group of buyers, and they have thus become "boosters" of global terrorism.

Regardless of the number of lives lost in what they sell, these arms dealers sell a wide range of weapons from small to heavy, from land and sea weapons to air weapons, from ordinary weapons to high-tech weapons, and from hard to soft kill equipment.

A small number of countries and regions, in order to obtain the formidable nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, have done everything possible to purchase various raw materials and weapons components from secret arms dealers.

Not long ago, the Russian military openly admitted that Russia had lost more than a dozen nuclear warheads. According to the analysis of observers, it is very likely that these nuclear warheads have entered the logistics of secret transactions, and it cannot be ruled out that some nuclear warheads have been acquired by individual countries or organizations.

For a long time in the past, the major arms-exporting countries adhered to the principle of "selling only their own obsolete weapons and obsoleting them," so that the world arms market was full of second- and third-rate weapons and equipment, and even in the sixties and seventies, some heavy firearms in World War II, which had long been phased out, could still find buyers.

Now it is different, and the main combat weapons installed by the armed forces of developed countries, including the most advanced warplanes, warships, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, and so on, can be purchased in open arms deals.

In order to earn more hard currency in order to rearmament as soon as possible, some arms-exporting countries have even sold some of the main battle weapons that their armies have not yet formally equipped themselves with to eager buyers.

"Damn, these people dare to sell anything......"

Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded by what Peng Fei said, and even sold the main battle weapons of some troops, which would be an unimaginable disaster if it happened in China.

"What's strange about this, our country has sold enough weapons to Russia since the beginning of the century, not to mention tens of billions of dollars, but this is smuggling at the national level......"

Peng Fei pursed his lips, the reason why he knew this news was because they had already carried out the relevant handover tasks, and Peng Fei was able to get these arms in just one week, which also depended on the convenience provided by certain departments.

Peng Fei is not a brainless person, of course he would not buy these heavy weapons with such fanfare, his behavior has been tacitly approved at some level, otherwise he is purely making trouble for Zhuang Rui.

"Damn, those drug traffickers with their heads are fucking like stall ...... compared to these arms dealers."

Zhuang Rui shook his head and burst out with a foul language, the most fundamental reason for the world's arms trade is interests.

Arms smuggling is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world, even several times more profitable than drug trafficking, and some arms traffickers are worth billions of dollars at every turn, and some have a total annual income roughly equal to the gross national product of a medium-sized country.

The huge profits have prompted the arms dealers to "go forward and follow each other", and one group has fallen and a new group has risen again. For the sake of their own interests, some countries and groups have openly or covertly connived at and supported some arms traffickers, and many arms traffickers have been connived at and sheltered by certain major countries, and have finally been able to go unpunished for a long time.

In addition, arms dealers replace "money trade" with "trade in goods" in the way they trade.

For example, some countries in Africa want to obtain arms by exchanging diamonds for arms, eliminating the link of money laundering and directly converting them into "legitimate income", so that arms smuggling, which is already difficult to detect, has become more foggy.

"Brother Zhuang, look at this ......"

Peng Fei said that he took out a piece of paper folded in half from his pocket and handed it to Zhuang Rui.

"What is this?"

Zhuang Rui took it and looked at it, it was full of English, but when he looked at the content carefully, he was immediately shocked.

"Damn, the American M1 series tanks, the unit price is 3 million US dollars, and 20 shells are included?"

Zhuang Rui saw the line of words at the beginning of the row, and his eyes immediately widened.

Peng Fei smiled and said, "Brother Zhuang, you go on, there are many good things......

Zhuang Rui then looked down, the unit price of the T-72 tank of the same grade in Russia was only 1.8 million US dollars, nearly half cheaper than that of the old United States.

Peng Fei suddenly came to Zhuang Rui's side, pointed to the following quotation and said, "Brother Zhuang, how about we buy an anti-air azimuth missile system?" It doesn't seem to be expensive, only more than 10 million US dollars......

"Get out of the way, we go to sea to get treasure, you should go to war......"

When Zhuang Rui looked at the offer, his head was immediately full of black lines, this was actually the quotation of Russia's C-300 air defense missile system, and it was actually only sold for $12 million a set.

Speaking of the Russian C-300 air defense missile system, you may not understand it very well, but its performance is higher than that of the well-known US "Patriot" air defense missile system, and its price is only half that of the "Patriot."

Zhuang Rui found out, with his own net worth, if he wants to equip it, it is estimated that he can convert this merchant ship into a destroyer, as long as he has money, there seems to be nothing impossible in the arms smuggling world.

"Alright, go to the bilge and keep an eye on it, don't let the crew know about these weapons......"

Zhuang Rui waved his hand weakly, and came to a ship for nothing, but he didn't expect that the expenditure on these weapons alone would cost hundreds of millions, and he really didn't know the value of those undersea treasures, and whether he could earn back his expenses.

……

There is a desert island not far from the Strait of Malacca, the whole island is long and narrow, with a depth of four or five hundred meters, naturally forming a very hidden harbor, which cannot be seen from the ocean outside, and there is a harbor with a deep draft hidden in it.

At this time, in the harbor, a huge oil tanker more than 200 meters long was parked, and seven or eight people stood at the bow of the tanker, and on the deck not far from their feet, there were several bright red blood stains, and it was obvious that something unpleasant had happened on the deck.

"Big brother, how can this shipload of oil be sold for 100 million dollars, right? And this oil tanker, how can it be worth hundreds of millions? The other party is only willing to give 80 million, isn't it too dark?"

If Zhuang Rui was in this place, he would definitely be able to recognize that the person who spoke just now was the Thousand Gate Fire General he had seen.

This guy is completely different from the suit and leather shoes of a few months ago, wearing a tight tank top, muscular, a golden chain of bullets, diagonally from the shoulder, a bit of the Terminator Riarnold Schwa's hard work.

"The 200,000-ton oil tanker has a total of more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, and if it is based on market prices, it will be at least more than 150 million US dollars, but the fifth one, this time someone died, and there was no way for the owner to redeem the goods, so he could only deal with it at a low price......

The person who spoke was Liu Minghui, Brother Hui's image was very different from a few months ago, wearing an American-style Navy camouflage uniform, wearing a pair of big sunglasses on his face, his original white and chubby skin was now tanned by the sun on the sea, but his spirit was very good.

Since they left Macau, they have spent a full $20 million to buy a frigate from the black market that has been eliminated by the Russian military.

However, due to Liu Minghui's tight hand, the missiles, depth charges, and anti-submarine torpedoes on this frigate were all dismantled by the other side, except for a few heavy machine guns, even the 100-mm naval gun on the bow of the ship was also put on display, and there was not a single shell.

This is also the reason why the cost of frigates is relatively low, if you change to a destroyer or a torpedo ship, I am afraid that 20 million US dollars will only be enough to buy a set of electronic equipment on the ship.

But in Malacca, being able to have such a frigate is enough to make the nascent pirate group led by Liu Minghui prosperous.

In just two months, Liu Minghui has already robbed three merchant ships that were trading in Malacca, and the one in front of him was an oil tanker belonging to the Nepalese shipping company "Vlatelli Damato Company" that had been hijacked just half a month ago.

It's just that when the oil tanker was hijacked, there was a little accident, and when he warned the oil tanker to stop and board, Brother Hui was not calm enough and shot and killed two crew members, which made the hijacking incident change a little.

Originally, pirates hijacked ships, especially oil tankers like this which were expensive but difficult to sell, and the ultimate goal of the pirates was to get the shipowner to pay a sum of money to redeem them.

But it is difficult to do it when someone dies, so Brother Hui contacted a big buyer in Malaysia through the previous way, and was ready to sell the ship with oil to the other party, but the price was very low, only half of the oil price was sold, which means that the ship was given away for nothing.

"Eighty million is eighty million, boss, it's still promising to do this, counting this artillery work, it's only been more than two months, and we've almost made a billion RMB, it's really fucking cool......"

The fire general is very accustomed to this kind of knife licking blood days, he used to live desperately for decades, living in fear every day, only to earn a net worth of four or five billion, but he didn't expect that this was more than two months at sea, and it was already more than half a life to make money.

"The ancients didn't deceive me......"

Brother Hui suddenly said a sentence of crepe without a tail, but he thought of the deeds of his ancestors across the sea, and dared to love what his father and grandfather said was true, this line of work is much more promising than the deception of thousands of doors.