Chapter 429: Surface-to-Air Missiles
On the red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York, Boeing and Zheng Xudong reached a purchase agreement for two Boeing BBJs.
Zheng Xudong took out the UBS tablet from his salute backpack, opened it and suddenly thought of it: "Mr. President, we have a WIFI signal on this plane, and I will transfer money to you." β
James didn't expect Zheng Xudong, a young man, to be so happy, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, our plane has long been installed with a wireless signal transmitting device, and it is no problem to call and surf the Internet on the plane." Mr. Zheng, there is no need to rush the payment, we can pay when the plane is delivered. As he said that, he glanced at Bartlet, the sales director, who was sitting next to him.
Bartlet's comprehension immediately took out the company's payment account number, as well as the opening bank and other information, and put it on the table in front of Zheng Xudong.
Zheng Xudong smiled, "If your account hasn't changed, then last time I paid for your 747-8VIP, I kept your account information in my tablet. β
"I haven't changed, I haven't changed, Mr. Zheng, it's still the same bank account you made the last payment. Sales Director Bartlet's joy was already beyond words, and he said happily to Zheng Xudong.
After the transfer was completed, less than five minutes later, the phone of the sales director Bartlet's rang, he picked up the phone, "Well, well, ah, ah" said a few words and hung up the phone, and whispered to President James next to him: "The company's financial phone called, and the money has arrived." β
For people who do business, saying that everything else is nonsense, only the money is in the pocket, and when he heard that the money had been credited, James said with great joy: " Mr. Zheng, in order to thank you for your support and love to our Boeing company, I decided to provide you with free service for half a year by the two pilots and flight attendants of this aircraft in the capacity of president, and all their expenses are borne by our Boeing company, and we have rented an aircraft hangar at New York Airport, and the use period is also until the end of this year, this hangar is also handed over to you to use for free, as well as these two aircraft and your 747-8VIP, a total of three aircraft, we provide you with a one-year free maintenance, these costs are also borne by our Boeingγ Do you think you're satisfied?"
Zheng Xudong was of course satisfied when he heard this, and this saved him a lot of American knives! Among them, the labor costs of the two captains and the two flight attendants, as well as the one-year maintenance cost of the aircraft, this is not a small amount of money in any country in the world, and I am afraid that only the right to use the warehouse for half a year can be regarded as a small amount of money. Although he was happy in his heart, he didn't show it too obvious on his face, and still answered the roll of the pilot's license in his hand, and said in his mouth: "President James, thank you." After that, he picked up his own red wine on the table, touched his glass with James, and then drank the wine. "President James, one of these two planes, you contact President Ivanka, renovate it according to her requirements, and then send it to the location she designated. Now we are on this plane, I will take it back to China in two days, by the way, can this plane buy back to the magic capital?"
"The range of this plane is 11,000 kilometers, and theoretically this BBJ direct flight from New York to the magic capital of your country is also more than 11,000 kilometers, and the flight is no problem at all, but for the sake of safety, I strongly recommend that you make a stop in between, such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi, which is safer. You said yes!?" President James said to him.
According to the requirements of the aviation manual, after the plane arrives at its destination, there must be gasoline left for temporary transfer, otherwise it will not be safe, and this plane will theoretically run out of fuel when it flies from the United States to the magic capital, which is too dangerous. Who dares to guarantee that the airport where the plane will land will not have a sudden change in the weather, or that there will be any unexpected situation!" Thinking of this, Zheng Xudong said: "Well, this flight is really embarrassing, okay, I will consider the transit place." β
After Zheng Xudong finished drinking the wine in the wine glass, he said to Sean next to him: "Sean, you go to the back of the cabin and sit for a while, President James and I have a few words to say." β
Sean nodded, picked up the red wine in front of him, put on his cigar, and walked to the back seat of the plane consciously.
President James knew that this young man must not be underestimated, and he could talk to him alone, the content must not be simple, he also looked at the sales director Bartlet next to him, and gave him a look, Bartlet's sales director who can be the world's largest aircraft manufacturer is still very discerning, and he picked up his red wine and cigar like Sean and walked to the back, while senior coach Fendi didn't use anyone else to say at all, and consciously walked to the back.
Seeing that he and James were left in the seats in the front row, Zheng Xudong still did not stop answering the questionnaire in his hand, bowed his head and said: "President James, do you Boeing have surface-to-air missiles? If so, I want to buy a few sets of ground-to-air missiles in Boeing, can Boeing sell me?"
Boeing President James's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this, how can selling civilian planes make money by selling arms! This is a business that the whole world is rushing to do! He hurriedly asked: "Mr. Zheng, what you said is too general, ground-to-air missiles are divided into surface-to-air missiles and ship-to-air missiles, and according to their range, they are divided into short-range, medium-range, and long-range air-to-air missiles, and they are also divided into vehicle-mounted and man-to-air missiles.
Zheng Xudong didn't expect that there were so many classifications, so he said to him: "President James, someone just sent me a freighter, I want to convert it into a yacht, you may know what happened last night, I have a lot of friends now, but there are also a lot of enemies, I always have to guard against if I am at sea, someone wants to launch missiles in the air to harm me! So I want to buy a few sets of air-to-ground missiles to install on my yacht." β
Of course, James knew about last night's incident, and now it has spread on a small scale in the upper circles of the United States, and it just so happens that his level can know this kind of information, and he knows that this young man must be guarding against a Japanese warship or military aircraft to strike at his yacht, so he wants to buy surface-to-air missiles. After thinking for a while, he said: "Mr. Zheng, the ground-to-air missile you are talking about is mainly the kind of ship-to-air missile, we call this ship-to-air missile, there are many types of it, and we Boeing do not produce it, but I can introduce you to these ship-to-air missiles with excellent performance in China, and the ship-to-air missiles in service now mainly include the following types: 1. Standard-3/SM-3/RIM-161;2. Beagle (RIM-2);3. RIM-7M/Sea Sparrow;4.RIM-116/Ram/RAM;5. RIM-66D (Standard-II.);6.RIM-8/Brass Knight;7.RIM-24/Tatar;8.RIM-162/Enhanced Sea Sparrow. Finally, there are the famous ship-borne Tomahawk cruise missiles, of course, the Tomahawks are a bit too exaggerated, I suggest you choose some small anti-aircraft missiles, such as the RIM-162 / enhanced Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missile, which is a ship-to-air missile developed by Raytheon for the US Navy, and is an improved version of the RIM-7M "Sea Sparrow", which can deal with technologically advanced high-speed, low-radar cross-section mobile anti-ship missiles. Licensed for mass production in January 2004, it will be equipped on aircraft carriers, Ticonderoga-class cruisers, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and next-generation DD(x) destroyers. The diameter of this missile: 25.4cm, total length: 3.8m, wingspan: 64cm, weight: 280kg, warhead: 39kg, engine: two-stage rocket engine, maximum speed: Mach 4, range: high maneuverability, effective range of 18km, maximum range of 30-50km, guidance mode: autopilot guidance in the middle section, corrected by the data link of the launch ship, and converted to semi-active radar homing at the end of interception. The performance of this missile is enough for you to use, if you are equipped with some individual MANPADS FIM-92/Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, it is the best individual weapon in the United States, its body length: 1.52 meters, body wingspan: 9.1 cm, diameter: 7 cm, weight: 10.1 kg, all systems: 15.7 kg
Speed: Mach 2.2, Maximum Range: 3800 m, Range: 4800 m, Stinger Range of 8000 M, Propulsion: Atlantic Research MK 27 Twin-Thrust (Propulsion/Sustained) Solid Fuel Rocket Engine, Warhead: 3 kg Explosive Fragmentation Style, Isn't That Cool! With it, your yacht will be the safest in the world. β
Speaking of this, President James suddenly asked: "By the way, Mr. Zheng, I haven't asked others how big the freighter is to send you, if it only has a displacement of 18,000 tons, there is no need to install shipborne anti-aircraft missiles at all, and after installing it on your yacht, your yacht will have no place for you to play." Ha... In that case, you can buy some Stinger missiles on your shoulder. Good quality and low price, convenient and practical, it is really a must-have thing for home travel, killing people and setting fires! James laughed as he spoke.
Sitting at the tail of the plane, Boeing's sales director Bartlet, lawyer Sean, and Fendi, the senior instructor of the flying driving school, were all talking about the eight recent news in the United States, but no matter how much anyone said it, no one was happy, because no one's mind was here, but they were all listening to the conversation of the two big bosses in front of them with their ears pricked up, but they could only occasionally hear the laughter of Boeing President James, and the others couldn't hear it at all, so they heard James laugh happily again.
Zheng Xudong listened to him laughing happily, put down the pen, raised his head and took a sip of the wine glass, smoked a cigar, and said with a serious face: "Is it funny? I don't think it's funny!"
Boeing President James saw Zheng Xudong's serious look and knew that his unintentional words just now had hurt the young man's self-esteem, but he was right, it is indeed your freighter If it is small, forcibly adding the improved version of the RIM-7M Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missile will make the yacht space very narrow, I am not wrong, but looking at his serious face, I thought, "It seems that I have to ask about the size of his freighter", thinking of this, he asked:" Mr. Zheng, I would like to ask, which freighter did you get?"