Volume 1, Pot 1, Chapter 802, Fooling the Pentagon

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Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of Washington, D.C., is home to the Pentagon, the world's largest single office building. It is the heart of the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force, which coordinates the operation of 1,245 military bases around the world.

At this moment, in a spacious office, Sheyd Weisgerber, director of the Department of Defense's Procurement and Procurement Policy Bureau, is facing two papers in front of the desk, his brow furrowed and his fingers tapping on the table.

New China's large-scale deployment of intelligent individual drones, as well as the performance of Hummingbird drones in military exercises, have attracted the attention of the US Department of Defense. The U.S. Secretary of Defense approached him a week ago and asked him to contact an arms company that has a partnership with the military to tender for the production of a single weapon similar to the Hummingbird drone, as well as equipment that can effectively counter such a drone!

This kind of equipment should be easy to carry and adapt to all terrains, especially urban terrain where drones have the most room to play!

There are two companies participating in the bidding, one is Raytheon and the other is Lockheed Martin.

The two arms companies are not small, the former is owned by the Boston consortium, while the latter belongs to the California consortium. One is expensive but reliable, and the other is inexpensive but has a lot of uncertainties......

But at the end of the day, they don't know if the hummingbird drone will be useless due to radio interference.

Just then, his secretary walked up to him through a row of desks and placed a newspaper on his desk.

Shayd glanced at his secretary in confusion, picked up the Washington Morning Post, and frowned slightly at the highlighted report.

【…… When the Russian side negotiated arms trade with Future Heavy Industries, it chose the Beta-3B military supply drone instead of the Hummingbird drone, which can support infantry front-line operations. According to an unnamed insider, the reason why Russia canceled the Hummingbird drone purchase plan is because of the security loopholes in the Hummingbird drone. 】

["When we tested the combat performance of the Hummingbird UAV, we found that the Hummingbird is not as powerful as we imagined, at least in the face of the anti-drone gun, its appearance is extremely clumsy......"]

The anti-drone gun is not strictly a firearm, but a portable radio weapon. This kind of thing is being studied in various countries, as early as a few years ago at West Point, a special anti-drone gun was developed, and in front of the then Minister of Defense, it successfully forced a ************ to land.

And the cost is only $150!

In principle, Lockheed Martin's design scheme is similar to this anti-drone gun! It also uses radio wave jamming technology, but the latter has a wider interference area and stronger interference effect!

Seeing this report, Shayd immediately jumped up.

"Contact the people at Lockheed Martin! The Ministry of Defense needs a more detailed design plan with the unit price of the equipment! Let them prepare it within three days, and I need to discuss it with officials from other departments!"

"Yes!" his secretary nodded, and immediately turned to leave.

Looking at the newspaper, Shayd rubbed his fingers back and forth.

Hummingbird UAV, right? Then the name of our military industrial development project is not right to be called Bee Catching! It is the "Fly Catching Program"! Look at your Hummingbirds, how will they scurry like a headless fly under our anti-drone equipment when the time comes!

……

“…… Lockheed Martin won the bid, and the project was codenamed 'Project Flycatch'. ”

When Aisha told Jiang Chen the news, Jiang Chen simply stood up from the chair happily, hugged her and kissed her fiercely.

Why did Russia cancel the purchase of hummingbird drones? Transwarp Trade did not intend to sell it from the beginning!

As for the so-called "an unnamed insider", it is also a play performed by the Russian side in cooperation with Transwarp Trade. The price of this drama is to supply 5 UAV terminals to the Russian side for free, as well as supporting Beta-3B UAVs.

It's only 1.75 million US dollars, which Jiang Chen can still afford.

Letting go of Aisha, whose cheeks were crimson, Jiang Chen walked back and forth in the study several times, and waved his fist excitedly.

"If Lockheed Martin wins the bid, the Philippine Army will most likely become its first buyer. At that time, if the Philippine side tears up the ceasefire agreement, the so-called "anti-drone equipment" that our soldiers face on the battlefield will not even be as good as a water cannon!"

It is impossible for Lockheed Martin to get a sample of the Hummingbird drone, and can only use the Beta series of drones that have been circulated on the market as a target for testing weapons. There is no doubt that civilian UAVs, developed on the basis of modern UAVs, the Beta series will definitely be affected by this weapon.

Unfortunately, the Hummingbird drone uses a completely different technology from the Beta series of drones!

In the afternoon, Jiang Chen went to Anga Island.

The task he gave to Zhong Wei, the director of the Anjia Island Industrial Park, last time, is already being implemented. After the separation of the future people's military industry from the future people's heavy industry, it will help the future people's heavy industry to better participate in the international market, and at the same time, it will also make the military industry specialized, which can be described as a lot of benefits.

Four square kilometers of land have been included in the park, and a hummingbird drone assembly plant and a small scroll engine production plant have been built. According to the production plan submitted to him by Zhong Wei, a series of arsenals such as armored vehicles and tank assembly plants will be added here in the future.

The newly established subsidiary, Future People, Military Industry EO, is named Ling Tao, a native of Koro Island.

Jiang Chen gave him only one task, to strive to make even a button on a soldier's uniform have to be completed by the local factory in Xinguo! Any project involving the Transwarp Trade Army, which had been outsourced to overseas companies, must all be taken back to China!

After inspecting the factory on Anjia Island, Jiang Chen was about to return to the Future Man Building, but at this moment, President Zhang Yaping's phone called.

After connecting the phone, Jiang Chen saw that the Bluetooth headset was hanging on his ear.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Are ......you free? Forget it, I'll go to you. ”

"No, I'm just outside, I'll stop by the presidential palace in a moment. Is there any trouble?" Jiang Chen noticed that the voice of the president was a little tired.

"It's not a hassle, it's a little problem...... Well, it may not be clear on the phone, so let's talk about it when you come over. Zhang Yaping said.

"Okay, about half an hour. ”

Zhang Yaping made a call to Jiang Chen's private mobile phone, and the two of them talked on an ordinary route, so it was inconvenient to talk about important things. After learning this, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and asked Aisha to drive the car in the direction of the dock.

Before going to the Future Man Building, he planned to hear what trouble the new president had encountered. (To be continued.) )