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When Fan Wuxian visited the Skunk Works, Robert Stevens, chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, personally came to meet with him.

Stevens, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps and walked the swamps of Vietnam with an M-16 rifle, earned a bachelor's degree in behavioral science from Slippery Rock University, a master's degree in engineering and management from the New York Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Columbia University. His manners are polite and straightforward, and he has an air of scholarhood, which gives him the dual character of a scholar and a businessman at the same time.

After joining Loma, Stevens worked his way up the defense and aerospace sectors. Eventually, he worked his way up to the position of chairman and CEO of Loma.

Stevens once told people that he loved every weapon Loma produced like a son. Why is this happening? To put it bluntly, it is because there are business opportunities behind every weapon, and high-tech weapons and equipment such as F-22 and F-35 are even more infinite. However, the "sons" of Loma Company not only have different "appearances", but also have a large number.

About one-third of the enterprises in the United States are inextricably linked with military production, so it is natural that military enterprises have a broad and delicate relationship with American politics. For arms companies, maintaining arms demand is just as important as safeguarding national security.

Stevens in addition to working with government dignitaries. In addition to his close connections, he himself served on former President George W. Bush's Future Aeronautics and Space Industry Council. His extensive network in Washington became the link between Loma and the political world and was an important condition for his success.

In the eyes of Loma executives, Steven. Si is a big boss. And in the eyes of Loma employees, Stevens has the ability to bring them a lot of money.

Fan Wuxian is the world's No. 1. The arms dealer was still a little curious, and he found that Stevens had larger ears, sharper eyes, and a bit of an eagle's eye, and he was also tall and burly, worthy of a man who had served in the Marine Corps and fought in the Vietnam War.

However, there is not much friendship between Fan Wuxian and Stevens. Flow, after all, Stevens came to see Fan Wuxi's status and status, but he didn't think about how much arms Fan Wuxian would be able to buy him, after all, everyone understands people and knows what can be sold to where they want, and it seems unlikely that they want to sell large quantities of arms to the mainland.

Even though Lockheed Martin basically controls the Department of Defense, Stevens is not arrogant enough to get Congress to pass the sale of the Continental Army, which is not in the interests of the United States, and you can't sell better things to a more powerful opponent, which is asking for trouble, but if you sell to a weaker opponent, it is to cultivate healthy competition.

During the visit, Fan Wuxian still saw a lot of strange things. There are the kind of motorboats that can rise to an altitude of 20,000 meters, and there are also the laser fire control systems armed on tanks and armored vehicles, and of course, what interests him the most is a kind of individual equipment that is still being experimented, called a mechanical exoskeleton.

It's one that can. The metal skeleton that greatly increases the load-bearing capacity of soldiers is a kind of robotic technology equipment that can meet the needs of soldiers for mobility and support by providing external force.

American GIs are often overloaded with combat loads, which increases the strain on the body and exhausts the soldiers. A mechanical exoskeleton can transfer this weight to the ground through a battery-powered metal skeleton. Advanced portable microcomputers allow the exoskeleton to be in harmony with the movements of the soldiers. This completely unbundled, hydraulically driven humanoid exoskeleton makes it effortless for soldiers to move around and sit and lie down.

Bennett, who accompanied Van on the tour, said that the maximum weight of such a system can reach 90 kilograms.

Fan Wuxian took a closer look at this equipment and found that it was an outwardly worn mechanical skeleton designed to imitate the structural characteristics of the human body, and the interior was equipped with a hydraulic transmission device and a structural design that could bend like a joint, which could not only walk upright, but also complete a variety of relatively complex movements such as squatting and prostration.

However, when Fan Wuxian wore this thing and experienced it for himself, he found that its control was not complicated, and there was no need to control it through a joystick or other mechanical devices. Moreover, it is also very easy to put on, and it only takes half a minute to take it off completely.

The human mechanical exoskeleton is powered by two lithium-polymer batteries with a total weight of less than four kilograms. On a single charge, the wearer can travel at a speed of 5 kilometres per hour with a weight of 90 kilograms per hour for an hour, while sprinting speeds can reach 16 kilometres per hour in this suit.

Bennett also said that the company is constantly improving the mechanical exoskeleton system so that American soldiers can carry at least about 100 kilograms of weight, improving their ability to effectively complete their missions.

After Fan Wuxian tried it, he didn't speak, but after the two sisters Ding Bing and Ding Xue saw this thing, they felt a little incredible, it was difficult to understand how this thing worked, it didn't seem to be a very complicated set of things, but it could make ordinary soldiers as powerful as cyborgs, it was really indescribable.

"It's a great invention, this thing is used for mountaineering or something, but it's very effortless, especially when you go camping or something, you can do it by yourself with a full set of equipment." Fan Wuxian said to Bennett with a haha, "Is this thing for sale now?" If I sell it, I can get a few hundred sets to play with, and I can use these things in some local enterprises, or put them into the commercial market, and the effect is also good. ”

Bennett couldn't figure out whether what Fan Wuxian said was true or false, so he said with a smile, "If Mr. Fan is interested, he can discuss it, but this thing has not yet been finalized, and occasionally there will be some failures or something, and when the finished product comes out, I remember to inform Mr. Fan." As long as there are customer needs, we still try our best to meet them, but the mainland market is afraid that it is difficult to solve, and the Ministry of Defense will not be able to get through. ”

"That's okay, anyway, I can use this kind of thing in companies in Australia and Indonesia, where the labor intensity is relatively high, and it is very convenient to use this set of tools when moving things." Fan Wuxian also said nonsense.

Bennett said with a smile, "Hehe, Mr. Fan said that it was funny, such a set of equipment would cost more than 100,000 US dollars, and it seems that it is a little bit of a loss to be used as a porter." ”

However, in the end, the two sides initialed a set of agreements, Fan Wuxi spent about 200 million US dollars here, ordered 20 ordinary small armed helicopters, and some speedboats or something, and a complete set of security protection systems, he wanted to dominate the small islands in Australia, and he couldn't do it without some equipment.

When he finally left, the old Jewish man Maximus tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "I don't have much time here, and if you have anything that interests you, I'll get you some information, it's too cutting-edge, but what I, the senior vice president, can access, you can just ask." ”

"Damn, when did you become so bold? Aren't you afraid that the CIA and the FBI will arrest you? Fan Wuxian was amazed.

"Lao Tzu is ready to live in Chinese mainland for a long time, where are they going to arrest me?" The old man said.

In the final analysis, Maximus is keen to work everywhere, just to satisfy his vanity, which means that you don't look at my age, but I can eat well in any big company, I used to be able to work in Hughes, then in General Motors, and now I can do it in Lockheed Martin.

"Okay, if you're fine, just collect some good things, and I'll ask you for it when the time comes." Fan Wuxian nodded and said.

However, Fan Wuxian did not expect the old man to come up with any valuable technical equipment information, what he cared about was actually some of the latest progress in scientific research, if there was an inside line of Maximus, a lot of information about Lockheed Martin, which represents the world's first-class military technology, would be transparent in front of Fan Wuxi.

Although it is unlikely that he will be involved in military production now, looking at the current situation in China, it is also an inevitable trend to allow private operations of military production, and he has a heavy industrial production base in China, his own research institute, and a large number of military experts from the former Soviet Union.

Of course, all this still needs to be seen, and now his main goal is still to make money, and the most important thing is to know that Song Yuanping and others will safely convert a large amount of money invested in U.S. stocks to other industries, or directly withdraw and invest in other countries.

But soon, when Fan Wuxian flew to New York and met Song Yuanping, who was in charge of financial affairs here, he found that today's NASDAQ is basically in a state of madness, although the price of the stock has not seen how much it has risen, but the NASDAQ index is all the way strong, and the mad cow will never look back!

In the past six months, my assets have doubled again! Fan Wuxi couldn't figure out how much money he made at this time!

All in all, it is safe only to fall into the pocket, and now it is important to pay attention to cashing out.

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