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When the rat who led the team to participate in the Abu Dhabi defense exhibition sent the news that Saudi Deputy Director Assaf might be interested in the 'Sparrow' helicopter back to the company's headquarters, the experts immediately organized the scientific research department to discuss the improvement of the Saudi side's requirements for the 'Sparrow' helicopter, and reported the news to Li Mo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he received this report, Li Mo was very surprised. Although he had a connection with the mouse, the mouse may have been to surprise Li Mo, but he did not report the matter directly to Li Mo. Therefore, Li Mo still did not know that the Saudi political axe had taken a fancy to the new product of such a new defense company as Xingchen Group, and also expressed his intention to buy it.

"Qingqing, do you think the attitude of the Saudi political axe really takes a fancy to this helicopter, or is it to reveal a certain meaning to the outside world?" Li Mo leaned back in his chair, enjoying the massage from the secretary behind him, and asked softly with his eyes closed.

"Are you saying that the deputy director of the Saudi political axe is in contact with our company, and he is sending a message to the outside world? Is it politically motivated? Qingqing's white and slender hands paused slightly and asked in surprise.

Li Mo snorted and said, "Because of oil, Saudi Arabia's status in the international community has always been a concept of nouveau riche, and being rich is everyone's impression of Saudis, especially the Saudi royal family." Saudi Arabia is the largest oil importer in the United States, and the United States is the largest trade importer in Saudi Arabia, from the nineties of the last century to the present, the Saudi political axe has purchased arms worth more than tens of billions from the United States, it can be said that the upstart of Saudi Arabia's political axe is the favorite of those arms dealers in the United States. With such an important customer, anyone will be careful to maintain a bilateral relationship, in the hope of perhaps more orders and more benefits. The Saudi political axe also needs this kind of relationship with the United States to give Saudi Arabia a kind of security guarantee in the international community, which is why the Saudi political axe agreed to the United States to establish a military base in Saudi Arabia and have troops stationed there. ”

Li Mo opened his eyes, stood up and looked out the window and said, "I remember that the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States political axe deteriorated for a time after the '9/11' incident, and the RAND Corporation, a well-known comprehensive strategic research institute in the United States, once submitted a report to the US Department of Defense, saying that Saudi Arabia is the enemy of the United States and the center of all evil in the Middle East, and that some members of the Saudi royal family are responsible for funding and contacting terrorist organizations. After the 9/11 incident, Saudi Arabian staff in the United States were monitored by the US authorities, and after the incident, some of the victims' families even sued the Saudi government for trillions of dollars in compensation under the impetus of some well-intentioned people. If it were between two countries in general, the impact on bilateral relations would be extremely serious, and the opposition within Saudi Arabia to the existence of the US military base in Saudi Arabia would also be loud and clear. But since then, the two countries have maintained the same close relationship as at the end of the last century, what does this mean? It shows that Saudi Arabia does not want to have a stalemate with the United States, the only superpower, and does not want to lose its security guarantee, and the US political axe is also trying to dispel the hatred of the people while attracting Saudi Arabia, an extremely important 'partner' for the United States. As a U.S.-made weapons country, Saudi Arabia's political axe should not choose our company's products in terms of politics or logistics maintenance. Because our company's products are, in many ways, a continuation of the style of Soviet-made weapons. ”

"Is it because our company's products have a high price-to-price ratio? After all, the Saudis are rich, but they are not fools. Fan Qingqing analyzed.

The high cost of US-made weapons is well known to the world, and even if Saudi Arabia is 'close' to the United States, it cannot compare with Israel's deep relationship, and it is impossible to purchase from the United States the kind of advanced equipment that has a low degree of simplification and is only slightly higher than that purchased by the US team, but it will cost twice or even twice as much.

Saudi Arabia, which does not want to continue to be the main wrongdoer, or continues to 'spend money to buy peace' in the past, is trying to change this national policy. Perhaps because they saw that America's influence was being weakened by more and more competitors, or because the Saudi government felt that it had grown strong enough to defend its oil interests, they began to change in some places to eliminate that strong 'American trace'.

Li Mo pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Your analysis is very reasonable, but I still don't understand, why did Saudi Arabia choose Xingchen Group and Somalia as the beginning of this change?" You must know that between Saudi Arabia and the United States, oil interests are the most important, followed by arms interests, and the US political axe is willing to maintain such a normal relationship with Saudi Arabia, which is to see that Saudi Arabia has made the powerful arms dealers of the United States make a lot of money, if the American fire dealers lose Saudi Arabia, a huge customer, the attitude of the US political axe towards Saudi Arabia will inevitably change. These political axes, which represent the interests of capitalists and corporations, attach great importance to the balance of interests, and when their greed or interests are not guaranteed, anything crazy can be done. What kind of risk should the Saudi government take when doing this, they will not know? So I think there's definitely something we don't know about. ”

"Well, and Saudi Arabia has also found us, a defense company that is clearly at odds with the American political axe. It will make those American fire dealers angry, and will this make the American fire merchants angry with us? Fan Qingqing expressed her concern again.

The energy of the American fire dealer is very strong, although it is not like during World War II, which influenced the political axe to lead a war for its own interests, but it is not something that a new defense company like the Star Group can resist. In the international arms trade, US arms companies are the real giants and real predators. In any industry, it is extremely unwise to offend the leaders of the industry.

"Angry with us? No...... They have come to see us as competitors and even enemies. Li Mo smiled and shook his head and said, "The field of arms trade is still a little different from ordinary commerce, this is cooperation between countries, which is more complex and pays more attention to the maximization of interests, and it is impossible for everyone to have evil surname competition for some contradictions, because once there is malicious competition in this field, then it is not far from conflicts and even wars between countries." ”

"Shall we take this order?" Fan Qingqing nodded thoughtfully and asked.

Li Mohaha smiled and said, "Take ...... Why not? As long as the company's side can meet the requirements of the Saudi side, we will move on. What are you afraid of, if you don't dare to fight for the interests of your mouth, there will be no need for Xingchen Group to exist. ”

With Li Mo's words, Xingchen Group gathered a group of technical experts to discuss the requirements put forward by the Saudi side, and soon came to the conclusion that Xingchen Group can fully meet the modification suggestions put forward by the Saudi side, but in terms of cost and selling price, it exceeds the original "Sparrow" helicopter basic type, reaching 10.6 million US dollars. This figure is twice that of the original Mi-24 helicopter, and the price of the Longbow Apache helicopter purchased by the US Army is only more than one million dollars lower.

This is a tactical helicopter with outstanding stealth, protection capabilities and other battlefield survivability, suitable for small-scale formations or even a single aircraft to carry out special raids and reconnaissance missions, in the introduction of Xingchen Group to customers, the most significant point is the evaluation of this helicopter as: anti-guerrilla weapon.

For the troublesome guerrillas and small-scale militants, especially in the highlands and jungle areas with complex terrain, how to solve these enemies who can use the terrain to make tens of thousands of troops helpless with simple firearms has always been the focus of the research of each team. Guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare have become a very important topic in the national defense subjects of various countries.

In particular, in the area of anti-guerrilla warfare, all countries now have their own set of methods to deal with it, such as using special forces with extremely high quality and advanced equipment who are proficient in all kinds of tracking and raiding, such as using large corps to carry out carpet encirclement and suppression at any cost and cost, such as using psychological offensive and political offensive to disintegrate from within the enemy, such as using high-tech means, using all kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to track and reconnoitre, and even remotely directing UAVs to carry out activities against those guerrillas hiding in the deep mountains and old forests. 'Suicide attacks' and targeted killings, which use advanced technology to replace casualties to eliminate guerrillas.

These methods are either costly or technically demanding, or they take too long or suffer too many casualties, and the elimination of a dozen guerrillas is even more cost-effective than fighting a small-scale field battle. At this time, a helicopter that pays attention to the safety of the aircraft and the pilot, is enough to guard against the cold guns and rockets of the guerrillas hiding in the shadows, and this helicopter has good low-altitude maneuverability and fast speed to enter the battlefield, which will be able to better track down and eliminate the guerrillas who hit and run, instead of waiting for the arrival of their own reinforcements that are enough to ensure safety, the guerrillas have long disappeared without a trace. It's not just that you can just watch your helicopter and precious soldiers worth tens of millions of dollars be shot down by a rocket worth hundreds of dollars.

If such a helicopter is combined with a reconnaissance/attack mini helicopter that can be dropped on the helicopter, then it will be like a tiger with wings, and it will play an unpredictable role and effect on those operations that require special operations.

On the morning of the fourth day of the Abu Dhabi Defense Exhibition, an astonishing news spread from many exhibitors and visitors, the Saudi Arabian political axe officially reached an arms purchase agreement with the Somali Star Group, and the Saudi political axe will spend one billion US dollars to order 100 'Sparrow G' helicopters from the Star Group (at the request of Saudi Arabia to install millimeter-wave radar and increase the bomb load model), which will be used to reequip the Saudi National Guard and enhance the rapid mobility of the Saudi National Guard.

Saudi Arabia's National Guard is not a regular army, but a group of nomadic Saudis composed of a military organization similar to the second line, its members may not be as good as the regular army in terms of military training and cultural level, but because they come from the nomadic people, its ferocity is far beyond the ordinary regular army troops, it can be said that the Saudi National Guard is a trump card that is not a regular army. In Saudi Arabia, the National Guard has an establishment of 4,000 men and a brigade unit, but in fact this force is divided into many company-level units stationed in various provinces of Saudi Arabia.

The armament of 4,000 people is going to equip a hundred billion-dollar aircraft, is it the Saudis who have no money to spend, or are they crazy? That's how many people's first reaction when they hear about it.

(To be continued)