Although the individual combat ability of the traveling soldiers was not revealed, the ability to cooperate in combat made everyone's eyes shine. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, during the week's battle, some problems were also exposed, and the performance was not perfect.

First of all, the soldier's ability to attack fortifications is good, but this is based on the fact that the weapon configuration is much higher than that of the opponent. And because it is digitally controlled, the commander's instructions can be directly transmitted to each team on the battlefield, which does not mean that the individual is outstanding.

Second, because satellite reconnaissance capability is a rented channel, the restrictions are relatively large, and the overall reconnaissance capability on the battlefield is relatively weak. The tank that was attacked this time did not adapt to the changes in the battlefield, and was damaged by the attack of the other side after being left alone.

Finally, the Congolese soldiers have a low ability to work together, they lack the resilience to adapt to the battlefield, and they perform well in a good fight, but as long as the pressure on the battlefield increases, the defeat of the soldiers is more serious.

If a traveling army wants to be at arm's fingertips, it must increase its ground combat forces and count on the coordination of others, unless it is fully armed.

However, many of the soldiers in Africa do not know even foreign languages at all, do not have a complete education, and even if they are given advanced weapons, they will not use them. So, they can't count on it at all.

However, even so, this trip has allowed the countries of the world to see the power of a digital army armed to the teeth. The U.S. military has always relied on advanced weapons to bully people, and when it is a more complete army than the U.S. military, although it has only 2,000 people, it has also dazzled everyone.

After Nkunda's armed forces entered the primeval forest, the traveling army did not participate in the encirclement below, the primeval forest here is denser than Vietnam, the terrain is more complex, and if the traveling army participates, the losses will be incalculable.

Bernard held several summary meetings to sort out the performance of all the soldiers in this battle from beginning to end, and suggested to Zhou You that an air squad be added according to the control of the battlefield.

This air squadron is mainly armed helicopter units, and as a supplementary force of the ground troops, only when it has formed a three-dimensional strike capability can it be said that the combat effectiveness of this unit has made a big leap.

On 20 June, Zhou You, through Singapore's Ministry of Armament, sent a purchase requisition to Boeing of the United States to purchase 10 Apache helicopter gunships.

Although these ten Apache were nominally purchased by Zhou You, Zhou You did not have a single pilot in his hands, and he still had to rely on the Singapore Air Force to fly them, which means that this force is still controlled by Singapore, and Zhou You paid for them to help them train their troops.

It is also for this reason that the Singapore side is very enthusiastic about this matter.

However, their procurement was directly rejected by the US Department of Defense.

The Singapore army is now equipped with more complex helicopter gunships, including the American Apache and the European Jaguar, with more than five models. However, it is mainly based on the Apache, which is the first in overall quality, and is equipped with more than 30 aircraft.

If the American side is willing to sell, the Singapore side does not even need special preparation, their current pilots will be enough. It is also for this reason that Zhou You thought about buying Apache. Boeing is willing to sell, but the US Department of Defense does not approve it.

Zhou You expressed regret for this result, but he was not too frustrated. Because when the French heard the news, they immediately contacted Zhou You and offered to sell him their most advanced Tiger helicopters.

Europe's Tiger helicopter is a new generation of armed helicopters jointly developed by France and Germany, but this aircraft has faced a bleak fate since its birth.

Because this aircraft was developed in response to pressure from the Soviet Union, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. However, after the successful development of the aircraft, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the weakening of the pressure on Europe, the equipment of this aircraft was no longer valued.

As of 2008, the French side was equipped with only 20 aircraft, and the German side was equipped with a little more, only about 30 aircraft. It has been 18 years since it was launched, but not to mention making money, even the R&D cost has not been earned.

In terms of performance, this aircraft is slightly deficient compared to the Apache with the first comprehensive strength, which is also the biggest shortcoming of this aircraft, Apache is equipped in dozens of countries around the world, but the Tiger is only equipped with two research and development countries, and the number of equipment from the beginning of each country one hundred and twenty, compressed to eighty, and now only twenty or thirty aircraft.

Although the number of purchases for Zhou Travel is not much, ten is also a large number, and many countries do not necessarily have so much equipment. At a price of about $40 million per aircraft, ten aircraft also have $400 million, which is also a lot of business for the loss-making Airbus Helicopters division.

The newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy even called Zhou You directly, hoping that Zhou You could carefully consider the procurement plan this time and give French companies a chance to compete.

On the one hand, he refused to sell, and on the other hand, he was so enthusiastic, of course, Zhou You knew how to choose. What's more, NATO's military operation against Libya three years later was led by France, and they have been challenging the authority of the United States internationally, within NATO.

Although the traveling military service companies have now put up their shelves, they can only serve as bodyguards for enterprises, and there is no real opportunity for military services. Because the military services of the US military are monopolized by several military service companies in the United States, Zhou You cannot get into it at all.

So, almost without thinking about it, he decided to buy their Tiger helicopters from France. Of course, he will not directly agree, even if he does not negotiate the price, he will reach a priority military service agreement with the French side.

On June 25, Zhou You arrived in Paris with the Ministry of Equipment of Singapore, the special envoy of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the procurement team of his own company.

Their arrival was warmly welcomed by the French side. Airbus Helicopters is a large air group united by many European countries, and they are best known for their civil aviation division, and almost no one in the world knows about the competition between Airbus and Boeing.

However, what many people do not understand is that they are counted in the world in the field of fighter jets, missiles, radars, engines, astronautics, electronics, etc.

The helicopter division is embarrassing within the Airbus system, especially the helicopter gunship division, whose annual sales are less than two billion dollars, which is almost an order from the French military.

The orders for these ten Wuzhi traveling around are at least more than 300 million US dollars in sales, which is almost 20 percent of their annual sales. Moreover, if you buy their plane today, you will have to buy it from the French for future maintenance and ammunition replenishment, so this business is not just a business, but also involves business transactions for many years to come.

From Paris to Lyon and then to Toulouse, we traveled around the hospitality of Airbus, watched the Tiger helicopter flight show in Lyon, and went to the Airbus Civil Aviation headquarters in Toulouse to see their Airbus production line.

The world's largest aircraft, the Airbus 380, which was booked two years ago, will also be officially delivered next month. Now, only the final decorations remain.

This plane is indeed a giant in the sky, and the interior space is so huge that even the cabin can easily fit a dozen cars.

A plane capable of carrying more than 800 people, the tour now has less than 100 seats, and the interior is decorated with multiple rooms and different styles. In addition, meeting rooms, studios, including recreation rooms, and bathrooms are all available, except that there is no Air Force One security of the President of the United States, which is larger and more luxurious.

Moreover, the plane has a range of 15,000 kilometers, allowing it to travel anywhere on the planet, as long as there is a 3,000-meter runway.

After Annan and Kissinger were hired, Zhou You ordered several business planes for the use of his company's senior personnel. At that time, however, the main purchase was a Gulfstream business jet. This time, at the recommendation of Airbus personnel, mainly because of the relationship with the French government, Zhou You purchased two more Airbus 320s.

The price of these two planes is not as good as his 380. The original price of the 380 was $295 million, reducing the price of some configurations in the cockpit, and after luxurious renovation and modification, the total price of the aircraft reached $350 million.

On July 1, Zhou You signed a contract with Airbus in Paris for the purchase of 10 Tiger gunships. The price of these 10 Wuzhi, including various air-to-surface missiles and 30mm cannons, is $35 million, and the price of 10 is just $350 million.

In addition, Zhou You has also signed an export agreement with the French Ministry of Defense with a total value of more than $60 million, and this batch of missiles will be used under the supervision of the French government, and it is strictly forbidden to transfer them to third parties.

In addition, there are after-sales service, maintenance and other service contracts for these ten aircraft. Together with the Airbus 380 that began to be booked, the tour left the French government with more than a billion dollars in contracts.

Of course, traveling around has spent so much money, and it is not without other gains. The biggest takeaway is that, at the request of the French government, the traveling military service company will send a team of 500 people to provide security and logistical services to 3,750 French soldiers involved in the war in Afghanistan.

Although it may seem very funny to hire security guards for the military, this is not the first thing that the French did, and many of the security guards of American GIs outside the country are contracted by private companies.

The contract was not large, only $40 million, but the traveling military service company had to provide another year of service.

Excluding the salaries of the soldiers and the expenses after the garrison, the profit of traveling can be said to be pitiful, because the salaries of these five hundred people alone will cost 20 million for a year. The all-mechanized security team, the daily fuel consumption, ammunition training, and food procurement are all calculated, and the profit of traveling around is less than five million.

But Zhou You is still very happy, because it means that he has made a good start with the French government. Although he can't make much money now, he won't let Zhou You bear all the expenses alone, and more importantly, he has trained his soldiers in this way.

The French government was also under great pressure, the United States sent 100,000 soldiers, the British sent 10,000, and even the Germans sent 4,300 soldiers. Only France sent just over 3,000.

Britain and the United States have been urging France to send more people, but the previous President Chirac sternly refused. After Sarkozy came to power, he was not as tough as Chirac, but there has always been a high anti-war voice in France, and the parliament did not approve the sending of more soldiers to the war.

The addition of the traveling company can be said to be the strength of France, with an increase of 500 people, and the number of their soldiers is almost the same as that of Germany, so that Britain and the United States can no longer blame, so it can be regarded as the best of both worlds.

Now that we have the opportunity to train our troops and the beginning of cooperation, when the war breaks out in Libya, Zhou You believes that the French government will definitely remember itself, and there will be more opportunities for its own development at that time.

The military service company, although traveling around, does not expect to make much money, because this is his deterrent. But as long as you don't let him raise it in vain, or subsidize a little less, of course it's better.

Of course, Zhou You's cooperation with the French government has aroused great dissatisfaction with the United States, not to mention the billion-dollar order, but the United States is not too satisfied because it did not drag France into the quagmire and did not fall into the big pit.

They have spent more than $300 billion in Afghanistan, which is also an unbearable loss for the deep-pocketed United States. But Afghanistan has nothing, there is nothing, it is not like Iraq, there is oil after the fight, and the only thing that can be regarded here as producing is the drugs of the Golden Crescent.

Therefore, the war in Afghanistan by the United States is definitely a loss-making business. They blew up only a hundred dollars worth of missiles with a hundred thousand, a million worth of missiles, and such things have happened too much in Afghanistan.

However, because they held the banner of anti-terrorism at the beginning, they themselves are now difficult to ride the tiger and can only fight hard.

In the memory of Zhou You, they fought in Afghanistan until 2014, spending more than 800 billion yuan in military spending, and finally they couldn't bear it anymore and ended the war.

But they have gained almost nothing but a devastated Afghanistan left behind.

The American media sourly blamed Zhou You's contract with France, mocking the French for giving their army to the care of security companies, but seemed to forget that their own army also had the services of two private security companies.

When Zhou You left France for South America, the soldiers sent by Singapore, as well as the original air force pilots selected by Zhou You from within the company, had already arrived in France. They will undergo a half-year study in France, and when the end of the year begins to deliver the aircraft, they will board the plane directly to carry out the mission.

It is worth mentioning that the French government specifically requested that at least two armed helicopters be sent to Afghanistan to provide security for their troops, and also to test the performance of Tiger helicopters in the desert areas of the plateau.

Although it was used as a test object for the French government and was used by them, it was able to be used, which has proved the value of this military service company.