Chapter 016, The Devil's Meeting

When it comes to "generic", most of the Chinese . Everyone can think of the "Shanghai General Motors" running all over the streets, the American-style "Buick", and the business legend Welch.

But few people think of another "GM", the arms giant General Dynamics. Headquartered in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, the integrated defense conglomerate, which employs 72,000 people and claims to be the world's sixth-largest arms dealer, is owned by Nicholas.

After coming out of the White House, the giants of several major arms companies sat in an extended Hummer H2 and toasted together, and it is rare to see such a gathering, but once they get together, the heads of several major arms dealers will inevitably make big moves, such as asking the president to convene a national security meeting today, bringing together most of the political leaders in the United States.

And the so-called national security meeting is to sit together, drink tea, and chat, but it is not as serious as in the movie.

The person who brought several giants together and asked the president to convene a meeting was not Nicholas, but the fat man sitting next to Nicholas, Ronald Hugh, fifty-nine years old, who claimed to be the standard-bearer who led the arms industry to climb the technological peaks of the future.

In fact, although several arms dealers are in competition, they each have their own fields, so the competition is not very large, but the arms sector is firmly monopolized by five companies, and it is almost impossible for other consortia to get a piece of the pie.

Several arms dealers gathered together, and perhaps no one thought that they were not talking about famous cars, nor famous wine, nor arms, but about a country very far away from them, China.

China has always been a hot topic, and these topics often revolve around a theme "threat", such as China's rise to threaten the United States, threaten Europe, China's military power threaten China's neighboring countries, etc., these are all topics they talk about, and even some are made out of nothing, and the purpose of talking about these topics is very simple, so that those countries that are "threatened" by China buy their arms.

For example, Taiwan ordered two of the latest E-2T "Hawkeye 2000" early warning aircraft from Northrop Grumman. At that time, it was Grumman that released news to Taiwan's political leaders, saying that China's bombers and fighters could cover Taiwan and reach Taiwan within half an hour after takeoff, easily destroying Taiwan's air defense system, but if it had early warning aircraft, it could easily monitor the take-off of China's planes, and at least 20 minutes could be given to prevent possible strikes from the Chinese Air Force.

As a result, the early warning aircraft unit of the Taiwan army began to be established, and it was equipped by Northrop Grumman.

But everyone knows that as long as Taiwan does not engage in Taiwan. Moreover, if the mainland really wants to attack Taiwan, it will definitely not bomb it with the air force first, and the missiles of the Second Artillery Corps alone can easily sweep away all obstacles in Taiwan, and Taiwan's early warning system is completely invincible at such a close distance.

That's why American arms dealers like Taiwan the most. The independence elements came to power because they always liked to use Taiwan. Alone provoke the nerves of the mainland in order to increase military spending, and Taiwanese officials can get kickbacks from it.

The most famous case was done by General Dynamics led by Nicholas, at that time, in Nicholas's eyes, Taiwan was a big piece of fat, but he didn't know where to start.

The U.S. government did not allow the sale of the nuclear submarine in his hand, after all, it would upset the balance, so he pondered selling the Aegis warship and the M1 tank.

When a senior official of the Taiwan "authorities" went to the United States to attend a meeting on arms purchases from the United States and Taiwan, he immediately instructed his subordinates to invite the generals of the Taiwan military to visit the "Aegis" warships and "communicate" in private; within a few days, the Taiwan "authorities" began to clamore for the purchase of "Aegis" warships, and they also encouraged the media on the island to shout loudly about the benefits of buying "Aegis" and that "it can overwhelm the mainland at sea."

But everyone knows that General Dynamics' M1A2 main battle tank is huge and is not suitable for use in terrain like Taiwan at all, while the Aegis battleship can only become a target for the Second Artillery Corps in the coastal waters.

But Nicholas claimed that in recent years, the mainland's main battle tanks have made rapid progress and have entered the ranks of the world's top five in one fell swoop, and they must use the M1A2 to "counteract", and the navy is always threatening Taiwan.

As a result, the Taiwan military hurriedly applied for arms purchases amounting to billions of dollars, specifying that it would buy General Dynamics' M1A2 tanks. When the military media on the island heard about it, they were amazed and even said that the senior officials of the Taiwan military really had something wrong with their brains. If a "giant" tank like the M1A2 goes to the island, I am afraid that it will not be able to go anywhere else except for a few highways, but Taiwan still bought a few and went back, saying that it was used for experiments.

And this incident has become a joke in the world arms circles, which is equivalent to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.

Although the Chinese "threat" is just a cover for the arms dealers, the arms dealers are still happy to do it, because there are always a few hot-headed wrongdoers who feel that they have the strength to fight with China, and the buyers who are happy to do it are of little use to themselves.

After clinking glasses and drinking, the big arms dealers talked again, but this time it was different from the last time, the arms dealers were always making money, because there was always a war in the world, but since the stupid president who started the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stepped down, they found that they were making less and less money.

So they had another plan, and this plan was when they got the intelligence and said China. People came to steal their aircraft carrier engines and nuclear-powered aircraft carrier reactors on a whim.

The arms dealers all have their own intelligence channels, and even the CIA has their own people, so what Natasha knows, they know a few hours earlier than Natasha, such important information, they immediately gathered together and discussed countermeasures.

This was still in the consultation a few days ago, and the content of their negotiations was not how to prevent China from obtaining these technologies, but how to let China obtain these technologies reasonably, and then wait a few years for the Chinese to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it is also a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with extremely perfect technology.

Some people may say that they are not funny? How could China get such a critical technology?

No, they don't have a show in their heads, because this is a very clever plan, at least that's what they themselves think, because once China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, won't the countries and regions around China have to jump their feet? At that time, not only Taiwan, the unjust leader, will buy their arms, but India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and other countries will buy their arms to deal with China's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

As long as they advocate it, the arms can be sold as a matter of course, and the most important thing is public opinion in the United States; when China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with extremely excellent performance, then the US Congress will have no reason to oppose the resumption of some important projects in the important arms industry, or even to speed up research and construction.

Everyone knows that the United States has the largest military spending in the world, and it is far easier to earn money from its own people than it is to make money from other countries, and it is a large sum of money to make money, and it only needs the country opposite to become an enemy that can "threaten" the United States.

So they need a reasonable reason to send these two key technologies of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, although it is cheaper than China, but they have better technology, and it is far from them than technology, whether it is Russia or China, so they will not worry about being caught up by China at all.

After discussing it, everyone found that as long as China becomes a qualified opponent, it can make a lot of money, so why not? So they divided their labor and began a secret operation.

Natasha's information first appeared in front of their desks, as the owner of the Newport News shipyard, Hugh could have prevented Natasha from entering his shipyard alone, but for the sake of planning, he had to do it, and in order to make it very realistic, he even made the head of the shipyard do some obstacles, and as expected, all this was played very realistically, and Natasha had no doubts.

But Hugh knows very well that he can only give the Chinese the technology of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and not other technologies for the Chinese, otherwise China will take it all away, and his company will have to go out of business, so he has to do a dimetic job.

He was terrified when he learned that Canglong had broken into his database, but Hugh was relieved when Natasha had caught him.

It wasn't until the Chinese successfully rescued the chief engineer in charge of the carrier's engines and nuclear reactor that Hugh knew it was done.

But they have to give it to China. People have a little way out, or with the location of the shipyard, it will be a problem for them to escape, so after various transactions and struggles, the FBI appeared in a legal posture, and the president's order was indeed limited to the inside of the shipyard, not to the outside of the shipyard, although Natasha was extremely angry and knew that it was the arms dealer who was behind the ghost, but there was nothing to be done.

When she knew very well who was behind the trick and let them go, but in the end she couldn't tell the truth, and even had to cover up the facts for these arms dealers, which was what Natasha was most angry about.

However, the arms dealers are still in trouble, and Hugh is in trouble, and Natasha sends SOG out to hunt down those Chinese. Military.

Now they are faced with a choice, should they send someone to stop the SOG?

When they arrived, the arms dealers were silent, they knew very well the horror of the SOG, because they had been armed with it, they trained, fought, and used weapons made by the arms dealers, and even when they finally felt threatened by them, they sent people to hunt them down.

The entire SOG brigade, which originally had hundreds of members, was later purged, and those who died of illness were killed, and only five people remained.

"No, we can only help China . At this point, if you go further, SOG doesn't care about any national interests, I don't want to get old, and be assassinated by a group of crazy people. Nicholas shook his head.

Hugh looked at the other old fellows and saw that they all had the same expressions.

"But!" Nicholas suddenly said, "This killer can't stay, now he has been anesthetized, not like before." ”

"I agree!" Hugh nodded.

"I agree with that."