"Brother, what is our friendship? You can rest assured, when did you not do what you gave me? ”

"Okay, contact us then."

Wang Dong patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder, didn't ramble with him anymore, and turned around and walked towards the off-road vehicle parked outside the dock.

The middle-aged man was a smuggler named Joseph Chiang, using a pseudonym, but his surname was Chiang.

He was an English-born expatriate who was idle in his youth, engaged in less glamorous things, and got into a lot of trouble.

Four years ago, he met Wang Dong and Luo Qing, who were still in the Military Intelligence Bureau at the time, in Italy, and provoked the two.

For the sake of his compatriots, Wang Dong didn't kill him, but just taught him a lesson.

In fact, Wang Dong had long forgotten him.

It wasn't until Wang Dong came back from Miami and decided to set up a D&F company that he needed to obtain some prohibited materials that could not be bought in the UK through smuggling channels.

As for whether this flamboyant guy is reliable, Wang Dong has no choice at all.

In the car, Luo Qing was talking on the phone.

"Serena, they're back," and when Wang Dong sat up and started the off-road vehicle, Luo Qingcai said, "It's said that there is great news, or two." ”

"What's the good news?"

"It's inconvenient to say on the phone, she told us to go back quickly."

Wang Dong nodded without much delay.

From the port to the city, it is just over an hour's drive.

When Wang Dong and Luo Qing arrived, Serena had already gathered the company's main personnel and prepared a few materials to be used.

Good news indeed, and really two.

First, Lawrence had agreed in principle to sell his shares in FN to D&F, and had agreed to D&F's acquisition in cash, subject to the market price at the time of signing the contract, but with an additional condition, D&F had to complete the development of the headless bomb within six months, produce it in small quantities, and then join the BAE Systems team as a system contractor to participate in the OIC project bidding.

Second, BAE Systems provided full support to D&F in the Indian Army's tender project.

Indian Army tender?

Wang Dong was a little puzzled because he hadn't heard of it before.

"Here's the inside scoop provided by Lawrence." Serena distributed the prepared materials to Wang Dong and others. "The Indian Ministry of Defense has already sent tenders to FN and other arms companies, so Lawrence received the news as soon as possible and told us."

"Open tender?"

"Definitely, it's just that we didn't make it to the invitation list of the Indian Ministry of Defense."

Wang Dong smiled bitterly and sighed, Indians are too stingy.

Although Serena did not say it, the Indian Ministry of Defense issued a tender intention at this time, which must be related to the ongoing conflict.

Needless to say, at the Kargil Pass and the Siachen Glacier, the Indian army must have suffered a big loss.

There is nothing strange about it, if you really want to compare the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, that is, rifles and other firearms, the gap between the Indian army and the Pakistani army is not a little bit.

Don't forget, the special forces of the Pakistani army received 2,000 DF762 series firearms with Saudi assistance, half of which are genuine high-quality guns.

What about the Indian army?

Because the quality of the INSAS rifle is not up to par, especially the plastic magazine is very easy to shatter at low temperatures, the Indian army's mountain troops still use AKM to this day.

Of course, it is an Indian domestic AKM, which also has a lot of quality defects, but it is slightly better than INSAS.

At the very least, the metal magazines used by the AKM do not shatter at low temperatures.

A few years ago, the Indian Army wanted to replace the INSAS assault rifle, which has been called the "worst in the world", and organized two public tenders for this purpose.

It's a pity that both times were fruitless.

It's not that there are no ideal rifles, but the Indian Congress, which has the budget in its hands, insists on domestic rifles, excluding "imports" from the option.

Both tenders were for domestic companies.

As for the results, there is no need to say more.

Even the Indian Army can't look down on it, how good can it be?

Because the guns designed by domestic enterprises simply do not meet the performance indicators proposed by the Indian army, and there are still problems such as poor reliability, difficult maintenance, and expensive procurement prices, if they really want to replace INSAS, there will be no other results except for spending billions of dollars.

It's just that in peacetime, no one cares whether the rifles in the hands of the Indian army can be used, let alone how advanced they are.

To put it bluntly, just a cold gun is fired at the army on the other side of the ceasefire line, whether it is INSAS or domestic AKM, in fact, it is enough.

It wasn't until the conflict broke out that the problem came to light.

The key is the battle around the Siachen Glacier.

In this forbidden area of life, the Indian army faced the special forces of the Pakistani army.

Needless to say, the INSAS assault rifle is limited by inherent defects and is not suitable for use on the plateau at all, not to mention that the temperature on the glacier is below minus 20 degrees Celsius all year round, and the Indian army commander will no longer take the soldier seriously, and will not let the soldier go to the battlefield with a rifle that cannot be fired.

AKM is only usable, far from being easy to use, and even having enough is a problem.

Quite simply, the effective range of the AKM is 400 meters, and at low temperatures and high altitudes, it is only about 300 meters.

In fact, during the last artillery battle at the Kargil Pass, the problem of insufficient range of the AKM was exposed.

The point is that the distance between the Kargil Pass and the Siachen Glacier is often more than 400 meters, and in some sections it is more than 800 meters.

Not to mention AKM, the Pakistani army is struggling with the G3 in his hands.

While both India and Pakistan have enough artillery to deal with an enemy outside of rifle range, over-reliance on artillery will certainly make logistics more difficult, and transporting ammunition to the Kargil Pass and Siachen Glacier has been a difficult task even now.

It was precisely because of the logistical difficulties that the first artillery battle at the Kargil Pass ended with a ceasefire after several months.

At the beginning, the firepower superiority of the Indian artillery was still relatively obvious, and it pressed the Pakistani army almost the entire time.

For this reason, the problem of the Indian army's infantry standard firearms is not too prominent, at least not to the extent that it has been suppressed by the Pakistani army because the rifle performance is not good enough.

Now, the Indian artillery has no advantage to speak of.

Then, the problems in the performance of the rifle are exposed at a glance.

In addition, in the early stages of the conflict, artillery on both sides suffered extremely heavy losses, especially those towed howitzers that were used more often in the mountains.

After the reduction in the combat effectiveness of the artillery, it will depend on the performance of the infantry.

At this time, India issued a tender intention, and no longer considered domestic production, and intended to import it directly, indicating that it could no longer tolerate the rifles in service.

Obviously, this is certainly the biggest firearms deal in recent times.

You must know that the Indian Army has hundreds of thousands of troops, even if it is just to replace standard firearms for the infantry, the number of purchases will definitely not be less than 500,000!