In the end, the biggest winner was not D&F, but BAE Systems.

It was only then that Wang Dong knew why Lawrence agreed to sell FN's shares to D&F and support D&F to make trouble in India.

To put it bluntly, Lawrence had long expected this outcome.

From another point of view, if D&F had not gone to India to disrupt the situation, then with the assistance of H&K, FN would definitely be able to get orders from the Indian Army, and the total contract amount would not be less than $3.5 billion, which is likely to reach India's psychological floor price, that is, $4 billion.

With this order, FN will be able to operate for several more years.

As for H&K, it has orders from more than 10 European countries, entered the U.S. market, and has also received a lot of orders in South America, so it can continue to operate even without orders from India, and it is still the world's largest and most selling firearms company.

It seems that the firearms market has nothing to do with BAE Systems, so there is nothing to lose.

In fact, it has a lot to do with it.

After receiving the order from India, FN will definitely not participate in the OIC project, and this is likely to be the basic condition of H&K's offer.

You know, until then, BAE Systems had been pinning its hopes on FN.

Without FN's involvement and the assistance of a rising star like D&F, BAE Systems would not have been able to win the OIC project anyway.

Losing an OIC project is equivalent to losing a market of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.

You know, it wasn't the Browning high-power pistol, the FNL rifle, or the Minimi light machine gun that made FN the company, but the SS109 bullet.

It was the SS109 cartridge that became the NATO standard ammunition, and the FN company became the world's top firearms company.

At that time, almost all the other companies that lost in the NATO standard gun and ammunition selection went bankrupt and collapsed, and even H&K had difficulty operating for a time.

A caliber of bullets represents an era, and an era will last for decades.

The next generation of ammunition determined by the OIC project selection will determine the market trend in the next few decades, and will also determine the life and death of many arms companies.

Although there is little hope, from the company's standpoint, even if it drags on, it will never allow competitors to win the final victory.

If it weren't for D&F, BAE Systems would have gone out of their way to support FN.

It's just that, with D&F, BAE Systems has a second option.

In fact, this is also the key reason why H&K, or the German group holding, changed its stance and began to support FN.

In other words, the competition that ostensibly revolves around FN is actually a competition for the future market.

In turn, by supporting D&F's development and growth, selling FN's shares to D&F, and forming a strategic alliance with D&F, the gold team led by BAE Systems is more likely to overtake H&K's blue team in the OIC project and become the final winner.

Kill two birds with one stone, why not?

In addition, in terms of short-term goals, screwing up India's procurement tender would also be a huge benefit to BAE Systems.

That is, after spending billions of dollars on new rifles, the Indian Army will have no extra money to purchase other equipment in the next few years.

Well, there is no possibility of buying the M777 towed howitzer for billions of dollars.

Messing up the rifle tender will allow the Indian Army to have enough money to buy towed howitzers, which is equivalent to sending billions of dollars in orders to BAE Systems.

In both the long term and the near term, BAE Systems is the biggest beneficiary.

For this reason, it is not surprising to support D&F companies to cause trouble.

It can be said that Wang Dong was used by Lawrence.

It's just that Wang Dong didn't take it to heart, because in addition to BAE Systems, D&F is also the main beneficiary of this series of events.

At least, nothing was suffered.

A month after returning from London, Serena officially sent an invitation to BAE Systems to send technicians to participate in the acceptance tests of the small-caliber headink.

In fact, before Wang Dong and the others came back from India, Zhao Yu designed a small-caliber submerged bomb.

For the sake of portability, Zhao Yu reduced the diameter of the warhead to 6 mm, and replaced the tungsten carbide core with high-hardness alloy steel, which made the warhead longer, improved the length-diameter ratio and specific kinetic energy, and ensured that it could still achieve high muzzle velocity and penetration when using 2 grams of propellant.

Overall, the performance of the 6mm countersunk shell was more than double that of the SS109 bullet.

Even compared with the latest M885A2 model of the US military, it has very obvious advantages.

When fired with a 16-inch barrel, the muzzle velocity of the 6 mm countersunk is 1,100 meters per second, the muzzle kinetic energy reaches 2,400 joules, the storage velocity at 1,000 meters is 310 meters per second, the kinetic energy is 192 joules, and it can penetrate 100 percent armor plates 5 mm thick.

Firing with a 20-inch barrel, that is, a light machine gun, the performance indicators can also be improved by about 5%.

If there is any flaw in the 6mm bullet, it is the use of a metal cartridge case with a mass of 15.4 grams, which is 109 grams heavier than the SS2.9 round.

Of course, it's not that you can't lose weight.

Making shell shells from plastic can reduce weight by at least 3 grams.

It's just that it doesn't mean much.

Although plastic shells are lighter and can increase the amount of money soldiers can carry, the production price and long-term cost of use are far inferior to metal shells.

Quite simply, metal cartridge cases can be recycled and reused, while plastic cartridge shells are disposable consumables.

In addition, to achieve the same structural strength, the plastic cartridge case must be made thicker, which will also increase the volume of the bullet, which will also have an impact on portability.

In terms of reliability, plastic shells are similarly inferior to metal shells.

The LAST machine gun never received a purchase order, in fact, it was related to the plastic cartridge case used in the 8mm countersunk cartridge developed by Textron.

In the actual combat tests conducted by the US military, eighty percent of the problems exposed were related to plastic bullet shells.

Some of the more serious failures can not even be eliminated by soldiers on the spot, resulting in the LAST can no longer be used, which is equivalent to the loss of combat capability.

Obviously, this is a fatal flaw that the army cannot tolerate.

Of course, in Zhao Yu's words, plastic cartridge casings can also be used if necessary, and there is no need to make much changes to the structure of the bullets.

In fact, there is another key reason for the lack of plastic cartridge shells, that is, the special plastics used to make the shells.

The specialty plastic, which was invested and developed by Textron, can only be produced by one chemical plant in the United States, and has not yet been developed at a chemical plant in China.

In addition, the Chinese military did not fund similar scientific research projects.

Very simply, the countersunk bullet is only a transitional product, and the real ideal ammunition is actually a caseless bullet, so the Chinese military did not work the shell material.

To be precise, the Huaxia military funded the development of an all-combustible shell.

It took a month to start the acceptance test, not that Zhao Yu did not have confidence in the 6mm submerged bullet, but that it took enough time to produce the test projectile.