Musharraf presided over the press conference, and Wang Dong and others did not go to the scene, but stayed in the office upstairs.

After the launch began, it was not Musharraf who was the busiest, but Gao Jun and the marketing manager who assisted him.

When Musharraf introduced DF6PD, the marketing manager received his first call.

For more than an hour, the phone was not disconnected.

Before the press conference ended, Saleh called D&F to submit a bid as soon as possible and send a batch of prototypes for testing.

Saleh made it clear that the Saudi authorities have a strong willingness to procure.

Of course, it is not the DF6PD or the DF8SMG that the local tyrants are interested in, but all the new firearms, including pistols and heavy machine guns that have not yet been manufactured.

In Saleh's words, after passing the tests of the Saudi military, the Saudis will procure the guns.

Actually, there is nothing surprising about this.

Prior to this, D&F reached an agreement with the Saudi authorities that after Saudi Arabia began to purchase new firearms, it would recycle the DF762 series firearms sold before it was sold at a discount, and then sell them back to Saudi Arabia after processing, and Saudi Arabia would provide them to Pakistan and other friendly countries in the form of assistance.

To this end, D&F's firearms factory, a joint venture with the Royal Saudi Arsenal, has also opened a recycling department.

Since Saudi Arabia has not yet procured new firearms, the department's recent work is to dispose of firearms such as M4 and M16 before sending them to Yemen and Syria.

After coming to Saudi Arabia, Wang Dong handed over the work of transporting arms to Churkin, which was considered to find something for him to do.

Getting the order from Saudi Arabia is enough to recoup all the investment.

According to Gao Jun's estimates, even if the Saudi military is discounted, the total amount of hundreds of thousands of DF series firearms sold is as high as $5 billion, and the net profit is at least 30 percent.

Obviously, local tyrants may not like discounted goods.

In addition, there is a collection and resale of the DF762 series of firearms.

All in all, D&F's net income must be in the $2 billion squad, almost $500 million more than the investment in Saudi Arabia.

Of course, Saudi Arabia is not the only one who is interested in ordering.

Before the end of the press conference, relevant agencies in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain called to consult, and they were only concerned about the production capacity of D&F.

To put it simply, it is when D&F can deliver the goods after the order is placed.

Obviously, capacity is a big issue.

Although the joint venture arsenal has added three new production lines, respectively for DF6PD, DF8SMG and DF12HM, the output is still not optimistic.

Even if the three production lines were running at full speed, they would not be able to meet the strong market demand.

In addition, there is matching ammunition.

In response to this problem, Gao Jun proposed a solution, that is, to try to persuade the Saudi authorities to purchase a batch of full-state DF8SMGs for special forces first.

As long as the Saudi authorities are willing to make concessions, D&F will be able to offer a small amount of product to other customers.

Of course, it was also used in the first place to arm special forces.

As for the refitting of regular troops, it could be done after D&F expanded its production capacity and extended the delivery time to more than five years.

Wang Dong did not come forward in person, but asked Musharraf to go to Saleh.

Fortunately, the other customers are friendly countries in Saudi Arabia, and the problem is not very big.

In addition, Saudi Arabia also wants to use D&F's new firearms to expand its influence in the region, so it makes sense to take care of its neighboring countries.

Let's not forget that the Royal Saudi Arsenal holds half of the shares of the joint venture firearms factory.

Although these firearms are all products of D&F, "DF6PD" is only an internal code name of the company, and the official product will definitely use another name.

When the time comes, with the addition of the word "Saudi", it will become a product of the Royal Saudi Arsenal.

For Saudi Arabia, which has always hoped to have a homegrown arms industry, it is definitely a matter of pride to be able to produce the world's most advanced firearms.

On the day of the launch, D&F received 12 orders of interest.

Twelve countries, the total number of intended orders is as high as 700,000 pieces, and the total amount of intended orders exceeds 10 billion US dollars!

Although the intent order may not be fully fulfilled, it is still a proud achievement.

You know, a month after the release, H&K has not received a single order of intent so far, and there are a lot of inquiries.

It's not that HK650 isn't good enough, it's too expensive.

With comparable performance, the HK650 is priced almost twice as much as the DF6PD!

For those countries that do not have enough money, it is clearly preferred to purchase the much cheaper DF6PD rather than the expensive HK650.

On the contrary, for local tyrants who are not short of money, they must be interested in DF8SMG, which has better performance.

In addition, D&F has the DF762 series of firearms.

After production exceeded half a million units and the barrel was made using a cold calcining process, the price of the DF762N base model had dropped to $2,500.

Because it fires standard 7.62mm NATO cartridges, the DF762N is cheaper to use.

Of course, if customers don't mind using second-hand goods, they can also opt for the DF762 series of firearms that D&F bought back from the Saudi army.

At H&K, the equivalent of the DF762N is the HK417, which sells for up to $4,000.

It can be seen that D&F not only has a complete product line, but also has lower prices for mainstream products and is more competitive in high-value products.

It's just that from a market perspective, D&F is more than capable of bringing down H&K in a few years.

Unfortunately, arms buying and selling is not entirely dictated by the laws of the market.

Less than half a month after D&F's press conference, the German Ministry of Defense announced that it would purchase 1,500 HK650s to equip special forces.

Subsequently, the Germans officially gave it the number "G65" equipment.

Obviously, the German authorities are encouraging H&K and promoting the HK650 to convince other customers that the German army is right.

It was for this reason that the Germans were also the first to be equipped with standard rifles that fired countersunk shells.

Actually, this statement is a bit biased.

Although the Germans were equipped with the G65 three months earlier than the Saudi Army acquired the DF8SMG, it was only available to special forces.

Two years later, the Saudi Army began supplying DF8SMG and DF6PD to regular troops.

Based on the regular troops, the Royal Saudi Army is the first army to be equipped with a new type of rifle with countersunk ammunition.

In addition, the Royal Saudi Army was the first to replace all traditional guns with countersunk ammunition, making it the first army in the world to fully use countersunk ammunition.

As for the German army, there was no large-scale assembly of standard rifles that fired countersunk bullets.

Quite simply, when the Royal Saudi Army began to use the DF8SMG and DF6PD, the U.S. military terminated the OIC project again.

By the time the OIC project was restarted, the US military put forward a new requirement that caseless shells must be used.

As for the third-generation standard-caliber bullets of the NATO bloc, they also skipped the countersunk and went directly to the era of caseless shells.

Since then, under the leadership of the United States and China, shellless ammunition has rapidly spread around the world.

Of course, that's more than a decade later.