Chapter 404: Negotiation
Lin Qing roughly browsed the content of the information, most of the photos, some introductions are attached below, very detailed, all the models of tanks in the tank cemetery were taken out, and the classification was very detailed, the tanks were classified according to the time they were sent to the cemetery, the most recent of which was a batch of M1A2 tanks eliminated by the US Army in May this year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Has the US Army eliminated the M1A2 now?" Lin Qing found that since 2005, M1A2 tanks have been scrapped in large quantities almost every year, if it is not a quality problem, then there is only one reason, the US military is carrying out a large-scale rearmament!
Cahill smiled: "Yes, the army's main battle tank is now the M1A2SEP, also known as the M1A2 system enhanced version, of which the M1A2 tank produced before 2000 does not have the ability to modify, so it has been rebuilt on a large scale, and the army's finances have been a little tight over the years, and there is not enough money to maintain the retired tanks, so it can only be thrown into the tank cemetery!" ā
"All of these tanks are 400,000 units?"
"Yes, the M1A2 is priced at a flat price of 400,000 US dollars, this price is not what we ordered, but the price given by the Ministry of Defense, they have signed an agreement when these tanks were thrown into the cemetery, the tanks will be handled by us, and we will also recycle them at a high price, otherwise Lu Jun and these people would have sold these tanks to steel companies a long time ago!"
Lin Qing didn't speak, but lightly tapped his fingers on the chair, the price of 400,000 yuan is not very high strictly speaking, but Lin Qing knows that this price is still negotiable, since Cahill can give this price, then they must have a lot of profit margins.
"Two hundred thousand dollars a piece, I want all the M1A2 tanks in these graveyards, what do you think, Mr. Cahill?" Lin Qing thought about it and gave a tentative price.
"Mr. Lin, are you kidding? Two hundred thousand dollars, you want to buy an M1A2 tank, at this price, either you are crazy, or I am crazy! You should know that the previous selling price of these tanks was four million dollars to Saudi Arabia, and these tanks were sold to the world arms market, and there was no shortage of buyers at all! Cahill shook his head when he heard the offer, which in his opinion was completely unacceptable!
"Mr. Cahill, the four million tanks you mentioned are brand new factory tanks, and these tanks are almost scrapped, and the price I give 200,000 is not too much, far higher than the price you will sell to those steel mills in the future!"
"No, Mr. Lin, these are not tanks, just scrapped tanks that have just been decommissioned, you are an arms dealer, you should know how sought-after this tank is on the world arms stage, he is a star, this price is simply impossible!" Reikahn, who was beside Cahill, spoke again, obviously these two people from Raytheon were very dissatisfied with the price given by Lin Qing,
"Mr. Cahill, Mr. Rickal, I know that there are several thousand M1A2 tanks in service in the United States, and there are less than two hundred in the tank cemetery here, and I think these should be the oldest of the retired M1A2 tanks, otherwise I think the U.S. Department of Defense does not choose to throw them into the cemetery and dispose of them like garbage, but chooses to sell them on the international arms market."
Lin Qing paused and looked at the two people opposite: "Mr. Rikahn also said just now that this tank is very popular, and it was once exported to Saudi Arabia at a price of four million US dollars, I think if these tanks are not sold in the arms market by the US Department of Defense, it should be that there is a problem with the tanks themselves, they know that they can't sell them at all, and even if they do, it will affect the reputation of the United States, so they chose to throw them into the cemetery." ā
"And as I said before, there used to be thousands of M1A2 tanks in the United States, and the number of tanks here is only a small fraction of them, and I think those that can be sold, now there should be your official arms dealers who are peddling them all over the world, am I right?"
Cahill and Rika looked at each other and finally shrugged their shoulders, a little embarrassed, Lin Qing was right, these tanks do have certain problems, such as engine problems, artillery system problems, etc., the cost of overhaul is relatively high, it is not cost-effective, so the US Department of Defense chose to throw these tanks into the graveyard.
These tanks are scrap products contracted by Raytheon, 100,000 vehicles recovered from the Ministry of National Defense, ready to be used to trap people, they regard Lin Qing as Kaizi, and after they knew that Lin Qing and Palawan had business dealings, they immediately introduced the topic to these tanks.
Because they know that the situation in Palawan is very tense now, and some conflicts with the Philippines may break out at any time, so they hope to let Lin Qing go to Pit Palawan by pit Lin Qing, but they didn't expect Lin Qing to be in the trap at all, and it seems that he still knows a lot about the US arms market.
Lin Qing smiled, snuffed out the Cuba in his hand, he was a little unaccustomed to the taste of cigars, or used to the taste of Chinese tobacco, took out a pack of Su cigarettes from his pocket, gently lit it for himself, and looked at the two people of the Raytheon Group opposite: "I think the two of you should know how big the profit margin is in our cooperation this time, South America in last year, that is, in 2006, the underground arms sales reached 37 billion US dollars, and this year has exceeded this figure in October!" ā
"This is still what we know, and there are many underground transactions that we don't know about, and among this number, if we can take a bite, even if it is one percent, it is more than 300 million dollars, if we can do our best to cooperate, I think with my channel, Mr. Trump's financial resources, and the relationship between the three of us, we still have room to eat 10 percent!"
"What is ten percent? More than 300 million, close to 4000 million dollars of cake, I think you should be able to represent something! So I think we can cooperate sincerely this time, instead of keeping some of our own ideas between each other, I know that there is an old Chinese saying that everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and unity is strength! ā
After Lin Qing finished speaking, he spit out his eyes and looked at the two people in front of him, these words were actually said to the two of them, if they didn't lower the price, Lin Qing would send the arms to South America, and there would not be much profit, if the arms business did not have more than five times the profit, it could not be called a huge profit, the minimum profit of the normal arms business was between five and fifty times, and if there was an opportunity, a hundred times the profit was possible! (To be continued.) )