Chapter 466: A Hot Arms Business
Accompanied by the missile parade passing through the viewing hall in turn, it also indicated that the parade ended the review of the ground team, but the parade did not end there.
The Somali Air Force was the most dazzling branch of the war, and according to the statistics of both sides of the war, during the seven-and-a-half-day war, each side flew more than 2,500 sorties. That is, over the battlefield, during this war, a total of five thousand sorties of fighters were strangled together.
Air battles of this scale have never occurred since the end of World War II.
Both the U.S. Air Force and the French Air Force are at the top level in the world, and this level includes the quality of pilots in addition to the fighters themselves. In the face of the world's top air force, Somalia, a little-known air force, can engage in an evenly matched aerial battle. And in terms of the proportion of battle losses, the Somali side shot down nearly 300 coalition fighters at the cost of 158 destroyed. The ratio of air combat has reached 1:2, and the ability to achieve eye-catching results is enough to show that the Somali side is not weaker than those elite pilots of the coalition forces in terms of fighter performance and pilot quality.
For many, it is more common to focus on the performance of Somali warplanes and missiles, and the results of air battles speak too much, and many countries have access to a lot of information from secret sources. Both Somali fighters have reached the ranks of advanced fourth-generation fighters. Compared with the F-15, F-16, Mirage-2000, Rafale and other fourth-generation fighters that have long been famous in the world, these two Somali fighters are behind in many characteristics.
Combine the superiority in missile performance and radar at the very beginning of air combat. The Somali side is often able to take advantage of the opportunity and open fire before the enemy. It's hard not to care. Despite many exercises and virtual contests, it has been shown that Russian fighters are superior to their counterparts in Western countries in terms of performance. However, the two sides have not tested it in actual combat, after all, neither the exercise nor the simulation can be compared with the actual battle. And this war, which is a real record, a one-to-two record, is enough to prove the value of Somali fighters.
After more than a month of analysis, many people have come to the point of view that Somalia's two fourth-generation fighters have actually reached the level of four and a half generations in terms of specific performance. In particular, that heavy air superiority fighter with a level of superiority in air combat. It is not at all worse than the rumored Su-35 in technical combat performance.
Of course, there is another Somali fighter that has attracted the attention of many countries, that is, the Somali carrier-based aircraft, which can compete with the century-old naval power in naval warfare.
In the face of the US Super Hornet, the performance of the Somali carrier-based aircraft can also achieve a certain advantage under the Super Hornet battlefield information combination. That's enough to make this fighter famous. In the eyes of the vast majority of military scholars, the overall performance of this Somali carrier-based aircraft has surpassed that of the Super Hornet, and it is also superior to the Russian Su-33 carrier-based aircraft.
Considering the general late-mover advantage of Somali fighters, they are ahead of the fighters already in service in the world in terms of electronic equipment and performance requirements. All three Somali fighters are among the top of their kind in the world.
In terms of early warning aircraft, Somalia has only one early warning aircraft that has entered the field of vision of the world, and the Lookout early warning aircraft is not in naval warfare. or in land and air battles, it plays a pivotal role. If the result of this air battle is divided into ten. The score obtained by the AWACS aircraft accounts for at least four points. Become the most critical to victory in air combat.
On the parade. These curious Somali fighters are not hidden in the snow, and there are 30 teams of equipment, seven of which come from the Air Force.
When the "V-3 missile" squadron in the air passed by the viewing hall, the three early warning planes in the air also happened to come to the sky above the parade square, and with the roaring of bursts, the distant fighter platoon appeared one after another over the viewing tower.
Each spectator craned their necks at the same time, shielded their hands from the sun, and watched the spectacular fleet of planes in the sky.
Seven air squadrons, except for the three leading AWACS aircraft, the rest of the fighter squadrons have a huge scale. And each fighter plane flew with full ammunition, and the neat geese marched through the parade square in turn. There are also two echelons of helicopters, a Hind gunship and a Nighthawk transport helicopter.
When the last Wasp carrier-based aircraft echelon disappeared over the parade ground, it was officially announced that the parade had come to an end.
At this moment, whether it is upstairs or downstairs, as well as the masses and foreign tourists in the square, they all talked one after another, expressing their curiosity and surprise.
"The parade is over, and the parade begins!"
With the announcement of the host of the ceremony, it also brought the ceremony to the next stage.
The joyful procession, which lasted for a full hour, officially ended after the tribes showed their dance customs to the world and the audience in turn.
And at this time, Li Lan also began to be really busy.
Although there was not much new in this military parade, the results achieved were very obvious.
At the welcome reception held after the parade, ambassadors and military attachés from various countries, as well as invited observers, gathered around several important figures of the Somali military. In addition to Tanya's subversive face, as a Somali general who is well-known in Somalia, no matter who will not let go of the opportunity to approach her.
However, although there were no heavyweights on the Somali side to attend the parade, Hofmande, Ahmed, Suleiman, Smith. Kai and several other lieutenant generals are also the core figures of this banquet.
The appearance of an army commander-in-chief, an armaments commander-in-chief, a navy commander-in-chief, an air force commander-in-chief, and four lieutenant generals is enough to show that Li Lan attaches great importance to this reception.
Everyone invited also cherished this excellent opportunity to establish good relations with the Somali military.
In the base console, Li Lan, who was leaning on the big chair in front of the console, looked at the four subordinates who were tightly surrounded in the surveillance screen, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.
"The assistant connects to the central computer of the future technology group and opens the customer order data." Turning off the surveillance screen, Li Lan gave an order to the assistant.
Soon, on the monitor in front of the console, the back-end order page of Future Technology Group was displayed, which was refreshed in real time, and within a few seconds of opening, there were three more orders on the customer order page.
"It's not in vain for all my hard work." When pulling down the order, looking at the order time is intensive, Li Lan sighed in her heart.
More than two hours have passed since the start of the parade, and within these two hours, the number of people who have officially activated the customer system of the Future Technology Group has exceeded a hundred, and a large number of orders have begun to pour in.
Especially after the parade, in the order page, an average of ten orders are added every minute. The most are hundreds of millions of dollars, and the few are millions.
In addition, since the end of the war, the total number of orders has exceeded 1,000.
The total value of the orders has exceeded $10 billion, and if Li Lan completes all the orders, the profit will be at least 95 percent, and now with each order submitted, his account has an additional $2 billion in advance payments.
At present, this number has been growing steadily, and more and more customers will join the system for a long time to come, becoming important buyers in the Somali arms market.
"Assistant, expect the growth of the order volume in the next three months."
"Based on the order growth in the past month, it is expected that in the next three months, the total number of orders will exceed 3,000, and the total transaction volume will not be less than 30 billion US dollars."
Li Lan's heart was beating fiercely, and the $30 billion in arms exports was already able to easily squeeze him into the third place in the world's arms export list. According to the share of arms exports last year, the United States topped the list with $39.08 billion, followed by Russia with $36.2 billion and Germany in third place with $8.8 billion.
Without counting the covert arms exports, Li Lan's current arms trading orders can easily reach the level of the United States and Russia.
However, Li Lan also knows very well that this estimate of $30 billion in exports is really nothing compared to all the arms transactions in the world. Because whether it is the export of regular channels or the export of covert arms, 30 billion US dollars is counted in it. This is very different from the share of arms exports in the world.
The share of arms exports in the world is calculated for arms transactions between countries that have regular invoices, which are legally taxable. And this kind of deal, in fact, is nothing compared to the global underground arms market.
As far as these orders of the Future Technology Group are concerned, they are really arms transactions between sovereign countries, not even 5 billion, and the remaining orders are all placed by some warlords and arms dealers, and they are not included in the list of arms sales in the world at all.
The annual volume of arms trade between countries in the United States is $39.08 billion, but most of the companies with the world's arms giants are in the United States, and the number of weapons sold by these arms companies each year is the real benefit. The black market, in terms of profiteering and sales channels, has always been greater than formal channels.
Africa and the Middle East, these two lands are also the world's largest arms sales markets, in addition, many countries also like to buy arms on the international arms black market, and many advanced weapons and equipment, as long as they are willing to pay money, they can also be bought.
However, such places are often the main objects of surveillance by various countries, after all, the international arms market occupies huge profits, and also prevents all sensitive equipment from flowing into some enemy organizations.
PS: There are a lot of follow-up plot copies in the outline, but because there are too many plots, I don't know which direction to start with for a while. When the protagonist returns to China, there are too many restrictions on writing, and many plots have been overturned one after another, just for fear of sensitive scenes. Until now, I have not made up my mind about which plot to choose. (To be continued......)