The conditions for gold membership have been relaxed, and the Stockholm International Defense Club has a total of 30 gold membership seats, and the annual fee for each seat is reduced to $20,000, which also requires members to meet several basic conditions, including an annual turnover of more than $10 million, more than 2,000 employees, ranking among the top 10 in the world in major areas of weapons, and having been established for more than five years. Gold members automatically become the director of the Goo's Defense Weekly, enjoy the right to give priority to product news and advertisements in the weekly, 50% off all the fees for participating in the defense exhibition, and have priority to apply to join the high-end forum of the Stockholm Defense Exhibition.

There is almost no limit to ordinary members, as long as they are arms dealers and pay a membership fee of $2,000 a year, they can become ordinary members of the Stockholm International Defense Club. Ordinary members enjoy a 20% discount on the exhibition fee, and can hold a product press conference during the defense exhibition for free, of course, subject to approval. In addition, ordinary members can pay to publish product news and advertisements in the Goo's Defense Weekly, which is also a 20% discount.

Albert was also intrigued by this fresh approach and read the entire agreement word for word.

Albert raised his head and said to Karl: "Mr. Karl, your club is indeed very distinctive, this is the first time I have heard of it!" However, I think this club is too timely, and its appearance is a huge boon for us arms dealers. I don't think there's anything wrong with this agreement, it's all for the sake of us arms dealers who are exhibiting! In this way, I will take this agreement back and send it back to our company by telegram, so that after the company boss reviews and approves it, we can officially sign the agreement. ”

There was the first one to eat crabs, the second, the third ...... Hundreds of arms dealers have signed agreements with Bofors to participate in the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition in November.

Among these arms companies, there are many world-famous arms giants, such as the German Mauser Arms Manufacturing AG, Rheinmetall Corporation, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., the United States' Colt Corporation, and Renault Corporation...... Even the Kharkov Comintern plant in the USSR came.

The Mauser company's history dates back to July 31, 1811, when King Frederick I of Württemberg established a royal arsenal in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest of Germany, which began operations the following year, employing 133 workers to produce weapons exclusively for the Prussian army. As the popularity of the Mauser grew, Paul Mauser gradually took full control of the shares in the Royal Arsenal, which was eventually reorganized into the Mauser Arms Manufacturing Company in 1897. Mauser C96 was patented by the German Mauser Arsenal on December 11, 1895, and officially produced the following year, and the Mauser Factory ceased production in 1939, with a total of about one million Mauser C96 produced, and about millions of copies were copied by other countries. At the beginning of World War II, the Wehrmacht had already equipped about 2.77 million 98ks, and another 7.54 million 98ks were delivered to troops during the war.

Founded in 1889, Rheinmetall is a leader in the world's military industry in terms of technology and history...... Among the world's famous tanks, the American M1, the German Leopard II, the Israeli Merkava IV, the Japanese Type 90, and the Italian Ram II all use the Rheinland smoothbore tank guns in terms of firepower.

The predecessor of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration. In 1884, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, leased the Nagasaki Shipbuilding Bureau of the Ministry of Industry from the government, naming it Nagasaki Shipyard, which has since developed into Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. By the 30s, as the company's business had expanded to heavy machinery, aircraft, railway vehicles, etc., the company changed its name to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

The Colt Corporation of the United States is a leader in the field of light weapons. The Colt revolver is the most famous firearm in the late 19th century, and in the more than 100 years since its inception, there have been as many as 30 million revolvers, rifles and other types of weapons named after the Colt Company, most of which are produced at the Hartford factory in Connecticut, USA, and no other weapons company can match it. Samuel Colt's success began in 1836 with the application in the United States for a multi-chamber revolver with a revolver chamber that could hold five rounds. At that time, the mainstream firearm was a flintlock pistol composed of 1~2 barrels. Thus, the advent of the Colt revolver greatly enhanced the firepower of the weapon. Samuel Colt died on January 10, 1862, at the age of 47, but produced more than 400,000 weapons during his lifetime. His real estate is worth $15 million, equivalent to $300 million in 1990, making him one of the richest people in the world.

After the outbreak of World War I, Renault developed rapidly, although the production of cars declined, but the output of military trucks, tanks, and aircraft engines increased greatly, and Renault's foundry, machine processing plant, and assembly plant were greatly expanded, and in 1919 a steel mill was bought. As early as 1898, at the age of 21, Louis. Renault founded the Renault company in Biongou, a suburb of Paris. At that time, the factory had only 6 workers and only produced 6 cars a year. But Louis. Renault put his talent for mechanics to good use in the course of his business, inventing the direct drive system and the turbocharger. At the outbreak of World War I, Renault made a fortune by producing guns, ammunition, tanks, and airplanes for the army in addition to automobiles. In 1919, after the armistice, Renault became the most important private company in France, with a complete range of automotive products and a world leader in diesel engine technology.

Computé plant in Kharkov, USSR. When the USSR was just formed, there was no complete system of heavy industry at all, of course, there was no tank building, and domestic industrial enterprises could at best occasionally complete some repair work. However, the Red regime, which was reeling from foreign interference, urgently equipped combat vehicles to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Red Army. On May 6, 1924, the Central Administration of the Defense Industry was established in Moscow, which was an important event in the history of the development of the Soviet state tank-building industry. In this system, a department was created in charge of tank design and manufacturing, which in 1926-1929 was called the Ordnance ArsenalTrust General Design Bureau. In December 1927, the then Kharkov Locomotive Plant selected several tractor designers to form a tank design team, headed by a young mechanical engineer, Ivan N. Alekshchenko. The initial task of this design group was to design a tank in close cooperation with GKBOAT, project designation 1-12-32, while at the same time providing design drawings to the factory and participating in the preparation for the creation of a tank production line. With the expansion of the scope of design work, at the beginning of 1928, the Kharkov Locomotive Plant was allowed to expand the size of the design group and recruit 8 more designers. The prototypes of the Molozov Mechanical Design Bureau were thus established. In the fall of 1928, the Kharkov Locomotive Plant won the opportunity to build a prototype of a fast tank. This rapid tank prototype was the T-12 tank. The later T-34 medium tank was the work of Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin, the designer of the Comintern plant in Kharkov, the Soviet Union, and has an important place in the history of tank development. From the 40s to the 50s of the 20th century, a total of 84070 units were produced in the USSR.

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All of a sudden, Stockholm welcomed representatives of the world's major arms companies, and Philip happily said to Anna: "The world's arms giants are all in my hands!" ”