(The first shift has two more tonight)

Doing business is about striking while the iron is hot, especially in the arms business, and you can sell a few more guns and never save them for the next time, because you never know whether the customer's preference will change from this gun to another gun in the next moment, after all, there are more alternative products in the world. Not to mention that the army without money likes to use cheap guns, even the armies of large countries have guns in their hands made by the manufacturer with the lowest bidding price.

Thinking of this, Albert asked tentatively, "I heard that France plans to equip the MAS-44 rifle with an improved model next year, right?" ”

Hearing Albert's inquiry, André Marie and Paul Maradier's expressions became strange, and it is still a controversial matter whether the MAS-44 improved version, the MAS-49 rifle, will be popularized on a large scale in the French Army. Although France developed the MAS-44 semi-automatic rifle as early as 1944, and after improvement, in 1945 France purchased 50,000 units. In addition to the fact that the number of magazines supplied by this weapon is not comparable to that of the AKM rifle, it is also an excessive product of the SVT-40.

Albert, of course, was well aware of this, and although 50,000 MAS-44s were ordered in 1945, only 6,200 guns were given to the Navy. The MAS-49 was not officially equipped by the French team until July 1949. It heavily equipped the French during the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis.

In other words, if you put your own guns in now, it may change the situation of the French army before the FAMAS rifle massively replaced the MAS-49. Although the French army may not be equipped with rifles of its own design on a large scale due to political reasons, it is better than nothing, and it is better to sell a little more.

"Where did Your Highness hear that we are going to massively equip rifles of an improved model of MAS-44?" Maradir asked vigilantly, although the words between these high-level officials were occasionally spread in the army, but for the Belgian high-level, Albert knew a little too much.

"No, no, no, Your Excellency, I am not questioning the decisions of the French government, and certainly not the thinking of the Minister of Defence, Paul Maradier. I'm trying to ask you guys in the jungle of Vietnam, does this gun really perform up to your expectations? Seeing that Maradir had already caught up with his words, Albert's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself that there seemed to be a play.

Albert's words immediately hit Paul Maradier's pain point, and indeed many soldiers on the front line in Vietnam reported that the MAS-44 rifle would make the rifle jam often in the humid and stuffy jungle environment of Vietnam. Soldiers have to disassemble the MAS-44 rifle at all times, and although the MAS-44 rifle is constructed to be easily disassembled, there are so many environments in the battlefield where you can clean the barrel of dirt and impurities.

"I know that many soldiers reacted that the MAS-44 rifle did not fully play to his advantage in the jungles of Vietnam." "But the AKM rifles produced by FN are capable of fighting in such wet climates, and the reputation of customers in South American countries, including the Bolivian army, has proven to be very high." Albert finally followed the topic down his own line of thought, he was not afraid of fire for AKM rifles, but he was afraid that the purchaser would not want to.

In fact, there have long been calls for the purchase of AKM rifles or the development of similar automatic rifles within the French ** team, because they have witnessed those colonial rebels in old European and American countries who have used the powerful firepower of AKM rifles to force those regular armies who are still using World War II weapons, and some keen-eyed people have seen the dawn of this weapon on the future battlefield, but the vast majority of people have not yet realized this.

"We will purchase 200 AKM rifles for small-scale testing equipment, and if the results are good, we will place additional orders." Paul Maradir was also a good start if the French were to negotiate a bigger arms deal.

"How about two hundred and fifty brand new AKM rifles and another batch of modified kits?" Albert was also haggling with Paul Maradier. This batch of arms was an opportunity for him to enter the French market, as long as the French army used AKM rifles, regardless of whether the French army was popularized on a large scale in the end, it was already a good advertisement for his own weapons.

"Deal." Paul Maradir nodded, this was not only a breakthrough attempt, but also a declaration of war against the conservatives in the army. By the way, the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion also tested the reliability of these weapons. Originally, Paul Maadir was the one who vigorously updated the advanced rifles in the French army, but the conservatives in the army believed that France did not need to replace the new automatic rifles for the time being, so Paul Maadir was depressed.

Perhaps even Albert didn't realize that the weapons he designed were beginning to quietly change the landscape of the world.

The conversation was even simpler, and after a bitter war of words, France was willing to buy 10 liters, or 15 bombs loaded with Soman's gas, for $10,000 a liter. And Albert's strategic cooperation company can take a piece of the battlefield pie, as well as logistics transportation protection and front-line special infiltration operation plan, but France put forward a very harsh condition, that is, if the infiltration operation plan behind enemy lines fails, the French army will not provide rescue operations.

Albert naturally agreed to this, and he already had his own rescue plan for the unexpected situation of the infiltration operation, and he also counted on a group of lazy and stupid French people to do something practical.

When Albert signed the contract on behalf of the Belgian government, the two sides exchanged contracts. He stretched out his hand and shook hands with the French representative, André Mari, and said with a friendly smile, "Happy cooperation." ”

Just when Belgium was in full swing with the French, the United States was not idle, and the plan to capture spies a while ago was very fruitful, and the United States caught 15 KGB agents who broke into the US nuclear program, and several of them even mastered the most critical nuclear technology, but they were directly arrested by the state security department before they could transmit the information back.

Then the government began to attack the Soviet Union, first condemning it, and of course the Soviet Union turned a deaf ear to these scandals and did not want to admit them. But since then, the United States has imposed more and more severe sanctions, imposing a series of blockades on the Soviet Union, and any equipment that may be used to build nuclear weapons is on the US embargoed list. Although the Soviet Union had a perfect industrial system, it could not stand the Americans from playing like this, and soon the Soviet Union relented and began to seek communication and dialogue with the Americans, but this time it was the turn of the Yankees to turn a deaf ear to the voice of the Soviets and continue to strongly condemn and protest, and the International Atomic Energy Commission, which was instructed by the United States, also began to attack the Soviets.

Historically, the Soviets were supposed to be able to build a plant to manufacture the atomic bomb in early 1949, but they died in the middle of the accident. Stalin had no choice but to order Beria to continue the infiltration of American and British nuclear technology by intelligence operatives, and on the other hand, to seek other ways to solve the embarrassing situation in which Soviet nuclear weapons were stuck in a bottleneck.

While the Soviet Union was facing a series of accusations, the eyes of the supreme leader Joseph Stalin quietly turned to Belgium as the initiator.