Chapter Eighty-Three: The Great Order
The ghost industry is also now consuming a lot of money, the construction of an arsenal is underway, this arsenal is built with a purpose, and the first product is a wheeled armored vehicle. Generally, such military vehicles are produced by large American groups, and they have a complete downstream industrial chain, but the ghost industry does not.
Everything has to start on its own, electronics, engines, gearboxes, turf, armor, tires, etc., when it comes to technical problems Murphy can solve, and at the same time there is a considerable improvement. However, it is precisely because it has improved a lot, especially in metal, power, machinery, electronics, etc., which are very new technologies, that it is impossible for Murphy to take them out and hand them over to others for OEM production.
Moreover, a one-time investment in complete construction to facilitate the production of other weapons and equipment in the future is the best for the ghost industry, so a large amount of capital investment is inevitable. Murphy has made a lot of money in the financial markets, but compared to the current construction salary, he now urgently needs orders from the military.
Murphy Biotechnology Company first carried out infrastructure construction, the purchase of land is not expensive, and the building used in the laboratory is not expensive, this can be built first, and at the same time, the surrounding area will be demarcated to build housing, after all, it is inconvenient for Richard Parker and his wife to show up now, it is better to build a batch of housing directly.
The equipment used does not need to be ordered now, and Murphy still has time to raise funds, of course, these problems do not need to be told to them, Murphy himself is working hard to solve them.
Fortunately, the construction of the subordinate arsenal of Ghost Industry was completed in February 1998, and the equipment began to be installed and commissioned, but the automated production program was written by Murphy, the equipment was adjusted to the maximum efficiency, the workers were in place, and the technology in all aspects was basically controlled by computers, and the workers and technicians did not have much to do.
The most used is the welder, the loading body is welded, the first prototype officially rolled off the assembly line on March 1, but this is the basic standard model, Murphy did not use Tony Stark at the beginning, because the current manager of the arsenal is a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., otherwise try it first.
Jack gave the order, since the prototype car has come out, then directly let Maria Hill contact the military procurement department, this kind of thing makes Maria Hill extremely depressed, this is not what she should do as a manager at all.
The average company does need a manager to find a market, but this is weapons and equipment, where is what a manager should do? But the work still has to be done, and Maria Hill doesn't know that she was being used by Murphy and Jack, and still thinks that Jack trusts her!
It's just that Nick Fury is a little skeptical, "How can the sale of weapons be so casually done by a manager?" This was supposed to be a PR by the owner of the company, and it was difficult to get an order without a relationship. ”
"Director, am I going to do nothing?" Maria Hill is not satisfied with her current job, not only is she far away from the target, but she is also becoming more and more like a professional manager, and she is a professional manager with S.H.I.E.L.D. resources, and her work efficiency is terrifying.
"You come forward yourself this time, don't use the resources in the bureau, it's not appropriate this time, and at the same time test them." Nick Fury didn't give it for nothing, and it's impossible to help like this, so it's better to test it.
Maria Hill received an order, and this time she took the technical information of the armored vehicle and went directly to the army's procurement department. Not to mention, the other party couldn't believe it at all after seeing the technical information of the armored vehicle, and then reported it to the high-level.
The military does have ideas, but it is still in the verification stage, and it is a headache for the speed of heavy troops and the firepower and defense of light troops, and the Americans have always been ahead of the curve in the study of modern warfare, and they need rapid deployment, rapid intervention, and rapid strikes, and they lack this kind of power now.
There is no problem with the Air Force, but the problem lies with the Army, and they need an armored vehicle that achieves a perfect balance and combination in terms of defense, firepower, speed, function, and so on.
For such equipment, the specific data indicators have not yet been summed up by the army to meet specific requirements, and now a little-known new arsenal has come up with a prototype, and the data is scary, and they don't believe it.
"Miss Maria Hill, are you sure your armored vehicles can achieve such data?" A general received Maria Hill in a way she hadn't expected.
S.H.I.E.L.D. also doesn't know that the army has such needs, and their work is not for the army, "Yes general, this is the basic standard model of our armored car, which can be retrofitted on the basis again according to the requirements of the military, and the general rate of parts is more than 85 percent, which is now the most outstanding armored vehicle in the world." "Maria Hill is so familiar with the stuff.
"Very good, we need a prototype for experiments, if it really meets such requirements, and the quality is guaranteed, then the military will give you an order." After all, there was a serious problem in the last war, after the navy and air force bombed indiscriminately, the army could not quickly arrive, which made the army very embarrassed, and this matter became a laughing stock.
The prototype was sent to the military, where it was tested, and the results of the tests surprised them, the armored car really ran the fastest 160 kilometers per hour and the maximum range of 800 kilometers What is this concept? And the mechanical failure rate is really low, the low is a little scary, and the level of design and manufacturing can be said to be unprecedented, which has to make the army ecstatic.
And this is just an armored car, and there is no need to give face to other large domestic arms suppliers, they can call the shots, after all, the army has its own military spending, and they don't want to care about other things.
Having got the order, Maria Hill reluctantly accepted the reality again, and she negotiated a big deal, really a big deal, the army plans to purchase $4 billion in armored vehicles, of course, not the basic model, but the equipment of a complete eight armored rapid reaction brigades.
Jack is extremely excited about this, the ghost industry will inevitably rise with this order, and he believes that there is no shortage of technology, and the armored vehicles that Murphy took out directly got the order, which is an unimaginable thing.
However, then the problem came, the nobody like Ghost Industry actually got a huge order of 4 billion US dollars, which had to attract the attention of many parties, the first is the General Motors Group, which is their traditional strength, and it was unknowingly plugged in. The second is Hammer Industries, Justin Hammer is also young now, but the lack of good products in the group has always been a problem for him, and this time he sees a glimmer of hope.