When he took out the experimental Type 1 exoskeleton and applied for a national defense and military production license with the Ministry of Equipment, Sun Cheng did say that he could reduce the cost to less than 200,000 Xia Yuan.

But after all, that was just an intention, and the military's performance requirements for exoskeleton mecha were much higher than Sun Cheng initially expected.

When the final X-1 came out, the purchase price of the ordinary type of military was finally determined by both sides at 264,000 yuan per set, and the enhanced version was 292,000 yuan.

This price [Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.] is definitely profitable, but the profit is not so high.

After all, the production workshop of [Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.] buys various machines, and the cost of recruiting technicians and production workers must be amortized.

Of course, Sun Cheng didn't care about that profit.

Otherwise, if he really wants to make money, he will directly let the No. 1 and No. 3 bases, which have already begun to see scale, produce them, and the cost of each set can be properly pressed to less than 100,000 yuan, several times the huge profit.

"General, we will continue to work hard to press down in terms of cost control! However, for the time being, even if it is reduced, it will be two or three percentage points at most. ”

Sun Cheng did not hide the entire production process, but at home and abroad when it comes to the production of national defense and military products, the military or competent departments of various countries will send professionals to station, and they do not interfere in specific management on weekdays, only do quality supervision.

[Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.] is no exception, Sun Cheng readily agreed to the equipment department to send Captain Sun Long, who he had dealt with several times before, to serve as quality supervision.

Since the completion of the construction of the workshop, Captain Sun Long has almost participated in the whole process of future machinery from machine procurement and installation, raw material procurement to staff recruitment, and the real cost of X-1 Equipment Department has actually guessed for a long time, about 20 to 30 percent.

For military products, this profit is definitely not a windfall profit.

Because in the national defense and military products, products with a single profit of more than 100% abound.

Among them, some seemingly inconspicuous individual combat weapons, as well as various rockets and missiles, are the most profitable.

In the [Transformers Universe], the gross profit of a missile sold by Raytheon to the military is about 180%, and the castrated products sold to several major oil-producing countries in the Middle East can even reach nearly three times the profit, which can be seen in the profiteering tube.

When the major general heard this, he just smiled and nodded lightly: "Sun Dong, your difficulties are also understood by the country!" ”

He quickly diverted the topic: "What is the current production capacity of your company?" How long does it take for the military order to be delivered? ”

Future Machinery Technology has obtained 27,000 sets of military orders for X-1 mechanical exoskeleton armor from the Ministry of Equipment, and there may be 50,000 or 60,000 sets of follow-up orders.

This kind of ordinary version is almost 20,000 sets, and the enhanced version is about 7,000 sets, and the total purchase amount is 7.6 billion summer yuan, which is only slightly higher than the Navy's purchase of a shield-class destroyer.

However, considering the complex surrounding environment of the Xia Kingdom, the annual military expenditure of trillions of Xia Yuan, the country is afraid that the country will be eager to break a penny in half.

Therefore, Sun Cheng did not take the initiative to lobby from the beginning to win more orders, he just wanted a license for the production of national defense and military products, and took the opportunity to establish a closer relationship with the country.

After calculating in his mind, he replied: "If the raw materials are sufficient, the current two workshops can produce and assemble about 80 sets of mechanical exoskeleton armor per day, and after the third workshop is completed, our final output can reach about 120 sets per day." ”

"The Ministry of Equipment requires us to deliver every half month, so before January next year, we can stably provide about 1,200 sets of mechanical exoskeleton armor every half month, and then it can increase to about 1,800 sets in half a month! The entire order is produced and does not take a year. ”

Mechanical exoskeleton armor is different from aircraft and warships, and requires a training and run-in period of more than one year or even several years.

After receiving it, after a maximum of one or two months of training, soldiers will be able to master the X-1, an exoskeleton armor, so as to quickly improve their combat effectiveness.

The production efficiency of the future machinery is obviously still more satisfactory to the general equipment, so I stopped talking about this topic no more.

Seeing that the Major General no longer mentioned the X-1 mechanical exoskeleton armor, Sun Cheng would understand.

This time, the equipment department sent people over, not only because the X-1 mechanical exoskeleton armor was officially manufactured, but also because of a very important thing, which was to come to verify a new equipment.

Sun Cheng made a gesture of please, took the major general and Captain Sun Long who was following him, and walked to a warehouse next to him.

From the outside, this warehouse looks like a normal warehouse.

However, the area around the warehouse, like several production workshops of Future Machinery, is filled with various surveillance equipment, and there are security guards of Future Technology in the light and dark, as well as a team of soldiers stationed by the military, which is extremely high.

In the future, the warehouse will be used to temporarily store the X-1 mechanical exoskeleton armor that has been produced, and because no finished products have been delivered, it has been temporarily requisitioned by Sun Cheng to show a new product to the equipment department.

After the group entered the warehouse, they saw two strangely shaped 'monsters', which surprised Captain Sun Long, who hadn't been to the [Intelligent Machinery Laboratory] for a while.

Not to mention the major general from the equipment department, the moment he saw those two monsters, his eyes suddenly widened.

Sun Dong ...... That's what you mentioned about the new product......"

In the center of the huge warehouse, there are two metal monsters with strange shapes.

They are one large and one small, one is two meters four long and only about one meter tall, and their bodies are flat, and they stand there supported by six mechanical legs around them.

The other was much larger, about four meters long, almost twice as long as the previous one, and its body was also flat, about one and a half meters high, and it stood there supported by eight mechanical legs.

Seeing the two metal monsters in the warehouse aroused the curiosity of several people in the equipment department.

Sun Cheng led them to walk quickly in front of the metal monsters, and explained with a smile: "These two mechanical monsters are temporarily named 'Special Terrain Handling Robots', and we also gave them the nickname 'Spider', which is a special handling robot designed for special terrains such as mountains, hills, and plateaus where it is inconvenient for motor fleets to transport materials. ”

"This small 'spider' is designed to carry 0.8-1.2 tons of materials, and can theoretically march 80-100 kilometers per hour at speeds ranging from 40 to 60 kilometers per hour in most mountainous areas, hills and plateaus!"

"The large 'spider' is designed to carry about 3 tons of materials, and theoretically can also march 80-100 kilometers per hour in most mountains, hills and plateau areas at speeds ranging from 40 to 60 kilometers per hour!"

These two spiders were first proposed by several robot enthusiasts in the [Intelligent Machinery Laboratory], referring to the big dog series robots of [Boston Dynamics].

As we all know, Xia is one of the countries with the most complex terrain in the world, not only the domestic terrain is diverse, but also the border line between the surrounding countries, and also because of the complex terrain, the living environment of the border guards is very difficult.

Therefore, there are researchers who are more concerned about the military, after knowing that the [Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.], which is affiliated to the laboratory, is producing mechanical exoskeleton armor for the military, and proposes whether it is possible to use the company's existing technology to design a transport robot that can come and go freely without being restricted by special terrain.

They didn't have much hope, after all, it was the [Boston Dynamics], which is known as the most mature military robot technology, and the response to several military robots produced by the U.S. military was also very dissatisfied after being purchased by the U.S. military for testing.

But he never thought that Sun Cheng really had the technology about transportation robots in his hands, and it was very mature.