Chapter 747: The Huge Interests Behind the Arms Trade

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The arms trade often involves political interests, and every country's military industrial enterprises can only sell their military products to another country after negotiations with the government.

In particular, the US dollar relies on its advanced weapons, and the United States has not made less use of arms sales to achieve its strategic goals.

Among them, India is the most obvious example, and now the United States is constantly seizing India's arms orders.

These orders are often accompanied by many political interests, among which the main purpose is to win over India to form a military alliance to jointly contain the rise of China.

Another purpose is to snatch arms orders from India, the world's largest arms importer, with Russia, which is a real monetary benefit.

This is also the reason why the current US president and high-level officials like to communicate with Indians, as long as they succeed in wooing India, the benefits to the United States are really great.

Even, even the second domestically produced aircraft carrier that India is now designing, the United States is willing to sell electromagnetic catapult technology to India, of course, in terms of price and political interests, there is no need to say much, and India may find it difficult to agree to the US conditions.

However, if India really takes a fancy to the electromagnetic catapult of the United States, then even if it grits its its teeth and agrees, it may not be too strange.

Of course, the Americans are not willing to sell everything, and what India really wants is not the American electromagnetic catapult, but the nuclear power reactor on the American supercarrier.

And for the nuclear reactor technology on the supercarrier. The United States also stated that India should not think about this thing, even if it is an alliance. It is impossible for the United States to give it to India.

The supercarrier nuclear reactor is one of the top secret technologies of the US military industry, and the United States is the only one in the world that has this technology, from the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise to the current third-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ford-class, in the field of nuclear power, the United States will be difficult for other countries to surpass.

India intends to use nuclear power on the second domestic aircraft carrier under construction. However, the development of a nuclear power for use on an aircraft carrier is not as simple as a reactor on a nuclear submarine, which France developed for many years. It's not without results.

The level of France's military technology is definitely second only to the United States, and even the United States cannot come up with a professional aircraft carrier nuclear power reactor, and India even has aircraft carrier design drawings. Countries that all need a patchwork. India, which has not even officially commissioned its first nuclear-powered submarine, is simply impossible.

Even if India is given 30 years, the most optimistic thing is to make something similar to the Arjun tank and the Tejas fighter.

Thinking about the technological age thirty years later, building a useless reactor can only be doomed to a tragedy.

And if the electromagnetic catapult is placed on a conventional aircraft carrier, it will also be a tragedy, because there is simply no conventional power device that can provide enough power to the electromagnetic catapult. An electromagnetic catapult without sufficient power is naturally a tragedy.

But. The United States does not really reject India entirely, and calculates that it intends to give India electromagnetic catapult technology, so the United States does not want to see the electromagnetic catapult technology it gave India embarrassing here in India, otherwise it will not know, and think that the United States has given India a piece of garbage.

Therefore, the United States also prints India, and if the conditions are negotiated, then the United States will assist India in completing the design of its own domestic aircraft carrier nuclear reactor.

This news is definitely great news for India, but agreeing to the Americans' conditions, even with all kinds of technical assistance from the United States, is a difficult problem for India to choose.

And this is the main purpose of the Americans' foreign arms sales, the goal of which is to firmly grasp the military power of the buying country.

Don't think that if India and the United States reach an agreement this time, India will be able to sit back and relax, and a weak country has no sovereignty, which is a cruel reality.

At that time, even if India agrees, with the help of the United States, it will really build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it will also be equipped with electromagnetic catapult technology, but I believe that the Indians feel that it is impossible to play with such an aircraft carrier.

I'm afraid that you don't even have the ability to maintain electromagnetic catapults yourself, and then you really have to rely completely on the Americans.

Otherwise, India may not be able to take off and land planes on this aircraft carrier.

And the United States has not used such a method once or twice, and many countries have also been tricked in this way.

Almost all of Japan's high-tech weapons and equipment and key technologies are in the hands of the United States, and the United States' response to Japan's fifth-generation fighter -- Mind -- is that it is better to buy a few more lightning fighters honestly.

On the basis of the F-16, Japan produced its own domestically produced F-2 fighter because the core technology was in the United States, and Japan still had to buy the system and core components of the fighter from the United States, so that the production price of the F-2 fighter in Japan was actually more expensive than the F-16 sold by the United States to Japan.

Naturally, Japan has its own ideas, and when it comes to fighting wits, the United States may not really be able to play little Japan.

Of course, the United States also has its own cleverness, and it has firmly grasped in its hands the core technology of all the main battle weapons and equipment of Japan's navy, army, and air force, and no matter how smart Japan is, it will not be able to get rid of the control of the United States.

Therefore, don't look at the annual global arms sales amount, which adds up to tens of billions of dollars, and even the future technology group does not have half a month's turnover.

But in fact, the arms trade, which is tens of billions of dollars on the surface, is just a small cake that can be seen from the data, and behind this small cake are the real benefits.

And arms sales are definitely a no-loss deal, and they can also achieve both ******** and monetary benefits, which is why all countries are so eager to buy them.

Cai Ruichen naturally wants to meddle in this interest, but this is not the main reason for him to meddle in the global arms market.

The reason is very simple, there are so many cakes for this cake, and once you get involved, you will inevitably compete with other countries for this benefit.

Without a certain amount of strength as a foundation, such an approach is really unwise.

After all, the future science and technology group is different from those countries that have developed, the time is still too short, and the advanced weapons and equipment alone are indeed very good products to open the international arms market, but the development time of its own strength is too short, and it is inevitable that the confidence will be insufficient in the face of major powers.

Cai Ruichen was very interested in this at first, so he would rather postpone it for a period of time and then enter strongly, after all, the customer is still there, and he will not run away. (To be continued.) )