"European Aeronautical Defence and Space Corporation? Have you negotiated this? "European countries have long been rumors that they are ready to jointly set up a super-large aerospace defense company to confront the US defense company, but the more countries there are, the more contradictions there are, and the more things that are going to be scrambled.

"Well, the formation plan has been basically decided, but, out of respect for Su's advanced technology, we believe that Su's participation should be invited." The reason why Kepelis invited Su Ming to join the European Aeronautical Defense and Space Corporation on behalf of Germany was really improvised.

This is because during the Yugoslav War, Su's super MiG and super thunderbolt suddenly made people's eyes shine, and the advanced surname and combat effectiveness surprised people, and Germany thought of cooperating with Su's in the field of aviation, but at this time, the negotiations on the formation of the European Aviation Defense and Space Company had reached the stage of substance, and once the agreement was signed, if you want to cooperate with Su's in this regard, you must obtain the consent of other countries, but the negotiations have almost progressed, and it is impossible to cancel it again. Eventually, they came up with an idea, which was to bring Su into the company as well.

The idea of the establishment of the European Aeronautical Defense and Space Corporation has been a long time, and after the European [***] industries were competitive by the United States and could only be used to meet the domestic market, first in the civilian market, Britain, France and Germany cooperated to establish Airbus and succeeded, and then Britain and France cooperated in the development of the Concorde aircraft project. In the military market, Britain, Germany and Italy first jointly developed the Tornado fighter project, and then pulled France and Spain to start the development of the Eurofighter.

In the process of cooperative development, everyone felt that such cooperation could achieve technological complementarity, capital sharing, and achievement sharing, and just the addition of each country's own market could already meet the quantity of large-scale production, and the most important thing was that everyone could concentrate on dealing with the powerful threat of the United States in this market, so Britain, France and Germany took the lead in coming up with a framework of detailed plans and timetables for industrial restructuring and integration, and pulled Spain, Sweden and Italy.

After many discussions, the six countries agreed to merge to form a comprehensive company, but there are still some disputes over specific businesses, such as the manufacture of ballistic missiles, which is the exclusive business of the French aerospace company, and the regional aircraft business, which Germany's Daimler Aerospace has just spun off from Sweden's Saab, whether to reintegrate.

In addition, the French Dassault company strongly demanded that all countries' fighter business be integrated into this company, originally Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain jointly developed a new generation of fighters, but because of the different development directions, France strongly demanded air combat, and at the beginning asked to be able to go on the ship, but other countries did not have this demand, so in the end, France withdrew from this project, starting anew, and now wants to take this opportunity to re-grasp this project, other countries are naturally not very willing.

Moreover, there are also disputes on the merger model, some propose to take Airbus as the core and framework, and gradually expand other companies into it, that is, the establishment of a huge Airbus group of companies will be the holding company; Some want to establish a shell company first, and then inject the company and business in turn; The British BAE company wants to merge all core business units into the future company at the same time, and the non-core business units can temporarily set a transition period.

Most collaborators are receptive to the final merger because it is quick and clear. However, they also knew that it would be too complicated to merge the six countries in one step. Therefore, a gradual plan was proposed, in which BAE, Daimler Aerospace and Saab of Sweden merged first, and then gradually absorbed other companies, and the French aerospace company accepted this plan, but insisted that it should merge with BAE and Daimler Aerospace first. In this way, Spain and Italy are unwilling.

And the merger involves the issue of the share structure of each company, French Aeronautics, Spanish Aerospace and Italian Finmecanica are currently privatized, while the privatization of BAE Systems has been completed, and the shareholders are relatively scattered, Su Ming is almost mixed in. Although Germany's Daimler Aerospace is state-owned, it has a private major shareholder, Daimler AG, and Sweden's Saab also has shares in BAE and Germany's Daimler Aerospace.

The relationship is extremely complex, so although everyone agrees to make a merger, how to divide the equity and responsibilities and the relationship with the country's political axe. All of these issues are difficult to solve between companies in different countries. In particular, two of the main members, BAE Systems and Germany's Daimler Aerospace, are fighting for leadership. Who will merge first, and with whom. For small companies, they don't want the big ones to merge and leave them behind, and for the big companies, it doesn't allow itself to be isolated by the other two merged companies.

One of the most feared isolations is Air France, which has been the slowest in its privatization and restructuring process. When other countries concerned have already begun to carry out preliminary work, they will still be constrained by policies. Germany's Daimler Aerospace decided to abandon its alliance with French aerospace because of its doubts about the leadership of French aerospace in the French aviation industry and formed an alliance with the private company Matra (the defense arm of the French group Lagardère). And the French aerospace company, the true leader of Airbus, Ariane and Eurocopter, was abandoned.

Then the French aerospace company had to watch as BAE Systems and Germany's Daimler Aerospace began to discuss the merger. Due to their common features in terms of the company's operating mechanism, this restructuring process looks more natural. BAE and Daimler Aerospace are both involved in the Airbus and Eurofighter projects, and perhaps more importantly, they share the same business philosophy.

However, while the negotiations were ongoing, the rapprochement between the two companies went awry. The announcement by General Electric of the United Kingdom to sell its Marconi Electronic Systems company greatly tempted BAE because if BAE acquired Marconi Company, it would transition it from a platform manufacturer to a giant with the technology to design and manufacture important platform systems. The most important is the acquisition of Marconi, which gives BAE direct access to the U.S. market, which has a branch in the U.S. that can take on subscriptions from the Department of Defense.

With BAE's £7.7 billion acquisition of Marconi Electronic Systems, this change severely damaged BAE's (which became BAE) relationship with Germany's Daimler Aerospace, ending the possibility of a UK-German partnership and opening up new opportunities for Spain and France. This, combined with the completion of the merger and privatization of Aérhoeaus and Matra, has removed obstacles to the cooperation between the two parties.

At the same time, the Spanish political axe finally agreed to the alliance between the Spanish aerospace company and the German Daimler Aerospace company, which cleared the way for further cooperation.

Although the war of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was in full swing, the pace of formation has not stopped, at this time, the super MiG and super thunderbolt carried by Su Ming suddenly appeared, so that Germany has a new idea, one is that Britain has its own Royce Rogers company (Rolls-Royce), France has its own Snacma company, but Germany does not have its own power provider, which inevitably makes Germany lack confidence in negotiations. Second, the relationship between Su and BAE is also very good, once Su is pulled over by BAE, it will greatly increase the strength of BAE, which is definitely not a good thing for the newly established European Aeronautical Defense and Space Corporation.

At the same time, Su Shi applied many technologies on Super MiG and Super Thunderbolt, and they also wanted to use these technologies in the Eurofighter project through cooperation, so as soon as the war was over, they immediately sent an invitation to Su Ming and invited Su Ming over.

"Do the other countries agree?" After hearing this, Su Ming wanted to laugh in his heart, the name was inserted, the European Aeronautical Defense and Space Company, as far as some companies from the three countries were concerned, and they thought that the influence was really six or seven countries as originally said, and the influence was extraordinary, which was equivalent to the integration of the military industrial forces of the entire Europe, and now it seemed that it was a little stronger than the BAE System Company after the acquisition, so Su Ming didn't want to join in.

Although it is said that strengthening cooperation with Europe and confronting the United States is Su Ming's long-term development plan for himself, but the cooperation should also pick the object, now it seems that the strength of the two companies is not much different, in comparison, Su Ming prefers the BAE company a little, willing to spend blood, once the British who put down their gentlemanly demeanor, they are definitely better than the Germans who have a board and a glance, as for the French, Su Ming has never cooperated, and the other party has not asked Su Shi for cooperation.

"We haven't asked them yet, but I think they'll agree." Kepelis said very confidently, because this European aerospace company was formed with Germany's Daimler Aerospace as the main body, although according to the agreement, Germany and France have the same shares, but the Spanish aerospace company is a joint party of Germany, so they still have a considerable right to speak.

"There's nothing wrong with cooperation, but in what way?" Su Ming finally decided to agree, anyway, this is also a very good opportunity to break into the core system of the European military industry, it would be a pity to miss it.

"This needs to be determined by your negotiation, we can only provide suggestions, and you have to discuss how to cooperate specifically." In this regard, Kepelis can only say that he can't help it, because since these companies have been privatized, the political axe can only provide guidance, not force people to accept it.

After finishing speaking, Kepelis sat aside and introduced the people behind him to Su Ming, including Mr. Philippe Camus, CEO of Daimler Aerospace, and several executives and technical experts of the company, who seemed to have been prepared for this.

Before the two sides started talking, Su Ming suddenly received a call from the United Kingdom, Mr. Meisfield, senior vice president of BAE Systems, as soon as Su Ming answered the phone, Meierfeld said that he had arrived in Germany and was on his way to the Ministry of Defense, hoping that Su Ming would not make any decisions for the time being, and everything would wait for him to arrive.

It seems that the BAE company reacted quickly enough, and it is estimated that as soon as he received his whereabouts, he rushed over, this speed, it doesn't seem like the British can do it at all, Su Ming raised the phone in Yang's hand, and said to the person opposite: "I'm sorry, the people from the BAE company are coming." ”

(To be continued)