Joga deliberately leaked the news of the UAE's big purchase......

In fact, not only the UAE, but also Qatar has an even larger order.

Boss Qiao wants to use these arms orders to leverage those arms companies to work hard.

You don't need to fight, bring your goods over and let me try it, and if the trial effect is better, I can be considered to have obtained the qualification for the final bidding.

The UAE's position is not critical, so they don't have too much political demand.

The $15 billion fighter jet purchase order is enough for companies like Dassault and Mikoyan to do their best.

If we add to Qatar's unstable arms purchase plan, not only those who sell fighter jets will have to pounce, but those who sell ground army equipment will also have to pounce and call Dad.

In the final analysis, arms are still commodities, and they have a political connotation, but this political meaning is also divided into who and what period.

For example, because Britain has a ban on the export of any military products to Argentina, the United States is now looking for people to lobby Britain to open the ban on the 'Martin Baker' ejection seat to Argentina, so that they can export the F-16 to Argentina.

The early confrontation between the NATO system and the Soviet Union was a confrontation with strong political implications.

However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decline of Great Russia in the later period, they have reached the point where they can sell non-cutting-edge equipment, and they also come with instructors for fixed-point training when they sell weapons.

So the arms of Great Russia have always been very popular in Afika......

At the beginning, you paid for weapons, and I arranged for the instructor to help you train, and when the time comes, everyone will have feelings, as long as you are willing to pay a little more, the instructor can also work hard for you.

Later, it developed directly, and the money was enough, Wagner arrived first, and the weapons or something came later.

Arms companies rely on the host country, and they can do a lot of things in order to sell weapons.

The 'political connotation' that everyone imagines, excluding factors such as great power games and geopolitical interests, is actually mostly realized by relying on arms companies.

The early Central Africa is the most typical example, and the Wagner team that Boss Qiao incorporated is the most important force to defend the Central African capital Bangui.

This is not a simple mercenary, but a 'political interest' based on the deterrent power of Great Russia.

Probably this means that ordinary warlords will not beat you when they see that you are covered by a big Russian.

This is the export of political interests that arms companies can achieve by relying on their own influence.

To put it bluntly, these things are not worth mentioning......

The real big sellers of weapons are not selling simple weapons, but selling security and victory.

Otherwise, why would people spend their money on you?

Lao Mei is actually the same, but their products are much more high-end than those of Great Russia.

So they divide their allies into three, six, nine and so on, and then export their own high-end military products, unify the weapons standards of their allies, and form a huge market.

The EU and NATO are not the same thing, and they can't give up their arms industry, so they have always been a little resistant to this.

Therefore, many countries in the European Union have jointly designed and manufactured many high-end arms products, forming a competitive situation with the United States.

However, the military-industrial complex in the United States is a little more awesome, it doesn't matter if you don't buy my account, I will find someone to create a so-and-so threat theory, and then force Congress to increase the budget by creating tensions, and eat my own military spending.

This is the legend, I am so hard that I even beat myself!

Arms are commodities and props for military industrial interest groups to plunder interests, and their core connotation is not high-end at all.

There was once a movie called King of War, which made many people feel that they understand what an arms dealer is, think that this profession is very awesome, and even feel that ruthlessness and unrighteousness are the standard configuration of arms dealers.

But the reality is that people like Yuri are just doing the dirty work, because he is not the one who creates demand in the big environment, and it is not he who decides the outcome of the game......

He couldn't even control his own destiny, he was just a humanoid trading channel.

Sometimes there will be some unspeakable business, and then both parties need a person who is familiar with the transaction link to open up the joints, and finally after the problem can be pushed out to carry the black pot.

In fact, the real international arms trade is more about the export of a sense of security.

The United States instigates regional disputes, creates regional instability, and whatever the ultimate goal, they actually create a need for security, and then the military-industrial complex has had enough of it and grows to an irrepressible degree.

Eric's trip to the Middle East went very well, and a $120 billion super-order from the Shah not only made Eric a superstar in the eyes of the military-industrial complex, but also stunned the big mouth.

The guy, having offended a bunch of people in the country, was preparing to embark on the Shah's trip.

If you say you want to dance, you won't cheat!

As soon as the Shah moves, Qatar must also follow suit, but because they have been kicked out of the GCC, the situation they face is a little more complicated.

Joe's boss reminded Al-Thani to open his mouth, and Qatar began to build momentum for the World Cup.

The overwhelming publicity, combined with the project plans hyped up by various professional media companies, has attracted the attention of the world.

Not for the World Cup itself, but for the sake of using super infrastructure projects to stimulate investment, and then pull foreign big capital to form a protective umbrella.

As soon as Shah's protection fee was paid, Eric had just arrived in Qatar on the front foot, and an $80 billion order was thrown at him on the back foot.

And then Qatar is not satisfied, they are looking outward from the purchasing.

According to Choga's understanding, Qatar is ready to exert force in the three directions of army, air defense, and navy, and in addition to the 80 billion it is ready to give to the United States, they also have a military purchase budget of more than 50 billion US dollars.

Al Thani made it clear to Boss Joe that he could run a batch of the funds.

In the past, Boss Qiao always felt that the local tyrants in the Middle East spent money without blinking, but because of Eric's trip to the Middle East, he learned some of the inside information of the so-called military purchases......

Things weren't quite what he thought!

There are no fools in this world!

It's true that the money of the oil tycoons comes out of the ground, but it's not happy to let them waste it.

The combined arms orders of the Shah and Qatar are $200 billion, which is completely beyond the production capacity of the United States.

Because there is no share of low-end weapons in this order, not even fighters.

Because the early F-35 orders of the United States have been scheduled for ten years later.

The needs of the two tyrants are basically focused on the main battle tank, high-precision missiles, air defense systems, electronic radar systems, these particularly expensive projects.

In order to fulfill this order, there are very complicated procedures.

The old American arms group is in full swing, and it will take about 5~8 years to completely digest it.

This is not a one-time payment......

It is simply normal for such a large military procurement contract to be negotiated for three or five years in terms of content and details.

Sign a contract of intent first, open a letter of guarantee of about 2 billion yuan in an international bank, and the care of the United States will arrive immediately.

The core interest of the so-called 'protection money' is that as long as the old American arms groups accept this contract, they will act as an umbrella to ensure that the Shah's royal family will not suffer from the color revolution led by the United States......

The person who pays can't die, otherwise who will fulfill this contract in the future?

This is the same as Qatar's plan to use the World Cup to expand capital into the game.

If you want to make my money, you have to keep me safe without harming your own interests.

This is the right and security derived from typical purchasing power!

If you want to maximize your purchasing power, you can't give it away all at once.

Don't test other people's bottom lines with money, this is true everywhere in the world and at any level.

Because if you can get more by breaking the contract, then the person who spends the money will definitely suffer double the loss in the end.

In this regard, Great Russia is definitely a model of not being a human being, which is why their international credibility is so poor.

Therefore, Eric's big harvest is claimed to be 200 billion, but the actual payment of Shah and Qatar is only 2 billion in the early stage, and this money will not be given out until the details are negotiated.

Only after the arms group has coordinated its share internally according to its own capabilities and obtained the approval of the Ministry of Trade will it finalize the detailed contract with the two companies, and then the real part of the deposit will be paid.

The deposit for international arms deals is far less high than the outside world thinks, and 20 or even 5 percent is a normal phenomenon.

The reason has been mentioned earlier, giving too much is easy to lead to greed.

The UAE is a typical example, they are honest, and the delivery date of the F-35 ordered at a high premium is far away, and it is likely to be lost.

This kind of 'non-delivery' situation is extremely common around the world......

Some are because the seller really wants to pay the bills......

For example, the US Department of Trade sometimes jumps out and says that certain weapons cannot be sold to certain countries, and that it needs to be carefully evaluated before deciding whether or not to sell them.

This delay could be ten years!

Some of them are because the buyer has achieved his goal and purchased the goods with arms to the safe period, and he does not want to pay the balance to pick up the goods afterwards.

The most typical is that Romania has torn up an order for the 'Wind Chaser-class' frigate with the French naval group.

Because France used money to work in the early stage, the threats and condemnations against Great Russia were in place, and the Black Sea Fleet of Great Russia was really ineffective, Romania felt that it was not cost-effective to spend a lot of money on the maintenance of two missile frigates in order to guard against them, so it simply broke the contract.

This kind of 'buying short and selling short' is sometimes very fucked up!

Therefore, the reality is that it is difficult to do business in the international arms market, which is the result of the French Navy Group finding Boss Qiao to cooperate, and the Mikoyan Design Bureau is fully invested.

But what Boss Qiao never expected was that things would develop beyond his estimates......

Originally, he only wanted to pull large European manufacturers into the game, and aimed at arms companies similar to Italy and France.

Both of these companies have a well-developed arms industry, and as long as they can free up some orders, they can sponsor their own gadgets and at the same time place their fleets off the coast of Yemen.

But after Qiao Liang and Gami made a phone call, Boss Qiao reacted, and he seemed to underestimate the attractiveness of the order!

(End of chapter)